Neira

i hope our fax machine is broken

Yep. Still very averyage, despite being named MOTM, despite nice goal and beautiful assist. Average. (pun intended).

Great, he should moon him as well

What he lacked at chelsea, was a high enough price tag, which resulted in zero credit.

What he lacked at chelsea, was a high enough price tag, which resulted in zero credit.

What he lacked at chelsea, was a high enough price tag, which resulted in zero credit.

i read her a lot stuff like : Chelsea and KDB were just no match...no problem.
that is wrong.
KDB can play in every team in the world off course. The only thing that went wrong is that Mourinho did not analyse KDB before they met on first training.
It is just a few hours work and he would have seen that he is a special player and give him the trust that Hazard got for example. Hazard NEVER had to fight for his spot while KDB is better!
He did not devellop at Wolfsburg he was already the same player 2 years ago that he is now. Played with the same dominance at the NT and Bremen
Mou and only Mou made a huge mistake here.

People here who said he'd flop at City or show that "he won't be able to handle playing for a top side" will look mighty stupid come the end of the season. I think he'll have a fantastic season, unfortunately for us.
Worse than selling Mata to United, worse than selling Cech to Arsenal, just about as bad as United letting Pogba go. Watching him develop into what he is now and magnifying the mistake of letting him go by seeing him play for our rival really fucking sucks.
Truly the one that got away. Just think about how they'll look when Silva, Agüero, Sterling, and he all click and grow together. Fuck.

If KDB would win the POY award in the PL next season, I think every Chelsea fan here will say he's just average, or that he plays decent .
He created 5 chances against a very strong Crystal Palace, fact. He gave a few insane world class passes, fact. He has put Navas alone in front of the goalkeeper with a superb pass, fact. And he did that after just 2 days of training in City. Still people here call that 'average' or 'okay but nothing more' or 'decent'. Lmao

I wonder if people are still keeping up this BS story about him being a coward for not fighting for his place. Diego Costa was awful on Saturday and majority of games this season, bar WBA, has not been in form. Yet, he is still picked and Falcao who was awful last season is constantly called on to come on as a sub while Remy has not featured in any of our league games, who done a lot for us in his limited chances last season. Shocking the way Remy is treated. If there is any player who has fought for his place, decided to knuckle down and wait for his opportunity, it is Remy but he is totally ignored and it shows Lukaku was right to leave. Merit does not get you minutes, it is your reputation. That is why Falcao is favoured over Remy.
So can people put to bed this utterly ridiculous story that he could have stayed and fought for his place instead of leaving. Costa can perform as bad as he has done in the next few games and still will keep his place. But, yeah, Lukaku should be prepared to be content with this

It is also quite the hoax KDB doesn't press or doesn't run. People who say that are bandwaggoning and haven't seen him that much. He runs most at the NT by far and did the same in the belgian league and in the Bundesliga. Year after year after year. I fear his supposed lack of defensive work isn't what did him here at all. He wanted to be a regular without proving himself. Whole different thing and we blues tend to confuse the two due to media and ...

Because he's clueless ... I just said it! ;-)
No, we just have to deal with the fact that about 90% of us Chelsea fans and maybe 70% of English football watchers in general, will eternally regard KDB as an overrated, unprofessional, self-centered, lazy excuse for a footballer because they were indoctrinated by our beloved manager Mourinho, who never gives chances to cheap new players anyway (Cuadrado, Salah, De Bruyne, the list is endless) but needed particulary good excuses for dismissing De Bruyne who was already regarded internationally as a hot prospect when at Chelsea.
Anyone, however, who's actually seen De Bruyne play on a regular basis, for Genk, for Werder Bremen, for Belgium, for Wolfsburg, knows that he is a consistent world-class player. But seeing how none of these teams are English, Chelsea & PL fans in general see no reason to change "their" mind, which is actually Mourinho's mind, or not even Mourinho's mind but just what he said in order to have a proper excuse.
And that, my friends, is the one and only truth on De Bruyne vs The English Public.
So I really hope the City deal will come through and he'll become a PL legend, even if it means he'll have to score and assist twice as much as anyone else in order to convince the stubborn herd of Mourinho sheep.

So they're going to buy the most expensive player in both the premier league and Bundesliga and put him on the bench, despite him having played fenomenaly last years, both with Bremen, Wolfsburg and Belgium. And you know this because...?

Ow, give it a rest Johnny. I know it's cool for a Belgian to downtalk a Belgian player because it makes you seem like your opinion can be trusted, but it's becoming a bit silly.
Player Of The Year award
17 goals in all competitions
29 assists in all competitions
Kevin De Bruyne will be worth every single penny. Already is.
As much as I adore Hazard and his skills, he can only dream of Kevin's stats and efficiency.
Mourinho didn't like him and let him go, there's nothing more to it. Sometimes club & player don't match. But please stop this nonsense about KDB not being good enough. Consistently one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.

