Ex-Chelsea boss Gullit calls on Abramovich to buy in summer
Former Chelsea boss Ruud Gullit says his old club need to buy in the summer to close the gap on Europe's elite.
Gullit, manager at Stamford Bridge between 1996 and 1998, believes Carlo Ancelotti's squad cannot win the trophy owner Roman Abramovich craves without a fresh injection of talent.
When asked if the current squad can be crowned European champions next season, Gullit said: "Not any more. This was their last chance. They need to add players to this team.
"Against Inter it was a difficult match for them, they couldn't outsmart them and they looked powerless. The worst thing to see was no creativity, no ideas, no-one to do something and change the game."
He added on Sky Sports: "They did everything, they started 4-3-3, then went 4-4-2, then put on (Salomon) Kalou and (Joe) Cole and they had nothing. They couldn't change the game. Their best player was the goalkeeper."
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Comments (11)
Okay, maybe i got a little passionate there lol!
Chelsea play mechanical football like robots, robots that are rigid and can't think creatively as they have no intelligence of their own. They just follow commands, players of the Mourinho mould who only do as they're told and are not unique in any way. Out whole team is made up of physical, brutish players who you would think are better suited to a savage game like rugby than the beautiful game of football. Power, power, power means that Chelsea will always, in big games against Spanish opposition or uber-defensive Italian teams at least, lose, lose, lose...
You lot need to get a life. It's only football. That said however, Chelsea have terrible footballers. Our players have no creativity, bare minimum skill, low IQ, hardly any pace, have slow reaction times, play 2 passes and loft the ball back to the defence most of the time and repeat the routine until they decide to thump the ball up field in the hope that Drogba will unleash a huge toe-punt or a deflected thud from Lampard forces the ball into the back of the net. Our players are stupid. We have no flair. We have no magic in our team. No Zola or Eidur who can make something out of nothing. We don't any players that can beat a man. We have some of the best young players in the world, we've been fined for allegedly tapping a few of them up and yet we still don't play them! Chelsea are a ridiculous club. As a Chelsea fan I hate what Chelsea have become. Why is Ancelotti, a Milan man coaching Chelsea? He has no affiliation with Chelsea. He is Milan through and through. He doesn't care what happens at the end of they, he's just come to Stamford Bridge to retire with a fat pay-cheque. We need a young manager with energy and new tactics let alone new players who wants to prove himself and is hungry for success. Enough big name signings. They will never perform after their bank statements come through. We need to give chances to young blood, both our own and those that we purchase and make players out of them. Ready made players are egotistical most of the time and are trouble-makers.
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