bigkesh:
When I said Asensio is not Willan's mate weeks ago,some fools from the pit of hell were ranting.


Bloody hell

asensio is not musonda mate either..

BlueAngel444:

Sirgurdson, rooney

As expected..... Rooney was a Star, while Sirgurdson is a good Player.

EOD.

F

Vanquay:
Barca needs a midfield Messi and Suarez are good enough for the Offensive line, how I wish that midget will end his career in England so we can see him for the fraud he really is.

I am so sick of seeing fuckery like this.

Skimpledawg:
Oh Barca.... "How art the mighty fallen"


Dmcdad

An expected fall I would say... I don already predict am before, so I ain't surprised.

As barca dey fall
Costa dey funk up
Jury is still is out on prorata

e no go bad to test Barca's willingness to sell Suarez.

“I need to make an explosion in my career and I am at the perfect place, the perfect club to do that. I have all the things I need and if I can work hard, I can make good things happen. I have very big motivation, I always think like a winner and I want to win everything it is possible to win. Last season the team won the Premier League and now we can try to win it again, and maybe the Champions League.”

“It is the perfect situation. I decided to play in the Premier League and I want to play in Antonio’s team. Now I need to work hard, score goals and play well for the team. There are very good players here and I think we can do something amazing. It is hard to leave Madrid but it is not so hard when you come to a club like Chelsea, with these players and with this coach.”


Alvaro morata

I played in Italy, with Roma, and I’m a defender, so for me the tactical side is very important. I think, with Conte, I have one of the best coaches now. In Italy I learned a lot as a defender from a tactical point of view and I have to say a big thank-you to the people at Roma who helped me develop and achieve the move to Chelsea.”

“I love the open game in this country and that’s why I’m here. I watched a lot of Premier League games growing up and a lot of them stand out, especially a game against Everton [in December 2006] when Didier Drogba scored a really fantastic goal to win it.”

Antonio rudiger

N’Golo Kanté has proved it all. He was the best player in the Premier League last season in the middle of the pitch and that is not easy. To play alongside him would be something very good for me and it can help me progress. I’ve played a match with him for the French national team so we know each other very well and I hope we can do beautiful things together this year.”

-Tiemoué Bakayoko;

Shey na quotes we wan chop

Chelsea need quality young stars, they have musonda, andreas and boga

But this young stars need to play with matured minded super stars, playing at their peak so they develop not a bunch of hyper-inflated average players still making a profile for themselves

Superstar players in chelsea's current first team

Just 5 superstars and 3 extras

Courtious
Azi
Luiz
Kante
Fab *
Hazard




Pedro
Willian*

Dayo goodmorning sir

raumdeuter:
Everyone except Perez knew Benitez was the wrong guy to appoint in the first place.

Benitez was on his way to becoming West ham's coach before Perez called himup

The main mistake was sacking Carlo Ancelotti now they have now made multiple mistakes trying to fill that post

Zidane is a rookie, Great players dont usually make great coaches (except a few)

As a Bayern fan I thank them for freeing up Carlo Ancelotti for us

BlueAngel444:
Chelsea need quality young stars, they have musonda, andreas and boga

But this young stars need to play with matured minded super stars, playing at their peak so they develop not a bunch of hyper-inflated average players still making a profile for themselves

Superstar players in chelsea's current first team

Just 5 superstars and 3 extras

Courtious
Azi
Luiz
Kante
Fab *
Hazard




Pedro
Willian*

Fresh illogical knowledge from a meathead

Meathead

Mentions:
Fresh illogical knowledge from a meathead

Everyone has meat in their head





Except you anyway

BlueAngel444:


Everyone has meat in their head





Except you anyway

Dat go b only skull left na Lol

Interesting Article on Youth Football.

Following his lovely free-kick on his Champions League debut, Trent Alexander-Arnold is not only the best footballer you can name with a surname for a first name and two first names for a surname, but has also announced himself definitely as One To Watch, a Prospect For The Future.

Only…what does that mean?

This is changing a little, but it has long been the pattern that following England’s latest (inevitably humbling) exit from a major tournament, we start hypothesising about what the national team might look like in two, four or eight years, and invariably we decide that there aren’t enough talented youngsters coming through. Oh what a terrible crisis we’re in, how did we get here, there’s too many foreigners, yes we demanded our clubs sign the foreigners but shut up.

Here’s the thing, though. Let’s say for the sake of argument there is an absolutely wonderful generation of players currently ploughing away in the big club academies. This is a group of players who will take England to back-to-back World Cup victories in 2024 and 2028. They lose in the final of Euro 2026 only on penalties, to Germany, because even in utopian visions of the future there are some facts of life you simply cannot change. They go down as one of the greatest international sides of all time. After decades of knowing nothing but how to tear down the national team, the tabloids are stunned into silent confusion, their back pages blank.

Here’s the question: at what point over the next seven to ten years do you think we would become aware that we have a really sodding wonderful team on our hands? Would we know it when we saw it?

My suspicion is we’d probably only realise a few months before at best, possibly only once the tournament itself reaches the knock-out stages.

Why? A host of reasons. Because youth football is a poor indicator of future success; because successful squads tend to span a whole range of ages (at least two members of that 2024 side must already be 25 years old); but mostly because with a few once-in-a-generation exceptions, it is nearly impossible to see really, really good individuals coming, let alone a whole squadsworth of them. That’s a valid unit of measurement, right?

