Duppy Conqueror

i think he could be exposed as a CB in a flat back 4..but could potentially be great in a back 3 playing the sweeper role, in a few years...i think most good DM`s could be good sweepers.. keep him where he is tho.

in Carlo`s press conference today he named 4 starters..i`m trying to remember the exact 4...Kalou was one of them,i`m sure Ramires was another and that he named the fullbacks but can`t remember who they were...has been a long day in work and my head is a bit mashed at the moment. hope someone with a clearer mind can clarify who those other two were. he has said Bos and Bruma are both healthy again but Bos is ahead of JB in fitness after JB`s Op. neither will play sunday tho..

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just to update this Carlo has announced that Bos will play for the reserves on wednesday. Source: Chelsea TV

as much as i like Bos..(think he`s one of the top 3 or 4 RB`s in the World when healthy and fit) with his contract running out in the summer tho,i do think that he really needs to get some games under his belt and show he`s fully over the injury before the year is out or he`ll be on the transfer market come January, ...Ivanovic could obviously fill in at the RB spot but if he did that would weaken the CB group. so yeah definately a position that needs an eye kept on. i`m not sure if Van der Wiel is the answer if Bos does leave, he seems a decent enough player..but with him being 22..the promising options we have in our youth ranks at RB would have their path blocked by someone who in the long term..may not be a better option than them. for that reason i think i`d prefer Srna. on the subject of RB`s what happened to the Germany & Leverkusen RB Castro ? he seemed to be one to watch a couple of years ago but has faded out of the limelight since then..

if it is a broken back..hope its as minor as a broken back can be..i`ve fractured my skull twice and although i am still affected by it to a degree,it wasn`t as bad as it sounds or could have been..hope if it is indeed broken then he`s as lucky as i was with the outcome. my thoughts for him bypass his playing career and are for his own personal well-being as in..if he can walk again etc...if it`s any kind of broken back,then at his age i`d hope he does the sensible thing and retires.

ha..word for word that is exactly what i was gonna say!

it`s not recent ..my first hate was for the kid catcher in chitty chitty bang bang,then shortly after for LFC,when i was 8..then a couple of years later it went to just scousers in general. i hated LFC and its fans long before i hated Tottenham,Leeds etc.. yes they do ..i`m suprised you havent picked up on that by now to be honest... their mindset is..the English title belongs to them..Man U took it off them,they hated that but for years believed that it was only Man U who could stop them and if Man U finished 2nd then it automatically meant they were champions..first Arsenal came along and took what they think is theirs by rite and they hated Arsenal..then Chelsea came along and then their hate was turned to us. think you could do with spending a couple of months in Liverpool to be honest..i have and my hate for them has only grown stronger since... they talk about the community spirit they have in their city and how it`s unlike every other city..but spend every day of the year thieving off each other (they are basically the East end of the North),if Cameron stopped the benefit system in Liverpool alone he would half the money paid out to the whole of britain....they don`t class themselves as English but expect the rest of England to provide for them because they are too thick and lazy to work. i could go on..but i think i`ve covered enough..

i`m thinking once Capello has left, we (England) will play with a more modern formation..that can fit both players into the team even tho they are similar..like Spain can succesfully play with Xavi & Iniesta in the same team.

i think only a serious injury could stop him becoming a huge star for England in the future (i expect him to be in the next WC for us in Brazil and take it by storm)..and thanks to having a manager like Carlo, he will be for Chelsea also.

No,i had no person on here in mind when i made that comment....just my own observation of how difficult it is to be a mod & admin on any online community, due to my own experience of doing it myself. yes,you did get it wrong but until you and everyone else get to know me better and get to understand me more...i appreciate you or any other member questioning me to clarify what i mean by the words i use, rather than taking them the wrong way...with the high number of different nationalities on here, i figure misunderstandings are common. for the record, if i make a comment aimed at any particular member,i will either quote the post that member has made or use their name in my own post....if i don`t then the post is not aimed at any particular member.

mine.. Liverpool Leeds Tottenham Arsenal Newcastle because of their fans. because of their team,manager etc.. Real Madrid Man City Man U Barcelona Inter Arsenal Newcastle (because they employ the pikey c*nt that is Joey Barton)

yeah absolutely...tho before Carlo came i held out hope that Jose would return to us...now if i had to choose between Jose and Carlo i`d rather Carlo due to i think him being better for what the club needs at present and in the future (next 10 years or so...though the way Italian managers age like wine..it could be a 20 year wait till we see a new manager,which i`d be cool with )

indeed he does and i think that comes from him having been a top player in his days,compared to Jose who learnt his skills through study...you`ll never learn more from second hand sources than actually being there and of course Ancelotti was coached by some great managers too. Jose although he was a player himself..he never had first hand experience of being on the pitch in big games as a player like Ancelotti did..nowhere near...so he can relate to what goes through the minds of top players more. Carlo is more humble i believe despite all that he has won in football over the last 30 years..i think Jose is more humble in private with his players than he is with a Mic infront of him..but not as much as Carlo. for Jose it`s "i`ve won this and I`ve won that"..with Carlo it`s "we won this thanks to the wonderful players and my coaching staff etc.."

after just reading that article on the official site...it`s great to hear how highly he rates Sturridge..and that Yury is very much a part of his plans for the season..would prefer to see him play in a more attacking role and to see what Ash,Yury and Malouda would do together on the left side of the field...surely on paper atleast, theres not many better left flanks than that in world football,if any atall...but obviously not for this game with Ash being rested.

