EskWeston 696 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I agree with 99.9% of the suggestions mentioned in this thread, so instead of basically echoing those sentiments, I'll make my change a broad, all encompassing, one:Change: The OldFor: YouthI see clubs with exciting, and very effective young players and Chelsea just seem to be stagnant. And even when a viable youth option is there, the "old guard" still seem to be preferred even though the skill level between the two is very comparable.:goodpost: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benji_blue 3 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 How so?It will be a problem next season. Didier and Anelka will be 33 and 32 next year.I agree they are not a problem currently but I also agree that DD and Nico are both the wrong side of 30. I would love to see Torres but he is a totally different player to Drogba. I think we have a decent looking Stiker in Sturridge, but I think we need to bring some more quality up top along with some flair and pace in midfiled and on the wings. But we need players who will suit Chelsea, not players who just have the big name. I personally would like to see us buy at least one British players, Ashley Young would be a great buy for the wing, but how about Graham Dorrans from WBA, this player looks class, and if we were to get rid of some of our deadwood in the centre of the park then he would be a great signing, he certainly wont be costing us tens of millions and would be a player who could remain with us for years to come.Benji Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 (edited) Maybe it's a little too early but it seems like Ancelotti is finally realising that the 4-3-3 (4-2-3-1) formation is the best formation for Chelsea FC. I really hope he sticks to that formation. But that brings me to the point that we do really need a few changes. Replacing the old with the young. Sell/Out:Hilario, Fereirra, Carvalho, Belletti, Deco, Kalou, Sinclair, J. Cole (BIG maybe)Buy:Asenjo, Jerome Boateng or Kjaer, Gourcuff or Van der Vaart, Ashley Young or Aaron LennonBring Back/Promote:Patrick Van Aanholt, Ryan Bertrand, Mancienne, Cork, Matic (never plays), Kakuta, StochDEFENCEHilario out and promote Turnbull to second choice. He is a good goalkeeper and since he is only 25 he can still improve. Or maybe get Asenjo who can spice up the competition. He is a fantastic keeper and he is very, very young being only 20 years old. Cech wont be able to slip up with those two fighting for first choice.Carvalho out. Still a great defender but no so consistent anymore and injury prone. He can also bring some money in since he is still one of the better defenders out there.Bring in a young defender. I would love to see Kjaer or Jerome Boateng (HSV), both fantastic young defenders. I would prefer Boateng since he is cheaper and he has pace and agility. He is also very strong and tall (1.92 m) and he can play as a fullback (left and right). Boateng can even give Alex a hard time for first choice. Hutch is too injury prone and i think Mancienne is more comfortable at the DM position.Promote Bertrand and PVA.GK: Cech, Asenjo, TurnbullRB: Bosingwa, Ivanovic (Boateng and Mancienne in emergency)CB: Terry, Alex, Boateng, Bruma, Hutch (Mancienne, Cork and Ivanovic in emergency)LB: Ashley Cole, Patrick Van Aanholt, Ryan Bertrand (Zhirkov and Boateng in emergency)MIDFIELDDesperately need a good playmaker. Van der Vaart and Gourcuff are the best options. Hamsik is a great AM but he isnt a real playmaker like VDV and Gourcuff. Rafael van der Vaart would be a good buy. He is simply world-class and very cheap. But he is 27 years and he is a little bit injury prone. Gourcuff is the best option. Young and very close to world-class.Bring back and promote Cork. DM: Essien, Mikel, MancienneCM: Lampard, Ballack, Matic, Cork (Malouda and Zhirkov in Emergency)AM: VDV/Gourcuff, Lampard, Kakuta (Malouda in emergency)ATTACKFrom what i read Anelka is ready to stay with us and sign (lower wages). So he would be a fantastic back up for Didier. I dont think DD will be able to play as much as this season (he isnt the youngest) when the new season starts so he would get a lot of game time.Aguero is not needed if we stick to the 4-3-3 formation. He isnt a winger and he isnt the lone striker type. I think we're covered with Malouda, Zhirkov and Kakuta at left wing.Sell Kalou. He just isnt Chelsea material, too bad because i do like him. If Joey leaves then it would be best if we buy Ashley Young. He is a great winger and only 24. He is expensive but worth it if you ask me. Aaron Lennon is also a good option. He was one the revelations of the league before his injury. He is a player that could give defences headaches with his extreme pace.LW: Malouda, Zhirkov, KakutaCF: Drogba, Anelka, Sturridge, BoriniRW: Ashley Young/Lennon, Stoch (Anelka in emergency)Starting line-up--------------------------Cech-----------------------------Bos/Ivan-------Alex------------Terry---------------Cole------------------Essien---------Lampard------------------------------------------Gourcuff--------------------------Young------------------Drogba------------------MaloudaThese changes will give us a good mix of youth and experience. And with this team we can finally be a consistent side again. Edited March 27, 2010 by Blue_Soldier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Asenjo is too good a goalkeeper to come and sit on his arse as a sub. However there is potential for him, once he gets a run in the team, to keep Cech on his toes, which is something the Big Man could do with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 (edited) Asenjo is too good a goalkeeper to come and sit on his arse as a sub. However there is potential for him, once he gets a run in the team, to keep Cech on his toes, which is something the Big Man could do with.I dont know if you missed it but he is a sub right now. He lost the first choice keeper place to another fantastic keeper called David de Gea (19).So if Chelsea act fast they could get a fantastic goalkeeper who can keep Cech on his toes and maybe even replace him since he is already a great keeper, even though him being only 20 years old.Dont get me wrong, i think Cech is great but a little competition never hurts. Edited March 27, 2010 by Blue_Soldier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakuta44 16 Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 I dont know if you missed it but he is a sub right now. He lost the first choice keeper place to another fantastic keeper called David de Gea (19).So if Chelsea act fast they could get a fantastic goalkeeper who can keep Cech on his toes and maybe even replace him since he is already a great keeper, even though him being only 20 years old.Dont get me wrong, i think Cech is great but a little competition never hurts.a little competition never hurts ... that's right ...... but the GK shouldnt be one or our priorities ...... i would rather focus in getting a good young striker a winger and a center midfielder before ..... i start thinking about goalkeeping .