Rubber bullets

He had 2 good seasons with us (in his first he was very much hit or miss) before losing is kneecaps.and become liability to us. We complain that the likes of Torres and Mikel are sucking us financialy while playing shit, surely that should apply to Essien, who even after 5 years of unable to perform, still somehow gets payed good wages and used by top clubs. Its grating to see him get back in the team despite giving us nothin what so ever. His value by some is being overblown so much its not even funny anymore. 2 decent seasons, thats all he gave us. Yet becuase his play was based on power peope seem to think it was a god send.

Lol trying to bring up an internet argument that happened yesterday. Must live a sad life that your desperate for some enjoyment in your pathetic existence to try and rehash this again. And aren't you one of those who also likes posting controversial stuff? Stupid hypocrite.

Could have been interpreted as addressing both

Well I did give a reason, and I looked at the forum rules, nothing specific about 'insulting' a player, so no.

But was he actually helping us control the game? Of course not That's the key problem in discussing what Lampard's role in the squad should be. Scoring goals is good, but as a midfielder you have to do more, not being able to help in the midfield when pressure is on is problem if you want to use them in big games.

How was Lampard brilliant against Benfica? Apart from the two shots what else did he do of substance? Hell Torres was one of the few players shrugging of the Benfica players.

I don't think its against the rules to 'insult' a football player, otherwise there would be no members on this forum.

As is the look of despair towards the delightful BlueArmy is all clear.

Do I give a crap about what your idea of genuine Chelsea fan is?

Or a case that one person knows that what he is saying is subjective. And the other insecure and tries to to think that what he says is the universal truth to all things subjective. I'll let you find out who is who.

We struggled against Benfica, apart from two shots that were brilliantly saved and smacked at the crossbar, Lampard (apart from some last ditched defending) really could not get a foothold in the game (grant it Luiz could not too, but that proves the idea that we lack midfielders who can control the tempo of the game, and in my opinion a 4-2-3-1 requires at least two players who can do that).

And will Essien give a shit. No. He will be happy that he somehow still will be playing for a big club, when last year he was close to being sold to smaller club personally.

Why? Done nothing wrong.

Yes goals are nice, but if your playing in the pivot then you have more important task to take care off, I mean for god sakes the likes of Newcastle were piking him off, even in the game against Villa he was struggling to compose himself before Villa were down to 10 men. He either accepts a much reduced role or reinvents himself as a midfielder who will sacrifice goals for the ability to play as a deep-lying play maker.

Again, nice (but pitiful) to get worked up on someone who has no impact on your life and won't know that I called him shit. Enough to make a person weep.

And 995 (unless they are incredibly deluded) also know that Essien would not give a shit to know them personally - whats your point. You seem really defensive and insecure to keep clapping on about how everyone agrees with you and that your the king of objective fact over subjective issues, chill mate. Must have had a lonely childhood.

More the fact that we have to accommodate him in the formation, he hardly does the job of a pivot DM because he is always acting as if he is in a 4-3-3 that is set up to allow him to run into the box ever time we go forward. We still can't control a game for shit a lot of the time an we really need a Modric type player to take his place and downplay his role to that of a squad player.

Gave a stupid back pass to the box that was latched on to a City player, took a shot, parried by Hilario and went to the feet of Barry who scored on the rebound.

Wow, your pretty confident about yourself on what is a subjective debate about the morals of the world. I mean from what you said, you basically argued that the idea that Essien earns ridiculous amounts in a week should not be compared to the fact that many people live in fear of their lives. But, I guess since your so confident then it must be that 99 agree with you on that principle you give (sarcasm),

Thank god Oscar did that during a friendly and no in an important game.

That does not alter the fact that Lampard is not the ''complete' midfielder that you sing about. He is an aging midfield who has lost a lot of his athleticism but can still pop up with a goal every and then. Good for as an impact squad player but it would be suicidal to make him one of the main cornerstones of the team

Lol how about no (what makes you think you have the objective and absolute truth in this issue). Its nice (if pitiful) that you are defending someone that does not know you and will never make an effort to find out. You argue about the injustice of people living in fear about their lives and homes on a daily basis, but what about the fact that people like Essien earn ridiculous amounts of money for what is essentially a hobby for most people on a Saturday afternoon and he can't do that properly - clearly your perspectives on life are agreed by most. I mean god, you pullout the "but he does things for charity card". Well so does Craig Bellamy, that won't alter peoples view that he is an ugly looking twat, so that won't change my views on Essien.

Yet funnily enough it was when Mikel replaced Lampard against Man Utd that we suddenly managed to control the game and almost win it (but doing a remarkable job of scoring two to equalize against them). A big reason that he was played a lot is simply because of the ridiculous small squad we have. But it was Mata, Hazard, Cech, Azpi and Luiz who were are big game players this season, the ones that were consistent throughout, we still struggled in a lot of games (Benfica being a perfect example but those players helped us all through them.

So apply that logic to players who earn at least £60,000 a week, enjoying the high life, have all of their injuries and living needs taken care off. Where many people have to work and work, spend 3 years studying hard, budgeting so we can afford just to eat shit food in the hopes that we can earn half of what they earn in a year. I don't need to treat him with nothing of respect. i only care about the team I support, not the individuals who earn huge amounts of money despite being shit at their job. Lol at the treat him like a brother comment. Why? He doesn't give a shit about you or me personally, you will never know him apart from at most a 5 second autograph signing. He lives in a completely different world from you and me, so there is no need to be sensitive about him, fuck it people don't do it for other people like Torres or Malouda.

If you are a fan who wants to improve the team, you would no want Michael 'no kneecaps' Essien in it. How the hell does he improve a team nowadays? His addition to the Real Madrid squad did no improvements to their abilities on the pitch. The image that best sums up him in recent years is him smiling after the Man City match, where his stupidity cost us a penalty that led us losing the game.