kellzfresh

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I even forgot about hazard, which is even more important. I hope belgium wont use him(dont kill me) till he comes back to chelsea

"if jose plays juan over mata"

He looks bad. And oscar doesnt seem like the type that ever gets injured, i hop it doesnt take two weeks now.

Oscar injury, hazard injury, wtf I knew depth was important but I hope we don't find out the hard way like this

RMPR says he twisted his ankle so I was fearing for the worst. But I hope xpetrcechx news of the injury is right

Fuck fuck fuck shit damn it fuck :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I knew one of our players would get injured, and it will make us know the importance of depth, now I hear oscar twisted his ankle... Oh God!!

Ok, i get your point now. Its true, but i just have this bad feeling that one of hazard oscar or mata will get an injury(dont kill me yet) they've played so many games for 2 years now (look at messi getting injuries here and there) and i dont want us to regret not having better quality on the bench. But i understand where you're coming from now

Youre right about balance though. But look at the top 6 teams this season and their players behind the main striker. Manchester utd (young, rooney, kagawa, valencia, zaha, nani) manchester city(navas, silva, jovetic, nasri, milner,) i didnt even mention aguero behind Dzeko(the striker up top) Arsenal (ozil, carzola, walcot, podolski, ox, rosicky) Liverpool (aspas, coutinho, moses, henderson, sterling, ibe) Tottenham (chadli, erickson, lamela, townsend, sirgudson, lennon) Now look at ours Chelsea (hazard, mata, willian, schurrle, oscar, KDB) All we did was try to make sure ours was the best of the lot, both starting and on the bench so that we have a clear advantage in the title race. I honestly dont see anything wrong with this.

i edited my post. I was just trying to emphasize that the strongest squads always come 1st or 2nd in the league and its been too long since weve gotten near these positions. But my problem is that you guys seem more interested in keeping the players happy than winning titles. And me i want more titles for us even at the cost of unhappy players thats where our opinions differ though.

Either your not quite understanding me, or you severely underestimate the impact of a big squad mixed with a good manager. Yes balance is important, but sacrificing titles is not the way foward. We've gone through too many transitional seasons since ancelloti left, its time we take matters into our hands and pose a serious threat in the EPL. The best way to start doing that is getting a strong squad, a competitive manager, then we take it from there. We have won the premier league 3 times, in the last 11 years. Check the difference between the winning squads and the rest and you will get what i mean

The point im trying to make is i dont really care if people dont get games, thats the down side of having such a great team. Barcelona had people like bojan, villa, thiago, fabregas(in his first season), ibrahimovic, and many others angry on the bench. And this was during their time as the best ever footballing team. The best ever footballing team is what i want chelsea to be, and it needs a big squad to get there. Sure people will not be happy, but thats the price you pay for full glory...

Are you sure we had poor depth? i think i remember after that season, we let ballack, deco, beletti, and 3 other senior players go and only replaced them with only two players (ramires and someone i cant remember) which cost us to go trophyless

Thats what i really want for us. Ok maybe im a bit spoilt, but i just know the team with the most depth always come 1st or 2nd in the league. And we really need this to finally get through the november period where we loose so many points because of tiredness playing 3 matches a week. That wont happen this season again, hopefully.

I just hope he doesnt get injured for long, hazard is another one that has played non-stop for 2 years. Thank goodness our squad depth is stronger now

You put schurrle twice Bayern munich last season strikers: Pizaro, mandzukic, gomez, Patrick Weihrauch Attacking mid: robben, ribbery, muller, shaqiri, kroos, central mid: gustavo, schwienstiger, martinez, tymoishook, emre can, Mitchell Weiser defence: rafinha, lahm, alaba, contento, vanbuyten, boateng, badstuber http://espnfc.com/team/squad/_/id/132/season/2012/league/ger.1/bayern-munich?cc=3888 We slagged them for having too much, they won the trebble I know having excess doesnt guarantee titles but every single time we won the premier league have you seen how much depth we had that season??? Hazard just picked up a knock training for belgium, so what if he's out for months were back to struggling without qualities again. Injuries are part of the reason for big squads not just keeping fresh legs

Im sure we will all know the value of this squad size when injuries start to kick in. Look at arsenal and podolski case now

He usually plays behind the striker during his time at florentina. But he can easily play as the main striker, his assists though are much high for just a normal striker.

He's not overrated in my opinion, but he doesn't make arsenal title contenders. It just makes them a stronger fighter for the top four. Once any of kocelny, giroud and scheczny gets injured, they're screwed...

Is he the same mould of modric?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XNlGz7bLUzE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cgjo8gTjmQ&list=UUN2NsRGReSvPfGaOWknCM2A&feature=player_detailpage http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL88F1D6B29A7D4235&feature=player_detailpage&v=DvVp601flug

I somewhat agree with this. Since we lost the speed of our attacks, the strikers suffer massively. But if we play faster by crossing quickly or attempting more through balls and keeping high pressure the goal ratio for the strikers will increase massively

Exactly, he has played non-stop football for 2 years