Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

Legion.

Lukaku confims he signed for Everton on twitter. For god sake.

pistolpetes11

R.Lukaku Bolingoli ‏@RomeluLukaku9 2m
Signed @Everton on a season loan :-)

peteeeed

Everton deal done

Garzorico

Legion. wrote: »

Lukaku confims he signed for Everton on twitter. For god sake.

Light lantern jaysis.

Torres; Eto'o; Ba?

Jose out.

Bring Rafa back.

Johner

Bollox to that.

pistolpetes11

Garzorico wrote: »

Light lantern jaysis.

Torres; Eto'o; Ba?

Jose out.

Bring Rafa back.

Get outta town !

Tubbs4

Was sicked when Sturridge was shipped out and now Lukaku. Whats with Chelsea and strikers. Really hope this don't come back to bite us as the option of Moses up front id gone also

Legion.

Garzorico wrote: »

Light lantern jaysis.

Torres; Eto'o; Ba?

Jose out.

Bring Rafa back.

To blazes with that.

Eto'o; Torres; Schurrle; Blackman; Ba. Ba is a donkey. I hope this blows up in my face and he proves me wrong but I can't watch the lad.

bullpost

Not happy about Lukaku but delighted we've still got Mata.

pistolpetes11

bullpost wrote: »

Not happy about Lukaku but delighted we've still got Mata.

lets look on the bright side of it ,

Eto is only for the season ,

Ba may be gone in Jan ,

Lukaku will be starting week in week out and will be coming back to us primed and ready to go ,

GavRedKing

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

lets look on the bright side of it ,

Eto is only for the season ,

Ba may be gone in Jan ,

Lukaku will be starting week in week out and will be coming back to us primed and ready to go ,

The only way I can see Ba going is if we sign another CF.

Pressure is really on the those 3 now to start scoring reguarly.

GavRedKing

I love watching the shambles overe at Utd concerning this transfer window, makes our club look normal.

Even the fans have gone into meltdown over it.

Moyes has to start winning games to get everyone back on side although it can be said the transfers werent handled by him and instead it was Woodward.

GavRedKing

I actually forgot our next game is away to Everton, poor Lukaku wont be playing for awhile just yet. :pac:

grumpymunster

Well thank God the window is closed and all that dross can be forgotten about.

Shame about Lukaku but I can only assume that after watching him closely for a few months TSHO felt he was not ready for the campaign we have ahead of us and that Everton are a step up on the baggies (no disrespect to the baggies they have an excellent manager and another Chelsea legend).

From what I can make of it Chelsea were prepared to let one striker go and in the end it was Lukaku, perhaps we set the price too high for Ba and Torres. Whatever the pressure is very much on Eto'o to hit the ground running and for Ba and Torres to hit some form (Nando in fairness played very well against Munich on Friday but one swallow does not a summer make). Moses is no loss at the moment he was dire in the league last season only doing ok in the second rate Thursday cup. He does have some potential so with a bit of luck he will do well at Liverpool. Moses and Lukaku can still do us some favours against ManC, ManU, Spurs and Arsenal.

Overall we did OK in the transfer window Andre looks a real player whilst Marco, Eto'o and Willian are non too shabby. Schwarzer is a big step up from last seasons back up keepers and the return of Kalas and KdB means we are in a much better state from a players point of view I feel. Of course we have a manager now as well I don't think he will sweep all before him as before initially but we should not be scratching around with 5 games to go hoping for a Champions League place and I would expect we will be right in the mix. The team is a little short of winning the Champions League but we were two years ago as well so it just shows anything can happen in a cup. So lots to look forward to and lets have faith in TSHO he does know what he is doing.

Techless

Who'd have thought missing a penalty could have such consequence..........

GavRedKing

The worse thing now is guys like Josh Mac and Chalobah have to settle for loans to the Championship for the season, unless Jose wants to keep them and play them.

pistolpetes11

Lads ,

Lukaku wanted to on loan if he was not going to be starting week in week out ,

Its a world cup year for him and he needs game time to make the squad ,

He was going to get game time from the bench but Torres is going to be number one , Jose has to give him a season , plus the guy earns 250K a week , let him bloody earn it .

Lukaku is still very young and I look forward to watching him this season to see how he progresses

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

The worse thing now is guys like Josh Mac and Chalobah have to settle for loans to the Championship for the season, unless Jose wants to keep them and play them.

josh's injury was very unfortunate , could have seen him at a crystal palace or hull maybe this season

GavRedKing

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Lads ,

Lukaku wanted to on loan if he was not going to be starting week in week out ,

Its a world cup year for him and he needs game time to make the squad ,

He was going to get game time from the bench but Torres is going to be number one , Jose has to give him a season , plus the guy earns 250K a week , let him bloody earn it .

