Chelsea FC - Supporters' Rally

[Peter_North]

The current Man Utd crop is not as good as the previous season, with Ronaldo and Tevez missing in the line-up. Yet, Chelsea has not been able to capitalize on a weak Man Utd team. It shows Chelsea is still not a finished article.

If only Carlo is bold enough and leave Terry out of the trip to Anfield, we will see a more powerful Chelsea against Liverpool.

I'm glad Ashley Cole is back, so Dirk Kuyt will be well taken care of. I wish we had Essien to nullify Gerard.

[PussyDigger2]

the advantage is now swing to MU unless Sunderland/Stoke can do a miracle and win.

[Peter_North]

Originally Posted by PussyDigger2

the advantage is now swing to MU unless Sunderland/Stoke can do a miracle and win.

From Day 1, the advantage has all along been with Chelsea. Carlo is a tomtit with his obsession for diamond formation. Chelsea played their best football against Aston Villa and Stoke when they used the full width of the pitch.

I hope we sell Obi Mikel. The asshole is a back pass specialist.

[JWNY]

£40m Sergio Aguero heading to Chelsea

Atletico Madrid's Argentine striker Sergio Aguero has already agreed a £40 million summer transfer move to Chelsea,

A top Premier League manager told Soccernet of the transfer as Aguero lined up for his club in the Europa League semi-final against Liverpool and maintained that it was common knowledge within the game that the deal was on its way.

"The word is that Aguero is going to Chelsea - it's a done deal at £40 million," he said.

Aguero was close to a move to Stamford Bridge in the January transfer window but Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti was convinced that his squad were capable of winning the league without a huge investment and the price for the striker quoted at the time was £50 million.

However, Atletico Madrid's financial situation has worsened since, while the player is reportedly more relaxed about a move in the summer with more time to settle in to live in London after the World Cup.

Only recently Aguero was quoted as saying how much he admires players such as Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba, which was naturally interpreted as a 'come and get me' message to the Blues.

"Chelsea are a great club,'' Aguero was quoted as saying. ''They have become one of the most feared in Europe over recent years. London would be a really amazing city to live in as well - myself and my wife could be really happy there."

Aguero - signed by Atletico in 2006 - has been likened to the legendary Diego Maradona for his playing style. Ironically he is now engaged to Giannina Maradona (Diego's daughter) and is fighting for a place in the Argentina manager's World Cup team.

[Cum_Luver]

it will come down to the final match of the season.
Chelsea vs Wigan Athletic
Manchester United vs Stoke City

all matches will kick-off at the same time.

Good Luck to all Blues fan here.

[JWNY]

Happy days returning to the Bridge...

JWNY

[Glen2712]

It appears that Abramovich may ending up turning Chelsea in to an exemplary football club, the kind everyone loves. A team that spends less then a Villa, a Spurs or a Newcastle on transfer fees while it carefully brings through a crop of talented kids under a long term coach, the farmer's son Ancelotti. Drogba has become the emotional leader of team, he is a natural elder statesman who will encourage younger players from the bench or with assistance on the field.


Anelka has matured into a Begkamp-type prompter who will help develop the youngsters around him. When Malouda enjoys his football, so do his team-mates. Lampard is professionalism in practice and will adapt to his aging as well if not better than Scholes or Giggs and be around leading by examples for another 5 years, and Essien is by all accounts a diamond geezer.


Cech, Kalou, Alex, Mikel, Ivanovic and Zhirkov are excellent players and team-mates. I'd certainly rather play with Ballack and Ashley Cole than against them. Given age it'll be more of Ashley, but Van Aarnholt looks good for the future. For me if we lose the Mourinho hangovers, Carvalho and Ferreira and the Mourinho ghost in Deco we'll be a more honest and just as talented a squad.


Unfortunately I think Joe Cole may need to move on, if he needs regular first team football to be happy, which I can understand, I just can't see how he can get that at Chelsea. So no need for purchases if 3 or 4 of Sturridge, Kakuta, Borini, Stoch, Di Santo, Sinclair, Van Aarnholt, Bruma, Hutchinson, Mancienne, McEachman, Matic step up.

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[Glen2712]

Opportunity knocks for fresh contenders to break up big-four cartel

It could be a while before the next great side emerges in England, but that may be no bad thing

The Guardian




If Chelsea beat Wigan Athletic on Sunday they will reclaim the Premier League title and no Stamford Bridge fan would care a jot that they would have done so with 86 points, the lowest total for any champions since 2003. The statistic, indeed, is highly encouraging for the sport at large in its hint that the top flight is on the verge of change.


As economics shift, so too does the hierarchy of the game. It has already been a while since brute wealth reduced opponents to a state of helplessness before the game even started. Should Carlo Ancelotti prevail in this campaign it will be because he has influenced the Chelsea squad rather than rebuilt it.


In the weekend's 2-0 victory at Anfield, there was not a single member of the starting line-up who had been bought by him. Management in many places has reverted to the traditional virtues of making the most of what you already have. There will always be acquisitions, but Manchester United are sustaining their challenge to Chelsea while counting on people who were once Alex Ferguson's fledglings.


Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs all took part in FA Youth Cup finals in the early 1990s, but the manager is asking them now to strive for a major prize even as the plumage of those former fledglings grows sparser still. Not even Ferguson can intimidate time, however, and the passing of the years will harm the club if there are no means to buy elite footballers.


