Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

Johner

I'd be seriously pissed off if we sold Schurrle, hopefully nothing in it.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

I'd be seriously pissed off if we sold Schurrle, hopefully nothing in it.

I cant see us selling one of our brightest stars.

I think Schurrle will push past 10 league goals this season which would be a big plus for us.

If I was to guess or be hopeful at our goals return I'd suggest the following.

Costa 15-20 (likely) - 20-25 (hopeful) - 25+ (very hopeful)
Drogba 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Torres 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)

Hazard 10-15 (likely) - 15-20 (hopeful) - 20+ (very hopeful)
Schurrle 5-10(likely) - 10+ (hopeful)
Willian 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Oscar 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Salah 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Cesc 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Ramires 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)

The rest of the team including defenders and people like Matic, Mikel, MVG will probably push 10 goals between them.

So by my calcualtion we'll get between 59 and 95 goals, truth is its impossible to guess but I'd say it'll be in the 80's with under 30 left in.

MaroonAndGreen

GavRedKing wrote: »

I cant see us selling one of our brightest stars.

I think Schurrle will push past 10 league goals this season which would be a big plus for us.

If I was to guess or be hopeful at our goals return I'd suggest the following.

Costa 15-20 (likely) - 20-25 (hopeful) - 25+ (very hopeful)
Drogba 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Torres 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)

Hazard 10-15 (likely) - 15-20 (hopeful) - 20+ (very hopeful)
Schurrle 5-10(likely) - 10+ (hopeful)
Willian 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Oscar 5-10 (likely) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Salah 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Cesc 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)
Ramires 1-5 (likely) - 5-10 (hopeful) - 10+ (very hopeful)

The rest of the team including defenders and people like Matic, Mikel, MVG will probably push 10 goals between them.

So by my calcualtion we'll get between 59 and 95 goals, truth is its impossible to guess but I'd say it'll be in the 80's with under 30 left in.

Wonder will Hazard take penalties or will Costa take them....

SureYWouldntYa

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Wonder will Hazard take penalties or will Costa take them....

Hazard's been brilliant on penalties for us in fairness. Until he starts fecking up his thing of sending the keeper the wrong way, he should stay on them

MaroonAndGreen

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Hazard's been brilliant on penalties for us in fairness. Until he starts fecking up his thing of sending the keeper the wrong way, he should stay on them

Would be nice for Costa to take them and have our striker getting a few more goals I think....

SureYWouldntYa

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Would be nice for Costa to take them and have our striker getting a few more goals I think....

If Cech was a good penalty taker I'd let him take them. Suarez didn't take them for Pool but still scored 30+

MaroonAndGreen

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

If Cech was a good penalty taker I'd let him take them. Suarez didn't take them for Pool but still scored 30+

Costa is a good penalty taker though.. I dont know how many times ive seen a striker in a poor run of goalscoring form finally get a goal from the penalty spot (im thinking the likes of Rooney and RVP)... imagine if Torres could have taken and scored every penalty that Lampard did, might have given a confidence boost and his long runs of not scoring wouldnt have been half as bad.

I know thats not a great example as Torres never really took penalties anyway but I think its always good to try and get your striker on the scoresheet.

SureYWouldntYa

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Costa is a good penalty taker though.. I dont know how many times ive seen a striker in a poor run of goalscoring form finally get a goal from the penalty spot (im thinking the likes of Rooney and RVP)... imagine if Torres could have taken and scored every penalty that Lampard did, might have given a confidence boost and his long runs of not scoring wouldnt have been half as bad.

I know thats not a great example as Torres never really took penalties anyway but I think its always good to try and get your striker on the scoresheet.

Let's just hope Costa won't ever need to take a peno for those reasons :pac:

MaroonAndGreen

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Let's just hope Costa won't ever need to take a peno for those reasons :pac:

True but with our record with strikers.... you never know.....

Our strikers signed since Abramovich bought the club have not all turned out to be much good for us...

Mutu, Kezman, Shevchenko, Pizarro, Di Santo, Sturridge, Torres, Lukaku and Ba all failed or were pretty ineffective strikers for us (the odd important moment from Torres and Ba aside)

Crespo, Drogba, Anelka, Kalou, Etoo are the 5 signed in that period that could be argued to be relatively successful.

Its an awful record of signing strikers. We really really need Costa to be a success....

GavRedKing

I think Costa missed 3 penalties last year.

For me its Hazard all day, followed by Cesc and then Costa.

GavRedKing

Good one Keown.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2725190/Jose-Mourinho-Ordinary-One-Arsene-Wenger-gloss-Man-City-pip-Blues-title-help-warrior-Vincent-Kompany.html

GavRedKing

Money thrown on top scorer bet.

Now roll on my free bet every week

greendom

GavRedKing wrote: »

Money thrown on top scorer bet.

