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Dunno about that one Loud, maybe he was just wanting to get into the shower and out of the rain! Sh*t, if we got rid of him so soon I would be astounded! Not even half a season and we flog him on, after spending 30 million for him, it would be, regardless of the name on the back of the jersey, a terrible peice of business. I know that sheva is a great striker, I just don't know if he will come good, ever, at Chelsea. But for those of you thinking he is too old, remember Shearer played until he was what 36? we may just get something out of him yet! Maybe Scott

if we are hoping to contend then we will need all of him, terry and Robben back!

welcome to the forum mate, hope you enjoy it on here. IN short, it looks to me as if Ferreira, for no reason I can think of, isn't in Jose's favour, and Geremi is the eternal joureyman professional. We are also, due to the selling of Gallas, and Huth, really short in central defence. So to me, a centre back that can play on the right would be great. Micah Richards seems to eb topping the list there. We are also lacking in wide players, the loss of Joe Cole, and the continual injuring of Robben, means we don't really have a player who we can bring on and change the game. Also Kalou looks great, but is still finding his feet, and Sweepy just looks like a one trick pony who everyone has figured out. So a graet attacking midfielder would be up there too. To me, there are not many better than Kaka, from AC. David Villa is alos being mentinoed, as are a number of other players. A striker, which VIlla could be too, is also a must. Shevchenko just isn't doing much this season, and some doubt he ever will. Lets be honest here, Drogba has saved our bacon on more than one occassion and if he ever were to be injured...well we would be in deep trouble my friend! I have always liked fernando torres, but it is tough to know if he would be able to adapt. To me, we should have kept Crespo! Anyway, we are trying to keep it to 2 players for every position, so who knows if we will sign anyone and just "hope" our team clicks back into shape/fitness. But we need a defender, an attacking mid/winger and a striker. Who would you like? Scott

what a prick, and why did we not deserve the score line? From what I heard we dominated, regardless of who was in goal or not!

good read mate, and there is plenty on there that I agree with. I always loved Guddy, thought he was a great player, but did he need a new challenge? I doubt it, what more of a challenge could you hope for than heading into a season looking to do what only a few other clubs have done...the illustrious 3-peat? I will never forget our first time lifting the trophy, but I will also never forget that when we lifted it a second time guddy looked distraught! I also stated, back in teh old csr, that I felt Claudio was passing on a great team to someone that could bring home the bacon, but unfortunately Claudio would never bring home any major trophy. So I felt that our first trophy should have gone down to CR in part too. albeit a small part. Now, this season, it is Jose's team, and he has shown that he isn't as astute in the transfer window as he may be at bringing the best out of teams. It is also the first season that I have felt that our defence is the worst part of our team. I remember when we all thought, our defence and mid are winning us our games because the forwards are doing nothing. Now, the forward (yes singular) is doing the business, but we are weakened at the back after the sale of Gallas. Mercenary or not, we do miss him. Now Terry and Cech, we REALLY are weak at the back. Our wingers, and Cole are a huge loss too, because now we really have no creativity, and no passage to the forwards. My one HUGE concern, more so than losing Terry or Lamps, and I only feel it this season, is that we would be SCREWED without Drogba. Then with a weakened defence, no wingers, and no forwards, we would leak goals and not be able to score any in retaliation. I followed Chelsea all through the 90's so I am used to being let down, but then the wins were so special (Cup winners cup showed that we COULD play in Europe, now we Better). Now the expectations are higher, but we only have to look at ourselves for raising such high expectations. Scott

with Celtic now 16 points ahead, I am not suprised at all. THere is only so much "young team" excuses you can give. I think if they took Walter Smith it would be to the detriment of an otherwise non-existent Scottish national side. So, Billy Davies wouldn't be a bad one Scott

looks like QPR want to keep him till the end of the season, even though his loan spell runs out soon. And we need him! However he wants to be assured first team play so he may extend his loan spell, just as Jimmy smith has Scott http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hli ... +Mancienne

Same thoughts here, although I won't think we are out of it until we are statistically out of the title race, I can't see us pushing for the title the way we are performing this season, and with all our injuries Scott

the fact that wycombe have made it this far means that we should, in no way, underestimate them!

nice shout. Like the mix of youngsters but with the experience on the bench. Scott

Bad tactics, poor signings, players out of form, player injured (the key reason for me) and a complete lack of purpose thus giving diminishing returns of confidence to the team every passing game Scott PS I thought Paulo played well tonight!

for that stupid yellow when he mouthed off at the ref for Cole's yellow?Okay, so if that is teh case, who in the hell do we play in the central defender's posissions? Boula and Terry both injured, and Carvs suspended???? Paulo and Mancienne. This could be an upset in the making Scott

misses wycombe, I think...in fact pretty sure about ti

the entire team disappeared in the second half, the only people that played for a full 90 minutes were Essien and Drogba. Just truly uninspiring. we now have a weakend back 4. 3 draws against 3 "lesser" sides. Now that is no dig at wigan, fulham or Villa, but to have only taken 3 points from those matches (when you would expect at least 5 or 7, possibly even all 9), has really closed the door on us and left it wide open for Man Utd. We could have been up there with Man u after today, but we now sit 6 points adrift. With the way we are not scoring and the way we are conceding, this spells for disaster. Okay i know today was the 1st time we didn't score all season, but when Is ay we are not scoring I mean we are not converting our chances. If Drogba gets injured, we are screwed Scott

the recent run of form signifies to me that we are no where near championship standard this season. If this game ends in anohter draw we will have taken 3 points in three games. Unfortunately, this just isn't good enough. I wonder if Jose's harsh words were in an attempt to inspire some passin, put some fire in the bellies of his players, but nothing seems to have worked. We have no quality on the pitch in the final third, except for Drogs adn we can't expect him to win it for us everytime. He had NO service tonight. Scott

lucky not to be a goal down there...again from a set piece

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are we seriously now relying on Long Balls aimlessly hoofed up to drogba hoping he can do something? 0-0 all over this

looks like sheva is getting instructions before coming on

I know, this is dire in the passion front. This is the one game that we could send amessage out to manure, keep a clean sheet and close the gap!!! COME ON CHELSEA Scott

agreed, take sweepy off and get sheva on. Who is all on the bench? By the way, the sky commentators mentioned SWP leaving, possibly. I think we should only let players go if we have another one in to cover. Our squad is so small this season, that any injury is magnified/intensified by lack of back up. Okay sweepy is a passenger most games, but it would be foolish to get rid of him half way through the season and thus reduce our squad further Scott

just announced, so no I am not joking. They just said that the 4 weeks is a preliminary estimation. Drogba just picked up his 5th yellow card of the season......I think. Is that him out of the next game? Scott

boulah out for 4 weeks with knee ligament damage!

Gloryhunter not really they have proven tough in past years, especially the couple of times we had Di Canio score against us, and the game aat Villa where Angel scored a screamer against us! They have proven more than tough for us! Di Canio? Aston Villa? :? Same kit as West Ham oooops!

looks like there area afew coming out the woodwork now Kev, but I'll be here all game Scott