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Kakuta and Bruma on in the 2nd half hopefully. Give them some more game time. Kalou and Terry can be rested.

It's on Chelsea Radio if you sign up.

None working for me at all. Only 1 is showing anything and that's the Man Utd game. :(

Can't stand Stevenage. w**kers.

Maybe, but I wouldn't pay anything over about 8m for him.

Doubt it. But if so, looks like he'll be replacing Carlo eventually. Marvellous.

Do you mind the fact that he intentionally ended another player's career?

Don't have 11, but I have FM10. Tried to sign Seamus Coleman from Everton...he turned me down for Stoke :Facepalm: Bought Lakuku though, scored on his debut.

They mean physically stronger...and they were comparing to the Spanish league, not English..

Well I don't know many people who watch the Belgian league...so no, I hadn't heard of him before. What does that matter? I can't be expected to know all about every player in the world...

With all their calling for Dalgleish to come in I really hope he's a massive failure, then we'll see the true sentiment of the scousers when they start calling for his sacking and throw all kinds of insults at him as well.

Does it matter if he can't "save our season"? We should be looking for quality youngsters to build for the future. If we sign him and that Lakuku in the summer, and get rid of some deadweight like Anelka, Ferreria, etc... I'd be quite happy.

If you're good enough, you're old enough. Some of us need to stop this mentality that anyone under the age of 20 isn't ready for first team football...

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/2011/01/premiership/chelsea/ancelottis-all-set-to-bag-quality-e9m-winger?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TransferTavern+%28The+Transfer+Tavern+Home+Page%29 No idea if there's any truth to the rumour or not, but that's certainly the type of player we need. Young, fast, tricky and not too expensive. Would be very happy if we signed him in Jan.

I think Borini is injured isn't he? Although Carlo doesn#t seem to care for him very much.

Can;t afford it.

We defintely need some long-term stability and a manager who stays with us for 10+ years with the time and the backing to build a new squad. But I'm just not sure if Carlo is the right man for that long-term job. When things were going well, all was fine and dandy, but now that they're not we're seeing his inability to change the system/formation/players, etc... and just keeps using the same players and tactics every time. True he's not got a great squad to pcik from, but he is very predictable and I'm not sure he has what it takes in the long run to turn this around and then build from scratch a new team over the coming years. Of course, I've been wrong before.

He will be good enough, but only if we adapt our system. At the moment we play with 1 big man up front (Drogba), hoofing long balls up to him, with 2 wingers suppoesedly supporting him and putting in crosses. But Sturridge isn't really a winger, he's a striker. He's more of an Owen-type player. Small and quick. He would be best suited to playing in a 2-man strike force, so that he has someone else up there with him to link up with, rather than having to cut in from the wing or try to hold the ball up and head it on like Drogba. If we had Drogba and Sturridge up front, Drogba winning the headers for Sturridge to run through onto, I think it could be quite interesting. But obviously it would need a fair few games to give it a good chance, not just 15 minutes of it when we're losing.

Probably scousers.

Is the game on BBC or ITV? Or am I going to have to listen on the radio again?

Our squad is growing old and needs big changes. But the problem is we've left ourselves with so many first choice players who are getting on and nearly past it now that we're going to need a huge investment to replace them and Roman doesn't seem willing to spend big money anymore. If you look at a club like Man Utd, they are doing it the right way. When a player is past it, they move him on and bring in youngsters. Sure they still have some oldies like Scholes, Neville and Giggs. But they've always got that blend of a few older players with experience and young players, rotating them. Eg: Old (30+): Neville, Giggs, Scholes, Ferdinand, VDS Youngsters: Fabio, Gibson, Evans, Hernadez - Get starts and regular sub appearances. Whereas, for us: Old: Cole, Terry, Ferreira, Lampard, Malouda, Anelka, Drogba Youngsters: Sturridge, Kakuta, McEachran, Bruma - Hardly ever get games. Maybe 10 mins here and there. So we're not going to see a mass exodus of players and £100m of new ones coming in during the summer. But what we do need to do is start phasing the older players out and giving more time to the young players, rotating them so they get a good chance to prove themselves. At the moment we are starting every game with these players and at their age and with the injury problems we are having, they're simply not going to be able to play 50+ games a season anymore, but Carlo doesn#t seem to have the confidence to start the youth... For example, over the summer if we get rid of: Ferreira, Anelka and Benayoun, maybe bringing in about £10m in total for them. We can then bring in a couple of new players along with actually giving more of a chance to some of the younger players. The squad I'd like to see next season would be: Cech - Starts all EPL games Turnbull - Starts CC and early FAC games Walker - Backup incase of injuries Cole - Starts about 20-25 EPL games. PVA - Starts about 10-15 EPL, against the weaker opposition, such as newly promoted teams. Also CC and early FAC. Terry - Starts about 20-25 EPL games. Alex - Starts about 20-25 EPL games Ivanovic - Starts about 15-20 EPL games. Bruma - Starts about 5-10 EPL games, against the weaker opposition. Also CC and early FAC Bosingwa - Starts about 20 EPL games. Seamus Coleman (£10m?) - Starts about 15-20 EPL games, as well as CC and FAC. Depending on Bos's form. Lampard - Starts about 20 EPL games. Essien - Starts about 15-20 EPL games. Ramires - Starts about 10-15 EPL games. Mikel - Starts about 15-20 EPL games. McEachran - Starts about 10 EPL games, against weaker opposition, also CC and early FAC. Malouda - Starts about 15-20 EPL games. Kakuta - Starts about 15-20 EPL games, also CC and early FAC. Zhirkov - Starts about 5-10 EPL games, or sell him. Adam Johnson (£15m?) - Starts about 20-30 EPL games. Kalou - Starts about 10 EPL games. Mainly used as inpact sub. Drogba - Starts about 15-20 EPL games. Sturridge - Starts about 10-15 EPL games, also CC and FAC. Borini - Starts about 5 EPL games, also CC and FAC. 4th Striker (under 24 years old, less than £10m - Not sure who yet) - Starts about 5-10 EPL games. All of that of course depends on the system, eg: 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 or whatever formation we line up with. Also the starts are rough estimates, I haven't counted them up to make sure it all works out perfectly. But that is a much better blend of young and old than we are currently using. Because you can't use the same 30+ players for 50-60 games per season and expect to win everything. It's also expenditure of about £30-40m on players, which I don't think is unreasonable, since Ramires alone cost us nearly £20m last summer. Anyway, that's what I'd go for.

Good, can't stand the c@%*

Coleman would do as a good replacement if we get rid of Ferreria. British, young, fast and not going to cost an arm and a leg hopefully.

Robben is too injury prone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4ATQHt708