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I dont know if you missed it but he is a sub right now. He lost the first choice keeper place to another fantastic keeper called David de Gea (19).So if Chelsea act fast they could get a fantastic goalkeeper who can keep Cech on his toes and maybe even replace him since he is already a great keeper, even though him being only 20 years old.Dont get me wrong, i think Cech is great but a little competition never hurts.I agree there. And forgive my ignorance, I don't watch Spanish football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 a little competition never hurts ... that's right ...... but the GK shouldnt be one or our priorities ...... i would rather focus in getting a good young striker a winger and a center midfielder before ..... i start thinking about goalkeeping ....I agree with you there, it isnt one the top priorities. Getting a winger and a playmaker are two most important things. I would go for Ashley Young and Gourcuff or Van der Vaart or even Özil. I forgot all about him as he is also a great young playmaker who is very skillfull.Just seeing Deco play yesterday, made my point about the importance of a good playmaker. Too bad Deco is more injured than fit and his old age of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I agree there. And forgive my ignorance, I don't watch Spanish football.Your forgiven . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZanSnake 1,211 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Would love to see Ashley Young on the wing for Chelsea, Malouda on the other in the 4-3-3 and we would have some astonishing crosses coming in. I think we need to see Hilario, Carvalho, Ferreira, J Cole, Ballack, Deco, Anelka (A maybe), Belleti, Sinclair (Meh), Di Santo (meh), Kalou and give starting line up to Matic, Kakuta and Stoch in some form.My Line up would be--------------------Cech-----Bos/Iva---Alex/Iva---Terry------Cole-----------------Mikel/Cork------------------Essien----------------Lampard---------------------------------------------------Kakuta/Stoch--Drogba--MaloudaBut i would also buy:Aguero, Asenjo, VDV/Gourcuff, HamsikI would use Aguero as a sub or in a rotational way with Drogba same with Essien and Hamsik. With the option of VDV it gives us a more options for AMC in the 442 Diamond or Christmas formation. By playing Cork we have the creativity that we need, playing a Maka role, the deep-player-maker role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakuta44 16 Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 now i see a new problem .... although we have been on fire in our last three matches but i think carlo likes anelka so much that he chose him over drogba in the man u clash !!!!!!!!so our hopes of aguero pato and all these players won't happen .....the only place i think he would like to bring someone in will be an attacking midfielder may be a CM as well but it looks like we won't be having a busy transfer window Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sLOVEnian Blue 74 Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 We need a new attacking midfielder and a new striker/winger ...Attacking Midfielder : Gourcuff, Pjanič, Pastore, Lulinha, Ozil, Kroos, Moutinho, Di Maria (he is more of a left midfielder/winger)Striker/Winger : Aguero, Pato, Gervinho, Neymar, Jovetič, Krkič ...If I would pick I would choose Sergio Kun Aguero who could play in 4-3-3 as a winger or in 4-5-1 (Christmas Tree) as a second striker. He could also play as the front man in all of formations.For CAM I would have to go for Gourcuff who is a great playmaker IMO and that is exactly what we need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millzy_chelsea_fan 4 Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 tbh i would just get ballack and deco out and bring in james milner and/or dzagoev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakuta44 16 Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 a lot of things have just worked out perfectly for us recently..... deco is back from injury and is doing a very good job so far .... kalou and joe cole are starting to look useful again ....malouda is on firedrogba and anelka are competing which happens to be for our best .....ballack is looking great again when given 30 min. at the end of matchesivanovic a.cole carvahlo and essien are all expected back isn't this just great ???!!!!! for me yes it is and no it is not .....YES because we are looking like a great team again very solid at the back finally can keep a clean sheet and scoring a lot of goals and it looks like we have great chances in making the double this season which will make it the greatest season in our history better than even mourinho's best seasons ....NO because isn't that a little bit familiar we started a very good season looked like we were invincible and are gonna win everything then that form started to fade away we started to lose players start to underperform we lose the ucl we are about to lose the epl all of that off course is along with some injuries for essien deco and another couple of important players ..... and then at the end of the season we are back we are very strong we start to look great again players start to go back to their shape like kalou joe cole deco and ballack injuries are back we are in the final of the f.a cup but only this year thank god man utd and arsenal keep losing poins in the league so we can win that as well ......but are we gonna see the same senario next season ?????? are belleti joe cole kalou feriera deco ballack gonna stay ?????? yes most of them are almost back to thier forms but they keep doing that every end of