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Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

John O'Sullivan — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:55:13 -0000

Its all well and good for scolari to be so placid in his views as given the depth of the squad Chelsea has its easy to see why he is so easy going about it. II agree, t is good for his job, it makes it easier, it means he has an excuse to play players who were probably moaning by being on the bench now witout upsetting those already in the first team..Let him have a few more injuries, lets say to a Terry or Lampard and having to replace them with a youngster and then lets see if hes cool about it..The rules that apply to evryone else dont hold for Chelsea

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your dad — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:16:20 -0000

YNWA. spot on.

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your dad — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:14:46 -0000

chelsea fc is a joke, even their own fans cant be bothered turning up to cup finals.

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scowser82 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:26:40 -0000

The writer totally missed the point here. What Rafa was moaning was not is inability to replace Torres and give the youngsters a chance, but paying one of his superstars 100k pounds a week only for him to get injured unnecessarily. The national medical teams have to be more responsible with the players that are at their disposal. Right now, I believe they rarely give a damn about the players conditions because if they get injured while on international duty, they are only going to need them for another friendly or qualifier months later, by when the players would have recovered. Its the clubs and players who suffer. Liverpool are not in the same financial league as Chelsea (for now) therefore key players lost due to injuries is causes more damage to Liverpool than Chelsea.

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BayAreaBlue — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:30:19 -0000

dumb ass! Chelsea bought Bosingwa for 16Mil...stop ranting like a little retarded c**t...Do you live in a cave?...you barely know shit about the game...8 first team Chelsea fc players are injured how about Liverfools?....Why do liverfools whine every fu##### time...btw how many games have the ref save your arses so far? you bastards are playing with 12 players...i don't think you would have won the last two games without the ref

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CFC — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:19:08 -0000

That's how the rest of the country see it too mate. We don't want you in England.

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ian — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:21:38 -0000

reina 6.5 cech 7
arbeloa 2.5 bosingwa 19
carragher 0 terry 0
skrtel 7 carvalho 19
dossena 8 a.cole 5 plus gallas, chelsea tap up cole wen worth 16
mascherano 18 lampard 11
alonso 10.5 essien 24
gerrard 0 deco 8
keane 19 j,cole 6.6
riera 8 ballack 0
torres 21 drogba 24

100.5 123.6

my conclusion let liverpool have 23.1 million and also 1 tap up of are choice for a player worth 16 million but get him for 5 instead. that would mean these added together should b 39.1 million. thats a strike thats the total value of are two main strikers torres and keane and still have 100,000 change to buy free flags for are fans. sad chelsea bastards 18 time and 5 big ones chelsea is it 3 and no big ones.
i sign out WERE NOT ENGLISH WE ARE SCOUSE.

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Rog — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:07:58 -0000

Erm, Obi Mikel? Or is he injured as well? Idiot

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Argus — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:05:25 -0000

Erm, sorry, but how much did Bosingwa cost? 24 mil maybe? so that makes it 3! And how many players did they buy in the past well over 20 mil, like Shevchenko? Also, look at the current cost of ALL squads and THEN talk. And you know about football? Muppet

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Weasel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:10:32 -0000

Gaffer one word, HELMET. for every injury at Billionaire Chelsea there is at least two replacements of immense quality as opposed to liverpool

Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

ST. Chris — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:54:21 -0000

Children, bickering. Awful article, sensationalist headline. Liverpool have a great squad, Chelsea have a better one. Scolari is just trying to make allies and friends, calling him God is a bit...idiotic, as is calling Benitez the devil for bemoaning the loss of Torres. Get a grip, all of you.

Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

Rob — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:53:38 -0000

As stated above only Essien and Drogba cost more than £20m. Guess what these are both injured and Drogba is the same for Chelsea as Torres is for Liverpool.

Also missing are Carvalho, Ballack, J.Cole, P. Cech and A. Cole.

