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Hehehehe. I cannot tell you how rubbish we are.

Finally Josh is going to play.

dayokanu:
The celebration was very laughable

Even when they got to the sidelines, Bosingwa was signalling to the guys on the sidelines to come and join them celebrate

Did you guys see AVB's frustration after Lampards pass to Torres, when he should have shot but took like 4 strides to many and lost it

I thought he was trying to get into a better position for a crack at goal.
There were bodies in the way. That said, I won't expect him to shoot from there. Dude is suffering from a lack of confidence.

However, over the 75mins so far, he's been one of Chelsea's better players.

lalaboi:
The Celebrations though. . Wasnt needed at all!

That looked phony didn't it.

Now we need another goal because we just can't seem to win if we don't score 2.
After this game, we should go straight into the market and get some freaking players.
Only 4 players out and we can have a decent bench.
The  funny thing is 2 of those 4 are Malouda and Kalou.

Ha! Goal at last!

End of first half. I really do not know what to make of it all.
I just need us to win.

Referee has lost control of the game.

Lamps could easily have gotten himself sent off there. We were just lucky!
That's a red card!

Torres not doing too badly so far. He's set up two chances that could have been goals.

lalaboi:
cheers

Great! No Drogba no Sturridge.
Apparently, Ramires is playing on the right of a 4-3-3.

Livefootballol.com

lalaboi:
Our Bench is so so so weak!! . . who can change the game amongst these?  Is Kalou and Malouda injured or sumtin?
Subs: Turnbull, Ferreira, Hutchinson, Bertrand, Chalobah, McEachran, Lukaku

Salomon Kalou and Malouda are reportedly injured and ill respectively. Which leaves us with a very beautiful looking bench.
Team playing 2nd game in 48hrs. Tired legs and minds. Many may be firing blanks. . . who's going to come in and change things?

lalaboi:
Wolves today. These guyz are so passionate when they play at home. I hope this turns out good.

They should wrap up the deal with cahill very soon. No point for it to drag on. If he still doesnt accept terms, add a couple of quid and get Jagielka instead! Players wanna take the piss just because is chelsea!. .

Or betterstill bring back Bruma from loan! We invested so much in that dude and to see not even getting a chance is sickening!.

That's the consequence of years of failed policy. Players want to go to United to win things. Heck even some want to go to Arsenal because of the love of the football they play even though they know they may not win things. . . None want to come to Chelsea, those who decide to come want a last day paycheck.

I like stability but please get somebody who knows his onions.

Like who? And please don't mention Hiddink. . . He isn't coming.

You tinker with the team and expect delivery.
You lead 1nil and begin to withdraw your effective players? Even Steve Keane wouldn't do that.
You play high line when you have slow sluggish buyers.
You play certain players out of position and you expect the best from them?
You approve the exit of good players and leave the duds behind?

Somebody should mentor this dude.
I don't want him sacked, i love his drive but he is quite clueless.

Yes he is so clueless. He tinkers, he is garbage, he needs a mentor. . .
Please! Need we be reminded this guy coached Porto to a treble winning season. . . "Unbeaten in the league"?
Given the same team, 90% of the managers in the PL will not complete that feat!

You don't achieve that by accident, regardless of the team and league!
However I trust that the naysayers will be out again claiming "It's only the Portuguese League"
I don't remember the Europa League being the Portuguese league as well.  

The same competition that has hosted the likes of Liverpool, Everton, Manchester City and Spurs yet these pretenders have not come close to the final.

Instead of you to sit and research what gave him the success in the "rookie league" and ask that he be given the opportunity to replicate those ideas, you are asking for those know their onions. Who exactly? You've hired and fired all available, who do you want now . . . Roy Hodgson?

BlueDiva:
I know they were handpicked but i'm pointing out that even some season ticket holders share our views.
Most times when people on NL complain, you guys call them glory hunters.

One of the dudes is from Canada for heaven's sake.
He has not any wiser opinions than many on NL.

What were his views when the club was £80m in debt and on the brink of oblivion?
Now they don't want the club destroyed.
Season ticket holders my arrse!

Do they know what it'll cost the club to fire AVB, hire another manager and then buy players again?
We've been trying to break even since 2007.

