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Yup I wonder on which forum you'll sign up as soon as Courtois is sold, or rather, forces Chelsea to sell him. We're not Belgium F.C. man.

Imagine if Courtois would love any manager as much as DD loved José (which I think impossible anyway, because he seems to care only about himself.) Yes, he wouldn't say anything, he would just leave. Go take all the other Courtois's quotes, there are many. A whole lot. About a whole lot of topics. About Cech it was either in his last year at Atletico or during his first season here. Some dumb comment about how if he was in Cech's shoes he would leave or some shit like that.

DD was feisty, he had passion, he wanted to win, (a few times he went overboard, I admit) he loved Chelsea. Can you honestly say the same about Courtois? Can you ever see Courtois being that outraged after a stolen CL semifinal. If that would happen to Courtois, I imagine him strolling out of the pitch with his dumb expression as if he doesn't even know where he is, not giving two fucks about it, he gets his pay check either way and probably puts in a transfer request the following summer. Did DD ever come out as arrogant as Courtois in his interviews? Can't recall it even once, unless it was against a direct rival. Courtois badmouthed all over his countryman Mignolet, he tried to do the same with Cech, there are countless examples of him doing this. This example is just stupid, as a person, not even as a footballer, as a person Courtois isn't fit to look at Drogba.

The average Chelsea fan, me included, has still Petr Cech in his heart. Not this petulant, arrogant, mercenary, child.

Did Messi really retire from the NT? I thought it was banter when i read it the other day. What is he 28? 29? What a little whiny twat.

Of course it will be bad Chelsea ain't the centre of the world right now, and these comments, frankly, are daft. I'd much rather have Chelsea players come sooner than Conte. He's actually thinking about Chelsea even now, by sending the Spanish home early. You know, Fabregas, Azpi, Pedro will be all rested for that meaningless friendly. While Conte is going to play a Euro Quarter Final against Germany.

We fucked around with our bids. There was no way they would sell both players in the same window and everyone knew it, even my dog. Pjanic wanted to leave, he himself said so, there was no way Roma could keep him. What we needed to do here was bid, negotiate without fucking around and finally get the player. Juventus have been faster in their dealing and it was done in days basically, we were linked ever since April ffs.

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2016/6/25/12030512/italy-spain-fabregas-conte-preview Cesc can now come back to Chelsea to train, let Antonio find you in top shape, mate.

With Conte's work ethic, Hazard will want an extensive siesta come december, after a sequence of self substitutions His hip will be "injured" again. And thank god Courtois is not an outfield player or he would put in a transfer request come september.

Fallo su Eder non fischiato era scandaloso. Ramos doveva essere espulso prima del fischio di HT. Poco male, abbiamo vinto e la Spagna con arbitro compreso se la sono presa dove sappiamo noi.

Bar a few.....Chelsea has a worse team than Italy. Let's open our eyes people Azpi, Zouma, Matic, Willian, Hazard and Costa are the exceptions I'm talking about.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA didn't see that. Arbitro Cornuto!

That's what an Italian manager looks like. That's what football looks like. Take notes. Work Hard, Defend, Press, Counter, Keep the ball when necessary. Do it with passion or fuck off.

Yes, I know and I agree with the sentiment fully. But if our b2b is going to be Witsel then I reckon we'd have more benefits from playing Kante there, with Carvalho rotating with Matic. I would take Gomes, but for 42 mill? No way, and he wouldn't completely fix our long running midfield problems. I fear with Witsel we would make very little progress in quality.

Exactly. Get, if possible, Kante+Carvalho. Use Kante as b2b even if he's more of a dm, vastly better than belgian afroman mk2. Alternatively get Allan from Napoli.

They can still field a 0-0-7-3. Football is a game of movement and evolution afterall.

It's unbelievable how we seem unable to get our targets though. This was such an attainable target, we only had to act quicker and not piss around with half bids, we were linked ever since april. I expect us to waste another month or two on Witsel and then failing to get him too.

Don't like Witsel at all. He's just....meh. I would've gone for Kante+Carvalho. Well, let's see what happens.

I would reply to this, but then you would have to read twice, just in a far less articulate fashion, OhForAGreavsie's post. As I've said a few times, he has the potential to be world class on his day, just like tonight, and even better than tonight if he would push himself harder. It just doesn't happen consistently, he has had very good performances with us, but also those, and I'm not talking only about the past season, where I was left hugely disappointed. Not to mention he's yet to show up in the CL.

Aside from that season (and even that season he started slowly, too slowly for a top top player.) he has never consistently performed on the highest level like he did tonight, He has yet to do this in the CL. And I still think he can perform even better than tonight if he would push himself harder. Then again I don't regularly lick his ass and wear red-tinted glasses.

Too bad he doesn't perform like this on a regular basis.

Sell him tonight and rebuild the whole bloody team

He made the right choice. Don't want players like him at my club.

Why doesn't he play like this every match....

Not with our defence and central midfield. Yes they are our rivals, but by all means they're having the better transfer window thus far. Belittling their signings won't make our huge deficiencies disappear. Reinforcements are needed, and without those I truly have no idea how we will fix this team. Keep it real man.