Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours

redout

1701: BREAKING NEWS BBC
Word reaches us that Chelsea playmaker Deco could be out for the season with a recurrence of his hamstring injury, sustained in today's 1-0 win over Manchester City. Blues boss Guus Hiddink says: "He was fit and worked hard, but after 20 or 25 minutes he had this problem again, so he will be out again for a while. I think Deco will not be recovered very shortly. He'll have to be very fit to come back this season. I have my doubts to be honest, but let's see what happens."

growler

tbh he's not really going to be that big a loss, he looked like he might be vaguely interested in playing yesterday but that's only the second time this season, the other being his debut.

now if Hiddink could just get Ballack to give a flying **** that would be nice.

Soby

Atletico Madrid want deco:D..win!!:D..now all we need to do is sell ballack too..then use that money to get a decent left winger and we got a nice midfield of mikel,essien,lams,cole and whoever we buy...i think ballack has to be dropped next game..essien can play in his role and let mikel continue to hold:D

iregk

Have to say I thought the headline on the Sun was hillarious.

"Deco injury, rocks blues title bid"

Eh no. No it didn't. Pretty much everyone is quite happy with the situation really.

V9

Its funny how back in August we thought he'd be doin the business week in week out for us, ever since that first injury he picked up he went ta f00k, shame really.

Soby

we'll i mean what did he do really??He had a shot palmed into the top corner on the first day of the season then ye scores a good free kick..that was about the highlights of his season really

redout

Deco is finished at the top level I reckon. He is just not up to it anymore.

Mr Alan

i remember dunphy oiling up his mickey over Deco at the start of the season.....funny how times change.

V9

Mr Alan wrote: »

i remember dunphy oiling up his mickey over Deco at the start of the season.....funny how times change.

That is a very very disturbing image... truely disturbing... ugh
:(

Soby wrote: »

we'll i mean what did he do really??He had a shot palmed into the top corner on the first day of the season then ye scores a good free kick..that was about the highlights of his season really

From what I saw of him pre-injury, aside from the goals, his ability to pick out a pass was wonderful, I honestly thought we had finally got someone to create something out of nothing, similer to our little Zola them years ago.

CHD

V9 wrote: »

That is a very very disturbing image... truely disturbing... ugh
:(



From what I saw of him pre-injury, aside from the goals, his ability to pick out a pass was wonderful, I honestly thought we had finally got someone to create something out of nothing, similer to our little Zola them years ago.

Don't disrespect Zola like that please. Deco has been muck. Quite happy he's out.

V9

Vialli9 would like to apologise for the previous statment. Deco is nor ever will be in a league with Franco Zola.



Who we hoping for in the draw later today? I fancy Arsenal meself, I reckon we could dump em out of Europe, be sweet!

ShoulderChip

Oh my, could we have asked for a tougher draw?

We have to get past Liverpool,
and then Barca/Bayern

very tough.

Not a fan of going to anfield for first leg either, if they get a 0-0 draw even it will be hard to come back from that.

abelard

Very interested to see what Hiddink will make of Liverpool.

All in all it could have been tougher, we know we can beat Liverpool over 2 legs, and I'm just glad we didn't get Barca or Utd just yet.

selpher

AGAIN? Ffs. Pity theres no Riise for these games. Maybe Rafa will make another 'dossier' on Didier. It seems like every season we have to play Liverpool or Barca and this year could be both. I guess we'll see how good Guus really is.

kryogen

Mr Alan wrote: »

i remember dunphy oiling up his mickey over Deco at the start of the season.....funny how times change.

my lunch came out my nose when i read this

Priceless Al priceless

V9

Well, suppose ya have to go out and beat the big teams to win. Hopefully we can snatch a result at anfield and then take em to the cleaners at the Bridge. Barca could be tricky alright. Still woulda preferred Arsenal :pac:

bullpost

No easy games but ffs variety is the spice of life.
If we can keep everyone fit and Essien continues to improve though we'll give anyone a game.

growler

sick to death of playing them at this stage, but guess we'll just have to knock em out again , sorta had a n air of inevitability about it though! would have rathered a trip to Munich personally.

at least we're a very different side , both motivation and fitness, than we were under scolari, so I can choose to ignore our dismal display at anfield in Jan and hope for the best.

Is this going to coincide with the hillsborough anniversary ? that won't be nice.

