rohitmohanihm 39 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I read somewhere that Ter Stegen has a Verbal contrct with Barca ... praying it is true so those mob can leave us alone xPetrCechx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Chelsea cannot & won´t let him sit on the bench. The team has already a bad reputation & do not need more of it.Malouda´s situation is incomparable here. what are you afraid of? You keep posting about youngsters leaving and reputation... How many 21 year old players do you see starting for the very top clubs?! Especially the goalkeeper? Atletico can afford it Chelsea would never do it.Chelsea are starting Oscar and Hazard these days; both very young. that's pretty good as top clubs go.Chelsea don't play many youngsters at the same time for a reason. These kids won't play for Chelsea regularly, no matter what you believe. If they leave because of that then so be it. You just can't reach the later stages of CL regularly with a team filled with youngsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 what are you afraid of? You keep posting about youngsters leaving and reputation... How many 21 year old players do you see starting for the very top clubs?! Especially the goalkeeper? Atletico can afford it Chelsea would never do it.Chelsea are starting Oscar and Hazard these days; both very young. that's pretty good as top clubs go.Chelsea don't play many youngsters at the same time for a reason. These kids won't play for Chelsea regularly, no matter what you believe. If they leave because of that then so be it. You just can't reach the later stages of CL regularly with a team filled with youngsters.Youngsters are good enough to play. Have you seen Lukaku, Hazard, Oscar....lately ?Whatever, I believe it´s irrelevant.See you, I am watching Belgium now. Stingray 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Youngsters are good enough to play. Have you seen Lukaku, Hazard, Oscar....lately ?Whatever, I believe it´s irrelevant.See you, I am watching Belgium now.Sure, then stop posting if you don't want to discuss... Did you actually read teh post or just blindly quoted it while watching the match?! I did mention Oscar AND Hazard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Sure, then stop posting if you don't want to discuss... Did you actually read teh post or just blindly quoted it while watching the match?! I did mention Oscar AND Hazard... Listen kid, don´t push it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Listen kid, don´t push it.thanks for the kid part, I'm flattered... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 thanks for the kid part, I'm flattered... You welcome. I knew you´d come my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 You welcome. I knew you´d come my way.obviously It's been the other around...I'm still waiting for that mythical other top club who don't have the same "bad reputation" (that you claim we have) for not utilizing youngsters. We consistently start matches with 2 young players (22).Great performance for Belgium btw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 You're using an outlier and acting as if that is the norm. Most teams have no trouble finding replacements. Not to mention, as English Freak does, that this was 15 years ago. My other point is this. In those 6 years after Schmeichel, ManU won 3 Premier League titles. So while they struggled to replace Schmeichel, they were still the best team in England over that period. That's hardly struggling. You can win in football with a less than elite goalie. They won 2 and one of them was as good as by default because Arsenal threw away a 10 point lead.How many title winning number 1 keepers are not in the top bracket as far as keepers are concerned? Part of the reason Arsenal's season's kept derailing is because they were picking between Almunia and Fabianski, Cech's long injury in 06/07 was one of the main reason's we lost the title.Finding keepers really isn't that easy, especially top one's, if we sold Courtois and his comments about Cech retiring early are true, then their is no guarentee at-all that we will find a top class keeper in the league of those two, i can't think of an available keeper that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Can't see why so many people are so eager to move Cech out. He's just 31. That's a great football age for a keeper and the way I see it he has at least 5 more years at the very top level and why not even more - look at what Van der Sar did in United.Not underestimating Courtois, he's a great young keeper, but I don't expect our GK situation to change anytime soon. By loaning him every year his stock keeps rising and and we should cash in on him at some point IMO.I don't disagree with the sentiment's of the article but we can't keep using Van Der Sar and assuming every keeper can go on the same.Shay Given for example was a top keeper in his prime, but in his mid 30's went to Villa and started declining to the point now he is Villa's 3rd choice keeper behind some novice.Van Der Sar may have gone to 40, but it doesn't mean every keeper will. Mufassir08 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 My first solution that comes in mind (might not be the best one), is to loan him to Everton. They should end up playing european football and could use reinforcement at the GK position.That just isn't an option now, he can walk into Barcelona's team next year if he wants so that rules out the PL loan.If he was owned by Athletico their would be a potential goalkeeping record breaking auction for him this summer, imagine if we were competing with the top clubs in Europe for his signature and we told him we were going to loan him out to the PL to adapt?Next year is decision time, we have to play him or sell him. Fastrobbie, The Skipper and kellzfresh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastrobbie 26 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 That just isn't an option now, he can walk into Barcelona's team next year if he wants so that rules out the PL loan.If he was owned by Athletico their would be a potential goalkeeping record breaking auction for him this summer, imagine if we were competing with the top clubs in Europe for his signature and we told him we were going to loan him out to the PL to adapt?Next year is decision time, we have to play him or sell him.Spot on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1581796/barcelona-close-signing-borussia-moenchengladbach-goalkeeper-marc-andre-ter-stegen-report?cc=4716Barcelona reportedly close to signing GK Marc-Andre ter Stegen from Borussia Monchengladbach.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Thibaut Courtois happy with how things are going at Atletico MadridOn his future, Courtois did not want to speculate about what would happen."I want to play, I will not be sitting on the bench. At Atletico I feel great and it allows me to play in the Champions League," he added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanishBlue 426 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I hope that we'll loan him out for one more year after this season. I would hate to sell Cech already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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