Worst High Dollar Club.... Chelsea?

[IrishJedi26]

OK, first I'm a blues fan for years now, and I want Zola BACK!
I was all for the Chelski revolution when it started but I can't believe the results of this season.
I don't want to sound like the choir, but maybe the coach is the problem?
Mutu
Crespo
Veron(cough, cough.....excuse me.)
Duff
Cole
Bridge

Added to the already great lineup of:
Terry
Lampard
Gujonnsen
Jimmy Floyd
Gallas

They should've not LOST or DRAWN with any team in the EPL! Let alone 0-3 vs the gunners.
I know teams need time to gel, time to know what your fellow teammates are doing , even when you can't see them.
Zola as coach?
Zola anyone?

[olegunnar]

Duff being injured has been a problem. I thought he was their best player at that start of the season.

Crespo and Veron have been injured most of the season as well. Cole has never really shown me anything extra special, this year or last.

The problem is a team with a midfield of Parker/Lampard/Makelele/Geremi is a team with 3 attacking central midfielders and a holding midfielder.

This team cannot seem to agree on a plan of attack. Makelele's holding of the ball in midfield, much like Reyna halts every counter attack Chelsea attempt. They seemed to do pretty well with Duff running at defences, that would unlock the defence and open other options. Without him, their attack seems stalled.

[Sarki]

Stop fcukin whinging, it takes time to win the prem, at least you are in a much better position than last year, supporters like you dont deserve success, I bet you weren't there when chelsea were skint, fecking band waggoner..

[IrishJedi26]

Um, maybe you should read the post before you reply. I've been with CFC for years now. Thats alright, I'll just keep on fkn whinein. yeah.

[Sarki]

Originally posted by IrishJedi26
Um, maybe you should read the post before you reply. I've been with CFC for years now. Thats alright, I'll just keep on fkn whinein. yeah.

why don't you go and support chalton or fulham, cus you obviously don't support chelsea, you are a band waggoner, you should be more greatful, I hope you never win the title, with whinge pots like u chelsea don't deserve it, oh btw we've won it, did i mention that, lol

[Captain Splarg]

who do you support when Chelsea play Spurs?

[billyireland]

Some queries:

1. How can you expect to not lose or draw any games? Even if you could get a world XI team and put it in a good league, that could not be expected.

2. Chelsea lost 2-1 to Arsenal on both occasions.

3. What experience does Zola have as a manager (I'm guessing you meant manager).

4. For a Chelsea fan, why aren't they even listed in the teams you support, while Spurs are?

[shwantzme]

Originally posted by olegunnar
Duff being injured has been a problem. I thought he was their best player at that start of the season.

Crespo and Veron have been injured most of the season as well. Cole has never really shown me anything extra special, this year or last.

The problem is a team with a midfield of Parker/Lampard/Makelele/Geremi is a team with 3 attacking central midfielders and a holding midfielder.

This team cannot seem to agree on a plan of attack. Makelele's holding of the ball in midfield, much like Reyna halts every counter attack Chelsea attempt. They seemed to do pretty well with Duff running at defences, that would unlock the defence and open other options. Without him, their attack seems stalled.

Nail on the head. Duff and Crespo being out has hurt the team.

Mutu seems to have a penchant for being offside as well.

This team needs more time to gel. A lot of new guys have been brought in and some of them really did not get to play due to injuries. I am looking forward to next season. I think they will do better.

[drace768]

While Liverpool did not go on as huge a spending spree as Chelsea, I would say they have performed far lower against expectations. Chelsea is a lock for a Champions league spot, while Liverpool is struggling to make the fourth and final slot. Liverpool has now crashed out of all domestic cup chances and with recent form, I do not expect them to make through this round of UEFA. Given Liverpool's roster they should at least be competative with Arsenal, Man U, and Chlesea, but instead are clearly a step below them.

[Clan]

Interesting team selections there Jedi - i guess you're with the dark side though as you have the yids as a team :p

Consider this though.
Manchester United made their best start ever to a season, and this from a team that has won 8 of the past 11 titles.That in itself is something to try and catch up to.
Now, if that by itself wasn't bad enough we have a team in North London that has so far gone the entire season unbeaten - and looking like they very well may go the rest of the way like that.
Yet, for all that, untill the weekend we were only 6 points behind them.

Both our losses to the leading team have been contributed to heavily by goalkeeping gaffs - the one position we thought we would be strong enough in to warrant no new player to take the starting role.

