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What i meant was at best we'll sign 2 stars, ofcourse if there's a mass exodus, we'll need players to fill in.. but we wont go galacticos..

Robinho has been playing as a winger for the best part at madrid and sometimes filling in as an AM, i don't think he'd be a drogba replacement..

one amazing kid, li'l weak but it'll be fiesty knowing how the blues react/standup, when of our own is given a rough time by someone..

I didn't like this director of football post when it was introduced and i dont like it now either.. if it was so essential why didn't we have it, post jose up until now? mancini is worse than rijkaard imo..

thats too harsh..

at most we'd get a striker and a winger..

Valencia just appointed Unai Emery as their manager, not that many of you were considering him for Chelsea.. He is the manger who got the promoted Almeria to finish 8th in la liga ahead of big spanish powerhouses..

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i guess its worse in india than in england.. lot to do with epl coverage coming here in their treble season if you aske me..

haha not being rascist mate.. where was beer invented?

Well you certainly don't expect the manager who's won the champions league to come out and say that he didn't deserve it, even though the truth may say so..

hahaha understandable, you english lot have some capacity when it comes to drinking..

Terry Was a Stand-in for Key Penalty Miss Chelsea's season ended as it had begun, with a penalty shoot-out defeat by Manchester United, though only one has left them numbed. John Terry trudged up the steps to receive his runners-up medal soaked to the skin but with tears clearly streaking down his face and utter devastation etched across his brow. The Community Shield loss meant nothing; this was an agonizing denouement for a fine team to endure. That Terry had been left to take one of the first five penalties itself was down to Didier Drogba's sending off, four minutes from the end, for a ridiculously petty slap at Nemanja Vidic. "John was not in the first five to take a kick but things changed during the game," said the Chelsea assistant manager Henk ten Cate. "The sending-off of Drogba made us change it [the order]. It's unbelievable that it should happen to him, though." For a few giddy seconds, with the ball placed on the penalty spot and the Chelsea captain standing at the top of his short run-up, the Londoners must have felt they had a grip, albeit greasy, on this trophy. The slip on the turf that took Terry's standing leg from him as he swung with his right wrecked that dream. Momentum veered decisively in the shoot-out as the center-half's shot squirted agonizingly wide of the right-hand post. There was an inevitability that United would prevail after that, with Nicolas the unfortunate subsequent miss. Yet it is Terry who will be choked most by this defeat. He and Frank Lampard, so often the inspiration for this side, had resisted when United threatened to overrun them in the early stages. Their efforts, coupled with Petr Cech's reflexes, had kept the deficit at a single goal. Chelsea were by far the more threatening side after they had equalized, sheer power driving them forward and eroding United's initial dominance. Terry might have been the hero here but ended a broken man. He will wake this morning still wondering why fate has proved this cruel. "You can see what it means to John," said Lampard afterwards. "He's Mr Chelsea, Chelsea through and through. He wanted this more than anyone at the club. Not many center-halves would have stood up there and taken the fifth penalty, a penalty of that importance, in the shoot-out. That's testament to the man. No one at Chelsea will criticize him at all. John's a man's man. He did what he did and he will be back." That will take time. The captain had been inconsolable at the end, first comforted by Paulo Ferreira before a soaked Avram Grant sought him out amid the clutch of broken Chelsea bodies. "He slipped," said Ten Cate. "We practiced penalties so much all last week and he was very confident. We were all very confident. He was not supposed to be in the first five. John stepped up when he wasn't supposed to." Steve Clarke, his fellow assistant manager and the chief executive Peter Kenyon each offered his own consolation as United players and supporters celebrated all around. Ricardo Carvalho later added they "couldn't stop JT from crying" in the dressing room long after the final whistle. "He couldn't say anything but he was very sad and cried," said Grant. "But I told him he's the main reason we are here in the first place. We had difficult times this season but he is part of the team and has been great all season. He was great in the semi-final [against Liverpool] and in this game. He was the reason United didn't create any chances after the first 30 minutes. I feel so sorry for him and the team. But he is still a great captain and a great player." The manager took his team aside before they trudged up the steps and into a huddle and expressed his pride in their resilience this season. They have ended empty- handed but their recovery following the departure of Jose Mourinho in September has still been staggering. It was mere chance that Anelka, the only player Grant bought in the mid-winter window who has played, missed the decisive penalty. Doubts persist over whether the Israeli will remain at the helm, with Roman Abramovich unable to watch much of the shoot-out from the stands so anxious had he become, though this was no time for Grant to contemplate the future. "We hit the post, hit the bar, had more shots than them," he added with a sigh. "We dominated the game. Even in the penalties we had our chance but we still lost. But I told them that I'm very proud of them. "They've worked hard all year. Now we need to continue. It'll take a long time to get over this. One penalty can make all the difference between happiness and sadness. I cannot say I am happy now. As for the future, this is the last thing I'm thinking about now. Not now." Clarity on that situation is to come. For now there is only abject disappointment. ______________ I guess most of us knew, but still.. I was kind of expecting sheva to come on instead of belletti though..

Tbh i wasn't so sometimes i feel like i put my hate towards grant infront of logic..

you mean superman with that red S and everything is actually a manc

dunno how most on here look at reports from posters saying their source in the club informed.. one of my mates on another forum said he read a poster claiming to have an inside source that rijkaard will be incharge by EURO kickoff.. now all of you may know i'm not the biggest fans of rijkaard.. so it doesnt change anything for me.. but its something nice for the gossip lovers

seeing how hingis dig at grant backfired i expect the same for posting this Grant 2 finals 2 losses, Jose 3 finals 3 wins..

you should have been a reporter

by both parties I meant the cop who ran the down the fan and the riot police, G

in a very obscurely optimistic view, we shall now enjoy winning the champions league even more when we do win it..

i think both parties are at fault for this one.. hope the one hit by the car is fine..

Jt is a fucking legend, and nothing can ever change that.. it takes balls to step up and take the penalty more so to volunteer to take the last one.. he will be the first Chelsea capatin to win the Cl, no two ways abt that..

if you see my brother posting on here that i have died, don't be shocked.. he would be serious..

had a big fight with mancs after we beat them this sunday so the supposed joint screening is now cancelled, a Chelsea fans house is empty so 35 of us cramped in his 2BHK

everyone except the mancs, spurs and spammers wants us to win..