Sometimes it seems like when some people say there are ‘no youngsters’ coming through, what they mean is that we’ve only had one Marcus Rashford in the last 18 months, rather than six. But players like the Manchester United forward are the exception, rather than the rule. A teenager absolutely exploding into superstardom in their teenage years happens so seldom that it still provokes a flurry of media coverage every time.

These are the kinds of player whose arrival is so impactful that you know, instantly, they are going to be huge stars, who even rival fans can’t wait to see turn out for the national team. Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Raheem Sterling and Rashford are the big British examples from the past 20 years.

By definition, you don’t see these teenage sensations coming: they’re like being smacked around the back of the head with a phone book.

At the other end of the spectrum are players who have worked their way up more slowly, possibly through the divisions, probably overcoming a period of multiple loan spells: Danny Rose, Harry Kane, Michael Keane, Jamie Vardy, Peter Crouch, Teddy Sheringham and Adam Lallana fall into this category. Once again, you don’t see this group coming because their rise is steady, boring and quiet, until you suddenly realise: “Oh yeah, they’re pretty good, aren’t they?”

Then there’s the middle group: those who were good enough as kids but there was always a cautious optimism that followed them into their 20s. This is the one group you do actually have on your radar; the only problem is that it’s so loud and varied, you can’t tell the signal from the noise.

Yes, sometimes it works out phenomenally well, but more often they live up to the potential their relatively muted emergence would suggest without really exceeding it, or are tragically underwhelming. There are so many examples of players that took all three paths that I’ll let you make your own lists, but I’d suggest Cristiano Ronaldo, James Milner and Francis Jeffers are good starting points. With results as varied, unreliable and unpredictable as that, do you really put much faith in your ability to divine the wheat from the chaff when weighing up our hopes for the future?

If England’s youth performances this summer are anything to go by, this season will see the emergence of plenty of fresh young faces, if you’ll pardon an expression that becomes so incredibly gross when imagined in a butcher’s window. Alexander-Arnold is merely the first.

But. But. Sitting on fences is unsexy, unfashionable and leaves you prone to splinters in some very nasty hard-to-reach places – but as far as teenagers are concerned, it’s the only sensible thing to do. Who knows? Perhaps that’s just the kind of encouraging, pressure-free attitude our kids need in order to flourish.

spartacus11:

Dat go b only skull left na Lol

Even the dry bones in the valley of Ezekiel has more live than IT

Nihilist:
Interesting Article on Youth Football.

Nice write up especially coming on a day youths are receiving their A - level results. Do young footballers still go to normal schools or they attend special schools?

pamcode:
Nice write up especially coming on a day youths are receiving their A - level results. Do young footballers still go to normal schools or they attend special schools?

Depends.

I think clubs like United and City have classrooms within the training complex where their youth players get educated.

Other clubs help their kids get into college ( like ss3/pre-degree equivalent).

I don't know what the setup is like at Chelsea though.

diggz:
Dayo goodmorning sir

Anything wrong with what you quoted?

Fvcking Costa

www.express.co.uk/sport/football/842204/Chelsea-Transfer-News-Juventus-Alex-Sandro-Virgil-van-Dijk-Diego-Costa-Everton/amp

raumdeuter:


Anything wrong with what you quoted?

I was only greeting you sir.

diggz:



I was only greeting you sir.

Everything I said In that quote was spot on. 100% correct one of the posters who called it correctly

Mentions my Niqqa...

Wadup

What is this fixation with Sandro biko? Conte no get Plan B or C?

pamcode:
Nice write up especially coming on a day youths are receiving their A - level results. Do young footballers still go to normal schools or they attend special schools?

It depends. I actually had like 3-4 of my friends in academies whilst attending College/sixth form. Their parents insisted on it as they wanted their kids to have a back up plan which in hindsight was the right thing to do. Some of the bigger clubs however do have schools in their academies.

tng:
What is this fixation with Sandro biko? Conte no get Plan B or C?

PlanB is spurs injury prone 27yr old Danny rose for 50mil.

PlanC is hoping PlanA(Sandro) pulls through.

Sad story

diggz:



Fvcking Costa

www.express.co.uk/sport/football/842204/Chelsea-Transfer-News-Juventus-Alex-Sandro-Virgil-van-Dijk-Diego-Costa-Everton/amp

That guy is in Spain lighting his cigar from the flames of the bridges burning behind him.

Dude has been reportedly fined 300k and didn't even flinch.

He's not coming back.

raumdeuter:


Everything I said In that quote was spot on. 100% correct one of the posters who called it correctly

I do agree with you actually.

Nihilist:


That guy is in Spain lighting his cigar from the flames of the bridges burning behind him.

Dude has been reportedly fined 300k and didn't even flinch.

He's not coming back.

Costa is a real cvnt sha

The perfect revenge for me is to make him miss out of the world cup next year. I don't know how this can be achieved but I will be happy to see it happen.

I also think the legal action from the club against him is also a welcomed one. Him joining madrid should be made one of the most difficult deals by the club.

I will also prefer he runs out his contract with us while he gets fat around the waist and belle, by which time he would turned 30plus of age. I will like to see what his career will look like afterwards.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10992188/diego-costa-says-he-wont-go-back-to-chelsea-and-must-return-to-atletico-madrid



Diego costa simply doing the lords bidding! Allah be praised for such disarray.....

There is a part of me that misses Costa badly.