Ibime:
Kurt Zouma.

Kurt Phucking Zouma!

Whichever midfielder was benched for Kurt Zouma should commit suicide right now!!!

If I look around the Premiership, the only midfields I see as suspect energy wise and basics wise . . . .and the only ones who could not lend an adequate base of support for our attacking cast are Sunderland, Stoke, Newcastle, West Brom and Bournemouth.

The day Kurt phucking Zouma is seen as a person to save your midfield, you better scrap that whole midfield motherphucker.

Kurt Phucking Zouma!!!!

ibime likes to exaggerate!

zouma can do a job in the midfield. actually, he should be played permanently there till the next transfer window. if jones could do it at united, i see no reason why kurt zouma wouldn't thrive there.

it is only if you let him do the complex stuff that he would be found out. give him the job to tackle, dispossess & play a simple pass to a team mate and chelsea are well sorted. the job of a DMF is the simplest task ever.

do not overcook it. play it simple as makelele did and the rest is pretty much a cake-walk. zouma is 40000 times more intelligent than phil jones. you are being disrespectful to claim zouma cannot play & excel as a DM.

Coogar though lol



Zouma can play DMF but won't ever make forward runs and I like him for that. Disrupts counter and shît. Zouma and Matic feels good
But RB? Haha

PietroRico:
the very same things we used to ponder on in moyes' regime
It's a little bit more surprising because Jose is defending his title unlike moyes that was replacing someone else

When I said I was seeing a moyes like pattern I knew what I was talking about, even though I can't quite place my finger on it atm. It'll be easier to point out in the coming weeks

This saga like that of the moyes induced one of United is also very likely going to end up in a clear out

I still think the quality in this Chelsea team will pull them out of this long slump.
My only regret is why we haven't played them already.
only maybe Ramires,ivanovic will be sold and maybe Terry quietly put out to pasture.
A strong UCL run is still in the cards for this Team.
Moyes utd is the same as the SAF's only RVP was already past it.

Any basic functioning midfield can take a great set of attacking players to a title challenge.

Fernando and Fernandinho are by no means the greatest but they fulfill the basic functions of midfield to keep City competing for the title each year.

It is sheer testament to Mikel and Ramires UTTER INEPTITUDE that every year they took RDM and Benitez teams packed with Hazard, Mata and co to 5th position by midseason, at danger of not qualifying for UCL. I am NOT EXAGGERATING HERE. . . Benitez had to beg David Luiz and Lampard to play pivot to get that team from 5th to 3rd.

I have the memory of an elephant and don't just talk lightly. Anything that's happened to Chelsea over the last 18 years is documented in my head.

I promise you this. . . these guys cannot constitute the top 15 of any Premiership midfield. They cannot fulfil the basic function of a midfield.

Chelsea has World Class attacking talent with defenders who are known and certified as proving their class over the years. Any half decent midfield keeps Chelsea in the title hunt like Fernando and Fernandinho do for Man City.

If midfield is average, Chelsea competes. If midfield is totally inept, they will take a great set of players from title hunt to worrying about 4th place finish like Mikel and Ramires did year after year!

I promise you, if you put Mikel and Ramires as Watford midfield right now, na relegation straight!!!

coogar:

[s] i have been watching games with an analytic mind long before you started rolling tyres on the streets with toilet flies buzzing around your waist.[/s]

Now, those rap battles biting allegations against you are real. You took my line remodified it and now used it against me. You just keep on disgracing yourself up and down. The abobaku of fernando torres.

Mikel John Obi insists the players still believe in Mourinho. “We are right behind the manager,” the midfielder said. “There’s no doubt about it. In training we work very hard. If anyone can turn this around, we definitely think he’s the one. Last year we were champions. We won two trophies. José knows this club more than any other manager. He’s the most successful manager in the club’s history.

“ I definitely think that, if anything is wrong, if anything can be fixed, he is the one. There’s no one out there that is going to come in and fix what’s going on. If you tell the team that we are not giving 100% then there is the doubt, but we are giving 100%, we are playing for the manager, we are right behind him.

