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Why are pple toooo obsessed with Pep, his footie & success/failure
It is as if his failure is a RELIEF for other club fans' woes week in week out.......their greatest regret would be "should he lifts or goes on to dominate the epl" but for me, the UCL is greater than all the leagues put together so that is where I would rate him not even the league

it is the same thing for Mourinho.
They are the two greatest now.
You should know that success has a lot of enemies.

Chelsea fans worldwide have finally realised Victor Moses is a much better player than our player of the year

This is a guy with plenty of EPL experience when he was signed and still failed on several loans in the same EPL,,yet some dudes can't cut 18 and 19 year olds some slack because they couldn't force coaches to start them in a team they would leave the next year.....

Judging a player on Loan is rubbish

https://www.premierleague.com/news/116944
Vote for ea sports epl player of the month.
Our dear lukaku is yet to get a vote as at the time I voted.
https://www.premierleague.com/news/116952

Vote for the manager of the month

Greatihex:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/116944

Vote for ea sports epl player of the month.

Our dear lukaku is yet to get a vote as at the time I voted.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/116952


Vote for the manager of the month

If its for the month of September, I think Debruyne should win the Player version and Klopp/Pep should win the coach version

iirc they all had a 100% winning record in that time frame

bigkesh:
Chelsea fans worldwide have finally realised Victor Moses is a much better player than our player of the year

This is a guy with plenty of EPL experience when he was signed and still failed on several loans in the same EPL,,yet some dudes can't cut 18 and 19 year olds some slack because they couldn't force coaches to start them in a team they would leave the next year.....

Judging a player on Loan is rubbish

how is Moses better than Willian??

bigkesh:
Chelsea fans worldwide have finally realised Victor Moses is a much better player than our player of the year

This is a guy with plenty of EPL experience when he was signed and still failed on several loans in the same EPL,,yet some dudes can't cut 18 and 19 year olds some slack because they couldn't force coaches to start them in a team they would leave the next year.....

Judging a player on Loan is rubbish

Can you explain what you mean by that?? Moses is a poorer version of willan. Willan has Better work rate, pace, team work.

raumdeuter:


If its for the month of September, I think Debruyne should win the Player version and Klopp/Pep should win the coach version

iirc they all had a 100% winning record in that time frame

so far, Walcott is the one leading in the one for fans.

Greatihex:
so far, Walcott is the one leading in the one for fans.

So you dont know that Arsenal fans no dey take eye see online polls? Do you expect to beat Arsenal fans in online polls?

Ask who is better Welbeck or Messi and see what Arsenal fans would do to the polls

What they cant win in real life they win online

raumdeuter:


If its for the month of September, I think Debruyne should win the Player version and Klopp/Pep should win the coach version

iirc they all had a 100% winning record in that time frame

Walcott is leading for the fans vote

raumdeuter:


So you dont know that Arsenal fans no dey take eye see online polls? Do you expect to beat Arsenal fans in online polls?

Ask who is better Welbeck or Messi and see what Arsenal fans would do to the polls

What they cant win in real life they win online

hehe

"The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn't flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn't flexible in my approach. At Tottenham I learnt to be different.

"In professional football you have to live the day-to-day. The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager.

"You can't be the same person to each player. At Chelsea the group was more important, I stuck to my methods too much."

Andre Villa Boas has the above Message for all the Chelsea Fans!

Ake complains about lack of gametime.

He had a stop-start spell at Watford last year but managed to rack up 24 league appearances in total.
And he's admitted life on the bench is getting to him a bit.
He told Dutch outlet Voetbal International: "I wanted to draw a line under last season, but that has not yet happened"The competition at my club is great. For now I'm still on the bench.
"It eats you, I want to play every week.

"http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/551039/Nathan-Ake-Chelsea-transfer-news

Chelsea’s former Under-21s boss Dermot Drummy has warned Roman Abramovich that the academy system at Stamford Bridge is ‘messy’ and says the club’s young stars have no route to the first team.


Chelsea currently have 38 players out on loan, including some of their brightest youth prospects in Charly Musonda, Lewis Baker and Tammy Abraham, who has scored 11 goals in 14 games for Bristol City this season.
Drummy worked at Stamford Bridge for five years, guiding the club to victory in the Youth Cup as well as the Under-21 Premier League title, and believes Antonio Conte will not get the chance to work closely enough with his youth prospects.
‘Chelsea have produced plenty of players up to about the Under-20 level, but then what happens? They go out on loan,” Drummy told the Daily Express.
‘It’s messy. There is no real link to the first team.