[sendorange]

Your lot never should have let Kevin Hitchcock retire, he could still do a job for you :D

http://www.SoccerAge.com/en/00/36295.jpg

[Clan]

Originally posted by sendorange
Your lot never should have let Kevin Hitchcock retire, he could still do a job for you

http://www.SoccerAge.com/en/00/36295.jpg

*Que much head scratching as the words "Kevin who?" reverberate across many lands :D

[the101er]

Maybe you read my post on the Arsenal game results thread, but to build on that post:

1. Last year we scraped into the qualifying rounds of the Champs League. Next year, we'll be coming in the front door, thank you.

2. Who are the top 3 teams in England? Arsenal, Man Utd. and ????? Liverpool? Tottenham? We've bridged the gap in the first year of the Abramovich era. We might not be past ManU and Arsenal yet, but there's a real gap behind us to 4th.

3. We're only two points off 2nd place in the Premiership.

4. Wasn't Arsenal already counting their chickens this time last season? Yes, we've dropped to 9 points back, but if they stumble with a draw and a loss, we can be right back on their heels.

5. Final 16 in the Champions League. How did we do last year in that competition?

6. Zola? Zola is not the answer to any questions being asked in SW6. He's a club legend. We won't be signing any aging strikers in the near future.

7. At the beginning of this year, Crespo was translating Italian into Spanish, so that Hasselbaink could talk to Mutu in Romanian.

8. We are not to the point yet where a defensive midfielder will know that he can expect a perfectly timed through ball from a deep lying forward. Bergkamp to Viera for Arsenal's first goal on Saturday.

9. Melchiot, Gronkjaer, Babayaro, Stanic, Petit, Desailly, Sullivan, Zenden, Forssell, JFH, Gudjohnsen: all of these players and some I'm surely not thinking of are questionable for the future. As Peter Kenyon has said: Ranieri has been through 3 separate evolutions of the team in just 4 years.

10. Finally: we have done what every realistic, longterm Chelsea fan could have expected this season. We have pushed the top two, advanced past the group stage in the CL, and learned what we have. If you ever listen to Ranieri he is constantly talking about the process of developing the team. This isn't done overnight, $150 million spent on players or not, and I'm sure he told Mr. A that, going into this season. And, as he has pointed out, he is working for CFC, not for Claudio Ranieri, which is why I think so many fans and apparently all of the players respect him, and see him as the only man right for the job.

My apologies for the length of this post and any spelling errors or ungrammaticalness.

[IrishJedi26]

Well as for CFC not being in my fav teams area thats going to be corrected, thanks. However I'm an Ireland fan first. So, Robbie Keane has me watching Tottenham, but he has moved around so much with wolves then to leeds and if you remember towards the end of the transfer window the papers in UK had him in line to replace Saha at Fulham. But anyhow, the moral of the story is that Duffs move to Chelsea invigorated me.


Oh yeah, Ireland better move up a bunch in FIFA's leaderboard, almost beating Brasil. wow, I've never had so much fun listening to a draw!

[IrishJedi26]

Well, I'm getting hammered here. I guess I just really hate Arsenal and wanted to beat them ONCE this season.

[Clan]

Originally posted by IrishJedi26
Well, I'm getting hammered here. I guess I just really hate Arsenal and wanted to beat them ONCE this season.

An Irishman Hating Arsenal and liking Chels - my, oh my, how things have changed.

The last real Irishman to play for Chelsea was......?????
Hint....it was quite a while ago.

[IrishJedi26]

Duff's not a REAL Irishman?
hmmmmm

[sendorange]

Originally posted by IrishJedi26
I guess I just really hate Arsenal
No shame in that big guy.

[shwantzme]

Originally posted by IrishJedi26
Well as for CFC not being in my fav teams area thats going to be corrected, thanks. However I'm an Ireland fan first. So, Robbie Keane has me watching Tottenham, but he has moved around so much with wolves then to leeds and if you remember towards the end of the transfer window the papers in UK had him in line to replace Saha at Fulham. But anyhow, the moral of the story is that Duffs move to Chelsea invigorated me.


Oh yeah, Ireland better move up a bunch in FIFA's leaderboard, almost beating Brasil. wow, I've never had so much fun listening to a draw!

Duffer is the reason why I am a Chelsea fan. Just started really following EPL and am loving it.

[Clan]

Originally posted by IrishJedi26
Duff's not a REAL Irishman?
hmmmmm

Sorry for the confusion...i actually ment before the Duffer.