Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2012/2013

GavRedKing

the_monkey wrote: »

it is - http://www.live-footballontv.com/football-tv-rights-uk.html



I don't think ITV have live streams ?

Not that I know of but I'm sure you'd find a stream from one of the above mentioned providers somewhere on the internet.

GavRedKing

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Transfer rumour latest - André Schürrle for 15 million!
Yep because we signed 1 German, we are obviously going to sign another!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9244686/Chelsea-chairman-Roman-Abramovich-weighs-up-15.5million-offer-for-Germany-forward-Andre-Schurrle.html

Quite an interesting article

Chelsea chairman Roman Abramovich weighs up £15.5million offer for Germany forward Andre Schurrle

Chelsea are considering a bid of between £14 million and £15.5 million for the German international striker André Schürrle as Roman Abramovich continues to ponder the extent of his squad rebuilding over the summer.


Sources close to the Russian billionaire have revealed that there are plans in place to create a “hungry, young team” although there is confusion as to which players Chelsea are targeting while the club wait for a permanent manager to be appointed.

A number of moves have been put on hold and might now prove elusive while the scale of the departures — which had been planned to be widespread – is also uncertain with Chelsea having reached the Champions League final under interim head coach Roberto Di Matteo.

At the same time, highly ambitious plans have been considered to inquire about the Real Madrid pair of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuaín or, alternatively, the Napoli forwards Edinson Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi.

However, it seems unlikely that Chelsea will make double bids in either case. Both Higuaín and Lavezzi have been offered to the club in recent months.

The signing of Marko Marin from Werder Bremen, announced last weekend, for £6.5million was curious in that the attacking midfielder – who can also play as a winger – had not previously been discussed by the club’s hierarchy and has endured a difficult season.


Tottenham Hotspur had a deal put in place to sign him this summer before Chelsea gazumped them.
Schürrle, 21, like Marin, 23, is young and a full international who hopes to be in the Germany squad at Euro 2012 although they could be in competition for a place. Schürrle fits the profile of the kind of player Chelsea are trying to recruit.
Schürrle joined Bayern Leverkusen only last summer and featured against Chelsea during the club’s Champions League campaign this season.
He is just over 6ft tall and can play as a striker or a wide attacker. Chelsea have made initial inquiries about his availability but have not made an offer.
Leverkusen signed him from Mainz for about £6.5million and it appears the Bundesliga club would like to more than double their money if he is sold to Chelsea.
They are discussing several potential deals, some of which might be dependent on whether they are in the Champions League next season.
Plans are in place to sign Porto forward Hulk – with the Portuguese club wanting to sell and prepared to waive his £80million release clause in favour of a deal worth about £32.5million – and his fellow Brazilian Lucas Moura, a 19-year-old ­midfielder who plays for Sao Paulo. Both players were targets for former manager Andre Villas-Boas, as was Schürrle.
Both deals, however, could be in danger of collapse. Abramovich is not keen to do further transfer business with Porto, which may end Hulk’s hopes of moving to Chelsea, while Real Madrid have moved ahead in the race for Lucas, who would cost more than £20million, even though he has a buy-out clause which is much higher than that.
Chelsea are also set to face a battle to secure Radamel Falcao, who is another of their targets, with Real also interested in the striker even though he plays for city rivals Atlético Madrid.
They signed him for about £33million from Porto last summer.
Nevertheless, Atlético would want more money for the 26 year-old, who has had an outstanding season in leading the club to the Europa League final, which he won last year with Villas-Boas at Porto. There is confusion over third-party ownership issues around the player.
Falcao would be regarded as an ideal replacement for veteran forward Didier Drogba, whose contract at Stamford Bridge expires at the end of this season.
If the Colombian was signed it would raise further questions over the future of Fernando Torres and over who should be Chelsea’s main striker – the Spaniard appears likely to stay at the club.
Chelsea’s transfers are being handled by the club’s technical director, Michael Emenalo, who is trusted by Abramovich, as are Emenalo’s advisers, who include the Dutch scout Piet de Visser and a key agent, the Serbian Vlado Lemic, who has become an increasingly influential figure and has been behind several big deals at the club for a number of years.
The extent of the changes at Chelsea this summer may also be dictated by which players can be moved on. Drogba still appears likely to go, along with Salomon Kalou, who is also out of contract, and the club have been interested in selling Florent Malouda.
Paulo Ferreira and Jose Bosingwa are also set to go.
The future of Daniel Sturridge is in doubt, especially as the England ­forward has st ruggled to feature of late and wants to play as a central striker rather than on the flank. Chelsea could also cash in on him.

