didierforever

Luiz- matic midfield I hear. In that case just srll rambo, lamps and mikel off. Also since when did ramvo stop being a nailed on starter for us. Was not he the player who literally owned yaya at the bridge???

Have u seen our squad? Kdb and mata dint get oppurtunities to play and hence left/were sold. Essien left cos of lack of games. We had 3 strikers, 6 Ams, 5 dms, 8 defenders which is 22 players for 10 outfield positions. And u somehow want mou to play youth? Where, when how? Compare this to last season where we had 2 strikers, 5 ams and 4 dms. Which includes marin and romeu, hanve the oppurtunutiea to yiuth

in - cavani, shaw out - torres, BA,etoo, moses, marin, kakuta, cole, cech/courtois, mikel squad - GK - cech/courtois, blackman DEF - azpi,iva, JT,DL,GC,zouma, shaw,bertand DM - rambo, matic,lamps, romeu, mvg AM - oscar, willian, hazard, schurrle, salah, traore ST- cavani, lukaku simply cant take a decision on cech/courtois. head says one, heart says another. jose will have my full support for this decision cos this one is a big one.

cant see him going for more than 10mil. but we should keep him. a good squad player.

u kinda step on your own point there when u say "how promoting youth sacrifices trophies" and then go on to say something about arse-anal. they are the perfect example of youth overkill. i would take buying players rather than having players like andre santos playing for chelsea.    barca and bayern are lucky to get a "group" of great players together. if we had players like iniesta, xavi, messi, schweini, lahm, muller, kroos, i am pretty sure our club would use them. unfortunately, carlton cole, mancienne, jack cork hardly make that grade. 

RDM was literally playing MAZACAR in every match with no rotation whatsoever. with marin injured, he dint have an option but to start piazon in the match to give atleast one of them a rest. same goes for rafa, with romeu and mikel injured towards the end of the season, our only 2 options for the pivot were rambo and lamps, add to that, that DL was playing literally every match either as a DM or a CB and u had another no brainer in starting ake to give them a rest.   varane, morata are just a couple of examples of promoting youth. and jose so far has not stayed long enough in clubs to actually make a significant change. here its going to be a massively different story. jose is not just going to play them one or 2 matches, he has to shape their careers. which i feel is what will exactly happen. 

totally agree.

well, you used an example to do what? prove a point, right? but using spain's midfield as an example here could not be more inappropriate. the approach to the game that these 2 teams have could not be more different. also spain's team in WC did lack mobility. and that was one of the reasons that they scored 8 goals (i think) in the whole of WC. and like i said before their success had a lot to do with a solid defence which england dont have. add to that the fact that the english mid wont have 10% of the understanding and the overall passing ability that the spanish team have (dont forget that spain literally play 4-6-0 sometimes and each and every1 of those midfield players is a great passer of the ball), i just doubt if the example is a valid one here. anyways, getting too off-topic and off the original point. i just simply cant see the benefit of playing carrick in THAT role (DM i can totally understand) instead of lamps. specially since a 35 year old lamps still has the legs on a 31 year old carrick, has as good a passing ability and definitely is a far greater goal threat (which would be very useful since i cant see where england's goals would come from). so lets just agree to disagree about it.

Seriously? Comparing the english mid to spain's. Well the difference would be that barry is not half the player xabi/busquets is. Lalana is compared to iniesta here, walcott is compared to silva/fab. And the worst thing is that while the spanish play tiki-taka to perfection I don't expect england to win the posession stat against any team even in the group stages. Also do not forget that spain had a brilliant defense to accompany their mid, that's hardly what u can say about england's defence. Carrick and gerrard might be great passers of the ball but I think so is frank plus he is a thousand times greater threat to the opposition goal than carrick is plus would definitely give the team a lot more than carrick playing in that mid field 3. I think even walcott would be a better option thab him.

