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TheGoodJoe:
Paul Okoye of P-Square music group is famously known all over the world as a singer, songwriter and producer. Paul and his twin brother, Peter, started out as footballers with Pepsi Academy in Jos.

Paul was a goalkeeper, while Peter plays either as a right-wing attacker or striker. The Chelsea FC of England midfielder, John Obi Mikel, was their junior at the academy.


https://www.naij.com/450596-6-things-you-dont-know-about-paul-of-p-square.html

Of course they would protect their brother . . . . . but when caught offguard, they would shout out their "big brother".

TheGoodJoe:
That means nothing or prove nothing. So is that what makes you conclude he is over age?

The fact that 99.9% of Nigerian footballers remove at least 5 years from their age is enough for me to write him off. . . .

TheGoodJoe:
I have heard so much of this P Square/ Mikel stuff. I do not believe the news. Do you have a link?

No need to go far. . . .

https://www.nairaland.com/1263820/fans-mikel-obi-made-us

TheGoodJoe:
Actually, the Technical director signs all the players. Most times, along with the advises of the coaches.

In Mourinho's case, he disagreed with some of the buys like Mata, De Bruyne and Marin because they do not fit into his philosophy.

Most times, the young players like Traore, Kenedy, Atsu, lies more with the technical director and his team of scouts.

My point is that Emenalo has been a brilliant technical director because despite the in and out flow of players, Chelsea have made good signings whether they do well at the club or not.

For instance, De Bruyne. Even though he did not do well at Chelsea, he was a good buy. Same with Sturridge, Lukaku and Matic before he returned.

So when someone calls Emenalo a fool, it baffles me because I am not a Chelsea fan but I respect the overall buys of Chelsea.

Someone trying to tie some players to the request of a particular coach and another to Emenalo is wrong to me. The technical director makes the buys.

Not when the Technical Director keeps arguing against and vehemently resisting signings in the key area of the team that is weak. . . despite manager after manager pushing him to sign central midfielders.

You cannot give a man eggs, butter and sugar and ask him to bake a cake when flour is missing.

Even if the eggs are from Waitrose, once the flour is missing, he has failed in his job.

He is tactically unaware and incompetent. Any 4 year old can sign who dribble the most. Knowing the needs of the team is the key attribute of a technical Director. If he doesn't meet the needs of the team, he has failed, no matter how many fancy wingers he signs.

TheGoodJoe:
I wish you can get Mikel's height before the U17 to when he joined Chelsea. This is someone's post years ago on cybereagles. I am someone who followed Mikel and I definitely believe the Chelsea move was wrong.

I know for a fact that he grew after 2003 without a shadow of a doubt at least 2-4 inches. I am 6ft and my friend that used to parade Stadium with me David is like 6'2 and I know David was taller than Mikel at that point.

The GoodJoe, Thunder fire you their and all your friends lying to protect Mikel's old age.

See Fifa squad list for U-17 2003 World Cup.

Mikel was already listed at 191cm which is 6ft 3 inches.

Wikipedia lists him at 6ft 2 inches today.

You want come yarn us say Mikel grew 4 inches from 2003 to 2006. Nonsense!

TheGoodJoe:
I wish you can get Mikel's height before the U17 to when he joined Chelsea. This is someone's post years ago on cybereagles. I am someone who followed Mikel and I definitely believe the Chelsea move was wrong.

At that time I followed his growth. Showing his height at Chelsea does not prove me wrong. So screaming liar does not mean anything.

I read a report before this on his height growth on a Chelsea blog. Being a long time, digging it will take time.

Any ninja can claim anything. Many ninjas on NL have come to claim that their friends in SE are young, only for them to go bald and lose their legs at 25.

I know a ninja that claim Mikel used to play on their uni field and he senior them.

Never mind the fact that Mikel can't run which my eyes tell me clearly.

I will take P Square's word who are 33 years old and played with Mikel at Pepsi academy, and call him their senior brother.

Before a 33 year old call a 28 year old senior bros, you know say age is involved.

