chelseathebest

List of things it took to get this club's best LB games:
Mourinho to get fired CB #1 to tear his ACL CB #2 to injure his hamstring Natural RB to move to RB RB to move to CB

Ok - none of us actually know what was said between Frank and Chelsea - chances are we never will.
My view - and just my view - is along the lines of - Frank we don't think you are worth what you are asking, you are free to move on.
So, I put myself in Franks position - I FEEL (important part) like I have just been shafted by the one club I gave my playing career to, put my body on the line and gave everything and this is my reward!
So yeah - he's going to go out and prove it was wrong to write him off - and guess what - it WAS!
Loyalty is a two way street. Whilst he was at the club he was a top bloke and let's not bring 'private education' into things - my wife was privately educated, whilst I wasn't - does that make her some kind of untrustworthy / classless person? No - she was lucky enough to be born into a family where her Dad started with nothing, built a business and wanted to invest in his children - so that has nothing to do with it!
I do find some of these arguments borderline pathetic and sensationalist
We let Frank go, we fucked up and we are now reaping what we have sown. There's a fucking useful life lesson right there !!! I, for one will be less quick to write people off in the future as a result of this.
As for 'Class' etc - If Drogba had knocked us out when playing for Gala - would it all be fine? I seriously doubt it with the 'fickle' loyalty and respect being shown here.
I've said all I'm going to say - you guys have your opinion, I have mine - I won't convince you to change it and vice-versa.
Cheers

Well this is life in the 'big world' - he's no longer here and we let him go.
You can be childish about it or mature - your choice.
But I won't turn my back on one of our greatest ever players and I know many fans who also won't - thankfully
Let's stay classy as Ron Jeremy says

I'm disappointed and a bit mad, but truth be told I sure do miss him though.
He would have been awesome to have today as a super sub.

What is everyone so bitter for? Frank is a Chelsea legend, and rightly so. Congratulations, all of you, on calling him a cunt, a wanker, a Judas, amongst other things.
I still consider him a Chelsea legend and I'll give him an ovation if he comes to the Bridge and play. I hope he won't score, but I'll definitely not boo him. This is the guy that has won us the league, the Champions league, the Europa league, ... He's been great for us!
Yes, he now scores for City and yes, he's won them points. It saddens me to see him do that. He's certainly spiced up the league, that's for sure.
But how the lot of you can be so disrespectful to one of our Legends, can't understand that...
I'll be in Matthew Harding when we play City, and I'll be clapping if Frank comes on. But I won't if he scores, off course, I'll be sad.
But calling a legend like that a cunt? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

no torres in the MATCH DAY SQUAD!!!!
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take the hint and fuck off blondie!!!

I literally couldn't stop laughing at that miss, fucking hell.

Nothing "enigmatic" about him. He's horseshit. Pure, unadulterated cow dung.

Oscar 8 Drogba 11 please

This is what I'm afraid of. In the 2012 season it was 'tired because of the Olympics', last season it was 'tired because of the Confederation Cup/focusing on the WC' and now next season it seems it will be 'tired/emotionally drained because of the World Cup'.
How long do the excuses go on for? How do you excuse a player for going missing for nearly half a season or never really doing enough offensively? He's still a professional football player and gets rest/extra rest like other players who have also played in tournaments. I don't think the excuses can last forever and I think even some of the Brazilian member here would agree with me. He needs to have a much better season this season in my eyes. No more excuses.

It was like his career for chelsea scaled down to three weeks, First match good, after that he slowly gets worse. I understand the tactics wasn't great but the player also holds some responsibility, going forward he was dreadful.

People have to stop blaming managers for everything. The team lost 7-1 at home. No team, with any formation should ever lose like that. People are complaining that Willian didn't start or why Fed plays or other changes. It would have made no difference. Brazil was destroyed. You think Scolari said "Hey Luiz, go walk around central midfield and don't mark your man?". "Hey Fernandinho, give the ball away to the opposition every chance you get?" Managers ultimately make very little difference overall. If a team loses 1-0, you can point to some tactical mistake or sub that seemed strange (which people still do too often) but at 7-1? It's 99% the players fault. They were, to a man, atrocious and they have to take responsibility for that.

Serves them right. They had their heads in Brazil in February and cost us the title with their half assed performances. Suck shit to them. Glad we got rid of Luiz, his erratic style of defending finally caught up to him.

