Ollie

Courtois is hoping rather than expecting. He just wants to play because he knows he has no chance being the Number 1 here for about 10 years, poor lad. He should keep his opinions to himself and not leak out these stories.

Why put him in the UCL squad ahead of other players if he's not even gonna play against Genk at home, a virtual automatic win? He aint played for ages, there's no rational explanation for him not being in that team.

He's getting better with age and he's so safe, gives the defence so much confidence. Every GK will and has made mistakes but a Cech mistake is very few and far between. Mr. Reliable. Has everything a GK needs, he's the perfect GK imo.

He will be our first choice holding midfielder for 10 years and i'm so glad we've finally found the perfect one. What a player he is, seen him twice and already love him. He's cool, calm, strong, quick, big, tall, BEAST!

In all seriousness ONLY Torres could be awarded this but Meireles and Romeu were very good. Romeu has one hell of a future, fantastic player.

one of five world-class forwards at Chelsea, alongside Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka, Salomon Kalou and Daniel Sturridge. Excuse me? Anyway on topic, Torres is back to his best for sure but he needs to turn one's and two's into two's and three's but his performance against Genk was truly world class and one full of confidence. It's brilliant to see the real Nando in our colours.

Ok so he may be right but he's one of the most hated guys on the planet because he's a dirty little thug so he can't say much. I admit i do quite like him but he does lots of wrongness also. Far from an angel this fucker.

Shocking not to play Josh against that pathetic Genk team, if ever there's a game for him, it's that on. Shameful decision imo.

In all seriousness it'll either be the Abramovic Stadium, the Samsung Stadium / Arena or the Adidas Arena. It'll probably end up being a mega company and may even see us leaving samsung for a bigger richer company like a Russian Oil based one or something.

Before the game i was happy with a draw, give me it and i'll take it but now after the match i'm so frustrated and annoyed because we deserved so much more. They were slightly better in the first half but didn't really look like scoring and i thought we were in decent control albeit a bit open. Second half we were brilliant, their goalkeeper turned into the best goalkeeper ever for 20 minutes but we got a great goal and we had to win the game. Whyu bring Kalou on.... i mean for FUCK SAKE!! WHY! he's so shit, he's completely ruined all the effort the boys by being an absolute cunt again, liability is such an understatement, i hope he's nailed himself with this real 'impact sub' cameo. Full credit to Valencia, they don't really have any superstars but they have some nice technical players and i wish em well both in the UCL and La Primera Liga but we really shoulda wrapped this game up 2 or 3-0 in that spell we had. Torres is like the unluckiest striker in our history, Ramires and Anelka (late) really had to have scored but messed up 2 easy 1 on 1's by firing it straight at the keeper and it just wouldn't go in. Their keeper was exceptional though i must say. All in all, great performance, very frustrating not to win but we should do the double over Genk and get through safely. Just wish we weren't so open at times however.

Was so happy the way we played yesterday, albeit kind of open at times, it's exciting and we are actually cutting through teams like a knife through butter which we haven't done since that run at the end of the 09/10 campaign. AVB really is the man, he actually does have the balls to leave the likes of Lampard out and it paid dividends yesterday. The score coulda ended up like 6-3 but even with 10 men, we played the same way pretty much, we can handle losing a player because we have only 1 main striker anyway. 4-5-1 and 4-4-1 sets up in the same kind of shape, you still have a player on the right and left and 2 in the middle so the cover is adequate if you think about it. We're used to playing 1 up front and we know how to play 4 in midfield so i wasn't even worried when Nando did his Essien impersonation. Roll on Valencia away, i'd take a draw n run if i'm honest.

Won £105.74 which was handy. Won £50.14 then went all or nothing lol, risky but paid off

I'd like us to win it of course but i won't cry if we get beat. I'd only be upset if we lost a semi or final.

Arsenal couldn't even win the Emirates Cup this season so yeah, i was secretly hoping for them away n do em 5-0 like we did at highbury in 99 enjoyed that night lol.

It's only the Carling Cup, the FA Cup is the proper domestic tournament.

