Should Chelsea have singed Michael Ballack with players like Frank Lampard and Joe Cole already in the team?
594627
One of the most terrible moves made by Mourinho. Yes it might work out for the first few weeks, but Lampard will have to be substituted off just to put Ballack. Cole hasn't been on many starting line-ups as he use to. Lampard and Cole would not like that. They will want to be played more often or if not want their contracts with Chelsea terminated. Believe me Mourinho will regret it. Plus Chelsea have enough midfielders to start another team.
544010
Whichever team that gets the most point deserve to be champion for any season.Rich or not,other teams will push even harder........and yes,we will have more heroes now and thanks to Chelsea. Its a pity though,cash strapped clubs always loses out to the wealthy opponent but lets hope more good players help their respective club to achieve some respectability for club and self.
1049725
i don't follow Chelsea but lets face it they can buy who they want, most players have a price ( not all ) but at the same time i think a few of there players unless there just in it for the money wish they had not joined . i respect Alan shearer for going to Newcastle and the likes of le tissier who probably could of had a big money move. they deserve to be where they are but they ain't helping some talented players and who they have signed all ready i think it will only get worse...... good luck to them tho if they win the premiership next season. i follow a premiership club not mentioning which club but i don't envy Chelsea just like any other team in our league.
426383
Yes, I do.\n\nThis is the reason why: the loss of our best player is obviously bad news, but I now think we have the opportunity to add a balance to our team that has been missing.\n\nWith Rooney in the team we would play 4-4-2, with Lampard and Gerrard in the central midfield berths. This is a remarkably flawed system because both are attacking players with poor tackling skills (Gerrard famously so).\n\nSven is never going to drop Gerrard or Lampard (and who can blame him) but the loss of Rooney allows us to play a five man midfield - Cole (on the left), Beckham (on the right), Lampard (in the centre), Gerrard (in the centre) AND Carrick  (who is a tackling'holding midfielder, in the centre).\n\n(It's worth noting that no team has never won the World Cup without a holding midfielder - even Brazil have always needed a work-horse midfielder to allow their more flamboyant midfielders to shine.)\n\nEngland having a holding midfielder allows Lampard and Gerrard (two of the best attacking midfielders in the world) to head towards goal without having to worry too much about defensive duties.\n\nThis formation will require one striker up front on his own, and I think Peter Crouch would be perfect for this. He can hold up the ball and supply the knock-downs for Gerrard, Cole, Lampard and Beckham to run onto. (And if we need to be more attack minded, we can take off a central midfielder and bring on Owen to parter Crouch.)\n\nThis formation I'm suggesting has been well used by Mourinho and Benitez in England over the last two seasons, and it hasn't done their teams any harm.\n\n(Also worth thinking about: Enlgand got to the World Cup 90 semis without the sublime skills of the injured John Barnes. And France won the World Cup with Zidane missing three games along the way - he'd been sent off early in the tournament.)\n\nSven can make this situation work for him if he chooses to.
1033662
Ronaldinho of barcelona... i guess and i am not sure of the ammount, but in the near future it wud be Ballack who has signed a contract with chelsea.
1031205
jaja yeah, but not all. There are few in each team, for example....\nGermany- Michael Ballack\nMexico- Rafael Marquez\nPortugal- Figo, Christiano Ronaldo\nEngland- Michael Owen, Beckham (of course) \nItaly- Alessandro del Piero\nSpain- Raul\nBrasil- Kaka\nArgentina- Leonardo Franco\n\nSeach any of those an you will see ;)
319634
I think Chelsea will ditch some of their stallwarts who have been performing bad and replace them by some of their on loan stars. Michael Ballack will join them in midfield, and will help them win their 3rd consecutive premiership title.
478708
Well, we don't know who their summer signings are yet.  Right now, they are still a level below Man Utd and Chelsea in quality.  They simply do not have the ability to score on a consistent basis.  Liverpool don't have the greatest depth, and they still don't have any quality strikers.\n\nIf they could recruit a player such as Fernando Torres, that would change the dynamic.  As of now, the answer is no, but let's see who arrives in Merseyside over the summer.
200903
yes if we continue to play the way we have been then i cant see why not...it depends though if Chelsea are going to cheat again!!!!!!!! diving over reactions(robben take note!)...and in the final it will be against west ham! easy! easy!
804713
They've done it in the past with Souness (and he was not even a Rangers legend at the time) so why not.  But remember PLG will have just won his second championship by then and will be riding high in the champions league!!!
802088
I agree with you that Lampard should be dropped, he can score for Chelsea, but he cant do the same for England
791148
I'm not going to put down Mourinho in the least. I think he's a fantastic manager that can do a lot with any team. But how do you think Chelsea got all those fantastic players that are under Mourinho's management (and that are winning titles)?\n\nYes of course, he has done so much to make these players even better. There is no doubt about it. But we just have to wonder how good Chelsea would be if they did not have the money to buy some of the big name players that they have now.
183427
I think it would be Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard in the forward.
595380
I think it's a huge factor, but England still have a lot of talented players...Sean Wright Phillips might get a chance now.  They've still got Lampard, Cole, Beckham, Crouch...
443629
YES,without a shadow of a doubt.Chelsea are on the verge of doing what Liverpool did in the 70's/80's and what Arsenal & Man USA did in the 90's.People will always use money as the catalyst for Chelsea's success but Ruud Van Nistelrooy did'nt arrive on a free transfer neither did Henry or Vieria or Pires.So what makes Chelsea any different?\nIf Roman Abramovich landed his Helicopter on your ground would you tell him to go way?.Of course everyone is jealous of Chelsea.
1157252
Chelsea have the money to buy any world class player just so no other team can buy them,for example Shaun Wright-Phillips, who they rarely played.\nThis is the only reason Chelsea won the title last season and will win anything next season.\nThis is unfair on other teams as no other team has the money to compete with Chelsea.\nI personally think that there should be a cap on the amount any one team can spend in a season on players.
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Lampard\nbekham\nj.cole