I don’t think Chelsea’s managers know enough about these young players. Antonio Conte or any manager that comes in has to hit the ground running fast. You lose a game and it is alarm bells. Their remit is to keep their jobs, be successful with the first team.
‘Young players don’t always instantly succeed. Lewis Baker is a very good player. I said to Jose Mourinho, ‘You will need to tell him he’s good’. Does the manager have time for that?

‘What is the strategy at Chelsea? Is it season to season? They can’t look at their best youngster, say Charly Musonda, and plot where he is going to be in three years’ time. Because who will the manager be then? So they can’t actually say that Charly will be one for then.
‘The philosophy changes all the time. It will be whatever Conte’s is, whatever Jose’s is. The instability is very tough on young players.
‘But then again, do Chelsea need that, with the buying power they have? No. The buying power can paper over these things.’

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/05/chelseas-academy-system-branded-messy-by-former-under-21s-coach-dermot-drummy-6172703/#ixzz4MEBlNgvY

BRANISLAV IVANOVIC has admitted he's happy to sit on the Chelsea bench and respects Antonio Conte's decision not to play him.

Ivanovic has been a pivotal member of the Blues' squad this season, playing the full 90 minutes in six of their seven Premier League games.
However, the Serbia international was dropped for last weekend's 2-0 win over Hull as Conte switched to a five-at-the-back system.And the 32-year-old has admitted he's not bothered by being on the sidelines as long as it benefits the team as a whole.
"I was maximum ready and healthy for the match with Hull, but I never got the chance," Ivanovic said.
“I’ll always put myself below the interests of the team, be that the national side or club.
“It’s been a while since I was a back-up, but I do not mind. I’ll sit on the bench whenever the coach decides, and not for the first time in these eight years at Chelsea."It is normal to be on the bench, especially in clubs that over and over again are going a step further.”
Ivanovic joined Chelsea in 2008 from Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow and has since made 368 appearances in all competitions, scoring 33 goals.

Brazil coach Tite maintained the team's defence, formed by João Miranda and Marquinhos, but dropped Chelsea winger Willian for Philippe Coutinho.


Philippe Coutinho trained in place of Willian during the first-team training, as the Seleção prepare to face Bolivia on Thursday at the Arena das Dunas, in Natal. The Liverpool midfielder, who replaced the Chelsea man in the second half against Ecuador and Colombia last month, earned his spot after improving the team's offensive performances in the two matches. In training at the Arena das Dunas, the coach maintained the defensive duo from his first two games. Miranda and Marquinhos will start against Bolivia, while Thiago Silva should be on the bench.

As mentioned in Globo Esporte, Thiago Silva has the full confidence of Tite, and the expectation is that he would regain his place with time, but has been out of the squad for a while. Thiago Silva was not called up since the Copa América last year when Dunga, who stripped the player from national team captaincy in 2014, lost patience following his mistake in the elimination to Paraguay. It is worth remembering that Tite put Thiago Silva alongside Neymar and Marcelo as the most prestigious Brazilian players in world football, and said the trio had "undoubted qualities." He also said that the defender will be one of the captains of the national team.

Scorer of nine goals since debuting at Zenit, almost two months ago, Giuliano will replace suspended midfielder Paulinho. Filipe Luís and Fernandinho, as expected, will come in place of Marcelo and Casemiro.

Brazil training XI: Álisson; Dani Alves, Marquinhos, Miranda, Filipe Luís; Fernandinho; Giuliano, Renato Augusto, Philippe Coutinho, Neymar; Gabriel Jesus.

http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/84402__.html

We are finishing in top 4

Chelsea half-term report: How is Antonio Conte changing the Chelsea philosophy?


After a confident start to the season, questions are slowly starting to creep in regards to Chelsea’s Premier League title credentials.

Antonio Conte, who swapped the Italian national side for a crack at the English top-flight, looks at times to have more energy on the sideline than his lacklustre players can muster on the pitch.

However, after two or three suspect results, it’s very easy to get carried away.

