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Why do people keep suggesting changing players in a defence that has conceded just two goals in 11 games? 

Probably not, he would've racked up t least 50 appearances for anderlecht by now, and will have played champions league football. Tielemans stayed and now he is one of the best young players in the world.

Watching the U21s match today against Liverpool, and so far Musonda has been head and shoulders above everyone else in a game involving the likes of RLC, Bertrand Traore, Aina and Jerome Sinclair. He's phenomenal.

I have modelled the exterior now too.

I updated my model to be an exact copy of the official model. So I can make renders from any seat, section in the stadium.

Hmmm, that design looks familiar! ;)

It must be frustrating constantly moving out on loan at his age. Surely he wants to settle at a club now. It must be even more frustrating getting shipped out on loan after trying to impress in pre season. It makes me wonder why we bothered playing him in pre season.

I feel bad for him. He was amongst our best players in pre season. Never believed he would get a chance with us though. All the best to him!

Maybe this was all a beautiful ploy to get Cuadrado from Fiorentina to Juve. We have facilitated Juve who might not have wanted to deal with Fiorentina and either have their offer declined or significantly marked up. Our fee? The opportunity to bid for Pogba, guided by Juve to exactly how much they will take for him.
How's that for a conspiracy?

Hi. So I thought I would do one last render, and this view shows the shed end stand, (since this is the shed end forum after all) ;)

Sometimes i have to pinch myself that he actually plays for my football club. I generally don't think i will see a more talented player play for Chelsea more than him thats how highly i rate him.

Hi. Here is a first *rough* colour render. I've so many things to fix on this image, but thought I'd show you what progress has been made.

Hi
Just a little something to keep you updated. 60,000+ seats added!

I'd take Moses over Cuadrado any day, hell i'd even take him over Oscar for half the season.
 
So yes, i'm glad he's staying with us this year.

Hi. I have attached a link to a test animation render I made of the model. It is a low res, low detailed model guys. So don't judge me on the low quality, its really just to show different angles for those of you who have asked for such.
When more detailed images are released, I will do a proper model, with details and photorealism. But it is really not worth it right now, as beyond what I have been able to model from the images CFC have released, anything more is purely guess work, and that's not what I want to achieve.
** this is a low resolution render **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amhA...ature=youtu.be

Wonderful stuff mate. I genuinely think the club should be paying/employing you for these designs.

And in terms of the overall shape of the roof, compare my render to the original image CFC created. Now granted, I haven't modelled the detail such as entrances, or stairs. But this was merely an exercise to give an impression of the roof, not to make a detailed model of the building details.
You can see in the original CFC image the cage of buttresses that vary in terms of height to match the changing height of the stands. You can the also see that these buttresses continue over the very top of the external walls to the go over that stands and form the roof. If you look closely, you will notice that the apex of the buttress/roof, curves suggesting there is in fact an outer circle as I have modelled. If it were simply a trick of perspective, then all the lines would curve off into the distance too. Which they do not. The walls etc have straight lines off to their vanishing points. So clearly the roof has a circular apex. You can the see through the buttresses to see a steep change of angle from this apex dropping down to what would be the central tension ring.
If you look carefully, you will even notice the horizontal tie beams between each buttress at the apex of the roof, which forms the outer circle of the roof. And look again, and you will notice how the thicker buttresses go over this tie beam, and the thiner buttresses go under it. I really have tried to only model what I can see and have stayed away from imagining what will be there. Because I know there will be an under side to the roof which will be made up of some polycarbonate material to make it weather tight. But as I can't see it, I didn't model it.
This is the evidence I used to come up with my render.
Also, the brief description of the stadium from the architects themselves added further weight to what I created.
"...The stadium will be wrapped in a cage of slender concrete and brick columns that will rise to a zig-zagging profile, before folding over to form the roof – as if the tangle of struts in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium had been straightened out and neatened up......the area between the facade and the stands will be a dramatic nave-like space, housing a series of muscular spiralling staircases, topped with a roof of flying brick buttresses."
Roof of flying brick buttresses. It seems unlikely therefore that the roof will include additional inner spokes of cables etc beyond the 'spokes' of the brick buttresses. That's how my roof design has ended up as it has.

He is a final render of what I think our new stamford bridge stadium will look liked based on all known images, feedback from the consultants at chelsea and all you guys!
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=125421873&postcount=448

http://i.imgur.com/DqMSOiK.jpg

Hi guys.
So I remodelled the roof today and foxed some known mistakes and added some suggestions you guys gave me, including alternating the thickness of the buttress supports, and also changing the orientation of the butess so from above, they radiate around the stadium, as if rotated from a central pivot at the centre of the pitch. (That was actually tricky to achieve, as the buttresses still need to align with straight outer walls).
Some points to note, based on my model, I find it very hard to believe the roof will be made up of buttress supports that converge into a circular central tension ring above the centre of the pitch. The lengths of the roof supports would be enormous. And secondly, given the overal rectangular shape of the stadium, a central circular roof oculus opening is a poor decision as it would block huge amounts of light. Far less of the pitch would receive daylight.
I think that based on my test model it is far more efficient to have the support radiate towards the centre, but converge to form a rectangular roof opening. It also looks far more pleasing and dramatic as it reinforces and works in unison with the dynamic shapes of the asymmetrical design, rather than working against these forms.
Another point to note, is just how dynamic and sloped the outer walls will be. This is extremely exciting.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=125402840&postcount=426

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2509664-is-chelseas-roman-abramovich-the-greatest-owner-in-football?