TheGoodJoe:


Mikel grew about four inches after he joined Chelsea. Only a young player can grow like that.

Lie from the pit of Hell.

Mikel was 6ft 2in when he signed and 6ft 2in today. He has never been 5ft 10 at Chelsea.

See FM profile 2006 and Chelsea team photo 2006. See Mikel back row heighting Ballack.

You are a Liar!

TheGoodJoe:
[b]There is a thing you are missing. Chelsea have not had a stable coaching run to build the team. The person who brought in Ramires, if I am correct is Ancelotti. His vision for the team is different from Villas Boas who knew Ramires from Benfica.

When you have different coaches coming with different ideas, the building of the team changes.

Ramires was not criticised negatively at Benfica. He was a rock winning the ball with tackles and interception. The team play was not his own.

Just like Gatusso.

Playing Ramires in a different system makes him look weak. That is the case with someone like De Bruyne. We played a conservative game against Man Utd and for the first time this season, De Bruyne looked weak.

If Man City plays like that weak in weak out for three seasons, Man city fans will call for De Bruyne's Throat.

It is the systems, not Ramires or Emenalo. If Abramovic can understand that a team needs stability and a team will not be perfect all seasons, the players will look better.[/b]

One thing Emenalo should understand is that we all love attacking football.

Attacking football cannot function without the right base to support it.

Hazard and Oscar cannot commit to making an attacking run if they know that the midfield cannot pick up the pieces if there is a turnover in possession.

Even today, while I blame our struggles this season mostly on Mourinhos psycho personality and poor preseason, I know that if our central midfield had been upgraded over the years, we would play ourselves out of this situation.

Can you imagine Hazard, Pedro and Willian not making forward runs if they know that two or three solid midfielders are behind them?

Even in Mourinhos last 2 years, Willian and Hazard do too much defending cos Mourinho is protecting a weak midfield.

In the days of Makelele, Essien and Lampard. . . Duff and Robben just run forward anyhow knowing the midfield is solid.

You cannot build attacking football on weak defensive foundation. That's just it.

I believe if Matic, Witsel, Lassana Diarra etc were patrolling our midfield this year, we would have played ourselves out of this crisis long ago.

I have seen Chelsea team that hated Avram Grant that did not lose a single EPL game apart from his first game cos the midfield was so solid.

Emenalo has done untold damage to this team over the years. Today if Matic is off-form, there should be two midfielders that can bench him with no problem.

That's just it.

Finally, Mikel is an old man. Just forget patriotism please. We Nigerians like lying to ourselves but man cannot cheat age. He has no business at Chelsea or any top club. Even P Square call him "big brother" from their days at Pepsi academy and they are 33 years old. All his mates like Taye Taiwo, Promise Isaac, Chinedu Obasi etc have almost retired and are rendered useless by old age. He should go and rest.

TheGoodJoe:
And even if Ramires played in ths arrangement you stated, it does not prove Ramires is a poor player or incompetent. It even proves the guy is a baller and is versatile despite the guy playing naturally as a defensive midfielder.

Is that not so?


How many defensive midfielders in the World today can you tell to play on the wings?

It is not even if, that is exactly what happened. You can go watch the youtube highlights if you doubt.

Emenalo has signed enough wingers. There is no reason for anyone to play Ramires on the wing if not for a tactical imbalance.

Oscar had to ride bench for almost half the season for Ramires to play that wing.

It is a fact that Ramires cannot control central midfield. His passing, touch, vision and strength at shielding the ball is too poor to control midfield for a top team. I supported the move to push him wide because his energy and running can be better utilised there. Who is the fool is the Technical Director who thought Ramires is a top level central midfielder and allowed Chelsea to go into a season with just Mikel and Ramires as central midfield. A 34 year old Lampard who had played most of his career as an AM dropped back, and played that position better than them in tandem with a central defender (Luiz).

Vs Napoli, RDM played Ramires left wing in both legs.
Vs Barca, RDM played Ramires right wing in both legs (and right back when JT got sent off)
Vs Bayern, RDM played Ramires right wing.

