Vladamir said:Although not as bad as Chelsea, they've still spent excessive amounts on certain players (almost £50m between Rooney and Carrick).
Marc said:Nothin winds me up more than Gobby chelsea fans who have suddenly come out of the woodwork since they got a sugar daddy. Fucks sake, I could win the premiership with chelsea if I had 10 trillion pounds to spend an all. I find it funny that 10, hell even 5 years ago, wherever I went I used to see the odd chelsea shirt. Now, you cant walk down a street without seeing one.
Unleashed said:Long post
Vladamir said:Oh right, i wasn't aware about all the details of it like that. From what i read, the Rooney deal was closer to £31m, and Carrick was at £18m = £49m total, obviously dependant on the factors you mentioned
Even as a Chelsea supporter i think the money spent is ridicolous. The biggest loss (imo) was signing Wright-Phillips. While he's a quality player, he's not worth £21m, no way. Now he's wasting away on the bench and getting no games, and so England are missing out too. Imo he should take a pay cut and go out on loan somewhere from January to another club (Newcastle perhaps, somewhere like that) to get some game time. Now that Joe Cole is almost at match fitness, i can see there being a lot more rotation from the main 4 (Ballack, Makalele, Essien, Lampard).
BBC Website said:Adu has also been linked with Chelsea and could be available for transfer in January, providing a fee can be agreed with MLS, who own his registration.
Vladamir said:Oh contraire Marc;
How ironic
I hope he doesn't go to Chelsea obviously, and doubt he will. The Drogba/Sheva partnership will have a good 3-4 seasons left hopefully before either of them move on or retire or whatever, by which time Kalou should be much more competant as a striker.
Also Calaen, i wouldn't really say J.Cole is being held back in his career at Chelsea. He played the majority of games last year and he's had a rough start to the season because of the knee injury he picked up on their American tour.
Yeah the diamond four will probably play the prominent amount of games, but when it comes to the fixture heavy weeks (FA Cup Midweek > League Weekend > Champs League knockouts midweek) i can imagine there'll be a lot more rotation, switching from the preference to go down the middle with Essien/Lamps/Ballack to going down the flanks with Robben/Swp/Kalou/Cole.