The Official Chelsea FC Thread

[smokie36]

26 minutes ago, keithsimmonds said:

True to form for You as usual. You only get pleasure from someone else's,s misfortunes....

 

I take pleasure in the knowledge your club has been properly punished for breaking the rules.

 

Let's all hope its an effective deterrent in future.

[oldgit]

On 5/9/2019 at 7:50 PM, keithsimmonds said:

If Sarri stays i will look forward to the last 6 weeks of the season when Reece James, Mason Mount, Dujon Sterling Fikayo Tomori,Tammy Abraham,Jay Dasilva,Kylian Hazard, Kasey Palmer, and maybe Clarke Salter ......get a run out.

Get Terry back as defence coach and i might be happy....errrr

Third place secured, Champions League next season and a Europa League Final to look forward to in Azherbajan! Astonishing considering we've got a truly awful centre forward who totters around the field like my old grandma and winges far more than she ever did (take your rose tinted glasses off Sarri because he most definitely is not the player you knew at Napoli), a holding midfielder/ playmaker and a left back  who are painfully slow and a few other candidates who's inadequacies are too numerous to mention and must be shown the door. On the flip side, we've got (for the moment at least) what must be one of the top four players in the world, a fantastically energetic midfielder who's stamina is limitless and a couple of emerging midfield talented types who are able to saunter past players as though they are of little consequence.

With the likelihood that Hazard will leave and a transfer ban likely, we need ten players from our "loan army" to stake their claims for next season and beyond, because what we have now aren't good enough, are too old, too slow and are not the future of the club. We were fortunate this season that Arsenal had a worse defence than we did, Tottenham were flaky in matches they should have won and United have players with the strength of character of a vole. We can't rely on us being that fortunate next season.

[keithsimmonds]

6 hours ago, oldgit said:

Third place secured, Champions League next season and a Europa League Final to look forward to in Azherbajan! Astonishing considering we've got a truly awful centre forward who totters around the field like my old grandma and winges far more than she ever did (take your rose tinted glasses off Sarri because he most definitely is not the player you knew at Napoli), a holding midfielder/ playmaker and a left back  who are painfully slow and a few other candidates who's inadequacies are too numerous to mention and must be shown the door. On the flip side, we've got (for the moment at least) what must be one of the top four players in the world, a fantastically energetic midfielder who's stamina is limitless and a couple of emerging midfield talented types who are able to saunter past players as though they are of little consequence.

With the likelihood that Hazard will leave and a transfer ban likely, we need ten players from our "loan army" to stake their claims for next season and beyond, because what we have now aren't good enough, are too old, too slow and are not the future of the club. We were fortunate this season that Arsenal had a worse defence than we did, Tottenham were flaky in matches they should have won and United have players with the strength of character of a vole. We can't rely on us being that fortunate next season.

Good summary Og. 

Transfer Ban if it stands could be a blessing in disguise.....but i cant see (if Sarri is still here that is) him wanting to get rid of experienced players like Pedro Alonso or Willian for starters. I know Ampudu is injured but along with Rlc and Hudson Odoi, Sarri should have played him more than he did.

Still don't know about Hazard.......but with the 2 big euro cups being all English affairs......says a lot about Premier league.

[keithsimmonds]

Sarri will be the Death of me. Rlc gets injured (the bloke did not need to play) and Reece James gets 8 minutes. Pedro has got the "Hospital Pass " down to a tee,cant fault the blokes energy or work rate but god he is shytte in front of goal,ditto Willian who goes down easier than any in girl in Patts. Barkley worked hard and Jorhino is becoming useful in some ways but is oh so slow.

Final against Arsenal is going to be a goal fest imo btts in both halves has to be the bet of the day/night /morning.

[keithsimmonds]

Emotional.....Terry v Lampard for the play - off Final. Well done to Mason Mount and Fikyao Tomori on last nights victory over Leeds.....will see both players in the Prem next season......hopefully...... with us.

