Quote:there is no doubt they bought success, as do alot of teams like the manics, PSG, madrid, and barca. in EPL it's tough to be successful in to many things at once(like champions league, fa cup, league cup) and still carry that over to league play. thats not the case with chelsea they are sucking around the board. but to me their problem isn't the type of players they have, but the type of players they dont have. Defensively they are full of holes, ivonavic is old and slow, cahill is decent, JT is just old, Zouma is to young and raw, and cesar is average at best. and the only real help the D has is Matic, who is as slow and sloppy as they come, and Jon mikel who is perennial average Dmid. they have fire power up front, but not enough to back teams off where you can win the possession war. i also think costa flopps wayyyy to much and is a torres 2.0 as far as epl sucsess. he can dominate in la liga, but gets shut down when he goes up against a good D and doesnt get his calls.

 

i also think they having a very tough transition from the chelsea with JT, lampard, Drogba, and cech. that team had leadership at every level on the pitch and it payed off for a long time.

 

 

the funny thing to me is: in 2012 when they won the champions league, they had a terrible year in the epl and really shouldnt have made it passed Napoli or barca, let alone beat bayern in their home stadium. but thats just the parody of the game. i always use the wigan v man c, FA cup game, any given week in the epl, the bottom of the barrel can beat the top tier. thats why it is tough in english ball, you can't say the same about any other league in the world.

 

I know alot of people hate chelsea, but man would i love to have pockets like abrahomovic LOL.

I tend to agree with a lot of what you've said here, but for me, one of the key things we both missed out is that a lot of nations have a winter break. England does not. So therein lies part of the problem with regards both the European club competitions, and our International team problems. OK sure, you could argue that a lot of foreign players play in the Premier League, yes, BUT a lot of their team also play all over the world (in countries who have a winter break). I don't think there is an English National Team player who plays outside of the UK?

 

However, back to Chelsea, these players know about the lack of winter break when they sign, so although it can be passed off as an 'excuse' surely it can't be used with any validity?..

 

One thing that frustrates me is, although I dislike Chelsea as a club, I would always want them to do well in a European/International competition as they're representing the country in which I'm from. They (along with other teams, namely Manchester City) buy players for too much money with regards transfer fees, and pay them too much in wages.. (just look at Eden Hazard on £200,000 per week, or Radamel Falcao on £140,000 per week and he's on loan!!). Same with Wayne Rooney at Manchester United, sure he's the club captain and the International Team captain, but £300,000 per week??

 

If these teams spent more on squad depth, maybe they would challenge across the board, instead of either having a successful EPL campaign and a Champions League to forget... or vice versa... if that all makes sense..

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