Mikel has turned to nairaland's coogar, throwing figures with reckless abandon. Which 100% are you guys giving at present? Mikel must have gone to the same under-the-tree secondary school that coogar also attended. 100% ko, 1000% ni.

airmark:
Mikel John Obi insists the players still believe in Mourinho. “We are right behind the manager,” the midfielder said. “There’s no doubt about it. In training we work very hard. If anyone can turn this around, we definitely think he’s the one. Last year we were champions. We won two trophies. José knows this club more than any other manager. He’s the most successful manager in the club’s history.

“ I definitely think that, if anything is wrong, if anything can be fixed, he is the one. There’s no one out there that is going to come in and fix what’s going on. If you tell the team that we are not giving 100% then there is the doubt, but we are giving 100%, we are playing for the manager, we are right behind him.

Mikel has turned to nairaland's coogar, throwing figures with reckless abandon. Which 100% are you guys giving at present? Mikel must have gone to the same under-the-tree secondary school that coogar also attended. 100% ko, 1000% ni.

Mikel may be giving 100%. How can you tell?

If a snail say it is running at 100%, can your eyes detect the difference between a snail's 70%, 80% and 100%?

If any other player covered the ground in midfield at the speed Mikel does, that player will be accused of giving only 30%. . . . but it may well be 100% for Mikel.

100% of zero is zero!

Mikel should let those who have something to give speak. Obasanjo could enter Chelsea team today and tell us he is giving 100%, we won't be able to tell, nor would it make any difference at all.

Ibime:


Mikel may be giving 100%. How can you tell?

If a snail say it is running at 100%, can your eyes detect the difference between a snail's 70%, 80% and 100%?

If any other player covered the ground in midfield at the speed Mikel does, that player will be accused of giving only 30%. . . . but it may well be 100% for Mikel.

100% of zero is zero!

Mikel should let those who have something to give speak. Obasanjo could enter Chelsea team today and tell us he is giving 100%, we won't be able to tell, nor would it make any difference at all.

Sounded funny but you have a point. But he should just talk about himself. I did n't see hazard and co giving 100% yet.

raumdeuter:


RUbbish tosh

You claimed Messi is the one helping Neymar, Now Messi is nt there and Neymar is carryng Barcelona story don change to its a good team

Its ppl like you that say

Ter Stergen is average
Enrique is average
Pique is average
Busquets is average
Alba is average
Alves cannot defend
Mattiue is average
Iniesta scored one goal a year

The team that started for Barcelona yesterday

Bravo, Alves, Alba, Pique, Matthieu, Busquet, Rakitic, Suarez, Neymar, Munir, Sergi Roberto. Almost all of them have been called average by these same Chelsea fans

Yet come back to say its the team helping Neymar. So explain to us how this team of average is helping Neymar

Neymar is about breaking Brazil scoring record playing with the same Oscar, Ramirez and Willian that you are saying they do not help Hazard

Or is Dunga also better than Mourinho

Take it

Hazard is just a white version of Pius Ikedia

You don't always state fact, you only type just to get likes from anti-chelsea.
Yes enrique is average, yaya is a better footballer than bousquet same with pique. I don't know where you got iniesta and alba from.

Nihilist, Cesc was never meant for the pivot system, forget the one season wonder.

Dude doesn't have what it takes to carry out the duty of a CM. The needed aggression and positional intelligence are always missing in his game. No be by up through passes, no be wetin we go chop.

The phucked up midfield is the primary cause of our downslide, followed closely by the confidence issues you've been on which is just the secondary cause.

Phucked midfield = Bad results = Confidence fizzles out = More horrendous displays and more bad results

This is how I see it brah.

^^^

Where else has Fab4 excelled for us?

I am not saying he should continue playing there though.

SIRcumalot:

I still think the quality in this Chelsea team will pull them out of this long slump.
My only regret is why we haven't played them already.
only maybe Ramires,ivanovic will be sold and maybe Terry quietly put out to pasture.
A strong UCL run is still in the cards for this Team.
Moyes utd is the same as the SAF's only RVP was already past it.

something needs to change sha.. It may not necessarily be the manager, but something equally as significant needs to change. Even though I knew for sure they wouldn't have it as easy as they did last season, nobody could have predicted they would struggle this bad.