Everton away.... Well, they'll wanna win it more than us as a club, i just hope our youngsters can give em as good game. Doubt we'll prevail tho but good test.

England have been brilliant so far against Romania, albeit the last 5 minutes have been a bit lax. Half time will come at a good time and we can refocus and start battering them again in the 2nd half Half Time, Romania 3-34 England

Turnbull will probably keep his place tbh if Cech is ruled out. I didn't think the injury looked too bad but obviously it was lol. Think Frank will play, he looked good when he came on yesterday, he obviously knows he's gotta step it up a bit if he can. I'd love Romeu to play too, he's already shown he's ready for the big time but 2 games in 4 days seems unlikely to be fair. I think it'll be a good game to watch but we should have too much for them.

Brilliant performance, first time i've seen him and very impressed. So cool on the ball, strong in the tackle too and even when he gave that bad pass away he quickly won it back. What a future he has.

Schwarzer clearly didn't do his homework on Kalou's penalty. I knew he'd go there, he's only ever gone there for us lol. Ok he wouldn't of saved it anyway All in all, very positive display, i thought we was fucked really, we got a few injuries, used all our subs, was down to 10 men too, absolute fantastic attitude and spirit shown by all, was well impressed and went to bed happy. We had chances to win it, Malouda & Kalou really are doing themselves no favours if they wanna get back in the side and Lukaku showed a lot too, altho he looks too big Best player on the pitch was Oriol Romeu by a country mile, he looks exceptional. He's strong, he tackles tough and solid, he looks quick, he's composed, he really is the full ticket. He'll make that position his own soon. Round 4 here we come, bring on Aldershot or something

Reading that and the Desailly piece, i feel a lot better about the future of our club and more positive. I also get the feeling Andre will be here for the long haul, i mean he woulda known Roman when he was here with Jose so he wouldn't come back if he knew he'd be treated like a cunt. Andre really does seem to have things under his control too. I'm very happy with our current situation and i do trust our Russian to get it right eventually to how he wants it. Our last few managers obviously just werent for him so i suppose it's best to get rid if he's not happy. I believe AVB is the man.

RM

So glad for him, another player that i firmly believe one day will be brilliant for us. Both goals were very good actually, always rated Chris Eagles too.

There was a big difference between us last weekend and us in previous years. We used to be Solid, with players like Mikel, Essien, Ballack, Lampard and Makelele in midfield but this time it was a lot weaker but more technically gifted. I thought about Arsenal tbh, we did play like Arsenal when they played such nice football against the big sides but ultimately were not strong enough and therefore lost. I really don't know why Mikel didn't play on Sunday but we needed that steel in there to balance it and we didn't really have it. Lampard is almost at an end, Ramires is crafty, quick and skillful but couldn't kick snow off a rope, Meireles is technically sound too but not very big in physique and then it was Mata, Torres and Sturridge, again.... not strong enough. We played very well at Old Trafford but coulda eventually lost 5 or 6-1 because we could not get Rooney, Nani and most of their top players off the ball, i'd not seen Chelsea like this for a really long time. Now i know we had to go for it so gaps were inevitable but we were still getting cut through much too easily. I'm hugely excited by the future and our football but i hope we don't abandon the physical side of the game completely because we're renown for being a very tough team to score against and break down. Against Stoke, i was impressed greatly because we showed both sides to the coin, we cut them open and withstood everything they threw at us but against Man Utd we were fucking weak, Nani tore us to shreads if i'm honest and Rooney, when he came deep was just not getting tackled with any intent. I just hope we don't turn into another Arsenal but i genuinely believe we'll be fine because we do still have Essien and Mikel and can balance it up more than them. We missed Essien hugely on Sunday and Mikel really should've played. We're on the right path though to get a very complete team. This year may be a bit too early but this era is just beginning and i strongly believe in a year or 2+ we'll be a huge danger to everyone when the jigsaw is complete.

Starting to like him more and more as the days and interviews go by. He's so clever, the kind of manager we've been after for for ages really. He just knows everything and he looks so in control. I just trust everything he does and he does things properly without pulling up mountains or making it all about him. If Roman keeps him for a few years at least, regardless of trophies, we'll be in a great position.