Far from going Damien Duff will still be Chelsea's No11 next season, the club doctor has been flying to Dublin every week to monitor his progress.....
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Far from going Damien Duff will still be Chelsea's No11 next season, the club doctor has been flying to Dublin every week to monitor his progress.....
I would find it absolutly astounding if Chelsea let Duff go, he was their joint best player with Lampard last season. Robben looks like a hell of a player though.
Personally I think Duff is as good a player as Gerrard so fair play to Liverpool if they pull that one off!
Duff plus £20m for Gerrard???
Personally, I think Duff is a better player than Gerrard......
Me too, Gerrard was shyte at Euro2004 gave away a goal and
also gave away the midfield.
£40 million - thats a joke, he not worth quarter of that.
Have to disagree there. Gerrard is a player in the mould of a Viera or dare I say it a Keane. A player capable of single handely dragging a team by the scruff of the neck to victory (see Liverpool performances last season). Duff is a class player but more of a flashy kind - like Giggs in his prime. He has less of an influence on a team.
Have to disagree there, I've never seen the boy control a midfield, aor control the pace of the game, good engine on him, scores a few and occasionally hits a killer pass (although he overdoes it, he seems to dislike playing it short).Quote:
Originally Posted by Declan_Michael
Hamann is a better player for Liverpool when it comes to controlling the pace of a game.
Gerrard will be good in time, but he's nowhere near Vieira or Keane
When Roy was Gerrard's age he was Ireland's best player at USA94 and bossed the Italian midfield about. Patrick Vieira was the rock at the heart of France's Euro 2000 winning midfield at Gerrard's age.
I don't see why Chelsea want rid of Duff, he was their best player last season. Ideally I'd like to see Duff play in a league where his talents are appreciated, he's wasted in England.
I thought DUff was gone ? Didnt Chelsea buy that dutch winger.. Robben ? who is basically identical to duff . Hard luck duff, going to a crappier team must be a kick in the teeth alright.
both players are capable of playing on either wing, leaving room for both players to be on the starting team, which is what chelsea want to do
oh i see. Having two wingers would be good for Chelski. It would be more balanced. maybe duff hasnt been sent packing after all :confused:Quote:
both players are capable of playing on either wing, leaving room for both players to be on the starting team, which is what chelsea want to do
Duff will be at Man U by the end of the January sales.....
doubtful. After seeing robben in euro he is decent but no duffer. Would not be any real competition for him and im sure mourinho will see that soon enough. This is the season where duff will show everyone how world class he is !
I think (and hope) that this story is just tabloid tittle-tattle and has no basis in truth. Chelsea have even come out and put a statement saying that Duff (and Parker) are going nowehere.
Chelsea have sold Gronkjaer so Duff and Robben are the only real wingers they have. Both can play on either wing. Would be very surprised if Duff was sold as one of Chelsea's biggest problems last year was their lack of width when Duff wasn't available.
mourhino is a fan after allQuote:
Everyone (but Cole) was fully committed in attack and defence," Mourinho added. "Duff was fantastic. Paulo Ferreira was like a winger for 90 minutes and also put in good challenges."
new thread as the old one is massive and it's a new dawn and damo duff is king :D
Yeah, I heard him interviewed last night and he said that Duff came into the team at the right time for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by dynamo kerry
He was basically saying that he waited until he felt Duff was ready.
Boy is he ready!
Bring on the Frenchies!!!
Mourinho is giving Duff a lot more responsibility defensively and more often than not he wins the tackle as he's so good at reading things. Its also a good sign that he critisises Cole after one of his better game, if Duff was unavailable Ihe'd probably be praising Cole.
yaahooooo go on duffer!
Roll on Saturday!
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http://www.sportinglife.com/football...MHD=soccerJose Mourinho has targeted Chelsea's November 6 encounter with Premiership surprise high-flyers Everton as the day Arjen Robben will return to lift the Blues out of their striking crisis.
Robben in the first team How is this going to affect Duffer ?? :confused:
Mourinho has been quoted in the past that he'd play both! Remains to be seen but I wouldn't be too worried. Just lets enjoy that of all our players, Duffer is playing regularly at the highest level.Quote:
Originally Posted by thejollyrodger
I don't care if Duff is playing for potentially the best team in the world, I haven't seen him run past a player in his last 2 or 3 games for Chelsea. Running past players is what makes Duff, Mourinho is fecking him up IMHO.
He is not going to loose that ability overnight. As long as he does it in a green jersey I really couldn't give a crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
He didn't run by Gallas once in Paris and should have ran with the ball against the Faroe's a lot more. If that was last season I've no doubt he would have tested Gallas at least once.Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
Good point eireboy, but what about this, perhaps these managers are telling Duff not to do it as much due to the fact that defenders will be warned about his style of play, ie running past players, and adapt a gameplan to counteract him, so the managers ask him to vary his play slightly so the defenders have to reassess their gameplan, if they do that then duff can switch back to his 'last year ' style and beat them on the wing or cut inside to pass, Thus keeping the defenders guessing what he'll do, will he pass or will he attempt to go by me ! ! if i was a manager i'd do just that ! !Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Mazy runs do not alone a great player make.
