Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

GavRedKing

Think I read somewhere that Courtois is getting the number 13 jersey.

Could Moses be off after 2 seasons, 1 of which was on loan.

GavRedKing

Actually, Marko Marin is still on our books too isnt he?

GavRedKing

Courtois
Azp Cahill JT Luis
Matic Cesc Oscar
Willian Costa Hazard

Vs

Cech
Ivan Christensen Zouma Ake
Ramires Mikel Van Ginkel
Salah Drogba Schurrle

Not a bad selection and thats without the youngsters.

GavRedKing

Howard Webb has retired.

Insert man Utd and soft penos/points all season joke here.

grumpymunster

GavRedKing wrote: »

Howard Webb has retired.

Insert man Utd and soft penos/points all season joke here.

Thats a bit sudden is it not, he was a very hot and cold ref could be excellent could be woeful but would not say he was biased unlike say Dean & Foy.

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Thats a bit sudden is it not, he was a very hot and cold ref could be excellent could be woeful but would not say he was biased unlike say Dean & Foy.

Foy :mad:

Now hes a useless ref.

TBF to Webb hes being Englands best official for the best part of a decade. Oliver is a good young ref, Clattenburg too.

Foy, Friend, Dean are terrible and thjeyre backed by Mike Riley. :rolleyes:

I woner will Webb take over from Riley as top dog?

LightningBlue

GavRedKing wrote: »

On a different note, I've changed my fantasy team again this morning it now reads as such

Begovic
JT Kosclient Kompany
Barkley Hazard Nolan Lennon Sanchez
Dzeko Costa

Any interest in a Chelsea Thread FPL League?
Code is 35605-264543 if anyone wants to join.

GavRedKing

LightningBlue wrote: »

Any interest in a Chelsea Thread FPL League?
Code is 35605-264543 if anyone wants to join.

I've one setup from last year but I'll join another.

Usually take interest fro the first few weeks then I lose interest.

ShoulderChip

GavRedKing wrote: »

I've one setup from last year but I'll join another.

Usually take interest fro the first few weeks then I lose interest.

Why don't we put a fiver on being top after the first ten weeks then?
Thats what me and my friends do, keeps interest up for the start of the league

GavRedKing

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Why don't we put a fiver on being top after the first ten weeks then?
Thats what me and my friends do, keeps interest up for the start of the league

The paying of the monies is the issue. :pac:

Panthro

Keep on eyeing Atletico!
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/atletico-madrid-eyeing-chelsea-midfielder-andre-schurrle-123149677.html

A premier leageu club has more chance of signing him, for the right price but of course.:rolleyes:

Johner

No way should we sell Schurrle, not for any price. Players like Schurrle are invaluable to the squad. He's improving all the time and has a great chance of playing his way into the team, also doesn't moan about being on the bench and is a great impact player as well.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

No way should we sell Schurrle, not for any price. Players like Schurrle are invaluable to the squad. He's improving all the time and has a great chance of playing his way into the team, also doesn't moan about being on the bench and is a great impact player as well.

Unlike some moaning Belgians I could name.

Schurrle will probably push out Willian this year for our starting wing place opposite of Hazard.....or Jose could drop Oscar and play Hazard in the middle and Cesc deeper.

So many options in the supporting roles.

Sheepy99

Daily fail blah blah blah...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2717259/Hilario-retires-former-Chelsea-keeper-hints-coaching-role.html

Boy did he have some shockers, laughing all the way to the bank for the past 8 years though.

Panthro

Sheepy99 wrote: »

Daily fail blah blah blah...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2717259/Hilario-retires-former-Chelsea-keeper-hints-coaching-role.html

Boy did he have some shockers, laughing all the way to the bank for the past 8 years though.

Ah in fairness he did play 39 games in 8 years.
That's almost a seasons worth of games!

Crackle

I still wonder sometimes how he managed to let Tevez's shot past him in 2010.

Sheepy99

Sje was a nasty one alright

GavRedKing

His balance was all off, all his weight was planted on the wrong foot, terrible goal keeping but he managed a clean sheet on his debut to Barcelona, thats good enough for me :pac:

Johner

Ba got a hat rick tonight for Besiktas in the Champions League.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

Ba got a hat rick tonight for Besiktas in the Champions League.

BAs*ard :pac:

I wish him well though.

GavRedKing

Talking about the UCL, how bad are Celtic?

