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Bit of a non story really! JT has been doing team bonding exercises like this for years!

I agree it would be a good appointment for us for sure. Not too sure if i can see it happening though, a Jose to Barca/Rightguard to Chelsea swap does look possible for the summer though!! And he does have the experience of bringing through younger players..

Lol, funny how everyone all of a sudden would LOVE to see Rightguard at Chelsea..... wasn't too long ago everybody completely disliked him and would never want him here

These Friendlies happen all the time behind closed doors and very rarely do you get any information on them.....

Sinclair is an excellant prospect and fantastic at what he does. He has all the ingredients to be a top class winger! He has pace, skill and his finishing is top class. However, i do believe that Stoch and Kakuta ARE more promising, purely because they have more ability on the ball, Sinclair for me is a pure winger whereas Stoch and Kakuta can be central playmakers as well as wingers and always do damage. All 3 have masses of Ability but i do believe that with the right development Stoch and Kakuta can be World Class..... Sinclair will have games where he is not involved much, Stoch and Kakuta are always the main players in the games they play in...

There is certainly some negative creeping football comming in and it is certainly down to more than the wrong players out there, even though i think it is a huge part of it. Tactically we are not at the races, we are not up for games and closing teams down and getting at them fast.................

Playing a more attack minded player like SWP in the attacking central position does work better and he performs better there than he does on the wing, but there is scope there for improvement, only Joe Cole is the other player who i think can operate there but he is never given the chance.... Well i am not expecting Kakuta to make any first team appearances for a long while, he is still only 16!! Stoch though i would play him.....

No not as big as us. But it is the principal of the 4-3-3 formation only working with certain "types" of players, and for me one of the most important is the creative attacking midfielder, which in the youth team example was Kakuta.... SWP, Pizarro, Malouda and Ballack are not creative players really........

Well port vale knocked out some big teams previously.... Absolutely, we totally lack imagination! Who are our creative players? Kalou, Cole..... wo else? It takes 30 passes to get to their box and then when there is no opening it goes back to Cech and we start all over again.

Would be nice to get some more from Malouda but i just can't see it at the moment. It wasn't just the players that were quicker, it was the way they played. From defence to attack in 3 passes and we have them on the break!!!

Lol, yeah would be fun! All i gotta do now is convince the missus

It is definately something we miss, so is the problem of the Attacking Midfield playmaker. Malouda is a good player, and can contribute greatly to us. But he isn't the sort of winger we need who is going to take on his man, Malouda is more likely to cross from deep. We can improve my just speeding our game up, at the moment we are far too slow and it makes it easy for the opposition..

Having watched the Youth Team game last night and how their played the 4-3-3 i am even more convinced that what i feel we need to change is needed! By contrast we are struggling to create ANY chances in a game at the moment, the youth team created more chances in the first 10 minutes than the first team have all month!! So whats the difference? The difference is that they had 2 wingers who are prepared to run at defenders and take them on, so many chances were created by the wingers getting past their defenders and pulling the ball back, we don't see this anymore!!! Also they had an actual attacking midfielder who was always high up the pitch knowing that he had 2 midfielders behind him leaving him able to stay forward creating chances and opening the team up and more importantly completely supporting the lone striker!!!! The passing was quick and the breaks were lightning rather than the snail pace build up we are seeing in the first team at the moment.

Hard to say, as you say he is only 16! Next season he will be a reserve regular and then they will evaluate how he is doing again. If he continues in the way he has been he could definately be breaking through by 18. Stoch for me is on the verge, would give him a chance now.

Dates not set yet! But i will definately try and get down there myself...

Yup he is not afraid to crack them from distance thats for sure, he is our top scorer for the Youth Team now and for someone who is not a striker is not bad at all....

I would doubt anything will happen till the end of the season now anyway...... Roman will have to take a good long hard look and decide if he honestly believes Grant is good enough!!! The fans have made their descision.

A bloody exciting one!!! Can play either as a winger or as an attacking central midfielder playing behind the striker. Has looked outstanding in both positions. He has pace and skill, he does so many flicks and tricks and more often than not they actually come off and are not just for show. He also isn't a greedy player and will rack up the assists no problem, he can spot a through ball so well. His finishing is quality as well, he took his goals last night so well and they were not all straight forward. It's hard to make a comparison but i guess similar in style to someone like Kaka or even Zidane - he may not reach that level but the potential is massive...

Judging from what we have heard recently it would be rising stars of the likes of Modric and Benzema ect.. Completely questionable if that is the right thing to do though! I would rather give the money to someone else to spend, i don't think Grant really knows what he needs....

Well if Stoch plays another whole season without going on loan he will qualify for the UEFA homegrown rule, Kakuta needs another 2 seasons.... Stoch and Kakuta are without doubt our 2 most exciting talents at the moment!

Man City won 4 - 1 - can't remember who they were playing now though Villa will be a tough Semi final but we have the quality to run anyone completely ragged and we can certainly make the final, which is likely to be Man City....

Just because i am not happy with the current situation doesn't mean i have to automatically start believing all the garbage written in the papers as gospel! Ten Cate commenting today saying pretty much what i said, a bit of a disagreement but not as bad as made out! And my garden is very nice actually thanks

It is difficult because we have no idea how the most important man in this feels. Roman is the one who has to make this choice in the end. Does he believe that Grant is the right man in the long run? Will winning a cup be enough to decide to keep him on? You can pretty much gurantee that the club know how the fans feel, the sentiment is carried through all the Chelsea forums and even being quoted in the S*and today!

So Roman buys a steel company in Australia so that obviously means he is going to get involved with Football over there??

Trying not to get too excited by Kakuta but it is hard. EVERY game he plays in he is just incredible and the game last night was just perfection. He can work on the wing and be outstanding like he did in the last round or he can play inside as the attacking midfielder and just be different class. Even when he has appeared for the reserves this season he has been great. The skills and movement are just unreal. If we can't bring this boy through to our first team then there is something seriously wrong....