100M to spend in the summer

[mez]

The rumour is.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is set to give Avram Grant a £100m summer transfer kitty, despite the Blues manager coming under fire from fans following Monday's draw with Wigan. (Daily Mirror)

It's the thought of someone giving Avram £100M that gets me. Only comments I could make would not be printable, Avram is a complete

plonker and a fantasist.

RA is sticking by Avram, next season is going to be a real laugh!

Mez

[Mr Chelsea]

fools and there money are soon parted

[youlots]

Jesus wept.

[Gem]

Until it's printed in The Sun I won't believe a word of it.

[ethicalstrategy]

It's in the Times, which amounts to the same thing these days!

[aliboy66]

still asleep sorry

[Barn]

That's not news is it? Whoever is the manager next season we need a bit of a shake up, regardless of what us fans might want or think the worst that's going to happen to Avi is that he'll be moved back to the director of football post, which has a main say in players that are signed. So even if he is given £100m to spend it doesn't mean he'll be managing the players he signs!

[Maksimov]

So Roman is providing Av with a cheat code for Football Manager?

[Mike O]

Q. How to make £100m in football?

A. Start with £1bn.

Roman really is a cracking businessman, isn't he?

[Powely01]

I think that if you want to be known as playing charismatic and adventurous football then you need a charismatic and adventurous manager. People don’t only look at the players on the pitch and work out what style of football they play but they also look at the manager. Especially as Roman wants Chelsea to be a global name and I can’t see the whole world watching Chelsea matches regularly so they will have to base their opinions on word of mouth and image.

I personally am worried not only by avram managing the team but by him apparently being the senior buyer for the club. Not that I don’t like avram. He has done a very good job this season. Who would of thought that we would be anywhere near the position we are in when Jose left. I'd like to see Hiddink or Rijkard come in as manager and for avram to go completely. I think that they will have more knowledge of how to play the "total football" style that roman (and I) so desperately wants.

He said himself that he and roman aren't friends anymore because roman is now his boss.

I know this will probably get ripped into but hey ho it’s my opinion.

[dkw]

i think were gonna have to get used to this kind of garbage over the next 3 or 4 months. as usual, i wont believe a word of it until i see them in a blue shirt. one thing our club does do well is try and keep their transfer dealings to themselves. very rarely is their any official from the club spouting names here their and everywhere, unlike certain other clubs.

[callista]

That's not news is it? Whoever is the manager next season we need a bit of a shake up, regardless of what us fans might want or think the worst that's going to happen to Avi is that he'll be moved back to the director of football post, which has a main say in players that are signed. So even if he is given £100m to spend it doesn't mean he'll be managing the players he signs!

The amount is predictable but the critical thing is who will be spending that money?

If it's Grant I will despair.

Not because he may not get us good players - he will pick whoever Roman, Arnesen and co want him to pick.

The trouble starts when he gets his hands on them and starts managing (cough) them next season.

That's where the problems will start - good possibly excellent players having to survive under the guidance of a man who looks like he's forgotten to switch the gas off at home.

I also do think that players are influenced by the manager if it comes to a choice between say two clubs bidding for their services with the pay about equal, you have one big club managed by say a Jose/Fergie/Wenger and the other by Grant - which would you pick?

[quizgod]

If Grant has £100M, is not a case of who he/Roman buys, as to whether any player wants to join us.

Players will have seen the way Grant has managed the side and the way we are playing, and would they seriously sign for us.

So £100m, or £200M or whatever the amount is, i think is irrelevant, players will not want to join us while Grant is here.

[bonetti]

Reduce it to 90 - give Grant 10 and tell him to f**k off

[mad_mac]

I think that the general concensus is that there will be a large transfer kitty awarded to whoever is our manager next season. However, I don't think that manager will be Grant, and I think this 100MM is just a nice round figure that makes for tabloid headings

[Guest]

The amount is predictable but the critical thing is who will be spending that money?

If it's Grant I will despair.

Not because he may not get us good players - he will pick whoever Roman, Arnesen and co want him to pick.

The trouble starts when he gets his hands on them and starts managing (cough) them next season.

That's where the problems will start - good possibly excellent players having to survive under the guidance of a man who looks like he's forgotten to switch the gas off at home.

I also do think that players are influenced by the manager if it comes to a choice between say two clubs bidding for their services with the pay about equal, you have one big club managed by say a Jose/Fergie/Wenger and the other by Grant - which would you pick?

