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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2512076-marco-reus-helps-unveil-borussia-dortmunds-new-home-kit Dortmund's new home kit. In case anybody hasn't seen it.

Aguero Sterling Silva De Bruyne It wouldn't be much better than our front 4, quality wise, and would would be inherently poor at tracking back and defending - they'd need better than Fernandinho-Lampard to do that. Matic Cesc would not survive either. They'd need something like Kondogbia - Pogba/Vidal. And for Kompany to remember how to defend. Willian = Sterling De Bruyne = a less quality Hazard Aguero = Costa Silva = creator (Cesc) but pushed further up, to make up for the fact that behind them is the most uncreative central midfield ever. It'd be a quality team, but ours is more balanced and our manager is better - we could get a win over them. We have City away second game of the season. It shall be an interesting match.

Cuadrado is going nowhere. Traore is coming in to provide competition on the wing and at ST. I wouldn't be surprised if Salah comes back into the squad. Maybe he just needed a loan to freshen himself up.

Oh no, I'm sure the club is having nightmares over it despite the fact the season after we won the double. And what if he's shit at City? The media will praise us (well, as much as they would praise Chelsea for anything). If he isn't mentally up to compete for his place then he may suffer under competition from Silva and Yaya. City don't need a n10, they need a fullback, a centre back, a defensive midfielder and a central midfielder.

Judge him on the next season, now he's had a pre season, if he tails off again there will be no excuses.

If they're similar players it would make sense for him to replace Oscar.

Nope, I'd say they're about the same quality now barring pace of which Oscar has more. However, buying a 28 year old player to replace a 23 year old player is negligent, and driven by "grass is greener" syndrome. The team front 6 of Matic Cesc Willian Oscar Hazard Costa after the thrashing of Swansea in early January did not play together when in form again, and before hand it was tearing up everything in its path. Cesc got injured and never really recovered in time for the end of the season; same with Costa and the ideal replacement Remy along with him. Matic got suspended. When they all came back none were in the form they were in pre-January. We played against some teams with Zouma in midfield and a 37 year old Didier Drogba (who still ended the season with better stats than the fabled Falcao we have just signed) up front, Oscar up front or on the right wing, and overworking Hazard which is showing with his national team. All the replacements completely ruined the balance of the team such as when we tried to play Ramires on the wing or in central midfield; and we won the COC with an out of position CB at DM who did fantastically well there. We held up defensively because other than a brief blip in Cahill's form, the back 4 stayed together and when Zouma came in, arguably it made the back line stronger.

Another perspective^^ Oscar has been over worked in all areas over the past 3 years, for club and country. Has played nearly game for us. Every game for Brazil; until his injury he had not had a pre season since he was a teenager. He covers for Fabregas all the time, he brings balance to the entire squad - let me remind you that when Ramires played in his place when he was out of form, he completely fucked up the team and Mourinho thought so too - once subbed on at half time he restored balance to the team and to my recollection we won that game (I think it was Everton at home) and when he plays well, the whole team plays well. Had he not got knocked out by Ospina we would have won against Arsenal, too. Arda is literally the same player as him but he is 5 or 6 years older. It makes zero sense to buy him and you will be saying what you're saying about Oscar now about Turan one year from now. Oscar will grow as a player, he was once more talented as a youth player than Eden Hazard, and he will get better. How much depends entirely on him.

That is hilarious, considering Oscar had overall more assists and had only 2% less passes completed, and had the same amount of key passes.

Let me just lol at how hard the club are trying to hype him http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/07/Falcao-in-profile.html

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Good luck mate show Jose what you're made of

Cheers for clarifying. Uefa nights will still have reduced capacity, then, as the regular seats will have to be put in again.

Or, you know, just buy an RB and accept Azpi will be on the left for almost all of the rest of his time here. Hazard likes the left because it's less congested than the centre. I'd imagine that if we buy Reus or whoever we'll go with 2 proper fullbacks - I don't think that's actually been done since the early 2000s tbh. Not against it, though. In that case, it'll almost certainly be another converted centre half - Christensen, Zouma, Kalas in the short term comes to mind.

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2015/7/3/8888429/interesting-scuttlebutt-about-stamford-bridge-expansion Those "in the know" reckon that capacity will be 65k rather than the 60k originally reported; and the pitch will be widened to meet UEFA regs. I would have thought the 65k is so that on UEFA nights capacity is above 60k still because sections have to be closed to accomodate TV equipment. Wouldn't know about that kinda thing, though.