Upheaval is registering elsewhere, too. Liverpool, at best, will come sixth this season and an unbroken run of Champions League appearances that started in 2004 has now snapped. Anfield fans, however, have a deeper disquiet than that. There are no signs of a takeover being completed, but without it a mid-table position could start to look natural at a club where squad strength is waning fast.


We are already seeing fresh contenders emerge. At Eastlands tomorrow Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur will each be vying for a spot in the Champions League, a tournament that has not featured either team since the 60s, when it was still known as the European Cup. Money has much to do with the upsurge of City in particular and a step into the grandest competition would surely bring another surge of cash from Sheikh Mansour.


That, however, is an anomaly. Extravagance is less common in a period when club proprietors often concentrate on holding on to their wealth. There have been doubts as to whether Martin O'Neill will stay at Aston Villa and the sort of gossip there concerns the prospects of retaining Ashley Young or James Milner, rather than of Randy Lerner producing the funds for an upgrade in the squad.


We are entering the sort of landscape that should look full of beauty and promise for Arsène Wenger. The Arsenal manager, with good cause, makes his charges of "financial doping" against rivals, but there are no longer so many clubs who would test positive for unacceptable levels of affluence.


Wenger's frugality assists in paying off the £390m cost of building the Emirates Stadium and he has indicated that Arsenal's cash flow can now begin to pour more freely into his budget. Judging by the type of speculation that presently links him to a £22m bid for the Ajax forward Luis Suárez, the manager may yet see the day when a ground with a 60,000 capacity in a relatively rich city puts him in a stronger financial position than almost all of his Premier League counterparts.


Even as matters stand, there ought to be pressure on Wenger to compete more vigorously. No spree is anticipated at United and Roman Abramovich does not look inclined to cut loose at Chelsea. Any opportunity for Arsenal, of course, will remove Wenger from a comfort zone in which he is complimented on the style of his side and excused for the lack of honours since the 2005 FA Cup.


The league title had gone to Highbury the year before, but Abramovich was just getting into his stride at Stamford Bridge and José Mourinho took the reins in that summer of 2004. We are in a very different period now and the comparative austerity is to be measured in the elimination of United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool before the Champions League semi-finals this season.


It could be a while before we see the next exceptional side emerge, but there are compensations. Although the Premier League may not hit the heights, interest will soar if the dull old certainties have vanished.

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[Glen2712]

Nicolas Anelka ready to sign up with Chelsea until 2013

Carlo Ancelotti insists Nicolas Anelka is central to his plans. Chelsea will pursue other strikers during the summer

The Guardian




Nicolas Anelka is to sign a two-year contract extension with Chelsea that will tie him to the Premier League leaders until the summer of 2013. The deal is expected to be announced some time after Chelsea meet Portsmouth in the FA Cup final on 15 May.


Talks between Chelsea and the 31-year-old's agent have been ongoing for some time, with Anelka's current contract due to expire at Stamford Bridge at the end of next season. The club's manager, Carlo Ancelotti, has long insisted that the France international is integral to his plans – "I want him to stay," he said only last week – despite a patchy season in front of goal. Anelka will remain at the club on around £100,000 a week despite Chelsea's intention to pursue a younger forward in the summer.


Anelka, a £15m signing from Bolton Wanderers in January 2008 during Avram Grant's management, was the Premier League's leading goalscorer last season but, despite some excellent performances during the absence of Didier Drogba at the Africa Cup of Nations in January, he has become more of a provider than a finisher this time around. His winner against Bolton last month was his first goal in 14 games in all competitions, a sequence stretching back to late January, though he has scored 13 times in an attack-minded side this season.


The Frenchman revealed earlier this week that Chelsea "is the first club where I have felt at home" after a nomadic career that had previously spanned seven clubs and four countries.


He may be joined at Stamford Bridge by further attacking reinforcements, with Ancelotti expected to resume talks with Chelsea's owner, Roman Abramovich, the director Eugene Tenenbaum and the club's chief executive, Ron Gourlay, on Thursday as he continues to map out his summer transfer policy.


The Italian has emphasised his intention to offer the club's younger players – the junior team claimed their first FA Youth Cup for 49 years last night – more first-team opportunities next season, but will discover the level of funding to be forthcoming from the owner over the next few weeks.


There is interest in a number of players, not least the Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, who is expected to leave Anfield in the close season, though Chelsea will be reluctant to be drawn into an auction with Manchester City over any of their potential targets. Atlético Madrid's Sergio Agüero, Alexandre Pato of Milan and the Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko are all potential forward targets.

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[uncle gg]

congrats. what an empathic way to end the season. now on to wembley

[Cum_Luver]

congratulation to all Chelsea's supporters/fans here.
8-0.what an auspicious number to end the season and with the title.
but the cup's final against an wounded and relegated team - Portsmouth,will not be easy. in the end,i think Chelsea will win the cup and join all those who done the DOUBLE !

[richie_rich]

Congrats to Chelsea for being this season's EPL Champions. An in all likelihood, you will complete the domestic double with a win over Portsmouth in the FA Cup. It was a good season of football.

Looking forward to the next year!

Cheers!

Green and Gold Forever!

[richie_rich]

double post. sorry.
Green and Gold Forever!

[JWNY]

Champione, Champione, Ole Ole Ole!!!!