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We need a stiker to compilment our attacking trio...that is the last puzzle...i was even hoping yesterday for schurrle to come instead of eto!! and hope somebody explains to mikel and ramires that they cant shoot from 30 yards out ....just not made for it!! In mourinho we trust......

u guys still are...or why would you trouble top 4 team fans with your opinions ?!!!

well we seem to be on a different level everytime we play a big team....all our woes are with small teams!!!! I am confident of monday...if their full backs think even for a min to go fwrd too much we will score...our back three is that good... as for our stiker...something to distract kompany hope mikel doesnt start... would salah be available for the match? :blue scalf:

Just felt kinda sick everytime somebody started going for a long shot especially mikel and matic!! ramires had a night to forget...what was he thinking everytime he wanted to cross?!! just angry that an a$$hole like sam took 2 points off us... maybe serves as an extra boost to mancity match!!

why is everyone speaking of resting players for mancity match? thats 5 days away.... I suggest the best team possible ... hopefully 2-0 by halftime(and maybe 4-0 by full time ) go chelsea...... :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

my point wasnt hazard or oscar cant do brilliant passes or hasnt done enough!!....just the lack of many such passes maybe down to the confidence they have for our strikers... hazad is a brilliant passer just as much he can beat defenders at the drop of a shoulder....stingray , i was comparing with mata from last season just was trying to say if we had drogs then things might be a little different... we now see players trying to release hazard or the other attacking mid more often and not the striker imo..

i understand what u trying to say...no BRILLIANT passes.... just like to quote what mata said around last season mid "... with drogba we knew all we had to do was pass...." u think anybody in our team has that much confidence on our strikers...mourinho " our strikers work hard for the team that's all i can ask from them" .... how many 'brilliant' passes have you seen from hazard ? and friend am not just an oscar fanboy.... i am a chelsea fanboy ... i kinda like defending all the players wearing blue ... its a sickness

You joking right!! mata is world class agreed but that doesnt mean oscar isnt too!! I keep hearing oscar cant pass and dribble....You need to remember .....last season oscar had quite a few brilliant dribbles but now the team style has changed With RDM the front 4 had no contact with back 4(it was always 4-1-4.)..they worked as 2 units now u see a team defending with 4-5-1 and attacking with 4-1-5 ...imagine how difficult that is.... Mata did try and he wasnt that bad but he got outmuscled quite a few times and he doesnt know how to tackle..... Oscar challenges for the ball and creates opportunities(infact i remember 2 great crosses beofre the freekick in last match that would have been scored by a better striker!!)...yes sometimes his passes are not that great but did you see the reaction of stoke everytime he got the ball....to instill that kind of panic mode is gift from god...remember watching lampard at his best.... and for god sake he is 22!!! and like ramires with better passing and finishing....was that a dig or a compliment?!!-apparently a player with excellent technical ability and with great finishing and pace and with added gifts of good passing and skills not good enough!!! We all loved mata but get over it...oscar is just as important as hazard to this team

hmm..gonna miss this player...still remember him in his first season along with lamps n makalele....his goal against arsenal...his goal against barca... The Great Bison of Chelsea departs for one last challenge.. goodbye...u will never be forgotten................... :tophat:

wow imagining win next three matches and arsenal ,mancity dropping points tomorrow and liverpool draws.. perfect :blue scalf: :blue scalf: should play lamps and mikel and give full rest for ramires and matic for mancity match eto should start....atleast that will be consistent!!

somebody was telling me how piatti is going to be the next big thing after wc....left footed , quick and versatile...chelsea should have brought him instead of salah n blah blah... tought somebody here will have a good idea about him...think hes playing in valencia

how good is pablo piatti?

Hmmm.... its pretty sure the end of marin and moses(cant believe we still wondering about marin!!)....but i dont think atsu will return next season...so the only new one is piazon but i feel he needs to play a season out in a lesser team in a better league...but piazon,atsu,traore all may go back to vitesse if they qualify for champions league(looks almost certain..!!) the player who needs to be most alarmed will be schurrle...oscar,hazard n william are main back 3 but salah is a player with extreme pace with the ball and seems like he already has loads of practise playing defensively and then quick counter..... dont know much about his crossing skills but seems to have a great eye in getting behind defense ...will do well to stretch the defense lines making it easier for hazard !! A gr8 buy for 11m .. Welcome to Chelsea #SALAH15 :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

is it just me or the feeling of we scoring and then the game is done and dusted is back.... :blue scalf: its not so back ago i used to hold my breath everytime somebody in the opposition got the ball in our half but today we looked more and more like a mourinho team!! matic was calm and doing positive passing and was reading the game pretty well....imagine him with ramires in the pivot oscar and hazard was good ...and what a free kick!! with a striker we might be truly back to our best in all sense

hearing rumours of zouma agreeing transfer to chelsea...no concrete proof though... Definite outs comin summer-marin,moses,lampard,cole,ba,eto,torres ins-cavani,lukaku,piazon,traore,pva,courtois,zouma,romelu,omeru,atsu i know its a bit extreme but could be possible.... i want to mention luiz but heart is still aching from imagining mata in red....if he does leave i think it will be for barcelona What are your views fellow blues?.. btw... Wishing a very HAPPY b'day to THE SPECIAL ONE..

nobody is dening that mata is the most creative mastermind chelsea had since zola...... all chelsea fans knows this .... but he is also prone to being dispossed easily(especially when a physical player starts following him around) and his tracking back was mediocre and defending bad....but nobody expected him to do any of that last season or the one before that....infact same problems can be said of hazard.... but have you seen the change in hazard !!!....i think mata was inproving too and he should have tried till the end of season (but to everyman his own opinion right..) But oscar despite a few handful stupid decision making upfront in the final third has been absolute brilliant for us... maybe you didnt notice but he choked the liverpool midfield along with ramires and they started resorting to building from the sides.... and his passes are not that bad..its just he gets a little selfish ocassionaly when hes infront of goal...but that is down to maturity level..and my friend he is only 22 years old.... he maynot be a zola or mata but he could be something new and waybetter(remember makalele..a position was created by him!!).... and as for his passing...check out some of the games for brazil .....there are some quality ones..but i guess he likes those simple and smart ones more only hazard will be played instead of him at that position and its only if hes injured or being rested....

could play upfront but imo i think you are right.......