Like play like play new year go reach them go still dey drag leg for ground.

nitlad:
^^^

Where else has Fab4 excelled for us?

I am not saying he should continue playing there though.

Sincerely, he has excelled no where, which begs the question, is he yet another passenger?

Cesc's impact is only felt when he's on the ball and is trying to dictate the game from deep midfield, that's only when you'd find him picking out his mates with neatly orchestrated passes, bar that, he offers nothing to the team. You don't see him breaking up play or marking players off the ball. Which means, if Matic is having a bad day (which he's been having all season), then we're in trouble.

I've always thought the hole is meant for Cesc, I've always thought playing closely to the No9, Cesc would usher in good fluidity between the midfield and attack, alas, he has failed there too.

He doesn't have the much needed workrate to thrive in a hole. Watch what Saido Mane does when he's playing in the hole for the saints, he's nearly everywhere, winning the ball back and initiating a swift link-up with Pele. That's what a player in the hole does, Cesc no fit do am.

Cesc might only come good if we switch to a formation that places a little demand on him to work hard. If we can roll out in a 4-3-3, I'm pretty sure he'd have two extra men in the midfield to help him live. Which is why I needed Vidal in the summer.

PREMIER LEAGUE: 'I'd rather lose than win for Mourinho' - One Chelsea player's astonishing claim
A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would 'rather lose than win' for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson, who added they are 'fed-up' with the way he is dealing with them

A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would "rather lose than win" for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson.

Sportsweek's Richardson reported that Mourinho's relationship with his player had hit "rock bottom".
He said: "Let me tell you what I know on the Chelsea story. My information comes from a Chelsea first team player.

"The information was actually passed to me by a football contact. I was told that Jose Mourinho's relationship with many of his players is at rock bottom.

"I was told they're fed up with the way he's been dealing with some of them. They're fed up with his outbursts. I was told that his relationship particularly with Eden Hazard was under immense strain."

He added: "Here's a staggering quote. One player said recently, 'I'd rather lose than win for him'. Now that last quote may well have been said in the heat of the moment, but it perhaps gives an insight into the mood of some of the players."
Some incredulous Chelsea fans questioned the veracity of the quote, but Richardson was defended by 5 Live deputy editor Simon Clancy.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/premier-league---i-d-rather-lose-than-win-for-mourinho----one-chelsea-player-s-astonishing-claim-122306048.html

Can you guess who? But its unprofessional and lack of respect for the owner, coaching crew and fans who pay their hard earned money to watch these games!

Griffon:
Nihilist, Cesc was never meant for the pivot system, forget the one season wonder.

Dude doesn't have what it takes to carry out the duty of a CM. The needed aggression and positional intelligence are always missing in his game. No be by up through passes, no be wetin we go chop.

The phucked up midfield is the primary cause of our downslide, followed closely by the confidence issues you've been on which is just the secondary cause.

Phucked midfield = Bad results = Confidence fizzles out = More horrendous displays and more bad results

This is how I see it brah.

Thank you. You've said it all and summarised neatly.

Anyone with basic awareness of football should concur.

I quoted sebod yesterday that I have been vindicated for choosing not to quote any of those annoying fellaz. Its a waste of time really.

coded01:


This would make Hazard's fanboys so mad!


Dmcdad should be laughing...

coded01:
PREMIER LEAGUE: 'I'd rather lose than win for Mourinho' - One Chelsea player's astonishing claim
A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would 'rather lose than win' for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson, who added they are 'fed-up' with the way he is dealing with them

A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would "rather lose than win" for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson.

Sportsweek's Richardson reported that Mourinho's relationship with his player had hit "rock bottom".
He said: "Let me tell you what I know on the Chelsea story. My information comes from a Chelsea first team player.

"The information was actually passed to me by a football contact. I was told that Jose Mourinho's relationship with many of his players is at rock bottom.

"I was told they're fed up with the way he's been dealing with some of them. They're fed up with his outbursts. I was told that his relationship particularly with Eden Hazard was under immense strain."

