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Silva, Tevez, Toure and others. No CL for City but yet still believe in the "project" Hazard agent said if Chelsea is willing to build a project again he will be interested. One season of not being in CL will not hurt him. Next season he will be there with a good team and getting good wages.

Chelsea is an establish team, and most player understand if a team fails one season to get in. Happen to Bayern and other team. It's a problem if it happens for more then one season!

Total misconception.

Yeah he should be giving time with that notion. At least till his contract is over. Cause if we do that, then some managers will see something change at the club that is no longer the merry go around, and might be interested in coming. Would love to have David Moyes if after 3 years AVB has not been that great.

BTW not that it matters any more, but my choice to take over Chelsea would have been Moyes (if that was possible) over Mourinho and Hiddink. He is not a big time coach like Hiddink, or Mourinho, but he has shown to work great with little budget time after time. Imagine that coach at Chelsea with just 50 mill to spend? Surely does something more amazing then what Mourinho, AVB or any other manager can do with that amount of money!

lol its funny you call it the "Drogab faction" or the "JT Group" But non of this is new. It was expected when AVB was appointed. It is what a lot of commentators said at the beginning, yet they got criticized by AVB and a lot of Chelsea fans....

I even remember when Mourinho did not wanted Alex, but some other defender and yet the club got him anyways.....

Can't put it any better. Sometimes I feel like the posters that post some of these opinions are little kids. Because how can you keep on with the same record, of firing managers after managers, when we been doing a lot of that since Roman came, and have not seen great long lasting result? Mancini is a very mediocre coach, but because he has a good squad it makes a bit less competent. 9 times out of 10 it will be the same thing with AVB. Once he has a great team, he will be hail as the next big thing, the best manager ever and all this stuff, but fail to see that it was mainly because he had a great squad....

Interesting take. So the manager has no say on transfer cause the club does all the buying and he has to work with that??? Well I remember a certain Mr. Mourinho that could not motivate and bring the best out of a super star like Sheva..... Sorry but I don't buy that. Mourinho left Chelsea because of that exact reason. The club wants to buy their own player and don't let the coach do their own thing. Bringing all these managers won't change squat if the club continues with their policies!

Well the squad trying to play like Lampard is a creative player, when he actually is more of a finisher. Lamp always benefited of great crosses and support from the side and behind. That has not been as of great in the last two seasons. We never really replace Deco, Ballack, Cole and others.

He might be, but i was told the he favor Bielsa over AVB. So for that he gets prop from me. I like person that stick to their ideas and don't jump bandwagon...like people wanting AVB to replace Carlo and now wanting him out. AVB was never my first choice but I am willing to stick with him through the tough times and good one.

Then you will be the most hopeless person in this planet!

You guys should watch A. Bilbao vs Betis. I think it might be better match then the Chelsea vs Everton! Well I think Montero from Ecuador who plays for Betis can be as good as Valencia. But he is more like a Duff. Smaller, not as strong, but fast and tricky. Lets see how he does today.

I remember reading somewhere where Platini said he will take into consideration teams that fail to qualify to the CL for terms of money to break even with the rules.... So yes in theory one season would not be bad. But two season, then that's bad!

He should have, but no new manager actually gets rid of so many players, on an establish team. Mourinho did it because Chelsea where not establish. When he went to Inter and now Madrid he did not do that. With an establish team you have to give the players you have a try and see what they got. It is why AVB is now talking about next season project. Expect some dead wood to leave and new players in, or more youth if we don't get 4th place and can't attract top players that season....But even then I don't think this will give too much weight with top prospect like Hazard, Lucas and such because they will know they will play CL next season, and will get good wages.

Well if we fail to get to CL this season, then these youngster would not mind playing for a Chelsea that plays Europa League. That might be good for our youngster to give them some time, but bad for Chelsea money wise.

That hurst when you are missing your important players. Imagine if Chelsea misses out Mata?

And you have a point. Roman is a big baby with a big ego. It will be hard to see him say I'm sorry or I was wrong. Including when we knew he was dead wrong about firing Mourinho. Yet he won't admit it publicly. It is why I think more likely he will keep him even if we fail to get into CL. Cause there is always next year...... Why do you think we bought so many young players? Get rid of the dead wood this summer and then let the players like Lukaku, KDB play for it.

I always thought that players like Lampard and Drogba can play for a couple of more years like Scholes and Giggs. But they have to accept those role like these two have at United. Or maybe we can offer them a pay as you play deal? Cause I would love to keep Lampard and Drogba for more years if they don't mind becoming "squad players"

Well I tell you that the moment we sack AVB we will be the biggest fool in the entire history! Sack Carlo for 15M to get AVB for 13M and then to sack him and pay some other compesation..... Sorry but that is ridiculous like what Madrid does. There will be no defending of Chelsea from me on that part, if that takes place. Because if that happens it shows we are run by an owner that uses Chelsea as it's play thing. That is dumb business. Why pay so much money just for one or two years?

You have a point. But I thought he was fair with: It is why from the beginning i knew we would be crap and did not expect Chelsea to win anything. I was expecting Chelsea to either finish 3rd or 4th. True, so what was the point in getting him the first place if this was the case?

So it is time to look back at a comment made by an analyst amongst AVB appointment as Chelsea coach: Exclusive - Souness: Chelsea should never have axed Ancelotti Graeme Souness believes Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich made a major mistake in replacing Carlo Ancelotti with Andre Villas-Boas. http://www.talksport...-axed-ancelotti in the end was Graeme Sounnes correct about AVB?

He should start next game, a long with Ryan. But that will be the day when I see some Chelsea manager play youngster!

Citizen Jose? http://www1.skysport...0/Citizen-Jose-