Heading into the international break Chelsea only find themselves five points off leaders Manchester City and just three behind Liverpool in fourth.
The lingering doubt over Conte’s best starting XI continue to surface but there’s much more to the Italian’s football philosophy than line-up debates.
Let’s take a moment to reflect on 47-year-old’s impact at Stamford Bridge:

The story so far

Conte was handed a tricky start to life in England by the fixture list. West Ham and Watford both impressed last season but are still teams Chelsea are expected to beat – and they did, just about.
Diego Costa twice scored late to snatch all three points in both games but it wasn’t particularly convincing. Scraping results so late in the game is the sort of form you’d expect during the difficult winter fixture list; not amid the excitement of a new season.

Chelsea half-term report: How is Antonio Conte changing the Chelsea philosophy?
Antonio Conte is struggling to find his strongest starting XI at Chelsea. Chelsea’s stressful and unconvincing winning style continued in the 3-2 victory over Bristol Rovers in the League Cup. However, conceding twice to League Two opposition at home raised eyebrows to all those who have followed Antonio Conte’s meticulously organised career.
The 3-0 win over Burnley would prove to be Chelsea’s most convincing win of the season just before the Premier League took a break for international football.

As Conte gathered his players back after the international games, the Italian suffered his first mini-crisis in England.
The Premier League is tough, there’s no easy games and Conte found that out in a 2-2 draw with relegation candidates Swansea.
It was Diego Costa again who snatched a point for the Blues but the wheels were starting to come off and just in time for the visit of high-flying Liverpool who would blow away Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
The loss to Jurgen Klopp’s side hit Chelsea hard. It was Conte’s first taste of defeat and, after a poor performance against Leicester in the midweek cup fixture, the Italians saw his team slump to a truly miserable 3-0 loss away at title rivals Arsenal.

Biggest concern

One thing Chelsea fans did not expect when Conte signed on the dotted line was to have a defence all at sea.
A lack of organisation, worryingly low confidence levels and high-profile mistakes have left Chelsea leaking goals at an alarming and amateur rate.
Chelsea half-term report: How is Antonio Conte changing the Chelsea philosophy?
David Luiz has struggled since returning to Chelsea from PSG. (Picture: Getty)
David Luiz returned to the club at the exact moment John Terry was ruled out with injury and it looks as though Conte is fighting a personal battle to find some level of consistency in his backline.
David Luiz, John Terry, Gary Cahill, Branislav Ivanovic, César Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso are all that the manager has available at his disposal until Kurt Zouma returns from injury, and the Italian desperately needs to find a way to make them click or face the consequences.
Reason to be cheerful

Diego Costa.

The controversial Brazilian-born Spain international is finally performing at the level we all knew he could.
A miserable season under Jose Mourinho and Guus Hiddink last season left him wide open for criticism. His penchant for yellow cards began to replace his previous goalscoring ability as it looked like the striker was destined for the Stamford Bridge exit door.
Some public flirting with Diego Simeone and his former club Atletico Madrid have been firmly put behind him and he has once again become the leader of this Chelsea team.
His six league goals have rescued some priceless points for Chelsea and, if Conte can get his defence sorted out, Costa’s form is capable of mounting a serious top four push.
The Italian touch…

Chelsea’s most recent victory, a 2-0 win away at Hull City, was an opportunity for the manager to implement his favoured 3-5-2 formation and he enjoyed some success.
Victor Moses was converted to a dynamic wing-back and Chelsea secured only their second clean sheet of the season. If he can get his first team into a full bill of health, don’t be surprised to see Conte use this formation more often.
Do we know their best XI?
Absolutely not.
The 3-0 defeat to Arsenal hurt Conte and forced him to move back to his basic managerial instincts with his tried and tested 3-5-2.
Chelsea have struggled defensively but if they can find a way to keep John Terry in the team for the remainder of the season, then there’s a good chance the supporters will be seeing a lot more of this style.
Alonso and Azpilicueta (Dave) offer Conte genuine width and defensive stability while Nemanja Matic and N’Golo Kante secure the game centrally:


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/05/chelsea-half-term-report-how-is-antonio-conte-changing-the-chelsea-philosophy-6170975/#ixzz4MEHdB8OB

I like this.

