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Good post my good man I take it I get bosingwas injury and prosineks though , it still seems to me that when ever they give a return timeframe that you can be almost certain that its double what they say

Am I the only advicator of sacking our medical team? from what I can make out they are useless, now dont get me wrong the injurys themselves cannot be attributed to the medical team but what can and what I find not only distressing as well being totally dumbfounded by is the fact that our medical department time and time again mis-bloody diagnose our players injurys, recently we have had franks injury which by his own admission seems like the club doctors didnt realise the extent of the damage he had done and during the rehab made it worse, benayoun is another that the doctors mis-diagnosed and ultimately made worse, prosinek from the youth team is another, bosingwa and essien when out for along time were only estimated to be out for a couple of months and then ended up being a better part of a season out and the former a year out, depending on what you read and believe their was a rumour that our medics didnt phone for an ambulance for cech after the stephen cunt incident straight away and only did so when he deteriorated (must say that is unsubstantiated though) also john terry for the last 5 years had been playing with a back problem that nobody at the club had a clue about and instead just seemingly kept doing him up with cortisone, lets think what else Drogba for over 3 months was suffering from malaria before it got taken care of I mean how hard is it to put two and two together to get four, he goes back to africa alot it doesnt take a phd to work out it could be malaria one of the most common deceases in africa he had the bloody symptoms. Why has it been nearly 2 months since alex had his op yet we still dont have any kind of time frame for a return. Bloody annoying that seemingly no matter how many cock ups they make they dont get held accountable for it, sack the lot and sign up the best medics we can get it wont be hard to get better than we already have they only have to be competent, rant over

Would make a change wouldnt it.

Some could see depending on their view point that maybe abramovich is making changes already to strengthen the managers position at the club post wilkins-gate (gourlay gaff that by all accounts), id look on arneson going as and indicator of that (pushed me thinks he wouldnt want to lose face so publicly it was he wanted new challenge) he is/was apparently a major player on the 'football board' and one of only two proper football men on it, with him going and there being no definite decision on whether to replace him or not it would seem coupled with the fact carlo hasnt been given his marching orders yet and that it looks like he has money to spend that carlo is in a position of strength at the club, which is a good thing as hopefully we are going to be headed more than the route of a traditional english club setup rather than a foreign one in the future so that he manager has more say in the way things are done and the players signed.

I think the problem is that the 'football board' whom have put ancelotti in the position of having youngsters supplementing the more established player have done it to quick, whilst im all in favour for having them in there, and was saying it needed to happen last year to kick start the process of blooding them, I feel the board have gone about it all the wrong way the youngsters should be in the same position as last year only getting more minutes that is being part of the squad but not having any major expectation on their young shoulders, kakuta is expected to be able to produce when he comes on as he is one of our few attacking options, sturridge isnt being used properly he needs to play as the centre forward with the ball being put through for him to latch onto, not out on the right. Bruma and van aanholt are in just the right positions squad wise but are not being giving enough opportunity when the chance presents itself ala ferreria picked ahead of them at leftback against marsaille and centreback against sunderland, van aanholt for me looks like he could do a number on the left wing for us as he has a lovely cross and loves getting to the byline something Drogba would love im sure, mceachrean for me is the only one being integrated properly for me not a lot of pressure on the boy and getting a healthy amount of minutes when he does come on/start. Matic could of been handy with hindsight instead of letting him go on loan to vittesse, alot of mistakes by the 'football board' which apparently have a majority say-so in the shape/size of the squad, ballack/belletti could had been kept about for another season to lighten the load on the centre midfield if they knew matic was off for a year, and they should have strengthened our attack even if it was only one player it would have made a difference over the last couple of months, we were in for neymar most of the summer yet when we didnt get him what happened? did the club just think oh well better luck next summer? if they were after him then they knew that was an area of the squad which needed strengthening/inproving and for going into the season knowing that they should get it in the neck , not ancelotti, there are countless options we could of gone for after it became apparent neymar wasnt coming, hazard, mata, suarez, bust the bank of abramovich for pato (my prefered option), so its not a lack of potential targets its more the 'football board' being irresponsible and the problem is that its ancelotti that has to grab a hard hat and the 'football board' he hold the purse strings and generally choose the targets dont get slaughtered because ancelotti is the manager/first team coach and that is the traditional person to send the bause to when things go wrong, when in fact he is only partially responsible. Its like being in a head chef in a restaurant and you ask for a nice cut of meat with which to make your sunday special you inform the owner that you want a nice cut from a good butchers you know of but its a little expensive but you get what you pay for, the owner then goes and gets the meat but from a cheaper butchers or doesnt bother at all and tells you to use the meat in the freezer, thus your special isnt as you want it but if a customer complains its not the restaurant owner that gets blamed its the guy cooking the food.

