about Luis Felipe Scolari was that
is here to stay. Common complaints
his system didn’t fit with the players
and was stopp
WOULD YOU T
back and inviting the Blues’
able by teams sitting
sure, restricting shots on goal by
pres-
squeezing the game and p IOU FOR 17 MILLION
AKE AN
the midfield.
acking
was said to be without a ‘plan B’,
Along with this, Scolari
doggedly sticking to his guns while
his career prospect EUROS?
around him.
s crumbled MARK WHEELER
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son and it seemed that if we were
The team finished strongly last sea- CFCnet writes for www.thisislondon.co.uk
to continue our fine run of form into
this camp
additions were all that was needed
aign, a couple of quality Mutu’
There have been some tragic miscarriages of justice in our times, but
s fine for cocaine abuse during his Chelsea days hardly ranks up there
Adrian
with no sweeping changes neces
sary
- year into his contract, Mutu was sacked in 2004 af
with the jailing of the Guildford four, except in the Romanian’
ter his use of South
s own mind. A
similar
. While the squad has remained American nose candy was uncovered by a drugs test. Fifa slapped a seven-
and it could t
, the system has changed month worldwide ban on the striker and ordered him to p
to. Florent Malouda had an excel
ake some getting used million for breach of employment contract. At first glance this fine may seem
ay Chelsea £14.65
lent end to the season as a left
- excessive, but the club p
fee after showing him the door
aid £15 million for him and obviously got no transfer
.
criticism early on – mainly from me
winger after picking up plenty of
– but now he has to adjust his described the fine as “inhumane” and launched an appeal quicker than he
Mutu, whose grasp of reality is slimmer than a hunger-striking supermodel,
like Zhirkov
game to play more centrally, just can roll up a twenty-pound note. Hilariously
team or is it a case of round pegs in
. Is it productive to the for Sport told him to do one. It declared: “The p
, last week the Court of
anel concluded that the
Arbitration
square holes?
appeal brought by the player was to be dismissed and the measure of dam
During the draw with Reading, our
firmed.
ages, as awarded by Fifa’s Dispute Resolution Chamber, was to be con-
-
first friendly against another English
Credit card?
Adrian Mutu must therefore p
That will do nicely.
ay 17,173,990 Euros to Chelsea FC.”
club this pre-season, some fans on
the Live Match Forum where
Meanwhile, the Blues continue their prep
already questioning
meagre first 45 minutes where we
Ancelotti after a raiser is little more than a glorified friendly
Community Shield at Wembley this Sunday
arations for the new season with the
, any game against Manchester
. Although the traditional curtain-
went 2-0 down. Perhap
United is t
most likely – these were tongue in
s – and ended in a 1-1 draw in 2007 before Chelsea displayed their traditional inepti
aken seriously by the supporters. Our last meeting in this fixture
cheek comment
ramblings of madmen, but it
s or rather just the between these two sides decided on spot kicks, but I cannot recall it.
tude in the penalty shoot-out. Apparently, there has been another match
-
seemed a small scale repeat of the
probably down to the therapy that I have been undergoing ever since and my
This is
last days of Scolari!
intake of legal stimulants before, during and after the event.
With time, and maybe the arrival of
is what is needed, not kneejerk
Pirlo, the system could work. Time
reactions, and
ering in the new era at Chelsea.
Ancelotti is still ush-
Pirlo would be the wingman the
boss needs, just like Mourinho
brought in Carvalho, or Scolari was
insistent upon securing the services
of Deco.
One thing is for cert
arrives. He must take over free-
ain if Pirlo
dead-ball specialist is a much better
kicks from Frank Lampard. The
choice than a man who hit
more times than a crash test
s the wall
dummy.
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