He added: "Here's a staggering quote. One player said recently, 'I'd rather lose than win for him'. Now that last quote may well have been said in the heat of the moment, but it perhaps gives an insight into the mood of some of the players."
Some incredulous Chelsea fans questioned the veracity of the quote, but Richardson was defended by 5 Live deputy editor Simon Clancy.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/premier-league---i-d-rather-lose-than-win-for-mourinho----one-chelsea-player-s-astonishing-claim-122306048.html

Can you guess who? But its unprofessional and lack of respect for the owner, coaching crew and fans who pay their hard earn money to watch these games!

Smh...

dmcdad:


I quoted sebod yesterday that I have been vindicated for choosing not to quote any of those annoying fellaz. Its a waste of time really.

I don't understand the hype about him!


I am sure he must be the player that swore about losing just to get Mourinho sacked and jet to Madrid where Neymar would be readily available to completely render him unnoticed...


Honestly I pity mourinho...I am not happy this is happening to him... Yes, he has bad mouth, pride, negative tactics and so on...But he is human abeg...We all get our ugly side too...


With the hundreds of pounds these players dey chop, it is not worth it bringing down a man just to prove a point... Do they realize how lucky they are to be earning millions yearly from doing what many of us do for fun without shishi...

coded01:


I don't understand the hype about him!


I am sure he must be the player that swore about losing just to get Mourinho sacked and jet to Madrid where Neymar would be readily available to completely render him unnoticed...


Honestly I pity mourinho...I am not happy this is happening to him... Yes, he has bad mouth, pride, negative tactics and so on...But he is human abeg...We all get our ugly side too...


With the hundreds of pounds these players dey chop, it is not worth it bringing down a man just to prove a point... Do they realize how lucky they are to be earning millions yearly from doing what many of us do for fun without shishi...

What more can I say? You are so on-point.

I really pity the club itself I am not gonna lie. On a normal time, I shouldn't even blink an eye because they are going through such a harsh time, but I guess my love for football wouldn't allow me gloat over them this time around.

They have really sunk. And honestly, its worrying for the sake of football and the players and even the club.

coded01:

I don't understand the hype about him!

I am sure he must be the player that swore about losing just to get Mourinho sacked and jet to Madrid where Neymar would be readily available to completely render him unnoticed...

Honestly I pity mourinho...I am not happy this is happening to him... Yes, he has bad mouth, pride, negative tactics and so on...But he is human abeg...We all get our ugly side too... :-

With the hundreds of pounds these players dey chop, it is not worth it bringing down a man just to prove a point... Do they realize how lucky they are to be earning millions yearly from doing what many of us do for fun without shishi...

hazard is a useless player.....
he's the one fücking eva carneiro & he's been brooding ever since jose sacked eva. he makes millions of pounds a year & he wants to forfeit all that cash because of a piece of aśs!

how worthless can a player be? in one of the biggest games of the season for chelsea, hazard produced nothing against liverpool. let's look at the stats, shall we?

0 - chances created
0 - shots on target
0 - number of crosses
0 - number of players beaten with a dribble.

yet, ibime & co are blaming mikel & ramires. so it's mikel's fault that hazard has lost his skills? if the ball won't stay long in the final third before its lost, the midfield & the defence would be constantly put under pressure.

football is a team game! no team can really afford carrying a passenger like hazard in it & then expect to do well. put hazard on the bench and let players who are still hungry take his place for a while & things will improve.

rooney has been utter shyte this season but hazard's stats against liverpool is a new low. it's the lowest of low. if he doesn't want to play for mourinho again, he should tender his resignation & fück off to madrid/PSG. chelsea didn't turn shyte overnight......it's the undesirable elements like hazard that is making the team look like shyte!

Griffon:
Nihilist, Cesc was never meant for the pivot system, forget the one season wonder.

Dude doesn't have what it takes to carry out the duty of a CM. The needed aggression and positional intelligence are always missing in his game. No be by up through passes, no be wetin we go chop.

This is just Nonsense.

Cesc has always been a CM. Where did he play at Arsenal? Where did he play last season? I can understand if you say that he isn't great defensively, but that's nothing new as I've been saying that an posting stats to that regard since last year.

