Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

cowboyBuilder

Wednesday nights is always CL night for RTE, but it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to show Benfica Zenit ...:p

GavRedKing

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Wednesday nights is always CL night for RTE, but it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to show Benfica Zenit ...:p

It would save us from Dunohys rambling so I'm all for it. :P

peteeeed

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Wednesday nights is always CL night for RTE, but it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to show Benfica Zenit ...:p

RTE 2 and BT

cowboyBuilder

I actually like Dunphy ... I find his views amusing.

- maybe it's where I get my own pearls of wisdom ..

GavRedKing

I'm working until 9 and playing soccer then so I wont see none of it, enjoy the victory. :pac:

cowboyBuilder

GavRedKing wrote: »

I'm working until 9 and playing soccer then so I wont see none of it, enjoy the victory. :pac:

1-0 will do it !

duploelabs

GavRedKing wrote: »

I'm working until 9 and playing soccer then so I wont see none of it, enjoy the victory. :pac:

Ffs, priorities man!

GavRedKing

duploelabs wrote: »

Ffs, priorities man!

Trust me, its a good thing, any match ive missed so far under Guus we've won.

Even when I wathc half of the games we do s**t.

WE'll probably win 3-*0 tonight.

grumpymunster

https://vine.co/v/iHBr9vK5pHi

Good one Feroze Ali

peteeeed

https://twitter.com/ChelsTransfer/status/707554126171742208


https://twitter.com/ChelsTransfer/status/707554453352620032

GavRedKing

If next seson is to be our last at Stamford Bridge in its current lay out I'll be going over for a game or two.

Hopefully its true.

GavRedKing

Next season we're having a Boards Chelsea fans meet up so I assume?

Panthro

Sound!

grumpymunster

Why not someplace like the woolshed beer and footie yay

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Why not someplace like the woolshed beer and footie yay

Stamford Bridge is a bit better

Last time to see it in its current guage too it seems like.

GavRedKing

Remember that fella Pato?

Wonder will he make his debut this season or have we paid for an expansive training camp in London for him?

Panthro

grumpymunster wrote: »

Why not someplace like the woolshed beer and footie yay

Champions league final we all meet up here?
Splendid.
I'll even put on a shirt.

GavRedKing

Panthro wrote: »

Champions league final we all meet up here?
Splendid.
I'll even put on a shirt.

We'll be in the final anyway

hullaballoo

The Woolshed it is. I'm on my way now.

GavRedKing

What Woolshed? I'm assuming Cork :P

GavRedKing

Verratti reportedly out of the this leg altogether, could be a blessing

duploelabs

grumpymunster wrote: »

Why not someplace like the woolshed beer and footie yay

What about a sports bar that serves decent beer? The square ball or the back page?

GavRedKing

duploelabs wrote: »

What about a sports bar that serves decent beer? The square ball or the back page?

Those sounds like Dub bars, i'm out :P

GavRedKing

Verratti is out, various sources on Twitter, not even on the bench

GavRedKing

It was often said that Gandhi had a way with words.

This is some of his best work.

GavRedKing

Trapp, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Maxwell, Thiago Motta, Rabiot, Matuidi, Di Maria, Moura, Ibrahimovic.

redman85

Kenedy starting, money going on him to score within 40 seconds :cool:

Bobby Baccala

Has Pato seen any game time yet at all?

GavRedKing

Benfica, Real and Wolfsburg all through to the next round.

GavRedKing

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Has Pato seen any game time yet at all?

None, hes still in "pre-season"

Was on the bench last weekend but he was brought in too late, should have been brought in early January, not the last day or two of the window.

Bobby Baccala

GavRedKing wrote: »

None, hes still in "pre-season"

Was on the bench last weekend but he was brought in too late, should have been brought in early January, not the last day or two of the window.

Yeah pity it wasn't put to bed early. Really looking forward to seeing how he gets on in England, was one of my favourite players when he was at AC.

GavRedKing

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Yeah pity it wasn't put to bed early. Really looking forward to seeing how he gets on in England, was one of my favourite players when he was at AC.

In a way it reminds of the Kallstrom loan, he'll probably only play maybe half a dozen games at this rate and its down to the club faffing about in January.

I'm the same as you, followed his career once he went to Italy and assumed he was going to be the new R9 of CF's.

given we've Remy and Falcao still on the books, I'd keep him for next season anyway and ship the other two and rotate Costa, Traore and Pato, the latter two can both play wide also.

cowboyBuilder

Show your biased attitude RTE ...

rottie 11

Some load of bull**** this is. We're destroying them but as usual a ****ing retarded ref who is giving us **** all.... and Mikel on the pitch looool what a stupid **** gus hiddink is ...