A rumour of hulk has surfaced...any clue on this?!!

!!! With all due respect mata is a barca type player...gr8 passes and vision...willian is pace and direct running and skill....different things willian seemed mediocre initially but once he started jelling all could see why he is important to the team and its method of play... So in all respect willian has been a great buy and we got a bonus when we screwed over hotpuss.... And now salah is completely different from mata and in no way a replacement for mata...neither in quality or in ideology.... he is bringing a completly different dimension to chelsea.... more of a winger and shit fast and high work rate... only players that is like him are schurrle and hazard.... Now mata did not loose his spot to willian or hazard....but to oscar... trust me when i say this, oscar may not be putting in defense splitting passes one expects him to but he is one of the main reasons why the opposition cant breathe peacefully for a second let alone pass from the middle of the pitch...and going forward he is way quicker than mata... as for workrate mata was steadily improving...but that wasnt what restricted his game time....it was his pace... Now whatever you say kindly be cautious in calling THE MOURINHO "an idiot" ...remember even manupilating wizard asshole fegie has failed with him at mind games!! Mourinho always wanted a left footed pacey winger(which he would never get from mata) ......the left side of chelsea trident is being competed by hazard and schurrle(poor schurrle!!).....the right has surprisingly very few takers...only ramires,willian and salah (but ramires is preferred at cm) and the center spot is for oscar ,can be argued that hazard and willian could also fit there, but i see only willian playing there instead of oscar.......... Now for the different dimension to the team .....imagine as attacking 4-3-3... hazard-eto/torres-salah oscar-matic-ramires(oscar and ramires playing box to box) cole/azpi-terry-cahill/luiz-azpi/ivanovic cech before matic and salah this wouldnt have been possible now most important deduction(by me ofcourse!!) is that salah is brought in to bring out the best in hazard....anybody watching games regularly would have seen atleast 2 players if not more tracking hazard....infact manu had shifted their whole defensive structure to our left side to choke him(to an extent successful) but now with a pacey left footed right winger on the other end.. if they or any body try doing that again they will be truly screwed....now this will stretch the defense line and also pull in one fo their central players and giving more space to our central players!! To check my theory just watch bayern munich play ... So in opinion my friend, Jose mourinho "THE SPECIAL HAPPY ONE!!" has just pulled a fast one over all of us and other managers...remember he is the same man who was so damn certain that there will be no change in squad till summer!!! btw i feel with you on mata...whatever tactical decision it may have been mata is an out of the world player and it sucks that he might be a manure player by next week..but friend he hasnt yet....(never expect the expected with mourinho!!)

One of the greatest players to wear a chelsea shirt...quite often many chelsea fans close their eyes and relive your 2 corners that created history ...i still remember your free kick against manu @ home.... remember the determination in your eyes after that goal... inspiring a comeback(thwarted only by d refree!!) You are my next favourite player after the blue veterans(cech-terry-lamps-drogs).....always hoped u will be one yourself.. But despite my sendiments you deserve more as an individual and fully support you in your next step, hadnt it been manshit....it makes this whole thing hard to digest...a sickening feeling.... In jose and club policy we always trusted ,even in the most confusing decisions ..like sacking jose & ancellotti... appointing benitez....and now in selling mata to united... I just hope that he was going to barca or madrid or psg...more confusingily i hoped he would request somewhere there and not in epl with manureshits... even now i am not convinced this might happen...(keeping fingers crossed) In case of the worst...adieu to one of the creative geniuses of our time who has found his way to the hearts and greatest stories of chelsea fans ...infact being the architect of all those stories be it champions league final....europa final or fa cup... and more importantly .....all this in less than 3 years.. :tophat:

thats a serious point...mourinho like to build around the midfield and create a spine to go with it(porto,chelsea,inter)... but @ real madrid it was different...despite alonso , ozil etc the team was created around cr7 but he also brought the best out of him(better than his manure days) But he also like to have a main player....one he knows will come thru somehow porto-deco chelsea-lamps inter-sneider real-cr7 and right now he has the perfect ingredients for a new winning machine Matic,ramires,mvg,romelu are all very positive players as well as good at tackles and high work rate mikel is the supersub to shut up shop...... Hazard is the main chelsea player but to be frank oscar fits the bill of mourinho's usual main man I just hope he can put mata in there and not lose him...but i dont want him to be another kaka

how about piazon and the new signing we send to vitesse(traore i think.)....piazon is turning quite a few heads over there...infact ppl are crying about the unfairness done to their league bcz of a player on loan!!! that must mean something and he looks like a mourinho player...

for all who needs something to laugh about.... Goal expect manu to buy mata this window for 37 mils things ppl do to sell paper!! (apparently we only need 11 players for rest of the season...and nobody to rotate with front 3 once midweek matches start!!)

zouma i suppose... can anybody tell me if i am wrong and if so why- bony a good striker that will fit well in chelsea?

Btw who was eto talking to in the first celebration? n why didn't rafael get a red card for that lunge?