Soby

So we're at home for the 2nd leg ye??Thats advantage to us so

Soby

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

im so angry..the one day utd lose we do to

Mr Alan

So, is there a "hiddink effect" or is there still major problems at the bridge?

Soby

say the champions league is the only thing that will answer those questions

Mr Alan

why the Champions league only?

if you'd have won today, you'd have been 1 point off the top of the league!?

ShoulderChip

yes today was a joke,

I knwo spurs played well but we missed one opportunity too many this year.

CHD

Only for the rugby today id probably be banned from here.ffs. Twats. What a oppurtunity. favour returnd to liverpool.

selpher

Joke of a performance. If you can't raise your game against sp*rs when Utd are losing, when can you. Why did Belletti start? Awful stuff all round.

jackdaw

I've said it before and ill say it again ....


get ready for the darkest times ahead for CFC ...

RA will leave soon ... then no $$$ ...


then comes relagation....

sure in a few years we'll be in the conference!!!

anyway ... I hope united can recover ... if the bindippers won it ,
it would be the blackest year ever for football...

Soby

Just seen the goal..what was bosingwa doing??Any no marking for modric either

kingshankly

Soby wrote: »

Just seen the goal..what was bosingwa doing??Any no marking for modric either

bosingwa seems to be struggling recently from what i have seen of him.
his attitude is questionable imo.
thought chelsea were unlucky not to get a point from the game..
chelsea never look as solid when carvaliho is not playing

Mgoraf

Reported in one of the papers that Rijkaard will take over in the summer.

smuckers

it was a shambles yesterday,midfield was all over the place. Ballack offers nothing and Frank was off form, Essien didn't have the best of games either. Sooner we offload Ballack the better.

jackdaw

wow!!

Liverpool 5 - 0 Villa !!!


nothing left really now this season .... time to look forward to next August !!

growler

jackdaw wrote: »

wow!!

Liverpool 5 - 0 Villa !!!


nothing left really now this season .... time to look forward to next August !!

you may not of heard of the champions league or the FA cup? for me our league challenge was over a month ago, going and losing at white hart lane in such a crucial game was just plain silly :mad: tottenham seem to be getting better against us for some strange reason, something i hope our new / next manager decides to readdress as a matter of some importance.

V9

While reading (and loling) at the new Engerland kit thread I thought I'd pop up what is, by all accounts, gonna be our new one for next season:



Hmm.

I have to admit at first I did not like it, not by a long shot, but its grown on me, people might say its plain or whatever but I'm not a fan over overly busy looking shirts anyway.

Roundneck coller is nice, dispite what people say, there is no zipper on that shirt either, thank christ. No idea on a release date, we saw this seasons one in the last game of the season last year, if thats the case this is probably the final product, if its not til August maybe there'll be a few modifications made, lets see anyway...

CHD

That jersey would be good if we were playing rugby next year. It sucks.

pwd

anelka has a sore toe
Somehow he managed to soldier through the last few games anyway.
But now he needs to rest for three weeks. Two of which will be an international break.
Hmmm something dodgy is afoot methinks.

CHD

Poor ickle Nic

Panthro

boswinga and drogs both out.
anybody think shearer will have an impact at newcastle?

pwd

pwd wrote: »

anelka has a sore toe
Somehow he managed to soldier through the last few games anyway.
But now he needs to rest for three weeks. Two of which will be an international break.
Hmmm something dodgy is afoot methinks.

http://www.skysports.com/football/match_preview/0,19764,11065_3005242,00.html

anelka has now shaken off his toe injury. Just in time huh what a surprise :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Soby

Match Link

Soby

Hopefully Drogba starts tonight

ShoulderChip

oh its going to be scary alright

what od ye think will happen?

bullpost

I think Rafa is going to try and end this one tonight.
So they'll come at us like a train. If we can weather the storm and try to nick the away goal we're in with a shout. We're finding goals hard to come by lately though.

Panthro

ill reckon we can take them. they will fly at us for the first bit, the game will settle down and we plough in a goal with a bit of skill from lamps and a bit of space creating by drogs.
can we get essien to man mark the **** out of gerrard? bulldoser vs bulldoser kind of thing.
let mikel and terry handle torres. leave ballack/deco on the bench.

Well done Chelsea.

Crann na Beatha

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bullpost

I take back everything I ever said or thought about Malouda after tonight

Bubs101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWf1MdHv80Q

staker

well played chelsea.
real intensity like mourinho days.
ye're the only threat to barca on that performance.

CHD