Garzorico

2nd goal was a fluke - poor defending but a fluke nonetheless.
Willian wasn't at the races tonight. PSG are well worse than us at the back - any pressure and they fold - I seriously thought we'd put 3 or 4 past them tonight. We sat off them in the middle of the park for some reason for nearly the whole game - very static - couldn't work that one out.
Game changed when Costa went off.

Be a long time before we see ECL football at the Bridge again.

Garzorico

Dunphy piping on about how great PSG are real contenders - does he not realise they only knocked out the 12th best team in England...Leister would prob beat them!

hots

Garzorico wrote: »

2nd goal was a fluke - poor defending but a fluke nonetheless.
Willian wasn't at the races tonight. PSG are well worse than us at the back - any pressure and they fold - I seriously thought we'd put 3 or 4 past them tonight. We sat off them in the middle of the park for some reason for nearly the whole game - very static - couldn't work that one out.
Game changed when Costa went off.

Be a long time before we see ECL football at the Bridge again.

We have some serious holes in the team at the moment and it only took a couple of injuries to really show it.

Tbh it showed Guus for what he is imo. He's done a great job of steadying the ship but you need something special to do well in Europe. It's the reason arsenal and city continue to disappoint, you need to be clever to win in Europe unless you have a perfect squad a la barca real or bayern...

McDave

Some endeavour shown tonight, but we have too many weak links. Pedro and Oscar not at this level. Mikel a journeyman. Hazard doesn't care.

On the bright side, some of our youngsters look good. But will they all make the step up to the top? We'll be so lucky.

So, in the round, CFC are now at best a second rank European team. We're not within a sniff of the semi-final stage which had almost become routine for us. Just getting back into the UCL will be a challenge, unless someone like Conte can engineer a real overhaul. But even if we do get back to the top table others are in the ascendant, and I fear we've lost too much ground. The club is just in too much turmoil and I think the best of the RA era is behind us.

Johner

Beaten by the better team on the night, we did well in parts though.

Cahill is truly awful.

Duck Soup

Three of the four CL semi-final slots are effectively pre-filled by Barca, Real and Bayern (unless they play each other earlier). That leaves everyone else fighting for one spot. We're getting to the stage now where, more often than not, that fourth spot is taken by PSG. They're in the process of turning the Big Three into the Big Four. Do they give trophies for reaching the quarter finals?

We have to have the weakest strike force of any 'elite' team in Europe. Jaysus, if Costa bogs off to Spain at the end of the season, who's left?

Time to look at next season. Hazard doesn't give a toss, so he's off. We'll need a near replacement for him in terms of quality - not easy. Costa's probably off. Hard to replace and the goals from midfield have dried up almost completely. Funny enough, I think there's enough quality in defence when Zouma comes back to make that the least of our worries.

We need two massive name signings in the close season - one midfield marvel, one striker.

ShoulderChip

Duck Soup wrote: »

Three of the four CL semi-final slots are effectively pre-filled by Barca, Real and Bayern (unless they play each other earlier). That leaves everyone else fighting for one spot. We're getting to the stage now where, more often than not, that fourth spot is taken by PSG. They're in the process of turning the Big Three into the Big Four. Do they give trophies for reaching the quarter finals?

We have to have the weakest strike force of any 'elite' team in Europe. Jaysus, if Costa bogs off to Spain at the end of the season, who's left?

Time to look at next season. Hazard doesn't give a toss, so he's off. We'll need a near replacement for him in terms of quality - not easy. Costa's probably off. Hard to replace and the goals from midfield have dried up almost completely. Funny enough, I think there's enough quality in defence when Zouma comes back to make that the least of our worries.

We need two massive name signings in the close season - one midfield marvel, one striker.