Do you guys think we hire and fire these managers from the club's purse?
What happens if Roman gets bored, walks away and sells the club to a Randy Lerner sort of fella who would rather buy Stephen Ireland than Mata and hire Alec McLeish than Ancellotti? Will you lot be talking about your "self-imposed Champions League qualification rights"? No I didn't think so.

Instead of us discussing about the way forward, and more seriously, about stability - which in Roman's reign is the only thing we haven't tried - we are here celebrating the views of those who want yet another manager out. Do you guys never get ashamed of this?

You guys think this is how the club gets destroyed. I think your hire and fire strategy, your insatiable desire of looking at things from the wrong end of the spectrum will eventually destroy the club.

BlueDiva:
Not heroes. Just ordinary passionate fans who don't want to see the team destroyed.
I enjoy reading comments from every fan worldwide, it shows we ain't reasoning in isolation.

So you don't think the comments he posted were handpicked eh.
Do you how many contrary comments on there make more sense than these?

Let's leave out all the other contrary views and comments and completely avoid a balanced point of view.
Instead let's copy the comments that support our argument, celebrate them and call them 'the views of passionate fans'.

In Ibime's eyes, these faceless posters are heroes.

BlueDiva:
What we need is your strongest possible line up.
Who cares who we field against Bolton or Swansea.

Your strongest line-up may not apply to every team.
What is strongest line-up when you line up to score 5 goals and concede 6.

In another game you may line up same way, score 6 and concede none.
Strongest line-up could be heavily dependent on the opponent.

Having a good squad of players is the primary goal.

lalaboi:
Having Gotze and mata in the middle will just make us an easy target for strong teams. Without an essien or ramires like player in there, no one to make tackles. Mata will just let the opposition run away with it. An essien or ramires will stick in there.  A strong midfield doesn't just require a good DM like Romeu

Come on man! I didn't say you have to play like that every game.
I am talking about the potential of lining up like that.

Against a stronger side, you vary your line-up. That's basic stuff.

BlueDiva:
Still playing Mata wide?
Where is Mario in the line up? Thought you want a CM?

Mario and Mata play in CM.

BlueDiva:
Ok, nice idea.
Could you show how you will fit them in our starting line up?

It's high time we start sending suggestions to AVB.

Ivanovic ---Luiz---Terry--Cole

Romeu
Mario Mata

Hazard DS/RL LO/LM/DH

chamotex:
Ode ni e U no get sense
Me and nateevs just dey play ni jor, Na just shere shere
Ma fi ikanra Chelsea mun mi mehn.

It's all jokes/fun jare . . . God go make you too bigger
Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you too.

BlueDiva:
Nateevs, if we're to bring in 3 players, whom would you choose?

3 players for me. I will not think twice. It will be 2 wingers and once creative CM.
I will make sure one of the wingers is able to play in the middle when needed.

Wingers for me right now will be Eden Hazard and one of David Hoillet, Lucas Ocampos or Lucas Moura.
CM for me will be Mario Goetze.

chamotex:
I think you left out "is" here too

Haha! You are the child here
Actually I've seen you make a lot of 'honest' mistakes/typos before . . . but that's just what they are and I just let it slide since I get what you mean.
I didn't have to point it out  . . . as the bigger man.

Haba! I have to explain a joke to you? Wetin? 
Now you've done it twice and you claiming bigger man. . Shiorrr!

So Gary Cahill wants 100k. Wonders shall never end. Dude wants to quadruple his salary.
This is exactly how you know who wants to play for a big club and whose primary objective is money.

Wrong signing if you ask me. The signs are already bare.

chamotex:
I take it you meant "exist" right?

Child! You could not wait to get one back could you?
This more of a typo than yours.

dayokanu:
For ROI I would believe both Zhirkov and Ramires especially have performed better than Torres

I can't argue with you on that. The unfortunate thing if I think that Zhirkov's and Ramires' contribution have been average, it only spells out even more obviously how desperate Torres' situation is. At the time of the transfer, it was needless and uniformed.

I just hope he doesn't suffer another brain spasm and splashes £60m on Ryan Giggs.

BlueDiva:
So what do we do? Shell out more money innit?
We have spent too much already. Time to start looking inwards.

No! We do not need to shell out loads. We just need to be intelligent in our transfer strategy.
If we had a good plan of player transfer, we would have bought better players.

