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Chelsea FC EPL Champions 2015

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  • #202
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,694 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    I can't believe calling Chelsea ageing and especially their defence is such a controversial comment among some Chelsea fans, whilst people still seem to agree with it.
    hullaballoo wrote: »
    I said the strikers in the academy have great promise. I didn't say they were the finished article.

    I can't try and argue that Jose has a history of promoting youth players but I can argue that Chelsea's youth players are earning themselves a very good chance of being selected by Jose to play in the first team in their own right, so that he doesn't have to spend big. This is hugely important with Chelsea seemingly the only club actually bound by FFP.

    He'll promote youth players not just because he has to but because they're good enough. They're not all going to be JTs and stay with the club for decades. I disagree with you that nothing will change and that he won't develop them.

    You're agreeing with me so that they're not the finished article and while they remain so, Mourinho won't play them, yes? Whether he should or not is an entirely separate thing. It makes sense to at least try to fit them in so that you can spend more on players you have to buy in, but that's me. 2 x €20m or 1 x €40m + a good enough youth player makes sense to me.

    Right, we agree he will only replace them with ready-to-go replacements, so Mourinho faces this challenge in rebuilding the first team - something he has never done.

    That decision if he goes with ready-to-go players, bought in, is not going to be cheap. You don't get an experienced EPL and CL challenging defender for £1m. He's going to need two/three/four of them, maybe more with injuries or players that don't work out. A signing may not be trusted by Mourinho after a season or two, so he'll have to leave and be replaced.

    In addition, he will need to replace Drogba, he may need to replace Remy, he may need to replace Mikel and Cech. He has a lot of work to do in a reasonably short period of time, FFP or otherwise.

    That is all. The cult of his personality is such that next up we will have certain Chelsea fans needing to defend "Jose 2"'s choice of breakfast cereal..


  • #203
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #204
    grumpymunster
    Registered Users Posts: 7,603 ✭✭✭grumpymunster


    JT26 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geh_lLS2hL0

    It is quite amazing JT, Drog and Petr managed to get up to the trophy presentation without the aid of a zimmerman frame if some are to be believed. More amazing that someone as decrepit as JT managed to play every minute of every game in the heart of the meanest defence in the league (that despite being on the beach for the last three games).


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