Chelsea to the fold

marcteng SG

Chelsea can be considered lucky to have a saviour cum sugar daddy in roman abramovic from russia.

Chelsea must be the only team in the world with the highest transfer kitty every season, but so far, top players like raul, ronaldo, torres, shevchenko have rejected chelsea.

with the amount of obscene money thrown around, chelsea must be challengers for every title available. with the same kind of money if fulham or everton have, dun be surprise if they also challenging for top honours....now if u imagine if sunderland got a sugar daddy in roman, how will sunderland fare in epl? haha, imagine sunderland is epl champion and CL winners, how does that sound to you?

HafizulKMS SG

Man U also veru lucky, got a sugar daddy also, Mr. Glazer.

Man U also very rich, even before sugar daddy came, they bought:

Big fat Ronney, run like no direction
Money alwasy not enough, Ferdinand
Rapist Ronaldo
Old papaya van da Sar
"Best" of Asian, Park
A~lan Smith
Louis Saha

How many $M? Cheap ah you think?

stellazio SG

yaya..money don't buy u success,it only helps..look what ranieri did even though he had money... Laughing

miss_soojung SG

Are we still on the $$$ issue? Rolling Eyes Laughing

WiNtEr'SkiLL SG

in the first place... if ur Roman , would u have invested in Chelsea or Sunderland?
no matter how rich are u , u rather not take risks right
ull sure go for the stronger team and make it even stronger ... and not go for the weak team and try to make it improve

marcteng SG

chelsea gonna dominate epl and europe for the next 10 years at least.
their midfield are already the strongest in epl and possibly in the world, just add essien to chelsea midfield to replace makelele, who is 32 already.

i think they gonna buy strikers as their striking dept pales in comparison with their defence and midfield.

who will they buy strikers?

Patrik SG

If i were Roman,i wld take weaker teams like Tottenham or Portsmouth.

dragg SG

they should have signed owen. the reason why they drew or lost matches is because drogba missed too many chances.

crespon is not well suited to english football.

marcteng SG

owen 2 short to be a target man lar. mourinho doesnt think owen will fit in his plans, thats why didnt buy him

JusStatic SG

You can buy all the galaticos in the world, but you cannot use money to buy teamwork, team spirit, you cannot use money to buy tactics, team organisation, you cannot use money to buy the mental strength of the players. Money ALONE does not buy you success, unless you consider Mourinho is a good buy, but money TOGETHER with a good board of directors, well run management and a brilliant manager does bring success. Maybe you can say with money you can buy the managers and the director of soccer, coachs etc, not entirely true, look at valencia, depor, they are well run clubs evnthough they dont have the financial power of Chelsea, they did employed wonderful managers like Benitez, Cuper before and did well, money does make life easier, but it is by no means with money ALONE you can win things.

Soccer consists of many elements, you guys have underestimated the game by saying money ALONE is enough. Real Madrid is one fine example, if you look at the players one by one, no team in the WORLD not even CHELSEA can compete with the galaticos, but still they havent won any trophies for two seasons already. There are alot of things going on behind a club and how the way it is run or managed.

Money + lousy manager (lousy club management) = A bunch of World Class players (galaticos) running around like headless chickens. Clubs: Real Madrid CF, Inter Milan (no offense real and inter fans, i am not looking to insult). Chelsea under Claudio Ranieri, yes ranieri is a good guy, but being a good guy and winning things is a completely different thing. Finishing second or coming close to winning trohies under ranieri is just not good enough consider the fact that a sugar daddy is supporting the club and that so many people expected them to buy the title etc...

No Money + World Class manager = The team can exceed expectations, maybe win a cup or two, but their progress will be limited when it comes to competing with the giants of european football.

Money + World Class manager = Success. Sometimes even money + world class managers may not gurantee success.

Chelsea no doubt have a filthy rich sugar daddy who can let you buy any players you want, but without a sound behind the back management and a ARROGANT but good manager like Mourinho, success does not comes so easily. Give credit when its due, you people may hate Mourinho for his arrogance, or may envy Chelsea for thier sugar daddy, or be jealous of their recent dominance and success, but i am sure deep inside all of you, you guys knows that its more than just MONEY ALONE that is making Chelsea so strong nowadays. You guys just dont want to admit it openly. Mr. Green

JusStatic SG

Note: I am not a Chelsea fan, i just felt people should give credit when its due.