by DD Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:46 pm
Ballack wrote:This thread is ridicoulous. If someone had started one saying "How much do you hate Man Utd" it would have got torn apart and people would want the culprit banned, same with Arsenal n Pool.
Complete Joke and pathetic behaviour Frank
You seem to take this quite personal Ballack. I don't think its the same really... not today. Its obvious to alot of
football fans that its the dealings behind the West Ham transfer that get on people's tits. I think it should in a certain way.
I have no problem with it in the sense that if it makes this prem season an exciting one with lots of talents on display, then I'm all up for it. However, Roman is running Chelsea like George Steinbrenner runs the New York Yankees. Looking at their situation gives you a chance to look into prem's future. Yankees buy every great player in sight (for transfer sums of up to $180m. Oh yes, football is still mild compared to that) and bench them. Every time someone becomes a prospect they buy him. As a result, for the last ten years, they've been in every final except one, and won every one of them. Baseball (not talking as a sport now) is a competative farce.
With Chelsea now you have the seeds of a future Goliath where only qualitative lesser teams can challenge them. Look at the top opposition now, ManU in decline, Arsenal stuttering out of the blocks, and as good a team and squad Liverpool have, the majority of their players are individually lesser. What Roman is doing now, is not only changeing the present, but also making sure that in the future no top player would be able to go to the compitetion without him having their name on a paper. Giddit!?
I voted no problem with Chels though...