Tomo

thoughts?

With Ron Gourlay in sole charge expect Benitez appointed next week with Aquallani and David N Gog arriving on long term deals.

Mancienne and Sala i was not too disappointed by considering i never thought they would make the grade, Tore on the other hand I doubt it otherwise Tore would still be here.

If Ashely Cole's injury picked up for England is as bad as some fear then maybe Hiddink (if appointed) will give him a crack early on?

No doubt he is quality but £25 million when we have our own homegrown starlet who will be better than him in Josh. Plus yes he is captain material but we have some-one in that mould who is a similar age has Chelsea in his heart and scored the winner which got us the youth cup, he's called Conor Clifford remember him?

If we let him go we deserve everything that gets thrown at us. But im sure it wont come to that.

Got enough threads there mate?

The fact that Bruma is only set to go out on loan must show the club have some sort of future planned for him, watch this space Hamburg will attempt to get Conor Clifford next

We might aswell close this thread and re open it on August 31st

I really do not understand this one. Tore was given his break internationally by Hiddink and with Guus odds on to come back for us would it not make sense for him to bide his time because Guus obviously likes the look of him and would have given him chances to prove himself, right? Hopefully we dont end up losing Lalkovic because that would really take the piss.

Villas Boaz may have "only won" the portuguese league and the Europa league but his achievements go much deeper than that. Lets start with his job at Academia, he left his comfort zone under Mourinho, he had a safe and easy job following Mourinho around everywhere and he took a team on that, when he took over in October 2009, they were bottom of the league and without a win, they looked like Portugal's very own Derby County until AVB took them to 11th place safety. outstanding. This year at Porto he has not only won the League and Europa he has broke numerous record in the process Outstading and remember 12 months previously, Porto dropped out of the CL places and looked in terminal decline, the year before AVB took over they were so far behind Benfica it was embarrassing. If AVB follows this season up with a strong run in the CL and another league title the whole of europe will start taking notice properly. Mark my words he will be the greatest manager ever. As for Pep fair play to him for gelling the Barca team together into what they are today but any-one who saw them knew they had what they achieved in them, prior to Pep making them noticed Iniesta and Xavi were the most under-rated players in the world, Messi although raved about alot of people thought Ronaldo and Kaka were better prior to 2008, i know its a clichie but any-one who saw Barca and especially Spain in Euro 2008 knew the Barca players had it in them to reach these heights and fair play to pep for making that work but if he comes here he will need to use the market and his transfer record leaves a lot to be desired .Remeber Rjkard? he won back to back titles and in English rules it would have been 3 (like Pep) but things went stale for him there and since then has got found out, we dont know if the same will happen with Pep. Moving on to Hiddink we will certainly stand a better chance in Europe with Guus around, he could probably out tactic any one in the game (Jose included) but Hiddink's big test will be when we hit a brick wall in the league, will he turn it around before it gets terminal or will he be thinking shit whats going on how do i sort this out?

take McEachran out its a extra added 0 to that

Out of interest with Hiddink incharge am i the only one that fancies a game against Madrid? Hiddink V Jose battle will be thrilling and i honestly believe Guus could do him.

Its our fault for giving them hardly any chances, not just recently but for years. The majority of our reserve and youth cup winning team have the potenital to be some of the best players in europe (in their position) but we never give them a chance to prove it.

oh i was meant to tag blue lion haha, was wondering how you colud edit the football website.

How do you make one of those?

I do think Hilario gets some un fair stick at times, its all stemed from the City game, can you remember the Barca, Liverpool games especially where he was amazing.

Think its safe to say Jim has all but won it now, and (although i didnt vote for you) its fully deserve mate Have to say the nominations were hard and to choose 1 was even harder and there were about 10 users that had a strong case this month.

On league basis during 04/05 and 05/06 we were unstoppable and if it weren't for Steven Hunt's boot it would have been more of the same in 06/07 actually thinking of that i think our squad as a whole peaked in 07/08 and if we flipping kept Jose i still believe we would have won the lot, possibly breaking our previous 95 point record in 04/05. Since 08/09 i think our great side of recent times have declined and despite the double and bar our record breaking scoring couple of months in April/May 2010 i think it has shown in general. Im grateful for the League titles ive seen as a Chelsea fan because i didn't expect to see even one but thinking how many more we could have won and even if we kept Jose the CL would have been safely in the bag by now does frustrate me.

Can i just say when i went to Bulgaria last summer, we were by far the most popular english club there, both sports shop's in Vratsa were littered with Chelsea geer i thought i was actually in west london, dont know about the rest of the country but we were sure loved in that town.

If you done this on a all fans football forum you would have other fans barrading you with childish comments within seconds, good article never the less tho Big clubs is not always dependent on trophies, sometimes it can be very misleading, Rangers are considered a big club because they have 52 titles, if they played in English football id be surprised if they even had 5 and if we played in Scotland we'd have a huge number and would have probably one the vast majority of titles since 95 if not all of them. History is NOT dependent on trophies more tradition, no-one seems to shut up about West Ham's history despite the fact the've never won the league but say we have none even tho pre-Roman or even Bates and Harding we had more than West Ham (even tho bar the thuggery side i cant see how there bigger than us) Rotherham have never won a trophy but id love to see you tell the chuckle brothers that they have no history. I hate it when we get slated for "lack of youth products" in the last decade as proof our academy's rubbish, so they remember that we produced probably the best forward ever to grace English football? (Jimmy Greaves). Last decade we have fallen short but we have produced great players before and even know we have a fair few that are in playing in the prem or have in the last year or so or a top euro league (Beckford, Cork, C.Cole, Mancienne etc...)

It dont make sense him resigning if he didnt have another job lined up but then Villa could be saying that to ease the media scrutiny. Relieved Houllier stepped down, he would be taking an pointless health risk carrying on. Henrique Hiddink did well with his tactics in the second half but after winning away 3-1 we should never in a millions years have even given Liverpool a glimmer, Essien and Mikel should both have played DM and if it came down to it just shut up shop and play for the 0-0, it must frustrate Liverpool fans tho they came out of the blocks firing if they did that at home to the likes of West Ham they would have surely walked the league that season that and if Rafa kept his gob shut.

We need back up, what if Cech gets injured in September and we end up stuck with Turnbull till January? because i can tell you i will probaly be in hospital with a heart attack if i have to watch him for 5 months.

Exactly what i mean, Hahnemann for 1 year, maybe 2 then Delac will be ready.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1336604/Chelsea-target-David-Luiz-prefer-Manchester-City-move.html