Lukaku is still very young and I look forward to watching him this season to see how he progresses

Agree with ya but we were trying to ship Ba to keep Lukaku. We had to ship 1 more foreginer to have fall in line with the quota and it was either or really so I'm annoyed we rejected the Arsenal bid.

ciaran76

Thanks for the lend of Lukaku can we keep him please?

Panthro

Techless wrote: »

Who'd have thought missing a penalty could have such consequence..........

Yeah, because that was the deciding factor alright.:rolleyes:

ciaran76 wrote: »

Thanks for the lend of Lukaku can we keep him please?

Nope! But if ye could further improve him and then send him back to us injury free and rearing to go, that would be sweeeeeeeeet!:pac:

GavRedKing

ciaran76 wrote: »

Thanks for the lend of Lukaku can we keep him please?

Nah, just make sure he does the business against the rest of the league.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

Nah, just make sure he does the business against the rest of the league.

i trust jose , he has decided after working with him for a couple of months that he needs first team football and with torres and eto at chelsea , he wont get that this season .

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

i trust jose , he has decided after working with him for a couple of months that he needs first team football and with torres and eto at chelsea , he wont get that this season .

He does need to be played week in week out but after his preseason you'd have thought, right here we go, a proper CF with bags of potential and then he was dropped altogether.

I wonder did he not end up going to WBA over us taking the very young and promising WBA player Izzah Brown(sp)

We know what to expect from Torres, he'll get 15 + goals if hes played and do plenty of running but could easily struggle against the best teams.

Eto'o, we know what hes capable of but will that Eto'o come to the dance is another matter, time will tell.

We'll either have pulled off a great free transfer or be stuck with a dud.

Panthro

We're lucky in that we aren't solely reliant on the strikers for the goals.
Plenty of goal threats throughout the team tbf.

kev1.3s

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Lads ,

Lukaku wanted to on loan if he was not going to be starting week in week out ,

Its a world cup year for him and he needs game time to make the squad ,

He was going to get game time from the bench but Torres is going to be number one , Jose has to give him a season , plus the guy earns 250K a week , let him bloody earn it .

Lukaku is still very young and I look forward to watching him this season to see how he progresses

If that's the case you'd have to admire his maturity, Most young fellas would be blinded by the lure of the big teams. A bit gutted to loose him but it is pretty clear he needs more development, I never really feared loosing Mata he clearly has no wish to leave and Jose said at least he wants to keep him so if he desires to stay he should at least work hard this season fight for his place and if Jose genuinely doesn't fancy him try to prove him wrong, he does after all display the type of club loyalty which seems lost to the modern footballer.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

He does need to be played week in week out but after his preseason you'd have thought, right here we go, a proper CF with bags of potential and then he was dropped altogether.

I wonder did he not end up going to WBA over us taking the very young and promising WBA player Izzah Brown(sp)

We know what to expect from Torres, he'll get 15 + goals if hes played and do plenty of running but could easily struggle against the best teams.

Eto'o, we know what hes capable of but will that Eto'o come to the dance is another matter, time will tell.

We'll either have pulled off a great free transfer or be stuck with a dud.

some very interesting team selections coming up starting away to everton

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

some very interesting team selections coming up starting away to everton

Unless Willian and Eto'o both absolutely amaze in training I cant see them starting, Everton havent started well and will be well up for this so I'd assume it will be as strong as possible with seasoned performers involved.

Very tricky game to give 2 guys their debuts, Fulham at home the week after would be a better bet, also Eto'o will be with the Cameroon squad during this break.

grumpymunster

Mata really would be expected to start the next game, given that Torres is also not in the Spain squad you would expect them both to be playing. Willian & Eto'o on the bench I would suspect.

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Mata really would be expected to start the next game, given that Torres is also not in the Spain squad you would expect them both to be playing. Willian & Eto'o on the bench I would suspect.

Hopefulyl for Matas sake anyway, he didnt start picking up form until after the break anyway so hopefully its the same this season and all players come back injury free.

We've Spurs away in a couple of weeks, a win at 3 point lane would be very welcome.

grumpymunster

GavRedKing wrote: »

Hopefulyl for Matas sake anyway, he didnt start picking up form until after the break anyway so hopefully its the same this season and all players come back injury free.

We've Spurs away in a couple of weeks, a win at 3 point lane would be very welcome.

