Chelsea sign Robben

LanceStorm

As I Chelsea fan(pre-takeover!!), im delighted that we signed him!!
Duff can play in any position on the left, and will not be benched!! He has been Chelsea's best signing by far so I doubt Ranieri would just drop him!!

There will be a massive amount of Chelsea players leaving this summer, Stanic(who we always see sitting behind raneri each game), Bogarde(why are they paying him to sit at home and do nothing?), Petit(out classed by his fellow midfielders), Macho(goalkeeper, has necer played for chelsea, first team or reserve!!), Desailly(unfortunitly he's getting past his sell by date, but what a player!!)

That should clean out most of the crap, and de-clutter the number of players after a place!!

Also If any striker will leave Chelsea in the summer, itl prob be hasselbaink, he's so selfish and without the ball he offers nothing!!

Villain

Duff says that the signing was like a kick in th teeth for him

Duff Concerned over transfer

Pepe LeFrits

Was it Duff who made some comments earlier on in the season about there being too many players in the Chelsea squad? They'll have to be careful, having too many players is as bad as having too few.

[DF]Lenny

I think you will be seeing a big clearout in Chelsea this summer...think Zenden/Forsell/Bogarde/Petit/Desailly/Melchiot/Babayaro and probably Hassellbank or Gudjonsen too.They will trim their wage bill considerably,Kenyon a'int just there to sign people..heads will roll.

Pepe LeFrits

zenden plays for boro

eirebhoy

Originally posted by kaids
zenden plays for boro

He's only there on loan.

Ranieri will buy at least one more striker so I can see Gudjohnsen going too. Gronkjaer won't go but should. Cole definitely won't be there next season aswell.

[DF]Lenny

Dunno 'bout Cole ..I think there will be very few teams willing to pay his (hugely overated) wages.I think he's a bit of a one trick pony myself.

elbow316

Can see Cole maybe moving to Spurs in the summer - would keep in line with their policy of having a lightweight midfield quartet who don't want to tackle the opposition

James R

Depends on who the new Spurs boss is really. If its Mancini/Trapatoni/some other kinda Italian then they probably will look for more solid players because Italy is based heavily on defence.

Incidentally, I don't know how much you can read into newspaper reports, but read in the Star on Thursday that Alex Ferguson was monitoring the Joe Cole situation. Apparently hes tracked him since he was 16 and is going to make a move in the summer.

smuckers

Macho is injured, he's a decent goalie. Yea I also saw that in The Star, take it like a pinch of salt to be honest.:)

growler

Bogarde(why are they paying him to sit at home and do nothing?),

because he is on a contract and doesnt feel any need to take a drastic cut in wages, you can't really blame the guy !

I doubt Gudjonhson will leave, but Jimmy seems to be themost likely front man to go, it would be nice to have Forsell back he is a great talent and manages to score a lot of goals without getting a lot of service. Carlton Cole is another option.

I'm surprised by Duff's comments but as it was a SUN story I guess the chances are he wasn't even talking about football at the time, if indeed he was even talking to a Sun journo.

Scammo

The only reason Duff said that is because he's injury prone and when he inevitably gets injured next season he knows Robben will take his place and play well enough to get his game on a regular basis....

.....although Ranieri's rotation policy will probably throw my theory out the window!!!:D

eirebhoy

Originally posted by growler
I'm surprised by Duff's comments but as it was a SUN story I guess the chances are he wasn't even talking about football at the time, if indeed he was even talking to a Sun journo.

I was on the Chelsea's BBC 606 board and all the fans are saying it is just tabloid talk. Of course any player in the world wouldn't want competition for their place so I don't know why people get so suprised to hear players say it.

Ranieri is going a bit mad though. All they need is about 11 world class players. I actually can't even think of a team which have world class players sitting on the bench never mind having to fight to get on the bloody bench. It can't be good for the club and they definitely won't win anything with all that rotation.

[DF]Lenny

D'ont be too sure ,its a policy that works well in other sports(mostly american)and its surely only a matter of time before it takes place in footy.