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Falcao won't come. Not sure why every Chelsea fan thinks he will. Too expensive.
We don't know who Chelsea are targeting, all we know is rumours from daily mail and talksport. January is 2 weeks away, we will see what happens.
We don't know who Chelsea are targeting, all we know is rumours from daily mail and talksport. January is 2 weeks away, we will see what happens.
Id swim to Spain and let him ride my back on the way back if he wants to join Chelsea!
Well if Roman goes into berserker mode like he did with Torres 2 seasons ago. Anything is possible lol.
Save our season El Tigre!
What about Cavani? Napoli are not in the CL although I imagine they stand to gain much more by keeping Cavani and gaining a CL spot rather than selling El Matador to us
Save our season El Tigre!
What about Cavani? Napoli are not in the CL although I imagine they stand to gain much more by keeping Cavani and gaining a CL spot rather than selling El Matador to us
I do agree there are some fundamental problems with this Chelsea side. However, I honestly feel that we can do much much better with a clinical striker.
Look at Manchester United. They hardly play well every game yet they can get away with it because they have a brilliant striker in RVP who can take even the half-chance. We do not have that.
Look at Manchester United. They hardly play well every game yet they can get away with it because they have a brilliant striker in RVP who can take even the half-chance. We do not have that.
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We had Drogba, and the moment he was gone, I knew we would find it hard to cope.
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One thing i also would like to say is why didn't Rafa start Oscar? This is a lad who would have been buzzing about the possibility of this game since he joined us and grew up watching these games and being a rival supporter to Corinthians. It seems to me that Rafa has not learned from his mistakes at Liverpool. I strictly remember me and my brother laughing at him when Liverpool beat Derby by 5 or 6 goals and the next game he left 3-4 players out from that side!
Odd thing to blame on Rafa here... It was a choice between Mata and Oscar, and Mata was picked.
It wasn't a choice vs Monterry?
Monterrey are not Corinthians, Moses offered a more powerful direct threat that you don't get from Oscar.
If anything, what Rafa got wrong was not starting Mikel over Lampard. The rest is on the players.
I agree with the whole Mikel thing and take your point that Monterry are a worse side than Corinthians but why change our game plan that worked? We in theory should be good enough for Corinthians to think about them changing their style to combat us. He picked Moses and he was one of if not our worst players today so that says it all. 2 wrong calls from the start for me and then 3 poor subs and when i say poor i don't mean the personal but i mean not trying something different instead of making like for like subs
If you never changed a game plan just because it worked once, you'd lose a lot of matches.
Thought Moses was good, relatively speaking. But to be honest everyone was so bad Corinthians had your number from minute one.
Corinthians required a different game plan, one that Rafa got wrong initially with Lampard and Ramires, but then individually and collectively Chelsea were poor, which undermined any attempted changes.
You need a Carrick (or better) type player in your midfield as soon as possible. Create a stable platform for the front 4 to play off
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If I remember right he just agreed to new contract and his chairman said that if anyone wants him they should come in with 70 mil bid or something like that. Also it looks quite likely that Napoli will be in CL again next season.
He's on a five year contract, highly doubt he'll want to leave Napoli anytime soon, he's scoring for fun and they're be in CL again next season most likely.
Course you need to be open to change but in a game like today i think we would have got a lot more from Oscar.
Well i personally think we would have got far more than Oscar starting than Moses and i actually thought Moses was very wasteful. Mikel can do part of the job Carrick does but lacks the long passing ability Carrick has.
Lucas Piazon on Twitter:
All i said was that corinthians had more courage to play the final than us , that they wanted more this tittle and that they played with more passion than us! I would never say something about my team mates , im just 18 and with them i learn a lot of good things. And i also said that this title is so important for the south american clubs and that was a dream for me that's why i was so sad. Thank you!
All i said was that corinthians had more courage to play the final than us , that they wanted more this tittle and that they played with more passion than us! I would never say something about my team mates , im just 18 and with them i learn a lot of good things. And i also said that this title is so important for the south american clubs and that was a dream for me that's why i was so sad. Thank you!
I do agree (about playing Oscar), but I don't think it would have been enough to win it. I watched the entire first half before switching over (thought it was boring, Chelsea seemed to create nothing whatsoever) and thought the entire team looked disconnected, no control in midfield, and the speculative 40 yard passes from Lampard were of no use at all. Oscar playing -may- have made a difference, but I don't think it would have been anything like influential enough. Blaming Rafa is the easy option and he certainly made a couple of blunders with selection, but the players didn't turn up in my eyes, either.
Can only agree with Piazon's tweet, glad he had the honesty to tell it how it is.
Can only agree with Piazon's tweet, glad he had the honesty to tell it how it is.