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I can't agree with that kbchel, If we are competing on four fronts, we need very good squad players. As Esk says though, it very much depends on who Scolari fancies and who he doesn't. With so much football being played now, I think we are going to need all the defenders and midfielders we have.

I will certainly be tuned in for that. I'm sure we are all looking forward to positive vibes from Scolari. Anyway he better be good, Iv'e named one of my new fish after him.

Chelsea WILL GIVE LAMPS £140K A WEEK Frank Lampard Thursday July 3,2008 Chelsea last night offered Frank Lampard a new £140,000-a-week take-it-or-leave-it contract which would make him the highest-paid player in British football, in a desperate bid to keep him out of the clutches of Inter Milan. The attempt to persuade the England midfielder to stay came after Express Sport revealed yesterday that contract talks had reached deadlock and that Lampard was upset that new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari had not yet contacted him to assure him of his future at the club. If Lampard accepts, he will move above captain John Terry in the Stamford Bridge pay scale as the highest earner at the club – and in the country. Terry is on around £135,000 a week, while other stars such as Germany skipper Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko are earning around £130,000 a week. Chelsea's dramatic late move appears to be a last-ditch offer to the England midfielder, who is due back for pre-season training on Monday. But it still does not match his demands of £150,000 a week – although it does signal that at least some of the Chelsea hierarchy, including owner Roman Abramovich, want him to stay. New manager Scolari, though, has still not spoken to Lampard, who will return from holiday in Sicily tomorrow. Sources have described the player as "disillusioned" by the silence from the Brazilian and ready to leave. The £8 million signing ofPortugal midfielder Deco earlier this week was hardly a positive sign. Inter, managed by Lampard's former mentor Jose Mourinho, are convinced they have clinched a £7m deal for the player with a £6m-a-year contract on offer, although no talks with Lampard have taken place. One more sign that Scolari has Lampard some way down his list of priorities is that the manager has found the time for talks with centre-back Ricardo Carvalho in a bid to persuade him to stay. Carvalho is a £24m target for Inter, but Scolari met the Portuguese star last week and begged him to stay at Stamford Bridge. The fact that the coach went out of his way to do that with another Blues player could spell the end of Lampard's Stamford Bridge career. Meanwhile, according to reports in Moscow, Abramovich has told Scolari he wants at least one Russian among the new faces at the Bridge this summer, which could lead to a move for striker Andriy Arshavin, midfielder Yuriy Zhirkov or forward Roman Pavlyuchenko. Higher up Brazilian Scolari's list, though, are Samuel Eto'o and Kaka. Source = Daily Express

Have to concur with 90% of you. I don't want him, as already pointed out, where the fuck was he in the ten years when he was 17 - 27 ? No one had even heard of him. Our midfield is stacked out with quality players, so buying a puppet for Roman just isn't worth the £12 million imo.

Don't get me wrong, I was one of Drogba's biggest fans, but this past season he appears to have an attitude of Im bigger than the club and I can stroll around doing and saying what I like, because Im irreplaceable. Well as we have always said "NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN Chelsea FC" so I say sell him. If he stays, lets hope Scolari will slap him into shape again.

Its certainly a vast improvement on the last one. I couldn't get used to that one at all.

In that case so am I, Because I will definately go for both.

Well, he's bound to say that though isn't he ? Many sources are saying that Scolari was a done deal in January, and after the way Scolari fucked the FA around, Roman isn't stupid and was maybe sounding out managers incase of a no show by Scolari.

Totally unprofessional by CTV, But these things do happen I suppose. I am not thrilled about this signing really. He's 31 this year and I feel we should be building for the future. Ok he was a great player five years ago, but if Frank stays, who is Deco going to keep out of the side ? Sure I think he will get maybe 10 goals in a season, and can when in the mood be a fantastic playmaker, but he is injury prone and I think that he has come for a stroll before retiring.

Enjoy your holiday mate. By the time you get back we will have signed Goofy, Deco and Eto, plus Pig fucker and maybe even Queresma.

If Frank wants to go, the only sensible thing to do would be to let him. I see absolutely no point in hanging onto a player that wants to go. But in saying that, until I hear Lampard saying he wants to go, or I read it on Chelsea's website, I personally don't believe he does want to go.

Happy birthday geezer, I expect by now you are lying in a pub somewhere in London wasted. (So bar by any chance. ) Hope you had a great day Mike, and I hope the headache isn't too bad in the morning mate.

Remember guy's its all just rumours at the moment, so lets not judge the guy until an official announcements been made.

I have to say that won't be a great loss to the Germans, and thats coming from a Ballack fan. The last few games of the season for us he was outstanding imo, but i Euro 08 he hasn't done an awful lot to be honest. Before anyone starts flaming me, yes I know that free kick was a bit special. But thats all he has done.

A bit tounge in cheek this one but.... We all follow Scolari Over land and Sea (hate Avram) We all follow Scolari onto victory. or We all follow Scolari Over land and Sea (and Clarkey) We all follow Scolari onto victory.

The thing is BL, I think that it could,regardless of where Uncle Fester is, he like everyone else at Chelsea, has to do exactly what he is told. So I think a phone call from Buck or Roman himself whilst holidaying, isn't out of the question. But I hope I am completely wide of tha mark. and this story is bollocks.

Cor that was a lucky goal eh ? Not sure we need yet another midfielder, although I suppose it depends on whose coming and going.

Me too mate. If true this is a sad day in our history imo.

During that week, I am sure we will see a fair bit of activity in the transfer market. Scolari will have watched us closely as he apparently new well in advance that he would be with us. So he will know who he wants to keep and who he doesn't.

Under Jose and hopefully four/five years under Big Fil Steve Clarke could be the right man, he is Chelsea through and through and knows this club better than anyone. You don't have to have a big name in European football to be a winner.

Schweinsteiger isn't that German for Pig fucker or something? I think that Ballack would have made a noise about him, if he thought he could fit in with our style of play. But all this speculation isn't worth talking about until we get an idea of how Scolari sees the team playing. I think he looks good. But how does he play on a week to week basis?

I couldn't agree more Esk, Torres was one of the skinniest players in Europe and I for one said he'd never make it over here. But how wrong I was eh? You cannot in this day and age look at players and think too skinny or whatever. Bentley instead of any of those players being linked to us, You gotta be joking!!!!

Well thats good, we have our first lamb to the slaughter Over to you then Kez, to get us started. :thumbsup:

Not a lot will top that mate. Thats quality. :thumbsup:

Cheers mate, its nice to be back chatting Chelsea with people who care, rather than the mrs who couldn't give a shit about football, let alone Chelsea. She is a northerner though :censored: