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Yup Barnard, Tenebaum, Buck, Graniskaia, Emanalo -heard they all have a vote...

He hasn't done much different on the starting team front but probably a lot has gone on in the training ground. I look at Costa and I reckon there's been a word in his ear. Not looking for too much trouble, sharper and looking lean and mean. Costa's form has lifted the form of many others but mostly Cesc who is playing superbly and finding runners that weren't there under Jose...for whatever reason. Just waiting for Hazard to get into his stride again after injury and miserable form. I'm rather hoping he gets some fortune v PSG that he can carry over. Guus, is an absolute gentleman who must be a pleasure to work under. There are many components to being a good manager and Guus seems to have plenty in his locker. He's certainly putting out happy looking players.

Not sure how true that is - I have it from a friend of friend who works at SB -so again not sure how reliable: He deals with all the mid level and Youth stuff, and Maria Granovskaia deals with the first team transfers, but they are all on a board/committee that has an equal voteincluding Emanalo, bizarre as it may seem

Because you made a general statement about him not writing cheques to people that dont earn them.

Could be, but probably more to do with a present for nice divorce settlement authorised by the Russian authorities amounting to hundreds of millions rather than billions

No, he bumbled Into money by hanging around a permanently drunk Yeltsin. Giving a £30m yacht to Putin last month Is hardly saying Putin 'earned It'

If as much of the media says, he Is abramovichs eyes and ears, that Is a good enough reason for abramovich to keep him there. It doesnt mean he Is kept on for his football knowledge. People also need to stop thinking abramovich Isnt stupid just because he has loads of money

Why ? Chinese proverb explains all.... 有錢能使鬼推磨 (pinyin: yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò) Literally: If you have money you can make the devil push your grind stone. Note: English equivalent: When money talks, bullshit walks.

Well the chinese window still open, they might up the offer On the positive, Gus seems to be getting better out of him. Hes also 24, when Frank was the same age it was his second season, and loads wanted him gone...

Pretty dire last night -legs flailing all over the shop, seems to love taking on a couple of players down the wing then losing it. Our worst performer this season so far, up there with Hazard

Yes you quoted some of the half truths about his family -stuff that the gutter press like to look down their noses at -a working class footballer who comes from poverty and digging up . The best footballers come from the street, Sanchez, Messi, Costa, Rooney, Ronaldo all with troubled home lives and families -in Terrys case playing on Hackney Marshes and a council estate. Snotty journos who have had a middle class existence like nothing more than attacking a working class, or black boxer made good. The reason a horrible piece of shit like Joey Barton is still feted and prostituted around clubs is solely because he raises revenue, any other profession and he would be in jail. It seemed to me your post was just rehashing media tittle tattle, trying to make out the board were being saintly in keeping him. The reason the club didn't get rid of him because the sum of the benefit (trophies and money) outweighed the scandal factor by a mile. It has nothing to do with them being benign employers .No, it would have been a hard business decision based on his superb ability and the money he brings to the club, a decision based on sheer economics, plus the fear of fan backlash in terms of the boards own spinelessness. But if we have to drag up his private life lets not forget the other stuff John does, all the out of club boxing training routines he does to keep at peak fitness. The stuff that doesn't sell papers -like the millions hes given to charity, the lifts he gives to fans in his Bentley to away games, and all the selfless stuff for the Small Steps Project, Make a Wish Foundation, and at Great Ormond Street Hospital , spending time with children who have hours to live because of a hideous cancer. Apart from that, the best defender in the Premier league and Chelsea best player ever.

@peace you post rare long articulate essays, that ocassionally hit the mark, this one is spectacularly way off. Its the anti Chelsea bile from a T*ttenham fanzine, its the bitter ramblings of a trophy hungry Arsenal teenager in his bedroom, its a hateful jealous diatribe from a liverpool fan masturbating in a toilet. a post that can only reiterate the half truths from tabloid papers regarding the private life of the greatest player ever to play for Chelsea, the team you purport to support - tell us that you copied from a rival forum, and its a wind up, a sick joke.

So you'll be changing your username any time now then ?

We are not having any more 'hire then sack' managers. The football will be run by Buck and Emanalo as it is now, and we will appoint mediocre managers then immediately put them out on loan.

Its just that a member thought maybe it was directed at them- thats OK then, we'll put it down to a sort of cyberspace Tourettes outburst

Great move for Citeh, current players will have to up their game and an attraction for the great players to gravitate towards the Etihad. Compare that to our situation...

Someones complained -just to confirm thats not directed at any member on here ?

Loftus Cheek deserves to be on the bench

Wenger was on R5 this morning saying talking about Terry ''when you get to the end of your career, you cant expect anything from your employer' bla bla bla saying when he leaves the Arse he doesn't expect anything, its a mutual severance, and Terry should accept the same. The difference is Wenger, Terry has won 5 FA cups and Four League titles you nonce -

''Makes no sense, how could they jettison their icon, their leader...'' Martin Samuel nailed it again http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3425646/Chelsea-s-decision-let-John-Terry-leave-makes-little-sense-MARTIN-SAMUEL.html

Good points - but still reckon he's the best defender at our club by miles, and unless the Nigerian 'individual' or the next manager already has a handle on two fantastic centre backs it seems stupid. I wouldnt want him to see out his career at SB if he was going to embarrass himself but I genuinely think he's worth at least another year.. Senior people at the club have been desperate to get rid of him for the last 5 years or so. AVB was the first one tasked with phasing him, Drogs and Lamps out. Benitez was following orders to try and work him out and it was only JM coming back that kept him here for another three years, or he'd have gone when Benitez did. I'm sure in six months they'll be desperate to get him back like they were with Drogs. Meanwhile they let Petr Cech sign for Arsenal . You can detect a palpable disconnect now at SB between the fans and who runs the club, quite sad.

Never mind about JT, we've Papa and Hector. The Nigerian 'individual' has it all under control.

Could accept that apart from 1) He's the best defender we have, and sulking is not in his nature. 2) Last season played every minute of every game, fitness not an issue, he's never had pace, best reader of the game 3) No European football next year we'll struggle to attract the top signings 4) Giving Ivan a new contract on his current form and not giving JT a one year extension is ludicrous 5) We don't have a manager yet and the current one suggested last week a new one would be offered? So, who the fuck is making the decisions?

People that run our club, ex Sibneft employees, Abramovich arse lickers. -They dont seem to learn -got rid of Cech, Lampard, Drogba too early and now Terry. Sack managers in corridors straight after games, the Benitez farce, and how Robbie was treated, and if if what we're hearing tonight is true -got rid of Terry by texting his agent. Disgusting. Either Roman doesnt have a clue how fans feel or what they want, or he just doesnt care.

18 years, 4 leagues, 4 fa cups, Chelsea most successful, probably best player. I know he has too much integrity to play for Citeh or anyone else in the Prem, but in a way wouldnt mind, just to show the clowns that run the club up.