Chelsea move a step closer to landing £25 million forward
by stresster on August 21st, 2008
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You might be forgiven for thinking that the Blues have enough attacking options, especially when Didier Drogba recovers from injury. Along with Anelka, Shevchenko and Kalou, Chelsea have a formidable set of forwards, while the likes of Deco, Lampard, Ballack and Cole all ‘know where the goal is’. However, the club seem determined to land the player who they’ve been kiss chasing all summer, word is out that Peter Kenyon is about to plant a big smacker on his lips!
The Daily Mail report in an exclusive (despite other papers also carrying the same story) that the Chelsea chief executive has flown out to Real Madrid, got down on one knee and asked Robinho to be his wedded signing. To have and to hold from this day forward, amen.
Chelsea were close to completing the signing of Robinho for £25million last night after chief executive Peter Kenyon was seen arriving in Madrid to tie up the deal.
The Brazil forward described a switch to Chelsea as his ‘dream move’ earlier in the summer but Real Madrid’s failure to secure the services of Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United had put the transfer in jeopardy.
It seems like the Stamford Bridge regulars will be treated to even more silky skills if indeed this transfer goes through. But will it be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth at Chelsea? It will be hard to pack every exciting talent into the team and rotation will get players grumpy. Do Blues fans think this will upset the balance?
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Tagged Under: Chelsea FC, peter kenyon, robinho
dereknanna - August 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
comment from German Chelsea fan:
Nice to have even more of “the quality”(expense) on board. Now we have about six players who only really function when the team and tactics are built on them being central.
Chelsea already got a cake full of cherries and not enough dough. Who do you build a team round? All the players Chelsea’s got who can only really play well when playing key roles amounts to more than eleven!! Selfless workhorses? Maybe Essien - who could also be the heart and brain of the team if asked.
I’d love to see Robinho flourish at Chelsea, but…
…Achtung! Schevschenko Syndrom. If you don’t get Lamps and Ballack, Cole, - even Dame Didier and the rest to serve him and subordinate their own creativity to his, then it’s surely a waste of money. His last engagement in Spain did little to enhance his reputation.
The other detail is; when Robinho disappoints (as was the case during his time in Spain), will it be his fault - or the fault of a coach who is trying to squeeze too many egos onto one bench or too many roses in an 11 cm vase? Of an unco-ordinated management structure emanagement structure
But I also love watching Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Essien, Wright-Phillips, Cole etc. when they are free to display their natural style and skill. Robinho as much. Kaka too. What’s missing are the servants, the workhorses, the club guys.
I liked my Chelsea identity much more when I ws watching us lose 2-4 at home to Newport County in 1974.
We had just broken up our team by selling the two key players, Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson.
We praised our young genii, Butch Wilkins, Ray Lewington, John Sparrow and so on and hung on to the dying hopes coughed up by Charlie Cooke, Chopper Harris and Iain Hutchieson, as we plunged into the second division… What happened to Eddie McCready? Anybody know?
I suppose it is taboo for Germans to comment on English football on an English website; we read all your gutter press stuff a day later in our German tabloids.
But there is a general admiration for the Premiership here, although a very, very strong feeling that it will all come tumbling down soon: it must - all England’s success is based on speculative economics - and loans.
These loans will dry up in a few months. TV money will drop as international interest fades. This interest in English football must pall as the national team becomes more and more of a joke internationally.
Well, you asked for a comment. Capello and England 2 (lucky): Czech Republic (very unluckily) 2. Who cares who’s captain?! Does it mean anything?