Thats how the UCL was won in 2012.

Ramires has never been successful as a central midfielder for Chelsea. It has been failure after failure in that position since 2010 when Emenalo recommended him to replace Ballack. Every manager shifted him to the wing till JM benched him and won the league

When you don't support a club and follow them closely, you see all these fancy attacking players and think the Technical Director is doing well. We wey know the koko will tell you the hurt that eediot has caused us over the years.

Costa, Hazard, Fabregas, Matic and Terry won us the league last season. Not one of those players was signed by that eediot.

TheGoodJoe:
Please, that is a 4-3-3 formation. With Luiz and Ramirez in defensive midfield. Lampard playing Central midfield. Lampard is not playing behind Ramires and Ramires is not on the wings.

You are a doofus. I don't like arguing with eediots what I watched and what you are googling 2 years later. You can go and watch the highlights of that game and watch the position of the players.

Lampard and Luiz were in the pivot, Hazard was AM, Moses was left-wing and Ramires was right-wing.

Bloody google analyst.

You have from Feb/March till season end to go googling. We the Chelsea fans who know how our midfield struggled that season will tell you Benitez rejigged the team, put Luiz and Lampard in midfield and pushed Ramires to right-wing. That was how we turned around a season where we went from 6th place to 3rd because we were struggling to qualify for UCL with Emenalos midfield that was getting torn apart every game.

Oya go googling again.

TheGoodJoe:
I guess Benfica was the whole season. As I said. Hold on.


Chelsea starting lineup vs Basel Europa League 2013:- Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Bertrand, Lampard, Luiz, Ramires, Hazard, Moses, Torres


This is Chelsea's line up in the Semi Final of the Europa League under Benitez. As you can see, Ramires played as a defensive midfielder. So do not make it look like if playing Ramires on the Wings in the finals meant that was where Ramires played and he did it because of inconsistency or incompetence.
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Mumu, look at that line up again. Lampard and Luiz are your central midfield pivot.

Goodjoe, once again shut your phucking mouth.

You've gone from telling us that Pirlo, Xavi and Busquets are your favourite central midfielders to defending a bozo like Ramires.

Does it even feel right justifying a player like Ramires to you?

Both Ramires and whoever thought he is a credible central midfielder for a top club should go to hell.

TheGoodJoe:
You said Mourinho Benitez benched him consecutively. What does this mean? Ramires has racked over a hundred and fifty games for Chelsea and you say his is incompetent. This is a guy who was solid in the UCL to The Europa wins.

Instead of blaming Mourinho's coaching, you are lashing out on these guys. Forgeting Ramires was in the Brazilian squad before Chelsea. He was a top player for Benfica.

I am not even a Chelsea fan, I hate your club. How come I am the one sticking out for your players Geez.

Mourinho has benched him the last year which coincides with our only title win in 5 years.

Most managers play him on the wing, from Benitez to RDM.

Ramires was in the Brazil squad so that makes him good? When we who sabi football where watching Brazil in Confed Cup in 2009, we were asking what this fool is doing in Brazil team, then they told us that Dunga plays him on the right wing to cover for Dani Alves attacking runs.

The same Ramires that every Brazil manager keeps chasing away from a dire Brazil team that is lacking central midfielders.

Can Ramires play football?

Goodjoe, shut your phucking mouth. I have had enough of your stupidity. Goodnight.

TheGoodJoe:
One of Benitez Europa League line ups. Is Ramires playing on the wing?
If you want, I will bring more.

Chelsea starting lineup vs Sparta Europa League 2013:- Cech, Azpilicueta, Terry, Cahill, Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel, Moses, Mata, Torres, Oscar

Sparta Prague starting XI v Chelsea 2013:- Vaclik, Zapotocny, Holek, Svejdik, Hybs, Prikryl, Vacha, Krejci, Matejovsky, Lafata, Kadlec

Sparta?

Why you no bring the final line up against Benfica.