Now roll on my free bet every week

I'm in for that too and I have to admit I went for Costa. I hope he falls flat on his face but I don't think he will. With only Drogba and Torres in competition at no 9 he is likely to start most weeks and with support players like Hazard and Fabregas, he'll get plenty of opportunities to score.

GavRedKing

greendom wrote: »

I'm in for that too and I have to admit I went for Costa. I hope he falls flat on his face but I don't think he will. With only Drogba and Torres in competion at no 9 he is likely to start most weeks and with support players like Hazard and Fabregas, he'll get plenty of opportunities to score.

I've went for Costa too, my reasoning is he should get to 10 league goals and give me 20euro worth of free bets so if I re-invest those bets wisely enough, I should break even at least.

Hes 11/2 with PP I think thats very short.

Also you could probably name 20 players that'll score at least 10 EPL goals this year, injury permitting, Aguero, RVP, Rooney, Costa, Giroud, Sturridge will all score at least 10 goals.

GavRedKing

Just looking at our 4 biggest rivals, City, Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool.

The summer spending that I seen online and quoted in Euro is as follows

1. LFC - 110m
2. Chelsea 98m
3. City 77m
4. Arsenal 72m
5. Utd 70m

Although in saying that I expect Utd and Liverpool to go and spend again.

Tubbs4

GavRedKing wrote: »

Just looking at our 4 biggest rivals, City, Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool.

The summer spending that I seen online and quoted in Euro is as follows

1. LFC - 110m
2. Chelsea 98m
3. City 77m
4. Arsenal 72m
5. Utd 70m

Although in saying that I expect Utd and Liverpool to go and spend again.

Yes but your forgetting net for transfers

Tubbs4

Should say net spend :-)

GavRedKing

Tubbs4 wrote: »

Should say net spend :-)

We've only spend a couple of million.

Luiz, Lukaku, Ba would be making us back a rather large chunk of that money.

GavRedKing

Jose 1st press conference is scheduled for 12.30.

He'll probably face a question or two about Cech/Courtois even though he said he wont tell the players until Sunday so asking at the presser is silly.

Another question, which foreginer will be axed/sold/loaned from the squad to comply with the EPL rules

peteeeed

press conf from twitter

Jose says the pre-season was long for him and his staff, and it is fantastic to be back to the real competition.

'I am not saying I am nervous or feeling something special, I'm just happy to be back to competing and the players are the same.'

We have bought some key players having analysed our squad and we believe. These new players bring us to another dimension.'

'Yes we are a title contender. If you want me to say we will win the league I can't, because I respect this competition.'

'To win against Burnley is the first step, and to win against Burnley will be very hard.'

he won't name his goalkeeper choice for Monday as the players don't know yet but he says Chelsea have 2 of the 3 best in the world.

he's very happy with the make-up of the squad as it is - with experience & a significant number of players who are under 21.

he thinks basically there are six title contenders again this season, as he thought last year.

'I told my players today that every one of them in the squad, I am happy to have them.'

redman85

As the conference draws to a close, he makes some interesting remarks on the transfer market: "The market is open. You never know what can happen. You don't know the reaction of players in these last days."

Pogba

GavRedKing

16days until Pogbas signed :pac:

Plus hes home grown so it doesnt effect the balance, get it done.

#WheresPogba
#WhoLeftThePogOut

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

16days until Pogbas signed :pac:

Plus hes home grown so it doesnt effect the balance, get it done.

#WheresPogba
#WhoLeftThePogOut

oh oh its started again

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

oh oh its started again

It wont go away until,

A) Hes signed
The window closes
c) Until January rolls around



#InPogWeTrust

joe123

Quick question for ye lads - Will Felipe Luis start for ye at left back? This is purely fantasy football related but just wondering what your thoughts are?

Johner

I don't think he will start on Monday anyway.

GavRedKing

joe123 wrote: »

Quick question for ye lads - Will Felipe Luis start for ye at left back? This is purely fantasy football related but just wondering what your thoughts are?

I reckon not this weekend. We've to win so I think Jose will pick what he knows so the team should read

Cech
Ivan Cahill JT Azp
Matic Cesc
Schurrle Oscar Hazard
Costa

Thats what I'd go for although theres question marks over Schurrle or Willian on the right and Cech or Coourtois.

RichT

I've had a go of the Paddy Power top goal scorer offer as well.

Gav, greendom and RichT all on Costa. I know Peteeeed is in but not sure who his pick is.

Could be interesting to see how we get on with our free bets (If any :eek:) and maybe have a little table of success/shame.

hullaballoo

I'm in trouble in FF, I've to find replacements for Coleman and Kompany. On the bench, we have the wonderous Phillipe Senderos and Richard Dunne. :rolleyes:

I hate the 3 player per team rule. :mad:

GavRedKing

RichT wrote: »

I've had a go of the Paddy Power top goal scorer offer as well.

