2010-2011 UEFA Champions League

yea i was wondering the same thing...gonna guess he meant roman...

can't wait til he sells chelsea some day.
 
I hate Man City so I hope Arsenal pass around city into next week. I don't like the way that they have gone about becoming a great team, by buying average players and paying them over the odds (YaYa Toure 200 grand a week)
 
Why? So that someone with even deeper pockets can buy Chelsea? Lets be real, Chelsea have never ''bought'' a title the way Manchester City are trying to do.
 
no not quite in the same manner, but it was quite similar. I loved seeing chelsea fans last season with a sign saying "billionaire can't buy silverware." How quickly they forget that roman spent over 100mil his first summer in charge.

i was at the bridge just the other day (had to take a tour) and was speaking with one of their historians, and he was telling me that roman is a genius businessman, because he crafted his deal with the team so that should almost anything change (he dies, he sells, etc etc) the team would have to pay him (or his estate) back some absurd sum in return, and would have to do it in a very, very short timespan. Basically, he made it so that without roman, there can be no chelsea as we know it. He did it to make the team less attractive to other buyers, because the team would be so far in debt, the new owner would basically own an awful club.

Was really interesting to hear this guy talk actually.
 
I guess we're always going disagree on this given the clubs we support. I just think too much has been made of Chelsea's spending after flops like Veron, Shevchenko and SWP. I can't say I'm proud of any of those signings but the club has probably been more conservative than Man U and Liverpool over the past few seasons.

And your story about Roman's deal with the club sounds like a sketchy conspiracy theory. Not buying it.

 
true. I just don't like the path football is heading down, where mediocre players values are suddenly shooting up because some billionaire can pay for him. I mean, I guess it works out for the smaller clubs who can sell decent players for 10x what they are actually worth, but overall, its not a good thing.

the word on roman's deal comes straight from some guy who's job is to deal with chelsea's history, so take it however you please. He seemed to say it was a case where if anyone was going to own and be successful with the club, it was going to be roman and no one else ever.

and ha, pretty bad when the only time liverpool is on par with man utd these days is when we're talking about terrible finances.
 
If I wasn't banned from the main Chelsea group on Facebook I would ask about it.
And its clearly only English players are fairly priced these days...
 
really? I find it to be the other way around. English players tend to go for a lot more than they are actual worth.

...take wayne rooney for example.
 
I don't give a rats ass if he is russian or romanian i used to like Chelsea until he bought the club and went out on a shopping spree for the players. I don't like clubs that do that, Real Madrid, Barcelona, etc. Just my completely unbiased opinion.
 
no, we were correcting you:

roman is the russian billionaire who owns them.

jose was the portugese manager for a while.
 
its back on tonight! Didn't bump this last time cause I was away and well, Arsenal lost.

somewhat pissed already, I could've gone to the chelsea match tonight, but the people i'm with somehow completely overlooked how insanely obsessed with football I am, and gave them to someone else. Not even a chelsea fan in the least, but i do like visiting stadiums. And my roommates are chelsea fans, and getting to the bridge before them would be perfect.
 
right well...

marseille beat moscow today

and at half time, chelsea are losing, bayern winning, real madrid winning, and arsenal tied.

rest of the scores aren't relevant.
 
can't find anything good for chelsea.

About time chelsea and anelka got their shit together. Its too soon to judge, but thus far torres has been shit. To be fair though, i think chelsea should be able to beat copenhagen effortlessly.

At least Arsenal won. Hell of a game that. Read somewhere that the total cost to assemble Arsenal's midfield and forward lines that beat barcelona was less than the amount that yaya toure is paid per week.
 
Anelka seems to have responded better to the Torres signing than Drogba has. I've made a point of watching every game (I think) that Torres has played and he's only gotten better. That Liverpool game was a one off, I can't believe he was even put in the squad for that.

Props to Arsenal, I would love to see them pull it off, but it will be tough at the Camp Nou.

I also saw Madrid vs. Lyon today, wicked comeback by Lyon. It would be hilarious to see them go through AGAIN against Real Madrid.
 
This is something to look at. both Arsenal and barcelona are really good teams, and Arsenal has one hell of a comeback at home. But they are going to struggle at camp nou, This is one of the greatest Barcelona teams ever so it should be interesting to see how the game plays out, if barcelona wins, I will be pumped though
 
Yea Chelsea looked pretty good, but the team they played (forgot name) looked like a joke. They pretty much let Anelka walk the ball into the goal. Anelka wasn't even looking at the goal when he shot both times, wasn't like it took a great amount of skill to do that. I had never even heard of that team so its not like Chelsea are back on their game, they just played an easy team. It honestly surprises me how bad the level of pro players can be sometimes...
 
I'd settle for a draw at the nou camp. But Arsenal almost definitely have to score because there's no way Barcelona won't score. So long as Arsenal go through, I don't care how they do it.
 
Good results today. Bayern edged out inter with a vital goal and marseilles managed to hooks manutd out for the draw
 
so pissed off about that bayern goal. inter had so many opportunities just to blow it in the 90th minute
 
Soccer is the realy shitty stuff that the people in the US play. Futbol is a world wide phenominon that truthfully, is more fun to watch and play than any other sport in the world.
 
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today's ref is set to be inducted into the barcelona hall of fame, and his award will be given by tomas henning overbo.

I feel with chelsea fans now. Reffing when playing against barcelona can be absolutely horrendous.

Getting a fucking red card for shooting the ball less than 1 second after the whistle's been blown for offside...fucking ridiculous.
 
Yeah, that was some bull, especially considering how loud it was. However, Barcelona's 69% possession shows that the best team won.
 
possession doesn't mean a thing. 11v11, with a ref who doesn't give phantom fouls, it would not have been nearly as 1 sided.
 
The second yellow wouldn't have been so crucial if RVP hadn't punched Dani Alves in the face intentionally. I certainly don't agree with the second yellow, but he put himself in that position by getting an unnecessary first yellow while his emotions were high.
 
even the first one wasn't that bad. Shit like that happens in damn near every game.

The ref threw the game
 
Regarding the game, I think the red was absolutely crucial. Barca may have scored another goal or two without the red, but once Arsenal began playing with 10 Barcelona just split them apart. To be honest, it should have been 4 or 5 to 1.
I think Arsenal just got unlucky - starting with wasting a sub to bring in Almunia, then the red card. I think Barca's passing and possession frustrated them a bit in the first half but they did well against it. Like I said though, once Arsenal went down a man I think everyone knew it was going to be over.
 
decisions like that actually make you ask if hes being bribed. there is no way you can get a second yellow for playing on in a situation like that.
 
I was working so I didn't see the game. No surprise here though, Barca often rely on the ref when the going gets tough. I feel bad for Arsenal fans.
 
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