The Benitez Thread

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BREAKING: EVA IS STILL AT THE CLUB!

I take it back. She can be the face (and body) of Chelsea.

:yay:

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Just got to hope after all this Pep does come here in the end...bit stuck if he is snapped up elsewhere.And if he does come that he can beat Carlo's record...

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

I don't disagree with that. The player we've never replaced is Makelele, but I don't think there's another one out there. Busquets is probably the closest, but it seemed for a time we didn't really know who to go for. We've only really recently replaced Robben and Duff with Hazard and a couple of others.

My view is that we actually potentially have a phenomenal squad coming up. The club things the same and they want a manager who can take them on for the next 5 years minimum. They don't want a potential weak link and that's how they saw Robbie. It's why they covet Guardiola.

We've never replace Drogba or Lampard or Terry or Carvalho or Ballack or Essien. Our starting XI in 2005-2006 was Cech, Gallas, Carvalho, Terry, Del Horno, Makalele, Essien, Lampard, Cole, Robben, and Drogba and almost all at their peaks. That's insane. (We also had players like Gudjonsson, Crespo, Duff, and Feirera who played regularly) We had top-5, top-10 players at their position in the world all over the pitch. We had players who were elite attackers and elite defenders. We had balance, physical presence, ability on the ground, in the air, speed, leadership everything. We are light years away from that right now.

[Jase 43,479]

This was being mentioned 3 hours ago...

Neil Ashton ‏@neilashton_

Rafa wants to bring in a keeper coach. How will Petr Cech react, he only works with Christophe Lollichon. More on Mail Online soon

Cech won't be happy if RB does that. He has been working with Lollichon since he was at Rennes and the result of that can be seen on the pitch!

[LDN Blue 7,903]

This was being mentioned 3 hours ago...

Cech won't be happy if RB does that. He has been working with Lollichon since he was at Rennes and the result of that can be seen on the pitch!

Not really Cech's call that though.. Manager should be entitled to bring in his own coaching staff.

[Jase 43,479]

Not really Cech's call that though.. Manager should be entitled to bring in his own coaching staff.

Yeah but why change something when it ain't broken? Lollichon won't have stayed with the club this long if he wasn't that good and I'm sure the club recognize that. Additionally, Benitez won't stay here beyond the season(hopefully!), so why let him revamp so much of the backroom staff? He has already brought in Zenden and 2 other coaching staffs.

[LondonPride1905 236]

About the new GK coach. Isn't the Mail the same paper, that said the players hate Di Matteo , more than AVB. Until this happen, I can still proclaim the Mail with the tag: S**T.

[Muzchap 8,966]

I take it back. She can be the face (and body) of Chelsea.

:yay:

Dude you're wanking over Marin

Or actually worse - Marins body and Eva's face

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[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Yeah but why change something when it ain't broken? Lollichon won't have stayed with the club this long if he wasn't that good and I'm sure the club recognize that. Additionally, Benitez won't stay here beyond the season(hopefully!), so why let him revamp so much of the backroom staff? He has already brought in Zenden and 2 other coaching staffs.

I agree with this. If you're supposed to be the Chelsea coach of the future, then you should have your say and bring in who you want but a guy who is going to coach for 6 months? Chelsea will likely just be firing all these people in half a year.

[Henrique 9,133]

This topic got boring after 2 or 3 posts.

[Leif 6,006]

"Why change our team to make Torres happy?"

Well why restrict the amount of coaches we have in a particular department to make Cech happy?

Obviously their performances contrast greatly, but once again, double standards it would seem.

[Muzchap 8,966]

I agree with this. If you're supposed to be the Chelsea coach of the future, then you should have your say and bring in who you want but a guy who is going to coach for 6 months? Chelsea will likely just be firing all these people in half a year.

Dude, you ever heard of the:

Kansas City Shuffle...

Tell everybody 7month contract and hope in 7 months they want him to stay?

Jus' sayin is all...

7 months as well - lucky number slevin?

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We've never replace Drogba or Lampard or Terry or Carvalho or Ballack or Essien. Our starting XI in 2005-2006 was Cech, Gallas, Carvalho, Terry, Del Horno, Makalele, Essien, Lampard, Cole, Robben, and Drogba and almost all at their peaks. That's insane. (We also had players like Gudjonsson, Crespo, Duff, and Feirera who played regularly) We had top-5, top-10 players at their position in the world all over the pitch. We had players who were elite attackers and elite defenders. We had balance, physical presence, ability on the ground, in the air, speed, leadership everything. We are light years away from that right now.

The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Can say that all you want. Doesn't denied the fact that he dodged several questions like when he was asked about his previous comment about not joining Chelsea or other clubs in England due to his respect for Liverpool. Then when talking about his past success, he likens winning La Liga to having won the Premier League in his CV and even spouted nonsense about Guardiola has never won the Premier League! Regarding the captaincy question, he said Terry will keep it by saying "An easy decision. Normally, yes." Normally?! As said, he was being evasive and hardly endeared himself to the fans though he seem to know that he won't be here beyond this season. Since he's only here to get the results, then whatever. Just want to see him start winning again.

Not saying he did not dodge questions, just saying it was a good thing. Reporters were clearly setting him up and waiting for him to trip and he didn't. You thought it was horrible because you hate the guy.

[Jase 43,479]

Not saying he did not dodge questions, just saying it was a good thing. Reporters were clearly setting him up and waiting for him to trip and he didn't. You thought it was horrible because you hate the guy.

Don't deny that I hate the guy but just saying that there were several questions he could have answered it properly.

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The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

who was the Guy ,, Carlo AVb ...???/ lets just play Russian roulette with our coaches ....who knows we might get lucky

[Reddish-Blue 2,345]

The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

Ramires will be a good player...but I don't think he'll be able to replace Essien. Essien at his peak was the complete midfielder, he could basically play anywhere in midfield.

As for Robbie not being the right guy...if you're under that much pressure as a manager, your first instinct will be to use the more experienced players rather than bring through youngsters from the academy/reserves.

If you want a successful youth system, you need to give your manager at least a 2-3 year period where you will back him 100% (unless of course your club starts seriously crumbling).

[Styles 9,790]

Not really Cech's call that though.. Manager should be entitled to bring in his own coaching staff.

Of course it's Cech call. Cech is a world class keeper and has his own way of doing things. He feels comfortable with his own coach who he has worked with for nearly 10 years. Why should some guy on a 6 month contract come here and tell him who is going to coach him?

Maybe Benitez should hire new chefs as well then. He looks like he knows his stuff in that department. Hope Benitez does something about Chelsea TV too, I hate that Gigi woman.