Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

hots

Wow, that's impressively sh\te for players like Zouma Christensen Ramiers and Remy who really should be using these games to push for the starting 11, embarrassing stuff.

Dozen Wicked Words

Think Mourinho said it would be a disgrace for Chelsea to lose against Bradford. Fairly disgraceful alright. Few fringe players will be on their way. Bradford just know how to get the job done in the cups. Fantastic for lower league football.

GavRedKing

Thats an embarrasment of the highest order TBF.

Fair play to Bradford and to M'boro also.

Two teams who on paper going away to the two "best" teams in England should have been blow away.

Spurs, Pool. Arsenal, Utd will all fancy the FA cup now.

Edit : Spurs gone too.

greendom

GavRedKing wrote: »

Thats an embarrasment of the highest order TBF.

Fair play to Bradford and to M'boro also.

Two teams who on paper going away to the two "best" teams in England should have been blow away.

Spurs, Pool. Arsenal, Utd will all fancy the FA cup now.

Spurs won't !!!!

LightningBlue

GavRedKing wrote: »

Thats an embarrasment of the highest order TBF.

Fair play to Bradford and to M'boro also.

Two teams who on paper going away to the two "best" teams in England should have been blow away.

Spurs, Pool. Arsenal, Utd will all fancy the FA cup now.

Spurs lost as well to Leicester - FA Cup is wide-open now.

eigrod

GavRedKing wrote: »

Thats an embarrasment of the highest order TBF.

Fair play to Bradford and to M'boro also.

Two teams who on paper going away to the two "best" teams in England should have been blow away.

Spurs, Pool. Arsenal, Utd will all fancy the FA cup now.

Spurs ? They're out too.

Probably the biggest one day of upsets ever.

GavRedKing

Arsenal will defend this cup with ease, by far and away the best team left in the cup.

GavRedKing

I only realised Spurs are out, some day of cup results alright.

hots

well fingers crossed for an Arsenal - Utd draw for the next round and then a load of minnows to have a run at the final.

GavRedKing

Imagine losing 3 games all season and one of them is at home to Bradford?

f**king Bradford? :rolleyes: Some players will hopefully never be seen again after that result.

BarcodeMuncher

I thought we were supposed to be notorious for closing out a game, ah well I'll settle for a treble

rottie 11

That result makes the liverpool game very important imo. How is it possible to b up 2 nil and lose 4..2 ? To a championship team.. we must have been terrible

the_monkey

hahahahahah 4/2 ....


for the best really ... all in the for the league now, my only worry is if we can be that shíte at home to Bradford, we can be the same at home to City.

GavRedKing

TBH the Fa cup is more imortant than the league cup but yes the league is more important.

AS jose said though, its a disgrace if you lose at home to Bradford and hes just given people an excellent piece to beat him with.

Dozen Wicked Words

rottie 11 wrote: »

That result makes the liverpool game very important imo. How is it possible to b up 2 nil and lose 4..2 ? To a championship team.. we must have been terrible

Well they must have been terrible but Bradford aren't even in the Championship.

citytillidie

BarcodeMuncher wrote: »

I thought we were supposed to be notorious for closing out a game, ah well I'll settle for a treble

Sure I thought that treble of league, league cup and European cup does not count

BarcodeMuncher

citytillidie wrote: »

Sure I thought that treble of league, league cup and European cup does not count

The double will just about do so, I suppose it wouldn't be a failure

GavRedKing

citytillidie wrote: »

Sure I thought that treble of league, league cup and European cup does not count

I'd be happy with the league, everything else is a bonus.

thelad95

For Mourinho, I think this is actually more embarrassing than the MK Dons game for LVG. LVG used that game decide a lot of players futures and I feel Mourinho shall do the same.

Well done to Bradford though.

Duck Soup

I realise that it may not be a popular sentiment at the moment, but I'm finding it hard to give a fiddler's about going out of the FA Cup. It also may be the much-needed wake-up call that this wildly talented but curiously complacent bunch of players needs.

Hopefully Jose will take this stick and beat them severely about the nadgers with it. PS We're as shonky as shyte at the back once you take JT out of the equation.

GavRedKing

Jt is a huge loss but a league 1 side beating a team who have won 13 out of 14 home games in all comps is a disgrace.

In we were 2-0 up. I have to see the goals but there cant have been 4 mistakes we must have just been s**t. I hope it focuses the rest of the squad for pool and city as today was a farce.

Dozen Wicked Words

From Bradford Twitter feed:
Jose Mourinho has just been in an ecstatic away dressing room to congratulate every City player and staff member. A real touch of class.

hots

In far more interesting news, Eidur appears to be starting up front for Bolton with Emile Heskey?

Paul Tergat

Love it Bradford. Lads did us proud today! Get in City!!

HalloweenJack

At least we can focus on other comps now.

Anybody else with some consoling cliches to get over the defeat?

TimRiggins

I'm actually not that bothered about it to be honest. Fair play for Bradford, delighted for them, and by the sounds of things it was fully deserved.

Huge wake up call to the fringe players.

duploelabs

at least Jose can go to the board and say "look at the player's I've to work with, I need Reus, Hummels, and Pogba"

Crann na Beatha

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phobia2011

how did zouma play?

GavRedKing

The only positive is, the FA cup games we would ha e had to play were sandwiched either side of the psg games at least thats some comfort.

Killinator

I know there a positives to going out but dammit I wanted the win the FA Cup.
To be 2 up at home and go on to lose 2-4 is nothing short of the disgrace Jose said it would be.
Hopefully some serious ass kicking going on in the dressing room to get rid of the deep routed complacency in the squad.

