MrExcalibur100

Maybe they're messing with us now. NOTHING makes sense about this Lukaku business.

Fair enough. Nobody will buy him but we aren't forced to play him. What we were all expecting though was for Mourinho to create a situation were Torres is 3rd choice and is exiled from the group, like Ba was last season. Or even make him the 4th choice (with Costa, Lukaku and Didier ahead of him) and give him the Bogarde/Malouda treatment. We need to make him feel uncomfortable at the club after all his well documented failures. The yobs at the Bridge who still stupidly chant his name are just clueless. Now, if Lukaku goes, he has a chance to fight for 2nd spot against a clearly past it Drogba.

I also don't think he's stupid. What is the possible justification in 2014 for thinking that Torres and Drogba are "good enough"? There isn't. Torres is literally one of the worst strikers in the league and Drogba is 36. . At the end of the day, Jose will have to live or die by this particular decision as it could end up costing him his job. Right now, it makes no sense.

He also happens to be a homegrown player as well, a quota we're struggling to fill now. 32 goals in 66 PL games. 1 goal every 2 games and he's only 21. No player his age even comes close to that. Torres on the other hand has 21 goals in 110 PL games and is 30. Drogba at 36 was deemed not good enough for bloody Galatasaray.. Yep, makes sense to let him go. Just a few months ago, this same player said we're the "biggest club in England" "he wants to play here" "Chelsea have a good coach". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2646047/Romelu-Lukaku-insists-wants-stay-Chelsea-despite-uncertainty.html The question is what has gone wrong in the space of June to August? I'm not going to bash the player yet because it seems that Mourinho simply doesn't want him. Now, even if we want to sign a replacement, we are still left with the problem of Torres. Drogba also compounds that problem since he's not home-grown. P.S : I don't care about his so-called attitude. He's only 21 and that can be improved upon. Besides, different players have different personalities. It will be a massive failure on our part, akin to Man Utd selling Pogba to Juve or us selling Sturridge to Liverpool.

Even if Lukaku leaves, I still feel we have at least a good a squad, or even better a squad than Man City, but our attack once again is left depleted quality wise. Goalkeepers : Cech and Courtois is certainly better than Hart and Caballero. Defence : Filipe Luis, JT, Cahill and Azpilicueta + Ivanovic just might be the most solid back four in Europe. It edges out Kolarov, Kompany, Mangala and Zabaleta + Sagna. Mangala, while he may be a great athlete is prone to make mistakes and Kolarov is a good attacking LB but Luis is much more solid than him. Azpilicueta right now is probably slightly better than Pablo "I like to get f**ed by Hazard" Zabaleta. Midfield : Matic, Ramires, Fabregas, van Ginkel, Hazard, Oscar, Schurrle, Willian, Mikel and Romeu is just simply incredible, one of the top 3 best in Europe. It has every single quality you want in a midfield. It's better than Fernando, Fernandinho, Toure, Silva, Nasri, Milner, Navas and Garcia. It has more variety and quality than Man City's midfield. Attack (without Lukaku) : Costa, Torres and Drogba is simply not as impressive as Aguero, Dzeko, Negredo and Jovetic. Those 4 are much better than Torres and Drogba. A guy like Aguero if he stays fit this season is just as deadly as Luis Suarez in my opinion. Now, if this wasn't Costa's first season, it will be a different story. I don'y expect him to start many, many games his first season. He will need time to adapt to the pace and intensity of the league. We have better goalkeepers, defence and midfield than Man City but they are easily stronger in attack. And we saw last season with Liverpool how a superb strike-force can carry an above average team to greatness. We saw it with Man United in Fergie's last season there.

Regardless of how you slice it, striking options of Costa, mediocre Torres and 36 year old Drogba simply doesn't inspire confidence, regardless of our other signings this summer. If Lukaku is really going to be sold and we have no real contingency plans to bring in a quality striker to replace him, then I have to make Man City favourites to retain the league. I trust that our board are at least looking for a viable replacement. If not, none of it makes sense. Absolutely none of it.

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This is too cute to be true, lol

He did a LOT wrong. Gave it away anytime he touched it while pretending to be a good dribbler. It was his first game in pre-season, yes, but it's still the same rubbish we see from him.

Nothing "enigmatic" about him. He's horseshit. Pure, unadulterated cow dung.

Impressed because he's sharper than I expected for his first pre-season game. Ran the channels well and combined his pace and power to aplomb. His forte. Brutal, class finish too.