Spurs did ok in the window getting that amount of money for a decent but no more Bale was excellent work you have to say and bought some decent players as well. That being said they are a little light upfront and the new players need to settle I think and I would expect that we will beat them handy enough.

Liverpool had a good window as well they have a very decent first team but have managed a bit of depth to go with it. Still don't see them as real title contenders but have certainly given themselves a shout at that last Champions league place if Suarez's head is in the right place.

Interesting view on things now for the league, it could be the title race will be a little more open than normal. I would expect ourselves and ManC to be fighting for the title but ManU, Spurs, Arsenal and maybe even Liverpool may not be too far behind with a decent ding dong for third and fourth place.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

Hopefulyl for Matas sake anyway, he didnt start picking up form until after the break anyway so hopefully its the same this season and all players come back injury free.

We've Spurs away in a couple of weeks, a win at 3 point lane would be very welcome.

but yet schurlle, hazard and oscar played really well against bayern

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

but yet schurlle, hazard and oscar played really well against bayern

Very true but all 3 of those will be involved with their international sides so a rotation will be handy.

grumpymunster

Oscar has played an awful lot it may be that TSHO gives him a bit of a rest before the Champions league starts. Our group should be straight forward but the games still have to be won and we will want to finish top.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

Very true but all 3 of those will be involved with their international sides so a rotation will be handy.

i thought it said alot about mata before the penalty shoot out he was going around geeing everyone up , still got a big part to play this season , swindon away in the league cup and champions league starting up

GavRedKing

Everton losing Fellaini makes this game an easier prospect,less of a threat from attacking set pieces and not as defensively strong defending them.

Also because of it, the CM positions arent as important, we could go out and play 5 creative players in the CM and suport roles behind a CF and we should blitz Everton.

Barry is a decent option but I cant see a partnership of himself and McCarthy containing us.

RichT

Just opened up my FPL team to see Lukaku in an Everton shirt and a big red unavailable flag over his head................

Talk about rubbing it in!

GavRedKing

RichT wrote: »

Just opened up my FPL team to see Lukaku in an Everton shirt and a big red unavailable flag over his head................

Talk about rubbing it in!

I'm just looking at mine, might be time to use the wildcard. :pac:

Johner

I just bought Ozil.

GavRedKing

I want to bring in Ozil and Giroud but it will probably mean dropping Silva and Hazard to afford them.

grumpymunster

Going to wait until after the internationals I think then for sure wildcard is being played, think Ozil is a must.

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Going to wait until after the internationals I think then for sure wildcard is being played, think Ozil is a must.

I was looking at my team, made about 6 or 7 changes just to see what I'd have, was short by 0.1 million. :rolleyes

Waiting until after the internationals anyway.

grumpymunster

Are you worried about FFP?
Is there concern that our beloved club might be in the mire?
Will Jose be able to pit his wits against Pep and Carlo in the big ears cup or will we be looking in from the sidelines?

Well read on for all these answers and more. Actually a very (long) well written piece on FFP and how it applies to Chelsea.

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/9/3/4683284/fair-or-foul-a-look?

McDave

On Lukaku, I think Jose is buying time. He may have an eye on January business. If he can get what he wants then, he'll be better able to move on Torres, whose value he has to keep up in the interim - as the main striker!

If in January we have new striker - Etoo - Ba people won't complain.

Same goes for new striker - new striker - Etoo - Lukaku this time next year.

GavRedKing

I dont think we'll move on Torres, not now if anything it would have been done weeks ago, the fact it was Ba or Lukaku and we decided to keep Ba is baffling but I'm going on the assumption that Jose knew he'd get a lot more game time with Everton then us.

I also dont think we'll be in the market in January although a few Chelsea ITK's on Twitter say its Rooney in January or next summer. :rolleyes:

grumpymunster

Seems Lukaku going for footballing reasons which if the case is the right decision, he seems to be upbeat about it so it should be for his & our good in the long run.

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/9/3/4689746/romelu-lukaku-chelsea-fc-everton-west-bromwich-albion-loan-mourinho-malaga-comments?

Crann na Beatha

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Panthro

grumpymunster wrote: »

Going to wait until after the internationals I think then for sure wildcard is being played, think Ozil is a must.

Lot of players (I had me eye on) are slowly going up in price.
Danny, GirouD, Mig etc etc.
I've wildcarded. At worst I might make a few bob!:D

getuponthis

Am i the only one who is glad Lukaku has gone to Everton?

I would love him to stay with us but only if he was going to start a good few games, but we all know that's not going to happen.

He will get a lot more playing time with everton and they have a decent squad this year so id actually prefer him to be there and be a regular starter then come back to us next year and be first choice

pistolpetes11

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