1 Petr Cech IN 2 Branislav Ivanovic IN 3 Ashley Cole IN 5 Michael Essien IN 7 Ramires IN 8 Frank Lampard IN 10 Yossi Benayoun IN 11 Didier Drogba IN 12 Mikel IN 15 Florent Malouda IN 17 Jose Bosingwa IN 18 Yury Zhirkov IN 19 Paulo Ferreira OUT 21 Salomon Kalou OUT 22 Ross Turnbull OUT 23 Daniel Sturridge IN 26 John Terry IN 33 Alex IN 38 Patrick van Aanholt IN 39 Nicolas Anelka OUT 40 Henrique Hilario OUT 43 Jeffrey Bruma IN 44 Gael Kakuta IN 45 Fabio Borini OUT *Leaving of own accord by the look of it* 46 Josh McEachran IN So that's six out with more attacking players brought in as a matter of urgency, couple of wingers of high calibre, a top centre forward to rotate then take over from Drogba and lampards long term replacement brought in or at least identified, we look in transition at the moment but I believe that if the club puts abit more outlay in this coming summer window than in previous windows it can be a quick transition, main thing is more depth in the attacking positions but youthful with pace.

To be fair to carlo he can only work with what he has been given, in most peoples opinion he has had little to do with the recent squad shaping, I think the biggest problem we have is our lack of goals, bar the villa game we have struggled for goals, we need a creative pacy dribbler for the right hand side more than another centrehalf, kalou is ok up until he needs to decide whether to shoot or cross once he gets to that point he fucks it up, for a 60k a week player with 5 years league experience that isnt good enough, anelka does the opposite to what malouda does/trys to do on the left hand side, he drops deep all the time now and takes the pace out of the attacking movement and Drogba still doesnt look right after the malaria, so out of our main 4 attackers for the wingers/centre forward spots 3 of them are either unfit/out of form, looking over the hill or just plain not good enough. With these limitations carlo has it isnt hard to see that with our small squad of experienced players if we had a pro longed period of injurys that the proverbial shit would hit the fan, I blame the 'football board' carlo is working with what he has, but it cant be easy when you have no other options besides playing Drogba when he is clearly unfit, not being able to rest malouda and having the option of anelka (who is looking over the hill) or bleeding kalou on the right, im not even gonna get started on the injurys that have decimated our backline and midfield all season.

Id say aim for second/third in the league, fa cup final win and as far as possible in the champions league for this season, whilst the league is still possible it doesn't seem likely to happen due to needing results to go in our favour, that all said one positive from the last couple of months is that maybe the 'football board' has got a swift kick to the ballacks and can see what seemingly everybody else can, that we need an extra attacker of some description, for christs sake we were in for neymar most of the summer so it was obvious the club wanted another attacking option yet when we didnt get him we seemingly had no other targets so the club should rectify that in January.

Been linked with juan mata of valencia according to this site not sure how reliable as its a blog but atleast has us targeting an attacking player.

We need imho a right hand side forward and a centrehalf, I'd get cahill then we would have cover in the middle use ivanovic\bosingwa at rb and get shot of ferreria, I'd then tempt milan to sell pato I reckon they would sell for the right amount, basically if we sign someone it should be players that benefit the team long term as well as short term, seeing as we are being more financially responsible one 30m+ purchase (pato) wouldn't be a total detriment to that end considering the upside to the deal, a world class youngster with years ahead of him

One thing id like to throw into the mix is that the previous financial year we made a loss of 44.4m down from 65.7m, in that loss the compensation package paid out to ex managers/staff (grant, clarke, ten cate, scolari and his staff that went with him) totalled 12.6m we also finished major building works in that financial year on the cobham first team and youth complexs so that needs to be factored in as well, transfer wise we only paid out net on zhirkov and from what I have read it is round the 15-17m mark, we also got rid of pizzaro and shevchenko from the wage bill which would have saved circa 9m a year whilst adding zhirkv and sturridge of note to the tune of 5-7m a year, if you take all that into account id say the daily fail are being lazy and assuming we wouldnt have made much more progress on the annual losses incurred each year, personally I believe that the loss will be closer to 25-30m this financial year. Next year we will imho either break even or be within 5m of it, this financial year we would of had the money for winning the league and fa cup, coupled with a net spend of 10m and a reduction in wages of circa 25m and hopefully a longer run in the corrupt cup. In other words relax by the time the new rules that prat platini wants to bring in are implemented we should be on a solid financial base, man city on the other hand look like it will be 2025 at the earliest before they get their going off how long it took us and their superior outlay and running costs (wages).

My vote goes to paul clement, worked with a lot of our youth players over the last 5 years and keeps having his responsibility's added too near on season on season, obviously well thought of from within the hierarchy of the club already knows all our training methods and how we work, so seems the logical choice to me.

Heard on the grapevine that apparently something happened before the Liverpool game in the changing room (which might explain the lack of performance) ray was allegedly involved and apparently this is part of the fall out, like I said its still a rumour heard it from a mates mates mate (I know lol) and they may know the full story on monday, take it for what its worth.