The "new" Chelsea (1 Viewer)

[flieeeekke]

Seriously, how can anyone point to the Chelsea of yore and say "Look, they spent millions too!" When they became Chelski, they laid out £200m on players, driving players out of the price range of teams like Man Utd FFS. There's big club, and then there's buying the league.

Want to know the difference between Man Utd and Chelski? Man Utd's money came from their many, many fans supporting their product. Chelski's came from oil wells stolen from the people of Russia.

What's more, Chelsea of old were a pleasant team, played good football, had likeable people involved. Chelski have been involved in a number of cases of tapping up players, were forced to pay out £10m for a player who they got to break his contract, have dived, whinged and spent again to win a couple of EPL titles in a style of football that makes most purists sick (especially given the fine passing football of Arsenal and Man Utd before them) and have an overbearing arrogance that gets up plenty of people's goat.

Finally, old Chelsea had Zola, the coolest man alive.

Old Chelsea:

Chelski:

very well said mik, why did i even bother

 

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[flieeeekke]

Thank you,ppl dont seem to get this one. Chelsea paid a ridiculous 21m sterling for hasselbaink when he was at atletico.Lord knows chelsea overpaid for a couple players prior to the russian revolution.

we paid loads of money for salas. the market was different back then, loads of teams had huge budgets, thats why the likes of leeds, lazio and parma and even chelsea before roman bailed them out almost went bust.

 

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The Goalkeeping Crisis


With Petr Cech recovering in hospital from his horror injury, attention is turning to who Chelsea will buy to bring their goalkeeping numbers up to three.
Carlo Cudicini and Henrique Hilario are the two seasoned pros charged with the task of taking Chelsea into the next round of matches.

But since neither were Jose's prefered choice as number ones, the question has to be asked will Chelsea go out and buy another first choice keeper?
The Janauary transfer window is the only chance Chelsea have of landing a current top team's number 1.
Until then Chelsea have the option of bringing in out of contract players or buying lower status stoppers.

Jose Mourinho said after the victory on Saturday over Portsmouth that he is looking for a third choice keeper.
The assumption being that Cudicini will retake the first team duites in the next couple of weeks as he recovers from his concussion injuries.
But can Chelsea confidently expect to enter the winter months and Champions League without a number one keeper of the class of Cech?

I fully expect them to enter the fray for Gianluca Buffon - Juventus's World Cup winning stopper.
Roman Abramovich always goes for the best available talent whenever he can and Buffon fits the bill.
Others have being touted, with Italian side Livorno's Marco Amelia publically stating he is not interested..

Stephane Porato is the latest to be linked to the position and the former Marseille man is currently out of contract. But he would only fill the third-choice role.
Another man out of contract is Fabian Barthez. But the former French international has already being dismissed by Mourinho citing Barthez's staus as a number one as a stumbling block.

Chelsea have to make a decision soon if they have the confidence to play second-string Cudicini for the best part of a season and a half.
I suspect they will do their best to land Buffon in January and hope the Cudicini /Hilario double act can keep them in Premiership contention until then.

chelsea-mad.co.uk

 

[flieeeekke]

40m + cudicini is fine with me..

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

i saw give me 40m + cech and then maybe i ll consider it

 

[Falafel]

i saw give me 40m + cech and then maybe i ll consider it

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

you know i was being sarcastic right.

 

[Falafel]

you know i was being sarcastic right.

yep

 

[HelterSkelter]

chelsea wont get buffon.cech will be back before the season ends,and next season there is no way in hell that buffon and cech will be in the same squad.cech is younger than buffon and has done great at chelsea,so i dont see them sacrificing a potential future superstar in the making for buffon.

 

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Cech Won't Resume Full Training for Three Months, Chelsea Says


Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, who suffered a fractured skull in a collision with Reading's Stephen Hunt this month, won't resume full training until the end of January.

The 24-year-old got injured when Hunt's knee made contact with his head as he gathered a loose ball in a 1-0 away win Oct. 14 and needed emergency surgery to stabilize his condition. He left hospital today and will return to light training next week, Chelsea said in a statement.

``It is standard medical practice to allow three months for a fracture to the skull to repair fully, and that is the timescale we are all working to for a return to full training,'' the club said. ``He continues to make excellent progress.''

The incident sparked a dispute between Chelsea and Reading. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said Hunt tried to hurt the Czech international and that Reading didn't provide the best care for Cech immediately after the injury. Reading rejected both claims.

Cech was among those nominated this month as player of the year by FIFA, world soccer's governing body. Cech, Arsenal's Jens Lehmann and Juventus's Gianluigi Buffon were the only goalies to make the 30-man list.

With backup Carlo Cudicini sustaining a concussion in the Reading game, Mourinho was forced to use third-choice Hilario in a Champions League match against Barcelona last week. Premiership champion Chelsea won 1-0.

Bloomberg

 

[Ahmed]

wow real sad news for petr...

 

[francesco]

its just all jelousy, everybody is jelous of chelsea and their money. sure chelsea bought their way to to the top, but thats just the way it is, they are not the only club spending ridiculous amounts of money. they are now in the top 3 clubs in the world, always competing for the EPL, always in the the running for UCL, etc. Football is full of suprises, and things change, so in this day and age, chelsea is the suprise, and if you are not a chelsea fan, all u can do is criticise. i have been a chelsea fan since the vialli, zola, di matteo, casiraghi days, and still follow them with great passion! man utd and arsenal were pretty much the only 2 top clubs in england for about 10 years, and nobody complained, but now that chelsea has taken over, nobody likes it, well tough luck!! chelsea gets results because of a great team and great coach. once again... its just all jealousy!!