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1 year now without huge controversy, hooray!!! and his form been great too this season, just hope it is the same next season.

Dude we don't have/won't have perfect players in every single position. The rest of the team will be more than world class, that 2nd CDM role for Ramires and VGK is alright. Luiz might do well in some big games but in general he has been very inconsistent and that means 30m+ is quite overpriced for these luxury players.

Oscar is Brazilian I get it, you love all Brazilian players at Chelsea but as a club we always look to make best decisions for the club, sometime it means selling fan favorite players. Who said we would need 15-20m for a backup? Just need to sign Reus/Gritzemann to replace Oscar and boom, Oscar+£30-40m for 2 top world class players.

In a game against Atletico he would likely be a passage anyway, intensity would be too high for him to handle so don't think we will miss him

Or Dave or eventually Matic. I can only see either of those 3. If Hazard was a bit more mature I would consider him too but he consistently do nothing great to remove speculations about him so he won't ever become captain here.

Load of back up mid over Europe that are decent back up for around 5-10m. Look at teams like Valencia, Sevilla...etc for those players. Matic+Ramires 1st choice with VK and maybe Frank as back up, more than enough. Then there is Mikel too(but think he will be sold)

Cech Dave Terry Cahill Cole Luiz Matic Salah Willian Schurrle Eto'o/Ba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjnbjKY82fc lost 2-1 at home to Basel despite having full strength team and they just lost 5-0 at Valencia yesterday in this same season. The point is that is the most pointless video ever.

LOL at people writing essay style posts on non-important issue. He wants to play so let him, are we that coward we want the easy way out? If Madrid had CR7, Bale and Ramos out of final of CL for example I would be disappointed if we play them and win, there will always be people question us and say that we wouldn't have won if,,,etc. I want it to be like 2012 CL final where we had like 5 1st team players out and still win, that victory will be remembered for years to come as one of the greatest upset in CL history. Courtois deserves to play and we shouldn't do anything against that, more like focusing on how to beat them rather than the advantages we might have if they have players out.

It doesn't work that way dude, Asier had a clause and Madrid had to pay it otherwise they wouldn't sell. No one would pay 40-50m for Luiz maybe even 35m. PSG, Barca are the only 2 clubs interested and 1 got a transfer ban until 2015. Who said we are selling Cech...etc and those players you listed would get us probably 20m-25m max.

Modric for Oscar alone and we would be ripping them off. Modric is worth £10-15m more than Oscar atm, he is also probably the best CM in the world. We could always sign Gritzemann and move Willian to the middle.

OK he been shit this season but not that bad yet haha. More like a trade+£20m for Witsel

Just got home noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo we got the best team in the competition would have wanted the other 2 but ah well, hope we can manage a draw in 1st leg and just edge it in the 2nd.

AH yeah if you look at it that way I guess but tbf we had the chance to sign strikers last summer but rejected it. But lets hope we make the most of the last period the season and be truly successful

At the end of the day like I said if he wants to go and we get offered over £100m he can go, actually that applies to anyone in our team. If they are really good(Oscar, Hazard...etc) and crazy teams like PSG want them they need to pay over the odd and the players demand to leave, they can go. We are big enough to attract players of similar calibers, just because Hazard goes doesn't mean we will regress, we will replace him with Gritzemann or Reus or whoever. What is the point of worrying about rumors? If he goes we will replace him because no one is bigger than the club. But as it already been show, it is most likely invented and he is atm happy here. This also applies to Luiz and co. So don't worry about any rumors regarding our players, it is very unlikely to happen and if it does, the club/Jose will always make sure we are in a win-win situation always like he done in the past with Ibra at Inter.

Where did I mention anything about yesterday result, it was a miracle and should be celebrated! I just said Jose reached 5 semi, Pep also done the same and people start to get mad. Funny yesterday I said I think Simione is currently the best manager in the world no one argues. Transition=buying the players you want to fit your system and selling the ones you don't need I understand that, but why Jose deserves transition? the days of us relying on the manager is over, that is why we have football director in place so when the manager goes, new one can slot in straight away. 'few dismal seasons' HAHAA at this club? Dude we are not Spurs or Arsenal, we don't have 'a few dismal season'. What is the point of buying the likes of Matic, Willian, Hazard just to make progress eventually? They are bought to help us compete at the highest level which means consistently reaching semi of CL at least. Naaa I am happy too if it is just this season trophy less and the team show great progress but we can have ambitions and expectations. We can't just lower it just to help whoever the manager is to avoid criticism. If it was Pep, Ancelotti here now I would be saying the same. This team's minimum expectations are challenging for title until the very end and reaching later stages of CL, Jose so far done OK with fulfilling it but nothing ground breaking yet like his Inter or us in 05.

For me he has regressed this year. Yesterday as soon as he gone off Bayern actually started to play really well too. Sure he is still a great player but his influence is no where near the same as at Dortmund. 11AM UK time so mid-day most of country in Europe.

^^^ Knew it, anything, anything at all slightly negative about Jose= glory hunter, troll and abuse or 'insert insulting, hating word here'. Just typical really haha, he is really God on here isn't he. Go on, justify that this season is a success if we don't anything, I mean we got to semi of CL right? We come close right? And if we finish 3rd again we would also make progress in the league because we 'briefly' lead the table at some point, that is success too isn't it?

Not drop, rest until he is fully fit again Naaa you misunderstood me dude all I am saying is that Oscar can rest as much as he likes until he feel he is truly 100% again, but we won't struggle without him thanks to the other players we got

What? It is a fact. Jose is a great tactician and manager like many have already said but no need to exaggerate unimportant facts to make him seem even more legendary. Then now if we don't win anything this season people will start to point toward these things to back up their claims that we didn't fail this season.

Pep also technically made it 5 semi now in his 5 seasons, obviously not consecutively because of his break but essentially same as Jose. Nothing to be celebrated about, wait until we win the CL then we can talk about it.

Remember the time when this guy was actually good and undroppable? Now he is more of a liability than help

Doesn't matter by then he can rest until November if he wants, we will have Costa scoring all the goals for us with Salah stepping up massively. He won't be severely missed as he would have been.

Hopefully 1 day becomes Chelsea captain, yes HE IS THAT GOOD and great model for young players even though he is young himself. Either him or Cahill eventually imo

Yes that is why I came to this conclusion, he proved that he isn't some one hit wonder manager and actually show his talent through his team's progress