DYC.

Fantastic player and he would be a great buy but getting him is sadly pretty much impossible. I remember us always being heavily linked with him when he was at Middlesbrough.. missed opportunity I guess.

Cech Ivanovic Alex Terry Cole Mikel Ramires Benayoun *Bosingwa/Kalou Drogba Zhirkov *Might be crappy at the back momentarily but his serious pace and directness still make him an attacking threat and if he crosses like ten times, at least one or two should be dangerous right ? :unsure:

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That's an understatement. The amount of money the club paid for Fernando Torres was more than Arsenal spent on their starting line-up. Agree with the rest of your post.

That really made me laugh, thank you. And not that I need to defend myself against you but I personally have never said that I want CA out.

No way that's true. Lampard is one of Rooney's biggest fans, always praises him. Some people have too much time and imagination.

You can't put all the blame on CA though. There's not much he can do about his midfielders not being able to make the easiest of passes. But if he's truly happy/content with what he is seeing than we have a serious problem at Chelsea Football Club.

Right now I'd much rather go this way. Cech Ivan Luiz Terry Cole Mikel Ramires Anelka Kalou/Bosingwa Drogba Zhirkov

It's like I said it my self, I have no idea how you call the football we currently play. And the worrying thing is CA constantly keeps saying that we play well and that we're playing our football... I would look for a new coach in the summer for this reason alone.

Sigh, football didn't start in 2007.. Example: This is the team that faced Juventus in the CL final in 2003 MILAN: GK 12 Dida RB 19 Alessandro Costacurta CB 13 Alessandro Nesta CB 3 Paolo Maldini (c) LB 4 Kakha Kaladze CM 8 Gennaro Gattuso CM 21 Andrea Pirlo CM 20 Clarence Seedorf AM 10 Rui Costa CF 7 Andriy Shevchenko CF 9 Filippo Inzaghi Only two players in that team were in their mid-thirties and those players were Costacurta and Maldini. But I will stop replying from now on since you clearly don't know what you're talking about, think whatever you want.

Yeah I remember that team. Kaka started to become a international football star, they had the great Jaap Stam at the back.. Miss those times, there were a lot more topteams back then. Top football started to decline around that time.

I give up. Your arguments make it clear you never watched those teams he had in that 2001-2007 period because no one can deny the class of those teams he had, if you do, you possess no football knowledge at all. And about Maldini, he was still absolute class until the year 2005 or 2006.

Agree. And how could I forget about Rivaldo, he also had Cafu (one the best right-backs ever).

Are you serious? They had the likes of Dida (back when he was world-class), Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Rui Costa, Shevchenko, Pato, Inzaghi in their team (through the years). Wouldn't you call that team world-class? You're confusing me right now. Why do you keep hammering on that 06 year? What I do know is that in the 06/07 season they mostly played with one striker (Inzaghi) and Kaka played the supporting striker role and they won the CL that season. After that, their team started to decline. But he was the manager of a team that was without a doubt world-class for 6 years (2001-2007), you could argue about the quality of the team in two following years.

What are you talking about? OllieCFC said CA was at Milan, as in his eight years at Milan, during their golden era and you're talking about a single year? And Milan had a crisis in 06 yet they won the CL in '07?

CA had a team filled with world-class players in his eight years at Milan (except for his last year) Ever heard of Shevchenko, Inzaghi, Crespo, Pato, Kaka, Rui Costa and Seedorf?

Doesn't matter, he trained and played with him so he knows him and his moves. And like I said: And remember that I said, this is all hope since it's all we got.

Cech 6.5 Ivan 6 JT 6.5 Ash 6 Bosingwa 3 Essien 4 Lampard 3 Ramires 6 YZ 6 Torres 6 Drogba 7

Spot on.

I remember him doing a very good job in the playmaker role vs Zilina in the CL and the reason I keep mentioning Benayoun is the fact that he's our only (creative) hope and he and Torres were teammates for years. And there's no real understanding needed in a 'Torres makes a run of the shoulder of a defender, Benayoun spots it and attempts a pass' situation.

Yeah i'm afraid of that too. But that's what you get for having only one player of his type in your entire squad.

Yeah but can't you do that without heavily criticizing/slagging off other players for doing far less wrong?

The most logical thing would be to bench him but his price tag makes that almost impossible to do. The other option is to play Benayoun behind him.

Exactly, but it seems like most fans refuse to give Didier credit for anything (and it's starting to piss me off) yet they praise for Torres for solid touches or for getting into goal-scoring positions/getting opportunities to score, the fact that he doesn't finish them doesn't matter..

This is exactly why I said I wouldn't start with him before the match.. excuses. The thing is we have 'no service' for our strikers at the moment so why play the striker that is useless without it...