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If we don't give De Bruyne a chance, then that will be another example of how retarded the club is.
 
GodCubed said:
A Look At Kevin De Bruyne's Season At Werder Bremen | Bundesliga FootballBundesliga Football

^ Great little piece on De Bruyne. Would copy and paste to here but he deserves the page views.
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Funniest thing about this? That he will probably never play for Chelsea!

Snypar said:
How many times have we heard that?
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Well i heard from the same person who told me we had made contact with Utd over Rooney, this was a day or so before the tabloids got hold of it. If Jose is to come back then Lamps will be here next season.

kitchin75 said:
how many good young players do you lot have out on loan?
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Loads mate its a joke! Lukaku, De Bruyne, Chalobah, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Kalas, McEachran just to name a few!
 
CJACKO11 said:
Loads mate its a joke! Lukaku, De Bruyne, Chalobah, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Kalas, McEachran just to name a few!
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He's not even good enough for Hamburg let alone Chelsea. I think only the first 3 will make it at Chelsea, undecided on Kalas, needs a PL loan next year.
 
JDY said:
He's not even good enough for Hamburg let alone Chelsea. I think only the first 3 will make it at Chelsea, undecided on Kalas, needs a PL loan next year.
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Bruma is alright i think, nothing amazing but decent for back-up. Kalas not day is ahead of him though i think.
 
CJACKO11 said:
Funniest thing about this? That he will probably never play for Chelsea!



Well i heard from the same person who told me we had made contact with Utd over Rooney, this was a day or so before the tabloids got hold of it. If Jose is to come back then Lamps will be here next season.



Loads mate its a joke! Lukaku, De Bruyne, Chalobah, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Kalas, McEachran just to name a few!
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holy **** loads of teames would love 1 or 2 of that lot never mind the amount you have some 1 needs to sit down with and give roman a slap
 
On the topic of youth, going to the Bridge later for the FA Youth Cup final. Hopefully we can overturn their 1-0 lead!
 
Sadly we lost in the FA Youth Cup finals. But still been a very good season for our Youth team having reached the NextGen and FA Youth Cup finals with players like Nathan Ake getting a look in at the first-team too. As GC said, our heavy investment into Youth has finally started to pay off. Hopefully another 2-3 players establish themselves in the first team over the next few seasons
 
Looks like Kev De Bruyne is making his way out of the club permenantly for Dortmand after not even kicking a ball for the club. Nice one Chelsea another good young player bought which has ended up as a pointless signing.
 
cfc12345 said:
Looks like Kev De Bruyne is making his way out of the club permenantly for Dortmand after not even kicking a ball for the club. Nice one Chelsea another good young player bought which has ended up as a pointless signing.
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this is actually the most frustrating thing! does anyone know what are we getting in return?
 
I wouldn't let De Bruyne go anywhere bear Dorrmund permanently unless we are getting Lewandowski in the bargain
 
