BlueLyon 9,359 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 On 08/01/2017 at 1:00 PM, Unionjack said: Its a old report from back in April reposted and I didm't know where else to post it. Worth a read tho. Where Did All The World-Class English Centre-Backs Go? http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/where-did-all-the-world-class-english-centre-backs-go Well its not just the defenders. Its midfielders too. Only Spurs have decent amount of good english players in Kane, Alli and Rose. Maybe you can stick Dier and Sterling to that mix, but thats about it. However none comes close to Terry, Ferdinand, Lamps, Gerrard or 2004 Rooney. Not speaking of english nt, but in terms of individual quality, england wasnt so shit in long time. Sadly even clubs like West Ham, Soton will stop producing english players because its cheaper and quicker to just buy foreigners. kellzfresh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionjack 7,532 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 7 hours ago, BoyBlue96 said: IF Conte wants to go 3-5-2 next season or any season with 2 strikers...or just getting another striker in. Who do you guys think/hope we get? I fear that Griezmann as a possible target being pretty much ManUtd bound if you ask me. Not many other good, free options... And yes, in a 3-4-3/3-5-2 system, Baba should get a chance. I woulda thunk that MOST peeps would say put Eden there but Id do all I could rifgt npw to get Sanchez. Even then if we stayed 3 4 3 it would make the best front line in the league. But it would be the best one that we could get and not just one to play 2nd striker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyBlue96 990 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Like this guy on Twitter, 25k followers and a nice guy to follow overall, but just doesn't seem to understand how the whole transfer thing works. Claims all big names are available in january. Yeah right. "Suarez was available to Liverpool some years ago" he told me. Mate Suarez came from Ajax who are a small European club nowadays who sell against any price. This sounds familiar no? These people on Twitter raging against the club for not trying to sign uh let's see Griezmann or James (who I don't even want at Chelsea) or what the fuck, why don't we try to bring Lionel fucking Messi to the Premier League! But also some users here at this forum with this bullshit that we are going to miss out on the title for not trying to ge these big names in. You are making me Tired with yes, a capital T. Still remember this Ruud Gullit Dutch guy on TalkChelsea doing the same. Embarrassing. Please don't be like this Carefreedaily guy. Have some patience and some common sense. This isn't FIFA. Thank you. quickpassnmove and Thendo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionjack 7,532 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 23 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said: Like this guy on Twitter, 25k followers and a nice guy to follow overall, but just doesn't seem to understand how the whole transfer thing works. Claims all big names are available in january. Yeah right. "Suarez was available to Liverpool some years ago" he told me. Mate Suarez came from Ajax who are a small European club nowadays who sell against any price. This sounds familiar no? These people on Twitter raging against the club for not trying to sign uh let's see Griezmann or James (who I don't even want at Chelsea) or what the fuck, why don't we try to bring Lionel fucking Messi to the Premier League! But also some users here at this forum with this bullshit that we are going to miss out on the title for not trying to ge these big names in. You are making me Tired with yes, a capital T. Still remember this Ruud Gullit Dutch guy on TalkChelsea doing the same. Embarrassing. Please don't be like this Carefreedaily guy. Have some patience and some common sense. This isn't FIFA. Thank you. I dont think its embarrassing for a teams supporters to want the best for their team I dont think and pretty sure most of us realise its not Chelsea in FIFA (unless its very late and theyre stoned) but I for one just want us to set our sights as high as we possibly can. We have never had a magnetic pull for players to join us so that makes it even harder for us to get any of the top players whether we wanted them or not. And as we have seen barring the odd N'Golo our transfer windows havent been over exciting since Cescy and Diego came to us. Dont you get fed up of these hasbeens,wannabes and never will bes we are continually linked with or buy to get left rusting away in some far flung country? I dont think any of us expect a team of world class everyone knows my name players, but the odd one now and then would go down a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyBlue96 990 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 7 minutes ago, Unionjack said: Its not embarrassing for a teams supporters to want the best for their team I dont think and pretty sure most of us realise its not Chelsea in FIFA (unless its very late and theyre stoned) but I for one just want us to set our sights as high as we possibly can. We have never had a magnetic pull for players to join us so that makes it even harder for us to get any of the top players whether we wanted them or not. And as we have seen barring the odd N'Golo our transfer windows havent been over exciting since Cescy and Diego came to us. Dont you get fed up of these hasbeens,wannabes and never will bes we are continually linked with or buy to get left rusting away in some far flung country? I dont think any of us expect a team of world class everyone knows my name players, but the odd one now and then would go down a treat. Yes but you can rage what you want about it here on this forum, or tweet about it like that guy constantly does: it won't change anything. Conte isn't a user here, Roman isn't and so on. This is the winter transfer window my man. That's a total different window than the summer one is. There won't be a headline in january that say's "Gareth Bale has joined Man Utd" or something like that what you might see in FIFA or Football Manager. You are mostly linked with young players or back-up players in this window. For example: Kessie is a young player we are linked with and so is Fernando Llorente as a bench/back-up player. There was a total meltdown here last summer back when I was still a lurker and sometimes it was hillarious to see those meltdowns of some users here. I do understand it a bit as we ended 10th, but still people need to calm down. You won't change anything at Chelsea from Twitter or this website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 8 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said: Like this guy on Twitter, 25k followers and a nice guy to follow overall, but just doesn't seem to understand how the whole transfer thing works. Claims all big names are available in january. Yeah right. "Suarez was available to Liverpool some years ago" he told me. Mate Suarez came from Ajax who are a small European club nowadays who sell against any price. This sounds familiar no? These people on Twitter raging against the club for not trying to sign uh let's see Griezmann or James (who I don't even want at Chelsea) or what the fuck, why don't we try to bring Lionel fucking Messi to the Premier League! But also some users here at this forum with this bullshit that we are going