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@Jackal,

Chelsea have not had loads of signings. . except you mean plus Scolari himself. . actually it's just two players.

Di Santo scores 3-0. . happy for you little boy. . you've earned your spot

DiSanto hits the wood work.

Deco out. . . and Branislav Ivanovic in . . finally

for now yes. . but watch how things trun around.
Wait a minute. . Do your pre-seasons not interest you? I watch anything Chelsea is involved in . . even if we play women.

your old man will be surprised, even thoug you find it strange to use this as a yard stick . . .

SWP on . . . Kalou off. . on 57mins

definitely a 4-5-1

Hannibal:
Lemme watch the new Chelsea.
Ferguson has thrown down the gauntlet. . . . .He said u people are too old to challenge his killa squad.

Average age: Man Utd(26.7) Chelsea(28)

Attack: Man Utd(25) Chelsea(28.2)

Lil wonder Ronaldo banged 31 league goals and Chelsea's highest scorer in the league finished with 10 goals.

Your old man is shitting from his mouth . . What I am seeing here on my TV tells him to shut the phock up . . he better worries about Ronaldo leaving

Now Lampard just scored the goal of the pre-season. . top top quality. . absolutely top draw.

2-0

Few Changes . .

Cudicini in. . . . Cech out.
Bridge in . . . Cole out.
Disanto in . . . Anelka out. .
Malouda in . . . . Eissien out. .
Terry out. . . Alex in. .

End of first half. . .

Man of the half would have been Deco.
Lampard was effective. .
Kalou . . if he shows the form he's shown today in the league . . he will blow up like I said.
Anelka, the sharpest performance in a long time.
Essien, Mikel have had decent performances. .
Cech. .  Super save. .

Whoever said Bosingwa was slow. . rubbish talk.

That said, the quality of the opposition is nt so great. However, when you play a weak side you should out-play them and that is exactly what we have done.
The style of play is utterly different. . discussions later.

2nd Half starts

What an effort by Anelka. . hits the post. . decent shot

Chei see as this Chinko dey dribble Ferreira 3 times on a spot . . na wa oooo

Ok fist bad news. . . Bosignwa out. . Ferriera in on 22mins

Goal Kalou

Nice vision by Deco to find Lampard and sublime outside-foot pass by Lampard to find Kalou in the 18

Sublime is the only way you can express the way Deco passes the ball. .

dayokanu:
What would happen to Ballack when the time comes

I don't know ooooo

Good shot on goal by Anelka. . nice one-two with Deco. .

Chei. . Mr Lampard throway goal. .

Ummmmmmmmmmhhh. . . LPS don carry DiSanto put for bench ooooo. Bosingwa is in now . . So what will that be now I bet 4-2-3-1

Kick off

Pre Season Live. . .

Team List


------------------------------Cech-----------------------------

Essien-------------Carvalho---Terry----------------Cole

---------------------------Mikel-----------------------

-----Deco-------------------Lampard----

---Di Santo----------Anelka-----------Kalou---

And yes I got that right it is Franco Di Santo. . Essien at right back? Ok we are about to see something Deco, Lampard and Mikel in midfield.

This is a good indication that if a young player does well, he'l get a chance. I like that.

Ibime:
We will see next season. But we need another winger or two first, hopefully Robinho and/or someone else. We have improved at right-back with Bosingwa and we will improve with a new winger. I also think we need another DM although Ivanovic can also play there if Mikel and Essien are injured. Fergie better pray that Ronaldo stays and if he stays that he can live up to last season because if not for him, they would have been dragging third place with Arsenal. The only thing that scares me is that if they sign Berbatov, they will be unstoppable. He will elevate their play no end.

I am also of the opinion that if they sign Berbatov, they'l fly. Robinho's addition will be fine. We still have Kalou, Joe and Malouda on the wings. . not that anyone of them is in the class of Robinho, I keep having this strange feeling Kalou will blow up. I don't know why . . I see this thing in him and I know he is quality. . he is not good on goal now but I know he will get better. . plus LPS will bring out the best in Joey again. He's just 26. Malouda? Third choice.
If we sell Drogba then Kenyon must be crazy to have said Robinho will be our last signing.

Yes Ivanovic can play DM . . actually when I looked at his style of play, he seemed the type of DM LPs will like. That said, Mikel, Essien will improve. Bosingwa will add great value and I think the new style of play will suit the scoring styles of Anelka and Sheva, with the options of Ballack, Deco (and perhaps Lampard not leaving) in the midfield, Fergie must shitting from his mouth . . . He just needs to say he is scared and we all understand. .

Meanwhile, we are just a couple hours away from our first pre-season match where we'll be able to see a pattern if any . . . I will be bringing live reports form the Olympic stadium in China as Chelsea takes on Gan. . something (can't be bothered to look for the right spelling) from 1pm.

Khalid Boulahrouz completes move to Stutgart on a 4-year deal. Slowly offloading all of them. Good stuff.

SSN. . . Micheal Essien signs new 5-year contract.
SSN. . . Kenyon - Robinho will be our last summer signing. . if the club is successful at landing the brazillian. . Mr Kenyon even if Drogba and Lampard leave. .

Maybe means for sure now Lamps and Drog won't leave.


ooops . . so no more Mario Gomez, Arshavin, Aguero, Huntelaar, Kaka. . umh who else?

@ibime,

I thot Bridgey signed a new contract last week as opposed to the one month ago you said. Even TOCFCWS reports he signed last week.

dayokanu:
Henry case is somehow peculiar. In 1998 with Monaco he was one of the brightest young prospect in Europe.

In that semi final against Juve when Ikpeba froze badly. It was Thierry that raised his game.

During the world cup he played well in the group stages but mysteriously lost his place to Guivarch. that earned him a move to Juventus.

The Juve move was probably the worst time in his career and his rating plummeted seriously that 11million in 1999 might even be considered high for him.

Rumour has it that he was chased out of Turin where he failed to sparkle.

It was in London that he regained his magic. For a long time European observers were still skeptical about him because of the Juve Fiasco

And this is the exact way I have always viewed the case.

how many games are setanta showing for the season. . plus are they still on their pay-per-month no long commtiment payment system. . . because I didn't subscribe for a single month last season. . .

Wait do you know why Sky cancelled Prem-Plus Last season?

how about the links to Schitzo abi wetin you call. . . I see all these greeks and polish guys around me have White and multi-colour dishes around. . . I've always wondered aw they get them. .

Drog agrees personal terms . . . . Links please. . It was all over the news this morning. . .all speculation like you and I know about british papers.

Secondly , that your alien sattelite you talked about sometime ago. . . any links to acquire it. . I don't think Sky is going to be living up to expectations this summer . . I need back up.

Hannibal:
@ Nateevs,

Your story is stale.
Petr Cech signed anutha 5-year contract this morning.
I am a United fan but i know more than 99% Chelsea fans on this forum.

Have u guys heard Drogba might be a Barcelona player by July 31st??

You know more and you say MIGHT be a barca player by 31st. . . and when it happens you come here and say you[b] KNEW [/b] umh?

I am sure you knew Chelsea was going to sign Bosingwa before I did.

@ibime,

Yes the link started something early this year. I heard Arnesen has been tracking him. I know croatians are usually technically gited players. Let's see what unfolds.

It's official . . . Makalele has joined PSG on a free transfer . . .

http://www.psg.fr/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7516798.stm

@wormy

I feel you bro. . .



Meanwhile Drogba did not travel with the team to asia for the pre-season games. .Club says he's got a knee injury but gists filtering suggest that he's might be used in some part exchange for the Kaka deal.
Pizzarro sef did not go. . .