7 Players who played in last year's Champions League final.

Chelsea replacements up front are Anelka , Kalou (23), De Santo (19) and Sinclair (19). These are the replacements for Drogba that are so much better than the Liverpool replacements according to Liverpool fans

Midfield available Lampard, Mikel (21), Malouda, Stoch (18) and Deco coming back from injury.

I like Scolari's attitude. Great manager and he has got the team playing some great football.

By the way I see comments about replacements in midfield and up front on the Chelsea bench. What is wrong with Liverpool's replacements? Keane, Kruyt? I take Liverpool fans don't rate their squad by the way they are talking about the players.

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Burt Reynolds — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:22:26 -0000

I think Gaffer's point wasn't that Ballack was as important to Chelsea as Torres is to Liverpool. I'm guessing it was that when it comes to things that you can't change, why whine about it? It's pointless, and Scolari gets this why Rafa's moaning.

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Lance — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:30:31 -0000

OK...the title is a bit harsh. The point is that the managers view their club contests as the center of the football universe. For each of these two, it is; they get paid to get their club/players to perform. I would think that managers would be thrilled to have the kind of quality players that get called away for regular international duty. It's how you deal with the downside of that duty (injuries, fatigue, etc.) that separates their thinking. If Rafa wants to whine about the negative impact on Liverpool that national duty can impart, then get rid of those players who might be called up. Otherwise, you have to accept the good with the bad. That's what Scolari appears to be doing.

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Jay Lee — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:33:55 -0000

Calling someone the devil for something like that?! Well, I would of thought it was just a quick frustrated response from him. If you look at it, Liverpool don't exactly have a whole deal of quality strikers other then Torres. Keane has really not hit form yet.
Scolarai was talking about it not being a problems because Ballack is out. Chelsea have players to cover up in every position really. Especially in strike and midfield.

Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

Paul — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:39:37 -0000

zekk67 spewed...

"...also, given that most of the Chelski players are mediocre at best, it wasn't hard to replace any one of their first XI)."

Good grief.

Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

Alex — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:20:49 -0000

Same as many readers here, Chelsea have a wider and deeper squad. The bench would be any starting XI in any of the top squads.

Torres is a bigger portion of LFCs smaller pie, Chelsea have a bakery and a baker that does not care how many rotten loafs he has to throw at the end of the day!

Wait till things don't come round as they should at Chelsea, you will then see the real Scolari......If you followed Portugal you would know.

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Musketeer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:18:40 -0000

Fat spanish waiter! You're just an EVIL fat spanish waiter!
Celery! celery! If she don't ....
Thank f*ck for Club football, I can't stand all that Engeerlaand bollox

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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:13:48 -0000

Celery! Celery!

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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:08:39 -0000

Fat spanish waiter! He's just an EVIL fat spanish waiter!

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Simon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:06:33 -0000

The gaffer is a total prick. Mind you, he is only doing it to get internet hits because he knows he talks such drivel it gets fans backs up and they can't help but retaliate.
For the record. Scolari has done nothing yet. He is top of the league fair enough. But Chelski, like Liverpool have been hot and cold.
The difference is Liverpool missing Torres. Chelsea without Ballack is no different because they have cover. There is no cover for Torres

Re: Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

Ben — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:58:04 -0000

All this crying from Scouse numptys, look at the squad sizes Chelsea 24, Loserbore, around 35, We loose Essien for the season, no crying, Deco injures himself warming up against manure, we accept it, Drogba still not fit, we deal with it, Carvalho. the best defender in England gone too, we adjust to it, Ballack injured again, no panic.Loserbore loose Torres and moany fat Rafa has a crying match. THIS MAN WILL NEVER WIN THE LEAGUE, did u get that scousers?

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Tom — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:49:17 -0000

bla bla

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Tom — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:47:50 -0000

I'm a red but Raffa should have kept quiet on this one. However, the journo is a pleb for the headline. If he was a decent Journo, people would read his pieces without him having to use ridiculous headlines....muppet

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joshua — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:13:01 -0000

deco is injured you plum. so is essien and ballack. who is going to come in? a player called miniero. ever heard of him? didnt think so.