Plus Tammy.

[oldgit]

An interesting article in the Guardian a few days ago, which said that Chelsea have yet to contact CAS, after the transfer ban by FIFA was upheld on appeal. The reason put forward was that the potential transfer targets are either not available or too expensive right now, so Chelsea may decide to see out the two window transfer ban starting this summer. It also appears that we can permanently sign loanees Kovacic and Higuaín. Kovacic yes, primarily because Loftus -Cheek will be out, after the start of next season, due to a ruptured achilles, so he will add experience and guile in midfield. Higuaín? Well, unless he grows wings and loses a couple of stone, he would never make it in my team. Add to that the plethora of young talent out on loan, who will be champing at the bit to prove a point in the first team squad, and things could look very interesting next season.  

[sanemax]

On 5/16/2019 at 9:46 AM, keithsimmonds said:

Sarri will be the Death of me. Rlc gets injured (the bloke did not need to play) 

Any of the players could have gotten injured though , cannot really blame Sarri for picking a player that got injured , if you need to blame anyone , blame the person that organised the game 

[Blue Muton]

10 hours ago, oldgit said:

An interesting article in the Guardian a few days ago, which said that Chelsea have yet to contact CAS, after the transfer ban by FIFA was upheld on appeal. The reason put forward was that the potential transfer targets are either not available or too expensive right now, so Chelsea may decide to see out the two window transfer ban starting this summer. It also appears that we can permanently sign loanees Kovacic and Higuaín. Kovacic yes, primarily because Loftus -Cheek will be out, after the start of next season, due to a ruptured achilles, so he will add experience and guile in midfield. Higuaín? Well, unless he grows wings and loses a couple of stone, he would never make it in my team. Add to that the plethora of young talent out on loan, who will be champing at the bit to prove a point in the first team squad, and things could look very interesting next season.  

He'll just flog his old favourites to death rather than give any of them a chance, sadly.

[keithsimmonds]

4 hours ago, sanemax said:

Any of the players could have gotten injured though , cannot really blame Sarri for picking a player that got injured , if you need to blame anyone , blame the person that organised the game 

True anyone could of got injured,but Rlc has had his problems this season with injuries and the game was over as as a contest. He took 5 young players and 2 0f them got a run out for a combined 45 minutes???.....and we have a Final coming up.

[keithsimmonds]

26 minutes ago, Blue Muton said:

He'll just flog his old favourites to death rather than give any of them a chance, sadly.

Have to agree with that.

Rather disappointing,as i recall on his appointment he sad that he would work with the squad he has and was not interested in the transfer market.

 

I know,i should n,t moan after the season we have had,whether we beat Arsenal or not,but our football has been thuckking dire and painful to watch for a large part of it,and having Sarri say he cant motivate the players or "i just dunno comments" when asked what,s going on and sending out the same team week after week and making the same subs every thuckking game and constantly writing "what the thucck am i doing here " on his memo pad every bleeding game and nothing changes for the next game.......i am not sure i could endure another 55 odd game season like that again....added to that the 30 odd 2/3 am kick off's ughhhhhhhhhh

Despite all that "i am Chelsea till i die".

[oldgit]

14 hours ago, keithsimmonds said:

True anyone could of got injured,but Rlc has had his problems this season with injuries and the game was over as as a contest. He took 5 young players and 2 0f them got a run out for a combined 45 minutes???.....and we have a Final coming up.

My first impression, on switching on for the game was:

1) What a state the pitch was in.

2) Why are we starting with so many important players?

The answer to no. 2 must have been that Sarri was under orders from Abramovich to get more arse'oles on seats for his pet project. Loftus -Cheek has become a very important player for us, with his scything runs and heading ability at set pieces so, taking into account his history of injuries, I wouldn't have brought him on, on that surface.

[sungod]

On 5/19/2019 at 10:23 AM, oldgit said:

Add to that the plethora of young talent out on loan, who will be champing at the bit to prove a point in the first team squad, and things could look very interesting next season.  

That's exactly what excites me.

 

BTW, anyone know what channel the Europa league final is on?

[MrTrip]

Well I didn’t expect that, happy for the win especially over Arsenal.
Sad because I actually realised tonight that Hazard will most likely leave this summer.
But hey, we’ve had players leave and retire before, life goes on[emoji170]



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[sanemax]

[smokie36]

Hazard out with a bang....fantastic ppayer he is....congratulations!

[keithsimmonds]

Great second half performance from us....very unselfish of Hazard to set up Pedro and then signs off with 2 goals,a great send off for him......just a shame that La Liga aint a patch on the highly competative Epl...imho

[oldgit]

1 hour ago, RonniePickering22 said:

Hazard out with a bang....fantastic ppayer he is....congratulations!

Pays up on time does he Ron?

 

[oldgit]

What is it with Chelsea FC? With all the rumours, strife, injuries to important players, training ground bust ups and Sarri losing his rag and taking it out on his cap, I thought before the game this might get nasty for us! But no, true to form we come out and play as though nothing has happened. We thrive on trouble within it seems.

 

[smokie36]

2 hours ago, oldgit said:

Pays up on time does he Ron?

 

 

John Terry still has a bleedin bill though!

[sanemax]

3 hours ago, oldgit said:

What is it with Chelsea FC? With all the rumours, strife, injuries to important players, training ground bust ups and Sarri losing his rag and taking it out on his cap, I thought before the game this might get nasty for us! But no, true to form we come out and play as though nothing has happened. We thrive on trouble within it seems.

 

Romans first game of the season , Hazards last game for Chelsea , Rob Greens first time on a football pitch for seven years and he comes on the life a trophy ???? Rudiger there on crunches giving Sarri a whack on the arse with his crutches and a Brazilian and an Argentinian making up after the "disagreement " , Ex-Arsenal Giroud scoring against ex-Chelsea Cech , Cesc in the studio saying "us" when speaking about Chelsea .

   Nice to see there was no animosity towards Hazard , Thanks for the memories and best of luck in the future....................you can go and sit on the bench in Madrid and keep Courtois company ????

[oldgit]

5 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

 

John Terry still has a bleedin bill though!

You can whistle for that mate. Tight as a drum that boy!

[jellydog]

Sarri gone to Juve?

[smokie36]

22 minutes ago, jellydog said:

Sarri gone to Juve?

 

Does their transfer ban extend to the manager lol?

[jellydog]

50 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said:

 

Does their transfer ban extend to the manager lol?

Looks like Sarri is out the do one door Ronnie. Keith dancing a jig about now.

[smokie36]

5 hours ago, jellydog said:

Looks like Sarri is out the do one door Ronnie. Keith dancing a jig about now.

 

So is big Sam. 

[oldgit]

18 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said:

 

So is big Sam. 

Gawd help us. You'll be coming up with Dave Bassett next! Regarding Sarri, this news doesn't make much sense to me. He's over achieved in his first season in the Premier League, and can kick on next season but, if he's serious about going then there's no point in putting obstacles in his way. We don't want a manager who's heart and mind is elsewhere, especially when we will be entering a pivotal season where we're in the Champions League but can't recruit from outside. I don't know, perhaps he's looked at the squad including the returning loanees, and doesn't think he can improve the situation, while at Juve' he's under no restrictions. 

[mrbojangles]

Can they still smoke in Italian stadiums.

[BangrakBob]

7 hours ago, jellydog said:

Looks like Sarri is out the do one door Ronnie. Keith dancing a jig about now.

He'll be warming the seat for Pep ????

[mrbojangles]

1 hour ago, BangrakBob said:

He'll be warming the seat for Pep ????

You wish

[keithsimmonds]

Suppose his heart was never in it,and that was his resignation letter he was trying write.........during every thuckking game. 

 

Eh!!!! Never a dull moment the Bridge.