It's done now though. We have to pick up the pieces and begin again.
We have spent far too much in the past on our first 11 forgetting the squad.
We had a chance to buy Modric before Spurs for about £15m. We would not pay up because we felt he was £5m too expensive. 2 years later, we want to buy him for £40.

Instead of targeting these £5m, £10m transfers - ala Sturridge, Romeu - and getting one good player in every 2, we spend £18m a piece on Zhirkov and Ramires.

Beginning this season, we started to correct that sort of. We need continue in that light. We need to buy correctly. I hope we utilise this transfer window and bring in good players.

BlueDiva:
LOL. . .just saw this and it's funny.

What is the guarantee that after finishing 5th or 6th for 3 seasons and playing in the Europa for 3 seasons, (we would have completed the transition then, right?) we will suddenly bounce back and become league winners?

Utd went through a transition, in fact they are always in transition yet they manage to do well.
Your manager wants transition yet 5 youngsters were loaned out at the summer. Yet a talent like Josh is never allowed to play.

Transition doesn't mean you should drag your team downwards.

I am sorry but United don't leave transition until too late.
Like you said, "They are always in transition" . .

So if United are always in transition and you have not been in transitioned for 8 years, why in this world do you then expect United-like performances? Why would you expect United-like performances when you hire the 7th manager in 8 years? You think transition in itself exisit in isolation? It's a fusion of all things good.

You have to lay a foundation to expect United-like performances. You cannot buy it off a store-shelf, you've got to earn.

That you won't include them doesn't make them bad players.
Ramires is the most improved Chelsea player this season.
It's only on NL you guys crucify him, he is praised in other Chelsea forums worldwide.

It does not matter how improvement Ramires has seen.
It's how much 'impact' his improvement can contribute in winning games.
There were 3 times in the game where a either a one time control or a one time pass would either set a player up for a goal or freed himself for a shot on goal. No single shot of his went on goal. Is that the improvement?

When you don't make use of players they become rusty.
Kalou, Malouda, Josh, Lukaku, Bertrand are not bad players.

Offer them more play time and you will bring out the best in them.
Buying more players would not solve our problem. Our manager should learn to manage properly.

Sorry but there is a pre-requisite to earning playing time in a top club - you have to be good enough.
How do you expect the young players to play when every single time a Manager loses, you lot start to ask for his head?

A manager needs to stack points and put a clear distance between us and 2nd place before he can use a young player at Chelsea.
Is it co-incidence that this is the 7th Manager in Roman's era who will not play a young player even when all indices point to the contrary?

You cannot beat AVB with the same stick you lot have been wielding for years. You have to win, we have to qualify for top four, we have to win a trophy. . . . and then we have to play young players. If I was a Manager at Chelsea, phuck young players. If the big boys get me the result and I keep my reputation and job, what allegiance do I hold towards the youth development? I will not care.


Do we have a 30 goal striker in the team? United rest Rooney and Hernandez. Berbatov comes in with 5 goals in 3 games. See when Dzeko was scoring for fun. He sits on the bench now and Aguero and Balotteli just score.

Do we have a pure wingers that can stretch play like Nani? Young? Johnson? Players who terrify defenders like Bellamy, Suarez? Take out Sturridge and that's it. Take Mata out and zilch for creativity and you want to contend. Must Mata play every game?

If we are serious about contending, we have to change a lot and it needs to begin from tomorrow.

Jomo Gbomo:
We should just allow AVB see out the season to complete the transition. No turning back now.  We know for sure that if AVB play the oldies, we would make 3rd place easily (and I include Alex and Anelka in this). That said, once a process is in place, we might as well complete it and cross fingers we can finish fourth this season.

A lot of this still comes back to the decision to allocate a large percentage of the club's resources to signing Torres this time last year. Those wages and transfer fees woulda provided for three good players, plus saved a lot of political headache and squad unbalance and demoralisation. I didnt watch the game, but I'm curious as to why we once again went back to the tried and failed DD/Torres partnership. Did Studge get injured? I woulda thought that Studge is more suited to playing in 4-4-2 than any of these two. FFS, if DD could not make a 4-4-2 work with the unselfish Anelka, whats the point persisting with trying to shoehorn DD and Torres into the same formation?

Hehehe . . . Ninjah did you get yourself banned?