FACT: Rafa Benitez’s record as Chelsea manager: P46, W26, D10, L10, Win 56%.
FACT: Roberto Di Matteo’s record as Chelsea manager: P42, W24, D9, L9, Win 57%.
FACT: Benitez took over a team with two wins in eight games. A team with massive defensive problems. A team all but out of the Champions League and at risk not just of missing the top four but plummeting out of the Premier League’s leading six.
FACT: Benitez has guided them to relatively comfortable Champions League qualification and a European final.
FACT: A manager derided for his dry, defensive football has got Chelsea playing arguably the most thrilling, technical football anywhere in England. Yes he has superb players, but he has let them express themselves. More than you can say about Jose Mourinho with Joe Cole or Arjen Robben.
FACT: He juggled a hellish fixture list that included runs in the Club World Cup, League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League. And yes, it's true he has won none of them, but that could well change tonight.
FACT: He has got playing Fernando Torres playing more like his old self. Not quite back to his best, but certainly better than any time since 2009/10 when his manager was... oh! Rafa Benitez!
FACT: At a time when the club - not Benitez, the club - staunchly refused to offer Frank Lampard a new contract, Benitez coaxed enough fine performances from the old stager to make him the club's all-time top scorer. Imagine the adulation Mourinho would get for this.
FACT: He did what no England manager has done and eased John Terry out of his first XI in a quiet, fuss-free manner - very definitely relegating his captain but giving him just enough matches to avoid uproar. Quite a feat.
FACT: He did all of this saddled with a ludicrous 'interim' tag devised by a club bold enough to appoint him but too timid to offer full-throated backing.
FACT: Despite his title pulling the rug from underneath him, Benitez has lasted - in terms of matches - longer than Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Andre Villa-Boas and Di Matteo. In Chelsea terms, two-thirds of a season is positively Fergie-esque.
FACT: He received little public backing from the players, who have been happy to speculate openly about Mourinho’s return in recent weeks,.
FACT: The fans never accepted him.
FACT: Scratch that. They hated him. Still do. A visceral, personal loathing cascading from the stands from his first game.
FACT: The A4 ‘Rafa Out!’ banners might have gone but the ill will remains. Every match features a chorus of ‘F*** off Benitez, you’re not wanted here.’
FACT: Benitez suffered a 'meltdown' in February when he criticised the board andthe fans. Unwise, perhaps, but it takes some restraint to restrict yourself to one rant when your own fans tell you to f*** off every three days.
FACT: There’s no doubting the fervour of the fans’ feelings, but it's hard to understand exactly why they despise him so. It’s true, for a spell during the mid-noughties he was the anti-Mourinho in a series of fractious Liverpool-Chelsea battles. But ultimately his crimes boil down to a remark about plastic flags and another quote widely attributed to him but actually made up by a Czech kid on Twitter.
FACT: Even yesterday, in his press conference before a major European final, he was asked if his time at Chelsea might have been different if he had apologised. Apologise? For what? For defending Liverpool as Liverpool manager? He was supposed to bow down to the people telling him to f*** off and let them know how very sorry he was for making a solitary comment about flags when in charge of a rival club?
FACT: Rafa Benitez took a team in danger of spiralling out of control and put them back on the straight and narrow. He may not have been the man for the long term, but as a quick fix he was ideal. Much as he should never have been labelled as such, he actually fulfilled the brief of an interim manager to perfection.
FACT: Win or lose tonight, Rafa Benitez deserves thanks and praise from everyone connected to Chelsea Football Club.

Full eurosport article here, a good read.
 
Don't like Benitez, but he did a rather good job. Luiz is twice the player he was before him.
 