Can you not see that Benitez is resting his most important midfield of Luiz and Lampard (who he cannot function without) in an easy game. Mikel and Ramires were on the verge of finishing Chelsea in 6th place that season, until Benitez drafted in Luiz and Lampard into the midfield to see us through to 3rd place.

Nonsense.

TheGoodJoe:
Mikel is one of the foreign players that have played the most games from Chelsea. That your from the bench talk is not true.

Mikel is one of the players who would have been sold years ago if he did not have his Igbo brother protecting him and giving him new contracts even when Chelsea did not have a manager eg in November 2012.

Ancelotti benched Mikel for Essien
AVB benched Mikel for Romeu
Benitez benched Mikel for Luiz
Mourinho benched Mikel for Kurt Zouma

If any other central midfielder had been disgraced so much that even defenders are preferred to him, he would have quit Chelsea out of shame, but why do that when your Igbo brother is protecting you and giving you new contracts without even consulting managers.

Mikel is 34 years old now, he might as well sit tight and collect long contract from Chelsea while playing 5 mins every 3 weeks than go to another club where playing week in, week out will expose his old age. No be the same Mikel that was ahead of P Square in Pepsi Academy and P Square are 33 years old.

Goodjoe, thunder fire the hand wey you dey carry type for that keyboard. Come carry this old man wey no fit run go whichever club you support.

TheGoodJoe:
The bench is not the wing. You said bench.

It is not central midfield, which is the crux of this conversation. Benitez "benched" him from the position where Emenalo crowned him due to his incompetence in that position.

Ibime:
We wouldn't win last season's title without Costa, Fabregas, Hazard, Matic and Terry.

Take one of Emenalo's "boys" and replace Matic, and you will see Chelsea finishing in 3rd or 4th position.

Take note of the 5 men who every single Chelsea fan agrees won Chelsea the title last season.

Not a single one of them is an Emenalo signing.

And one dude will be yarning opata.

What a great Technical Director who leaves his team tactically unstable and unbalanced every year.

It took someone who knows football to tell him, "you sign a lot of dribblers but we cannot win the league without these key players"

Technical Director of wingers.

TheGoodJoe:
I wonder where you got the idea Benitez had to bench Ramires. Ramires played 35 EPL games in the 2012-2013 season.

On the wing!

This is why I said I don't like arguing with 4 year old Children who don't know football.

Benitez central midfield was David Luiz and Lampard. He quickly realised Emenalos boys are incompetent.

Emenalo had to go and brief Mourinho on his first day back at Chelsea prompting Mourino to say "I will never play David Luiz in central midfield". 3 months later, Mourinho was begging David Luiz to play midfield.

TheGoodJoe:
Not because of Hazard. Not because of Terry. Not because of Costa. Seriously?

Mikel's roles in the Premier League titles Chelsea won does not count.

We wouldn't win last season's title without Costa, Fabregas, Hazard, Matic and Terry.

Take one of Emenalo's "boys" and replace Matic, and you will see Chelsea finishing in 3rd or 4th position.

Mikel was winning the title from the bench.

TheGoodJoe:
Van Ginkel is a central midfielder.

"From his early playing days at Vitesse he has primarily played in an attacking role, however, has matured in his ability to play in a deeper defensive role"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_van_Ginkel


Another addition to Emenalos attacking midfield contingent who was robust enough to convert himself into a deeper position.

But then I don't expect you know much football, afterall you told me earlier today that Luis Enrique transferred from Barca to Madrid when every football follower knows it is the opposite. I used to watch Van Ginkel at Vitesse. There is a reason he scored 12 goals in his final season there. He did not score them playing defensive midfield, I can assure you.

TheGoodJoe:
Wenger won the FA Cup back to back. How is it not substantial?

I guess Matic is fulfiling his primary function now. Chelsea played better with a man down without Matic.

Matic has won the league for Chelsea, and competed for the title in Mourinho's first season.

It is only because of Matic that we can be talking about title.

Emenalo's midfield have been finishing 3rd and 4th every year, barely sneaking into UCL qualifying spot.

