The general consensus this year seems to be that unless Manchester United sign a top class striker, Chelsea will win the league. They have a new manager, they’ve signed Deco and Bosingwa, United are a one man team and will miss Ronaldo, and if not for all their injuries last season they would have won the league. So, it stands to reason that if they keep their players fit, with a better manager now in charge, they’ll win the league this year, right?
I guess my red tinted specs must be having an effect because to me, all that above, is a load of bollocks.
1. Chelsea’s best players are in their 30s. United’s best players are in their early 20′s.
2. No South American World Cup winning manager has been a Champion in any European league. Why should we assume it will be different with Scolari?
3. Bosingwa, despite his good reputation and £16 million price tag, looks shite. Of course, so did Evra when he first came, and in fact, the players are fairly similar in that respect. Eager to go forward but poor defensively. Evra’s defensive game is brilliant now, as (one of) the best for his position in Europe now. Bosingwa might flourish in the same way, but for now, he’s not doing Chelsea any favours.
After a storming debut in a game where Portsmouth capitulated, and a good freekick minutes in to the Wigan match, Deco has contributed very little. He was fairly anonymous for the rest of the Wigan match, where Chelsea were lucky to leave with all three points, and in their draw today, will be remembered more for his yellow card 10 minutes in than anything else. 2 goals in the opening 2 games is promising, but then, can the same be said for Darren Fletcher. The fact that Barcelona were willing to allow the 30-year-old leaves suggests what most of us thought, he’s past his best. Time will tell.
4. Injuries happen to every team but it’s usually only the team that loses who will mention them. I know that’s line I was using back in 05-06 when Ryan Giggs and John O’Shea finished out the season in the centre of our midfield. The fact that our captain missed the entire season, whilst Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, Owen Hargreaves and Louis Saha missed months of the season, is forgotten. Why should we need to remember? We won the league. But Chelsea not winning the league is the reason their injuries aren’t forgotten.
5. Cristiano Ronaldo missed 3 games at the start of last season, scoring 1 goal by the end of
September. He will miss 4 games at the start of this season, returning by the end of September. We already are doing better this season than we were last, when he was in the team.
Chelsea’s home draw against Spurs today has highlighted what I’ve been saying all summer, contradicting the popular belief that the blues are favourites. They weren’t good enough for the title last season and without bringing about a big change, they won’t be good enough this season.
The differences United made between 2006 and 2007 was replacing a shoddy goalkeeper who was costing us points with an experienced, World class keeper. The gaping hole in the centre of midfield after Roy Keane left was filled with the modest, yet vitally important, Michael Carrick. That made the difference for us.
Chelsea haven’t improved enough and haven’t made the big changes needed. Their best players are now a year older, whilst our best players are a year closer to reaching their peak. You only have to look at the improvement in Carlos Tevez so far this season to see that.
That is not to say everything is perfect at United either. I’m not for one moment claiming I think we’re going to storm to the title just because of how Chelsea played against Wigan and Tottenham. We were less than convincing ourselves against Newcastle and our display against Zenit St Petersburg didn’t set the World alight either. It’s going to be a close run battle, no doubt, but I have to say I’m confident our trophy will be staying at Old Trafford.
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You are spewing wayy too much rubbish these days..
This is only cannon fodder for the chavski cunts who’ll come back with more crap in the comments…
Don’t stoop to that Cunt Juan Terrible and the blue fans since ’05s level…you are waaay better than that..
Sorry just woke up…after that….Did anything happen…..So the opposition….Liverpool…the ‘thinking man’s Wimbledon’
……………..Chelski……the rich man’s ……Wimbledon…Anyway let us not get complacent…just because they are worse than we thought…….
They should have brought Deco on….
They weren’t great today. Kenyon’s assertion that Deco is the bargain of the summer is going to prove to be utter horse-sh1t. ‘Big Phil’(cringe) is going to find life a little harder than he imagined, without a doubt. He’s going to have a steep learning curve because they expect him to win the title in his first season, which is a hell of a lot to expect. Let’s hope that Calderon’s moral outrage (lol) prevents them from bringing in Robinho, because they are toothless without Drogba
They were poor today and if we win our game in hand, IF we win that is, we’ll be level on points and i’m more than happy as I know we can only improve, we need Nani and Rooney fitter, Anderson to rest up, Ronaldo fit and we’ll start getting better and better, especially as Hargreaves is yet to come back, we can’t have Scholes playing week in week out for 90 mins, as good as a player he is, we don’t want to burn him out, if we keep pace while we’ve got injured players and what not, we should be in line to win the title hopefully so long as we don’t get many more injuries.
The RentBoyz really miss Drogba – Anelka is feeble as the lone striker. From my perspective, it’s a good thing that Drogba is proving to be rather brittle because they are are different team when he’s in full speed ahead.
Today, they dominated the early going but had no penetration; Spurs reorganized themselves and got a lucky bounce, one-apiece. Second half was about as interesting as watching my grass grow.
Scott is right, though; the RentBoyz don’t look very together as a team nor does their attack seem coherent. The Arse looked very good yesterday against the same Newcastle team that shot its bolt in the first game at OT – so inconsistent; same with the gooners who were crappy against Fulham last weekend. Nothing could encourage me to waste time watching the scousers, though; there are, after all, other things in life.
liverpool are mince and should have dropped points in all 3 pl games as well as being out of europe
chelsea will be a tough nut to crack , they have given 1 goal in 3 games and when drogbha is back (cheating diving bstd as he is) he will get them goals.
If we finish above them we will win the lge again
I didn’t see the L’pool match – nor the highlights, if there were any. From the reports I’ve read, they are already “done like dinner” – no Torres, no Gerrard. Roll on. TheLads look good to stuff those scousers in a fortnight’s time when they will set up their stall – at home, no less – in the “strategic” mode of RafaBall in the hope of a nil-nil draw. I don’t think so.
They’ve been lucky so far; it won’t last – if the “next ones” were any good whatsoever, then the scouse would look life-and-death for fourth. As it is, the Pretenders are only a bit better than the DeadMenWalking so fourth-place is L’pool’s to lose. They’re shite – and their “fans” know it, too. Interesting read on this in the GU blog – most of the scousers are damned-near apologetic about their “team” and accept that this is the last year for RafaBall.
On a related topic, who didn’t like watching Sampdoria stop TheSpecialOne in his tracks ! Real Madrid were losing, too – the last time I looked. I like that too.
Schadenfreude is very, very good.
well,im planning to visit this site in may next year and will be eager to read what u rant then…it’ll be very close and my guess is that the team that sustains less injuries will take it by 3-4points maximum.
jimybob said “drogbha is back (cheating diving bstd as he is)”
oh yeah really???what about ronaldo then???remember that night in germany?and what v see every weekend with ronaldo falling on the pitch like he’s hearing heels 4 studs…so better talk logic than vicious rant.ronaldo is the best player in the world but the biggest cheater as well.facts…
cheers from a blue from pakistan…