yip, this has been happening in scottish football for years. The old firm always buying up the smaller clubs best players, now look at the state of the football in our country.

at the beginning I wanted them to do well because Mutu plays there, but now I hope they do real bad. Damn rich bastards

chelsea are not gonna win the league by buying up all the best players there having to use a rotation system to keep all the players happy there to inconsistent players r gonna get pissed of eventually

I think they have a chance at winning the Champions League, lot of European experience in there - but can they beat the mighty Madrid??

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Originally posted by tall paul 2 Ok. Chelski signed Scott Parker today for £10 Million. Thats another midfielder to add to the 14 they already had.. Thats Lampard Cole Geremi Makelele Parker Duff Gronkjaer Veron Petit Huth Stanic is Zenden still there?

i think hes at middlesboro but i think hes only on loan there.

I don't think they will win anything this year.

They are a collection of players, not a team.

Next season they may well win some silverware, if all the players can be kept happy, which is debateable.

I do think that Frank Lampard has been one of the best, if not the best midfielder so far this season, though.

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Originally posted by tall paul 2 Ok. Chelski signed Scott Parker today for £10 Million. Thats another midfielder to add to the 14 they already had.. Thats Lampard Cole Geremi Makelele Parker Duff Gronkjaer Veron Petit Huth Stanic Ok thats the only 11 i can come up with at the moment.. is Zenden still there? The article says 15 midfielders now. Looking at some of those names, at least 9, maybe all of them would be guarenteed first team football in the premiership.. it just seems ridiculous that they have moved to chelsea, basically, cos of the money and what theyre earning each week to sit on the bench/play in the reserves. If all the players end up at Chelsea, ok the premiership will look good, and chelsea will improve, but its just gonna make everyone angry at chelsea and i think make footy a bit more boring.. Opinions!

I will try and argue both sides of the coin on this one

Chelsea: They want to build, eventually, a pure british (or majority) team. So far they have some of the best young british players, Terry, Johnston, Lampard and now Parker. They have Duff, who is Irish but still in British Isles, along with Cole (Joe) and Cole (Carlton) who are both massive prospects. Signing Parker is more of a long term investment, as was Cole and Johnston. The reason Ranieri has gone all out for it is because Russian billionnaire is an admiror of Sven, and this, well, it probablyscares the shit out of Ranieri. He is just trying his best to win something to stay on as manager, but in doing this, expectations are only going to be even higher.

Observer: Chelsea are going to become as hated as Man U. As Man U did with Saha, you just leak out that you want to buy him, and let the media get all the information out, then the player gets upset and wants to move, and then bang, a team who posed a threat to your club are gone (not by challenging them for the title, but Fulham proved they could beat Man U when they beat them 3-1 away). Its getting ridiculas that loyalty, which ones was a key feature in football, has now nearly dissapeared, and is even present in the 1st division (Lee Morris, came from Sheffield, Sheffield Utd wanted him, Derby agreed transfer fee, and then he did a U turn to Leicester. ) Yes leicester are in the Premier league, but they're prob getting relegated this year, if he went to Sheff Utd, he's going to his home club, where he grew up, and to a team on he up. Its all about money and unfortunetly, we live in a very materialistic world.

Gone are the days of Matthew LeTissier denying a move to Man U to help out Southampton to beat relegation, and open are the days players signing five year contracts and leavign half a year into that contract.

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Originally posted by sleepydragon chelsea are not gonna win the league by buying up all the best players there having to use a rotation system to keep all the players happy there to inconsistent players r gonna get pissed of eventually

That was my fear ... Though I really like the team. For some apparent reason ... not only because the owner is Russian

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Why should people hate Chelsea? The blues actually play a really attractive style of football (unlike Liverpool) and most of their fans are loyal football fans (unlike the posers who support Wank United)

Maybe its jealousy? We were about #100million in debt a a year or so ago and now our fortunes have changed! *thanks to our rich uncle from Russia*

People cant use the old excuse of Chelsea being a team of foreign mercinaries anymore, its time to a new era in football. I'm getting sick of watching the same teams dominate all the time.

I really believe whats happening now at Chelsea is great for football, makes things more exciting! Its good that the guys have to fight for a place, and I'm sure as the season wears on well start suffering from more and more injuries. So most of the guys will have their chance.

Hey don't speak about my beloved Liverpool like that!!!!

Liverpool may have played boring football for the last few seasons but this season its been more of an attacking approach. I'd admit they resorted back to the hoof at Stamford Bridge last month, but thats because they had a depleted squad.

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