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[TrueBlue1989]

When I came down from the hype yesterday afternoon, I immediately felt that this was an end of an era.

This is the time that we need to get rid of the old guard with a few exceptions. These are the players I would get rid of.

Hilario - Only brought in as emergency cover. I would demote Turnbull down to third choice and Courtois as second choice.
Ferreira - Right down the pecking order this season. I would keep Bosingwa as backup. Ivanovic in first team and buy Van Der Wiel
Essien - Injury has hampered him for the last couple of seasons lost his pace and power. I would keep Merieles and start playing McEchran.
Kalou - Shouldn't of played at all on Saturday. I was literally screaming at the screen to get him subbed about 30 minutes in. Sturridge to replace him
Malouda - Getting on a bit, never really a fantastic player. Marin should be an ideal replacement or even Bertrand
Drogba - Yes I said it. He has done everything for us now but for the sake of Torres who is a younger and on his day better striker, he needs to go.

My Team for next season would be:

GK - Cech
DR - Ivanovic
DC - Luiz/Cahill
DC - Terry
DL - Cole
DM - Mikel/Romeu
CM - Ramires
CM - Lampard
AMR - Sturridge
FC - Torres
AML - Mata

Subs:
Courtois
Cahill/Luiz
Mikel/Romeu
Marin
Lukaku
Merieles
McEchran

[Lane]

TrueBlue1989, on 21 May 2012 - 12:33 PM, said:

My Team for next season would be:

GK - Cech
DR - Ivanovic
DC - Luiz/Cahill
DC - Terry
DL - Cole
DM - Mikel/Romeu
CM - Ramires
CM - Lampard
AMR - Sturridge
FC - Torres
AML - Mata

Subs:
Courtois
Cahill/Luiz
Mikel/Romeu
Marin
Lukaku
Merieles
McEchran

mata and sturridge as wingers? please god no! hopewfully well spend some money and get some proper wingers

also courtois shouldnt be benched. he has to go on loans for the next 2-3 years

Edited by Lane, 21 May 2012 - 12:40 PM.

[PloKoon13]

I think Hilario is staying on as a coach, and has shown that he can slot in when Cech is injured without looking rusty or as unreliable as Turnbull. Judging by Hilario's popularity within the squad (judging from what I can see at least) and his rapport with Cech (talking strategy before the penalties, carrying him around on his shoulders during the celebrations) he's a good choice for the job.

[Belgian_SW6_Lover]

Bez, on 21 May 2012 - 11:41 AM, said:

No. Position Player 1 GK Petr Čech (third captain) 2 DF Branislav Ivanović 3 DF Ashley Cole 4 DF David Luiz 5 MF Michael Essien 6 MF Oriol Romeu 7 MF Ramires 8 MF Frank Lampard (vice-captain) 9 FW Fernando Torres 10 MF Juan Mata — MF Luka Modric 12 MF John Obi Mikel — MF Eden Hazard 14 MF Kevin De Bruyne No. Position Player 16 MF Raul Meireles — DF Gregory van der Wiel 18 FW Romelu Lukaku — DF Todd Kane — FW Hulk 22 GK Ross Turnbull 23 FW Daniel Sturridge 24 DF Gary Cahill 26 DF John Terry (club captain) 27 DF Sam Hutchinson 34 DF Ryan Bertrand 40 GK Henrique Hilário — MF Marko Marin — MF Lucas Piazón

Put Falcao in that squad and I agree

Edited by Belgian_SW6_Lover, 21 May 2012 - 12:50 PM.

[FWK]

RobJP, on 21 May 2012 - 10:13 AM, said:

Bump.
Thoughts on stadium?
i think we should stay at the bridge.
correct me if i'm wrong but i saw somewhere ages ago that we could develop the bridge to hold 53,000 (or something like that)?

"I am a Chelsea boy and that is all i'll ever be
So don't you greedy bar stewards move my club to battersea
My heart is a the Bridge and it's there it will be
As the blues go marching on on on!"

[RobJP]

FWK, on 21 May 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

"I am a Chelsea boy and that is all i'll ever be
So don't you greedy bar stewards move my club to battersea
My heart is a the Bridge and it's there it will be
As the blues go marching on on on!"

haha well said! i'd like to stay, but it might not be best for the club.

[Katon]

CodyBound, on 21 May 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

Agree with Meireles. As for Kalou, he has plenty of seasons and consistently failed to prove himself; i think it's time to say thank you for your time here and move on.

And I have said this so many times on various threads when people start talking about him: KDB is going back on loan to Genk. It was part of the deal when we signed him.

His going back on loan for the rest of the season was part of the deal. Nothing beyond that, and there'd be no point his going back to Belgium now - he's ready for a stronger league, if not necessarily for our first-team squad.

[KrazyTea]

Where do we go? Back to the top of Europe. In order to do so we will need a larger stadium or Stamford Bridge to continue to be competitive there.

[Zola]

Where do we go from here?
We get more players this summer and defend our cup!

[KrazyTea]

I think we need to find more goals from somewhere, we lack consistency throughout the season. We have lots of big game players but seem to lack a lot of those with the consistency and danger to make things happen throughout the season and against lesser opponents. I would like to see quality wingers who can score, someone like Hulk even though there are many who are against it. We also need to improve squad depth throughout to ensure that we have the energy to play throughout the season and with the addition of games like the Super Cup and Shield. It might also be in our interest to use the FA Cup to fully work our youngsters next year and maybe concentrate just on the League and Europe.

------------------- Cech--------------------
Ivanovic---Terry/Luiz---Cahill-------Cole
---------Mikel------Lampard/?------------
Hulk/Ramires--Mata--Ramires/DeBruyne
-------------------Falcao-------------------

[RobJP]

So the drog is officially leaving.
let torres step up or cut our losses and sell him?

[RobJP]

Here's my team for next year, assuming we dont sign anyone new and keep KDB.

http://www.futhead.com/12/squad/844495

[The Moos]

I think this would be a good moment to change things around at Chelsea. Make the team a bit younger, change philosophy and start afresh.

Get a manager whom we trust and give him time. We've won the CL now, so we don't have to chase after it.

Let some younger players get a decent chance and make sure that the ones who goes out on loan goes to a club where they will play. We've made too many mistakes with that.
As long as we don't dare to let youths prove themselves we will fail to get someone through the ranks like we've wanted to for so long. Instead we will squander their ability and then they might move on and have success somewhere else and we'll stand there wondering how the hell we screwed it all up.
Let's face it, young talents will hesitate joining us if we keep doing this.

[icecoolguy22]

Next season will be very interesting, are we going to push on with 2-3 key signings or we will take a step back like after we won the double under Carlo? What do we do with the Senior players like JT, Lampard, Cole etc? I hope we will not put all our money on them next weekt to repeat the heroics for the whole season. Are we going to rely on Torres, Sturridge to score 20 + goals for the season? On one side I hope we stick with what we got, but definitely wouldn't mind a Cavani, Falco ends up here.

Being Chelsea, I just don't think we will do it the easy way