TheGoodJoe:
Wenger won the FA Cup back to back. How is it not substantial?

All hail the FA Cup!

TheGoodJoe:
Give credit where it is due. It was Emenalo who told Abramovic to stick with Di Matteo that brought the UCL. You can not rewrite that history. It was Emenalo that brought Benitez that landed the Europa.

Go back and Check Oscar at Internacional. He was a brilliant midfield passer and walked into the Brazillian national team as a teenager. Oscar even wore the Brazilian ten shirt before he joined Chelsea.

During that time, you guys signed Romeu also. Mata could also play in the midfield position. Lampard was there. Mikel could play there too. Do not making look like all Emenalo signed were wingers.

Stop being silly.

Oscar is rubbish then and rubbish now. That blind bat couldn't spot a pass if it stared him in the face. There is a reason Brazil fans say Oscar has the blood of a cockroach.

Besides is he a central defensive midfielder?

Romeu was clearly signed by AVB in 2011, along with Meireles.

If I list Emenalo signings from start of his tenure till now, you will see about 20 wingers/attacking midfielders, 5 or 6 defenders and no central defensive midfielders. Till today he is still signing Adrians and co.

Emenalo has not signed a central defensive midfielder of his own accord for the first team since 2010. Every manager has argued with him about it and he keeps virulently resisting it.

What kind of a Technical Director is that that cannot see the team's needs. Incompetent eediot.

TheGoodJoe:
[b]
If you are talking about the weight of Chelsea midfielders is a different thing. However, what sparked the talk was me pointing out that the recent signings of Emenalo was to build a team to suit Guardiola. Someone said that he would not fit into Chelsea and I explained why Guardiola can fit in.

I do not like Chelsea. I value Mikel despite most fans hating him. I value tidy midfielders like Javi Garcia, Fernando, Vitsel, Khedira. I would celebrate when Mikel leaves Chelsea because he is underrated. Maybe the most underrated player in the world today.

Anyone who watched the West Ham game will agree Mikel is not as useless as many Nigerian and Chelsea fans scream. In Oliseh's last games, Mikel did well.

I also rate Emenalo. Maybe you being a Chelsea fan who is used to rigid and strong play will not like the buys Emenalo made lately. Someone like me who smiles when I watch Celta Vigo, Villareal and Sevilla play will like Emenalo. That does not make Emenalo stupid. It is a clash in philosophies of the game.

I hope he gets sacked. His buys like Traore, Kenedy, Piazon frightens me. Imagine if hs was making these buys for Wenger.[/b]

If you think Mikel fulfils the primary functions of a midfielder, we can discuss no further.

Emenalo should go and buy all the attacking players for Wenger. Wenger has not one anything substantial in 11 years despite having the best wingers and attacking midfielders in the Premiership.

The last time Wenger won any major trophy, he had Gilberto Silva, Vieira and Edu patrolling his midfield. They would soak all the pressure, then counter-attack swiftly with Pires, Henry and Ljungberg.

Wenger has not won a dime since he ditched that strong central midfield philosophy. The only ninja giving him hope recently is Coquelin, otherwise it would be the same Old Arsenal we have been seeing.

TheGoodJoe:
What position does Van Ginkel Play?

Van Ginkel was also an attacking midfielder at Vitesse, neither was he signed for the first team.

When he got to Chelsea and saw that Emenalo had filled the team with 100 attacking midfielders, the coach and himself decided it's best if he start learning DM. He was a box-to-box player, mostly an AM at Vitesse.

Until you understand that Emenalo will do everything to protect Mikel (his countryman who supported him when Grant brought him in and Ancelotti sidelined him) and Ramires (his first recommendation to Roman as Head Scout), you will just be yarning opata.

TheGoodJoe:
Statement like these sounds as if Chelsea did not win two European trophies in one year before Mourinho took over.

My best players in recent years are Xavi, Pirlo and Paul Scholes. I guess I am a 4 years old boy who thinks wingers are the best players.

You are a 4 year old boy.