Pardon me, I never said Mou should justify all his choices. Nor did I say he needs to run behind players before/after every game to tell them why they were/weren't picked in the team => absolutely NOT!
My whole point is... there is a moment where you feel this is getting a real problem. And this is not after 2 days, a week or even 2 weeks. But if you see after a month, 2 months or more... that things are not working well because such a stupid non event, management should take action! IMO this was the case with KDB.
And this is not even Mou's fault, the whole management team failed IMO in the KDB case and is to blame.
You can then say... well it's KDB's loss. Mou is the boss., he's a loser. Too bad for him because he could've been playing for our great team.
But in this case this little boy just became one of Europe's best players just after he left Cobham.
So yeah, in the KDB story... this is OUR loss! We f** had one of the best AM of the world in our squad and lost him because of 'bad communication' and stubbornness of our management team.
Be honest for a second... If KDB wouldn't have been a chelsea player, the transfer talk section would be full of: "this is the player we need, get him for 50million, 70 million, etc.".
This is always our loss!!

Wolfsburgh finished second just by playing counter attack? What a load of cr** you read on these forums. Wonder what he has to do, for Mourinho and his admirerers to realize they were so wrong.

Lot's of Mou ass licking in this one. He's right and KDB was wrong, period. Well, Mou is still at the club so that explains it a little. Arguments are laughable. The best thing Kevin can do now is return to another PL side and score a decisive winner against the blues before lifting the trophy. Revenge will be sweet.

He was at fault in the first goal, when he let Muller free to score.
He was at fault in the 4th and 5th goal he wasn't even inside the box, only Dante was there.
He was at fault in Schurle last goal, when he was running in the midfield, someone else lost the ball, and then there was no CB at all inside the box to cover the GK. During most part of the game he was playing like a maniac midfield.
Also, he was the captain, and he failed to keep the team under control. Scolari is the responsible for what happened last night, but Luiz was a disaster.

Maybe now people can stop being delusional about David. He is a very special man, I really love the guy, he is the kind of man that makes football more human, more attractive, but we should stop being unrealistic. He is NOT a good freekick taker, he is an inconsistent defender and getting 50m pounds for him is a huge, huge success for Chelsea.

Zidane on Hazard: "I told myself – this player is different." "He helps others to play, for me that is his strength. He is intelligent when he plays the game."
"He is a player with enormous personality on the pitch. He gives you pleasure. What he does at his age impresses me."

People seem so assured that after his loan spell at Everton ends, naturally he'll come back and push for a starting spot....I guess my question is, if the club weren't willing to commit to giving him an opportunity this season then what exactly is going to change in the 10 or so months of his loan spell?
I pretty much agree that this loan at Everton is a fantastic one for Lukaku - it's the ideal loan for any young and inexperienced football player. But is it something that we're going to benefit from in the future? I highly doubt it. If anything, it's only going to be more difficult for Lukaku, when he returns, than it would have been for him this season particularly if the club goes out and signs a top striker. Even if we offload Torres or Ba, the best Lukaku will be hoping for is to be 2nd choice, and if that's the plan for him then we're back to the same question - why couldn't he have been 2nd choice this season?
I think what frustrates me with this topic is that, again and again people seem to operate from this idea that if a youngster does x, y & z then naturally he'll get his chance here. No. There's nothing Lukaku could realistically do that would prove his readiness to the club. It has very little to do with him and everything to do with the mentality and practice in this club of being overly cautious and reluctant to give good enough chances to young, unproven players. That's the elephant in the room people keep ignoring. It's the same mentality that resulted in the club squandering 50 million on a striker we didn't need at the time rather than simply sticking by Sturridge and giving him a chance; it's same mentality that lead the club to throw away 30 mil on another attacking mid we didn't need instead of giving a chance to Kevin particularly after a very successful loan spell and it's the same mentality that caused the club to believe that they would be better served to retrieve a 32 yr, former top striker from his football exile in Russia rather than just simply giving a chance to Lukaku.....there's a pattern here, yet people are still carrying on with the narrative of "this will only benefit us in the long term". Uh huh....sure it will.
...and the irony of it all is that in each of those examples, the club turned their backs on sticking by a young player and picked the "safer" route only for that to be an even bigger gamble with greater financial risks in the end.

Brought in to kill time, added value for kevin=0,000000005

Kevin De Bruyne is one of the best technical players I've ever seen, besides Hazard. But De Bruyne has flair which is what Hazard lacks.
I hope we mold him into the calm game, someone like him would thrive a lot more at United where the play is more direct. De Bruyne is brilliant when he has space, but we can adapt him to be even better in the future. I think he should be getting more games.
Beginning of the season I liked watching him on the right side, he seemed to always come in handy there, not sure why he hasn't been playing more. Even if he isn't starting he should be playing a majority of our games even if it's for about 20-30 minutes.

Yeah sucks I mean he shouldn't be hyped for being Belgium's best player in WC qualifying.
At this point I'd love to see him sold because his talents are being wasted.
What's even worse he's being attacked because his form isn't top notch despite playing once every 8 games.
It's freakin mental how people think infallible Mou is despite his complete mismanagement of the striker position and Lukaku.
Like I've said let's see where Chelsea is 3 years from now.