Chelsea

[Warik]

Ruud Gullit just called Ballack Bollock accidentally.

The child in me thought I should share.

[Fourteen]

lol, thanks, Warik.

It's still not as good as Alan Pardew using the word "Raped" to describe a play from Essien.

[Barca_Ray_USA]

11 men behind the ball. Woow! Is this the bad ass Premiership team?

[antonnn]

Only 2 pages for the Chelsea thread?! I must revive this. How many Chelsea fans are on this forum and actually post regularly?

[Cule Angles]

Thankfully barely any. Who cares about the chelskum when we're not playing them? They're a small club with a big wallet.

[antonnn]

Which makes us beating big teams all the more better, since we'd be against the odds beating all these elite teams! Giant killers.

Good, the less Chelsea fans here the better, it means I'll just be more of a pain to everyone.

[Cule Angles]

The big wallet somewhat evens things up

[Beast]

there is another fan.. Chelsefanlello or something like that...

So you must be hating us now ? first Robinho then kaka and possibly Villa ?

[Cule Angles]

I'll only believe that Uncle Roman is still willing to spend big when he actually does so. Recently the purse strings have been tightened a lot and despite all the rumours I don't expect to see Chelski make a big money signing because I don't think they're able to.

[antonnn]

there is another fan.. Chelsefanlello or something like that...

So you must be hating us now ? first Robinho then kaka and possibly Villa ?

Nah, Kaka was never realistic(he's always wanted to go to Madrid if he left Milan), neither was Villa(never wanted to leave Spain). If we were in with a chance to realistically sign both maybe I'd be a bit bitter, but I'm not.

Not so sure about Ancelotti's appointment either, but I'll give him my backing until he screws up.

We are able to make a big name signing, it just depends on Roman. He still has 7b pounds, even in this time of crisis, so what's 40m pounds going to do to his fortune? It just depends. If he doesn't spend then oh well, we'll just have to try find cheaper alternatives while maintaining a challenge on titles.

Or actually start developing youth, which he's spent 100's of millions on and nothing's come out of it so far.

[Cule Angles]

We are able to make a big name signing, it just depends on Roman. He still has 7b pounds, even in this time of crisis, so what's 40m pounds going to do to his fortune? It just depends. If he doesn't spend then oh well, we'll just have to try find cheaper alternatives while maintaining a challenge on titles.

That's entirely my point, CFC isn't able to make any transfers because effectively the club's insolvent. Roman in recent times has shown an unwillingness to invest further money in his pet project and I believe the days of big signings at the Bridge are behind us. I'll be proven wrong if you do sign one of the names mentioned but at the moment it's all just rumours and I think you'll end up trawling the lower clubs of the PL and trying to pull off some wunderkid signings from abroad.

[antonnn]

The only thing that makes me think that Roman MIGHT dip into his own pockets again is that Ancelotti is HIS appointment. Toward the end of Mourinho's reign as coach Roman wasn't happy with him, Grant didn't have the time to get his own players, and Scolari was a Kenyon/board room signing, not Roman's personal choice(which was always Carlo). So with Carlo being the man Roman himself wanted, he might give him his total backing and spend big again. But we'll see I guess, there's a lot of time left in the transfer window, but I'd like Chelsea to get at least 2 decent signings before preseason.

[Cule Angles]

Didn't realise that The Fallen = Antonk! Welcome aboard mate, what did you make of the Barça-Chelsea semi? hehehe

[antonnn]

Haha, yeah, Ward and I joined as a joke and started giving off hints that it was us and see who'd pick up on it. Beast picked up on it practically instantly, kudos to him.

With regards to the game, obviously disappointed, not just with the result, but with how we played. But at the end of the day if we had played any other way we would have been smashed because we are a clearly inferior side(most sides are inferior to Barca anyway), so we did the best we could with what we had, and I'll go as far as saying we should have won the 2nd game but didn't take our chances and then got punished for it.

[Cule Angles]

I assume Wardo is Abbadonawhatshisface (can't remember the name). That's a very mature and reasonable summary of the game between our sides btw, a lot of chelski fans are still going on about being "robbed" and saying how we didn't deserve to be in the final LOL.