After watching Chelsea capitulate against Man Utd, it has made me think, are we watching the demise of Chelski?? To me they have an ageing squad, a manager who seems to have lost the dressing room,players looking to leave (Drogba) and an owner who is looking to sell because he's had enough and wont buy any new players! Chelsea have to start re-building now I think, they dont have a great academy setup, no up and coming youth players, they should seriously consider selling some of their prize assets and invest in younger, hungry players!!
Should Man City fans be worried of what may come?? (100mil for KAKA is absolutely ridiculous and will make a mockery of Football Transfers IMO) £48mil for Zidane was a lot when he moved to R.Madrid but FFS its Zidane, commercially R. Madrid would have made that money back anyway, can Man City say the same about KAKA??
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What will happen to the Premiership when all the foreign investors have had enough of their football plaything and decide to invest in something else???
Discuss:
I think you're suffering from some misconceptions here.
1. "Players looking to leave"
- Drogba's been wanting out since Mourinho left, that's hardly a new thing. What's happened since then however, is he's not performing on the pitch at all, although I blame that on the player himself, not his manager.
2. "an owner who is looking to sell because he's had enough and wont buy any new players"
- We're in the middle of a recession at the moment, and like most businessmen, Abramovich has seen his money significantly reduced. Like all prudent businessmen, he'll be looking to cut back, but as is usually the case, he'll be extra tight with his cash, even if he doesn't necessarily need to be.
3. "£48mil for Zidane was a lot when he moved to R.Madrid but FFS its Zidane"
- Well FFS it's Kaká! I mean this guy was the best player in the world not so long ago, let's not forget who we're talking about here. I agree £100m is obsene, but if Zidane was worth £48m in 2001, why shouldn't Kaká be worth more than that in 2009? ****, I expect Ronaldo to command an astronomical fee if he ever leaves.
4. "What will happen to the Premiership when all the foreign investors have had enough of their football plaything and decide to invest in something else"
- Why would this happen? First and foremost, these people are businessmen, and you don't invest millions and billions into a serious business unless you think you can make a return out of it; and you wouldn't do that if you were expecting to abandon ship in a few years.
As for your question, no, I do not believe we're watching the demise of Chelsea, they're just going through a rough patch at the moment. At the beginning of the season when they were putting 4 past teams each week, Scolari was hailed as a managerial genius and Chelsea were running away with the league. That speeding train has slowed down now, but it's not down and out; the result against United may well give them the wake up call they need.
Point is though, don't underestimate Chelsea.
From reading the comments above, there's also some odd things being said about Jose Mourinho. Everyone thinks he's a great manager, but the truth is he has zero pedigree. The only thing going for him is serving under Sir Bobby Robson at Barça; besides that, total prat!
At Porto he had the biggest budget in the Portugese league, winning the championship was a no brainer.
"He also won the Champions League", I hear you cry, but the Champions League is a knock out competition and not neccesarily reflective of the best team in Europe (Liverpool 2005, 5th in the Prem).
At Chelsea, it was common knowledge that he had the biggest cheque book in world football (at the time) and he took over a side which was legitimatley on the up - Claudio Ranieri had already done the foundation work (Lampard, J.Cole, Terry, etc)
Now at Inter, he has inherited a side that has won Serie A for the last 3 seasons and they are performing no better than they were last season, particularly in Europe where they've looked inept at times. He will run the club into the ground with his inablity to look to the future and his authoritarian tactician attitude and will bail just before it all starts to fall apart leaving his succesor looking at all the fingers pointing the blame at him.
The guy's a joke.
. I don't think they will win the league but I'm not sure about their demise just yet. Scolari did win the 2002 WC remember when Brazil were supposed to be going ***** (in the qualifiers at least).
