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I'm done actually. I don't need to explain myself. you're making completely different point. I'll go before I forget my knowledge on managerial strategies. I respect your opinion.

if you'd have read my analysis, you would have known that Torres and Cole were the reason Oscar could score as they dragged defenders away. Incisive ball to the forwards is never our strategy. it's more to the midfielders rather than the forwards. Apart form that, how many more incisive balls have you seen like that? Torres's movement was much much more intelligent than you'd ever seen. The offsides where for what reason? Long balls from our own half. What are we? Stoke? Those are not incisive through balls. Mata was nowhere near playing the incisive ball. If he was, we would have scored so many goals, cause we had intelligent movement from strikers. Take Lukaku for example. He had a chance against Villa, where the through ball was for one of our midfielders. The fielder dropped it and Lukaku took a shot that hit the side netting. He was unlucky. Not all strikers are selfish. Team play is also required. You can be selfish when you're clean through. Not when you have to go past 3-4 defenders and there are better options. Against Stoke he had one good chance, which came down to Coutinho's dummy. He wasn't selfish till that point. Ba does nothing? Explain how he scored so many at Newcastle, and after moving to Chelsea his goals suddenly dropped? Simple , we look towards our midfielders for goals and our strikers only to drag defenders away. If we played the way Newcastle played, i.e. have Cabaye push forward and put in a through ball, or Gutierezz and Ben Arfa cutting inside and either taking a shot or putting in a through ball, we would be flourishing with goals.

He picked a side that would get the result. We all like goals, but not every game is about banging 5 to 6 goals into the net. Why give away a game plan before an important game? It's clever strategy. In Inter Milan, he always did that. Ended up winning the treble by playing a shit game before the Milan Derby.

The fantasy gods. They were after me last year, this time they've chosen you.

Lol, he was my vice-captain. Gave zaba the arm-band. Hopefully gets a goal or an assist.

Holy fuck. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/10264473/Chelsea-seal-deal-for-Samuel-Etoo-as-Jose-Mourinho-decides-to-wait-for-Manchester-Uniteds-Wayne-Rooney.html

Kevin can also play CM. He did that for Werder Bremen if I'm not wrong. He could be a backup for Lampard.or Lampard could be a backup to him.

Like the great Brian Clough and Peter Taylor said, when they signed a player, they told him on his face that if someone offers more than he is worth, he will be sold. They did this, and went on to win two European Cups with Nottingham, not the same era, but still.

There is nothing more true than this. I've told a lot of people. This is how football works. He'll play his best against United and then slowly go back to normal until the next big game.

32 and 5 left to play.

I've said that later on. If the right kind of money is thrown, we'll have no problem. There doesn't seem to be any problem as he meets the criteria. If still it's rejected, Roman just needs to pay a small money, and everything can be put under the bed.

We don't play the incisive ball through that Sturridge depends on. Why doesn't Torres have only one shot against Hull? Why did Ba not get a clear cut chance on goal? Simple reasons. Chelsea's transition from defense to attack involves strikers only linking up with the creative midfielders and creating space for others. Not going clean through on goal. Plus we can always talk about his selfishness with ball. That might be good for another team, but we'd like a striker that would pass.

Praising your opposition when they deserve it is called being a footballing fan. Not supporting the other team.

Sturridge would have been bad under our system. Good for him cause he went to a club where the style suits him.

Here's my scout report on Willian ! - http://www.sportskeeda.com/2013/08/24/scout-report-willian-borges-da-silva/

Good old bugs. I had a van Persie one last year. I was beyond delighted.

Don't think the court cares about talent. Comes down to eligibility, or money thrown. We shouldn't have a problem.

And specifically UK's - http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/rangers/193378-explained-uk-work-permit-rules-for-footballers/

Rules of work permits are explained here - http://www.internationalworkpermits.com/football-players-work-permits.html

Work permit if rejected, takes 3-5 days after appeal to be accepted. if this was Scotland, we would have Pat Nevin in the hearing, and he would have let us get one easily. :/

The holding position , that Ramires plays, requires someone who can (a) pass, ( be quick on his feet, © very very intelligent when pressurized and (d) able to visualize the pitch from how it is seen on in TV. Lampard is good. He can pass, has vision. But it's slowly dying. He has to be quick in making decisions and understanding. He's slowly loosing it. It's a team in transition. So who would you prefer in a very important role for the foreseeable future if you were Jose? You wouldn't want someone who is going to be given a bit part role to play in a role that needs to be learned properly for future success. Jose wants Ramires to learn that duty. In a few games, Jose might stick Mikel or Essien in and we can see a whole new Chelsea. Ramires is a terrific runner, no doubt. But now its no more about running. How many times have we seen the Brazilian just run at defenses and hope he doesn't have the air knocked out of him? It's movement. Clever movement. Lampard may not be able to understand other's movement, but he's perfectly managed his for years. That's the reason he always arrives late into the box and slams the ball in goal. Some habits never die. Chelsea pass around in the final third, wait for a hole to open up, make clever movement, and BOOM. We score. Oscar's goal and Hazard's. have so much similarity. all came down to one clever incisive pass, after series of exchanges.

The Belgians will like this, something I wrote for SoccerSouls. http://www.soccersouls.com/2013/08/the-belgium-force-in-the-premier-league-benteke-just-adds-credibility-to-it/

Haha it is !

haha no let Eva be.

Mourinho has already said that Mata won't be sold under any condition. Chelsea will add players, but some will go on loan. no selling your best players. what are we? Arsenal?