LDN Blue

I like Aston Villa's squad right now.. The likes of Albrighton, Downing, Young, Abonglahor, all impressive right now. But they do have problems at the back right now, so an early goal will go a long way in our favour.

Agreed. But Benayoun was bought like a month before Van Der Vaart even became available.

Ah I see And yeah Max, you're probably right. Still, it's such a standard thing for Chelsea to do, I guess to some extent we can understand because of the point you made about lack of game time, but just imagine if we'd taken that gamble.. We'd say "what blip?" Ah well.. What could've been hey?..

ignore?

Haha agreed.. But remember, Ramires is defensive so no-one expects him to grab goals, like Van Der Vaart is. I like Ramires, what he's doing in the team, showing good improvement. But I don't see why we didn't give VdV a chance for that price, we have enough to sign him and Ramires LOL

the emphasis isn't on us signing Ramires, it's not signing VdV

Trust me, I remember, I remember so well.

Hands up if you're surprised (keeps hands down.)

Those are based on opinions too.

LOL exactly. Example; David Silva says he wants to join Chelsea.. And then he joins Man City. If it was the other way round, I wouldn't be so happy.

Wonder what 'Dinho's thinking there..

Ok, but the fact that he's proved them wrong (in their opinions) should be something positive.. Or is it a case of "I told you so"?

Brilliant post.

Why don't you like the fact people have appreciated his improvement? Lol

Well get your mutual friend to give Alex a bit of a "push in the right direction"

No wonder he wants to go to back to Holland.

I voted Ashely Cole. Drogba was 2nd for me.. Ashley Cole was sublime, his best year for Chelsea.

So, who's been your player of 2010. Including in the World Cup & this season

If that happens hopefully they won't use the same people The FA did for Wembley

Agree about the bad patch, but we've seen the best of Ash, Drog and Essien before it. With players like Kalou (again, imo) I don't think he's good enough. Last season I didn't think so either. Now obviously I'm not going to go and make a thread dedicated to slagging him off.. But we're not (well mostly,) "haters", just being honest

Badboy took his reaction a bit out of hand. But come on, there's nothing wrong with criticising your own players if you don't think they're good enough for the club, i.e. Kalou.

Yeah yeah I've taken it back now. I accept Drogba's just going through this low confidence phase like everyone else.

Steady on lol, nothing wrong with people who have dyslexia.

That's that, then.

Lol exactly. That's why I hope he's actually better than Theo, who has no technique.