a season and then lose their form ....... i hope not i dont wanna see all those under performers next season even if we are not buying a lot of players i am sure our youth can cover for them and will be even better ......one other thing i would like to add .....i always believed that mikel is not good but that one day he will improve and be like may be essein .... i was completely and 100 % wrong mikel had a lot of chances and he always proved he is less than an average DM i don't care if that's not his main position or not but right now he is the weakest point in our team ..... i really really hope we can sell him and get another DM like de rossi or if we can trade him + money for de rossi but i can't stand him anymore he proved that he doesn't have what it takes ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakuta44 16 Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 a lot of things have just worked out perfectly for us recently..... deco is back from injury and is doing a very good job so far .... kalou and joe cole are starting to look useful again ....malouda is on firedrogba and anelka are competing which happens to be for our best .....ballack is looking great again when given 30 min. at the end of matchesivanovic a.cole carvahlo and essien are all expected back isn't this just great ???!!!!! for me yes it is and no it is not .....YES because we are looking like a great team again very solid at the back finally can keep a clean sheet and scoring a lot of goals and it looks like we have great chances in making the double this season which will make it the greatest season in our history better than even mourinho's best seasons ....NO because isn't that a little bit familiar we started a very good season looked like we were invincible and are gonna win everything then that form started to fade away we started to lose players start to underperform we lose the ucl we are about to lose the epl all of that off course is along with some injuries for essien deco and another couple of important players ..... and then at the end of the season we are back we are very strong we start to look great again players start to go back to their shape like kalou joe cole deco and ballack injuries are back we are in the final of the f.a cup but only this year thank god man utd and arsenal keep losing poins in the league so we can win that as well ......but are we gonna see the same senario next season ?????? are belleti joe cole kalou feriera deco ballack gonna stay ?????? yes most of them are almost back to thier forms but they keep doing that every end of a season and then lose their form ....... i hope not i dont wanna see all those under performers next season even if we are not buying a lot of players i am sure our youth can cover for them and will be even better ......one other thing i would like to add .....i always believed that mikel is not good but that one day he will improve and be like may be essein .... i was completely and 100 % wrong mikel had a lot of chances and he always proved he is less than an average DM i don't care if that's not his main position or not but right now he is the weakest point in our team ..... i really really hope we can sell him and get another DM like de rossi or if we can trade him + money for de rossi but i can't stand him anymore he proved that he doesn't have what it takes ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrique 9,133 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 (edited) Chelsea has an old squad and need some fresh blood in attack and in midfield.Mikel is really awful, and we should look for one defensive midfielder to replace Essien when injured (he always gets injured).We need and exciting and young striker to play alongside Drogba. Chelsea needs its own Messi. Edited April 16, 2010 by Henrique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve 10,227 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Chelsea has an old squad and need some fresh blood in attack and in midfield.Mikel is really awful, and we should look for one defensive midfielder to replace Essien when injured (he always gets injured).We need and exciting and young striker to play alongside Drogba. Chelsea needs its own Messi.Mikel is not awful and personally i think he has been one of our best players this season. For some reason people think he makes to many mistakes but for me i think he does a lot more good than wrong. Give him a break.Also, welcome to talkchelsea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badboy 1,526 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Chelsea has an old squad and need some fresh blood in attack and in midfield.Mikel is really awful, and we should look for one defensive midfielder to replace Essien when injured (he always gets injured).We need and exciting and young striker to play alongside Drogba. Chelsea needs its own Messi.Any talents from brazil we should be looking at ? neymar ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrique 9,133 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Mikel is not awful and personally i think he has been one of our best players this season. For some reason people think he makes to many mistakes but for me i think he does a lot more good than wrong. Give him a break.Also, welcome to talkchelsea=pMikel is not awful if he was playing in Aston Villa, Arsenal or Everton...but if Chelsea aim to win UCL or become the greatest club in the world, so you expect to see the best players at Stamford Bridge, and Mikel is far from being one of the best defensive midfilders in the world...and people think he makes to many mistaker because he do make too many mistakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrique 9,133 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Any talents from brazil we should be looking at ? neymar ?Chelsea should look for South America and forget the young guys from Slovakia. lolNeymar is really hot. Better than Robinho, better than Kaká, better than Pato...at least he is playing better than all them whem they left Brazil...two days ago the scored 5 goals in Brazil´s Cup.In Brazil some people believe he is at the same level Lionel Messi is...but off course he is not yet.But any club who would like to take him, have to pay £30.5 million...:mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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