Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2012/2013

Caveman1

Malouda could of been a great player at Chelsea but just doesn't seem bothered, I know he's very interested in music and is in a band, so maybe he'll concentrate on that and still pick up a hefty wage for just training, can't blame him tbh a contract is there for a reason so why not take advantage of it

greendom

Caveman1 wrote: »

Malouda could of been a great player at Chelsea but just doesn't seem bothered, I know he's very interested in music and is in a band, so maybe he'll concentrate on that and still pick up a hefty wage for just training, can't blame him tbh a contract is there for a reason so why not take advantage of it

He's very heavily involved with Wyclef Jean's Haitian charity too, perhaps that's another reason why he wants to hold onto his lucrative contract.

Sgt Pepper 64

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Ok maybe Chelsea are a little to blame but if he sits contract out it says a lot bout his ambition etc. greedy little so and so lol

Imagine the conversation with Mrs Malouda


"Hi darling - I've sorted it out - I've got a £10k a week contract in Brazil and we can move there at once or I can sign in 6 months time and start in May and stay on the Chelsea salary till then."

Caveman1

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Imagine the conversation with Mrs Malouda


"Hi darling - I've sorted it out - I've got a £10k a week contract in Brazil and we can move there at once or I can sign in 6 months time and start in May and stay on the Chelsea salary till then."

Exactly.

Although footballers are on ridiculous amounts of money, they've become accusted to the lifestyle, I wouldn't blame anybody trying to make as much money as possible, especially in a career as short as a footballer.

Caveman1

At tonight U21s game when the Liverpool player Ngoo scored he lifted his shirt to reveal a hillsborough tribute, he was booked for it but all the Chelsea fans
Cheered for him, nice gesture I thought.

GavRedKing

Nobody can force Malouda to join another club, if he says no to contract thats his choice.

Same as anybody leaving their current job, your not going to leave for less money, especially if theres a big difference in your take home pay.

ShoulderChip

Florent's wife is called Florencia

MaroonAndGreen

Malouda's case is understandable in the financial sense.

Just annoying as it makes him appear to lack footballing ambition.

Meglamonia

Buzzing for today's game be fantastic if we get the 3 points,it's one of those days where you have to win ugly I think

GavRedKing

Yup should be a good 'un. Hopefully another win and be on top for another week.

Crann na Beatha

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GavRedKing

Aquila wrote: »

kick off is at 3 lads?

Yup, if anyone wants to fire me a link via PM about 2:45 feel free too.

Caveman1

Is there a match thread lads?

Soby

GavRedKing wrote: »

Aquila wrote: »

kick off is at 3 lads?

Yup, if anyone wants to fire me a link via PM about 2:45 feel free too.

+1 please lads if you don't mind

GavRedKing

Caveman1 wrote: »

Is there a match thread lads?

Not yet anyway. Anyone offering to create one? :pac:

Caveman1

Aquila, Gav & Soby, I've sent you's all a PM with a link for the game

Crann na Beatha

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Caveman1

Woohoo 1000th post

Hopefully Chelsea get a win today to add to this monumental moment

GavRedKing

Caveman1 wrote: »

Woohoo 1000th post

Hopefully Chelsea get a win today to add to this monumental moment

n00b :pac:

Meglamonia

Can someone pm me a link please?

duploelabs

Anyone else think that today's line up was a very negative formation?

Savage Tyrant

Just seen the Anton Ferdinand and John Terry/Ashley Cole non-handshake.
I understand the Ferdinand and Terry situation.... But what's the story between Cole and Ferdinand?

Crann na Beatha

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TerryTibbs!

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

Just seen the Anton Ferdinand and John Terry/Ashley Cole non-handshake.
I understand the Ferdinand and Terry situation.... But what's the story between Cole and Ferdinand?

Cole was the main witness in the case. Stood up for Terry.

MaroonAndGreen

What are our next few league fixtures (Home) and (Away)?

ShoulderChip

Very frustrating game not one bit happy.

We were miserable all bar Hazard

cadaliac

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

Just seen the Anton Ferdinand and John Terry/Ashley Cole non-handshake.
I understand the Ferdinand and Terry situation.... But what's the story between Cole and Ferdinand?

I think Ferdinand said that Cole was " nothing but a choc ice" on twitter. As in, black on the outside and white on the inside. Cole was defending Terry at the time.
It was during the whole Terry debackle. Handbags and all that if you ask me.

MUSEIST

Terrible performance but not the worst result in the world tbh. Much more worried by our recent performances than the results. We look clueless.