GavRedKing

Im just going to keep blaming cahill until we get shot of him.

fozz10

honestly couldn't give a sh!t.... fa cup is a waist of time and i would call the season a failure if we just won it, so not winning it makes no difference. league is priority in my opinion anyway, then champ league

phobia2011

being beaten at home is the big issue here, losing a 2 goal lead is the big issue, it cost our fans a small fortune to watch that!
whatever about the trophy.

fozz10

phobia2011 wrote: »

being beaten at home is the big issue here, losing a 2 goal lead is the big issue, it cost our fans a small fortune to watch that!
whatever about the trophy.

yes in the league maybe. but a cup... no

phobia2011

fozz10 wrote: »

yes in the league maybe. but a cup... no

as much as i like to say it doesent matter, it does!

losing at homeafter leading by 2 does matter, cup, league , friendly, whatever.

i just hope jose hop's off them for it.

GavRedKing

Most of them dont deserve to ever wear the jersey after that terrible performance.

kev1.3s

I honestly can't understand the lack of respect for the FA cup?
It is one of the most famous if not the most famous cup's in world football!
I for one am quite upset at our exit and also the manner of it too but I suppose I'd rather be put out by Brentford than the pool even if it is a much lesser cup.

fozz10

GavRedKing wrote: »

Most of them dont deserve to ever wear the jersey after that terrible performance.

over react much??

Sanity_Saviour

Right forgive me if anything I've said here is wrong, I only just saw Match of the day.

Firstly, I'm not on for knee jerk statements, but someone needs to tell Willian he's not a winger. Every time the ball comes his way the attack falls apart like a 3am kebab. I would recommend a James Milner style transformation because hard work doesn't beat defenders or blanket defences. Considering the style of football we'll be up against this needs to be done sooner rather than later.

Salah is nowhere near good enough. To have no semblance of a first touch at this level is poison for us.

where is Kalas? Not physically where he is why is a dire Christensen playing ahead of a player who proved he can defend against a Premier league team. He needs to play with the team if we are to have some depth in defence. You cant learn the Chelsea way in Vitesse. And some of tge latter's defending today was embarrassing: get rid.

As per established players what the hell were Cahill and Azp doing all game???? Cahill needs a severe talking to and dave's positioning for the last 2 goals was a disgrace. If it can happen against Bradford there's no reason it can't happen against City.

There's a mentality in this team which needs to be cut out now. If we want a squad that can last the whole season then rotate the squad so every player who comes in can make a difference. If we give thart mid table team the same respect we gave them last Tuesday and today we're in serious danger of one step forward 3 steps back.

GavRedKing

fozz10 wrote: »

over react much??

Not really. A decent amount of the starters are on the fringe and when youre 2 up against a league 1 side youd expect a team of that calibre to hold on or push on it. It simply fell apart with no apparent fight or desire. Nowhere nesr good enough.

Sanity_Saviour

GavRedKing wrote: »

Not really. A decent amount of the starters are on the fringe and when youre 2 up against a league 1 side youd expect a team of that calibre to hold on or push on it. It simply fell apart with no apparent fight or desire. Nowhere nesr good enough.

Think the attitude of the second string players is something that needs to be looked at. if they can't perform tonight how can they be trusted at the Etihad or the Nou Camp?

dfx-

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Think the attitude of the second string players is something that needs to be looked at. if they can't perform tonight how can they be trusted at the Etihad or the Nou Camp?

That's not how Mourinho works though is it. He picks his strongest eleven for every game that matters and doesn't care much about the others. They need more time than an odd game, but he won't play them, never mind in a crucial away game.

As for it being a second string, it was 2-1 when Drogba, Remy, Oscar and Fabregas were on the pitch and 2-2 with Hazard.

GavRedKing

Motivation from the group seems to be an issue. Cost us vital points last year. Only thing thats somewhat glossing over this result is its been a huge day of upsets, if it was just us it would stick out more.

Still doesnt take away that at 2-0 weve lost 4-2 at home.

If we beat city i wont mind but if we lose to pool and city there'll be serious questions asked of everyone, manager included, itll be a tough week to navigate.

Kirby

kev1.3s wrote: »

I honestly can't understand the lack of respect for the FA cup?
It is one of the most famous if not the most famous cup's in world football!

It's simple. It's a more difficult cup to win than the league cup and you get virtually no money for winning it. A lot of effort for very little gain. It's the reason why the Europa league winner now gets a spot in the champions league.

You have to incentivise it for teams to take it seriously. There is too much as stake elsewhere. Offer a spot in the champions league for it. Then see what happens. Or up the prize money. Add 20 million to the overall prizepool and things would get a lot more interesting too.

Iused2likebusts

kev1.3s wrote: »

I honestly can't understand the lack of respect for the FA cup?
It is one of the most famous if not the most famous cup's in world football!
I for one am quite upset at our exit and also the manner of it too but I suppose I'd rather be put out by Brentford than the pool even if it is a much lesser cup.

Your showing a lack of respect for the fa cup yourself though. It was Bradford not Brentford that knocked you out ☺

cadaliac

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Your showing a lack of respect for the fa cup yourself though. It was Bradford not Brentford that knocked you out ☺

Technically, he didn't say that. He said he would prefer to be knocked out by Brentford rather that the pool, which I also agree with. 😉

GavRedKing

cadaliac wrote: »

Technically, he didn't say that. He said he would prefer to be knocked out by Brentford rather that the pool, which I also agree with. 😉

Well we could be k/o'd by the pool in a few days. Be nice to stop Stevie G getting to Wembley for a few months at least.

kev1.3s

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Your showing a lack of respect for the fa cup yourself though. It was Bradford not Brentford that knocked you out ☺

Perhaps I did but if we can do our bit to stop the pool winning another cup again this year I'll get over it.

GavRedKing

Pogba scored this today

https://vine.co/v/OTAxPQhtdqz

he'll look good at the Bridge next year :pac: