Raul Meireles

[Milan 17,955]

I think his performance at Camp Nou was legendary. He knew if he got booked, he would miss the final. Despite this, he was fighting and then saved us from a Barca counter by knocking down their player. Then he was trying to persuade the ref not to give the yellow card and he was clearly devastated. But still he kept on fighting. Absolutely stunning.

Good luck wherever you will be Raul, a champion of Europe.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

In January Fellaini is a must.

[didierforever 7,349]

the magnitude of the stupidity of this move is well... IMMENSE. still dont understand the thinking process here. y would we let him go? surely there has to be some1 lined up in january.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

How is it good business to give 2 players away who play the same position? And in the position where we have the most difficulty? Riddle me that.

Dan Levene has got the answer for you: http://sulia.com/channel/chelsea-fc/f/3cdf8a18-a7f6-4015-bc77-ba122969a4fd/?source=twitter

By offloading Essien, Meireles and Benayoun, we saved 8.6m in wages and gained 8m from selling Meireles. How much is our squad weakened though is something that will be revealed in the future.

[drog.ba 239]

If you could project proper english, then I could begin to understand. But, we have no one who can play the DM. Not enough for cover anyways. We made a bad business deal, so accept it. Unless RDM changes the formation, then we are FUCKED! If we go to 4-3-3, then we are fine. We can't play a 4-2-3-1........we just dont have the players.

How would changing to 4-3-3 from 4-2-3-1 help?

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Perhaps we are generating funds for Falcao and/or a new DM early as we don't want to fuck about in January. We want to buy them very early in the window.

[Manuf 1,448]

hahahha nothing like another knee-jerk reaction at TC because guy who had approx. 3-5 good games and a very good last one is leaving. reading this you would have thought we sold john terry to polish league.

you always wanted to see the youngsters play and when we loaned essien who would just take their place and who is both with meireles rather old, you're now screaming for robbie's head.

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2012-09-04/meireles-fenerbahce-as-big-as-chelsea/

Raul Meireles declared Fenerbahce to be as big a club as Chelsea and Liverpool after completing his move to the Turkish giants.

Meireles last night became the latest summer departure from Stamford Bridge, with the Portugal midfielder signing a four-year deal to ply his trade in Istanbul.

And the former Liverpool star immediately insisted he had not taken a step down in his career.

"I can't wait to get started - Fenerbahce is as big a club as Chelsea, Liverpool and Porto," Meireles told FB TV, revealing former Anfield team-mate Dirk Kuyt had played a part in the pair being reunited in Turkey.

"I had a great season playing at Liverpool with Kuyt. He told me about Fenerbahce and encouraged me to make the move.

"I have friends playing in Turkey. Kuyt has told be on several occasions that Istanbul is a beautiful city, I'm very excited about the prospect of playing here."

The 29-year-old, who reportedly cost £8million just a year after joining Chelsea for £12million, added: "Fenerbahce are a big club, everybody knows what kind of history the club has.

"I'm a team player, I love to win but what's more important is that the team wins.

"I can promise the fans that I will always give it my all and be a professional.

"For me, it's all about work, work, work. My goal is to win trophies here, I will do everything I can to try and make it happen."

[mitrenga 1]

Raul is closing in

to kick some galatasaray heads

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Raul is closing in

to kick some galatasaray heads

Where did u get so good quality clips from Dark Knight Rises??

[mitrenga 1]

Where did u get so good quality clips from Dark Knight Rises??

From Nolan boards!

[Buffalo talks Blue 85]

I don't get one thing now. If Meireles was to be sold then why was Essien loaned to RM? This man was great. He was really helpful to the squad. :blue scalf:

Anyway, good luck Raul. Thanks for helping CFC in every way you could

[Tomo 21,751]

you always wanted to see the youngsters play and when we loaned essien who would just take their place and who is both with meireles rather old, you're now screaming for robbie's head.

Can't speak for fellow CFC fans, but after the fuck up of Carlo's second season, i never want us to chuck experience away in favour of unproven youngsters ever again.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

hahahha nothing like another knee-jerk reaction at TC because guy who had approx. 3-5 good games and a very good last one is leaving. reading this you would have thought we sold john terry to polish league.

you always wanted to see the youngsters play and when we loaned essien who would just take their place and who is both with meireles rather old, you're now screaming for robbie's head.

Nobody should be screaming for Robbie's head (and I don't think he has much say in transfers anyway) but I just don't get this move. We have excellent depth in all attacking midfield positions-Hazard, Mata, Moses, Ramires, Lampard, Oscar, Marin, Malouda, Sturridge and even Piazon can play there. We have two pure defensive midfielders in Mikel and Romeu but for the deep-lying midfielder we have Lampard and nobody else. Even Lampard is not a natural at this position. Oscar might be able to play there but he's a natural#10 and he's new to the Premiership. The imbalance in the squad is very strange. Then you think, well maybe Chelsea are going to move to a 4-3-3 but that doesn't make sense either because it would turn Hazard and Mata from playing behind the striker into pure wingers which means they'd run the show less which is not what you want. It will be interesting to see what happens next but I find this move confusing. (And I don't want to see youngsters being given more than peripheral jobs until they earn more playing time.)

Also, agree with you about how ridiculous it is that people only seem to remember the last game Meireles played. It reminds me of my 3 YO niece, When I was at the Zoo with her, I asked her "what's your favourite animal?".and she always picked the last one she saw.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]