Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

MUSEIST

bullpost wrote: »

Fast becoming a soap opera!

Has benitez been sacked yet. RDM was sacked after a few bad results, we have been worse under benitez yet he is still in charge. Makes no sense roman.

We should be able to come back into this, a few tactical changes to the midfield (obvious to all) should sort it.

MUSEIST

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Tbf Lampard was never a great number 10 and his shift to a more defensive position was always likely. Ramires is a box to box midfielder but is really slack on the ball.

The best position for both is slightly higher up the field, playing them so deep results in a highly disfunctional midfield IMO. Surely the tactical genious benny can see this

bullpost

The problems we have are much bigger than Benitez unfortunately.

At this stage its like the Beckett play, Waiting for Godot.

We were waiting for Pep, now waiting for Jose so we should eventually get round to Godot as well.

MUSEIST wrote: »

Has benitez been sacked yet. RDM was sacked after a few bad results, we have been worse under benitez yet he is still in charge. Makes no sense roman.

We should be able to come back into this, a few tactical changes to the midfield (obvious to all) should sort it.

MUSEIST

Lovely goal

Crann na Beatha

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dfx-

Pal wrote: »

Down 1-0 now

I blame the interim manager

So you credit him for the second half so far then?

Ball is not bouncing true on the pitch

ollie1

Penalty for Brentford :eek:

double GG

Penalty.... and only a yellow...

Turnbull has looked terrible

double GG

GOAL!!! Can they hold on?

surely Ba time?

Andersonisgod

Forget Turnbull, Ramires giving the ball away so cheaply in midfield. Pathetic.

Crann na Beatha

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dfx-

Interesting that Burley doesn't call it the dive it was

MUSEIST

dfx- wrote: »

Interesting that Burley doesn't call it the dive it was

You can bet if a chelsea player did it he would have branded the player a disgrace:rolleyes:

Tubbs4

Needing a goal take off your right back who can score and put on a right back yet to score.

Pal

dfx- wrote: »

So you credit him for the second half so far then?

Ball is not bouncing true on the pitch

What's a bouncing ball got to do with Brentford beating Chelsea ?

Well done again the interim manager.

ollie1

Great finish from Torres

MUSEIST

Another nice goal. Come on chelsea

Cypher_sounds

And Benitez says Ba and Torres up front together is not a good idea??

Crann na Beatha

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MUSEIST

We should batter this lot on a decent pitch at stamford bridge

dfx-

Penalty for a dive, sponge pitch, no penalty for clear handball that Ramires was penalised for seconds earlier...

greendom

Would Benitez have survived that had Chelsea lost ?.

DazMarz

my GOD

MUSEIST

greendom wrote: »

Would Benitez have survived that had Chelsea lost ?.

Probably not

Andersonisgod

Surely that's a penalty for handball at the end? Rafa will be annoyed that it's another game on the scheduled. Still though they should be beaten relatively easily at Stamford Bridge.

Mata is my pick for our best player on the day. Made a huge difference when he came on. Cracking goals by Oscar and Torres. The Lampard/Ramires midfield depresses me.

Caveman1

In fairness we were abolutely **** today & still got away with a draw, we should of had a penalty at the end too.

I think we'll beat them easily at the bridge. Does anyone know when the replay will be on?

Techless

No question, we got of jail but take it and move on.
As for Marin, looks like we were definitely sold a pup there.

Caveman1

Techless wrote: »

No question, we got of jail but take it and move on.
As for Marin, looks like we were definitely sold a pup there.

Marin was very poor today but so were probably 8 or 9 players, if we had a bigger squad, it would be good to get him a loan till the end of the season to get a run of games.

Dozen Wicked Words

greendom wrote: »

Would Benitez have survived that had Chelsea lost ?.

Would have hoped not, and would have been the one bit of good news about losing, fortunately he won't get another contract after this abject failure of a tenure so far anyway.

Regardless of his goal, Torres was dire today and needs to be sold, part exchanged, given away in a raffle asap.

On another note, I think fans are beginning to stay away as I have never got as many emails about tickets being on general sale as I have this season*




*well that's my perception anyway, maybe its the same and my bitterness about Benitez, and increasingly Torres is clouding my memory!

bullpost

How about we sack whoever was responsible for hiring Benitez?

greendom wrote: »

Would Benitez have survived that had Chelsea lost ?.

greendom

bullpost wrote: »

How about we sack whoever was responsible for hiring Benitez?

RA ? He's made heaps of poor decisions, but where would you be without him ?

MUSEIST

greendom wrote: »

RA ? He's made heaps of poor decisions, but where would you be without him ?

I think it was more emenalo who wanted benitez. Apparently the two of them know each other from somewhere and emenalo recommended hiring him to replace RDM

homer simpson

Here's one for ye, Chelsea haven't won a single game this season when Mata hasn't been in the started. :eek: This interesting stat shows just how poor we are when he isn't on. He is the engine of the team, the new Lampard so to speak.

Caveman1

Benitez has confirmed that there will be no more signings made during this transfer window.

TheStook

I'm not too fussed about that result, shocking pitch and some poor decisions. And it was always gonna be a tough game for us..
But enough excuses, If we dont trounce these at the bridge it's goodnight Vienna for rafa

RichT

Rafa is a tactical genius!

With 10 minutes to go and needing a goal, he brings on another striker. One striker chests the ball down to the other striker, who in turn feeds a perfect pass to the a fore mentioned striker resulting in........GOAL!


Who'd ave thought it?

homer simpson

RichT wrote: »

Rafa is a tactical genius!

With 10 minutes to go and needing a goal, he brings on another striker. One striker chests the ball down to the other striker, who in turn feeds a perfect pass to the a fore mentioned striker resulting in........GOAL!


Who'd ave thought it?

He prob gave the 4'th official the wrong number on the wee sheet and couldn't change it :pac:

Techless

Never thought I'd be saying this, but for one day only

Come on you dirty dirty Leeds

MaroonAndGreen

Alot of Premier League teams out.. Another great chance at the FA Cup.....

Disappointing today though

Caveman1

Middlesbrough away if we beat Brentford

the_doctor199

Caveman1 wrote: »

Does anyone know when the replay will be on?

Next round is the weekend of Feb 16, so could be wrong but I think the only time we can play it is the 6th Feb. If we get through, should be a Sunday tie as we're in Prague on the Thursday night before it.

Pal

TheStook wrote: »

If we dont trounce these at the bridge it's goodnight Vienna for rafa

We might not.

Brentford have better chance to do us at the Bridge. Atmosphere there is poisonous now thanks to the interim manager.

Watched the game on a foreign channel today. The commentators picked up on this. We are are getting better results away from home at the moment.

AWAY form..............
Brentford draw:mad:
Stoke Win:D
Southampton Win:D
Swansea draw:mad:

HOME
QPR loss:mad:
Swansea loss:mad:
Southampton draw:mad:

the_doctor199

Those home games have all been a midweek game too iirc

Panthro

Hazard retracts apology:pac:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/eden-hazard-retracts-apology-swansea-ball-boy-190006570--sow.html

pistolpetes11

Dont know how much longer Rafa will last , another tactically inept performance from him today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNfvAtX-0s

McDave

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Dont know how much longer Rafa will last , another tactically inept performance from him today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNfvAtX-0s

Jesus, that's really ugly stuff. Whatever about frustration though, if Benitez is forced out prematurely for another interim, CFC could simply end up being unmanageable. There's the club's longer term reputation to consider too.

DazMarz

We have a terrible reputation already for managers; since 2004, several world class and a couple of very good managers have come and gone. The world class ones would be José, Carlo and Guus (albeit he left of his own free will; I'll always believe not enough was done to keep him). The very good ones would have been Ranieri, DiMatteo (given more time, who knows) and AVB (same as DiMatteo). Scolari and Grant were never any great shakes.

The fact is, we've gone through more managers in 10 years or so than most clubs go through in 25 years or more. It's a sick fact.

Obvious fact is obvious: José should never have been let go in the first place; failing that, Carlo should never have been let go.

Dozen Wicked Words

Whatever the reputation Chelsea have with managers, Benitez apart, the fans have never given out that much abuse (in recent years anyway). AVB, Grant and Scolari got off fairly lightly. The reputation has nothing to do with the fans and everything to do with the owner.

The fans feelings toward Rafa started at zero and went down.

Prospective managers needn't worry, there's a nice big pay off for them one way or the other.

Sgt Pepper 64

Benitez has confirmed there will be no more incoming transfers for Chelsea this January.
https://twitter.com/BluesChronicle

Sgt Pepper 64

dooferoaks wrote: »

Whatever the reputation Chelsea have with managers, Benitez apart, the fans have never given out that much abuse (in recent years anyway). AVB, Grant and Scolari got off fairly lightly. The reputation has nothing to do with the fans and everything to do with the owner.

The fans feelings toward Rafa started at zero and went down.

Prospective managers needn't worry, there's a nice big pay off for them one way or the other.

Because unlike Roman and his "advisors", we know what he did to Inter.
Turned them from a winning team to a medicore one, going out of every competition and along the way increased training which led to injurys. Got his tactics totally wrong against spurs. Sound familier?