Hopefully this is the start of the demise of Chelsea as a top four club.
8th manager in 5 years. Shocking.
Why they even got rid of Avram Grant (2nd in the Premier League, 2nd in the Carling Cup, Runner-up (lost on penalties) in the Champions League, in his first season), is beyond me.
What and the fans deserve that??
The manager's aren't the problem, it's the owner doing the damage.
Ray wilkins has just said on SSN
Rafa taking over would only be a step backwards because he is a '4-4-2 Merchant'
Did he not play Torres up front on his own for 4 years and got him his repuatation.. Ray wilkins is clueless.
Cech
Ivanovic - Terry - Luiz - Cole
Essien - Ramires
Sturridge - Lampard - Mata
Torres
would be an indentical set up as was at liverpool, but with slightly better players..
Guys any idea on where avb is bound to go next? DO you think this scenario is possible - Jose joins the blues and avb goes to real??
What and the fans deserve that??
Don't think that is the case at all. Roman paid the man a lot of money to change this squad and make them entertaining yet he got rid of Zhirkov, Alex and Anelka and that is it from the old guard in 2 full transfer windows??? Ok now moving on, he decided to keep the older players for his own reasons but then decided he wanted to drop them which would have been fine but he did it in the wrong way. Instead of saying, look you lot are still in my plans and very much needed here but i want you to help the younger players through when they play instead of you. Once he got old/big ego players against him there was no going back but that is where its the players fault. When you cross that white line you play for the club whether you don't like the manager/players or fans. In my eyes it in terms of blame it goes AVB>Players>Men in suits i.e yes men>Roman.
I suppose I should also mention, you don't have a divine right to be a top four club, the way you are playing you don't deserve it, the way you are ran you don't deserve it, and it's not like you have the most vocal fans in the country, so I am unsure how not finishing in the top four is 'undeserving for the fans', you didn't see Newcastle fans turn against the club when we got relegated, we still got nearly 50k a week turn up when we were in the championship, we kept on to our best players and we worked back to where we are now. Maybe a few seasons of not playing champions league football might be the reality check your team, owner and fans need.
Getting rid of your old guard is not possible in 2 transfer windows considering the wages they are on. No team (Bar few obvious ones) will match that wages and the teams that can have better players than the old guards.
Getting rid of your old guard is not possible in 2 transfer windows considering the wages they are on. No team (Bar few obvious ones) will match that wages and the teams that can have better players than the old guards.
La Galaxy were willing to take Lampard in the summer nothing happend. Anji were willing to take Malouda and/or Drogba nothing happened. A couple of Chinease clubs were willing to take Drogba in January yet again nothing happend. All these clubs could afford these players wages without a doubt.
La Galaxy were willing to take Lampard in the summer nothing happend. Anji were willing to take Malouda and/or Drogba nothing happened. A couple of Chinease clubs were willing to take Drogba in January yet again nothing happend. All these clubs could afford these players wages without a doubt.
I dont think there was any substance in Lampard and Galaxy rumors, same with Anzi and Malouda.
Also getting rid of all the experienced players at once would have been heights of stupidity.