Heartwork Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 You say Moses is English, hasn't he opted for Nigeria? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 20, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 20, 2012 Yeah but for HG rule purposes he's obviously better suited. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 You say Moses is English, hasn't he opted for Nigeria? Yeah I should have made that clear, although he plays for Nigeria he is still homegrown. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajw10 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Moses is better than Hoilett. Hoilett is incredibly average. And would have cost money as he's under 24. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Apparently we have had a £17million bid for Lewandowski turned down. It seems we do want a new striker then, if this is true. Same story says that some people don't know whether Cavani would fit our style and the formation that we play. I have to say while I haven't seen much of Lewandowski play in Germany he looked pretty good at the Euros and I am sure he will get better as he is still pretty young. I do think though that we could wait until January to see how Torres and Sturridge do (presuming Lukaku goes on loan) and then if they aren't doing near enough then we could think about a new striker to give us a lift then. Problem then is that the prices will be more inflated in the middle of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajw10 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 £17m Just bid £27m for RvP you mugs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I don't understand why we aren't making attempts to sign RVP tbh but I am guessing someone or a few people at Chelsea don't want him. Also Oscar says he has only had a medical but will decide his future after the Olympics. Really hope he comes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el sid Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Dont think either Hoilett or Moses are that great, but would prefer Moses for the HG I suppose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Thought Hoilett had signed/ is going to sign with QPR? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el sid Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Willian not in the matchday squad, could be nothing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Match against PSG tonight yeah? Is the Euro 2012 players back yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgekings Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I think they are all back with the squad now but some won't be involved tonight. Kane, Bamford () and Saville have gone home. Kick off @ midnight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgekings Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Torres might be the only one not joined up yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 22, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 22, 2012 Hopefully he never arrives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanyi Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Torres might be the only one not joined up yet. And Mata's in Spain's Olympic squad, so won't be involved in any of the pre-season games. Shame Saville's gone home, he gave a strong account of himself in the last game, I was hoping he'd get another chance even with the returning first teamers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgekings Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Ashley Cole is now on Twitter This will end well. Has already started mugging Arsenal off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony7 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Ashley Cole is now on Twitter This will end well. Has already started mugging Arsenal off. Wonder how long it will be until he and Rio start mugging each other off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtuck01 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Wonder how long it will be until he and Rio start mugging each other off. Two days, three hours, sixteen minutes, and thirty nine seconds, IIRC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el sid Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Ashley Having a go at Piers Morgan already. Such a LAD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 22, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 22, 2012 I've cringed at every one of his tweets. That cannot be an adult male operating that account. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughthom Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 That cannot be an adult male operating that account. Indeed, it's Ashley Cole. [WINK] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I can't believe football clubs let their players have a Twitter account. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgekings Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Its unbelievable. Was convinced it was a fake as it was horrible just to read. Seems its actually genuine god forbid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughthom Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 To be fair, he's not quite as bad as Rooney. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Oh God, I just looked. His twitter is @therealac3 if you want to check. It's really really bad though. Although I enjoyed this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sano Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The Sun are reporting that Lukaku will join Fulham on a season long loan. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4442516/Romelu-Lukaku-to-join-Fulham-on-a-season-long-loan-deal.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The Sun are reporting that Lukaku will join Fulham on a season long loan.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4442516/Romelu-Lukaku-to-join-Fulham-on-a-season-long-loan-deal.html Would like to see how he does in the rest of the pre-season games before deciding whether or not to loan him out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpain16 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Awesome picture Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sano Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Think he needs to he loaned out regardless of his performance in preseason, to a team that considers him at least a rotation player. At Chelsea he'll be 3rd choice at best behind Torres and Sturridge. Although he's still young I don't think it is in his best interest having another year without regular first team football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgekings Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 i've got a 6 fold riding on chelsea tonight first 5 have come in Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Might try and watch as much as this friendly as I can before I go to bed. Wish they weren't on so late as I want to watch them but it's a long time to wait up until for a non-competitive game. Also Lavezzi with that attempted dive in a friendly If that isn't bad enough Paulo Ferreira just tried a trick pass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMLF Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Lucas Piazon's goal: [video=youtube;ZiI669usUSc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiI669usUSc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanyi Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Somewhat specious analysing pre-season games, but it's nice to see Chalobah maintaining his solidity and good decision making over the two matches. Hutchinson has looked a tad too keen to go forward, leaving gaps at the back, but has looked composed for the most part - at 23, he's surely either going to have to make a breakthrough this season or go elsewhere, so long as his injuries don't flare up again. Josh only had a 30-minute cameo and didn't do a lot, but passed intelligently and balanced his attacking and defensive duties well. Only Kakuta, again, looked off the boil, with barely a single run or pass not ending up with the opposition. Good work rate, but his decision making has been awful. As for the newbies, Hazard was played deeper and while his impact on the game was more muted than against Seattle, he had some decent runs. Marin came on and was as energetic and dynamic as before, although could sometimes do with releasing the ball a little earlier. As in every case mentioned, these things are perfectly likely to be a case of pre-seasonitis and will be ironed out in time for our first competitive match. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Nice goal from Lucas Piazon. Who needs Oscar? [WINK] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Rolfe do you know why Chelsea haven't sent a team to the Milk Cup? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el sid Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Piazon Striker situation sorted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 23, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 23, 2012 Rolfe do you know why Chelsea haven't sent a team to the Milk Cup? Last summer it was because they were in the Nike Cup Finals. This summer, they failed to qualify but would've wanted to do Nike above Milk, so it initially depends on when they had to officially enter by. If they were able to enter, then I guess they chose not to because of the EPPP-related changes affecting the U15 age-group; leaving school, educated on-site at Cobham now, mixed in with the U16s, many of whom are involved with the U18s in pre-season and are going to Thailand and Malaysia this week. All of that stretches the available academy staff a bit thin as well, so logisticaly I guess it would've been a struggle to commit to. Plus, and bear in mind this is all speculation anyway , they may think that now they've won the Junior section and reached the final of the Premier a few years ago (they never entered another team at U19 level after that), they no longer have any reason for involvement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillsminnow Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Any idea of your starting back four for next season? Deciding whether it's worth me sticking Cahill in my fantasy team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el sid Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Think it'll be Cole - Terry - Luiz - Ivanovic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Last summer it was because they were in the Nike Cup Finals. This summer, they failed to qualify but would've wanted to do Nike above Milk, so it initially depends on when they had to officially enter by. If they were able to enter, then I guess they chose not to because of the EPPP-related changes affecting the U15 age-group; leaving school, educated on-site at Cobham now, mixed in with the U16s, many of whom are involved with the U18s in pre-season and are going to Thailand and Malaysia this week. All of that stretches the available academy staff a bit thin as well, so logisticaly I guess it would've been a struggle to commit to.Plus, and bear in mind this is all speculation anyway , they may think that now they've won the Junior section and reached the final of the Premier a few years ago (they never entered another team at U19 level after that), they no longer have any reason for involvement. Thought they would've wanted to win back their Junior (U15's) cup after winning it in 2010. Was gutted they changed from Premier (U17's) to Junior (U15's) a couple years ago because in the next FM most if not all of them would be in the Chelsea U18 squad in it Really hope they come back next year. Man U are in the Premier section every single year, Everton are in the Junior section every year. Would love to see Barcelona come back, don't think they've been back since they beat Chelsea in the Premier final a couple of years ago, I'm guessing some of the players in the Barcelona team could be playing/ played for the Barcelona first team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 23, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 23, 2012 1. Imanol Castilla Rubio 2. Robert Franch Illa 3. Victor Reyes Cammany 4. Xavier Marques Gomez 5. Jaime Hernandez Lopez 6. Marc Crosas Luque 7. Carles Coto Pages 8. Jose Manuel Rueda Sanpedro 9. Diong Mendy 10. Daniel Toribio Gutierrez 11. Alvaro Lopez Garcia 12. Eric Llagostera Soler 13. Jeffren Isaac Suarez Bermuda 14. Jose David Casado Garcia 15. Abraham Rodriguez 16. Daniel De La Torre Suarez 17. Sergio Busquets Burgos Dubious as to how accurate that is, it's missing Gio Dos Santos, who scored in the Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I notice Piazon has just tweeted and finished it with have a nice day geezers (he spelt it wrong though. Clearly influenced by David Luiz there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 1. Imanol Castilla Rubio 2. Robert Franch Illa 3. Victor Reyes Cammany 4. Xavier Marques Gomez 5. Jaime Hernandez Lopez 6. Marc Crosas Luque 7. Carles Coto Pages 8. Jose Manuel Rueda Sanpedro 9. Diong Mendy 10. Daniel Toribio Gutierrez 11. Alvaro Lopez Garcia 12. Eric Llagostera Soler 13. Jeffren Isaac Suarez Bermuda 14. Jose David Casado Garcia 15. Abraham Rodriguez 16. Daniel De La Torre Suarez 17. Sergio Busquets Burgos Dubious as to how accurate that is, it's missing Gio Dos Santos, who scored in the Final. Where did you get that list? Do you have the programme for that year? I have it somewhere in the house. I remember Gio Dos Santos being there. But yeah him, Busquets and Jeffrén all played in it that year, think it was 2005. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted July 23, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 23, 2012 Just googled and found it randomly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillsminnow Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Hazard likely to be in the first 11 next season, Phil? Also how do you see them shaping up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcoleman1 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I'm pretty damn sure he's going to be a starter for us next season. Otherwise we wouldn't have spent that much on him. I can see us lining up in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Hazard operating in one of the 3 positions with Mata, Marin or whoever with him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oypus Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I've just been watching a few videos of the players trying their hand at American football. They're not very good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deez0r Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Cech did have some punt on him though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oypus Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Looked like it went about 40 yards... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MunkD Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Thorgan Hazard offically a chelsea player http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2859608,00.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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