Torres doing a Torres, lol. Atletico/Monaco, save us from this guy :confused:

Just arrived from church and saw that. Sweet strike from Costa. Don't tell me some people were already complaining

The RAWK thread on Mourinho is truly sickening. They're obsessed by him, but what else do you expect from that gutter club. About Costa's Mourinho comments. I read a retraction on Marca.com with Costa basically saying he never said that and how Simeone is still his numero uno.

It's on the CFC youth twitter page. Reliable twitter.

Lol, I'm only quoting what he said. I doubt Didier got his inspiration from FM when he said that!

"As a senior member of the squad, I'd like you to tutor Romelu Lukaku as I feel you can help improve his game." ------ Drogba just said this. Hopefully, this is a hint that he knows something about Lukaku staying and Torres fucking off.

Welcome home, Didi. :heart:

1. And where did I say ISIS was founded in Iraq? I never said that which is what majority of your post is about. 2 And also telling the Christians there to either convert, pay tax or die (which is gotten from Qur'an 9:29) 3. You can't blame the West for the ideology of ISIS which was the point I was making, not the history of ISIS and how it was formed. 4. They do now.

You like the self-hating Jew that is probably receiving money on the side to demonize his own people? Right. Finkelstein? Think I don't know who he is? I listened to Finkelstein's bullshit for a while and got bored of it.He can't mask his blatant agenda. I also know some black people who are self-hating black people for example. I despise what they stand for. I despise what a man like Finkelstein stands for. You wanna believe the protocols of Zion is not a forgery , like the Nazi's, skinheads, Neo-Nazi's, white nationalists, KKK, self-hating Jew's believe, then you just enjoy yourself.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100265697/will-muslim-fanatics-ever-tire-of-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion/ Yep, let's justify Jew hatred by recommending a FORGERY written by Mathieu Golovinski, a Russian antisemite who worked for the incredibly antisemitic Okhrana, well known for organizing pogroms (Jewish lynchings!) If this is the type of NONSENSE that is promoted in the middle-east, then I'm quite frankly, disgusted. Why not recommend to her Mein Kampf while you're at it? Or this instead: PATHETIC and disappointing, though I'm not surprised.

WOW, WOW, WOW. Are you aware this book is a WELL known forgery written by Russian antisemites in order to justify pogroms in Europe? Hitler used this FORGERY to justify his Jew hatred and then eventually to justify the Holocaust. The fact that you even suggest this book to Barbara is unbelievable. Wow, wow, wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion Is there any sane, respected scholar that says this book wasn't a forgery? It's scary you think that's legitimate, mate. Seriously.

Look at this video. This is what Hamas is doing to children!!! Even the Nazi's never used such evil and wicked techniques to brainwash their youth. How can anyone blame Jewish Rabbis for this insanity? Oh, please. It's time we get real and confront the real issues. It's easy to bash Israel and the "Zionists" but they are only protecting their citizens from gaza rockets that have one purpose, to kill. Just this year alone, they've fired thousands of rockets into civilian areas in Israel. It's only through Israel's Iron Dome that they are able to protect themselves from this.. Firing rockets into enemy territory is a declaration of war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2014 Imagine this scenario. Mexico shares borders with the United States. Now, imagine Mexico firing enemy rockets into the US to kill civilians, into Texas and California for example. The president will send military troops to Mexico and the entire country will be leveled to the ground in a few weeks. No country will put up with that bullshit.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To Mohamed. And what is the name of the Ideology that causes Hamas to say in their charter that they want to obliterate Israel? Or are all Israel "Zionists"? Why do we hear in the marches "death to Israel", "death to America"? Or Arab leaders saying "Zionists are descendants of apes and pigs"? This has nothing to do with anti-Zionism but it's pure antisemitism. There is NOTHING wrong with being proud of your homeland or culture which is what Zionism means. Jewish Rabbis? LOL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#Religious_Zionism But unfortunately, anti- Zionism is now the new antisemetism and Jew hatred.

Wow, just WOW. Most of the "information" on the thread is from people that have vested interest to this. You can't separate the religious aspect from what is happening in Gaza. There is both religious and political aspect and the former outweighs the latter. Iisten to the Arabic and what Hamas leaders are saying not any "information" from football forums. Now, you can choose to live in la la land and bury your head in the sand, that's fine. Enjoy yourself.