Hi Sgt Pepper, welcome to the past :P

See linky : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78496470&postcount=390

:pac:

I highlighted the Emenalo/De Visser part as I thought it was interesting if true.

Sgt Pepper 64

gavredking wrote: »

Hi Sgt Pepper, welcome to the past :P

See linky : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78496470&postcount=390

:pac:

I highlighted the Emenalo/De Visser part as I thought it was interesting if true.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

What msg? That NEVER happened right!

Crann na Beatha

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everdead.ie

gavredking wrote: »

Well for the club to be viable for the sake of the UEFA F.F.P we need either an expansion ofStmaford Bridge, which is nearly impossible or move to a new site which is possible.

If we follow the Arsenal model and sell teh ground Stamford Bridge sits on this would fund the new stadium.

I'd love if we went to a new 55-60K stadium.

Is it worth it financiallyfor chelsea to move and spend 300m+ on a stadium that would only add 10,000 seats?

the_doctor199

Masked Man wrote: »

Today is the deadline for bids on Battersea. Haven't heard anything about Chelsea going for it but hopefully that doesn't mean they won't.

Chelsea Football Club can confirm to our fans that we have today submitted an offer, with our property development partner Almacantar, to acquire the 39-acre Battersea Power Station site.

Story at http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2759942,00.html

duploelabs

dammit beat me to it

GavRedKing

Aquila wrote: »

So looking to the future..
who do ye want bought?who would make the team a cut above the rest

Messi and Ronaldo.

I'd love Higuain, Di Maria.

Chances of getting either since they won La Liga slim enough I'd reckon, although Higuain maybe be tempted as hes been rotated with Benzema and hes been left out more so then Benzema even thuogh IMO, hes a better player.

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is it worth it financiallyfor chelsea to move and spend 300m+ on a stadium that would only add 10,000 seats?

Definetly, the longer term gais of increasing match day revenue would be huge for us.

A new stadium would probably cost us about £500-600Million. Thats between acquiring the site and building the stadium.


We could re-coup a big chunk of that by selling the land Stamford bridge currently sits on it.

Hopefully the council will help us with infrastructure and put in an underground connection outside att he stadium.

Its very much a pipe dream at the moment, with this news maybe our local council will allow us to expand on our curent site but thats very unlikely IMO.

what a day

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is it worth it financiallyfor chelsea to move and spend 300m+ on a stadium that would only add 10,000 seats?

It will be worth it if the CPO allow Roman to sell the ground to pay for our new stadium. An extra 10-15 thousand seats will signifigantly increase our match day income not to mention more sponser ship naming rights and futher plans to increase capacity.

On another note im a hugh fan of andre shurrle, he is very simular to Torres...except he scores goals :pac:

Delighted to hear the bid has gone in on the battersea ground!!

As for players id like to see come in that will make us a cut above the rest, we need two more wingers aswell as De bruyne and Marin. We also need another creative midfielder some one to rival Mata.
Who id like to see come in?? Hazard as our left winger, Hulk as our right winger and Lucas as our creative midfielder.

I wanted us to get another striker but id be happy with Torres if he continued his form into next season with Sturridge as back up to him.

Masked Man

The four iconic chimneys and wash towers along with the Grade II* listed west turbine hall and control room will be restored and retained in their original locations and provide a unique architectural backdrop to a world-class stadium with a capacity of around 60,000 seats.
....
rectangular in shape with four separate stands

This could be one awesome stadium.

gavredking wrote: »

Definetly, the longer term gais of increasing match day revenue would be huge for us.

A new stadium would probably cost us about £500-600Million. Thats between acquiring the site and building the stadium.

We could re-coup a big chunk of that by selling the land Stamford bridge currently sits on it.

Hopefully the council will help us with infrastructure and put in an underground connection outside att he stadium.

Its very much a pipe dream at the moment, with this news maybe our local council will allow us to expand on our curent site but thats very unlikely IMO.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/battersea-power-station-generates-buyer-interest-from-every-corner-of-the-world-7714885.html

But the winning bidders are expected to have to pay at least £500 million to own the site and pay back the £324 million of outstanding debt secured on it.

On top of that the cost of restoring the building could reach £100 million while building a new Underground link to the Northern Line and other transport infrastructure could account for another £250 million.

Obviousluy take those figures with a pinch of salt.

And iirc the local council actually want us to re-develop the Bridge, its just not really possible.

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is it worth it financiallyfor chelsea to move and spend 300m+ on a stadium that would only add 10,000 seats?