Will this guy never shut up? Everyone and their dog already knows he wants to go so what’s the point of going on and on about it every fucking day? Chelsea are not a club to keep players against their will, especially ones that haven't even done anything for the shirt, so all he needs to do is tell the grown ups he wants a transfer and they'll sort it out. Absolutely no reason to involve the media every day and giving disrespectful interviews only makes himself come across an unprofessional douchebag in the eyes of many.



Well done Romelu, in just a few months he's managed to turn me (and many others) from desperately wanting him to succeed at Chelsea to first being indifferent on whether he stays or goes and now even wanting him to fuck off. Lukaku's got all the potential to be a quality player and it's a real shame things didn't work out for him at Chelsea but no matter how many goals he bangs in for his new club I won't miss him because of the way he's acted.

One of the differences between James and Hazard is that Columbia built that team around James to get the best out of him. Fuck know's what Wilmots tactics were half the time but Eden was often marginalised and pushed to the side so De Bruyne became the most important player.
Still Eden does have a habit of looking a bit disinterested at times. We can all remember the games where he did decide to show up and run at his marker at every opportunity but those still aren't frequent enough. He HAS to do it in damn near every game next season and if he does he becomes one of the best players in the world.
And Jose has laid down the challenge. He's given him a very privileged position in the team but he's also been critical of him - it's Eden's job now to respond and I think he will....hopefully.

If we are being 100% real, he had a horrendous world cup but all us Chelsea fans overrate and overhype him too much. Yes, he can score against Hull, or a hat-trick against Newcastle, but the reality is that he is not a player that we should build our team around. His inconsistency drives me nuts. I'll reserve my judgement until the end of next season when we have a proper striker leading the line.

Wonder how long more are people gonna find excuses for Hazard's bad performances. There may be other factors why he hasn't performed to a high level but that is only valid till a certain extent. It's almost as if people are too scared to criticize our supposed golden boy and/or fear that he's going to leave if he's not loved/appreciated that they can't judge his performances objectively; praise him when he deserves one and criticize him when he deserves it.

To be honest, we will miss his personality very much, but we won't miss him as a player. Good luck, geezer.

I wonder why I don't have such agenda against the likes of Cech, Azpilicueta,Hazard,JT,Cahill,Ivanovic, Matic, Eto'o,Schurrle and Willian (to an extent with the latter 2). could it have something to do with their fairly consistent performances and the fact that they are not overrated as fuck. I wonder.

The idea that Oscar was "great" "fantastic" and one of our best players from August to December is the biggest myth of the season. there's no way in hell he was great for 4:5 months. He had a "decent" month of August and a few decent performance here and there in September and October and started fizzling out by November.
Even during his "decent " run , we were still struggling to create clear cut chances and he had very little to no influence at all in rectifying that as an attacking midfielder who was supposedly on a "great" run of form. This myth or lie has to stop.
Also his stats during those 4/5 months stood at 5 goals and 1 assist in the league. he was decent nothing more.

Both have high expectations for club and country, that is the undying truth. Youth product or not, the club pays his wages and he is representing them with the badge and the colors he wears, any evidence of half arsing in games or showing dis-interest is really poor imo.

If it is true, that he is saving himself for the world cup, then that is a poor mentality that shouldn't be allowed. Same goes for Lionel Messi at Barcelona, in which it has been ever so blatant (little lenient towards Lionel considering he has basically won everything at that club, twice,).
He honestly needs to re-think things if he wants to continue to develop himself. Look at Koke at Atletico (whom I feel both him and Oscar will be battling in the future for the best central attacking midfielder), he has been praised as being Xavi's successor, more than likely to play a big part for Spain in the World Cup, and has been nothing short of spectacular for Atletico this entire season, arguably the in-form Spaniard right now, giving everything for the club.
Club comes first.

Been really disappointed with Oscar this year. Mourinho publicly stated that Oscar was his no.10, you need to give 100% after hearing that from your manager. He dropped Mata for Oscar and unfortunately Oscar did not repay the favour.

Cole in tears during the lap-of-honour...

So It's because they have good strikers and not because they were able to break down the resistance of oppositions that defend deep with crisp interchange, incisive, accurate passing, overlapping runs, sharp, intelligent movement and so on. let's just attribute our inability to create clear cut chances against parked defences on the lack of world class strikers shall we.