i havent tried the link provided yet but on that post, Anelka is included. i`m delighted by Sam Walker getting the nod for the bench..great experience for the kid and Turnbull & Hilario are so woeful..i`ll roll the dice and say Sam Walker wouldn`t do worse given the playing time. great to see Josh there too...well done Carlo for having the balls to do it.

i agree 100 % bud..i think even if those youngsters struggle at times,we have a good enough team to compensate for it against the non-top teams... we would probably have the same number of points in the Prem if we played all of our games from start to finish with 10 men so why not "carry" atleast one in the starting line-up..none of them have done anything major wrong in the games they`ve played in thus far during their young careers. with that in mind the team i would personally pick is Cech Ivanovic Alex Terry Van Aanholt Ramires Essien Zhirkov Benayoun Sturridge Malouda bench:Anelka,Ferreira,Bruma,Mikel,Kakuta,Kalou,Turnbull if JT doesn`t pass fit..put Ivanovic at CB and play Ferreira bringing a younster to fill his place on the bench..perhaps McEachran. if all goes to plan with a comfortable score line and no injuries with 25-30 minutes to go..i would bring on Kakuta for Malouda,Bruma for JT or Alex . this could very well turn out to be a more frustrating night for us than we think tho..i think we`ll win but due to conditions with travel and the Zilina players being so motivated by probably playing the biggest game of their careers so far and us not being familier with the opposition. (their players may not be familer with ours from playing against them,but i`m sure they`ve seen our players in action many many times on the telly etc...it could be the trickiest game we`ve played so far this season...or it could be the easiest..we`ll find out tomorrow..

i have been admin on my own site for 7 years...it`s not something i would have got involved in if i had known at the time what i was getting myself into..a thankless task,where your integrity gets questioned on a regular basis,on the decisions you`ve made for the good of the community as a whole.....there are many arseholes in the world and the internet has given millions of them a portal to spew their hate. so i understand how hard it can be sometimes ,so whatever admin and mods on here decide to do about these kind of things..you unlikely to get any grief off me for them. as for how Tx has been since i`ve been on here..it just reminds me of the WWF "villian" characters i`d see when i was a kid....more Panto than anything else..maybe i`m just more thick skinned or something from my life experiences..but i`ve never been offended by anything he`s wrote on here,since i`ve been here..perhaps a lil annoying like a dripping tap on times when threads get derailed..but nothing more. i understand why admin & mods took the decision to ban him,when he has upset many people,it`s a tricky situation to deal with..now that he has been re-instated i welcome him back and hope that for the sake of others who his behaviour has bothered and himself,there can be some change from how he and others have behaved towards each other in the past.

well we should have won 2 or 3 already and this year i am the least optimistic ive ever been since we first qualified 10 years ago...mainly due to the fact that the strength of our squad is weaker than it has been in the past..well perhaps not weaker but definately with less proven players in Europe. so with all that in mind i have voted that we will win it...i figure we due some fair refs...to be cheated out of yet another trophy would bring too much publicity and U.E.F.A and Twatini would be in danger of being investigated and exposed for rigging games. looking at our possible opponents throughout the competition i cant say theres any team that i`d want Chelsea to avoid playing...would relish us knocking out Jose and Real. Barcelona? bring them on..is only David Villa who i think would give us a lot of trouble due to the lack of pace we have on the right flank...Ash always takes care of the Argie midget Messi.. i got a hunch we will win it this year and we will play a suprise team in the final..perhaps a Lyon, Schalke,Benfica,Fiorentina....somebody like that..

well..i`ll be honest and say he pissed me off a bit when he was with us,well not so much when he was with us,him and Flo were brilliant in an epic 4-3 win in a midweek game at Ewood Park.etc..and he won us the away game in Copenhagen..i used to love him as a player..(tho not as much as his older brother Micheal) it was just the statement that he made when he left,that he was homesick..(he had lived outside of Denmark since he was 19) so they cancelled his contract for him,then shortly after returning to Denmark he ended up playing in Holland. however i`m not a heartless bastard, so i`ll bury that hatchet now. glad to hear its not the bad lymphoma..cause with the bad one he would have had no chance..but i know someone whose has the milder version and although he has spells where he looks frail and about to die, he has got better..and is still alive 18 years after first being diagnosed with it. good luck Brian.

indeed and Italy won a World Cup with a GK as their captain,many GK`s are captains on the continent...it all depends on the player rather than the position tho..

Aguero would have cost around £40 million and £160,000 a week in wages on his initial contract which would either be wasted if he flopped or we would have had to offer him a pay rise before his initial contract run out..i worked it out a few weeks ago and by my estimation if we bought Aguero and kept him until he was 30 ( for 8 years)..he would have cost us over £100Million. not really a deal i`d be comfortable with for just one player,who might not settle,produce the goods,or could have a career ending injury at any time and wouldn`t be a regular starter for us for the next two seasons at the earliest,anyway..and obviously neither were the men that matter at CFC. have said all this before on here..hope it sinks in this time.

he`s gone..signed a 3 year deal with Wigan..fee undisclosed..

Dermot is doing a fine enough job for me...he states that he was pleased to see our youth players muscle up to physically stronger opponents and now his coaching skills are being brought into question because of it......i recall Jose saying words to that effect on more than a few occasions,but i don`t recall anyone questioning his coaching skills.

that would still arguably be the best back four in the premiership...if not the top one then certainly top 3.