SHOCK!! HORROR!! Chelsea paying over the odds for players!!

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I kinda sorta feel bad for Chelsea -- They have been terribly ripped off over the last year or so -- but I don't feel too bad because Abromovich is one rich sun of a gun.

Crespo, Veron, Geremi were all a rip off. And it appears that Damien Duff will soon be relegated to the bench with the arrival of Arjen Robben. I guess Abromovich is an impulse shopper. He gets what he wants no matter the cost.

 

Hey - how are those amazing French talents Santini was supposed to bring with him? I think Wiltord will look great for the Spurs.

 

Business as usual then...

 

It all looks the same from our lofty perch, my friend.

Yes, I think he was the baby wearing the "happy 1923" sash.

 

I personally am delighted for Chelsea, quite frankly I think they are still miles behind Arsenal and always will be no matter how many players are bought. How they can not expect to be ripped off when they go around throwing ridiculous amounts of cash at small clubs for average players like Glen Johnson, Scott Parker, Paolo Ferreria and Joe Cole. This phrase has been branded around all-over but I still insist that they will not win the league by simply buying more players and overhauling the squad year in year out!

 

Oh yeah life's a bitch isn't it for Chelsea?
Feel sorry because they'vre been ripped off? They aren't some small corner shop, naive in the ways of business and struggling to survive in the big world. They made their bed, now they've got to lie in it. FFS, a player is over priced? Don't pay it! It's fundamentals like that that I picked up playing Championship Manager.
Being a fan of QPR who have an annual £3.50 transfer budget to enjoy, I find it difficult to weep profusely over Chelsea's problems.

 

All four of those players listed are talented young players, in Johnson's case the most promising fullback in the league, not overpriced flops or "average". They are the sort of players Chelski should be buying, form a hungry talented squad and then add a core of world class experienced players.

They've got the money to spend, or launder to be more honest, the only thing I find really disturbing is the buying of the likes of Crespo and Veron for such vast sums of money and then one year later loaning them out to Inter and AC Milan. That is ridiculous, strengthening those teams without making them pay for it. What's next, are they going to buy Steven Gerrard and loan him to Man Utd?

 

How is Glen Johnson more promising than Ashley Cole when Cole is 4 years away from his peak and already the best LB in England? There are plenty of young Premiership fulbacks with more promise than Glen Johnson.

 

agreed ,I hope they have a clause in their contract that doesnt let crespo and veron play against chelsea in next seasons champions league.
Just think if either one of them had a hand in eliminating chelsea from the contest like Morientes did to Real Madrid.

 

Chelsea don't need to have a care in the world about over paying for players. If he flops just buy another one...etc, etc.

Money is no object to them and I think it bothers Chelsea fans less then it seems to bother everyone else how much they pay for whoever.

 

Name them. You will struggle because there are none, Johnson is the most naturally gifted of the lot and a terrific prospect, he is better than Cole was at a similar age. Cole has done well to progress, but then he is FOUR years older than Johnson and no-one would classify Coie as just "promising" any more. Johnson is well on his way to developing as a class player, even with Mourinho's Porto rightback in there competing with him. He was a great signing, and I have no reason to favour Chelski, but the truth can't be denied.

 

How is Cole breaking through the Arsenal youth system and displacing Sylvinho in the first team not promising?

Sorry but I think you're overrating Johnson just abit.

 

How's a 19 year old who's already been capped for England not promising?

 

Joe Coles hype has come and gone, people have been waiting too long for him to become the creative midfield player he promised to be. He is highly overrated. He does possess a clever repertoire of tricks and flicks but they more often than not amount to nothing, he is unable to play a simple passing game which makes up for near 90% of any match and still hasn't got the bulk to hold himself on the ball.

Scott Parker has failed at Chelsea so far and to a greater extent than anyone else. He was a good player in a poor side who had a rich run of form in the months prior to his transfer. I liken him to David Dunn when he was in a similiar position at Blackburn and everyone was raving about him becoming the next Paul Gascoigne only to realise that he had only hit a good patch of form. 10million for a sub with little first team prospects is overpriced.

Paulo Ferreira: 13.2m for a player who can't get on his international side, now if thats not a hyped up price I don't know what is!

Glen Johnson fair enough is good but the money they spent on a player who had hardly any first team experience seems a bit risky. Then again if you're Roman Abrahmovic, spend away.

The point is teams know they can ask ridiculous prices for average players because of irrational spending like this and so in no way can anybody feel sorry for them!

 

Who is Scott Parker going to get on the team instead of? Frank Lampard? Arjen Robben? Damien Duff? Claude Makelele? Plus the fact that Chelsea are actively searching for a right winger and on the verge of signing Tiago suggests Mourinho doesn't rate him highly enough! Likewise with Joe Cole.

Glen Johnsons place was taken by Melchiot last season when things got tough and this year looks to be behind Ferreira, Mourinho didn't pay 13m for nothing.

 

Scott Parker is the biggest fool in football. Why the hell did he go to chelsea? He had little chance of playing when he first went there and now he has even less. He is a greedy fool he listened to his agent to much.

 

Because we're talking about the here and now, not something that happened several years ago. Cole is no longer "promising", someone that has played in major international tournements and is 24 years old no longer qualifies for that description.

Cole has come on well as a player, particularly in the last year, but it seems there is a considerable amount of selective memory over him, certainly in the first couple of seasons as a first team player he was very shaky, especially defensively and also lacked any kind of final ball. Johnson is a better prospect than Cole was at a comparable age, which is the point being made.