McDave

peteeeed wrote: »

apparently we are bracing ourselves for a schurrle bid from athletico

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/496002/Atletico-Madrid-ready-to-raid-Chelsea-for-World-Cup-star-Andre-Schurrle

Selling Schurrle would just be for the sake of it. He's well settled in, has bags of experience, a great attitude and gives us options. Can't see a good footballing reason to let him go.

hullaballoo

Just watching some random vines from pre-season there and I reckon Drogba's return is going to go swimmingly as he transitions from legend to coach. Sure, it will be a few cameos, probably when the result is beyond question or we need an extra striker to steal a win, but even if he doesn't score a single goal (obvs outside Arsenal H and A :pac:) he will tie up defenders. He'll also always get the crowd going when needed.

Can't wait for his first PL appearance.

GavRedKing

hullaballoo wrote: »

Just watching some random vines from pre-season there and I reckon Drogba's return is going to go swimmingly as he transitions from legend to coach. Sure, it will be a few cameos, probably when the result is beyond question or we need an extra striker to steal a win, but even if he doesn't score a single goal (obvs outside Arsenal H and A :pac:) he will tie up defenders. He'll also always get the crowd going when needed.

Can't wait for his first PL appearance.

Can always be the ultimate plan B, knock it long, hold it up, bring the supporters player into it.

Crann na Beatha

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SureYWouldntYa

It's 2 years since he's left, but it's a lifetime away for the team.

Only Cech, Cahill and Mikel that played in that final are near the first team at the moment, and Torres if he counts as well as Drogba now

When i look at our lineup then and Bayerns, it really is a miracle we won that night

GavRedKing

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

It's 2 years since he's left, but it's a lifetime away for the team.

Only Cech, Cahill and Mikel that played in that final are near the first team at the moment, and Torres if he counts as well as Drogba now

When i look at our lineup then and Bayerns, it really is a miracle we won that night

A miracle, maybe, Cech was very good that night and Drogba made a brilliant cameo to save us and nearly cost us the game in one night.

Still though, records show we won, thats all that matters.

GavRedKing

Anybody see the FIFA15 head shots for Costa and Courtois? The likeness is off the charts. :eek:

I dont know if the image if for PS4 or Xbox1 but the quality is brilliant, seen it on Twitter.

ussjtrunks

GavRedKing wrote: »

Anybody see the FIFA15 head shots for Costa and Courtois? The likeness is off the charts. :eek:

I dont know if the image if for PS4 or Xbox1 but the quality is brilliant, seen it on Twitter.

Can ya link it havent seen any of the new models yet but saw they fully modeled all the PL stadiums this year

GavRedKing

ussjtrunks wrote: »

Can ya link it havent seen any of the new models yet but saw they fully modeled all the PL stadiums this year

Courtois, Hazard and Costas faces for FIFA15 should be in this link.

http://purelyfootball.com/2014/08/05/leaked-chelsea-fifa-15-player-ratings/

Note, I hate these click per page sites just to increase traffic and sh*t but its the first one i could find.

GavRedKing

Schurrle doesnt sound like a guy leaving anytime soon.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/393055/Andre-Schurrle-had-to-hug-Chelsea-s-Brazilians-after-the-Germany-World-Cup-thrashing

Sheepy99

GavRedKing wrote: »

Courtois, Hazard and Costas faces for FIFA15 should be in this link.

http://purelyfootball.com/2014/08/05/leaked-chelsea-fifa-15-player-ratings/

Note, I hate these click per page sites just to increase traffic and sh*t but its the first one i could find.

Click per page sites are a terrible idea.
Hazard's head looks like a skinny Wayne Bridge

GavRedKing

Sheepy99 wrote: »

Click per page sites are a terrible idea.
Hazard's head looks like a skinny Wayne Bridge

If I see one pop up I usually avoid them but it was the first one I seen.

Courtois and Costa lok very good, Hazard doesnt have any standout features so looks fairly plain.

McDave

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

It's 2 years since he's left, but it's a lifetime away for the team.

Only Cech, Cahill and Mikel that played in that final are near the first team at the moment, and Torres if he counts as well as Drogba now

When i look at our lineup then and Bayerns, it really is a miracle we won that night

Considering previous bad luck and decisions against us, I don't see it as a miracle at all. We were well in the game and when Drogba cancelled out Muller, it was written in the stars! :pac:

GavRedKing

McDave wrote: »

Considering previous bad luck and decisions against us, I don't see it as a miracle at all. We were well in the game and when Drogba cancelled out Muller, it was written in the stars! :pac:

Drogba done his best to really cost us that year, given away penalties in the Semi Final and Final :pac:

He had to win it for us after that.

