Football The 2012 / 2013 Season Thread

[caLLous]

<Something witty about Chelsea playing on Thursday nights>

 

[Vladamir]

I think we've got problems all over the field tbh

Ramires, Oscar, Mata & Cech aside, the other 7 playing have been woefully inconsistent.

 

[megadave]

Lack of depth is what worries me, same players playing nonstop. What happens when Mikel disappears in January as well? Stuck with Ramires and Oriol for every game? Oh dear! Also I think playing Mata/Oscar/Hazard trio every game is doing more harm than good.

 

[eksdee]

No plan B. Recall Lukaku, sign a proper defensive midfielder to partner Mikel/Ramires or bring through some youth idk. Get rid of Torres... bleh, yeah. From massive optimism to huge pessimism in the space of a month, we've been found out I feel. Then again, one good result and it could all turn around again but who knows.

 

[Everz]

Chelsea look more useless on the ball then Dave Edwards.

I said 3-0 and Giovinco to score.. for fucks sake .

 

[Vladamir]

Moses will go for Nigeria too.

 

[Embattle]

I think we've got problems all over the field tbh

I tend to think those problem areas are acting like black holes and sucking in players from around them and causing more issues.

Least when we go out we set another record.

 

[megadave]

Recall De Bruyne, Essien and Lukaku, and do anything possible to get rid of and replace Torres and I think we'd be fine. Not title challenging because I don't see that happening at all, but we'd do a lot better than we would otherwise.

 

[Vladamir]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...e-for-Bayer-Leverkusen-striker-Andre-Schurrle

Yes please

 

[Aoami]

£180000 a week, before bonuses, back in 2009

 

[Wazzerphuk]

The best bit is the £24 fine

<Something witty about Chelsea playing on Thursday nights>

Bit early for you to be piping up isn't it? Risky!

 

[Scouse]

£180000 a week, before bonuses, back in 2009

It'll be a fake. There's no way Tevez is getting paid through PAYE.

Why pay all that tax when he could run through a limited or foreign and pay fuck all?

 

[Aoami]

Its not fake. His lawyer released a statement basically confirming it's authenticity.. cba to find it though

 

[soze]

It'll be a fake. There's no way Tevez is getting paid through PAYE.

Why pay all that tax when he could run through a limited or foreign and pay fuck all?

Because after Arsenal had to pay for all the tax we helped our players dodge, City might want to do it by the books.

 

[Raven]

408k a month to look a bit like predator and have the odd good game. I wouldn't say no.

 

[Aoami]

The best bit is the £24 fine

for a booking maybe? i was wondering what that was for

 

[Raven]

The FA are so out of touch with modern football that's probably a red card fine.

 

[soze]

Unless the fine is the same up and down the league, you cant say PL players pay £10k as that Swansea players is only on £800 a week or something?

 

[Vladamir]

The Benitez rumours are surfacing again

 

[Himse]

The Benitez rumours are surfacing again

If Rafa Benitez comes to Chelsea im going to go spare, he's distinctly average, and we'll definitely be losing alot more games in the future.

Rather have Pep, that'd be alot better.

 

[caLLous]

Blimey, it's looking like more than rumours. It might soon be a FACT.

 

[Ormorof]

so did he quit or get the boot?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20423905

 

[Scouse]

The Benitez rumours are surfacing again

He's a fucking awesome manager.

Look at Liverpool without him. We've gone from 2 champions league finals, winning one, a semi, 2nd in the league once but consistently qualifying (but yeah, a couple of bad years - but considering he didn't get proper spends...).

He's admitted his biggest mistake at Liverpool was buying a lot of players to sell on to fund bigger-name acquisitions - now he'd just add quality and have a smaller squad. Everything else about his game was great.

He's a motherfucker. Which is often a sign of greatness. I admired his self-evident intelligence. Other fans hated him. Which is a good sign.

He'd be great at Chelski.

 

[caLLous]

Bosh, RDM is sacked.

so did he quit or get the boot?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20423905

SSN are saying sacked, just saw the beeb story.

 

[Cadelin]

Unless the fine is the same up and down the league, you cant say PL players pay £10k as that Swansea players is only on £800 a week or something?

Most fines are based on players wage. The maximum allowed is 2 weeks.

 

[eksdee]

Christ, genuinely didn't expect RDM to get the boot so swiftly. The merry-go-round continues. Sigh.

 

[Himse]

A slight dip in the road and he's off the Chelsea bus.

I wonder who we're going to be left with to manage us, Mark Hughes?

 

[caLLous]

I thought they would wait until after the City game tbh.

Joke of a club, who in their right mind would go for the job with the track record Abramovich has?

You can have 'arry for the same odds as Mourinho.

 

[Raven]

Chelsea imploding again. I don't know what their problem is, total lack of patience.

Allow the manager to get rid of the likes of Torres and let him spend the money made on some quality. They have a solid base to build an exceptional squad from.

 

[soze]

Pep Guardiola is allegedly ready to return to managment could this be a coinicidence?