Waste of Space...

[Kostas 1,468]

I expect to get some heat for this but there are some good points people tend to ignore.

First of all I think the Drogba & Malouda arguement is overused. For every player who had a great career after adapting to the PL there must be around 10 players who went on to have shit careers. Basically whenever a player is horrible during his first season chances are he's not going to set the world straight later on.

Moreover, Drogba and Malouda were worldclass players who dominated a top European league before joining us. Few will claim Ramires was as good and to be honest I don't expect him to end up being the next Essien/Gattuso/instert world-beater that everyone is sure he'll turn to. Still -ignoring his price tag- the lad deserves a proper chance and at his age two full seasons should be the minimum.

as for ferreria the man is so vastly underrated at times its near sad sure hes a cruddy at cb on his worst day but chelsea fans who have seen chelsea longer than me can name at least 3 times hes proved himself useful. Hes had his ups and downs with us but name 10 players that play today that havent had a ups and downs in their careers

Few changed heart after yet another disaster at CB againt Sunderland. His downs are becoming alarmingly more than his ups so he's not really comparable to the average player. In fact, 9 out of 10 times he plays he's a defensive liability and we can't afford that.

Oh and don't bother bringing up his terrific performance against Tottenham as Bale was almost tripple-marked and the goal we conceded was due to Ferreira not getting back in time and Ivanovic having to cover for him.

Trust me the anti chelsea pro united press just want you to buy a news paper and buy a united shirt and put rooney on the back of it not really provide you with the Truth

Biased or not the fact is 6/11 players will in about 3 years be so far from a footballer's prime age that playing at the level Chelsea demands would be hard.

I'm aware of the famous exceptions like Giggs, Scholes, Maldini etc and the fact that modern medicine can prolong careers but I highly doubt this is going to work in a league as physical as the PL. Not to mention that Ancelotti's non-existent rotation isn't exactly going to help players >30.

My views on Kalou/Benayoun are known but it's funny how everyone is so quick to write-off the player that has had the less chances (with only Benayoun being behind in front of him and only due to injury) and arguably has a better chances/fuck-ups ratio than Kalou. Ross Turnbull is probably a horrible keeper who's never going to be good enough to start for a Championship club but he's had less chances than some of our other terrible players and I'm sure that had he gotten as many he'd have 10 saves to his name by the end of the season.

[Randall 315]

Ramires is 23 and has been one of our best players recently. Turnbull is fine as an English 2nd Goalkeeper. Totally agree about Kalou. I like Ferreria he's just a bit past it.

[EskWeston 696]

What we need is players pushing the established older players for a place (of course we also need the manager to give them the chance), at the moment the players have no real fear of losing their place because there is no-one pushing them.

[Porspa 3]

Ferreira I agree with

[Lampards Bitch 21]

We need to bring British players or at least players that have played in the prem If We plan on buying. Reason I say that is because I want to see more youth development come through. Roman invested a lot in this and We have to use them. I don't see the point of bidding silly amounts of money on foreign players from clubs abroad and then having to wait for then to settle.