Raul Meireles

[Brwned]

He wasn't a poor player, just wasn't good enough for a top team.

Chelsea's topsy turvy season continues, whilst it is't being implemented as flawlessly as many in and around Chelsea hope, Villas-Boas clearly is a man with a plan. He has shown himself to be an excellent judge of a player - Romeu, Meireles and Mata are three absolutely fantastic players.

His reckoning of the midfield will get interesting come February when Essien is fit once more, and that is if he doesn't splash the cash in January.

 

[alastair]

We can all drag out posts which turned out to be wrong. It's not particularly clever.

Meireles was never right at the top level, but given Chelsea's paucity of genuine CMs, this is a rather strange move. It's all very well listing Romeu as an option, but he barely plays and appears not to be rated too highly from within the club.

 

[antohan]

Meireles was never right at the top level, but given Chelsea's paucity of genuine CMs, this is a rather strange move.

My thoughts as well, not a bad squad player by any means.

 

[Hallucinogen]

Meireles left on his own accord, the club should be blamed for being too slow.

Still at least one positive is that we will see more of Oscar

He is a player that will take some time to adapt, still shows his class but the games are too fast paced.A start will help him imo that is of course if Mata is rested against QPR as he should be.

 

[Decotron]

Not sure he utilsed correctly at Chelsea. He was a very effective player for Liverpool. Seems to be a bit of a loon though.

 

[KanieKaned]

Yeah he seemed to have a much better time at the pool or maybe it was just the fact he was much better than alot of the crap they had in that team.

Your right though looks like a proper mentalist anytime Ive seen him.

 

[jeff_goldblum]

In the season Roy bought him he was probably up there with Lucas as Liverpool's best player, I reckon Dalglish selling him was more to do with sweeping Roy's spell at the club under the carpet rather than for a legitimate footballing reason.

If Dalglish had made his decision on footballing grounds he'd have had decent cover for Lucas when he got injured last season instead of having to give Jordan bloody Henderson 31 starts in the league at CM. I suppose they got a decent price for him but then they spunked £4 million or so more than that on Henderson anyway.