Chelsea Legend 11

That is such a relative term... Soon.

And in none of those matches did Oscar play in the 2nd band... I don't know why people think that now because we have Cesc it means Oscar falls back into the CM.

There are better things to post.

He's one of ours now... I'm elated I get to troll my Arsenal friends hard but having Cesc doesn't really fill me with immense joy. He's ours now so we gotta get behind him and all we can hope for is his enthusiasm translates to performances on the pitch... On paper this looks fucking fantastic but chemistry is a funny thing... We will have to wait and see how he melds with our other players and whether or not he takes to Jose's philosophy. Never a dull moment at the Bridge!

I thought we had to wait till Friday? You clowns were taken for a ride by the Journos and now you have the courage to call me out... LOL... What ever happened to the legality? I thought we had to wait a week? BTW I'm still laughing at you.

Oh I am! Trust me, I AM!!

Dude, I HIGHLY doubt you've ever heard of any of these so called credible journalists before the Cesc Fabregas story leaked. I'm done though I'm onto coffee it'll burn if I spit that up... Anyway I have no doubt it'll be made official soonish, I mean its only been just over a week since the story leaked. My guess is there are i's to dot... not the millions of ridiculous speculations that keep popping up everyday "OH NO! Tancredi said that Man Utd are now the favourites!!"

No one is gonna have a 100% accuracy rating, mainly because nothing is 100% until it is 100% official... But like I said I enjoy this so please don't let me get in the way of the next tweet from "Transfer Sources" BREAKING: Cesc Fábregas officials are meeting Chelsea in London today.

NO, NO carry on! Don't let me stop you! As I've said its highly amusing how much you guys are will to accept as truth from journalists from Indonesia and/or some guy who has 20k twitter followers, or some guy who claims to be a sports agent on twitter! Its awesome believe me.

Never as fact just as an opinion... And I understand what it is but don't you think it would be more useful if people actually posted stuff from more credible sources? Anyways, I don't want to take away from my amusement... carry on with the myriad posts from Sky Antarctica and Tancredi, I'm sure eventually one of them will be right.

No what's a circus is you guys lapping up every little morsel of information as fact. How long has it been since the Journos said Arsenal will not exercise the right to buy back? What ever happened to the deal being consummated on Tuesday? Oh and the clause that Chelsea don't want to give Arsenal a penny in the deal? I come here each morning and I swear you guys have me spitting up my corn flakes with the amount of garbage you guys are willing to believe.

Its not the same thing at all but why am I gonna keep you guys from hanging on the every word of these journos? enjoy the circus guys!

What? All you have to do is get it in writing...

This buy back clause is bullshit... You guys actually think it works like that? If Arsenal don't want Cesc back all they need to do is send in a memo declining the option to re-acquire Cesc.

Who knows you could be right! The bottom line is pandering to these journos by reading their bullshit and believing it puts you at their mercy and right now for many here its journos(including Sky Nepal)125411 - Chelsea supporters 0. If it happens it happens if it doesn't... meh.

Hey fellas what's the latest from Tancredi, Sky Antartica and Di Marzio? did we sign him yet?

Man, got you guys by the short and curlies... Palmieri Tancredi is a genius!

Who's the girl? WOW

I'm so sure you've watched him play.

This site makes it so hard to introduce new ideas, so many here are hell bent on hammering home their own opinion of how the club is run(when really we have absolutely no way of proving it), and rarely do they look at both sides of the coin. The other thing that becomes so nauseating is how ideas become so black and white in the heads of some. I'm gonna chalk it up to a communication rift since so many here are from different countries and may not have the strongest grasp of the english language, not trying to sound condescending so please don't take it that way. I never understood why people think that when people speak of the board they automatically assume that it means Roman Abramovich and a bunch of yes men who carry out his every wish... This is the structure I'm speaking of when I say BOARD: Chairman of the Board - Bruce Buck (usually the guy Roman uses in the media to get his word out) Directors - Ron Gourlay, Marina Granovskaia and Eugene Tenenbaum (The people responsible for the finances, sponsorship dealings, sanctioning of player acquisitions, building corporate relations and global expansion) Then you have: Technical Director - Michael Emenalo Football Operations Director - Mike Forde Club Secretary - Dave Barnard The Gentlemen above answer to Gourlay, Tenenbaum and Buck for anything that has to do with the football at the club. This has been the structure that has been in place since 2011 I believe and hasn't changed much since then. Chelsea are building a style of football that has been in the works since the hiring of AVB and his "project" We haven't deviated from this plan at all, only enhanced it. We continue to move towards playing attacking football that is easy on the eyes and though the managers have changed the DIRECTIVE of the club hasn't, I'm hoping we can all agree to this. Now, Jose Mourinho comes back to the club in the MIDST of a rebuild, if we can all agree that there hasn't been a deviation from the rebuild then we must also accept that the plan was in place before Jose arrived and thus, he is basically adhering to a plan that was put in motion before he arrived. So Jose is hired to help the club realize a vision, that vision being sexy football. He has his ideas but remember this isn't 2004, Jose does not have any sort of autonomy. If in the past Jose had the final say on who is added and when I would question whether the buck stops with him now. In my head its seems more like a committee making consensus decisions.

Dude, the reason we haven't seen any youth graduate to the senior team has more to do with the zillions of managers we're had. There needs to be a structure in place and its just being built now... patience, Rome wasn't built in a day....

who said anything like Barca? WorldClass and English born are two phrases that rarely meet. What I'm talking about is investing in our youth so that we can produce our own Luke Shaw's not Iniesta. We need English representation in the squad this much is for sure, what I don't like is the notion that in order to obtain them we need to pay over the odds... Just work towards producing them at cobham and tell the southampton's of the world to eat a dick... 30m is a ridiculous sum for an unproven 18yr old LB

Dee25 hit it right on the head. Lets face it for value on the dollar its best we invest that 30m into our youth set up and manufacture the next Cole, Lamps, Terry... with FFP it make little sense to take a gamble on an 18yr old who's showing good promise for an English player.

Finally...

Where did Ozil play? Where are you projecting Cesc to play? do the positions carry the same sort of tactical acumen? Was Jose the guy who signed Ozil or was it the director?