Wayne Rooney - Hatrick hero torn gunners apart.
If SAF was here this wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Apparently it will cost over 30million to sack him. Which is what they would lose from the CL. I cant see them sacking him to be frank now
I think it was 30m when you factor what it took to bring him plus what it'll take to sack him. Not sure though.
I heard it was stand alone, either way, when you then figure the cost of bringing another manager in, bearing in mind these all count in FFP, it makes sacking him unlikely tbh, barring the most spectular collapse i feel
I assume you'd be fitting Ferreira, Lampard and Kalou with the first two groups as well. That would mean getting rid of 10 players all in one go, among them their goalkeeper, their best 2 defenders, and arguably their best forward (Drogba) and central midfielder (Essien, although I realy like Ramires). That would be pretty **** hard to replace, and I'm not sure that youngsters that have barely played so far like Bertrand, Lukaku or McEachran (Personally I'd also name Piazon who looks quite the talent and fairly level headed as well) will be ready to fill those gaps.
On your Newcastle comment, funnily enough I raised that exact same point several months ago (Probably a couple hundred pages back...). Cabaye or Ba would probably do wonders. You could also add the likes of Pjanic or Vidal to the bargain list.
It's a lot of money, but the same or perhaps more would be lost if Chelsea fail to enter next years' CL. One way or the other it's gonna hurt.
I don't really mind Lampard. I think he's getting to the stage in his career where he is going to be a rotation player. Granted he is on a fucket load of wages, but he is still decent on his day.
I wouldn't get rid of them all at the same time, but rather phase them out. The first three would be the ones I would be looking to replace sooner rather than later, and then the latter four phased out over the next 3 seasons or so, depending on Essiens fitness. Ferreira is a good enough back up, and he can't be on massive wages, if he is, then they might as well ship him out also. Kalou is plain awful, and I am surprised he hasn't been sold already to be honest.
If you look at it, they could have a team of:
-------------Courtois--------
Ivanovic - Cahill - Luiz - Cole-
--------------Mikel ----------
-------Ramires ----Miereles--
Sturridge --------------- Mata
-----------Torres------------
So it's a pretty decent team, obviously they wouldn't be able to have it this season, because Courtois is still away, but they could replace Cech (who has been shaky this season) in the summer with him. The bench would consist of Lukaku/Bertrand/McEachran/Lampard/Ferreira + players they could sign in the summer to back up the first team or drop Luiz/Cahill to the bench and bring in a dominating CB, someone like Dede from Vasco who is young, good in the air and on the floor and quick. Also quite tall. Basically they need a younger quicker John Terry, and I don't think that's Cahill. Maybe even Samba would do a good job for them, he is only 27 (or 28) and is obviously settled in the Prem. If Blackburn go down, I imagine he would be pretty cheap (10-15m max).
On the attacking front, you would hope that front three would get you some goals, and you would have Lukaku to (hopefully) grow into a Drogba-esc role in the future.
Thing is, that very same team except for Courtois and Cahill (One is away and the other joined recently) has played plenty of games with little success. Meireles is, in my opinion, not good enough for Chelsea and Mikel looks a little bit dodgy as well, I'm not entirely convinced by him.
Also, I don't think they could gradually phase them out now - relations between manager and players are at an all time low and keeping either the manager or the players around would do more harm than good.
On Ferreira, I'm not sure he's on high wages but he's on the old side, not much time left in him, and frankly I don't really rate him either.
Del Bosque has dropped Torres from the NT for the first time in 6 years. This will either be a wake-up call or destroy his confidence completely, if he has any left.
It will do neither tbh, should have been dropped for Soldado last year, and Del Bosque warned him 6 months ago. He can only concentrate on Chelsea
Of course he should, but he wasn't. His presence in the NT was all he had left of a 'top striker'. Now that he lost that he'll either try to get his spot back or crumble.
Not really, think you are overplaying this somewhat, wasnt playing well for Spain either. Getting dropped isn't going to make or break him as a player. Especially as Del Bosque has said this isnt the definitive squad for the Euros