Its financially viable because Roman will be writing off a lot of money for it. Otherwise porbably not but we need it becasue of FFP.

Sgt Pepper 64

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is it worth it financiallyfor chelsea to move and spend 300m+ on a stadium that would only add 10,000 seats?

Yes it is, 10,000 x £50 average match day ticket price!

Will certainly help towards the FPP rules, then there will be naming rights and other add ons.

The 300 million will be a Roman loan and if he's happy to do it, then

Theres no doubt that for Chelsea to compete, it has to find ways of increasing revenue and a new stadium is an obvious one.

everdead.ie

gavredking wrote: »

Messi and Ronaldo.

I'd love Higuain, Di Maria.

Chances of getting either since they won La Liga slim enough I'd reckon, although Higuain maybe be tempted as hes been rotated with Benzema and hes been left out more so then Benzema even thuogh IMO, hes a better player.



Definetly, the longer term gais of increasing match day revenue would be huge for us.

A new stadium would probably cost us about £500-600Million. Thats between acquiring the site and building the stadium.


We could re-coup a big chunk of that by selling the land Stamford bridge currently sits on it.

Hopefully the council will help us with infrastructure and put in an underground connection outside att he stadium.

Its very much a pipe dream at the moment, with this news maybe our local council will allow us to expand on our curent site but thats very unlikely IMO.

it certainly seems like a tube station will be provided but I wonder can chelsea fill the extra seats?

GavRedKing

everdead.ie wrote: »

it certainly seems like a tube station will be provided but I wonder can chelsea fill the extra seats?

I'd say we'd fill a 55K stadium alright. More spaces for Season Ticket holders and if they give the CPO option on Season Ticket's that will sweeten the deal, maybe a 3 year free Season Ticket for each share holder.

GavRedKing

Masked Man wrote: »

This could be one awesome stadium.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/battersea-power-station-generates-buyer-interest-from-every-corner-of-the-world-7714885.html

Obviousluy take those figures with a pinch of salt.

And iirc the local council actually want us to re-develop the Bridge, its just not really possible.

Its financially viable because Roman will be writing off a lot of money for it. Otherwise porbably not but we need it becasue of FFP.

Those figures are crazy.

Now I know that the buildings are listed and then they cant be touched.

The plan for 4 seperate stands would be interesting, depends on how they would develop it.

Masked Man

gavredking wrote: »

Those figures are crazy.

Now I know that the buildings are listed and then they cant be touched.

The plan for 4 seperate stands would be interesting, depends on how they would develop it.

Well I'm hoping their on the high side, and naming rights (really hope we never see the "Samsung Arena at Stamford Bridge") and developing the Bridge will help.

I'm assumming the club will release more info in the next while, they've been very open about it so far. Have the CPO to thank for that. Really hope we to see some plans for it soon.

Free ST for three years seem waaaaayyyy too much imo.

South London here we come! The thought of this makes me happy and sad at the same time.

GavRedKing

Masked Man wrote: »

Well I'm hoping their on the high side, and naming rights (really hope we never see the "Samsung Arena at Stamford Bridge") and developing the Bridge will help.

I'm assumming the club will release more info in the next while, they've been very open about it so far. Have the CPO to thank for that. Really hope we to see some plans for it soon.

Free ST for three years seem waaaaayyyy too much imo.

South London here we come! The thought of this makes me happy and sad at the same time.

AFAIK the CPO shareholders as part of an incentive to pass the vote we're offered first preference on any seat ansd season ticket in the new stadium.

If we are serious about moving this is the first big step. As much as I love Stamford Bridge and have some brillant memories from the place al other avenues seem to have been explored and shot down so a move is the only viable option.

GavRedKing

Chelsea Football Club can confirm to our fans that we have today submitted an offer, with our property development partner Almacantar, to acquire the 39-acre Battersea Power Station site.

Battersea Power Station is one of London's most famous buildings and has the potential to become one of the most iconic football stadiums in the world.

Our joint bid was submitted in accordance with the sales process established by the Joint Administrators for the site. The process could run for a number of months.

We are not the only interested parties and there is no certainty that we will be successful. We also appreciate that we have many significant hurdles to address if we are to build a new stadium on the site, including winning the support of our fans, the CPO shareholders and local Wandsworth residents, as well as securing the approval of Wandsworth Council, the Greater London Authority and heritage authorities. We must also stress that making an offer for the Battersea Power Station site does not mean the club has made a definitive decision to leave Stamford Bridge.

