Ballack has joined Chelsea

Atlas_IRL

On the news just there, he said about Chelsea on F365

It's absolutely definitely not about the money. Herr Ballack has signed a three-year Chelsea deal and says: "Man United came in quite early for me but I saw the possibility of Chelsea being much greater. They are the stronger team.

mike65

But where will he actaully play in the team? He makes Lampard redundant does'nt he?

Mike.

fade2black

"They are the stronger team".

"They offered me more buckets of money than anyone else"

mada999

meh, he's no Gerrard!

growler

fade2black wrote:

"They are the stronger team".

"They offered me more buckets of money than anyone else"

"I saw the possibility of Chelsea being much greater"


I saw the probability of Chelsea being much greater



and a few extra grand a week helps

KdjaCL

Will Mourinho do a Real and let/drop Makele go?

Where do you play him soncidering you have Essien and Lampard as 1st choice with Makele DMF.



Btw im not his biggest fan i think ballack is lazy and disappears for most of games and certainly not worth the hype germany places on him. /Note drag this post up in Oct when Chelsea fans hate him


kdjac

Necronomicon

mike65 wrote:

But where will he actaully play in the team? He makes Lampard redundant does'nt he?

Mike.

Not necessarily. He could replace Essien, or alternatively, Essien could replace Makelele and Ballack could play next to Lampard.

mike65

Someone is going to be pissed off then!

Mike.

PHB

I'm happy with this transfer.

Mourinho will end up playing a midfield of
Makelele
Lampard
Ballack

Lampard will play as he always does when he is the 2nd midfielder in the three, poorly.
Ballack will play well.

Essien will come in for the rough winter games up North

I think Chelsea are going to be much more attacking next year.

Kingp35

KdjaC wrote:

Where do you play him soncidering you have Essien and Lampard as 1st choice with Makele DMF.

He will replace Essien who has been a major disappointment so far especially considering the ridiculous amount of money played.

TBH I cant see Ballack and Lampard doing well together because they are so similiar. I would only have one or the other in their.

Atlas_IRL

Mourinho said that the champions league favours attacking teams so Ballack and a world class striker (Shev) and they have a very good chance

They need somebody to attack down the wings from defence as well though, ala Cole

Chardee MacDennis

KdjaC wrote:

Btw im not his biggest fan i think ballack is lazy and disappears for most of games and certainly not worth the hype germany places on him.

replace ballack with lampard and germany with england, and this statement still holds true!!

i reckon they will play Makelele in DM with Ballack and Lampard attacking.
Essein is being trained as a Makelele replacement, so i think we may see the two interchange particualrly once ballack has settled in.

Lex Luthor

Ya, Ballack & Lampard playing in AM role together.

Vokes

Actually, i thought it was Diarra who was being trained as Makelele's replacement.

There are some suggestions that Mourinho will continue to drop wingers altogether and play either a diamond 4-4-2:

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Cech

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Ferreira---Carvahlo---Terry---Del Horno

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Makelele

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Essien----Lampard

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Ballack

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Shevchenko(?)---Drogba

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...or a Brazilian style 4-2-2-2....

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Cech

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Ferreira---Carvahlo---Terry---Del Horno

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Essien--Makelele

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Ballack---Lampard

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Shevchenko(?)---Drogba

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More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/4773571.stm

Lex Luthor

SofaKing wrote:

There are some suggestions that Mourinho will continue to drop wingers altogether and play either a diamond 4-4-2:

Never happen

Necronomicon

Lex Luthor wrote:

Never happen

Why not? He didn't seem the happiest with the wingers towards the end of the season and seemed to be experimenting a lot with new formations.

Dont be at yourself

SofaKing wrote:

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Cech

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Ferreira---Carvahlo---Terry---Del Horno

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Essien--Makelele

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Ballack---Lampard

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Shevchenko(?)---Drogba

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That`s what I reckon it`ll be next season. Scary.

sprinkles

No Duff, Robben, Cole, SWP???

I reckon they'll drop essien to the bench and 2 of the wingers will be dropped, selling or loaning one.

It'll be

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Cech

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Ferreira---Carvahlo---Terry---Del Horno

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Makelele

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Ballack---Lampard

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----Robben

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Cole----

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Shevchenko(?)

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RotalicaV

I thought he was dropping Carvahlo.

Anyway, i can't wait to whoop chelsea with ballack playing.

BaZmO*

STG£130K a week with the deal costing Chelsea £30m over the 3 years coupled with Chelsea yet to sign another couple of big name players. :eek:
And people have the temerity to accuse Chelsea of buying the PL title? Bloody cheek!!

fade2black

te·mer·i·ty Pronunciation (t-mr-t)
n.
Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.

I really wonder why some of these players sign for Chelsea...ok...Ballack is probably assured a game but Wright Philips and co...how arrogant do you have to be to think that you're going to walk into the team? WP, as an example, must be wondering how far time travel technology is advancing...

I really am glad Gerrard didn't sign for them...I just wonder how close he came.

growler

can't see him going down the "no wingers" route, every time he's tried that we looked bloody awful

Emmo

Yeah someone else nailed it on the head

........................Cech
Ferreira.....Carvahlo....Terry.........NEW LB
.....................Makelele
JCole........Ballack...Lampard........Robben
..................NEW CF

With SWP, Essien, Duff, Drogba, Huth, Crespo all playing bit parts as subs.