to miss out on the title for not trying to ge these big names in. You are making me Tired with yes, a capital T. Still remember this Ruud Gullit Dutch guy on TalkChelsea doing the same. Embarrassing. Please don't be like this Carefreedaily guy. Have some patience and some common sense. This isn't FIFA. Thank you. What can we do? Some people are thick. No team, especially teams with CL/title aspirations will sell their best players in January. This is just how it is... we are in a good enough position now to settle for backup players to get us over the line. BoyBlue96 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyBlue96 990 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 2 minutes ago, manpe said: What can we do? Some people are thick. No team, especially teams with CL/title aspirations will sell their best players in January. This is just how it is... we are in a good enough position now to settle for backup players to get us over the line. Indeed manpe. Glad to see some users here with some sense in them. Why would Real sell us James when they can still use him in the Copa Del Rey, La Liga and UCL? This is the window you bring in back-up players, not big names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionjack 7,532 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 36 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said: Yes but you can rage what you want about it here on this forum, or tweet about it like that guy constantly does: it won't change anything. Conte isn't a user here, Roman isn't and so on. This is the winter transfer window my man. That's a total different window than the summer one is. There won't be a headline in january that say's "Gareth Bale has joined Man Utd" or something like that what you might see in FIFA or Football Manager. You are mostly linked with young players or back-up players in this window. For example: Kessie is a young player we are linked with and so is Fernando Llorente as a bench/back-up player. There was a total meltdown here last summer back when I was still a lurker and sometimes it was hillarious to see those meltdowns of some users here. I do understand it a bit as we ended 10th, but still people need to calm down. You won't change anything at Chelsea from Twitter or this website. Totally agree that nowt we say no maater how many times or in what ways that we will have any outcome of what the club does. But no harm in having a rant about it among like minded supporters. None of us will ever agree on 1 thing but the whole point of a site like this is to share thoughts with each other no matter how daft some of them might be. Ive seen some great meltdowns on here. Cracks me up. Just gotta sit back and ride it out or wind them up even more 34 minutes ago, manpe said: What can we do? Some people are thick. No team, especially teams with CL/title aspirations will sell their best players in January. This is just how it is... we are in a good enough position now to settle for backup players to get us over the line. Yep I agree. We got enough to get us over the line. I'd rather not settle for that tho if poss. We got the best chance we will get to make up for the total shambollic of a season last year and give a big FUCK YOU to everyone that was taking the piss all year. And theres not a chance in hell we make an impression in Europe with this squad. Its almost impossible to get any proper good players in Jan but no harm in sowing seeds and for our transfer team/scouts etc to make contact with ones we want so we can get them in quick come summer. Till then we just daydream about what ifs and wouldn't it be goods. BoyBlue96 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eidur the Spider 4,515 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Guillem Balague Verified account @GuillemBalague This is been WORKED ON, not CONFIRMED!!!! Batshuayi to West Ham, Antonio could move to CFC. Llorente too + Ulloa 2 replace him #letssee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Any truth about Biglia rumour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Colored Sky 1,807 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 1/3 of the window gone and we're yet to be seriously linked to anybody. Worrying. We must add to the squad. LWB, midfielder and attacking midfielder minimum. Can only hope they're seriously evaluating Kenedy and Musonda but I suspect in 10 days time we'll be in the same situation. zekinjo, mccg and Despiadado.Maleante 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhead23 1,147 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 43 minutes ago, Blue Colored Sky said: 1/3 of the window gone and we're yet to be seriously linked to anybody. Worrying. We must add to the squad. LWB, midfielder and attacking midfielder minimum. Can only hope they're seriously evaluating Kenedy and Musonda but I suspect in 10 days time we'll be in the same situation. Hold on to your horses, mate ... Transfer Window only open around the 27th/28th of January .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekinjo 449 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I don't expect from Chelsea to sign any top player because even all the time in the world last summer we signed Michy, Luiz and Alonso. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,868 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 We won't be buying 3 players in this window, no way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Guillem Balague Verified account @GuillemBalague This is been WORKED ON, not CONFIRMED!!!! Batshuayi to West Ham, Antonio could move to CFC. Llorente too + Ulloa 2 replace him #letssee Ulloa? Lol, that can't be true. Such an average player, below average even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petre.ispirescu 4,928 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I do not care, not a single bit. This manager has earned the right to be trusted. Llorente, Heskey, Ronaldinho out of retirement, could not care less, if they are good enough for Conte then go on and sign them. He's done so much in such a short space of time... He knows what he is doing. Truly one of world's best managers, this club must put all its trust in him and his knowledge. Bernard N Y Burgesson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulvhedin 526 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Recalling Ake is like a new signing. TheIceMan, Fernando, the wes and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucio 5,418 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 46 minutes ago, manpe said: Ulloa? Lol, that can't be true. Such an average player, below average even. ulloa to replace llorente at swansea manpe and Fernando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccg 1,528 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Afew new upgrades would be nice in the January sales to push the whole team forward in the second half of the season , losing Oscar+Mikel seems there is a obvious gap there to fill for starters, tap tap boom Cfc board don't Cfcuk it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 10,284 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 1 hour ago, zekinjo said: I don't expect from Chelsea to sign any top player because even all the time in the world last summer we signed Michy, Luiz and Alonso. For fuck sake man. David Luiz is a top player. Leif and Bernard N Y Burgesson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts