[retired_jeannicole]

Chelsea Football Club are an English professional football club based in west London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier in English football.

Honours
First Division/Premier League:
1954–55, 2004–05, 2005–06

Second Division/Championship:
1983–84, 1988–89

FA Cup:
1970, 1997, 2000, 2007

League Cup:
1965, 1998, 2005, 2007

FA Charity Shield/Community Shield:
1955, 2000, 2005

Full Members Cup:
1986, 1990

European
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
1971, 1998

European Super Cup:
1998

Squad

1 GK Petr Čech
3 DF Ashley Cole
4 MF Claude Makélélé
5 MF Michael Essien
6 DF Ricardo Carvalho
7 FW Andriy Shevchenko
8 MF Frank Lampard (vice-captain)
9 MF Steve Sidwell
10 MF Joe Cole
11 FW Didier Drogba
12 MF John Obi Mikel
13 MF Michael Ballack
14 FW Claudio Pizarro
15 MF Florent Malouda
17 FW Scott Sinclair
18 DF Wayne Bridge
20 DF Paulo Ferreira
21 FW Salomon Kalou
22 DF Tal Ben-Haim
23 GK Carlo Cudicini
24 MF Shaun Wright-Phillips
26 DF John Terry (captain)
33 DF Alex
35 DF Juliano Belletti
40 GK Henrique Hilário

Transfer Budget: £30m

Wage Budget: £2m p/w

Key players: Čech, Terry, Lampard, Essien, Drogba.

Expectations: Challenge for title.

[retired_bouriqueena]

i got rid of lampard and sheva for 30 and 20M respectively. thats a huge chunk saved off the wage bill, which was then converted to transfer money.

Van der vaart is a lot better ingame than lampard imo, and at 40k a week hes also a whole lot cheaper . Money made off lampard and sheva was then used to buy Martins, Nigel de Jong, Micah Richards, Van der Vaart and Podolski.

[APPLICANT]

There is no way I would get rid of Lampard. Aside from Terry, he's the heart of the team.

As TheRandomGuy mentioned, the key players are Cech, Terry, Lampard, Essien and Drogba. However, I wouldn't sell Mikel, Joe Cole, Malouda, Kalou or Ashley Cole either.
Those players are the core of the team that I would build my squad around.

I'm currently playing a 4-3-3 formation with two wide strikers more acting as wings (Joe Cole and Malouda), one striker (Drogba), two central midfielders (Lampard and Mikel), a defensive midfielder (Essien) and a flat four (Belletti, Terry, Carvalho and Cole) which works very well.
Especially Lampard has been amazing with 9 goals in 10 games from midfield.

I don't really think there are need for strengthening the squad right now, but my main priorities would probably be a DC and a DR and betting rid of Alex/Ben Haim and Ferreira/Belletti.

Btw, what's up with Sinclair looking so bad?

[NMR]

How did you get Micah Richards? i offered 25 M and they reject..

[NMR]

Ive just sold Drogba and selling Lamps & Sheva, TO get money up, Ive signed martins, Rafa Van Der Vaart , and im looking at podolski and Aguero

[APPLICANT]

Originally posted by Jack Edwards:
How did you get Micah Richards? i offered 25 M and they reject..

Yeah, I was looking to buy him too, but they wanted 32.5 mio which I don't think he's worth.

[NMR]

Im going to try Over how many months..


Is the real game out yet? im playing the demo

[NMR]

Im snooping around at farfan now of PSV, Good stats and at 15 M i like him, ill play malouda on the right and Farfan on the left

[retired_bouriqueena]

they accepted 28M over 24 months for Richards in my game.

dont get me wrong, lampard has been great for Chelsea irl, but in game he doesn't perform anywhere near the same level as VDV.

At the moment VDV is my leading Premiere league scorer and has 12 goals and 6 assists from 19 games.

Drogba has 14 goals and 7 assists from 25 games.
And Podolski's on 7 goals and 9 assists from 21. Martins has been injured a fair bit and has only got 5 goals.

Preferred formation is 4-4-2-diamond.

another player ive been impressed by is Goran Pandev from Lazio. great stats, and he relishes important matches. costs the same as podolski (12-14M) but is A LOT better. ( was experimenting with him in a Barca game)

[NMR]

My signings so far have been

Ins:

Obafemi Martins -- 24 M
Rafa Van Der Vaart --


Outs:
Drogba--- 25 M
Lampard -- 20 M + Marcelo


Currently looking at Farfan, and maybe another right-back, Richards is really good but ill see..