Soccer Chelsea F.C Super Thread

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You would have a point, Ozman, if Chelsea didn't f*cking rip the league to shreds last year, scoring over 100 goals in 38 games.

The problem is their squad depth, it's not good enough, and it's showing.
They are missing fat Frank and Essien
 

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wake up u fat lards. kakuta, mceachran and tore need more game time, our first teamers aren't doing the job. Ramires is the worst buy in the history of this club. Mikel is the exact same player with more physical attributes.
FFS
 

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Worst buy in the history of the club. LOL, please.
 

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wake up u fat lards. kakuta, mceachran and tore need more game time, our first teamers aren't doing the job. Ramires is the worst buy in the history of this club. Mikel is the exact same player with more physical attributes.
FFS
andriy shevchenko
 

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Joke club, getting rid of a world class manager.
 

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Oh... please join Madrid, Cashley. I need another reason to hate you....
 

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Chelsea moved a step closer to landing their primary managerial target when Porto confirmed Andre Villas-Boas intended to resign his post at the Portuguese champions.

Villas-Boas, who at just 33 years of age will become the youngest manager in the Barclays Premier League should he complete a switch to west London, told Porto he would meet the 15million euro release clause in his contract himself, paving the way for him to replace Carlo Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge.

Porto made a statement to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission which read: "FC Porto was notified of the intention of Andre Villas-Boas to resign from his contract with the club by triggering the release clause immediately.

"The contract will be terminated once the required amount is paid."

Villas-Boas, who led Porto to the domestic double and Europa League success last season, has worked for Chelsea before as part of Jose Mourinho's backroom staff and speaks good English.

If he does succeed Ancelotti - the Italian was sacked at the end of last season - one of his first moves could be to sign Porto's star striker Falcao, the £25m-rated Colombian having impressed as the Dragons won the Europa League final at Dublin's Aviva Stadium, where the 25-year-old netted the only goal against Braga.

With Chelsea having stepped up their pursuit of the former Academica boss, question marks now surround the future of Guus Hiddink.

The Dutchman, who enjoyed a successful spell as caretaker boss of Chelsea in 2009, was thought to be in line for a return to Stamford Bridge, although reports have suggested he would prefer to remain as a coach and not move upstairs into a sporting director role.

His agent today threw up an alternative by refusing to dismiss a link with Inter Milan, who themselves had been interested in Villas-Boas.

The coaching role at the San Siro is likely to be vacated by Leonardo shortly, with the former AC Milan boss poised to become Paris St Germain's new sporting director.

Inter have been frustrated in their attempts to recruit Sinisa Mihajlovic, Marcelo Bielsa and now Villas-Boas but Cees van Nieuwenhuizen said Hiddink, currently in charge of the Turkish national side, "would evaluate" Inter's offer should the Nerazzurri reach an agreement with his current employers.

"We have never spoken to (Inter president Massimo) Moratti," Van Nieuwenhuizen told the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.

"Hiddink has a contract with the Turkish federation and therefore before any talks can begin, Moratti must contact the (Turkish) federation and say he is interested in Guus.

"He is contracted until 2012 so, for the time being, there is no possibility that he can coach Inter.

"If Inter reached an agreement with Turkey? Well at that point Hiddink would certainly evaluate the Nerazzurri offer but he is a professional and he has never broken a contract in his whole career."

Andre Villas-Boas Factfile

1977: Born in Porto on October 17.

1993: Invited to work as a trainee with FC Porto's youth-team coaches by manager Sir Bobby Robson.

1994: Achieves UEFA C coaching licence in Scotland.

2000: Takes charge of the British Virgin Islands for two international matches. Both end in defeat.

2002: Becomes part of Jose Mourinho's backroom staff at Porto.

2004: Follows Mourinho to Chelsea.

2008: Moves with Mourinho to Inter Milan.

2009: Appointed manager of Academica in October, with club bottom of the table and without a win. Villas-Boas guides them to an 11th-place finish and a Portuguese League Cup semi-final.

2010: June 2 - Appointed manager of boyhood club Porto.

August 7 - Wins Portuguese Supercup with 2-0 victory over Benfica.

2011: April 3 - Leads Porto to their 25th league title, finishing with the biggest ever winning margin over second place (21 points).

May 18 - Porto win Europa League with a 1-0 triumph over fellow Portuguese side Braga.

May 22 - Guides Porto to a trophy treble with a comprehensive 6-2 win over Vitoria de Guimaraes in Portuguese Cup final.

June 21 - Porto confirm Villas-Boas has tendered his resignation and his contract will be terminated once his 15million euros release clause has been paid.
 

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please buy falcao, hulk, neymar or lukaku and we will be raining goals this season. and also drop torres. go the blues. pride of london.
 

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please buy falcao, hulk, neymar or lukaku and we will be raining goals this season. and also drop torres. go the blues. pride of london.
you have no idea. Torres is a world class player, no matter how much he sucked last year you never know when he could be back to his deadlybest.
 

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well certainly not after portsmouth preseason earlier this morning if you watched it.
 

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honestly, avb has to work harder to get chelsea to score. it was a lack lustre performance on nearly all players. result was 1-0 chelseas way but only after an owngoal. Hilario was lucky to save a penalty struck by Varner. there were two gaffes near the end which almost led to a portsmouth goal. not a convincing win by any respect, especially for a top european team against a championship team playing ryan williams
 

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you have no idea. Torres is a world class player, no matter how much he sucked last year you never know when he could be back to his deadlybest.
He's been in a state of limbo since the begining of the World Cup in 2010...
 

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3-0 now after 71 mins against kitchee. Drogba header, Lamps penalty and an own goal from their centre back. Sturridge, Benayoun, Cole, Drogba been playing well so far. Torres doing nothing muhc mia abit. Only been on for 15 minutes though. Zhirkov and Kalou have been disappointing.
 

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Romelo Lukaku officially signed. Great signing, pretty much in the same mould as Drogba. 18 years old, 6 foot 4 and scored 16 times in the Belgium league last year. 10 caps or so for the national side aswellm, seen as one of the best young strikers in world football.

Also signed oriol romeu from Barca. A 19- year old defensive mid as cover for Essien, with a buy-back clause for Barca at 10m euro at the end of the first year, and 15 mil at the end of the second year. Was bought for 4.5-5 mil i think.

Obviously Thibaut Courtois already signed, so far happy with transfer window. Courtois is loaned to athletico as a replacement for de gea to get game time, will be immense come 4-5 years once Cech is getting on.

Rumour going around that Pato could be coming in a 20mil + anelka / kalou deal. + the modric thingo is still going on. One of modric/pato and kalou/anelka going would be awesome business.
 

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btw sturridge has been great this pre season. scored pretty much everytime hes played, with a cracker against kitchee and 2 good strikers goals against rangers in the 3-1 win yesterday
 

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good start to the game, nice up tempo v stoke

LOL @ delap taking his typical long ass throw ins and the crowd going "ooooooooooooawwwwwaaaa" haha

0-0 4 mins
 

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Stoke fans are ****ing pondlife for the most part.

There's one named Northy who constantly trolls the **** out of Arsenal fans on his blog spinning crap about Stoke having more history than Arsenal. lol
 
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