Gilvorak

Seems like I've touched a nerve. Club is a complete joke, take the blinders off. After the Di Matteo sacking and hiring Rafa I've lost faith in the people that run it. Disagreeing with how the club is run doesn't make me less of a fan than anyone else. 9 managers in 9 years. Spending a combined £80m combined on Torres and Shevchenko. Not allowing Drogba to retire at the club and nearly doing the same with Lamps if not for his mates in the press. Failure to produce a single homegrown talent in over ten years and immorally stacking up on youth only to neglect them months later. 23 players on loan! Whoring the club out overseas while neglecting the local fanbase. The CPO fiasco. That fat c**t Gourlay & Buck. Countless scandals and incessant reports of player power. Spending millions every year yet still can't produce a balanced squad. I could go on and on but I can't be arsed with an exam coming up.

I really hope Torres leaves and goes to Atletico. He's tarnished his reputation at this joke of a club and unlike Shevchenko he still has some time on him to repair it. The way some fans constantly abuse him and deride him on here you'd never think he was actually the best striker on the planet at one point of his career just like Sheva was. Liverpool/Spain irresponsibly burning him out, back to back hamstring injuries, playing an obscene amount of games in his early years and loss on confidence are why he's not the player he once was. As much as fans love to blame the player Chelsea are the ones who decided to waste 50m on him, knowing his injury history and current form that season. The hatred should be aimed at our board not the player. It's frustrating watching him at times but he has had some notable moments for the club, show some respect for crying out loud. A villain is someone like Suarez the racist, diving, biting, violent scumbag not someone who can hardly do fuck all about his current situation. Anyway I hope he leaves, I'm still not convinced this club plays to his strengths and perhaps a change of environment would do him good.

Heard from a good source Mou's not interested and would prefer keeping KDB at the club. Already the first battle between Jose and the board and he hasn't even been appointed yet!

Latest on the lad? Never seen a player have so many fans despite achieving so very little in his career. The amount of female fans he has on twitter alone is insane.

Forget about Cavani and take a punt on Luis Muriel.

We spent 50m for him.

I would have him here in an instant. Question is how much would he be worth and would he be willing to move here? He probably isn't as good as he was 2/3 years ago but he can't be far off from that level. Would a nice stop gap too of RLC continues his rapid development and provide some much needed experience.

Not sure if serious.... He plays on the right for Belgium, he played on the right for Genk before switching to LW and then CM and his single best performance this year for Werder was also at RW. Sure his best position is probably central but its arguably Hazards too and as we've seen these past 8/9 months, he's just as effective out wide.

Robben and Ribery weren't renowned for their work rate either until this season. Mata is hopeless, Hazard has shown a willingness to track back as the season has gone on and Oscar is brilliant defensively. Those three aren't the problem for our crappy defense either by the way. It's been going on for a good 3 seasons now long before they arrived. Mou's return should hopefully rectify that problem.

Duh

So we're spending £20m on a player solely for depth? There are only three positions at a time for these players. Ideally you'd want 5/6 quality players for those positions, a backup for each slot with youth players waiting in line. Hazard Oscar Mata De Bruyne Moses Marin/Piazon That isn't depth? How many clubs have better options than those 6? Bayern are on course for a treble with Muller, Ribery, Robben, Kroos & Shaqiri as their options behind the striker. You can't be having 9 players for 3 positions or whatever. No chance you'll keep them all happy. Instead of overpaying on a shot merchant like Schurrle how about fixing the centre midfield and defense?

We have 23 players on loan!

Have any of you actually watched Schurrle? I mean you'd think he was the second coming of Klinsmann reading some of the posts on here, so I actually made an effort to watch a few of his games and I was shocked at how average he is. If anyone can put forth a legitimate argument for the club putting a one trick pony like Schurrle above KDB I'll keep quiet once and for all. I mean even German fans/press think Schurrle has stagnated and is overestimated by English fans.

Do people realise he was actually one of the best players in maybe the best League in the World this year? What makes people think KDB wouldn't be able have a similar impact here considering he carried his club form into the International level and has already become one of Belgium's best players in his first few starts. Keeping KDB means we can continue playing Hazard in his preferred position out on the left rather than pigeonholing him into the team on the right. Also the CL experience excuse is so poor lol. He's already played in the CL before, what could he possibly learn from getting knocked out in the group stages again?