We don't need him. I lay money on our next CB pairing after Terry moves on (hopefully in 3 seasons' time when he's broken the appearance record) will be either Zouma-Ivanovic or Cahill-Ivanovic. (Ivanovic will almost certainly be the next captain, unless Jose gives the armband to Cesc) Christensen will then be the 3rd CB, and our RB the 4th (maybe Kalas?), as it is now. Let me reiterate; Zouma-Varane will not work until either is in their very late 20s and has experience. Fyi, that'll be in about 6-7 seasons' time. (To put it into perspective, by that time we should have left SB, played at Wembley for 3 years, and moved back into rebuilt SB again and spent a season there). Forget about it. Both are fantastic athletes, but we only need one of em. And we got our man Zouma for a bargain price.

Would be a fantastic all round midfielder to have, nothing wrong with signing over 30 players, provided the price is right, of course.

I like it but I ordered last season's shirt with Terry on the back (with the nice CL writing) cos it's cheaper now.

670 CFC appearances and counting. Next season, assuming he plays 50 times (he played 49 last season, it could happen) he will be on 720. Bonetti is on 726, easily catchable. if he does the same the season after (which would be outstanding for a 36 year old defender) he goes to 776. Chopper is on 795. It's distant but just how amazing would it be if he became our record appearance maker? Does he have 3 seasons in him, though, is the question. I honestly think he does. 126 games is a big ask, though. Even if it is over 3 seasons.

I think that people are underestimating the strength of our current team. Courtois Ivan Cahill Terry Azpi Matic Cesc Willian Oscar Hazard Costa Analysing the problems with this squad... A lack of pace at centre back. Mostly Terry's fault, but the areas he benefits means that it outweighs being able to play a high line (Cahill-Zouma does not work, and neither would Varane-Zouma). But to improve it, we could include Zouma in more games to basically be Terry's legs. In central midfield, Matic Cesc is still fairly good. The problems with it is that it is liable to be pressed as Cesc is not great at defending and caves in on the ball when pressured at times. Playing Zouma there can work but only in emergency situations because it completely ruins the fluidity of our game, with Matic-Zouma that is. But he arguably does the job that Mou wants better than Mikel, who is NOT GOOD ENOUGH for us. Those that do only think it because they have not seen him play in a while. Zouma can fill in there when possible and Song's dynamism would offer an alternative of sorts so Cesc could go to number 10 without our passing game being completely ruined. Attacking midfield; there is only one problem with it. A lack of goal scoring prowess. There are variables in the squad that can change that - Cuadrado coming good would be one of them, and Oscar on form makes us play much, much better. Next season will be crucial for him. We'd all like Reus, but it's unlikely tbh. For me, the only way our AM 3 will be improved is if somebody comes in with a too-good-to-refuse offer for Willian (ie >£40m) and Reus or somebody of his calibre is available, cos Oscar ain't going nowhere and neither is Hazard. Strikers; there is no chance that what happened last year will happen again - both our first and second choice strikers being injured at the same time. Traore is coming in, I'd be unsurprised if he becomes shared 3rd choice with Solanke next season. Those that mention the Champions League; it was not down to the quality of the squad that we lost our match. It was because we simply didn't want it as much as PSG did. Well, and some poor marking in the box. If we'd played it like we were playing against Arsenal at home last season, we would have won comfortably.

Yes, yes, yes It's unbelievably expensive for a guy my age (fyi, 16) to go to a match and even harder to go with mates - the tickets for trains n the tube are about £40 and the ticket itself is £40-50 and then after blowing money on drinks then you're looking at £150. Per person. Which seems expensive to people with jobs, let alone a student.

Where will he slot in the team, do you reckon? Btw do Monaco still have CL/EL football?

Terry.

Perfect loan for him. Fucking smash it.

Nope nope nope nope nope There must be experience and leadership within CB's, it's the reason that when Terry retires in the next 1-3 seasons Ivanovic-Cahill/Zouma will be more likely than Zouma-Cahill as Cahill only plays well next to a Cb who tells him what to do, which is why he under performs for England and when Terry is rested. Stones-Zouma would make too many mistakes.