Silvinho left A*senal in large part because of his passport problems, he was on a Portugese passport, which is how he got to play here as he would not have qualified for a work permit as a Brazilian. However there was a big scandal over the Portugese passports, which affected a number of players across Europe and when this blew up Silvinho was shipped on at the first opportunity to Celta, where unsurprisingly he dropped the claim to holding portugese citizenship and reverted to being just Brazilian, which has remained the case to this summer.

 

Parker is nothing like Dunn. Dunn had been very good at Blackburn, but his strongest season had come in Division 1 and not the Premiership, then there was his falling out with Souness and a string of recurring injuries and poor fitness. Last season at Birmingham was also disrupted by injuries, even then I would wait to see him in a full season before passing judgement on him.

Parker on the other hand had already shown himself on consecutive seasons in the Premiership with Charlton to be a very talented player. Calling them a poor side is a moronic statment, they've been solidly midtable ever since promotion and improving every year. Even then Parker was clearly a big fish in a small pond, if he had any ambition to take the next step into European football and to have a chance of establishing himself in the English squad then he had to take the chance and move on. It's a joke that you're judging him after half a season at Chelsea where he spent a fair amount of time playing out of position on the right wing and in an entirely new environment. Even then he got his games at centre midfield, notably against A*senal, who he performed very well against. If at any stage he wants to leave Chelsea he can do so quite easily, as Veron and Crespo have shown, and when he does so 90% of the other Premiership teams would take him in a heartbeat.

What really makes me laugh about this though is that I bet you would have been foaming at the mouth in your condemnation of the 11 million Chelsea paid for Frank Lampard at the time and his poor first season. Calling him overrated, a waste of money and passing exactly the same judgements on him. Yet look at him now, the very player you now list as one of those being untouchable in their team selection and being named 2nd best player in the league behind Henry.

 

Chelsea paying over the odds, eh?

Someone remind me how much ManU paid for Veron and Ferdinand? About £50-55 million, wasn't it? One to be sold for half what he cost and the other to 'ride the pine', (I think the yanks call it), for quite a bit of last year and the beginning of this one. Oh, and can someone who knows something about Liverpool help me. I've been onto their website and can't seem to find the shirt number of El Hadji Diou, (cost approx. £14m). Clearly I haven't been paying attention.

The thing is that EVERY major club has wasted money on some players. How much money did Inter pay for Ronaldo?

Our purchases have been in a very short period of time - others have been over a few years. So what?

In any event, as Mourinho pointed out, maybe we should all wait until the end of the season before making our minds up.

 

And he's not the only one, is he. What is it with that guy?

I heard something about him crocking Yorke in a practise match. What's that all about? A manager trying to injure his own player in training??? WTF? And then he starts calling him a 'cry-baby'. What a freakin' retard.

 

Yes, the team will be judged at the end of the season. However, the question really is, will this happen every year? Will the team be rebuilt every Summer as Abramovich looks for instant success? If I were a Chelsea supporter I'd hope not as obviously the team doesn't get a chance to settle and will never win the championship, but as an Arsenal fan I'm all for it. Even when you win you need to keep on improving the team, Fergies splurge on Ferdinand and Veron can't be compared to the 150m+ that has been spent by Chelsea in the last 12 months. Also, United can afford it as a business, Chelsea can only do it because of Abramovich's money, if he were to walk away Chelsea would be another Leeds.

 

Wrong, in Blackburns first season in the Premiership Dunn was being praised by all as being a class act especially after their Worthington Cup win. He then started the next season well was tipped for England glory and then faded off with a poor string of form believing his own hype. Trust me if there is one player I know the form of well it's David Dunn. To a certain extent yes he was a promising talent and yes he is a good player and I think should have stayed at Blackburn but under different management, his form at Birmingham has been erratic due to his desire to stay at Blackburn and reluctance to move but he found it impossible to work with Souness as so many others have e.g. more recently Andy Cole. But in this instance I'm not referring to his transfer to Birmingham but rather his time at Blackburn when he got a really good start to the 02/03 season and was hyped up so much and linked with moves to Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea but then faded off later in the season.

I believe this situation is similiar to Scott Parkers only that Dunn didn't move, Parker did thus limiting his first team chances and perhaps his progression as a footballer as a player of his age in my opinion should be beginning to find his place in a starting XI as he was at Charlton, now I believe he's put himself back a few years and could end up as the next Nicky Butt, always on the edge of the action.

Anybody could see when Parker moved that it was a poor decision there was no way he was going to fit into the Chelsea side just as there is no way he'll fit in now. Lampards position is set in stone and Makelele isn't top far behind. He inevitably gets pushed out to wide right where he clearly struggles and as such is impeded from displaying his full talents. Had he been at Charlton for the remainder of the season perhaps they could have progressed and managed to hold down a Uefa Cup spot giving Parker his shot at European football but patients is a virtue. I don't think Parker saw this all he saw was the bright lights of the ChampionsLeague but ignored the fact that he was to play very little part in it or Chelseas title challange. And if at the end of the season they didn't acvhieve this then he should've moved on, if he was good enough for them in January he would surely have been good enough in July barring some talent draining mystery disease.

Lampard joined Chelsea whenthe squad wasn't as bloated as it is today and I always thought Lampard to be highly talented. His dip in form after his transfer wasn't that erratic but all in all he moved at the right time and fori the right reasons unlike Scott Parker. Chelseas move for Tiago and Gerrard suggests to me that he isn't held in that high a regard by Mourinho but only time will tell on that front.