Why the hell are people complaining about chelsea buying shevchenko and signing ballack too? chelsea are the ultimate proof of what top flight football has become: money and lots of it. and don’t worry about wondering whether anyone can hope to compete with them because no-one can.
no-one kicked off this much when man united spent 29 million on ferdinand and 28 million on veron and that was four or five years ago - people seem to have got caught up in a ‘chelsea are buying the title’ rut and will just trot that out every time they spend 20 million or more on one player.
of course they’re buying it, AS DID man united and most everyone else before them.
football’s always been about having the most money and buying the title (particularly since the premiership was formed), chelsea are no different.
…I can’t believe how short peoples memories are. True the entire chelsea squad is unrecognisable from what it was even three years ago, but play any football or football management game that is a few years old and you’ll be surprised how many players aren’t where they used to be.
The amount of money spent since roman came along is a little obscene, but apart from the last three or four buys, SWP for example, most have been well thought-out and a damn site better than those that were made in the 90s.
people seem to forget that teams like manYoo spent 29mill on RIO FERDINAND!
and they whinge when we try to get shevchenko for 35mill?
sport is big money. has been for years in the states in the NBA, NHL, and NBA. hasn’t made them boring (well, for those that like that kind of thing), the sums just got bigger and everyone had to chase the leaders for a while.
but isn’t it a good time to be a chelsea fan…i’m blues since 97 anyway..
Have Chelsea signed Ballack or Schevchenko yet? No. Granted we may do, but until then…
crap!! if you’re making this fuss over a poxy article in the soccernet, which gets ridiculed for its inaccuracies, along with the rest of the footballing press (when it suits you), what the hell is it going to be like during the world cup, when we’re going to linked with every player who manages to score more than two goals?
regarding chelsea’s style of play versus that of arsenal, barca (lotsa poser fans..where are you when barca celebrated 100 years of existance??they were 5th in the league if u dont know) etc. i agree that it should be more entertaining, but let’s face facts here. jose’s first job was to get a hugely expensive bunch of players to win something. second job, to win something again. assuming we win the league this year and or the FA Cup he will have achieved those goals, which despite the resources at his disposal is still a fine achievement.
however, I would like him to be able to pull a real rabbit out of the hat for his third trick and get us to win things whilst playing something akin to ‘total football’. given his preferred style of play (at porto as well as chelsea), it seems a little unlikely, but until then it is going to be pretty hard for peter kenyon to fulfil his dreams of world domination, as I agree that most people want to able to cheer on a team playing the game the ‘right way’.
two questions to close;
1. does kenyon watch re-runs of james bond/austin powers to feed his megalomania?
2. does anyone else chuckle at the irony of liverpool fans calling chelsea ‘Chavs’?
manchester united (not all, i have miji and azri and anis, this bunch of three gyus u can talk and discuss with them, unlike others) fans almost all are ignorant..i dont blame them, manchester united is their life and well..they dont blame themselves for defeats..blame chelksi