I guess Emenalo was responsible for RDM's tactical genius in winning the UCL against all odds with a rag tag bunch of players. Mind you, Emenalo had not even started influencing that team.

While RDM was winning UCL, Emenalo was one of the haters briefing the board that he didn't win it the right way.

Name the Xavi, Pirlo and Scholes that Emenalo has signed. You would be telling us about Marko Marin and auxilliary wingers who do not control the centre of the pitch.

You forgot that Barca control possession from the centre of the pitch and have killers like Messi and Guardiola had players like Toure's and Seydou Keitas to go with supreme midfield controllers like Xavi and Busquets.

Pirlo had Vidal, Marchisio and Pogba bodyguarding him.

Meanwhile Emenalo would be expecting headless Ramires and snail Mikel to control Chelsea's tempo.

TheGoodJoe:
Please show me one link of Di Matteo and Benitez fighting Emenalo for a central midfielder because no one would drop Lampard.

I don't have time to search for links for you. I have posted them on this thread severally.

Di Matteo said the midfield is light and he asked for Wanyama. He was dismissed by Emenalo and told that Mikel, Ramires and 34-year old Lampard is sufficient to challenge for Europe and EPL.

Benitez asked for central midfielder and was shouted down in the boardroom by Emenalo.

JM immediately he joined Chelsea went for meeting with Emenalo and came out to say that David Luiz should not be playing midfield (after Emenalo had briefed him). 2 months later, Jose was begging David luiz to play midfield.

There is a clear pattern of an eediot technical Director who has signed dozens of wingers/Attacking midfielders and has never wilfully signed a central midfielder for the first team in 4 years as a TD.

TheGoodJoe:
Guardiola's midfield trident of Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta did not have a mechanic. I guess you will call Guardiola incompetent.

We are talking of a scenario if Guardiola comes to Chelsea. Do you think Guardiola will go looking for mechanics. Why do you think he converted Lahm to a midfielder.

Who is Busquets and Xavi in Chelsea team?

Fool Emenalo was on Chelsea training ground in 2012 summer when Chelsea didn't have a manager telling journalists he is building the team around 3 dribblers behind Torres with Mikel and Ramires as his midfield pivot. 3 months later Chelsea was knocked out of UCL group stage, the way Shakhtar and Juve raped Mikel and Ramires!

Someone has Xavi and Busquets.

Another eediot is planning a world class team around Mikel and Ramires!

Mikel and Ramires, 2 central midfielders so poor that Benitez and Mourinho consecutively had to bench them and beg David Luiz and Zouma to play midfield.

GoodJoe, this is your final warning. My next response to you will not be kind.

TheGoodJoe:
He has not been the problem. Emenalo has not gotten the chance to show what he wants for Chelsea. Remember, Benitez won the Europa league with the artists. When a team goes from Mechanic to artist, it takes time for the team to blend but Abramovic pulled the plug and sacked Di Matteo who was actually a good choice from those players

Emenalo brought Benitez who was actually a good choice for the artists but the Chelsea fans pulled the plug.

When Ancelotti wrecked havoc in the EPL with his breath taking attacking football, Abramovic pulled the plug by sacking Ray Wilkins.

When Emenalo brought Villas Boas, who was a good choice to revolutionize Chelsea, the Chelsea senior boys pulled the plug.

Emenalo is a genius and I hope Abramovic sacks him soon because that guy is merciless in the transfer market and spots gems with ease.

His signing of Meireiles was super.

All this one wey you dey yarn na nonsense.

AVB signed Meireles. As soon as AVB wasn't around and Emenalo had full control, he sold Meireles.

Di Matteo and Benitez fought vociferously with Emenalo to try to get a central midfielder which Emenalo opposed vehemently. Consequently, every team just steamrollered through Chelseas midfield while Hazard and co were dribbling themselves on the wing.

Emenalo in full control of this team sees the team finishing 3rd and 4th every season, worrying about qualifying for UCL till April CLEARLY!

It took for Jose to come and draft Matic for Chelsea to challenge for the title in his 1st season and win the title the next year.

