Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

Panthro

40 million bid being made for Rooney according to the Daily mail

That's a lot of money to be spending IMO.

GavRedKing

If the 40 figure is correct we went from reportedly offering 20 to doubling it, bit silly IMO but if Utd said 40 and hes yours you could understand why.

Kirby

Good buy. He'll score loads for Chelsea. Assuming Jose makes him his main man, which he no doubt will.

Wrongway1985

Hittin the boozer tonight is the game on tv? Cheers

Gonzovision

Two goals for Drogba against Arsenal....somethings never change

Gonzovision

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Hittin the boozer tonight is the game on tv? Cheers

11:15 on Chelsea Tv

ShoulderChip

GavRedKing wrote: »

If the 40 figure is correct we went from reportedly offering 20 to doubling it, bit silly IMO but if Utd said 40 and hes yours you could understand why.

Yes well there was a pact of media silence after the first round of bidding so who knows what has happened since then, I think we have been quite accomplished of late in the negotiations department, so I wouldn't worry that we foolishly doubled our bid out of the blue.

Panthro

Gonzovision wrote: »

Two goals for Drogba against Arsenal....somethings never change

Should we ahh..bring back the Drog anyone?!

homer simpson

Panthro wrote: »

Should we ahh..bring back the Drog anyone?!

I'd rather keep him up there in the realm of legends, rather than coming back for a one season cameo scoring no goals and getting sent off 4 times.

greendom

Gonzovision wrote: »

Two goals for Drogba against Arsenal....somethings never change

Yes the dive for the penalty was very reminiscent of old days.

Barr

McDave wrote: »

Mourinho ready to stick with Torres?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10219668/Chelsea-manager-Jose-Mourinho-says-Spain-striker-Fernando-Torres-has-a-future-at-Stamford-Bridge.html

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8852374/jose-mourinho-indicates-chelsea-will-play-to-the-strengths-of-fernando-torres-this-season

Pressure on Man U and Rooney?

FFS how much more time is wasted on Torres. Time for him to move on at this stage.



If Mourinho sticks with Torres it will not be good for him.

homer simpson

greendom wrote: »

Yes the dive for the penalty was very reminiscent of old days.

There was contact abait very little, second goal was pure class...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJtH8zEUiA

That awkward moment when an old foe comes back to stop you winning a tournament in your own stadium, ehh.

Trophy cabinet still bare, not even a pre season one

homer simpson

Team;

Cech,
Azplicueta, Cahill, Ivan. Bertrand,
Van Ginkel, Essien,
De Bryne, Oscar, Hazard,
Ba

Bench;
Schwarzer, Cole, Ramires,Torres, Mata, Mikel, Moses,Lukaku,Terry.

Seaneh

Milan:
Abbiati;

Emanuelson
Zapata
Silvestre
Antonini

Muntari
De Jong
Montolivo

Boateng

Balotelli
El Shaarawy




Should be a good match.

Panthro

come on the Blues!

Barr

Ivan very close there.

Panthro

Pity, KdB fairly smashed it.

Barr

Like what I've seen of de bruyne so far

Panthro

KdB beauty finish.

homer simpson

Great goal that, tidy finish by De Bruyne too!

Barr

speaking of de bruyne..... get in !!

Panthro

Torres is either being far too generous with his passing, or not half confident enough in himself to take a few shots on.
He could have at least a goal since he came on.

wonski

Moses looks great pre-season. That's all I can say.

Gonzovision

Good performance overall. Very difficult to predict the starting 11 for the game against Hull. I know it's only preseason, but it looks to be coming together nicely.

LanceStorm

the whole team just oozes class, no areas of weakness unlike last year! but de bruyne again was a step above the rest, the total package!

GavRedKing

Pre-season results and performances have been good fromt he team so far, be nice to beat Real but in truth it means nothing really.

As long as we beat Hull on the 18th I'll be happy.

getuponthis

Sky sports news reporting now that United have rejected a bid of around £30 million by Chelsea for Rooney. Rumours saying he's also ready to hand in a transfer request to force the move.

I would only want him in the team if Torres was moved to give Lukaku proper game time

peteeeed

Very good performance last night , only thing missing was the goal going in the back of thr net more , Moses, ramieres , hazard were the pick of the bunch


Every single paper seems to be running with Rooney officially about to put in tranfer request and Chelsea putting in another bid

GavRedKing

Utd havent brought in anyone so I'd be surprised if they left him leave.

If he does hand in a transfer request then I reckon anything in and around 33-35 million should be enough for him.

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

Every single paper seems to be running with Rooney officially about to put in tranfer request and Chelsea putting in another bid

I'd take Rooney for the right price as I'd be convinced he'd be a signing that could win us the league if played as a CF for the majority of the league games.

Only thing that would annoy me is we wont have him until late in the transfer window if we get him at all.

Panthro

Ara, save the 30 odd million I say. Plenty of goal threats in the Chelsea squad. From Terry and Ivanovic to Lukaku and Schurrle, and everyone in between!

GavRedKing

Panthro wrote: »

Ara, save the 30 odd million I say. Plenty of goal threats in the Chelsea squad. From Terry and Ivanovic to Lukaku and Schurrle, and everyone in between!

I agree on the goal threats but none of them have the proving ability of Rooney either and maybe thats what Jose is looking at.

