Rival watch

Fabregas still not for sale i see

 

Hiddink was comfortably the best coach we've had bar Mourinho. i'd even put him above Gullit.

 

Yeah don't get me wrong from your club's perspective you'd be mad selling but would Vermaelen be interested in a 3rd choice role? Granted there's a good chance of game time but players like Vermaelen you'd think would want only first team football.

Seeing the links with Ashley Williams too, I highly doubt Williams would join as a 3rd/ 4th choice player while he's guaranteed starts at Swansea so that could even further force Vermaelen down the pecking order. Amazing how far he's fallen to be honest, it was only about 18 months ago I ranked him as one of the best in the league, now he wouldn't get in my top 10/15 CB's.

Though noticing his long term injury, there's no chance of him going this window anyway.

 

Hiddink is a hero, especially with what he did with the mess Scolari left us in. Scolari is the only manager under Roman I've wanted to be sacked. (Well Grant too, but not because of how he did, just thought we needed a manager more experienced at the top)

 

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I'm surprised you rated Gullitt? Maybe my memory, but didn't he just bump along between Hoddle and Vialli and then get sacked quite quickly. As a player, wonderful, as a manager, not so much. Was shocking for Newcastle. Would rate Sexton higher? A reference for the teenagers.

 

Sexton? Is that some sort of reference to Rix?

 

Yep Dave Sexton surley one of the very best Chelsea managers, ahead of his time in many ways with his attention to detail. The polar opposite of Malcolm Allison but both top coaches.

 

Blimey, you've got a good memory Just assumed some of the youngsters won't remember 70's football. I thought he was a decent manager in his time at Chelsea. And a decent man.

Teenagers try to forget Rix.

 

If you saw how we played prior to Gullit, you'd realise what a good manager he was for us . We were scoring a lot more under him than Hoddle for example and Gullit attracted some great names one of which happened to turn out our greatest ever player. He also won our first trophy in nigh on 30 years which certainly wasn't going to do him any harm.

 

Pics from the OS of his first training session

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BREAKING NEWS!

Wayne Rooney signs for Chelsea....after Colleen agrees personal terms with John Terry!

 

Sounds like Breaking UP news.

 

I don't think he will be 3rd choice though as there are enough games in the League, Champions League, FA cup, League cup for all 3 to get games. Also it's good to have equally as good quality pushing the starting CBs. As I said we'd be mad to sell Vermaelen and I don't think we will. As for Ashley williams, Swansea can keep him

 

The amount of times I've had that texted to me

 

who did Utd just lose to now? Never heard of them.

 

Yokohama F Marinos, who are pretty much the J-League version of Everton.

 

You'd have thought that Moyes would be able to beat them then

 

De Gea; Fabio, Jones, Evans (Smalling), Evra; Anderson, Cleverley, Zaha (Giggs); Lingard (Ashley Young), Januzaj (Kagawa); Van Persie (Welbeck)

Not exactly a weak Utd team either

 

Lingard? The goalkeeper?