Rowan_Osborn

He might learn a thing or two from Piazon.

How did you find this? its so weird haha

I dont understand why people are debating the outcome of the season after three games. Its not worth looking into until about december really.

Its still very similar to Cole and Lampard, Anelka and Alex were still important. Before we bought Cahill, Alex was our only CB cover, and last year we were drastically short up to so selling Anelka made no sense. RDM has better man management skills than AVB did, RDM has probably spoken to Malouda, whereas AVB failed to communicate.

Kaka has more or less been completely dropped, as has Carvalho, Mourinho basically told both to leave. They won't play kaka now they have Modric and Ozil, there is no place for him and so Mourinho being a good manager has removed him from the set up.

Last season was very different. AVB clearly had personal issues with Cole and Lampard, to the extent that he played Bosingwa as a left back over Cole, when Cole is clearly the better player.

All three have done it. Ferguson with Hargreaves, Mourinho with Kaka currently and Wenger did it Viera when he was getting on a bit. You have to be ruthless to succeed and can't let sentiment dictate your decisions.

I doubt it will effect the players. They will understand that he has not been performing at a high level for a while now and as a result needs to be moved on. Football is a business, most player understand this.

Never stopped John Terry did it.

Its understandable that he went there, its just at the start of the transfer window he said he would only leave for England or Spain as he wants to play at the highest level. The Russian league is clearly a long way off the highest level so he is basically a sell out; only caring about the money. The difference between football and other businesses is that a higher position in a smaller firm and the increased pay that comes with it can greatly improve a persons lifestyle. All an increased wage packet means for Hulk is that he can buy four ridiculously priced cars rather than the three he would of had to of got; it won't drastically change his lifestyle but could stunt his football career.

After our great transfer window, this news is like the cherry on top of the cake.

Funny how a player can go from a player that people slated when he was on the team sheet, with many calling for AVB to go because he kept playing him, to our best midfielder who we are lost without. Seriously people he isn't that good and we have got enough cover.

Why bother, we don't need either really. Up front we got Sturridge, Torres and Piazon. For the double pivot we got Mikel, Romeu, Ramires, Lampard, Oscar, Malouda and several reserves for an emergency. It would just be another name on the wage bill.

Yeah i would give him the month off too, but i don't see it happening to be honest.

I think everyone is panicking way too much on this. We will have five players that can play in these two positions, with several youth team players who could do a job in an emergency. Don't forget we still have Malouda who played there under AVB so he can play there too.

We wouldn't really be thin. Romeu, Mikel, Lampard, Oscar, Ramires can all play in that area, we also have several reserve team players that could fill in if it is an emergency. If we sign a free agent as well we will be sorted in that area.

They have a few decent players, but if we are to win the league this year we've got to put away opponents like this without many hiccups along the way.

I wouldn't drop Ramires, instead i would have him in his preferred role at CM alongside Romeu/Mikel. Mata will be coming back after a break; I expect him to start.

Hopefully it will be Ramires and Romeu, i get the feeling though that it might be Lampard and Mikel.

We have quite a few versatile options, its one of the things i love about the players we have been getting in. Its even been suggested that Marin could do a job as a pivot holding midfielder and De Bruyne seems to be able to player anywhere other than defence, he was used as a false nine by bremen the other day. I would lie to see Oscar beef up a bit and maybe play in a similar manner to Xabi Alonso, he's got the vision to do it. Maybe a 3-4-3 would suit our defence we could have ivan right, cahill centre and luis left ( as this would probably happen in a couple of years when Terry is likely to have retired), We've got a lot of options right now and for the future.

Ah ok man, i thought you meant his club was giving him that in wages already. I reckon i would prefer those two to Ronaldo too, I guess if we do get Falcao in January, as his agent and father have been suggesting, we could get Neymar after the 2014WC.

I agree, if a player is being played as Torres was we have to give them our support as we want the team to do well. However if a manager is constantly making daft mistakes (I'm not saying RDM is) then he should be questioned by fans. RDM is doing a good job so far in my opinion though.

Surely you mean don't mean £550k/month, i don't think he is on over £125k a week. I doubt we would buy both Falcao and Neymar as well, it would set us back close to £100mil in one window.

Im not sure how effective Ramires would be as a wing back and i haven't seen enough of Azpilicueta to comment on him. We would have major problems with width, we haven't really had any width since we sold Robben and Duff. I'd imagine Pep could get it to work, he is a very good coach and obviously understands the game a lot more than myself, but i still reckon we would get overrun in defence against better teams if we played like this. I hoping RDM is still our coach this time next year as well, first because i like the guy and secondly because it would most likely mean that we have done well.

I know how you feel, the summer was a long haul for lack of Chelsea action, without the euros and olympics i don't think i would of coped and that was mainly good because i was trying to spot good players that i would like to see at Chelsea.