27 Jul 2015 10:57:22
Just reading some tripe about us not signing the top players.
Some clubs need to ride on the wave created by an individual player, others like ourselves are bigger than any one player. We don't need to use another players star appeal, we bring young talented players in and make them stars.
Obviously some managers lack the confidence or ability to make a young player into a world star, so just buy them ready made. Others know they can make a young player into a world star.
Its like cooking, you could order a take-away, but if your a great chef and you have quality ingrediants then that take-away will never taste as good as the meal you cook yourself.
As a side note someone who always eats take-aways will suffer serious health issues down the line.
In short I hope we don't abandon our traditions amd we continue to make world class stars, I hope we bring in young talented players and mould them into world stars. The odd take-away won't hurt, but we need to continue with what has made us a great club and not follow suit with these new wannabes.
27 Jul 2015 12:19:27
Shappy,
That analogy shouldn't work but it really does, I like it.
27 Jul 2015 12:33:27
If only some of you took the rose tinted glasses off and read through these pages looking from the outside in, you would grasp a better meaning of the word tripe.
I understand that you developed players to take over from Vidic, Keane, Scholes, Giggs, Ferdinand, Neville, Evra and the like, with Cleverley, Jones, Rafael, Evans, Smalling and erm.
Oh no you didn't, instead you seamlessly upgraded them with the likes of Hummels, Kroos, Fabregas, Vidal. oh no you didn't do that either.
Instead you phucked about panic buying anything with a pulse under Moyes and you are now buying from the 2nd tier trying to pass it off as doing what has made this club great.
I have zero problem with Abramovich or Sheikh Mansour who love football and have put their own money where their proverbial mouths are.
The are building for a future for those clubs as is clearly evident on your own doorstep should you have the balls to go and look.
You live off a legacy built by one man which has set you in good stead, you have no given right to anything and assume because of that name and money that you can now attract the best and buy the best, you clearly cannot.
Which ever way you want to cut it, demand from fans and sponsors mean you have to try and buy your way back to a title, build a team in 5 minutes to do it, what chance will youth be given and whilst you have brought in some good players we, as in City and Arsenal, already have them and will be adding to. So whilst your catching up on a previous season we all continue to move further ahead.
We are all stronger than you and that is obvious even to the most biased of you all. There is a lot still to be done at United and nothing pleases me more than Van Gaal trying to do it. Not fit to lace Mourinho's shoes.
27 Jul 2015 12:42:20
shappy
we have just spent over 250 mil in 12 month .
who was the last young player we made in to a star.
out of our first choice 11 which player will of come through the ranks.
everybody on the site has gone on and on about buying x,y and z superstar .
27 Jul 2015 12:49:00
You sound so bitter mate are you sure you are OK? you've been skipping your meds again now haven't you. Doesn't matter what you say really, Chelsea will always remain a rich man's plaything.
27 Jul 2015 12:57:13
Sign someone for 1.2 mil then dash him to another team only to go and re-sign him for 21 mil! Wallace u support an epic club mate!
27 Jul 2015 13:01:32
He sounds like your bog standard Chelsea fan: all mouth and no substance.
27 Jul 2015 13:01:51
I like this Macellus, funny guy :-)
27 Jul 2015 13:19:51
Marcelleus or whatever your name is, I love it when you come on here, and you seem to do that a lot. Is it because you're a closet United fan?
{Ed007's Note - He probably used to be a very open Utd fan, aren't most Chelsea fans like that?}
27 Jul 2015 13:21:52
Shappy
Back in the early seventies we were told United don't need to buy anyone , some more babes will just come through and we will be fine. I remember it well as yet another "youth" was paraded as the next big thing. Fact is they were not good enough and the result of not spending was relegation in 74. We had a great period in the nineties with the youth but since then cupboard has been bare at the very highest level.
I still have hopes for Pereira but for me LvG has two objectives, first have a first team that will challenge and that needed surgery and a lot of money spent. Second is to revamp the youth set up. We have a system that tries to bring them through unlike the other top teams, City and Chelsea have ploughed money into their academies to loan out 20 or 30 players, Arsenal buy at 16 from France and Spain the products of top academies. Ours needs a revamp, a total one using the trained eye of someone who knows what class looks like, he has seen Barcelona and Munich , however that will have a long lead time before it produces anything. As I posted the other day Angel Gomes is the bright young star yet it will be several years before we see him, if indeed we do.
It is too easy saying we make superstars not buy them and we need to learn from the early seventies what the arrogance of that attitude can bring.
27 Jul 2015 13:27:01
Wallace you make me laugh. We could languish in tenth place for the next 10 years and still be a much bigger in that you lot. Had a few years of success after your sugar daddy pumped billions in. Why do you think after a terrible season u see Moyes, Adidas agreed to the biggest shirt sponsor deal in football? Your sponsor yet they pay half to your small club. Greed in footballers cannot be helped, if city offer £300k then that player will end up there.
Out of curiosity where are the youth players you and city have produced? You don't. Just like city don't. Times change and it will never be like it was when we had the Giggs, nevilles , beckhams coming though. Footballs a business and you can't afford to stand around being unsucessful. Managers don't last and the money lost is too much.
But remember this mate. You will always be a small club. A club who can barely fill a 45k stadium and when you do it's still like a morgue in there. Little club with little history.
27 Jul 2015 13:33:29
News just in, only 2 players have a pulse according to Marcellus Wallace.
27 Jul 2015 13:01:48
Surprise surprise the I must be bitter comment, check out who has won the most trophies since Abramovich arrived and maybe go into depth as to what exactly I'm soooo bitter about.
No rush now, I'll wait. ;-)
27 Jul 2015 14:03:40
If only all Chelsea fans were as big-mouthed as Marcellus, their stadium could have a detectable atmosphere.
27 Jul 2015 14:17:35
I'm sorry guys and Edds, but, please excuse my ignorance, but when Adidas said ok, £750m over 10, do you seriously not want them to see a superstar in their newly prepared Adidas kit? Er, I'd say YES, I THINK THEY DO! So in August, be prepared for a biggy! Who, I'm honestly not sure, but, you bet your bottom dollar Adidas WILL WANT TO SEE A SUPERSTAR posing in the kit?
27 Jul 2015 14:25:30
"Panic buying anything with a pulse under Moyes". Are you for real? We bought Fellaini, who has turned out well and was not a panic buy but a target from the day Moyes was announced and Mata who was your player of the year for 2 years in succession and is again turning out to be a good signing even though he is being played out of his best position.
We bought just 2 players under Moyes, hardly any panic. If anything we needed to buy more players that summer (like Fabregas, Herrera, Baines, Garay) and weren't able to sign them.