Duffer is already becoming a more complete player under Mourinho and is getting consistently high ratings. He'll run with the ball when he can - witness the away game against Boro when at one stage he ran almost the entire length of the pitch.
Regarding the French game .... I don't think Duff will come up against a tougher opponent than his team mate Gallas (who was certainly France's MoM). I thought he did well and I'm sure Kerr did too.
All the Faroes game showed is that he has one area that he needs to work on - his finishing.
Agreed. Its something that the rest of the Irish squad could work on as well.Quote:
All the Faroes game showed is that he has one area that he needs to work on - his finishing.
Oh come on, Gallas knows Duffs game better than anyone and is himself one of the best defenders in the premiership. He's miles ahead of John Terry in my opinion. I think Duff had a very good game against the French and I don't think that it was any shame that Gallas kept him fairly quite as an attacking force.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
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Originally Posted by carnstien
Ditto...
Also there were one or two midfielders giving Gallas a dig out whenever Duff got the ball and made a dash for the bye-line, Duff is a marked man now.
Plus the fact that he had little to aim at in the box after Clint went off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colm55
Gallas is one of the best in that position, in the world.
Carnstein, Duff is not running with the ball half as much for club or country this season, whether he was up against Gallas, Mills or Haas. IMO running by players is his biggest attribute and Mourinho isn't letting him use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
Its not only from a country point of view, I want to see Irish players like Duff becoming the best in the world.
Nice back heel from Duff to set up Robben's goal.
Duff is very effective, he works hard and is invovled in a lot of the goals. Robbin looks technically a lot better than Duffer but doesnt look as strong and if he doesnt get past someone he dives a lot. I dont know if Muinrhiho will continue to play 4-3-3 but I rate Duff over Robben
Are you mad? Robben is not as good technically as Duff. The ball sticks to Duff's feet. Natural ability. Robben is more of a manufactured player. Even at the weekend, when Robben set up one of the goals, it was down to the fact that he got a lucky ricochet when he was dribbling the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by thejollyrodger
Altogether now!! (To the Beatles "Love is all u need)
All u need is Duff! (Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh)
All u need is Duff! (Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh)
All u need is Duff...Duff
Duff is all u need!!!
I tried my earnest to get that chant going on my foray's to Lansdowne last Summer. I wish some of yis in the South Terrace would give a shouting hand, so to speak. It would sound really class if everyone could join in.
Duff has'nt been at his mecurial best so far in the qualifiers. But think of all that space he his freeing up with seemingly every opponant doubling up on our left wing as a defensive ploy.
Fair dues Jose!
What we see Robben do for Chelsea is what we used to see Duff doing in every match. As I've already said, I've seen Duff 5 or 6 times this season for Chelsea and his game has changed. He's not the old fasioned winger anymore. The crowd don't get as excited when Duffer has the ball anymore. I hope I'm wrong though. He was more willing to run with the ball in the second half at least.
I want to see Duffer becoming one of Ireland's most famous players but since Robben came back he is constantly being rated higher than Duff. It is really frustrating me that he passes it to a defender rather than beat him man when we all know he can.
He has only suffer 11 fouls in the premiership so far this season, he'd usually suffer than in a single match.
Unfortunately one of the consequences of getting fouled a dozen
times a match is injury, yes it is exciting to see Duff go past players
but it is not very exciting when he is out injured.
It is probably more sensible but less exciting to restrict the number of
times he risks injury.
Look at how long Robben has been out with injury this season if you
need futher proof of that. It seems you cant have the best of
both worlds.
I cant belive chelski are looking for ANOTHER winger. I hope its not a replacement for duff :eek:Quote:
BETIS CONSIDER JOAQUIN SALE
http://www.sportinglife.com/football...&TEAMHD=soccer
Real Betis president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera has hinted that he may be prepared to sell winger Joaquin Sanchez to Chelsea.
The Spain international is the jewel in the Betis crown and Lopera has already turned down big money bids for the player from both Real Madrid and a number of English Premiership clubs.
Madrid president Florentino Perez is known to be a fan of the 23-year-old, while Lopera has revealed Chelsea have made some tempting offers.
Lopera has now admitted that Joaquin may well be on his way - but does not expect him to leave for the Bernabeu.
"I have the feeling that if Joaquin does end up at another club, it might not be Real Madrid, because we have had some offers that maybe Real Madrid can't match," he said, admitting past interest from Chelsea.
"Chelsea made me a very big offer, I said no and when they said they wanted to keep on negotiating they changed their coach and it stopped.
"But now it seems their new coach (Jose Mourinho) also likes him and we have had a few proposals in lunches we have had.
"If they raise their offer, one day we are going to say yes."
Well they've no right winger and Joaquin is as good as you'd get. Mourinho rates Duff highly so its not a replacement for Duff, it would probably mean less games though.Quote:
Originally Posted by thejollyrodger
Yes he is a right winger (I think) and I think Mourinho want to play
Robben up front anyway?