Will Abramovich’s wallet get Messi into a Chelsea shirt?

Murat - May 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

i mean messi will come : Roman have alots of cash and its about business

so i guess he can get messi on blue t-shirt

Anonymous - May 4th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

He’s worth more than 80 million.

A_goon - May 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

messi is barca’s prize asset and there is no way he wud leave the nou camp. at least not this summer. i know football is becoming a business these days but there r still those sort of players which u can never buy and messi is one of them. crstiano is another one and so is kaka and fabregas.

if this rumour is true (which i HEAVILY doubt) chelsea r gonna be turned down in the same way united turned down R.madrid when they wanted to buy ronaldo.

Moussa KZ. - May 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

messi is the new generation of football. he will get chelsea to the top, but chelsea also need to replace the huge striker’s place DROGBA

andrew - May 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

dont make me laugh, messi only wants to play for barca, he knows he is the future of the club n isnt the type of player that would be swayed by money. + barca can match any wages chelsea hav to offer

andrew - May 4th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

nah barcalona r finished!! there players like deco r gettin older. and they rnt in form. players like ronaldhinho should leave while they have a chance especially the young ones like messi who hav a good future

Delusional - May 5th, 2008 at 9:16 am

After all that Barca have done for him, I don’t think that Messi will leave. Can he even speak English?

nocure - May 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am

Its not as if many players can speak English when the first get here but they learn. But anyway more to the point, this makes me sick! What Abramovich wants Abramovich gets. Well I hope not this time. Who would want to go to Chelsea anyway? They don’t even get on as a team. Drogba is a dic* and I hate him. Infact I hate Chelsea, thinking they can just buy teams best players by offereing them obscene amounts of money…just makes me sick

Bonaventure - May 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Its not about how much abromovich can offer messi, but which manager at chelsea can handle the likes of messi.Definetly not grant.

Mike - May 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Nocure said “Infact I hate Chelsea, thinking they can just buy teams best players by offereing them obscene amounts of money…just makes me sick”

Well said, sums up the footballing worlds general feeling about Chelsea. Watch for them to do it again this summer, I don’t even think they scout players, they just watch for which ones L’pool, Arsenal and Man U are trying to sign, then come in and throw the Russian/Ukrainian oil and gas scandal dividends at them.

Spladerunner - May 6th, 2008 at 6:10 am

Even if they acquire Messi I don’t think it will make the kind of difference that Chelsea are looking for. You can’t change the intrinsic character of the team from the top down. I think in those formative years they made a mistake having Mourinho as manager. I understand the motive for Abramovich. He wanted results immediately and thought he could make Chelsea play beautiful football later but Mourinho moulded the team in his image. They became effective not attractive. You see flashes of billiance and genius but they are a team that dominate by physical force (let’s face it their players are huge and that’s Mourinho again) wear you down, bully you out of the goal area and grind out results. Now it’s hard to go back and redesign the DNA of the team. Arsenal at their best play beautiful football because Wenger instilled it in their DNA. I mean who wouldn’t want a most dangerous and creative player like Messi but is it really going to do the trick for Chelsea? I may be wrong but I think you need to just shake it all up and start again.

Parky276 - May 6th, 2008 at 9:19 am

Has Messi got a say in this?! Surely if he’s got half a brain cell he would surely just laugh it off, especially if he’s watched them this season (or managed to stay awake.
Messi is an attacking flair player. He hardly fits in with their current style of “play” (loosely termed, i dont think Chelsea know how to play, just bore).
Why do Chelsea expect all the best players to want to play there? After all, they are never going to be a “big club” with history and glamour, just a club that struck it lucky after being halfway down Abramovich’s shopping list!

DJALDINE - May 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am

AFTER ALL THAT DROGBA HAVE DONE FOR CHELSEA,I THINK ABRAMOVICH MUSN’T RELEASE HIM

chima - May 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

the owner of chelsea just wanted to waste money. even if he succeeds in buying messi it makes no difference he will end up being like the likes of shevchenko whose sign on fee was a total waste to chelsea.

dogmanstar - May 6th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

Even if he does sign, you’ll still get all the chavs whinging about injuries to key players after having already spend the GDP of Luxumburg in an attempt to win bugger all.

glenn froud - May 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Chelsea DO scout players and they also have a fantastic youth system in place. They signed a great talent through the scouting lines by the name of Di Santos,what a player for the future.
Also,if you owned a team with decent players worth, say 10 mill,and Roman came asking, he would instantly be worth 5-10 mill more,and who gets the money???? you do.So how can anyone argue against his cash when not one of you would turn it down..i think the word is hypocrites.
Its a business and all the great teams have their gallacticos and they cost a small fortune

nzioka - May 8th, 2008 at 7:20 am

yes, i think he is on his way to wearing a blue shirt. we the fans of chelsea we need him. he should not waste time in barc when they are dead and buried as a club now that ronaldiho is out messi should follow the same. welcome messi to chelsea roman!

RayParlourforPresident - May 8th, 2008 at 8:59 am

look at the way chelsea play, the most boring, passionless football in the entire premier league.

why on earth would Messi want to be part of that.

All creative flair from Chelsea is stifled by the way they play and the fact they are nothing but paycheck players who only stay with the club because no one else could match their inflated wage demands.

It would be career suicide if Messi joined a boring team like Chelsea, in the same way it has been for Shevchenko, Wright-Phillips, Malouda, Beletti

the list goes on, Chelsea need to play better football by playing with the passion for the club the fans have rather than just spending big on players who are only there for the money.

Glenn I am not saying clubs will turn down the money, that isn’t the issue – the issue is that you can’t buy loyalty, passion or heart and to be honest the only players at Chelsea who play as if they love the club rather than the club’s money are Fat Frank (although even he is ridiculously well paid and highly overrated) and Joe Cole

look at the players brought in and tell me why they should play with passion or loyalty when you also see how Chelsea play

kurt tabbott - May 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am

Messi will probolay go t helsea no team could turn down that money. also dogba to millan 20mill. swp to city for 12 mill. Then eto’o or torres in for 30 mill

izzy - May 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

messi is worth more than 80 million pounds he’s probably up to 110 million pounds beause he’s just d BEST in football

izzy - May 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

worth more dan 80 million pounds up 110 million pounds

Anonymous - May 18th, 2008 at 4:27 am

Messi a the bigest thing in the worl him jus at the wrong side

holliegoalie - May 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am

NO WAY!!!!! Chelsea seem to be in dream land,, MESSI in London doesnt go im afraid. Love to see him play british football but aint gonna happen.

Money cant buy happiness!!!!