And who the hell would want to come? no Jose, no europe.

tombliboo83

Most important from tonight is that the coefficient for the pl is being badly damaged. I don't think the pl deserves 4 places right now. As for us, it's not an exaggeration to say that 200m needs to be spent with the likes of Hazard, Oscar mikel saying goodbye

grumpymunster

Well there will be no European footie next season so first job is a squad capable of top four. TBo is barely good enough at the minute decent enough keeper no distribution worthy of the name, Begovic OK squad player. Dave and Zouma decent defenders also possibly Baba, Cahill Ivan not good enough. Obi not good enough Matic poor season but give him one more chance as he was that good last season. Haz is gone by the looks of it Oscar and Pedro OK squad players Willian Kenedy and Cesc decent players. Costa decent player Traore deserves his chance Remy and what's his name not good enough.
So we have TBo, Dave, Happy, Cesc, Willian, Kenedy Traore and Costa who are decent players. Baba, Begovic, Matic, Oscar JT and Pedro as decent squad players. The rest can go.
We should bring back Christensen and along with the lesser spotted American we should be ok at CB. Baba and Kenedy should hold down LB. Dave and buy someone at RB. Then we hit a wall we are very poor after that our squad has got paper thin and desperately poor quality since Eyebrow left (yea even though we won a CL and a PL). We need at least another central midfielder or else give RLC a chance to bed down between and season end he might be good enough who knows.
Going forward we have Cesc and Willian and ............ I would say if Charly continues in Spain as he started he has to come back. Who else? Can we get real top quality players with no CL -well maybe next season there is no major championships at the end of it and if the club pay whatever bonus would have come we might so players may not feel the absolute need to be in the shop window for next season anyway. But for a top 4 finish we need 4 or 5,players and perhaps the same again the following season to be able to compete should we qualify for Europe.

Hard times ahead.

grumpymunster

ShoulderChip wrote: »

And who the hell would want to come? no Jose, no europe.

If he would play with no European footie even at his age would take Ibra got to admire him really and has done it in proper leagues.

cowboyBuilder

Not a bad thing at all not being in UCL for a season or two ... its not a competition at the moment.

Build and focus on domestic success for the next few years, when back in Europe in a couple seasons hopefully that other "team" thats destroying the game will have cooled down a little.

Blue is the colour.

bullpost

Blue is indeed The colour ..........and the mood...........

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Not a bad thing at all not being in UCL for a season or two ... its not a competition at the moment.

Build and focus on domestic success for the next few years, when back in Europe in a couple seasons hopefully that other "team" thats destroying the game will have cooled down a little.

Blue is the colour.

GavRedKing

hots wrote: »

We have some serious holes in the team at the moment and it only took a couple of injuries to really show it.

Tbh it showed Guus for what he is imo. He's done a great job of steadying the ship but you need something special to do well in Europe. It's the reason arsenal and city continue to disappoint, you need to be clever to win in Europe unless you have a perfect squad a la barca real or bayern.

Finally, someone agrees with me.

Lets look at some facts, like Rafa would

Hes got 1 win in the league at home, hes got 3 over all. Thats a wins at home against Scunthorpe, citys U18s and Newcastle, leaving 5 draws and 1 defeat and 1 clean sheet, against Scunthorpe.

Thats absolutely shocking altogether, yes hes steadied the ship but hes brought it no further forward than Jose would have if he was kept on, IMO.

Hes brought in Mikel, hes been useless bar the odd game.
Hazard, well hes not at an elite level, its clear as day to see he has no interest so he'll be gone in the summer and good riddance.
Oscar, hes another fraud and how we didnt accept the chinese bid I'll never know.
Cahill, ive a traffic cone in the back thats better at picking up runners off the ball than him.
Costas scoring, although thats because Jose is gone so thats more down to costa than uncle Guus.

I actually hope we go no further in the FA cup because winning it or losing it to a top 6 team could see us in the Europa League.

On tonights performance, the team badly misses JT and Zouma to a lesser extent, aif JT is being pushed out the door a new CB is needed ASAP as the ones at the club now are nowhere near good enough.

PSG thoroughly deserved to go through over both legs we were simply not good enough and our most in form player went off injured too.

At least it might give Traore a chance.

GavRedKing

Was this mentioned anywhere?



Cesc got booked for it and Motta was already on a yellow card

Bounty Hunter

Looking at transfer rumors and the performance of certain Chelsea first teamers I reckon Chelsea should try their best to be the team taking advantage of the Real Madrid fire sale.

For example with Hazard / Costa looking to leave and players like Mikel and Matic below standard or underperforming you could def do worse than trying to get Isco & Kroos (both apparently available)in.

Give them a good wage and a belief you'll be challenging for the title and they might be ok with a year out of CL football plus they both are still a good age.

grumpymunster

Good lord something in the Express is correct

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/651372/Missing-Action-Chelsea-delete-Eden-Hazard-player-profile

Eden Hazards page is missing from the Chelsea web site and others are still there, how odd

http://www.chelseafc.com/error-pages/404.html?e404=/content/cfc/en/homepage/teams/first-team/eden-hazard.html/