Chelsea Ladies FC

I think it is the team of the future with so many England youth players and also former Arsenal academy players :
Collie, Perry, Susi, White.
At the moment it is a good counter attacking team, all they need is more maturity is the possesion game and next season , they will be a force to be reckoned with.

Chelsea have made good progress this season. They survived the playoffs in 2005-6 after winning just one home game all season. They were lucky to pick up players from the collapse of Fulham Ladies F C and made a great start this time. I agree that they have good players - to your list I would add my favourites Kyp Loizou and Kylie Davies . Having said that, they have disappointed me in the last 4 games I have seen, at home to Blackburn, Sunderland, Arsenal and Everton were they picked up 1 point out of 12. What is also good is that their U-16 ACADEMY won their league so lots of promise for the future. They will surely be a force in the league and cups for a while with the backing f the mens club

I like Kylie as well, she is intelligent and classy, reads the game well and a good passer. I definitely think they need a proper central midfielder/playmaker with the ability to hit long/short passes and go past players and lead the tempo.

Absolutely, against both Sunderland and Blackburn they ran out of ideas against limited opposition and could not break down an the defense with a killer pass. With the pace of their forwards they need to draw the away team out of defence. A player like Fara Williams would be the ideal or , more realistically, a fringe player at Arsenal or Charlton with those qualities...

Following the new signing made by Chelsea they will have a very strong side next season.They could play the following team

Collie
Delves-Stoney-Davies-Perry
Larkin-Cooper - Buet- Rafferty
White -Aluko
Subs :Clarke Susi Edwards McKeag Gurr Downham Loizou

Exciting times for Chelsea, that looks an impressive team and strong bench. They faded badly at the end of last season but this group looks capable of a top three finish. I had heard that Nina Downham had left Chelsea, hope that is not true.

There will be a very interesting friendly on the 19th of July between Chelsea and Olympique Lyonnais who ar the French Champions and have recruited 3 French international players recently as they are willing to copy the Arsenal way.

Oooh! Exciting! I'd love to see that game!

I keep thinking what an ecellent addition Aluko is to the side for them. She ought to do very well with her pace and strength at Chelsea. I'm sure the likes of Arsenal and Everton must have had some interest in her surely?

A player of her caliber in my view deserves to be competing at the very top level.

I am not sure Arsenal was interested in her as when we recruited Chapman, Vic Akers said that the only Charlton players he would have taken was Katie.
Also she does not really fit with the Arsenal way of playing while she is perfect for the counter attacking style develloped at Chelsea and Charlton before.

To add to that: Eni wouldn't go to Everton as she studies near London
And I wouldn't want her in Arsenal, we've got better forwards than her

I did not want to say it but you did

I'm sure she'll be a good addition to the growing-strong Chelsea FC though,
who might become our biggest rivals in no time

Thats fair enough. At this stage i trust your judgment regarding top flight womens football completely.

Maybe i am over hyping her a little, it's just on the occasions i have seen her play she has impressed me greatly.

She can blow hot and cold, was quite impressive at the Euro 2005,
and she's a good and fast finisher, but sometimes she could try a bit harder imo

For me she is too much a direct player and does not enough strings to her bow.

i don't understand why people don't rate eni, she's obviously the fastest forward in the league, skillful and what's wrong with being direct. In my opinion she's better than Julie who when I watched the UEFA final clearly lacked pace.

What a forward is doing on the pitch, depends a lot on the service she gets.
There are forwards out there who try to create something themselves
when the service is not so good though,
or when they've got other great strikers in the team
who try and score themselves.
That is Julie Fleeting - you can tell by watching her when she plays for Scotland:
she's a forward, winger, midfielder and defender there, when needed.

Other forwards just wait near the box for the ball to be passed at their feet
- what's the use of being fast when it's all you got?

Eni was a really promising young player when I saw her at the Euro 2005.
She's been nothing like that ever since though.
That's just my opinion, feel free to disagree

Obviously Julie is slower than Eni but she has a higher rate of conversion for shot/goals and is a more complete player. Pace is very important in today's football I agree, but Eni offers a lot less tactical options than Julie.

do you think if Juilie was in the US team she would do all that. With all respect to Scotland, Julie is there best player so she has to do everything. I'm sure if Eni were up against the Arsenal defence she would give them a harder time than Julie, but fair enough Juilie is still a great player, but what sickens me is when people say Natasha Dowie is better than Eni now that is just a joke, the girl is just a boxer on the pitch hence not many teams wanting to sign her