GavRedKing

Celtic back in the UCL :eek:

You know you're bad when you lose 6-1 and go through on an error by some officials not realising a guy wasnt eligible.

You coulsdnt make this stuff up, is that the 2nd time theyve got through by default?

Also, news of Cech being sold seems to be gathering pace, if it hasnt happened now it wont happen until January I'd say, although we've 3 games before the transfer window closes so Jose might have made up his mind by then.

GavRedKing

The friendly tonight will probably see Drogba be panto villian for whatever half he plays given his Galatasray connecion.

grumpymunster

GavRedKing wrote: »

The friendly tonight will probably see Drogba be panto villian for whatever half he plays given his Galatasray connecion.

Most likely you would have hoped that given the background for the matches that would not happen though, what an awful tragedy that was.

So TSHO has spoken thus

"We are going to play with our best team. The period where we used the kids to help us to play these matches is finished. They go back to our youth teams.

So I guess that this is confirmation that Ake and Christensen are part of the first team for the season?

Is Moses staying as he is English?

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

The friendly tonight will probably see Drogba be panto villian for whatever half he plays given his Galatasray connecion.

don't the turkish lot boo everyone? except dennis wise when he kicked yer man up the arse when he ran on the pitch at SB again galatasaray who turned out to be a kurd and was hailed as a hero in the turkish press

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Most likely you would have hoped that given the background for the matches that would not happen though, what an awful tragedy that was.

So TSHO has spoken thus

"We are going to play with our best team. The period where we used the kids to help us to play these matches is finished. They go back to our youth teams.

So I guess that this is confirmation that Ake and Christensen are part of the first team for the season?

Is Moses staying as he is English?

Well its either Moses or Josh MacEchran, we've 3 players that will play as part of the HG set, Cahill, JT, Cesc.

We've got rid of Bertrand who'd be HG and we're left with Moses and Josh Mc, if either or both wnat out we'd be screwed.

I'd say Ake will be involved and Christensen might get game time next to Zouma in the cups, hopefully.

grumpymunster

GavRedKing wrote: »

Well its either Moses or Josh MacEchran, we've 3 players that will play as part of the HG set, Cahill, JT, Cesc.

We've got rid of Bertrand who'd be HG and we're left with Moses and Josh Mc, if either or both wnat out we'd be screwed.

I'd say Ake will be involved and Christensen might get game time next to Zouma in the cups, hopefully.

The HG set will of course be augmented by Pogba ;);)

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

The HG set will of course be augmented by Pogba ;);)

Pogba in, Josh Mac out, good business

GavRedKing

Stamford Bridge, not from today but from FIFA 15 :eek:

grumpymunster

Ba playing Arsenal in Champions League play off may I be the first to offer Ba a big Munster G'WAN and the best of luck befitting a much loved ex-player.

GavRedKing

Not a banker but Arsenal have enough quality to get through that game.

Panthro

GavRedKing wrote: »

Stamford Bridge, not from today but from FIFA 15 :eek:

Mudder a Gawd, that looks so real.

grumpymunster

You just gotta love Petr Cech. Liverpool fans on twitter apparently trying to make case of Reina being a better keeper than Petr claiming he has a better percentage clean sheet record.

http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/08/08/chelsea-keeper-cech-puts-liverpool-fans-in-their-place-on-twitte/?

Obviously statistics not their strong point as Petr alludes to but to be exact

Cech 161 clean sheets 323 matches 49.8%
Reina 134 clean sheets 285 matches 47.0%

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

You just gotta love Petr Cech. Liverpool fans on twitter apparently trying to make case of Reina being a better keeper than Petr claiming he has a better percentage clean sheet record.

http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/08/08/chelsea-keeper-cech-puts-liverpool-fans-in-their-place-on-twitte/?

Obviously statistics not their strong point as Petr alludes to but to be exact

Cech 161 clean sheets 323 matches 49.8%
Reina 134 clean sheets 285 matches 47.0%

Well its fairly simple, Cech > Reina & Mignelot

Courtois > Cech, Reina, Mignolet

Panthro

To all the Tweeters out there thinking Reina is the better keeper, Cech has a simple message.

GavRedKing

If it wasnt for Stephen Hunt he'd have broken the clean sheet record easily by now.