Should We Stay Or Should We Go? - The Chelsea News Thread

They seat 70k iinm which means 30 more, but mor importanlty, who says we can fill a 60 seater game in and out.

Its one thing that bugs me, how we sometimes dont fill up the Bridge atm, and as i stated before, that will only happen after we win a CL.

 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/7299320/

hmmmm... is there any clear leadership in this group? wouldn't the productive course be to be apart of the decision making process? undermines their credibility IMHO

 

It's so tiresome, either you are part of the process or you aren't, they are well on the way to being a footnote.

 

i like that article and have to agree with it. Our line has been spread eagled on us multiple times. The idea that we have to push so high up the entire match doesn't help us in any way possible (understanding it may draw out the opposition) we are not covering each others spaces well enough to make up for open space counters. The idea of pressuring the to win the ball back is great but if we can not win it within a certain amount of time, the d-line needs to drop back until the ball is in their possession. Not sure if AVB will be adjusting any of his tactics but he seems smart enough to realize when changes need to be made. Hopefully as he matures and learns more techniques he'll adjust accordingly to each match individually.

 

The club has today (Tuesday) released the following statement.
With regards to the FA charge against Andre Villas-Boas for remarks he made after the QPR game, the manager is denying the charge against him and has submitted his response to the Football Association.

 

AVB has got balls & I think his missus won't disagree

As for other bit of news, a 12 yr old kid has snubbed Chelsea for now:

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/swindontown/news/9365198.Town_starlet_snubs_Chelsea/?ref=rss

 

It's ridiculous the pressure that these kids and their parents are put under. I think that they have done the right thing for the kid. If he's that good we'll come back in when he's older.

 

Well, in that case, as Juni has already pointed out, it's their club Swindon who are making all the noises to put some hype about their academy setup. Whether it is good or bad is debatable.

Chelsea have worked ethically & kept things under wraps as far as the story is concerned.

 

Agreed.

IMO there's no WAY you can tell if a kid is going to be top flight at that age. ALL you can say is he looks great ATM but that's never really been a guide. if I think back too all the wunderkid's I've seen and the vast bulk of them have amounted to nothing at all.

 

If AVB is anything like Jose, he would not approve of this.

 

Tbh, im happy with how AVB has done so far with the team. I won't be calling for his head anytime soon, even if we don't win a single cup this season.

Edit:

Of course, the opinion depends on the person, and that is my opinion. Im sure that there are quite a few CFC fans who will call for AVB's head if we don't win anything.

 

I'm just sitting here having watched Spurs win 2-0 against Villa. Adebayor 2 gls. And watching Modric play gave me for the first time a real appreciation of why AVB wanted him. A Modric-Mata axis in our team would be deadly. We'd easily double our goal tally IMO and I could see both of them having a good understanding for each other's style of play.

I said elsewhere why I think AVB is the right manager for us. He's the modern man of football coaching. I can see how he wants us to play. Lets face it, one-touch Barça-style football is the future insofar as to how football is going to be played by the elite teams. AVB knows this and is therefore embarking on a transition which could end in tears for some players, even the icons, but I believe will transform the fortunes of CFC and move us to the next level, ie in the same league as Real and Barça, the world's two best teams. Hoping so anyway......

 

I agree with most of what SwissBlue wrote, but I think that at this point we need more than just Modric to change the whole thing around. I think that we need at least 3 new players to boost the team as a whole.