But to say Cesc does not have what it takes to carry out the duty of a CM is just another Ibime-influenced Exageration. This guy won the league in May from that position goddamit. He controlled the passes for the team and dictated play.

I remember when I suggested that we buy Cabaye. You were one of the people that trotted out that wack line 'he's not good enough defensively'. Well guess where Palace is on the log....

The phucked up midfield is the primary cause of our downslide, followed closely by the confidence issues you've been on which is just the secondary cause.

Phucked midfield = Bad results = Confidence fizzles out = More horrendous displays and more bad results

Another Ibime-related exaggeration. What fvcking midfield does Leicester have? NONE. They've been coming from behind almost EVERY GAME. No clean sheet yet this eason. No, what they have is an attack that is ON POINT. Vardy and Mahrez are playing like men possessed this year. At Palace Bolasie, Zaha, Sako and Co are the ones carrying their teams...I think Palace have only 1 clean sheet this season. Even at City, Is it not the much maligned Yaya Toure that was in that pivot before the Silva Injuries? Was it not Aguero, SIlva and DeBruyne that have been carrying them? How many cleansheets do they have?

Spurs midfield that trashed City 4-1 consists of a centre-back and a guy who was playing league 1 football just 6 months earlier. City had Fernando-Fernadinho. Explain that.

Ibime a few months ago was going on about Jack Cork, Jack Cork. Jack Cork now can't even see shirt as Swansea, just like he couldn't see shirt at Southampton before!

Like i said, midfield might be A problem...but It is not THE problem

A major problem in the first couple of games was ivanovic. Teams were not attacking us through the middle. They were going through Ivanovic. And I posted the stats to prove it. Our main problem now is that our guys are NOT attacking. And the cause for that attacking slump cannot be seen on the pitch!

This is how I see it brah.

You need new glasses brah.

There are several rumours coming out the drssing room right now. Beef with some players. Mourinho crying in the dressing room. Carneiro's fvckbuddy still in the team and still disgruntled. There are enough reasons for players to be angry and not playing at the best of their abilities.

Mourinholic nor know say some boys no dey use eye dey see monikers with 'f' at the front



Abeg change am before I go use mistake toast you when I done high

Nihilist:


This is just Nonsense.

Cesc has always been a CM. Where did he play at Arsenal? Where did he play last season? I can understand if you say that he isn't great defensively, but that's nothing new as I've been saying that an posting stats to that regard since last year.

But to say Cesc does not have what it takes to carry out the duty of a CM is just another Ibime-influenced Exageration. This guy won the league in May from that position goddamit. He controlled the passes for the team and dictated play.

I remember when I suggested that we buy Cabaye. You were one of the people that trotted out that wack line 'he's not good enough defensively'. Well guess where Palace is on the log....


Another Ibime-related exaggeration. What fvcking midfield does Leicester have? NONE. They've been coming from behind almost EVERY GAME. No clean sheet yet this eason. No, what they have is an attack that is ON POINT. Vardy and Mahrez are playing like men possessed this year. At Palace Bolasie, Zaha, Sako and Co are the ones carrying their teams...I think Palace have only 1 clean sheet this season. Even at City, Is it not the much maligned Yaya Toure that was in that pivot before the Silva Injuries? Was it not Aguero, SIlva and DeBruyne that have been carrying them? How many cleansheets do they have?

Spurs midfield that trashed City 4-1 consists of a centre-back and a guy who was playing league 1 football just 6 months earlier. City had Fernando-Fernadinho. Explain that.

Ibime a few months ago was going on about Jack Cork, Jack Cork. Jack Cork now can't even see shirt as Swansea, just like he couldn't see shirt at Southampton before!

Like i said, midfield might be A problem...but It is not THE problem

A major problem in the first couple of games was ivanovic. Teams were not attacking us through the middle. They were going through Ivanovic. And I posted the stats to prove it. Our main problem now is that our guys are NOT attacking. And the cause for that attacking slump cannot be seen on the pitch!



You need new glasses brah.

There are several rumours coming out the drssing room right now. Beef with some players. Mourinho crying in the dressing room. Carneiro's fvckbuddy still in the team and still disgruntled. There are enough reasons for players to be angry and not playing at the best of their abilities.