Funny you say that, because my feelings are that with top top class players at your disposal and a good coaching support crew any idiot could successfully manage a football side (myself included). Look at Fergie on the weekend in the match against Arsenal, did he do anything particually smart to change the game around?, not really, he just brought on Tevez and Anderson off the bench.

It really is all about the players, Fergies proved that time and time again with Man Utd showing you can win matches with relatively simple tactics if you've got the right cattle.

[ozboy]

qaz

I think that undersells Fergie. The best managers like talent of all sorts have the knack of making things seem simple. Jimi hendrix guitar riffs seem fairly simple until you actually try them.

Fergie buys players extremely well. He is also a good seller and broadly speaking runs a quality squad.

His team generally looks very motivated, and despite all his years in the game he seems totally involved.

I haven't been happy with CFC this season, mainly because I don't think the team is playing as one and nor do I think it is really playing with passion a lot of the time. At the same time we have gone to the brink of great achievement but then ultimately failed in it all.

The season could still end disasterously or more hopefully we can win the champions league.

[Lofty]

Yet another opinion that you don't have, eh Qaz? And this one's a beauty. Look what Fergie did against Arsenal. A couple of substitutions. And that's the be-all and end-all of his job.

Fine Qaz. Forget all the preparation on and off the training ground; forget all about planning; forget about pre-match and half-time team talks. Oh and definitely forget about motivation and man-management and everything else that managing a Premiership site entails. Because all you need are relatively simple tactics and the right cattle?

Ok Qaz. Whatever you say.

[Guest]

Yet another opinion that you don't have, eh Qaz? And this one's a beauty. Look what Fergie did against Arsenal. A couple of substitutions. And that's the be-all and end-all of his job.

Fine Qaz. Forget all the preparation on and off the training ground; forget all about planning; forget about pre-match and half-time team talks. Oh and definitely forget about motivation and man-management and everything else that managing a Premiership site entails. Because all you need are relatively simple tactics and the right cattle?

Ok Qaz. Whatever you say.

Ouch Lofty, someones bitter

I wasn't trying to undersell Fergie. He has done a very good job with Man Utd over an extended period of time. I was simply pointing out that being able to call on the likes of Tevez and Anderson off the bench is very handy if you want to change a game.

[quizgod]

Just read in the paper that Grant has said he will be buying Kaka and Messi.

My sides hurt soooooooooooo much after reading that.

[morris]

If Roman is mad enough to keep Grant on , then it will only further my belief that Roman is making the decisions and Grant is just his puppet who plays who he is told to play.

[Lofty]

Yet another opinion that you don't have, eh Qaz? And this one's a beauty. Look what Fergie did against Arsenal. A couple of substitutions. And that's the be-all and end-all of his job.

Fine Qaz. Forget all the preparation on and off the training ground; forget all about planning; forget about pre-match and half-time team talks. Oh and definitely forget about motivation and man-management and everything else that managing a Premiership site entails. Because all you need are relatively simple tactics and the right cattle?

Ok Qaz. Whatever you say.

Ouch Lofty, someones bitter

I wasn't trying to undersell Fergie. He has done a very good job with Man Utd over an extended period of time. I was simply pointing out that being able to call on the likes of Tevez and Anderson off the bench is very handy if you want to change a game.

Bitter? Not me mate. I'm just a simple soul. But even I can see that there's a massive difference between these two statements:

Look at Fergie on the weekend in the match against Arsenal, did he do anything particually smart to change the game around?, not really, he just brought on Tevez and Anderson off the bench.

I was simply pointing out that being able to call on the likes of Tevez and Anderson off the bench is very handy if you want to change a game.

Then you go on to say that:

It really is all about the players, Fergies proved that time and time again

Because you say so? Sorry, I seriously can't see any rhyme or reason to the above statement. I have to ask myself what you were on when you wrote that. But ok, I'll pretend to take it seriously. if it really was all about the playerrs, don't you think that football chairmen worldwide would have sussed this out and done away with managers entirely?

[ethicalstrategy]

if it really was all about the playerrs, don't you think that football chairmen worldwide would have sussed this out and done away with managers entirely?

That's a very good point you make!

[Ballack & Blu]

Hi

If Chelsea think they can entice more mega-stars to the bridge so be it,but can't see Barca and AC letting go of their superstars,but money talks,and may-be a couple or three high profile player plus cash deals could be a doer.

Martin

[Lofty]

Hello Martin. My instinct is to tell you to f**k off simply for your choice of user name,. The whole Chelski thing was old when it was new. Not to mention inaccurate. The suffix "ski" is Polish. But then why should a little thing like that matter to the sh*t stirring media and the idiot masses who gleefully lap up their every word?