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Debuchy had a solid season at Lille and defended Young/Chamberlain with ease in a man of the match display against England. He has very good stamina and also is not an entirely attacking Rightback although he did supplement the French attack well. He is available at almost the same price as Maicon with presumably lesser wages than the 80k quoted for Maicon. Maicon is old and he will at best be a "Belletti" signing. So yes, Debuchy is Better in many ways than Maicon. edit: Also, Maicon has a shaky knee which has been surgically repaired more than once. he is no longer the maicon of 2009/10 when he was in the discussion of the best RB in the world

Assuming that we play Hazard on the left instead of Kalou, i don't think it will bring about much change in our play yet. we need more signings. frees up hazard as welll because otherwise, he will be expected to be creative(as in threading passes) And explosive with his pace and trickery.

maicon is not a bad deal at all but there are better-younger rightbacks for the same price of 6m and lesser wages- (debuchy).

yup. Explosive wingers and a Pirlo in the middle. Hulk - Modric/Moutinho/Cabaye - Debuchy would be perfect. if this was 2010 we would have signed Moses, Fellaini and Maicon but thankfully, despite our CL win, the board knows that the club is lacking in many departments. Also, Hulk on the back of a Chelsea shirt would be BOSS

Good luck to Villas Boas. Want him to do well but yet Spurs should be outside top 4. i think its a paradox in itself

anyway, catch me up on the last week. avb hired by spurs? wtf

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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