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You're right, we're no where near "there" yet and to top it off we have three (3) wastes and no upcoming talent that could take their place before January.

ManU will get their rhythm and the goals will come. We still have not found our rhythm or style, though they've been a bit of improvement in our attractiveness.

I think we can be better if we have a few new players. We have not shown intent in the market. We can not win what we want with this team.

I just lost my money thanks to those idiots

Bolton can have Anelka back, hell I'd prefer Kevin Davies right now.

Joe Cole is shit.

Anelka is shit.

Malouda . . . is white.

January window . . . I'd like to see the backs of them all. They're a disgrace. Sell them to money bags ManCity.

We need a good winger and a Striker not overrated English men, french rotten potatoes or some black dude that thinks he's white.

Seriously I'm so mad that LFP chose to keep Malouda and Anelka . . . Terrible management decision. Bloody waste of money.

Joe Cole can stay cuz he's English but those two . . . we have no excuse keeping them.

We simply lack the cutting edge in attack.

Take a look at Man U - Tevez, Ronaldo, Roonie and now Berbatov - as soon as they find their rhythm it would be early disaster for teams.

We severely lack that. Our attack is shit.

Anelka and Joe Cole wasted so many chances . . . such wastes.

I don't still understand why LFP did not buy a striker.

So until we have Drogba fully fit, we'll have issues playing big teams.

Nateevs,
Everyone is expecting your live commentary . . .
You should start charging for it.

Expecting it too; though I'll be watching the game online.

Scolari would like Ronaldo at Stamford Bridge

Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has suggested - with tongue in cheek - he would "open the door" for Cristiano Ronaldo to play at Stamford Bridge after seeing him mature in the last few years.

Luiz Felipe Scolari: Knows Ronaldo well from his time with Portugal.
Scolari coached Ronaldo with Portugal and described how he likes the Manchester United winger as a father likes a son.

Ronaldo has recovered from ankle surgery and is expected to feature at Stamford Bridge for Manchester United on Sunday.

"Now he is one of the three best players in the world," Scolari said. "I said that two years ago, and I repeat it now.

"When I was at Portugal, I had to choose three players every year (for FIFA World Player of the Year). One year I chose Didier Drogba as one of my three. Another year, I wrote John Terry. Another year I wrote Frank Lampard.

"Now these three players are with me, and that's very good for me. Maybe next season, Cristiano is with me. Very good. If he wants to change, I'll open the door to that."

"When I arrived in Portugal, Ronaldo was a kid. A young boy, 17 years old," Scolari said. "At that time, he had a good character. He was starting as a very good professional, but at that time he was already thinking about his future.

"He's improved himself, very well, in the five or six years since. More in Manchester than with the national team. He lives in Manchester 11 months of the year. Only one month a year with the national team.

"I've seen him improve. Next season, I can see him as a captain with Portugal because people like him and he has the confidence for that. He's a very good man, helps the other players, a good attitude on and off the pitch. He has grown up and matured.

"Now, at this time of life, Ronaldo is mature and is better than one or two years ago."

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Whattup dude?

Me too

Those names you called are inadequate and unsuitable at the moment.

papa_dims:
signing berbatov is not a guarantee for success, losing Robinho is not tantamount to failure, neither is not buying a player is equal to failure. what leads to success is what you do with what you have.

Please watch football.

1. Berbatov is a striker. Manchester United needed a good striker, now they have him - Great buy
2. Robinho is a winger, Chelsea needed a winger - we lost Robinho and SWP to the same club
3. Failure is in the concept of the markets, then the league. If you do not buy a player that you need, boy you have failed. Wake up.
4. What can Sunderland do with what they have? Why do club buy new players then?

Scolari, Kenyon and hence Chelsea failed woefully in the markets.

The additions we've had are inadequate. No new striker, no new winger and yet we lost SWP and Robinho to Man City while ManU gets Berbatov.

Scolari will fail woefully this season. I reckon even Grant's performance will remain better.