Smalling might have played a lot with jones, but that hardly makes up for his shitiness. You have lined up in a 4-3-3 which has barry in it who can play nothing else than a DM, so by default gerrard and the other midfielder get more mobile. Otherwise it would be the same story for these guys as was against germany, sitting too deep and simply no transitiom from defence to attack.

smalling ahead of cahill and carrick ahead of lamps in the box to box role would be my only doubts cos smalling sucks and carrick is far too immobile for that role.

the first and the most important thing for youth to develop in any team is the manager. lets take mceachran as an example. the 17 year old boy was shown incredible faith in, by carlo ancelotti. if carlo had continued i am sure he would have integrated mceachran in the team, moulded him, worked on his defects and made him into a far better player than he is right now. but due to absolutely no consistency in the managers, in fact due to the managerial chairs that has been going on at the club, its not suprising that no player has come thru the ranks. why would an interim manager like hiddink/rafa even care about our youth? managers like avram, rdm and avb had enough pressure to deal with anyways than risk losing a couple of matches here and there cos of trying to promote the youth.   but now i feel things are going to be a lot different. jose is here to say. u can take a look at the way we have dealt in the transfer window, u can take a look at the profile of our players and simply say we are JOSE's team. in a couple of years, i am pretty sure some of the youth will be given a chance. i have no doubt about JOSE's eye for talent and i have no doubt that any1 deserving would make the team in the coming years.   my prediction.   bamford as squad - ST traore, piazon as AMs chalobah  as DM ake as DEF.   from the current group of loaned out ACADEMY players (players like courtois, lukaku, romeu are not counted).

yup, thats arsenal for you. hehehehe...

united, tottenham both fuck up. hopefully palace can somehow take some points off arsenal. injuries, fixture list, pressure, it has got to get to arsenal at some point. my opinion is that its this week.

hey mata!!!

what a brilliant game from him!!!

come on RM, come on ATM. dont fuck up this time.

who was it? my bet is IVA. also what did not get the reply to mou's question of "portugues, spanish?"

our squad is pretty much there and there abouts. GKs - cech , courtois, hilario (i am pretty sure that somehow he ll get an extension), blackman def - JT, GC, DL, zouma, kalas, iva, azpi, AC, bert, pva, wallace, ake DM/CM - rambo, lamps, mikel, matic, romeu, mvg, josh, chalobah AM - oscar, hazard, willian, schurrle, salah, moses, piazon, traore, atsu, marin, kakuta, thorgan ST - lukaku, FT, etoo, BA, bamford (by the looks of it he might be as useful as some of the names of the list). a lot of "big" decisions to be made to jose and the board concerning the squad. the GK choice, contract extension to the 3 legends (JT, FL, AC), integration of youth etc etc. the only thing that is OBVIOUS is that we will buy a WC striker this summer. cavani should be it for me. dont care if its 60mil or 50mil. will be interesting to see who makes the grade and who does not.

CAVANI!!!!

zabaleta has 3 yellows and yaya has 2 yellows, how can they be suspended?

1. Thibaut Courtois 2. Todd Kane 3. Marko Marin 4. George Saville 5. Oriol Romeu 6. Milan Lalkovič 7. Patrick van Aanholt 8. Thorgan Hazard 9. Cristián Cuevas 10. Jhon Pírez 11. Lucas Piazón 12. Wallace 13. Stipe Perica 14. Christian Atsu 15. Victor Moses 16. Ulises Dávila 17. Romelu Lukaku 18. Bertrand Traoré 19. Patrick Bamford 20. Kenneth Omeruo 21. Nathaniel Chalobah 22. Ryan Bertrand 23. Josh McEachran 24. Matej Delac 25. Billy Clifford 26. Kurt Zouma 27. Gael Kakuta. who are the 3 that i missed?

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3647704/title/kakuta-loaned-to-lazio

whats the latest on kakuta? did we finally decide that he is a gone case and are now letting him go?

i am claiming what jose has repeatedly said in his PCs. he is not going to rush matic into the first team and definitely not give him his first PL start against man city at etihad.