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Against a part-time goalkeeper.

No serious footballers choose the french league over the PL.

In a big game against a quality side the outcome would have been different. Torres was open ffs.

Ivanovic should have passed to Torres. In a big game against a proper keeper he would have missed.

The club have had more than 3 badges. So it actually oversimplifies the clubs history more than anything.

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You should join the official TalkChelsea Xpert 11 manager game, it's miles better. True that, it's easy to lose interest in fantasy football teams.

Why would Gourlay risk an anti-climax.. it would be an insult to the fans if it turned out to be Courtois & Romeu.

Another central player, just what we need.. In a team that's crying out for width.

The Ted Drake 'Chelsea Football Club' text has more historical context. The blank empty space with 3 badges in the middle looks empty.

I'm not against that.. I just don't see why it all has to been in the 'specific player' threads. As we have separate topics for tactic/transfer discussions in the Matthew Harding. The discussion in the player threads should be centred around updates & links. If you want to explain why not getting Sanchez was a big mistake, or how he 'could' have fit into the squad etc. Then post it in the many transfer related threads in the Matthew Harding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOZdIjyouU&feature=feedu

26m with variable cost of 11.5 million. is that it? Jesus, Why were we not in the race... does anyone know the details of the variable costs?

and to think AVB supposedly had a 100m warchest.. Feel free to close this now.

http://www.fanatix.com/new-chelsea-manager-handed-100m-warchest/

"4-4-3 for us is a modern system and we are trying to link what we have with this system" Surely he's seen enough to know we need fresh faces.

Kakuta has too much vision & creativity to be restricted as a pure winger. He needs to be able to move freely from side to side. Most of the fruitful attacking plays from him were central in the 2010 France u19's competition. In which he was the awarded player of the tournament. This is a decent article analyzing his position and future at the club.. http://www.weaintgot...kuta-at-chelsea I doubt it, although.. time will tell.

That would be ideal, can't see it happening though. Neither Josh or Gael will get a chance at playing CAM. I suppose it's inevitable he will only get a chance on the wings at Chelsea, especially now AVB is in charge.

Well, that's not even his natural position, and considering his lack of experience at top level. It would be insane to consider him first-team material as a winger.

A trophy after just 2 games?, I suppose it will add some bulk to the cabinet. This game + the fact City are closing in on Aguero.. Sigh.

Oh great, so now every time a new post is made in the Neymar/Aguero threads it's new members asking if we're being linked with him. Or the inevitable insults towards City and justin on his high horse claiming everyone's a hypocrite. Or even better, fictional footballer manager (what if) scenarios and fantasy discussion more suitable for the Fifa 12 thread.

His love for Chelsea is still going strong.

It's a shame he benefited from reality TV hype, whilst better youngsters were most likely being overlooked (considering the coverage at the time). I remember that show, it was like a Chelsea megastore commercial.

"When we train and if we are tired the manager will stop the training and move on to other things to add spice to our training sessions." - A. Cole Clearly Carlo's training sessions were rather stagnant in comparison.

He's a reality TV winner, that TV show was an advert for 'brand Chelsea' and nothing more. So it was no surprise to see little progression from when he won 'football icon'.