ManU will most certainly win the league once more.

debosky:
Scolari has been just as dull if not duller than JM, the first game aside - so all this talk of 'attacking footie' is a dream in my opinion. Duller, yet less ruthless. I do think MU will be emboldened by this turn of events.

Very very true. At the moment, it seems Scolari will not leave up to his hype much less match JM's record.

However, the season has just begun. Players need to bond. Scolari is still trying to settle in and at the same time change the style of the team. The difficult part is trying to change the style and yet win at the same time. Let's see how it goes.

Lampard has silenced critics again.

Seems Malouda found favor with LFP

Robinho could make Chelsea debut against Spurs

By Soccernet staff

Real Madrid forward Robinho should complete his €36m (£28.7m) transfer to Chelsea in time to make his debut in the home derby with Tottenham Hotspur, according to his agent Wagner Ribeiro.
Robinho

The Brazilian international could bring his skills to the Premier League.

Ribeiro said on Wednesday night that he expects his client to be a Chelsea player 'by either tomorrow or Friday,' adding in the The Daily Telegraph, 'he should be available to [Luiz Felipe] Scolari for this weekend'.

Robinho, along with Deco, who has already made the switch from Spain to Stamford Bridge, were selected as Scolari's main transfer targets when he became manager of the Blues in the summer.

Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon shares Scolari's desire to lure Robinho to London and believes the Brazilian international can take the club to the 'next level'.

'He's the right age and he comes from Madrid so he understands what a big club is all about,' Kenyon said.

'What we're doing is supporting Scolari. He wants to change and move the style a bit [and] is confident about the player's ability and mentality and that he will fit in and make an impact.'

Chelsea had two bids for the 24-year-old rejected by Madrid earlier in the transfer window but the La Liga club's desire to use Robinho as a make-weight during their pursuit of Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo has unsettled the player and he now wants to quit the Santiago Bernabéu.

He is expected to receive a salary of £70,000 a week at Chelsea, double his income at Madrid.

Robinho is expected to wear the No7 shirt vacated by Andriy Shevchenko, who has rejoined Milan two years after Chelsea signed him for £30m.

Meanwhile, there seems little prospect of another Brazilian, Kaka, leaving AC Milan to join the Blues, not least because the playmaker is happy at the San Siro.

Chelsea were linked with a world-record £80million bid for Kaka, but he told Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport: 'Me going to Chelsea? I'm staying as a Rossoneri player.

'I should help Milan to win the trophies we're up for this season.'

He added: 'I've always said I'm happy at Milan and as long as my aims remain the same as Milan's I'll stay here. Until now it's always been that way.

'My goal is to win, Milan's is too. As long as we are like that, I'll remain at Milan.'

nateevs:
Actually I do not know how statistics show that Lamps is a better player for england than gerrard is . . .
I am talking from what I see. .
I watch every england game . . and when Lamps features, he is always a complete shadow of himself as opposed to a chelsea performance. .
Gerrard is the only player recent history that is always played out of position when playing for engalnd. .


Lamps has 62 appearances and 14 goals for england . .
Gerrard 68 apps and 13 goals. .

Even though Lamps joined the team before Gerrard, gerrard matches his goals record, though in more apps.
I do not see how the stats back that Lamps is a better england player than Gerrard.

1. Statistically you just proved, though by a slim margin that Lampard has been better.

2. In International Football terms the difference between when Lampard was called up and when Gerrard was called up makes no difference whatsoever. How many international matches are played in a few months?

Meanwhile the dude is older than Gerrard.

nateevs:
Is gerrard that bad?. . . Gerrard to me has always been a better player for england than Lamps has. . gerrard only always has a bad game when played alongside lamps. . . plus try playing Lamps as a winger and see what will come off it.

Very inaccurate.

You must have taken that from popular media . . .

If Lampard had his way, the story may have been - Lampard is better without Gerrard.

Both Players have their strengths and weaknesses but for England . . . statistics show clearly that Lampard has the better pedigree.