Thanks Donjazet. Please keep the articles coming.

donjazet good adding quality information to this thread unlike some people who are only chelseafans by mouth but too dull to contribute anything

DE LAURENTIIS CLAIMS CHELSEA OFFERED €58M FOR KOULIBALY

The Senegal international had been heavily linked with a move to Stamford Bridge, and the Italian club's chief revealed they made an incredible bid to tempt his team Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has claimed Chelsea tabled an €58 million offer for Kalidou Koulibaly in the closing stages of the transfer window.
The Senegal international was heavily linked with a move away from Napoli ahead of the 2016-17 campaign, with Antonio Conte reportedly keen to lure him Stamford Bridge. Nevertheless, Napoli refused to sell Koulibaly, who eventually signed a new and improved deal - that runs until 2021 - with the Serie A side instead. PLAY "In the last few days of the transfer market, I refused an offer worth €58million for Koulibaly," De Laurentiis told reporters. "Conte will say that it is not true, but he offered 30, then 40 and then €50million. "But I had already made the decision for myself that he would stay put for another year. "We can talk again next year..."


For those that always say "HE WANTED KOULIBALY BUT HE WAS GIVEN DAVID LUIZ. "

Throwback to when egbon nihilist was brushing his teeth in the stadium.

Nihilist:
I like this.

Thanks Donjazet. Please keep the articles coming.

Wetin man go do?? The thread dey always dey dry! I just say make I dey make am dey dey lively small small.

raumdeuter:
donjazet good adding quality information to this thread unlike some people who are only chelseafans by mouth but too dull to contribute anything

Moses, Success Face NFF Bans Over Zambia ‘Snub’

The Nigeria Football Federation are not happy with the duo of Victor Moses and Isaac Success for excusing themselves from Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Ndola on the grounds of being injured.
Feelers from the Glass House revealed that the NFF doubt the authenticity of the duo's claim of being injured and have resolved to investigate their claims and if found to be false, will discipline them and this may even lead to their being banned from future invitations.
Both players put up excellent performances in their respective games in the Premier League in England over the last weekend and won the man of the match prizes. Success, a second half substitute, scored the equaliser for Watford against Bournemouth while Moses who started his first league game for Chelsea in three years was substituted late in the game against Hull.
"We know the two players had good games and there was no sign of injury on the duo during or after the game," an NFF source told Completesportsnigeria.com. "It came as a surprise to hear later that Moses was injured and that he would not be available for the game and Success finished his team's game before claiming injury.
"Honestly, they won't go unpunished if our investigation turns out as we are suspecting. In fact, we are considering writing a protest to FIFA if we find out that they connived with their respective clubs to feign injuries and stay away from the matches.


Read more at http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/moses-success-face-nff-bans-zambia-snub/#DCCp0i71KLOqzfGm.99

donjazet:
Moses, Success Face NFF Bans Over Zambia ‘Snub’

The Nigeria Football Federation are not happy with the duo of Victor Moses and Isaac Success for excusing themselves from Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Ndola on the grounds of being injured.
Feelers from the Glass House revealed that the NFF doubt the authenticity of the duo's claim of being injured and have resolved to investigate their claims and if found to be false, will discipline them and this may even lead to their being banned from future invitations.
Both players put up excellent performances in their respective games in the Premier League in England over the last weekend and won the man of the match prizes. Success, a second half substitute, scored the equaliser for Watford against Bournemouth while Moses who started his first league game for Chelsea in three years was substituted late in the game against Hull.
"We know the two players had good games and there was no sign of injury on the duo during or after the game," an NFF source told Completesportsnigeria.com. "It came as a surprise to hear later that Moses was injured and that he would not be available for the game and Success finished his team's game before claiming injury.
"Honestly, they won't go unpunished if our investigation turns out as we are suspecting. In fact, we are considering writing a protest to FIFA if we find out that they connived with their respective clubs to feign injuries and stay away from the matches.


Read more at http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/moses-success-face-nff-bans-zambia-snub/#DCCp0i71KLOqzfGm.99

whoever is found guilty should be punished.

Greatihex:
whoever is found guilty should be punished.

Who NFF help?

Make them leave Moses joor.

Throwback to when west ham replied mourinhos dig about them.

Giles Smith: Is it enough?