Gav, greendom and RichT all on Costa. I know Peteeeed is in but not sure who his pick is.

Could be interesting to see how we get on with our free bets (If any :eek:) and maybe have a little table of success/shame.

Lets hope he doesnt hi back to back hat tricks, as part of the T&C's the only pay out 5 free bets a week :pac:

Johner

Apparently Drogba has the 11 shirt back and Oscar has moved to 8.

peteeeed

Nice from schurrle

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=761640740543868&substory_index=0&id=166816530026295

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

Apparently Drogba has the 11 shirt back and Oscar has moved to 8.

Thats pretty silly if true. I can imagine quiet a few have gotten Oscar 11 and Drogba 15 already.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

Apparently Drogba has the 11 shirt back and Oscar has moved to 8.

confirmed : http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/08/squad-number-changes.html

f**k me

GavRedKing

chelsea are however offering to give you a new shirt if youve bought either shirt.

GavRedKing

full list below

1. Cech, Petr
2. Ivanovic, Branislav
3. Luis, Filipe
4. Fabregas, Cesc
7. Ramires
8. Oscar
9. Torres, Fernando
10. Hazard, Eden
11. Drogba, Didier
12. Mikel, John Obi
13. Courtois, Thibaut
14. Schurrle, Andre
16. Van Ginkel, Marco
17. Salah, Mohamed
18. Moses, Victor
19. Costa, Diego
21. Matic, Nemanja
22. Willian
23. Schwarzer, Mark
24. Cahill, Gary
26. Terry, John
28. Azpilicueta, Cesar

UNDER 21 PLAYERS
5. Zouma, Kurt
6. Ake, Nathan
31. Christensen, Andreas

LimerickLad92

Its absolute crap all this changing numbers stuff.

Its a good indicator to not buy a new shirt until the season starts

Zouma, Filipe, Drogba, Oscar, Salah and Hazard all changed.

Johner

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
CHELSEA FC SQUAD NUMBERS – 2014/2015

1. Cech, Petr
2. Ivanovic, Branislav
3. Luis, Filipe
4. Fabregas, Cesc
7. Ramires
8. Oscar
9. Torres, Fernando
10. Hazard, Eden
11. Drogba, Didier
12. Mikel, John Obi
13. Courtois, Thibaut
14. Schurrle, Andre
16. Van Ginkel, Marco
17. Salah, Mohamed
18. Moses, Victor
19. Costa, Diego
21. Matic, Nemanja
22. Willian
23. Schwarzer, Mark
24. Cahill, Gary
26. Terry, John
28. Azpilicueta, Cesar

UNDER 21 PLAYERS

5. Zouma, Kurt
6. Ake, Nathan
31. Christensen, Andreas

EDIT : Beaten to it! :pac:

GavRedKing

8 and 6 being gone means no Pogba.

LightningBlue

GavRedKing wrote: »

confirmed : http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/08/squad-number-changes.html

f**k me

Ake better get ready to hand over the No. 6 shirt when Pogba signs

#FreePogba

Johner

GavRedKing wrote: »

chelsea are however offering to give you a new shirt if youve bought either shirt.

Still a bit of a joke though, a lot of people wouldn't have bought it from the club and only get a 50% discount.

GavRedKing

LightningBlue wrote: »

Ake better get ready to hand over the No. 6 shirt when Pogba signs

#FreePogba

Ake to 15 or 27 :pac:

#PogbasGotSixAppeal

Johner wrote: »

Still a bit of a joke though, a lot of people wouldn't have bought it from the club and only get a 50% discount.

Agreed, its a joke that theyre changing it now and not when he signed.

LightningBlue

GavRedKing wrote: »

Ake to 15 or 27 :pac:

#PogbasGotSixAppeal



Agreed, its a joke that theyre changing it now and not when he signed.

Love the hashtag.

GavRedKing

Needs to start trending.

duckman!!

GavRedKing wrote: »

16days until Pogbas signed :pac:
#WheresPogba
#WhoLeftThePogOut

GavRedKing wrote: »

It wont go away until,

A) Hes signed
The window closes
c) Until January rolls around



#InPogWeTrust

GavRedKing wrote: »

8 and 6 being gone means no Pogba.

Now...Im no expert!!
but I think you Gav have a serious SERIOUS progblem......;):D

#PogbaFetish

phobia2011

We have to sell 2 foreign players before we can buy

peteeeed

U-21's playing man city now live on sky sports 5 and Chelsea tv

kev1.3s

1-0 down tho.

the_doctor199

Reports of Moses to Stoke on loan, medical tomorrow.

Sgt Pepper 64

the_doctor199 wrote: »

Reports of Moses to Stoke on loan, medical tomorrow.

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