Dozen Wicked Words

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

Just seen the Anton Ferdinand and John Terry/Ashley Cole non-handshake.
I understand the Ferdinand and Terry situation.... But what's the story between Cole and Ferdinand?

It was Rio Ferdinand that called him a choc ice, which of course is nothing to do with being white on the inside brown on the outside, well according to Rio anyway. He got a little fine for his racism, interesting to see what Terry gets if the FA find evidence a court of law didnt.

Techless

Understand that Torres threw a strop when substituted and went straight down the tunnel. Very disappointing attitude and not great for team spirit.

Panthro

I think the handshake snub of the two lads was a bit OTT.
Nobody died Anton FFS, get over yourself.
The two lads came away the better for it by at least offering their hands to shake, fair play to them.

GavRedKing

duploelabs wrote: »

Anyone else think that today's line up was a very negative formation?

Yes and again RDM should his inexperience. Why have the likes of Moses, Oscar and Sturridge on the bench and then play 2 players out of posution and bpth bad bad games.

Terrible starting XI

GavRedKing

Techless wrote: »

Understand that Torres threw a strop when substituted and went straight down the tunnel. Very disappointing attitude and not great for team spirit.

Hes right too though, there were players out there playinh worse and he good hauled off. Id be pee'd off too.

Dozen Wicked Words

GavRedKing wrote: »

Hes right too though, there were players out there playinh worse and he good hauled off. Id be pee'd off too.

With 10 minutes or whatever left, no one should throw a strop if they get subbed. Bit different if there is a lot of the game left, but RDM is not unlike most managers who will try something different with the game drawing to a close. Torres can be disappointed but he doesn't have to be a child about it.

GavRedKing

dooferoaks wrote: »

With 10 minutes or whatever left, no one should throw a strop if they get subbed. Bit different if there is a lot of the game left, but RDM is not unlike most managers who will try something different with the game drawing to a close. Torres can be disappointed but he doesn't have to be a child about it.

He'll proba ly be dropped for the next EPL game but to take off your main CF when more players are misfiring is stupid. We needed goals yet he left on 3 CM's and made a straight swap.

RDM is to naive at times and to say a point away to QPR is good shows a lack of ambition that was reflected in the team selection.

He'll be judged on where we finish in the EPL overall but hes not inspiring me one at the moment.

the_monkey

Bit of a disappointing result today, ill check out MOTD before commenting further - although I did suspect we'd lose points - tough enough fixture away to Eddie Hitler's team :P...

Caveman1

As soon as the team news was announced today I knew things were gonna be tough, as has already been mentioned RDM is showing his inexperience with the team selection. We have possibly one of the most talented squads in the premier league so why play players out of position when we have good enough players to fill those positions in the first place.

Something needs to change quick because if we set up the same way against Juve we'll be taught a serious lesson. Moses needs to start IMO because as everyone can see Ramires is being wasted out on the right

MUSEIST

This is the team we should be playing

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cech

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--Ivanovich

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luiz

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Terry

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cole----

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Mikel

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Ramires

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--Moses

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hazard

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mata---

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Torres

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But the team we will actually play is anyones guess.

Sgt Pepper 64

Caveman1 wrote: »

As soon as the team news was announced today I knew things were gonna be tough, as has already been mentioned RDM is showing his inexperience with the team selection. We have possibly one of the most talented squads in the premier league so why play players out of position when we have good enough players to fill those positions in the first place.

Something needs to change quick because if we set up the same way against Juve we'll be taught a serious lesson. Moses needs to start IMO because as everyone can see Ramires is being wasted out on the right

I think maybe he saw AVB make too many changes too quickly and has gone the other way. QPR was a one off game - local derby, physical plus with all the handshake drama, so he picked a team he felt suited for that. I'd be surprised if he does that again

homer simpson

Seemed like a decent game considering the scoreline. Ref bottled 2 big penalty decisions IMO. The Terry one we see in every game, if they start giving pen's for "tackles" like that they will soon stop. The SWP tackle on Hazard was clear as day how it wasn't given I don't know, but honestly with all the off field stuff surrounding the game I'll gladly settle for a draw, onwards and upwards.

What did everyone think of the Sky Sports special on us willing the champions league? I thought it was great watch, still celebrated every goal Was actually gutted when I heard Cech talk about missing the dressing room stuff post game because of the dope testing, him talking about lifting the cup for a photo on his lonesome afterwords

.... and also another thing that the program taught reminded me of and that's how much I miss seeing the Drog playing in a Chelsea shirt, legend !!!

