Madmax

Sensible stuff.

2 legends - JT and SS!

End of discussion.

Rumours are Benitez has been offered Turkey job. Make of that what you will. A turkey in charge of Turkey, sounds good :dude:

From TOCFCW

History has also proven that all managers who played 433 were sacked / left. Just because we played Anelka and Kalou there in the past doesn't mean we have to keep doing it next year as well. And Drogba and Lampard are fringe players at best now, meaning the days of 433 at the Bridge should be over. Sturridge easily benches Torres on current form, desire, hunger by the way. But I know what you mean about their roles next year.

Sturridge is not a winger.

Udinese made it official :

Redknapp? The same guy who drove not one, but two clubs to near bankruptcy and then fucked off when they were down in the dump he dug for them?

Shouldn't we just have extended Borini's contract? The decisions this club makes sometimes

No, he's better off chasing down that nutter's record of eating 25000 Big Macs.

Respect to you dude! Me, I'll just be swamped with work. Will be around TC every night though, making a nuisance of myself in the Transfer section

Being able to watch Chelsea at the Bridge every weekend. Hey, it's a superpower to me.

My opinion of you went up a couple of notches on reading this. It'd be all too easy to be a twat and post disrespectful comments and stupid smilies like a couple of others have done, but even though you were one of his strongest critics all through the season and got called all sorts of stuff for it (something which I personally find very poor in taste), you chose to give him credit where it's due and showed some real class. Respect, man.

I'm very upset. And I think I have reason to be. From what I've read (unsure about here, my internet's being a bitch and I haven't logged in for 2 days), most others are as well. So bear with me if you find what follows boring/repetitive/moanful/lengthy. I think I'm entitled to a rant and to vent out my feelings about yesterday. No better place than this. Seriously, wtf? How can you dishonour a manager like Carlo who despite and inspite of all that's gone on around him all year long, and who's been let down massively by everyone connected with the club, in this crude a manner? Forget football for a moment, this is basic human apathy at play here. In situations like these, the manager is always the fall guy. The scapegoat. Because fact is, it is just too simple to make him one. I've said all season long that it's incredibly convenient to sack one guy than sack many, regardless of how big a hand they've played in the situation gone wrong. A year ago, he was the toast of the club and English football in some ways. The most successful season in 105 years of the club's existence. And 12 months on, you're telling me that he's crap because he came second? For perfectly legitimate reasons, they decided to let 5 high earners go, but thought it better to not sign replacements for the departed. Instead, a bunch of 17-19 year olds were expected to slot in straight away and help us keep winning stuff. We aren't Barcelona, ffs. I didn't hear any alarm bells ringing when we were conquering opposition by tennis scores in August and September. Then for some inexplicable reason, the board decides things are going too well for their liking, so let's spice it up a tad and show his right hand and club legend Ray the door. Still, he didn't complain, got on with the job that he was paid handsomely to do. A couple of months of tedious, disjointed performances combined with unsatisfactory results followed, which admittedly are not the standards Chelsea aspires to. And the blame has to be shared by the manager and the players. We lose and win as a team, and the team includes the coaching staff. Hence it's so baffling to find people crediting players for all successes and mob-lynching the gaffer for all failures. Now the part that concerns me the most. We don't have a divine right to win trophies every year. You have to fucking earn them. The sooner Roman gets this into his head, the better. By sacking a manager for coming second, the message we've just sent out to the rest of the football world is that we're of the belief that we have a right to win the league every year. That we should somehow be entitled to a shiny cup regardless of how we perform and indeed, regardless of how other teams perform. And if that doesn't happen, Roman will throw his toys out of the pram. Ambition is very normal and even healthy, but what this event shows is not ambition, it is mere ill-informed and a covering-up operation. Papering over the cracks is the right term, I believe. For years player power in Chelsea's dressing room is a well known secret. This sacking has only ensured that this will continue no matter what happens, no matter who is the manager. Because as soon as results don't go our way, the wise men on the board will sack the manager and not bother looking into the real underperformers - the players. This means the players can be safe in the knowledge that their insipid displays will affect the manager's future, and not their own. It is often said that this squad is Mourinho's and that a lot of the players from that era continue to be regulars even today. Hence, the obvious question - seeing that we've won the league just once in the 4 years since Mourinho left, with much of the squad still the same, who are the real underpeformers? The plyers who played for 4 years and won 1 league, or the manager who was here for half that period and got us that league? It should be noted that I'm in no way implying that Carlo is faultless and had no role to play in the remarkable decline this year. I've admitted his shortcomings in multiple threads earlier. In a way I expected this decision but didn't realise it would still hit me so hard when it actually happened. All said and done, thank you and good bye Carlo, you're a Chelsea legend forever and nobody can take that away from you. I wish you'd been treated better and I hope you find success wherever life takes you next. I will love and respect you always. King Carlo - more than special.

Ramires, Benayoun and Bosingwa unavailable through injury ...

OSGOOD OSGOOD OSGOOD! :cfc:

The article is dated 2004 ... it has changed now I guess. From Answers.com :

1st July to 31st August.

It's not like Piazon's words matter anyway :\ But we need this kid. Make it happen, Roman.

RIP

Many such threads already.

Ramires and Benayoun ruled out. I'd like to see : Cech Ivan Alex Terry Zhirkov Mikel Essien Josh Kalou Drogba Malouda

Nice to see a green kit for a change. Feel there aren't enough of them in football.

Welcome dude!