laura90

I will not rush to conclusions. I will wait untill 31 august . It's pretty funny actually. After two months of waiting and crying for wingers and creative midfielder, we end up getting goalkeeper and defensive midfielder. One will strenghten us from Madrid and other will, if turn into class, end up in Barca. But I will remain positive. Because, you Mr Gourlay have just shown that you lose some you win some. For instance, you have lost your ability to do you r job, but you got amazing sense of humor and incredible optimism. Because only very optimistic person can believe that you do your job properly.

I'm afraid it is at least one of them, probably Oriol. Even if not, two signings are not enough. We need at least three. Creative midfielder and two wingers. Or, creative midfielder, winger and proper right back. But this is Chelsea football club! We will buy a striker to fix non-existing midfield problem. We will appoint a new manager, physiotherapist and doctor to fix ageing squad problem. Only in our club house is made starting from the roof. Only in our club we expect miracles, even without Harry Potter and his magic wand!

When manager has money on his disposal, he enters transfermarket and buys the appropriate players. When manager doesn't have money on his disposal, we hear statements like these : "My squad is good enough and I don't have to buy" or " I have to assess squad first to see what I already have ( even though when I finish my assessing most quality players out there will become unavailable.)

Disclosure . That was the last game in one word. In those 90 minutes were painfully obvious all mistakes our board "It's the players who wins you games and manager who loses them" have made. Huge wages, managers mary-go-round, insane transfer fees for some players ( who don't even fit into our style of play) and poor scouting , among others, will have impact on our team and game, no matter who the manager is. We are in a big mess. We desperately need new players ( creative midfielder who can assist and two wingers are must, maybe even attacking midfielder) but at the same time no one seems willing to spent that much. I was never happy when AVB came to CFC .The same way I wasn't happy when Torres had come. In these circumstances, both are doomed to failure. We lack creativity, we don't provide enough service for strikers like Torres( or Kezman, Crespo, Mutu, Shevchenko ). Not as much as they used to have before. Without good service they feel enormous pressure every time they get a chance, which leads to error . And so they lose confidence and become flops. AVB is great young manager whose success is based on an excellent tactical skills and man-managment. But right now, we don't have players who will carry out his tactical ideas. Not all of them, anyway. And man-managment .How will he cope with the most influental players ? Put them on the bench ? With their wages? And replace them with who?