TheRealMourinho said:
FACT: Rafa Benitez’s record as Chelsea manager: P46, W26, D10, L10, Win 56%.
FACT: Roberto Di Matteo’s record as Chelsea manager: P42, W24, D9, L9, Win 57%. So Robbie's record was better?
FACT: Benitez took over a team with two wins in eight games. A team with massive defensive problems. A team all but out of the Champions League and at risk not just of missing the top four but plummeting out of the Premier League’s leading six. HOW! WE WERE 4 POINTS OFF THE TOP OF THE TABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
FACT: Benitez has guided them to relatively comfortable Champions League qualification and a European final. That was anything but comfortable trust me!
FACT: A manager derided for his dry, defensive football has got Chelsea playing arguably the most thrilling, technical football anywhere in England. Yes he has superb players, but he has let them express themselves. More than you can say about Jose Mourinho with Joe Cole or Arjen Robben. Spurs play better football, plus that is not everything. Results are everything in football.
FACT: He juggled a hellish fixture list that included runs in the Club World Cup, League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League. And yes, it's true he has won none of them, but that could well change tonight. And if it doesn't?
FACT: He has got playing Fernando Torres playing more like his old self. Not quite back to his best, but certainly better than any time since 2009/10 when his manager was... oh! Rafa Benitez!Then you have to question why he was poorer under previous managers and the blame lies at Torres's feet!
FACT: At a time when the club - not Benitez, the club - staunchly refused to offer Frank Lampard a new contract, Benitez coaxed enough fine performances from the old stager to make him the club's all-time top scorer. Imagine the adulation Mourinho would get for this. So it was Rafa who got Lampard playing well? Not Lampard himself who has played pretty well and kept himself in top shape for 12 years!!!!
FACT: He did what no England manager has done and eased John Terry out of his first XI in a quiet, fuss-free manner - very definitely relegating his captain but giving him just enough matches to avoid uproar. Quite a feat. And in some of the dropped points matches we needed JT!
FACT: He did all of this saddled with a ludicrous 'interim' tag devised by a club bold enough to appoint him but too timid to offer full-throated backing. The same interim tag Robbie and Guus had? He knew for well his position when signing the contract.
FACT: Despite his title pulling the rug from underneath him, Benitez has lasted - in terms of matches - longer than Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Andre Villa-Boas and Di Matteo. In Chelsea terms, two-thirds of a season is positively Fergie-esque. So what? The CFC could not sack him because they would be saying "we were wrong all along".
FACT: He received little public backing from the players, who have been happy to speculate openly about Mourinho’s return in recent weeks,.And why shouldn't they? Rafa is off so they have to look to the future.
FACT: The fans never accepted him. This was always going to be the case, if he, the board, the media and anyone for that fact thought other wise then they know very little about football.
FACT: Scratch that. They hated him. Still do. A visceral, personal loathing cascading from the stands from his first game. See above!
FACT: The A4 ‘Rafa Out!’ banners might have gone but the ill will remains. Every match features a chorus of ‘F*** off Benitez, you’re not wanted here.’ Again, see above.
FACT: Benitez suffered a 'meltdown' in February when he criticised the board andthe fans. Unwise, perhaps, but it takes some restraint to restrict yourself to one rant when your own fans tell you to f*** off every three days. No one actually blamed him for saying what he did, was just glad he had finally cracked.
FACT: There’s no doubting the fervour of the fans’ feelings, but it's hard to understand exactly why they despise him so. It’s true, for a spell during the mid-noughties he was the anti-Mourinho in a series of fractious Liverpool-Chelsea battles. But ultimately his crimes boil down to a remark about plastic flags and another quote widely attributed to him but actually made up by a Czech kid on Twittter. A number of quotes which wearn't made up, plus the fact we believed he was not a good manager! Would loved to have seen Man Utd fans response if he got that job!
FACT: Even yesterday, in his press conference before a major European final, he was asked if his time at Chelsea might have been different if he had apologised. Apologise? For what? For defending Liverpool as Liverpool manager? He was supposed to bow down to the people telling him to f*** off and let them know how very sorry he was for making a solitary comment about flags when in charge of a rival club? All he had to say was "past comments are not what i think now" he didn't even have to mean it but it would have won some fans round definitely.
FACT: Rafa Benitez took a team in danger of spiralling out of control and put them back on the straight and narrow. He may not have been the man for the long term, but as a quick fix he was ideal. Much as he should never have been labelled as such, he actually fulfilled the brief of an interim manager to perfection. This is the most pathetic point of the lot! How can you tell we would have spiraled out of control? A few bad results does not mean that this will definitely happen.
FACT: Win or lose tonight, Rafa Benitez deserves thanks and praise from everyone connected to Chelsea Football Club. Win or lose tonight my thoughts on him will stay the same.

Full eurosport article here, a good read.
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Its an absolutely shocking read, poorly put together and full of absolute **** which make no sense what so ever.
 
The " 4 off points of the top" again, really? Rafa's dog could propably lead team to '4 off points of the top' when the first 8 fixtures are 6 teams from places 11-20, including 3 that were eventually relegated.

So it shouldn't be surprising that Roberto di Averageo managed that as well. Of course he also busted out of champion league, uefa super cup, community shield, and Chelsea in the league has fallen apart when harder fixtures started coming along, but lets not distract ourselves with facts, shall we?
 
It's disgusting that some Chelsea "fans" started to almost love the guy. He did good, but nothing more. As Carl said, win or lose tonight, what I think about him won't change.
 
Tyton said:
The " 4 off points of the top" again, really? Rafa's dog could propably lead team to '4 off points of the top' when the first 8 fixtures are 6 teams from places 11-20, including 3 that were eventually relegated.

So it shouldn't be surprising that Roberto di Averageo managed that as well. Of course he also busted out of champion league, uefa super cup, community shield, and Chelsea in the league has fallen apart when harder fixtures started coming along, but lets not distract ourselves with facts, shall we?
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Had this discussion with Nick Chelsea, where he was relatively loathe to giving Rafa credit, but admitted that he didn't believe Di Matteo would have done as well. Well isn't that the whole point?
 
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