Lackluster performance but we're still at the top of the table . . .

Ibime:
You can watch the game here. . . .

http://www.justin.tv/iraqgoals

Thanks man,

Was just about to moan about being in work today.

Yousa life saver

Was just going to post that,

You beat me to it

Took a while to find this thread.

So much threads now on Sports section.

Chelsea to move for Kaka as Robinho bid falters?

Chelsea could be set to focus all their attentions on trying to land AC Milan star Kaka after Real Madrid emphatically slammed the door on the Stamford Bridge club's attempts to secure the services of Robinho.

The Blues have been courting 24-year-old Robinho since July when Chelsea appointed Luiz Felipe Scolari, but are now expected to accept defeat in their bid after the player's agent revealed that Real are refusing to discuss the possibility of a move.

Wagner Ribeiro told the Daily Star newspaper that representatives of the Real hierarchy failed to show for a planned meeting to discuss Robinho's desire to move to the Premier League and Chelsea leaving the deal dead in the water.

'The dream of Chelsea is broken because Real Madrid will not even negotiate. It is impossible to advance any conversation,' said Riberio. 'Next summer we will sort out the situation if people can show some sense.'

Robinho, who is under contract at the Bernabeu until 2010, is reported to be disappointed with Real's stonewall tactics as he had been excited about the possibility of a move the Premier League and the chance to work with fellow Brazilian Scolari.

Talks between Real and Chelsea are understood to have taken place earlier in the summer, but neither side could agree on a transfer fee. Real are believed to have rejected a bid in excess of £20million.

The possibility of luring 26-year-old Kaka from the San Siro now becomes a distinct possibility for Chelsea, the only stumbling block could be the Serie A club's £70million valuation of the playmaker.

Just as with Robinho, the possibility of linking-up with former Brazil coach Scolari could prove appealing to Kaka who has played 162 games for Milan scoring 54 goals for the club since his arrival in 2003.

The expense of acquiring Kaka which would almost certainly eclipse the current world transfer record of £46million set when Real Madrid bought Zinedine Zidane from Juventus in 2001.

However, Chelsea's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich could afford the deal and the club may view the signing as a marketing coup as they seek to establish the club as one of world football's most important brands.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=564502&sec=europe&cc=3888

Shevchenko set for AC Milan return

ROME (AFP) - Ukrainian striker Andrei Shevchenko, who has endured a miserable two years at Chelsea, is set to be loaned to his former club AC Milan, the Gazzetta dello Sport reported on Wednesday.

Shevchenko will go on a free loan to the Serie A side and is expected in Milan by Friday at the latest, Gazzetta claimed.

AC Milan owner and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is said to have agreed the return of the 31-year-old after a meeting last week in his Sardinian villa with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovitch.

Shevchenko started his career at Dynamo Kiev before spending seven seasons at AC Milan where he won both the Champions League and Serie A titles before transferring to Chelsea in the summer of 2006 for 30 million pounds.

But after suffering a series of injuries he has failed to shine in west London and has repeatedly been linked with a switch back to Serie A.

The Ukraine striker scored 173 times for Milan but has only recorded nine league goals for Chelsea.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/wl_uk_afp/fblitaengprukrchelseaacmilan;_ylt=AsmIgje_eFOxbYo9WaazDkVbbBAF

We get better and better with each match.

We're at the finals sha . . .

Phelps did 8th gold medals today to beat Spitz and is now the winningnest olympian ever.

A good way to start the season.

Nateevs, Ibime,

Any areas of concern in our play?

Have you guys seen the new Pepsi ad where Lampard is dressed like some Chinese dude, Fabregas is playing the guitar and Henry is dressed for dinner? Absolutely hilarious.

Beautiful display by Deco today.

Absolutely phenomenal . . . what a Goal!!!

Well it's all going well.

Let's not get too carried away. It's just a start, though we've done better than ManU with the same team.

Fantastic Phelps wins again . . . 7th gold medal.

I knew you were Ijaw . . . what part?