Working with architects and planning experts we have developed a plan to preserve all the significant aspects of Battersea Power Station. The four iconic chimneys and wash towers along with the Grade II* listed west turbine hall and control room will be restored and retained in their original locations and provide a unique architectural backdrop to a world-class stadium with a capacity of around 60,000 seats.

Following feedback from fans, our initial plans include a 15,000-all seated one-tier stand behind the south goal, likely to be the biggest one-tier stand in football. Also as suggested by many fans, the stadium proposed is rectangular in shape with four separate stands. The design includes a bigger family area and more room for disabled supporters.

As well as a new home for our club, the development would include a town centre with substantial street-level retail shops, affordable housing and offices - all of which would benefit Wandsworth and bring a significant number of permanent jobs to the area. We would also make a significant contribution towards the Northern Line Extension, a new high-volume transport link proposed for the area.

We will keep our fans updated as the process develops.

Looks like a well thought out plan.

Jelle1880

I think the Sudtribune at Dortmund will still be bigger, surely ?

Anyway, good to see them look forward to the future, too bad it has to be Battersea that will be torn down.

kev1.3s

In typical Chelsea fashion if you can't get what you want from cpo you just ignore them and simply bulldoze them out of the way.

GavRedKing

Jelle1880 wrote: »

I think the Sudtribune at Dortmund will still be bigger, surely ?

Anyway, good to see them look forward to the future, too bad it has to be Battersea that will be torn down.

They stand in the article is one tier seating stand, is the Dortmund one not all standing?

kev1.3s wrote: »

In typical Chelsea fashion if you can't get what you want from cpo you just ignore them and simply bulldoze them out of the way.

Well the CPO still have the power to block it, if they dont fancy a move all they got to do is not sell their shares.

The CPO hold all the power in this situation, not Roman.

V9

I think it would be a great move, financially speaking. We need to generate higher income from ticket sales but also with the extra odd 20,000 seats available we could stand to cut ticket prices a tad and still make a profit. Fans happy club happy.


Also is lifestyle still doing free printing on shirts? New shirt out next week and at least printing on it will justify 65€ for it

Jelle1880

gavredking wrote: »

They stand in the article is one tier seating stand, is the Dortmund one not all standing?

It can be converted to an all-seater stand for European games, which will still have more seats I think.

But it sounds great, a huge one tier stand would be perfect to try and bring some atmosphere to Chelsea games.

GavRedKing

V9 wrote: »

Also is lifestyle still doing free printing on shirts? New shirt out next week and at least printing on it will justify 65€ for it

Think there charging at the moment, it may change as soon as the new jersies start coming out.

GavRedKing

Jelle1880 wrote: »

It can be converted to an all-seater stand for European games, which will still have more seats I think.

But it sounds great, a huge one tier stand would be perfect to try and bring some atmosphere to Chelsea games.

Apart from the Shed end there can be a lack of noise but one thing I have noticed is its a lot louder in the ground then it appears to be when its on T.V.

Could be the acoustic's :pac:

Jelle1880

gavredking wrote: »

Apart from the Shed end there can be a lack of noise but one thing I have noticed is its a lot louder in the ground then it appears to be when its on T.V.

Could be the acoustic's :pac:

Probably people opening their packet of crisps

GavRedKing

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Probably people opening their packet of crisps

Or all the ruffling from the plastic flags

PeterTwo

gavredking wrote: »

Apart from the Shed end there can be a lack of noise but one thing I have noticed is its a lot louder in the ground then it appears to be when its on T.V.

Could be the acoustic's :pac:

My cousin said the exact same thing when I went with him to a match a few years ago. I think the atmosphere is great there, the microphones don't do it justice.

Masked Man

gavredking wrote: »

AFAIK the CPO shareholders as part of an incentive to pass the vote we're offered first preference on any seat ansd season ticket in the new stadium.

They got offered a priority on season tickets and their name on a wall, or something like that. Giving them a free

Oh wait maybe you meant give them the option for three years? That'd be grand but giving them a free season ticket for three years would be bad imo.

GavRedKing

Masked Man wrote: »

They got offered a priority on season tickets and their name on a wall, or something like that. Giving them a free

Oh wait maybe you meant give them the option for three years? That'd be grand but giving them a free season ticket for three years would be bad imo.

No I meant give them an option of a 3 year free ticket but its better if they we're given a 1 year free ticket with an option to keep it at maybe a 10% discount for every subsequent year.

The 3 year free ticket would cost us a bomb now that I think about it objectively.

