Official Chelsea FC Thread

Post #661 » by **5DOM** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:30 am

Not the best tournament for him, but I'm not too concerned. He's a disgusting player who will do anything and I am fairly confident he will be useful unless he gets himself sent off regularly.

treiz · Post #662 » by **treiz** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:34 am

Sunderland planning to loan Zouma from us, really like this deal. Hope it goes through

So right now, our CBs are Terry/Cahill/Ivanovic/Omeruo

treiz · Post #663 » by **treiz** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 2:10 pm

Thorgan Hazard to be loaned to Monchengladbach

Really loving how quickly this guy is progressing since we got him. Might not play a lot of first team initially but still experiencing top division first team football is good for him

treiz · Post #664 » by **treiz** » Wed Jul 9, 2014 8:10 pm

Signed 19-year old Mario Pasalic

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... jduk-split

Don't know much about the guy, but he made the provisional 30-man Croatia squad, so that's a good sign. Says he admires Lampard, let's hope for much of the same. Should be loaned out ASAP too.

treiz · Post #665 » by **treiz** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:54 pm

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-ne ... sea-5.html

Match report from the 5-0 win against Wycombe

Post #666 » by **5DOM** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:16 am

Just watched the second half, and Da Silva, Brown and Boga were excellent.

Even if none of them makes it to the first team, we'll see a lot of these guys playing professional football somewhere.

treiz · Post #667 » by **treiz** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:05 am

I thought Bamford looked good, even though he might never play for us he's certainly got a future at a low-to-mid table team.

I really like Brown and Boga, really think they've got a great chance of making our team.

Zouma is an athletic freak, this guy has some mad hops on him

Post #668 » by **5DOM** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:51 pm

Down 2 to Wimbledon at the half lol.

Shame for the youngsters who look devastated every time they make a mistake. Matic and Boga the only positives so far. Think I'd much rather have Boga in the first team than Salah who surprisingly can't seem to handle the heat

treiz · Post #669 » by **treiz** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:23 pm

How was the game? Didn't watch it but saw we came back to win with JT scoring 2 :lol:

Post #670 » by **5DOM** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:13 pm

Really slow, and there was barely anything happening in the final third. First team players proved their class in the second half, and unfortunately the youngster disappointed.

Post #671 » by **fatlever** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:14 pm

I read we apparently threw Ivanovic on as a striker in the 2nd half of the last game when down. HAHA. Its about time Jose took my suggestions seriously.

Ivan > Torres

Thoughts on Drogba potentially returning on a one year deal as a player/mentor?

Boognish · Post #672 » by **Boognish** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:37 pm

Yeah, Barry Glendenning has more than once suggested that Ivanovic would score more frequently than Torres

El Turco · Post #673 » by **El Turco** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:50 pm

forget ivanovic, this man played very well in that game

treiz · Post #674 » by **treiz** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:42 pm

Recently acquired Pasalic to Elche on a season long loan

Omeruo to Middlesbrough on a season long loan

Guess this means that Zouma might be our 4th CB this year, considering that Kalas is on loan too

cgf · Post #675 » by **cgf** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:38 pm

treiz wrote:Thorgan Hazard to be loaned to Monchengladbach

Really loving how quickly this guy is progressing since we got him. Might not play a lot of first team initially but still experiencing top division first team football is good for him

Yeah, no way he gets favre to fall in love with him over Raffael for the first choice 10 spot, but with europe this season they'll need to rotate more and I could see Favre developing a way to use both Raffael and Hazard, hopefully by moving Kruse to a wide left striker position and playing the 4-3-1-2-0 I want the NT to play.

Post #676 » by **fatlever** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:49 pm

treiz wrote:Recently acquired Pasalic to Elche on a season long loan

Omeruo to Middlesbrough on a season long loan

Guess this means that Zouma might be our 4th CB this year, considering that Kalas is on loan too

yeah, getting a tad worried about the depth across the back 4 heading into the season.

left back: luis, azpi
right back: azpi, ivan
center back: terry, cahill, ivan

5 experienced guys to rotate between 4 spots. i hope some of the young guys are ready.

treiz · Post #677 » by **treiz** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:51 pm

Well technically PVA, Kane & Zouma (who can play RB also) are still in the squad. These guys have played some decent competition already and could be ready for at least spending 95% of the season on the bench

Hopefully 2 of the 3 can stay this year.

Post #678 » by **fatlever** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:10 pm

yeah, i guess technically PVA is still a chelsea player, but seems he is wanting to leave

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/ ... nsfer-news

what is the latest on bertrand? i have always assumed he would be leaving this summer as well. he doesnt seem content to be a backup.

latest i could find on bertrand

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/ ... -liverpool

i guess in an emergency would could also use ramires at right back and any number of defensive mids like mikel or romeu at center back.

no way we send zouma out on loan though, right? one of zouma, kalas or omeruo was going always going to have to stay around to play 4th centerback and now zouma is the only one left.

treiz · Post #679 » by **treiz** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:20 pm

Let's just hope that PVA impresses Mourinho and decides to keep him, but I agree that him and Bertrand wouldn't want to be a back-up. He should leave though, he's been capped a few times for Holland and is 23 think it's time that he should leave.

Liverpool want Bertrand but it's not like he's guaranteed first team there either so hope he just ends up staying until at least half the year, when we can find a suitable back up in January.

Ramires at RB could do a job, but he's very reckless so I wouldn't trust it completely. He did a job for us there when JT got sent off against Barcelona.

Think it's safe to assume that Zouma's gonna stay, it helps that he can play RB too, he's the only one left who's played against top opposition. Ake is still there but he hasn't faced any top competition yet, he definitely needs to be loaned out.

Post #680 » by **fatlever** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:40 pm

we need bosingwa back.

speaking of bosingwa...

the most recent soccer game i have is FIFA10 (yeah, i really need an update). i dusted it off a few weeks ago, now i am playing chelsea again using a 3-5-2. here is my 1st team

--------------------cech
----carvalho-----terry-----cole
------------ballack---essien
bosingwa-----lampard-----zhirkov
---------anelka--------drogba

good times