Events at two away matches at the weekend have columnist Giles Smith evaluating goals and good fortune…

Some goals, you feel, should be worth more than just… well, a goal. Like Willian’s one against Hull last Saturday – that superb, curved shot from the edge of the penalty area, watched all the way by David Marshall in the Hull goal, who had at once the best and the worst view of it. Shouldn’t you get two goals for that? Or at least 1.5 goals. 1.2 goals, even.
Or maybe – I don’t know - just some bonus Nectar points? Even if the scorer got to help himself from a table of raffle prizes after the game, it would be something. All I’m saying is that surely there ought to be some way, within the regulations, to recognise the unusual quality of a goal of that nature.
It definitely seems a flaw within the laws of football, as we understand and accept them, that Willian should be able to produce something as rare and as gifted and as infinitely watchable as that total peach in the KCOM Stadium, and that Arsenal should end up getting, in effect, the same for patting the ball over the line with somebody’s hand in the last minute at Burnley.
Or maybe (as we might find ourselves thinking, at the end of the annual party conference season) that’s the wonderful social-democracy of football, and something entirely to the game’s credit: not all goals are born equal, but all goals grow up to be equal and have the same opportunities to count for something as all other goals. Even technically illegal ones scored by Arsenal at Burnley.
Even so, it doesn’t quite seem fair, does it? I’m looking at that Willian shot and I’m seeing an away goal that should have counted double. Or more than double.I’m struggling to remember any toe-pokes from six inches, any shinners from just inside the six-yard box, any instances in which a clearance bounced off his backside, Fernando Torres-style. I’m certainly struggling to remember any times that he used the palm of his hand to slap the ball over the line at Burnley.
That’s the way it works, though. All goals are equal. But some are more equal than others, aren’t they? We know that, deep down. Willian’s being one of them.


I’m not really a superstitious kind of football fan. No Sam Allardyce-style ‘lucky coin’ for me. And, looking at what just happened to Allardyce, I don’t suppose many of us are going to be in the market for a lucky coin anytime soon.
That said, I’m perfectly open-minded about other people’s football-related superstitions and more than willing to accept their value, especially when I have witnessed them working with my own eyes.
Like the lucky coat, for instance, which my neighbour wore from the Third Round of the FA Cup all the way to Wembley in 1997 and which self-evidently played a substantial part in securing the trophy for us that year – a trophy, which (unthinkable now) represented our first major competition win in more than a quarter of a century.
Or take another example: my son’s pre-game patting of a police horse at the top of Britannia Road, opposite the West Stand concourse, on our way into the ground, normally around 20 minutes before kick-off.
Now, you could point out that this particular ritual was by no means 100 per cent water-tight. And you’d be right. From time to time, patting a police horse quite patently hasn’t been enough. It wasn’t enough last season against then recently-promoted Bournemouth, for example. And it wasn’t enough the other Friday night, even more unthinkably, against Liverpool.
Nevertheless, leaving those instances aside, it’s also quite obviously the case that, practised consistently over the last decade, this horse-patting business that my son has somehow fallen into has coincided with the most successful period in the club’s history by a country mile. And therefore, taking the broader view, horse-patting’s record speaks for itself.
But even if I’m not drawn to lucky coats and lucky police horses myself, there’s a line of vaguely superstitious thought in this area that I do find myself going along with: and that’s the feeling that there’s only so much luck to go around in any one period. Far from entirely fanciful, that seems to me to be a relatively plausible thing to think – a thought with a bit of science behind it, in fact, based on the way life works with regard to things like, for instance, the very remote chances of lightning striking twice in the same place.
And this, it seems to me, is absolutely the worst thing about that last-minute goal that Arsenal scored at Burnley last weekend. Obviously it was painful enough that they should have scored it at all, when the game seemed to be heading for a draw and dropped points. But when you throw in the additional fact that the goal shouldn’t have been allowed to stand, on account of the fact that it was handball - which is fine in sports like basketball and water polo, but which is commonly frowned upon in football – then the pain becomes anxiety, too.
Because, just to recap, this was a goal scored with the last touch of the game, which was also a handball. And that’s doubly freakish, isn’t it? And being doubly freakish, it means that Arsenal must already have used up an awful lot of the limited supply of good fortune that’s going to be around in any one season - good fortune which, in what is already shaping up to be a highly competitive league, certainly around the Champions League places, could be much needed by other people at some stage down the line. People like, maybe, us.
So, that worries me. Might be time to start patting a few police horses. Might even be time to find an old coat.

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raumdeuter:
donjazet good adding quality information to this thread unlike some people who are only chelseafans by mouth but too dull to contribute anything

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