Tomo

Bring the top 10 member's thing back at the side of the screen, gives users something to aim for IMO

We have had a bad season big shit. Every top team has them Arsenal 05/06 their "invincibles" minus Vieira only just got into the top 4. Man.Utd 01/02 started new year 9th before a run of wins saved their season to finish 3rd Bayern 06/07 missed out on the CL spot's which forced them to spend big next summer to get back in Barca 07/08 finished nearly 20 points behind Real and even finished below Villareal, 3 years on they have the same spine (Valdes-Puyol-Iniesta-Xavi-Messi) and are ruling europe Inter this season Similar to us really, laboured in 6th at one point but now recovered to 2nd but still way off the leaderboard EVERY ONE HAS BAD SEASON'S FFS AND THIS IS ONE OF OURS

The youth cup last season and now the reserve league this season shows our youth team are outstanding and only going to get better, our U14's thumping City 9-0 is clear proof of that and i honestly think we can have half of these in our 1st team squad (Mceachran, 2 Clifford's, Tore, Chalaboah, ADC etc etc)

fair play Mario

Im struggling to get to grips with it. Ive got the talk Chelsea team and this other team i got offered the job for but it wont let me promote youth players or nothing

There is only 1 way the youth will be played for the Newcastle game and if this combination happens - Man.Utd get confirmed as Champions on saturday - Arsenal lose at home to Villa which effectively gets us 2nd. other than that i think we can forget it as in Carlo's eyes were still have something to play for.

This would be a superb signing as far as im concerned, him and Neymar in so we can get the Duff and Robben days back would suit me down to the ground

Cech Paulo Alex (dont deserve to be dropped) JT Ryan Obi Josh Lampard Malouda Anelka El Nino

Its a Utd player what do you expect?

Just accepted the job of a team bottom of division 7 with no points after 7 games and sacked their previous gaffer due to a 5-2 home defeat, shit. Dont worry still signed up tot he talk chelsea league tho

Ive also been offered a job with El Pep Team, i think ive got 2 teams now (the team for our league and that one)

So if were not there on the matchtime there play it without us?

Do we have to be present for out matchtimes?

This makes me miss the Gudjohnsen, Zola and Hasselbaink trio, if we had those 3 up front (at their peak) yesterday we would have atleast gone down fighting. What id never forget about Jimmy is when things werent going our way he would use his anger to get us back in it, something we could have done with yesterday.

Unbelievable. Maybe they should watch the reverse match against Utd the games against Spuds and City and (the time he was on) against Liverpool. Not once did they get through our defense with him on the pitch.

As manager? no im happy with Carlo Anything else? YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I might aswell give it a crack aswell

How many times will we lose out to Madrid FFS 1st Drenthe then Kaka, Ozil after and now Sahin

Its all swing and roundabouts. They may have had the beating off us this time but we had a huge hold on them pre-Roman on the pitch (especially at Old Trafford) and in the 1st four Roman years they beat us once in 11 attempts.

Stats like this can be misleading. IE United will win the league this year with less points than they finished second in last time but would they care when they lift the title in the theater of shit? not in the slightest. Our 02/03 team at their peak could quite easily have won this league season. The dip in points for the champions since 04-05 (08-09 aside) shows that not just the top teams aint as good as before but the "lesser" teams are getting better and really fancy their chances when coming to Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, Emirates etc etc... The only way has been down for every top team over the last few years not just us Utd are going to be probally the worst winners for a long time, BUT with carefull managing, promotion of youth players and clever transfers there is only 1 way Chelsea FC are going and that is up. On a side note can we lock this thread, how this has got over 1,000 comments and 20,000 views is beyond me.

Basically last year was what was feared, the last horay for the formidable team of 04-10 and serious adjustments are needed. Whether a new manager in or Carlo stays (hopefully the latter) the squad needs a fair bit of tweaking , Lampard and Drogba should be used sparingly as we cant keep relying on them for the next few years, time to bring in 2 wingers, a RB, a forward (with Anelka and Malouda on their way), i will always appreciate these players and what they done but we must not be sentimental. The squad dont need as big a overhaul as people make out but it DOES need changes. Dont need to bring in a creative midfielder weve got 1 who goes by the name of Josh McEachran. OUT Hilario and Paulo - not as bad as people like to make out but both takes up valuable over 21 foreign spot, both have been great servants and if played against Newcastle should get the standing ovation they deserve. Bosingwa - Never really rated him highly not good enough defensively and living of his 1st couple of months. Anelka and Malouda - Both given us great memories but the time is right for both parties. IN 2 wingers A right back A forward SQUAD Cech/Delac/Turnbull/Blackman Ivanovic/new RB/ B.Clifford Terry/Luiz/Alex/Bruma/Chalobah Cole/Bertrand/Deen-Conteh Mikel/Essien/C.Clifford McEachran/Ramires/Benayoun/Lampard/Mellis 2 new wingers/Kalou/Yuri New forward/Torres/Drogba/Sturridge/Borini Under the homegrown rules we can name unlimited under 21's in our squad, time we started doing that (hench the inclusion of the youth players).

Whats with this McEachran doesnt get loads of playing time bolax? He has still featured FIFTEEN times this season which is well above the average for a player in the 17-18 bracket, Beckham didnt break through the United team until he was 20. In the year they were 17 turning 18 Lampard was on loan at Swansea Cech was playing for a club called Blasny and only made 1 appearance that season Terry was still awaiting his Chelsea debut Essien was still awaiting his professional debut. Just because he aint playing every week at 17 DOESNT mean he aint going to make it