Caveman1

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

I think maybe he saw AVB make too many changes too quickly and has gone the other way. QPR was a one off game - local derby, physical plus with all the handshake drama, so he picked a team he felt suited for that. I'd be surprised if he does that again

I'm not so sure its a one off tbh, not only is Robbie's team selection strange at times but i also feel he's too reluctant to make changes, you cant bring a sub on with only 10 mins to go and expect to make a difference.

Yesterdays result isn't actually a bad one its just I feel the game was there for the taking, I'm more worried about the Juve game now, we definitely need to be winning our home games in the CL with such a tough group.

Panthro

I thought athletico's schooling would,have been enough of a kick in the balls, judging by yesterday's performance it wasn't.

Crann na Beatha

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Sgt Pepper 64

Apparently JT went off limping (knee) and Mikel picked up a knock.
Both should be ok for Juve

But it does hightlight my fears about JT and the need to get in a backup

Sanity_Saviour

Is there not a serious overreaction to yesterday?

RDM put out a team with Juve in mind, QPR have a good squad of players who are finally clicking, and its a London derby.

Though the performance itself wasn't great it was by no means disastrous, Moses looked lively when he came on and Hazard might've had 2 on another day. Azp will bring another route at RB.

Think it'll be close, but we'll have too much on Wednesday.

Sgt Pepper 64

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Is there not a serious overreaction to yesterday?

RDM put out a team with Juve in mind, QPR have a good squad of players who are finally clicking, and its a London derby.

Though the performance itself wasn't great it was by no means disastrous, Moses looked lively when he came on and Hazard might've had 2 on another day. Azp will bring another route at RB.

Think it'll be close, but we'll have too much on Wednesday.

No I dont think so. We saw again 2 players played way out of position and we neagted our attackign threat by taking Torres off. Should have started Moses on the right (or left) as Bertrand really is just a left back, and Ramires is a box to box midfielder. Now I know Danny doesnt like playing on the right, but who is the boss and does he want to play at all?

We know that RDM doesnt rate him and was prepared to loan him out but he didnt want to go, otherwise we would have signed Remy, who was at Chelsea and only fell through cos Danny wouldnt go.

The prioity is the league this season plus a good defence of the euro cup

Sanity_Saviour

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Is there not a serious overreaction to yesterday?

RDM put out a team with Juve in mind, QPR have a good squad of players who are finally clicking, and its a London derby.

Though the performance itself wasn't great it was by no means disastrous, Moses looked lively when he came on and Hazard might've had 2 on another day. Azp will bring another route at RB.

Think it'll be close, but we'll have too much on Wednesday.

No I dont think so. We saw again 2 players played way out of position and we neagted our attackign threat by taking Torres off. Should have started Moses on the right (or left) as Bertrand really is just a left back, and Ramires is a box to box midfielder. Now I know Danny doesnt like playing on the right, but who is the boss and does he want to play at all?

We know that RDM doesnt rate him and was prepared to loan him out but he didnt want to go, otherwise we would have signed Remy, who was at Chelsea and only fell through cos Danny wouldnt go.

The prioity is the league this season plus a good defence of the euro cup

Think he's looking ahead towards the inevitable injury crises though. Just for the record I was just as confused by the selection as everyone else but I think he's enforcing a long term plan where a short term would be more effective.

Think he got it all wrong yesterday but will be effective against the bigger teams.

One worry I do have is that he is already relying too much on Hazard.

Spread

Getting a point away against a team that are beginning to gel is not a bad result.

GavRedKing

If it wasnt for J.Ceasar on goal we would have taken 3 points, his 1st half save from Hazard was very good but if we have any aspirations for the league or a challenge, these are the games we have to win.

Next couples of games are important.

Juve, Stoke, Wolves (Capital Cup), Arsenal, FCNordsjaelland, Norwich, Spurs, Donetsk, Man Utd.

Brings us up until the start of November.

If we go unbeaten, all well and good, if we draw 5 or 6 of them its not good enough, if we lose 2 or 3 it will be a disaster.

I'm going to say it will be :

W, W, W, D, W, W, D, D, L.

Caveman1

Spread wrote: »

Getting a point away against a team that are beginning to gel is not a bad result.

I dont think anyone can be that upset over the result as its not that bad, I think a lot of people are concerned, myself included, is the fact that RDM is playing players out of position and setting up the team too cautiously when on our bench we had a lot of creative players.

It also bugs me that he only used 2 subs and leaves it so late even making changes.

The squad is relatively new and its early days yet but IMO RDM is showing his inexperience, hopefully it doesnt cost us this season.