Jesus wept you're seriously asking the question when you start to think about replacing a player?
This is really painful to read because you are so all over the place, no I'm saying, why do you replace a player who is playing fantastically....... why not, errm, replace the weaker members of the squad with better players? Drogba is amongst the LAST of that team that need replacing, I'd replace Kalou, Malouda, Torres, Ferreira, Essien, etc, etc, etc before Drogba.
There is no need to replace Drogba, specifically, until he can no longer actually play football well enough. As for not being able to cut it at the top, he's played in 9 cup finals I believe and scored in 8, the only one he didn't score in was the last champs league final(iirc). Doesn't always show up.. lol.
You know what's truly ironic about your entire argument (and this isn't in relation to the above section of your post)? It's that for weeks you've be using the fact that Man Utd have had to rely on Scholes as a negative, now all of a sudden because it fits your argument he's one of the best midfielders I'm Europe. You really don't have a clue do you.
No, this isn't me not having a clue, this is simply not true. I find it laughable you have to rely on Scholes not because he isn't good enough, but because UTD are the most profitable, highest turn over team in the UK, one of the biggest teams in the world, and SCHOLES RETIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!
If someone is good enough or not, HE RETIRED, and YOU KNEW HE WAS RETIRING, and YOU FAILED TO REPLACE HIM. Drogba DOES NOT WANT TO LEAVE AND HAS ASKED FOR A NEW CONTRACT. Utd, the the 3rd biggest team in Europe, should not have a single top central midfielder even if Scholes hadn't retired. I have all season, all decade, in two millenia never said anything except Scholes is exceptional, so stop talking out of your behind.
Would Falcao of gone to Chelsea in the summer? Yes I reckon he would have if for no other reason than because his ex Porto manager had just taken over there.
How do I know Torres couldn't of started the season fantastically? I didn't know but he didn't so much like most of what you spout that's irrelevant.
It's not irrelevant, and your argument is non sensical. Again, Chelsea had a team of strikers, have FFP to think about, have spunked 50mil on a flop who they couldn't get rid of for now, and you think the could CERTAINLY have gotten Falcao because AVB was there because he used to manage him? Really, that's your entire argument, how do you know Falcao wouldn't have purposefully not signed for CHelsea because AVB was there, how do you know he doesn't hate AVB, or hate england, or hate Chelsea, or simply love Spain, or Athletico, or Athletico's manager, right, you don't.
I didn't say he wouldn't, I have no idea who he likes or where he wants to live, I'm not claiming a POSSIBILITY as fact Chelsea made a mistake like you though.
(firstly read that back to yourself and hopefully you'll see not only is it factually incorrect, totally illiterate but also completely contradictory)
City have Aguero who's played more often than not and has over 30 goals
Man Utd who finished level on points with City have Rooney who scored over 30 goals
Arsenal have RVP who scored over 30 goals
Bayern have Gomez who has scored over 40 goals
Real have Ronaldo who scored over 50 goals
Barca have Messi who scored over 60 goals
Dortmund have Lewandowski who scored 30 goals
Milan have Ibrahimovic who scored over 30 goals
Napoli have Cavani who scored over 30 goals
Atletico have Falcao who scored over 30 goals
....... Chelsea have Drogba who scored less than 15 goals
....... Chelsea have Torres who scored less than 15 goals
Seriously?
let's requote me
As for what strikers to go into the title race next year.. who was the established left winger at Barca, or at Chelsea, who started every game on the two wide positions for City, did Real only have one scoring striker, or 3 + ronaldo? The question is, who says they have to have one starting striker? The only team I can name who have a single scoring striker is Arsenal, who won nothing and if he had been injured we'd have been boned.
Firstly read what I said, you seemed to be implying, oddly, that if Chelsea go into a league with 3 strikers, they'll rotate strikers and fail to win a title. So I made a list of teams who rotated strikers constantly. Real had Higuain, Benzema and Callejon all chip in with 60ish goals between them, and they were all rotated. Barca had an injured striker, but rotated left wing and would have rotated striker as well. The only team with one real striker getting games was Arsenal, as I said, and they won nothing and looked like winning nothing. Did I say ANY of those teams didn't frequently start one particular striker, no, did I say one wasn't the biggest contributor, no, so where was I factually incorrect except in the land of Tom?
Mine was a fairly small throw away comment about a daft one of yours.
Again you seem stuck on the idea that because of Drogba's age, he should go so they can improve the team. Again, that's just daft, replace the worst players with better players, huge improvement. replace the best striker with another good striker... little to no improvement.
You were also making the argument that Drogba and Scholes looked better than they were because of who was around them, no one, no one will agree with you here, you're simply completely wrong.
Drogba didn't score a lot in the league because, again firstly Chelsea were **** under a **** manager for the bigger portion of the season, and they all but conceded the end of the season going after two cups instead, which they won, with goals from their strikers in both.
Last season Drogba was great, the season before that he came the closet to breaking 30 league goals of anyone since was it Henry. The ONLY season he was below par he played essentially half as many games as he usually does, and this was down to ACN partly and partly because AVB randomly tried to implode the team. Making big assumptions on his scoring quality and their title hopes, when the MANAGER came in and made arbitrary stupid decisions, is, arbitrary itself. The manager came in and wanted to be the big man, so arbitrarily picked on two players who he essentially fired, and decided(much like you) that the older players couldn't hack it and so started dropping them.
Manager being a douchebag for over 2/3rd's of the season, when he's no longer there, has no bearing on what players can achieve next season.
Was it not you that just the other day said that Drogba was inconsistent? Yes. Yes it was. My answer to your question (which FYI if you don't like the answer maybe you shouldn't ask questions) is that Drogba doesn't represent the future for Chelsea, he's delivered in a handful of big games for Chelsea yes but he's also failed to deliver in many others and by continuing to rely on him next season Chelsea can expect another season of being no where near the league title and relying on a large amount of luck in the cup competitions.
As before, Drogba delivering in a handful of big games before is, just utterly laughable, he's one of the biggest game players in frankly, history. his record in big games is almost unmatched.
Then we get onto the part of, if they continue to rely on him they'll expect another season being no where near winning anything..... wow.
You do realise they DIDN'T rely on Drogba in the league, again the douchebag manager who came in and failed spectacularly dropped him, repeatedly, and the manager who DID rely on Drogba in the champs league and FA CUP, won both cups? THe past 3 years, 2 of them Drogba was relied on in the league, and he was fantastic in both seasons, this year the manager didn't rely on him, tried to push him out of the team, and failed miserably and got fired?
He could be top notch for another 2 years, maybe another 4 years, who knows, why build a team that can win in 6 years from now TODAY< when you can have a team that competes now, and also build for the future, and also win in 6 years.
There is no monetary gain from selling Drogba at his age, there is no downside to keeping him as he's currently their best striker by a freaking mile, he is one of their best 3-4 players at the moment and has been for 8 years and as of the very last game of this season, he was STILL one of the best strikers around, showing zero signs of age related loss of quality.
Lukuku has shown nothing so far, Torres has been utterly awful, and Drogba has been brilliant, so your great plan for Chelsea is, get rid of their best striker......
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