Torres at his prime is 100x the player Schurrle will ever be and Andy Carroll was a classic case of panic buys.

Looooooollll This is the most blatant Emenalo signing of all time. We've been linked for nearly 2 years now.

I've seen the lad play alot and he most certainly has a selfish streak on him. Schurrle averages 3.6 shots per game which is the most in the Bundesliga and only had 11 goals to show for it. And by poor mans Sturridge I mean worse in every aspect a forward needs but obviously he destroys him defensively. So I don't get the logic in selling Danny to the bindippers and then signing an inferior player 5 months later. I'd rather KDB play there especially since he's equally adept playing on the right or left. He's able to impact the game more, better array of skills, scores just as many, versatile and most importantly doesnt cost a ridiculous 20m. 20m for Schurrle and Barca pay 25m for Neymar. LOL

How is Scurrle a team player? One of the most selfish players you'll ever see. He's basically a poor mans Sturridge but better work-rate.

Yep, the man that has a squad of 23 players on loan is f**king clueless. Club has been a complete joke since he was appointed.

@WhoScored: Andre Schürrle: Missed more clear cut chances (20) than any other player in the Bundesliga this season, whilst he scored only Hope KDB f**ks off when his loan is over. Emenalo and co are clueless.

I'm not sure we're signing Cavani anymore to be honest. Don't think the club is willing to pay 50m on another striker and rightly so. Crespo, Sheva, Torres, Mutu, Kezman etc we're cursed. Bayern are on course to win the treble with Mandzukic as their first choice so a WC striker isn't really a necessity either. Maybe Ba stops falling over when he's through on goal, Torres doesn't go through a 2-3 month drought after weeks of great form and Lukaku pans out...? We have so many goal scorers in the team, starting from our defense so perhaps we could cope offensively. Still adamant the number one priority this season should be fixing our defence/midfield, particularly our back line as it's been abysmal since JT declined, Arsenal were better defensively ffs. Last time I had any confidence in our back 4 was probably in 2009, under Guus. And our midfield is nearly as bad as our as our defence. Far too easy to get in behind our 2 protectors and then to top it all off they end up getting outclassed and outplayed against any decent team we face. I honestly cannot remember the last time we won the midfield battle against a top class team. We end up being forced to play on the counter and making "heroic" blocks/last man challenges in each big game.

Amazes me how people on here overhype almost every youngster the club has on it's books. Nat simply isn't good enough on the ball to play DM for a club of Chelsea's stature. That shouldn't be a slight on him either considering he's a CB and all. Same thing goes with Ake. While Josh and Romeu are also equally overhyped on here because of the bizarre hatred for Mikel and Ramires. Some people are massively under rating the lad on here though. He's not the Yaya/Essien type player the over-zealous fans make him out to be and he will never be better than Mikel/Ramires in that role but he most certainly does have a bright future at CB. Needs to bulk up though, lad's way too skinny to play there for now, then again he's still only 18....

Is Courtois even better than Cech was at the same age? He was the best Gk in the World at Euro 2004 and he was around 22 then, so just a year older than Thibo currently is.

As long as Cech is playing well you keep him. He's still easily the better goalkeeper....for now. Courtois is undoubtedly talented but has benefited from playing with a far better, committed and disciplined defense than the lunatics Cech has to deal with at the back. Atletico only concede 10 shots on goal p/g which is the 7th lowest in Europe overall while Cech faces 12, 35th best in Europe. A lot of those 10 shots Courtois concedes are hopeful punts from 30 yards out while Cech seems to bail us out about 3/4 times a game alone. Technically, Cech is still a level above Courtois anyway. Better with his feet, far better diving ability, better reactions and reflexes and most importantly ALWAYS shows up in the big games. BOTH CL finals, Barca at home, Europa League final etc. Cech is still the best GK in the PL and possibly the World.

Why's everyone saying Napoli will sign Torres? No sign they're interested at all. Just a crappy rumour due to Rafa joining them Trancredi says we're bidding 63m for Cavani. LOL