#Onpoint....U couldn't have said it any better, Costa is off, even Remy, Hazard is off, Fabregas is dead....Willian will run and run, track back and all, still few goals and assists to show for it.

Creativity and goal scoring has been our major problem, to me, the defence has been better than the attack....We get punished for the mistakes we make, small teams don't waste time in shooting from long range, we defend and defend and keep defending until we later concede goals then the hussle to score goals and equalize wud start, our players can't shoot, they lose balls, shouldn't we try as much as possible to outscore our opponents rather than being defensive??

coded01:


I don't understand the hype about him!


I am sure he must be the player that swore about losing just to get Mourinho sacked and jet to Madrid where Neymar would be readily available to completely render him unnoticed...


Honestly I pity mourinho...I am not happy this is happening to him... Yes, he has bad mouth, pride, negative tactics and so on...But he is human abeg...We all get our ugly side too...


With the hundreds of pounds these players dey chop, it is not worth it bringing down a man just to prove a point... Do they realize how lucky they are to be earning millions yearly from doing what many of us do for fun without shishi...

If you watched him last season you go understand hazard is a good player overrated but good.
If the rumors about the jose-hazard beef is true reconciliation na the best course of action.
Chelsea won't get big money for hazard if he comot january.

Na either Mikel or Falcao be the rat

SIRcumalot:

If you watched him last season you go understand hazard is a good player overrated but good.
If the rumors about the jose-hazard beef is true reconciliation na the best course of action.
Chelsea won't get big money for hazard if he comot january.

Na either Mikel or Falcao be the rat

they will get £60m/£70m for him very easily. he's still young & he has a lot to still offer. the problem is - hazard isn't better than what madrid/barca/bayern have currently. unfortunately, these are the only clubs that can afford him.

coogar:


they will get £60m/£70m for him very easily. he's still young & he has a lot to still offer. the problem is - hazard isn't better than what madrid/barca/bayern have currently. unfortunately, these are the only clubs that can afford him.

That's the beauty of British media which can make you believe that a butterfly is a bird. There is no one that can make me believe that Hazard is as good as Koke at any point. But when we talk of market value, we all know Koke is not valued at half the price as Hazard's.

Debroslink:


That's the beauty of British media which can make you believe that a butterfly is a bird. There is no one that can make me believe that Hazard is as good as Koke at any point. But when we talk of market value, we all know Koke is not valued at half the price as Hazard's.

hazard isn't even better than that french rookie in bayern(kingsley coman)....how can he better than koke? na yam?

the marketability is in england because of the amount of billions involved. gareth bale went from a £25m winger to £86m overnight. the hype was generated by the british media!

coogar:


they will get £60m/£70m for him very easily. he's still young & he has a lot to still offer. the problem is - hazard isn't better than what madrid/barca/bayern have currently. unfortunately, these are the only clubs that can afford him.

I can see those trio + PSG paying that much for Hazard in the last market
but not the upcoming one his Value has taken a serious hit. the buyer has all the power if Chelsea wants to sell,which won't happen.

coogar:


they will get £60m/£70m for him very easily. he's still young & he has a lot to still offer. the problem is - hazard isn't better than what madrid/barca/bayern have currently. unfortunately, these are the only clubs that can afford him.

Chelshit will be lucky to get £40m for Hazard.
Barca/Madrid won't bid for him cuz they simply have better options & Bayern will not even price that high if @ all they become interested.
His realistic choice is PSG, except Chelshit are willing to sell to an EPL club - then only City & United can offer around that (£40m) amount.

This thread just dey take style dey make sense nowadays....


Imagine our rivals , even the trolls are gone........

More of this people

SIRcumalot:

I can see those trio + PSG paying that much for Hazard in the last market
but not the upcoming one his Value has taken a serious hit. the buyer has all the power if Chelsea wants to sell,which won't happen.

sterling - £50m
KDB - £59m
and so on & so forth.

the market has gone crazy.......what used to be big money is no longer so in the transfer market. hazard would attract £60m plus everyday of the week.