What Is Football Turning To?

let them continue spending like that, they will fall like real madrid if they don't learn soon. Manchester United also tried the big spending, buying veron and all that, it didnt get them anywhere. money can only do so much, no matter the cash spent,it will never win chelski the CL. mark my words

well they might have what it takes in terms of cash to win it, but that will never be enough, they simply don't have the heart for it. maureen might, but most of the team is just like a set of paid mercenaries out to make a quick buck, teams with that attitude can only go so far.

I remember real did, but also remember they had a team that had been together like 3 -4 seasons before that. remember morientes, raul, hierro, makalele, guti, salgado, casillas had all been together since 98/99 before these new additions. its this backbone that won them the titles in addition to zidane and figo.

chelski on the other hand don't have this backbone, most of the players, if not all are there for the money, period, not a true desire to play football, that is what i mean by the real team attitude/spirit

true and objective arsenal fans always do in the end 

dude the guys who carried real madrid were raul, casillas, salgado, guti. all those players didnt cost RM anything close to SWP or any of the other flops chelski have bought. they had a loyal, dedicated and passionate core, something chelski doesnt have and may never have (unless they change their ways)

what won man utd the prem was also a passionate core - giggs, scholes, keane, neville brothers, and ruud bwoy, not simply cash, veron and rio were minor factors.

U seem to be missing the points like a NBA free-throw shots.
Don't delude yourself to think Chelsea has no core.
Chelski has strength in-depth and the hunger to win at all costs.
Winning Premiership titles back to back aint no fluke.
Afterall, Wenger is still chasing this feat in spite of his acclaimed brilliance by his die-hard fans.

Furthermore, Chelsea has uniformity.
Mourinho hardly changes the spine of his team whether he plays a Man Utd/Arsenal or a conference league team.
In fairness, Jose has been lucky with team injuries as his players rarely go on a long injury-spell.
Cech-Terry-Makelele-Lampard-Drogba is the spine.

Mourinho bought Sheva and Ballack because his aim is now the UEFA champions league and not the Premiership.
Chelsea's bench of last season is capable of winning the title this year so Sheva was bought purposely to win UEFA and it aint about Drogba.

U r the only person that wont agree Chelsea has improved a great deal.
Has Wenger's team been able to beat Chelsea since Mourinho arrived? Hell Naaaaaaaaaah.
A team that accrued the highest points ever since the inception of Premiership has no spine?
Puhleeeeeeeeeazzze. don't hate the West London club. They did somethin highly remarkable.
Chelsea has raised the standards and whatz left is for other teams to catch up.
Arsenal went unbeaten in 03/04 season with so many narrow-escapes. 26 Wins and 12 draws.
Chelsea had 29 Wins 8 Draws Lost 1 and conceeded just 15 goals in Mourinho's debut season.

This same Chelsea team was a guaranteed 3 points for Arsenal(home n away) before Mourinho's arrival.
The same Chelsea lost 7 matches and conceeded 30 goals the previous season before Jose's arrival.
Ma guy, Money has really helped Chelsea configure the most deadly team in Europe at the moment.
Who says money can't buy happiness?

now we bring up the issue of drogba again,

drogba did not live up his 22m signing, how many goals did he even score,

true he really assisted them a lot with the aerial strength, but that was not what he was contracted for,

he was contracted to score goals havin impressed when he was in marseille, people expected more

i expected more, what did i get, "makelele gets the ball he throws a long ball to drogba, drogba heads down and who do u know, lampard, shoots he scores, " 

these my fellows is what we get,

Champions League is all about hardwork and a bit of luck.
Chelsea would have reached the finals if they had played the same opponets Arsenal played enroute the finals.
C'mon Deboksy. would have Arsenal have defeated Barcelona if they had met in the Q-final stages or the 2nd-round.
Chelsea has been very unlucky with the draws and they might still meet Barca again because they r yet unseeded.

Talking about Liverpool and Arsenal compared to Chelsea,
Liverpool did spend money because Rafa brought in some spaniards, he bought Cisse and the likes.
Boring tactics got Liverpool to the finals and they were lucky to win Milan with penalty shoot-outs.
Arsenal also employed Rafa's boring tactics ans they also reached the finals last year.

The league table is the only true test to compare these teams with Chelski.
The table does not lie. Do the math and tell me the difference between Chelsea and the 2 teams u mentioned.

@deboksy the optimist,

If the referee had given that goal Barca would have won by 3-0.or even 4-0.
Barcelona needed that early goal to get Arsenal out of their shells but the freak official sent Lehmann off instead.
Arsenal would have bombed forward tryin to equalise and this would have given Etoo and Dinho the needed time and space to cause havoc.

Chelsea might get it right this time.
I don't support Chelsea at all but i think they have the best team in England.
Will Wenger ever beat Jose's team? I don't think so.

@debosky

amen to that,

its not a matter of they might be vulnerable,

they are vulnerable,

all teams are vulnerable,

and again anything is possible,

@Christino,

London clubs are able to charge higher ticket prices than clubs in other parts of the country (particularly for corporate facilities).

Tottenham charges the highest ticket prices on Premiership games.
White Hart Lane ticket ranges from 55-70 pounds(face-value)

Chelsea FC is 2nd because they charge up to 35-60 pounds.
Peter Kenyon froze the prices around April and these prices will remain so for the next 3 years.

Man Utd charges between 23-38 pounds and i understand Arsenal will charge between 32-66 pounds in their new stadium.
and Wigan is the lowest in the country as they charge between 17-25 pounds.

@ Christino.
Rooney or maybe Paul Scholes has the most powerful shot in the Premiership.

Gerrard should be winning that with ease.

paul Scholes anyday, anytime,