didierforever

We bought a 25mil £ 24 or something year old, potentially world next best center back. Fair enough? Maybe but STILL over priced. I am not denying any facts. If price was a criteria to see a Players' calibre then luiz would have been the best EVER.Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the world it is not. The fact is that while luiz is a top top FOOTBALLER, his concentration, brain darts, decision making make hin anything but a world class defender. Those are the facts.

according to robguima... bale is better than ronaldo, messi, maria etc etc.. infact bale is the bestest player EVER. since the transfer market is the best way to.judge a player. Also torres os better than DD, zlatan, henry etc etc. Torrss is the best striker. He was also brought for 50mil and the narket does not lie.

and we would be dogding a bullet!!!

Lets change the question from Future chelsea captain to this one: If JT gets injured from a couple of weeks and suppose jose thinks that courtois is the man between the poles (hence cech is sold or 2nd choice). Who would your player be THIS SEASON to wear the armband? courtois azpi GC iva luis cesc matic willian oscar hazard costa for me its a no-brainer. should be IVA.

matic-vidal. now thats a pivot that can dominate the world. but it will also render 27mil for cesc as a bit of a waste.

then lets stop all the discussion and make hazard the captain. cos as far as i remember cesc in known to choke with the game on the line and has a huge question mark on his character and general fight. as for respect and importance to the squad, dont think he will be ahead of the likes of cahill and iva and simply should not be. also, casillas was not RM's first team player last season. puyol was barca's. yet they were the club captains. messi does not get the armband when puyol is absent. xavi does, if not him valdes does. club loyalty and longevity should take a massive precedence in such cases specially when their is not a natural leader like JT in the squad.

how is cesc even in the polls? the club captain should be based on the club's loyalty, longevity, status.

pepe would be a delight to have. but a CB pairing of benatia/mangala-kompany. along with midfield re-inforcements of fernando is scary!!

would any defender be able to replicate those performances for a team like arsenal or tottenham. vidic was a monster a year ago. jones was supposed to be the next best thing possible a year ago under saf, the person who stopped CR. moyes comes in, structure falls down, and defenders are exposed!!!

so we played a low block against cardiff in the last match. norwich? whu? aston villa? sunderland? i really dont think so. in most of those matches and for the majority of those matches we were camped inside the opposition half waiting for a moment of magic. i have given u link to what our manager thinks we played, so that along with the matches should really take out all doubts. also, cahill is brilliant in a low block, it suits cahill when the opposition simply goes long ball on us, he is pretty good in england be in the world cup or the qualifiers. well... ummm.. i think pretty good all round defender then, i will say. cahill not being good on the ball or not doing a luiz by taking the ball in the opposition third and then leaving us open to the counters is hardly a reason why i would not call him world class. he is a defender, his job is to defend first and be a threat from the set pieces to help the team. (otherwise the day is not far way when people say CR is not world class cos his contribution in defence is next to nothing).

bad news... it means they will definitely buy mangala.

this is so weird!!! here, i thought we were playing a high line in majority of the matches. http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/3/25/5545706/jose-mourinho-john-terry-high-line i mean i would have said we pressed teams high up the pitch even if it was arsenal, united and tottenham at home. half the season we played with lamps and rambo, hardly defensive minded. u think our wingers wont track back next season cos jose promised a more attacking approach? seriously? the best CB in PL this season and one performance in the world coupled with the last few years (like the CL win), i think thats a fair enough time span to judge if the player is world class or not!!!

"ultra" defensive system??!!! so we "park the bus" against norwich and wba and cardiffs of the PL? this is going beyong ridiculous. just cos we played that way in 2 (just 2) matches against pool (away) and ATM (away), that means we have played that way all season long. we had a SOLID and compact system (if that is what u meant be ultra-defensive). i am sorry that chelsea conceded the least amount of goals in PL and were the best defensive unit as a team which has led some obnoxious views about us. but the truth is that sytem had its base in a GC-JT partnership. and GC was immense in that. england are barely playing in an "ultra-defensive" system and yet he would have been their 2nd best player on the pitch behind sturridge last night. that itself tells me that he is more than apt to adapt to different types of systems.

he has a "very good game" about 85% of the games he plays in. that consistency coupled with how solid he is itself should edge him towards world class rather than a "good defender".

HAPPY bday frank!!!!!!!!!

wow... suprised this thread is so quite after last night. i thought he was absolutely IMMENSE. its high time when he starts being regarded as world class.

Have we already been paid... can't we have an exchange maybe 10mil cash too for psg... but lets get him!!!

there is a difference in going to random threads and calling player X sucky or player Y useless. but to call jose "classless" was over-stepping the bounds!!!

personally, i would have gone all out for vidal rather than get cesc. anyways, lets hope jose got it right!!!

i am sorry dude, but when i classify a person as a "good person", "bad person", "classless person", i will judge him as a whole not on a harsh tackle that a player had made, or a statement that a manager would have said to benefit his team. like i said, some people just want to win on the field. they can do anything to achieve that and in the heat of the moment they might do something they regret. but to call them "classless" for that is welll henrique-ish... since no one in the right frame of mind would do that.

when u call a person CLASSLESS it involves his character and personality as a whole. DD used to dive, but as a person there are hardly people who might be as humble and down to earth and genuinely a nice person as he is. they are hard competitors. they will do anything to win, they are winners. but to say that jose or DD is CLASSLESS is a CLASSLESS statement from one of the worst posters on here who does nothing more than give foolish and childish statements just to get some limelight.

first of all its 2 good seasons, not just one. secondly, 2 good seasons is not a the perfect time span to judge him but 2 poor matches are? where is the sense?

exteremely classless!!! i mean just a few days ago he was on that tour for WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME. classless!!!

first lukaku was shit now costa is shit!!!!! when will people learn not to overreact after every poor performance from our players!!! we should probably sell off azpi after his 2 horrific displays. GC made a mistake for the balo goal... sell him too!!!

you know there is something wrong with the heads of the fans when they are cribbing about getting one of the best left backs in the world currently who will easily give us 4 good/great years. spoilt. absolutely spoilt!!!