It is a great struggle to get any central midfielders into Chelsea team because of Emenalos incompetent interference.

Anyone who thinks Emenalo knows anything about creating a winning team is as big an eediot as he is. A technic al Director who has signed 100 wingers for the first team and not one central midfielder in 4 years.

Only 4 year olds and people who started watching football recently think the wingers are the best players and wingers alone create a winning team. Football is not PlayStation!

TheGoodJoe:


If Guardiola comes in, Emenalo will go on a buying spree of creative players like when Chelsea had Marin, De Bruyne, Sturridge, Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Mikel, David Luiz, Torres etc.

This was a ball playing team from the defence to the attack. It will be a case of Guardiola changing the philosophy and orientation of Chelsea.

No more Mechanics but Artists.

But, I believe Man City is Guardiola's destination because of his former colleagues at City.

The same 'artists' that got Chelsea knocked out of UCL Group stage for the first time in the club's history.

A team that habitually struggle to finish in the top 4.

If you think football is PlayStation where you sign hundred wingers and no 'midfield mechanics', then you are as incompetent as Emenalo.

Goodjoe, that eediot has caused me years of frustration as a Chelsea fan. His name alone raises my HBP. Dont just start. . .if not I will not be held responsible for control over my tongue with you.

TheGoodJoe:
But, Emenalo's eye for players is flawless. His signing of the likes of Mata, Hazard, Oscar, De Bruyne, Willian, David Luiz, Lukaku were brilliant and at good prices. His eyes for players is flawless. Just like the present young ones like Traore and Kennedy.

There's nothing flawless about it. Don't get me started.

Name a central midfielder in your list!

Start from there. Emenalo just signs who dribbles the most and knows nothing about creating a team.

Firstly, he didn't sign Mata or Hazard. Mata was AVBs request and Hazard was Romans favourite.

Oscar is rubbish and he paid £25m for him.

He sold Matic to sign David Luiz. David Luiz is a calamity defender.

Kenedy is rubbish as is Cuadrado who he signed.

The only genuine talent he signed is De Bruyne. And he didn't even know how good De Bruyne was. The season he recalled De Bruyne from loan, he went to sign Willian and Schurrle for £30m and £18m.

De Bruyne was a small boy in his eyes and he flooded the team with Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Willian and Schurrle at the same time he recalled De Bruyne. Those of us who know football knew De Bruyne was the best of that bunch but he didn't stand a chance when the Technical Director floods the team with £30m signings, the £7m man won't get a chance to play.

Unfair competition chased De Bruyne away from Chelsea.

Emenalo has not signed a first central midfielder of his own accord in 4 years as technical director when every idiot knows central midfield is the weakest area in Chelsea's team. He should be castrated in public!

We have a Technical Director who is completely tactically inept and only signs dribblers. You even mentioned Marin, Torres and Mikel as good players that Emenalo favours!!!!

Please don't get me started Goodjoe. I no want curse pesin papa today.

lordfalcao:
this Emenalo contract no dy finish at all? Abi we no fit get another tech director?

Not when Emenalo took Roman from losing £60m a year to the point where Chelsea hit breakeven.

Roman will never sack Emenalo.

Emenalo is a good business man, but a lousy football tactician. Roman doesn't know football, so he is just hapy that he is not losing money anymore.

TheGoodJoe:
Either way, I do not think Ancelotti fits into the Barca philosophy.

He might be accepted given that he didn't make any enemies in Catalonia during his time at Madrid.

I don't see him returning to Chelsea though. Not after the Ray Wilkins affair. He also probably wouldn't work under Emenalo after he sidelined and ignored Emenalo for a year when Roman forced Emenalo on him as his assistant to spy in the dressing room. It got so bad, Emenalo ran to Nigerian press to accuse him of racism. I can't see him coming back to answer to Emenalo. Nor to work for Roman who sacked him in the dressing room.

TheGoodJoe:
It is the other way around. He left Barcelona to play for Real Madrid, Like Figo.

Wrong. He left Madrid to go to Barca. Barca fans will always love him for that.