Yuri Zhirkov

[Styles 9,790]

What a waste of space and money. I'd terminate his contract in the summer if only to have a free slot avialble for a foreign player. You can forget about trying to recoup some money, who on earth would want this waste of space?

£18M was it? What a joke.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

What a waste of space and money. I'd terminate his contract in the summer if only to have a free slot avialble for a foreign player. You can forget about trying to recoup some money, who on earth would want this waste of space?

£18M was it? What a joke.

Can't blame him for being injured & our inability to negotiate an appropriate price.

[Tomo 21,681]

You could say he had a hand in us winning the league last season.

Shackeled Valencia at Old Toilet.

After watching a re-run of the Bolton match in April i was shocked at the amount of vital tackles and interceptions he put it, without him we might have dropped points and possibly lost the league.

[Styles 9,790]

Can't blame him for being injured & our inability to negotiate an appropriate price.

He comes across as weak with a very low pain threshold.

I don't even know what the purpose of signing him was. £18M for a left sided player who is nowhere near as good as Ashley or Malouda. You don't spend that much on what is essentially a back-up.

The term abject failure was created for transfers like this.

[5354 204]

this makes the "Milan Labs" a joke at chelsea

[Milan 17,835]

What a waste of space and money. I'd terminate his contract in the summer if only to have a free slot avialble for a foreign player. You can forget about trying to recoup some money, who on earth would want this waste of space?

£18M was it? What a joke.

Your comment is a joke. Because he doesn't have a star name that doesn't mean he is not good enough. In Russia he was one of the best players, nicknamed 'Russian Ronaldinho' which was a not a coincidence. He was coming here to fill the left flank and IF he had a proper chance to prove his worth, he would be on of the best players in the league, as every time (twice, only twice!) he played as a left winger, he was outstanding. He was pretty unlucky with his injuries and with Malouda who was in the form of his life last year. This season he is a poor shit, like almost everybody.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

He comes across as weak with a very low pain threshold.

I don't even know what the purpose of signing him was. £18M for a left sided player who is nowhere near as good as Ashley or Malouda. You don't spend that much on what is essentially a back-up.

The term abject failure was created for transfers like this.

That's unfair, we don't know what his injury actually is.

As I said before, we can't judge him based on what the club paid. We know Chelsea are awful in the art of negotiations, so we shouldn't hold this against him.

[Rambo 1,729]

He comes across as weak with a very low pain threshold.

I don't even know what the purpose of signing him was. £18M for a left sided player who is nowhere near as good as Ashley or Malouda. You don't spend that much on what is essentially a back-up.

The term abject failure was created for transfers like this.

You make it sound like he's been playing for us for years.

[True_Blue 469]

Zhirkov is quality and he can play in various positions,it is not his fault he is injured.If he wasn't i am sure he would perform a lot of better than most of our current first team players.

[Tomo 21,681]

[Term-X 7,891]

£18M for a left sided player who is nowhere near as good as Ashley or Malouda. You don't spend that much on what is essentially a back-up.

This.

[Kostas 1,468]

Regardless of how Essien performs after his injury I think Ramires' case was pretty similar.

Still I wouldn't speak ill of Zhirkov until I know he's breathing.

[Badboy 1,526]

I like Zhirkov i think he has a turn of pace that we lack in our squad. The thing is its very rare for a club to be this quiet on a player being injured.

[Kostas 1,468]

I like Zhirkov i think he has a turn of pace that we lack in our squad. The thing is its very rare for a club to be this quiet on a player being injured.

Think they were just as quite about Bosingwa and maybe Essien. At least Ancelotti kept telling us that Lampard is out for 3 weeks.

[5354 204]

i think we rated zhirkov too early

he is not given a chance to adapt and pick up english.

thats the problem with buying foreign players - especially those who don't speak a common language. it is hard to communicate on the field and basically u can only leave it to football doing the talking

[teignman 441]

He comes across as weak with a very low pain threshold.

I don't even know what the purpose of signing him was. £18M for a left sided player who is nowhere near as good as Ashley or Malouda. You don't spend that much on what is essentially a back-up.

The term abject failure was created for transfers like this.

I do think we paid over the odds for him, but as far as threshold for pain goes, the video speaks for itself. Especially at around 2:03 where he heads a clearance despite a nasty gash on his head. His resolve was quite impressive during this match last season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Xi8hdtwRE

[Steve 10,227]

A lot of you are being really harsh on Yuri. He has never been giving a solid run of games in the first team to become the superstar that use want. He has come into a completely different league and has hardly been given a chance to prove himself. I remember when Ivan played a couple of games for us and everyone was getting onto his back about how he would get taken out of the game so easily. Ivan was then given a run of games and look at him now, he is one of the best defenders in the world. There is a reason why he was signed up and until he is given a run of 10-15 games in the first team i will not mark judgement on him because to be fair he has never really done anything wrong besides give the ball away a few times.

Yuri has 29 appearances for Chelsea and most of them are from the bench, the only time he has been given a fair run in the first team was when Ash was injured. So give the guy a break, Yes he has had his fair share of injuries but most players do.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Absolutely agree with you, Steve,

Yury offers a lot to this team... we can see from the Blackburn away game in particular his pace and creativity is actually a massive asset, and people certainly weren't criticising the man who was our most consistent performer towards the back end of last season when Cole was injured.