All these youngsters are excellent talents and some have 1 year at Chelsea under their belts but a seasoned pro like Rooney when we have to play the biggest games would be invaluable to the team.

kev1.3s

If he could get his head together! Rodney is an exceptional talent but he has an bad attitude, this is a player on £250,000 a week and this is not the first time he's tried to force his way out. I think he is another disruptive influence which is something we've done well to banish with raffas interim.
But our new crop do look class don't they? Our team in transition bears little resemblance to jose mk1 aside from the defence I suppose.

growler

I can see the appeal of Rooney but don't think we need him, we do need a real striker but I don't think he's the man for that job either, we have too many excellent options in the supporting role to allow Rooney to take any of their places.

Prefer to leave him unsettled, unhappy and whinging in the Man U dressing room.

Duck Soup

The Guardian says that the second Chelsea bid for Rooney is "an initial £25m with another £5m in potential add-ons". What I don't understand - and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious like Rooney having made it clear to the Man U management that he is only interested in a move to Chelsea - is why no other clubs have made so much as an expression of interest in buying Rooney.

You'd have assumed that a player of his quality would have had a few clubs readying their chequebooks. So why aren't they biting?

Panthro

Wages would be a big stumbling block I'm guessing.
Ara, we've Lukuku, and Torres (who benefited greatly from Mata's passing in last night's game)
Gav's going to kill me but...ara..don't need Rooney!:pac:

McDave

kev1.3s wrote: »

If he could get his head together! Rodney is an exceptional talent but he has an bad attitude, this is a player on £250,000 a week

Rodders on 250 gorillas? Nice little earner.

- Del Boy

Andersonisgod

I thought we played very well last night. The front 3 behind Ba in the first half were excellent, De Bruyne in particular being the pick of the bunch. Defence looks solid as does the midfield. Moses looks to have stepped up his game under Mourinho and Schurrle's goal was very well taken.

I don't know about Ba or Torres though. Ba drifts out of games too often for my liking though maybe he could be a useful bit part player. Torres, for the wages he is on, isn't good enough. He tries, nobody doubts that, and he does have some good moments but if Rooney were to join I'd like him to be the one who is sold. Lukaku's 5 minute cameo was productive, he looks the best of the three and if the Rooney deal doesn't work out then hopefully he is thr first choice striker.

RichT

Apparently Michael Essien was the first player Jose told that he was returning to The Special Place..........

'When I scored my last goal for Real Madrid on the last day of the season, I ran over to celebrate with him and was expecting him to congratulate me when I hugged him,' Essien wrote in his blog on www.chelseafc.com.
'Instead he leaned over and said: "See you at pre-season training on July 8". I found that so funny.
'We are now back together where we belong and where we had so many beautiful years together and I hope we can recreate those magical years.'




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2384980/Jose-Mourinho-gave-Michael-Essien-Chelsea-hint-final-Real-Madrid-match.html#ixzz2b7nKPAU3

Panthro

I thought Essien played well against AC. He looked a lot more lively than I'd seen of him previous.

Crann na Beatha

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RichT

Phoenix wrote: »

So lads what i miss since i was away?

It's roundly agreed that the title is ours!!

Panthro

Phoenix wrote: »

So lads what i miss since i was away?

We've all pooled 100bucks each into a bet whereby we win every competition we are in this season.
Easy money!:pac:

GavRedKing

Panthro wrote: »

Wages would be a big stumbling block I'm guessing.
Ara, we've Lukuku, and Torres (who benefited greatly from Mata's passing in last night's game)
Gav's going to kill me but...ara..don't need Rooney!:pac:

We dont really need him but having the chance to get a player of Rooneys calibre doesnt come along very often.

If Jose reckons hes worth the punt then I'm going to take his side on it, I just hope that if he is signed then hes played as a CF and not out wide, or CM or CAM.

peteeeed

lots of talk in the press this morning that senior man utd players now want rooney out (sun,mirror,star & the express )

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

lots of talk in the press this morning that senior man utd players now want rooney out (sun,mirror,star & the express )

It'll be down to Moyes and what he thinks, if they can get a good return on Rooney and add to the squad he'll be sold but leaving it late in the day will limit Utd to what they can bring in.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

It'll be down to Moyes and what he thinks, if they can get a good return on Rooney and add to the squad he'll be sold but leaving it late in the day will limit Utd to what they can bring in.

visions of that Scottish fella on sky sports news on deadline day giving it loads

GavRedKing

I know one or two lads who take the day off work for transfer deadline day, got to love Sky Sports hyping it up no end.

kev1.3s

I really hope we don't buy Rooney! We have enough firepower in the team already and I think of all the teams that were targeted by ffp I think we're the only side to have made a genuine effort to comply, for the last number of seasons with the exception of Torres we have been making more frugal signings with little of the waste of the past and with some stable management are in a great position, no need to go mad in this seriously over active transfer market. You have to admit things are getting out of hand when Arsenal are offering £40 million for a player!

GavRedKing

kev1.3s wrote: »

I really hope we don't buy Rooney! We have enough firepower in the team already and I think of all the teams that were targeted by ffp I think we're the only side to have made a genuine effort to comply, for the last number of seasons with the exception of Torres we have been making more frugal signings with little of the waste of the past and with some stable management are in a great position, no need to go mad in this seriously over active transfer market. You have to admit things are getting out of hand when Arsenal are offering £40 million for a player!

Arsenal are richer then us though in terms of revenue streams anyway.

Their stadium and financial pull with sponsors rank them above us according to Forbes and they're well clear of FFP with the stadium debt gone so its profit for Arsenal now and theyve the money to spend but it is very un-Arsenal like to blow that much money on one player.