Tomo

Can someone create a thread for trolling? in that way anyone that wants to troll can do so there.

Hilario is fine to come in for a few games, as he shown in his MOTM performance against Liverpool in 2009 and when he came in against Barca in 2006 then only conceded 1 in 4 in his first games for us. Hilario's problem however is consistency, he was first choice for a few months in 2006 but after the first few games he started to make mistake's and concede goals regularly. If Cech is only injured for a few games then Hilario is fine but is Petr gets a long term injury then we should seriously consider a recall for Thiabut.

This game shown me Benayoun should be kept in the squad rather than Meireles.

It depends how much you were expecting out of the season. I think their were a few reality checks in this game for people hoping for a title win this season, for that to happen from 6th place was unrealistic anyway. The new players will need to gel, we on the face off it are only an injury to 2 of Mata, Hazard, Oscar and Marin away from having the same stale look of the last 2 season's. That won't sort itself out overnight, we will still get the odd couple of those this season. What these games have taught me so far amoungst anything else is that we need to sort the double pivot out, Lampard and Essien there doesn't seem to work. It has to be Mikel and someone else. The main focus in the league this season has to be slowly blending in the new style, get top 3 (we don't want to get a taste of our own medicine by finishing 4th then Arsenal winning the CL from 5th or something ) and sort our record against the "lesser teams" out. Aswell as hopefully sneaking the CWC and maybe FA Cup again. The future of this club is great, better than its ever been, but without meaning to sound like Wenger, this season is more about progression and heading in the right direction, 2013/2014 is the next time we should be looking at a massive title push again.

hopefully Arsenal will be a sport and be the opponents.

With Bertrand in the Olympics, this would have been the perfect chance for PVA to salvage his career here.

How did he do against United?

lovely header

Benayoun has done well imo

Lampard and Essien can't play the double pivot at the same time.

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2012/7/25/3186862/chelsea-fc-are-beating-ffp-in-6-simple-steps

Put it this way im not usually a fan off manager games (far too frustrating) but i love this.

Congrats and on the Cup win.

Fantastic 3 way title race this season.

He has to stay for atleast this season for the reason i gave above on this page.

He seems to lack the mental strength, has never really recovered from that penalty against Blackburn that kicked us out of the Carling Cup.

Kakuta made a bad move stating he is not going back on loan, if he believes he is good enough and can break in the team at some point then he should be patient and go on as many loans as the club send him on. Look at Bertrand as an example. If he made a play me or sell me demand at 21 (2 summer's ago) he would be playing for Nottingham Forest or Reading now and would be nowhere near a CL final or an Olympic Squad place. Someone needs to get Ryan to ring Kakuta up.

Showing amazing potential but lets stay grounded with this lad, lets not jump on his potential too soon like we did with Kakuta and to a lesser extent McEachran, so basically no comments like "he will never make it, they don't trust him" if he doesn't play at home to Southampton" or "we have signed a midfielder, fuck it he must be sold" or "lets start him now week in week out, so we show the world we can play teenagers" because comments like that drive me up the wall as much as they are untrue.

The thing with Malouda is he is a bandwagon jumper (so to speak), good when its going well but rubbish when it's not, basically his form follows whatever form the team as a whole is in. Hopefully with the new signings things will start going well again on a more consistent basis and Malouda will tag along with that status quo.

credit where credits due, he was pretty good when he came on.

Haven't the club given him until mid September off.

He wont be sitting on the bench,he will be winning us titles.

The point im trying to make is we have not won a Premier League title sticking to the same formation all season. If we stuck to the diamond in 04-05, Arsenal would have stormed ahead of us by Christmas, If Jose didn't ditch the wingplay in March 06, United could well have caught us and if Carlo did not ditch the diamond mdway through the double winning season we would not have won the league, let alone scored 103 goals.

Because he is the best forward in the world (in my opinion). Because Torres is only one little knock away from another goal drought. Because he is the closest to Didier Drogba Europe is likely to see for a long time. Because he is a big game player, Torres isnt any more and Danny isnt (yet). Because Didier's departure has left a gaping hole in our front line, in more ways than one, if Torres has another stinking start (which is not beyond the realms of possibility, infact it is more possible than not) then the pressure is on young Danny to score goals. Bottom line is Torres as number one forward is far too risky, he has shown nothing to suggest he can reproduce the form that a team challenging for big honours need from their number one forward, plus he has no mental strength, look at Didier, he thrived on abuse from opposition fans, with Torres its the opposite, play him against Liverpool and he ends up back in his shell again.

In 2004/2005 we started with the diamond then went to 4-3-3, then in 2005/2006 about March time 4-3-3 and the wing play was getting found out and United could quite possible have caught us if Jose didn't revert back to 4-4-2 with Drogba and Crespo up top. Then in Carlo's first year we started with the diamond, it wasn't until January we reverted back to 4-3-3.