IvySlayer

Bidding for Battersea Power Station?

Is he any good? :pac:

bullpost

Agree with this. Great atmosphere at Stamford Bridge and will be sad the day we leave it.

PeterTwo wrote: »

My cousin said the exact same thing when I went with him to a match a few years ago. I think the atmosphere is great there, the microphones don't do it justice.

Jelle1880

IvySlayer wrote: »

Bidding for Battersea Power Station?

Is he any good? :pac:

I heard he's the dog's bollocks :pac:

Caveman1

From twitter : Steve Gerrard, Gerrard,
He runs over kids in cars,
He batters DJs in bars,
Steve Gerrard, Gerrard.

Would love to hear this being chanted tomorrow :pac:

Masked Man

I can't wait to see the club's proposal to the CPO. I think it has a really good chance of passing.

Hopefully it includes:
Plans for what actually could be one of the most iconic stadiums in football, as well as being one of the most fan friendly.
Plans for transport form Fulham/Chelsea to Battersea.
Something to sweeten the deal for CPO members.
Plans to move the plaques in the Shed End and, Ossie's ashes and statute to the new ground. As well as anything else that could make the move less painful for fans.

I think I might be getting ahead of myself here....

the_monkey

I see Lawro predicting 1-1 and Liverpool to win on penalties ...

sadly probably true .. the Liverpool fans love penos..

Masked Man

Didier Drogba will be on The Graham Norton show on BBC1 tonight at 10.35pm... #CFC (SL)

if your interested.

also saw this on WAGNH:

We're keeping the chimneys? That's so cool. We could take a page from the Vatican and release white smoke when the manager is announced.

Last thing I want is penalties, my nerves couldn't handle it.

Crann na Beatha

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the_monkey

Watching Drogba on Norton, he doesn't like that little twat Simon Amstel ..

I dont blame him ...

Drogba seems a really nice genuine guy ... a great lad.... must be he plays for Chelsea football club....

KingdomYid

the_monkey wrote: »

a really nice genuine guy ... a great lad.... must be he plays for Chelsea football club....

Yeah just like John Terry :pac:

But yeah he seems like a nice guy alright.

Crackle

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Anyway, good to see them look forward to the future, too bad it has to be Battersea that will be torn down.

They can't tear the building down as it's a listed building.

My understanding of the statement today is that they plan to refurbish the building and then build a stadium beside it.

It's an exciting prospect and something that, inevitably, Chelsea will have to do. But there's a lot of hoops they have to jump through to get there first.

GavRedKing

Cup final day, although you'd never know with ESpN's coverage starting since about 8 this morning :pac:

Drogba to do the business and Torres to finish the game off.

Trophy back where it belongs.

Garseys

was quite surprised when I read about the Battersea move.

Also Drogba came across as a very class act last night on Norton, lots of charity work aswell. It's good to see.

kev1.3s

I dont think Drogba knew what to make of graham Norton to be honest but did come across well, humble even!!
If I was to choose one of these games to win it obviously would be champions league but now that the day has arrived I really want to win this and put one over the scousers. Im not going to run with any crazy score predictions and romantic marksmen because I think this is going to be so tight id be happy if we won it by an own goal.
Come on Chelsea lets show the scousers that Wembley is our home.

Crann na Beatha

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McDave

gavredking wrote: »

you still wanna win every final you get to, if we we're playing a team that we would comfortably beat then I'd say the same and send out a second string team but an FA Cup Final against Liverpool is pretty big and one I'd want to win.

FA Cup still a trophy worth winning. Still a big occasion. And big occasions are a test of nerves and a winning mentality. Both of which this team has in spades.

Get in the bag and build up to the 19th. A great time for the old guard. Do you stuff. ::pac:

GavRedKing

Great win lads. Well deserved. Hopefully the same thing will happen in a 2weeks time.

Carefree.

cadaliac

gavredking wrote: »

Great win lads. Well deserved. Hopefully the same thing will happen in a 2weeks time.

Carefree.

Result! Good to see unity in the team and rdm being hugged by the players, says a lot

Sgt Pepper 64

Well done lads - you did well posting today - I know your all tired, but one last effort for the club in 2 weeks and then you can have a good rest

Gav and GK, you played a blinder shutting down those trolls, you WILL be starting in the next match thread

Crann na Beatha

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GavRedKing

Going out tonight and todays victory has done my mood a world of good. We deserved it definetly. One last push for the UCL.

I dont mind what happens in the liverpool or blackburn games now. We have to make sure all the UCL starting players are rested.

Carefree