I think that Gudjonsen, Gallas and Del Horno are gone in the summer.

I really hope that they done get Sheva.

Emmo

BaZmO*

fade2black wrote:

te·mer·i·ty Pronunciation (t-mr-t)
n.
Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.

wtf
The universal interrogative particle.

The abbreviation of, most commonly, 'what the fúck', though sometimes also 'who/why/when/where the fúck'. When used with an exclamation point instead of a question mark, it becomes an exclamation of amazement, confusion, disbelief, ect.

Roddy23

I'd be very surprised as some people on here suggested of playing without wingers, sure ye seen what happened in the FA Cup v Liverpool. Ballack is a good player, but had they got Gerrard last year, that would have been much worse. I'm still of the opinion Ballack is too similar to Lampard. If they were to splash and buy Sheva that'd be a very different story.

eirebhoy

BaZmO* wrote:

STG£130K a week with the deal costing Chelsea £30m over the 3 years coupled with Chelsea yet to sign another couple of big name players. :eek:
And people have the temerity to accuse Chelsea of buying the PL title? Bloody cheek!!

Where did you get that figure? £130k a week over 3 years is £20m. I'm pretty certain Man U would have paid that.

btw - Mourinho has confirmed that 1 player from Robben/Duff/SWP will be leaving in the summer. They're looking to bring in Simao, Duff is twice the player tbh.

BaZmO*

eirebhoy wrote:

Where did you get that figure? £130k a week over 3 years is £20m. I'm pretty certain Man U would have paid that.

Hey, don't shoot the messenger!! Heard it on the news last night. Something to do with signing on fee and bonuses etc. etc.

eirebhoy wrote:

btw - Mourinho has confirmed that 1 player from Robben/Duff/SWP will be leaving in the summer. They're looking to bring in Simao, Duff is twice the player tbh.

If that's true I hope it's Duff and I hope he goes to Utd. or Liverpool.

growler

eirebhoy wrote:

Where did you get that figure? £130k a week over 3 years is £20m. I'm pretty certain Man U would have paid that.

btw - Mourinho has confirmed that 1 player from Robben/Duff/SWP will be leaving in the summer. They're looking to bring in Simao, Duff is twice the player tbh.

apparently what he actually said was,that he has 4 great wingers and IF one of them were to leave Simao would be an option. then again it is silly season.

RuggieBear

According to TalkSport he is on £130K a week after tax.

That's more or less 200 grand a week or 30 million over the course of the contract.

Just chelsea are paying his tax too

growler

fade2black wrote:

te·mer·i·ty Pronunciation (t-mr-t)
n.
Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.

I really wonder why some of these players sign for Chelsea...ok...Ballack is probably assured a game but Wright Philips and co...how arrogant do you have to be to think that you're going to walk into the team? WP, as an example, must be wondering how far time travel technology is advancing...

I really am glad Gerrard didn't sign for them...I just wonder how close he came.

I wonder if they consider being part of a team that looks set to dominate english and probably european football over the coming years, combined with unmatchable pay packets, bankrolled by Roman ... is preferable to being part of any team that is likely to play second fiddle to chelsea ?

iregk

Good response growler. Why anyone would go to Chelsea is beyond me. Getting paid more than anyone else will give you whilst winning leagues and hopefully a champions league as well. Bizarre the way some players think!!!

tap28

growler wrote:

I wonder if they consider being part of a team that looks set to dominate english and probably european football over the coming years, combined with unmatchable pay packets, bankrolled by Roman ... is preferable to being part of any team that is likely to play second fiddle to chelsea ?

But surely most players want to play football on a somewhat regular basis. IMOP when SWP was growing up, he was probably dreaming of playing for England in the WC. While he is no doubt much wealthier at Chelsea than he would have been if he had stayed at MC, I wonder when his career is over, will he look back and say, "going to Chelsea cost me a chance to play in the WC"

BaZmO*

Nothing wrong with going for the big pay out at Chelsea but doing it at the expense of playing regular football just seems strange. But then again maybe some people just prefer the money.

eirebhoy

growler wrote:

apparently what he actually said was,that he has 4 great wingers and IF one of them were to leave Simao would be an option. then again it is silly season.

You're right, he was misquoted and Sky Sports have now changed their article.

iregk

BaZmO* wrote:

Nothing wrong with going for the big pay out at Chelsea but doing it at the expense of playing regular football just seems strange. But then again maybe some people just prefer the money.

Well I would say most players who are linked with Chelsea would think that they have a good stab at playing regularly so why not go play and get well paid? Ok in SWP case it didn't quite work out that way still, can't blame the chap for trying! All in all he is a young lad and could easily make the next world cup/european championships

BaZmO*

iregk wrote:

Well I would say most players who are linked with Chelsea would think that they have a good stab at playing regularly so why not go play and get well paid? Ok in SWP case it didn't quite work out that way still, can't blame the chap for trying! All in all he is a young lad and could easily make the next world cup/european championships

Very true. You'd want to be very doubtful of your own abilities if you thought that you wouldn't make it into the starting team on a regular basis after a transfer.