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the voting reflects harshly on the other candidates. LDN deserves the job but the others are worthy too. 20 vote difference is not reflecting the true story

fair enough. good article u should write more. this place needs articles more than anything else

good roundup of the chelsea representatives at the euros But

with Arsenal. 2005. very good pen tbh

even with a good scouting system in place, we will go for expensive heralded players rather than cisse, cabaye , tiote. there should be a shift of policy from the board

i'm surprised tbh. cole should have expected buffon to go that way. he took a fantastic pen in the fa cup final against manunited. high and towards the Keeper's right with a kinda david luiz run-up. should have practiced that and done it yesterday

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no. i dont have an informed opinion of him. don't really watch bilbao much but have seen him a couple of times.he's combative and creative but cabaye's technical ability and his performances in the premier league swing it for me.

The chelsea scouting team maybe shit But you would need to be God to pick out unheralded talent like that. by your point, we should be signing the likes of Junior Hoilett. your logic is wrong though you have a point. we should indeed be looking at Cabaye, Debuchy etc but we need TOP quality in one or two positions and for that we have to pay,mate

Torres Hazard Mata Hulk Ramires Romeu Now that's team may become a devastating attacking force

would prefer Ramires as a B2B than Romeu. added attacking option plus his stamina enables him to get back and defend. our very own yaya toure. Torres Hazard Mata Hulk Ramires Lampard Shit just got real

let's all cover up that tactical discussion with some Hulk related posts. We don't want BlueLion to try out his new Ban system now Hulk is a no-brainer . i can understand some people having reservations over Hulk's price but whom would they have ahead of Hulk? Johnson? Krasic? Hell NO

we'd need a creative mid in addition to Hulk

, for the record I will say exactly what i wanted to say and what a lot of people misinterpreted #smallclubmentality - i meant last Season when we didnt attack against Benfica, Spurs and Liverpool as well. Also #smashingsmall clubs - yes we should play ATTACKING players against small teams - (i consider liverpool, newcastle, arsenal as small teams)

as i said, barca-real-bayern i.e the big teams. you can loosely add the top 2 english teams to that as well agree with the zero creativity. we need to play better passing football and retain the ball better. personally, i want di matteo to change this system where he keeps 6 players in defensive positions. as kof said, we have to be dynamic next season. Hulk gives us that extra attacking weapon we need but i would rather pick Ramires on the flank for a game against big opponents with world class wingers

we are a small club atm. we may be famous all over the world but our play is small club play. we don't go to barca, bayern real and attack, mate. that's delusional thinking. a neutral would say that our build-up play was shit last season. we sat back and defended against Benfica, Tottenham, Liverpool as well last season. don't expect it to miraculously change overnight. it will still be almost the same players with hazard on the left (maybe one more first-team signing will be made, but that's about it) we will be better against liverpool, tottenham etc and maybe even bossing some of them but even next season we will go to bayern, barca, real and play deep counter strategy. that's where defensive responsibilities are needed the Most. Listen to Martin Tyler in the CL final and educate yourself before calling me deluded i am being realistic while you are being optimistic that we will play much better ground passing i.e attacking football next season. it may happen but with the players we have as of now - highly unlikely with the players we have and without a change in system. don't think di matteo will change the system. maybe he will add a new system but the deep counter is the way we will play against the big clubs atleast

you are not getting my damn point. there is a big difference between defensive wingers and defensively responsible wingers. get that in your head first. i am saying that we should go on the attack against the midtable teams and even liverpool, everton but when we face bayern, barca its different. listen to martin tyler in the CL final and don't tell me he is deluded as well. he clearly said that we should be wary of over-committing. yes, we may have better wingers next year but that doesn't mean we are a devastating attacking force overnight. even Ashley Cole himself said that when facing Barca you don't know who you are up against on the flanks. it may be iniesta, messi, fabregas, alves, cuenca, surely you are not suggesting we attack ALWAYs with the double pivot we have

i never said i want them to be defensive! i simply said that when we are facing a team which have talented wingers and attacking fullbacks - bayern - robben and lahm - the team needs to be balanced. something like the fa cup semifinal where ramires put a good shift in by helping bosingwa with bale and also got forward and Scored. we can't operate under the policy of "you score one, we score two" with the kind of players we have. the double pivot is too slow for having 4 players on the attack through out the game of course, against the likes of wigan, west brom and even against everton, liverpoop we should look to attack and score goals but defensive responsibilities are just as important for the wingers when we lose the ball. especially against counter-attacking teams

roman has always wanted to play attacking football. its nothing new. the thing is implementing it. this summer we signed hazard but that doesn't necessarily mean attacking football. to play better attacking football we have to improve the ground passing and all we saw last season was dump it long to drogba. getting hazard doesn't mean that our ground passing and our overall play becomes better. we are like england. even though they have flair wingers they still play two lines of 4 players i.e Defensive football . Also, you are operating under the assumption that we may get a player like Cabaye - whom we are yet to be linked to while there have been fellaini links still persisting. I do hope that we sign either cabaye or moutinho and another good attacker but as of now, we don't have a team to play expansive attacking football. get that out of your head

What is the basis for that? In all likelihood we will be the same team as last year but with Hazard instead of Kalou on the wing. can't see how that will bring about a radical change in our tactics. atleast at the start of the season, we will be incorporating few things from last year's counter strategy and to your question - since when were wingers defenders? we just played the champions league final, semifinal and the FA Cup semifinal with defensive wingers and I am certain that we will play Ramires on the wing if we face Barca, Real, ManC or Bayern even if we get Hulk. EDIT: reason for why bayern, real cope with attacking wingers? - their double pivot is much better than ours. also, they have a better team overall and to be fair we play defensive wingers whenever we face bigger opposition. the same goes to real and bayern. when real faced Barca, they played deep counter strategy and bayern would do the same if they face barca as well

as i have already said, Hulk is NOT WORTH 38million but it is porto's evaluation of the player. i would rather have us sign Hulk than a cheaper option like Adam Johnson or Milos Krasic. We have already got Marin and one of de bruyne or benayoun as replacements for kalouda.

for eg - valencia and Nani will double-team and rip Cole apart if Hazard is not tracking back. last season we had 2 lines of 4 players defending because of the lack of speed in our defence (lampard, mikel, terry all slow) now if we play attacking wingers, the midfield will be easily exposed . that's the basis for my ripped apart comment. di matteo has to tinker with his team according to the situation. so it wont be one basic line up with players rotating in and out but rather a team picked to suit the situation

so you're trying to say that you have an informed opinion that hulk's not good?

2 words. Defensive responsibilities. i can already visualise getting ripped apart at swansea with that team