The Skipper

Everyone is back yup, I can see a few get some minutes.

Irrelevant. He was abused by fans at West Ham.

Mourinho so said that Willian is better coming from the sides so he counts Willian as a winger too.

I'm looking at their squad now and they still have a better team than a lot PL sides. Sure, they've lost their spine but as I said, they've replaced well. Tadic and Pelle are great replacements forLallana and Lambert. Koeman isn't a bad manager - Chambers won't be missed as they have Clyne. Bertrand is not a bad replacement for Shaw... If you look at their potential starting XI right now it's not too bad at all, especially if they manage to hold onto Schneiderlin and Rodriguez: Pelle Tadic - Ward-Prowse - Rodriguez Wanyama - Schneiderlin Bertrand - New CB - Fonte - Clyne New GK Unless Koeman can't bring it together... This team is too strong to go down IMO. Still a lot stronger than half the PL teams out there. For me there is no threat of relegation for them.

That RVP, Rooney, Mata forward three is going to be very interesting for United next season.

Luigi death stare always kills me.

Southampton can spend lavishly, not only have they sold excellently, they also have a billionaire owner. They can get much better players than our u21s.Edit (not to you specifically but to those who think Soton are struggling) - plus add to the fact that they've already replaced Lallana and Lambert with two equally as good players in Tadic and Pelle. They really won't struggle as much as people are saying they will. Bertrand is an ok replacement for Shaw, Clyne is still there so Chambers doesn't need to be replaced... That's pretty much 4/5 players replaced - they're fine.

The thing that restricted Romeu's chances were his unfortunate injuries. If we're talking about young loan players coming back I could give you a great example in Courtois - who was remarkable in his loan spell and is now challenging for the number 1 spot.

He has, but his back to play game, technique and his first touch is still miles ahead of Lukaku's.

Actually, a team has to register 8 HG players in a squad of 25, hence why a team can only register 17 non-HG players. City have at least 6 if you include players that are not in either XI like Scott Sinclair or Micah Richards (7 if they want to include Boyata), so they're much better off than us. They can nearly fulfil the whole quota and have a near full squad of 25 (excluding u21 who don't have to be registered) whilst we only have a squad of 20 with 3 HG players in JT, Terry and Fabregas (4 if you include Moses who is very likely to be off anyway). Of course it doesn't really matter because Jose likes his squad to be a small number of around 20, and we can (for now) fill up the rest of the extra squad spaces with u21s who don't need to be registered, i.e. Zouma or Ake.

You really don't need stats to prove that Drogba is still at this age technically superior to Lukaku. People have eyes.

Forgot about Richards. Boyata I can see going though tbh, but yeah that's at least 6 HG players (Richards is club trained too). They're a lot better off than we are.

They have Hart, Milner, Clichy, Sinclair and Lampard. 5 HG players. More than us which is quite funny.

Agreed, but I was hinting more at their squad depth tbh. They have more than decent players in almost every position.

City still have the strongest squad, by far...

Romeu isn't a Chelsea Youth.

Tbf, Rodwell was a huge talent before City ruined him. He's not worth that though.

Why do you keep on posting vids on Hamas like some on here support them? As far as I have read no one here supports the Hamas regime in any sense... Condemning the actions of Israel doesn't equal supporting Hamas...

We aren't a charity indeed but for a club legend like Frank, who is counted as by many CFC fans as the best ever CFC player - it's nothing but normal to have one of our biggest legends to come train with us and have an important leadership and squad role. It wouldn't seem like charity at all to me. It's Lampard we're talking about here. I don't think his integrity as a footballer would be questioned if we offered that during his 6 month loan - where fitness is the main reason lets not forget, not winning titles because he's only there for 6 months and we offer that here as well regardless - here at CFC. You could apply 'charity' to the City move as well. The main reasons he's being signed is because he's a HG player. IMO it's clear that City and Pellegrini are clearly using this move for that reason mainly, and also to spite CFC and Jose. So one could easily flip it around and say that Frank's integrity as a pro footballer is also challenged in this situation.

Instead of buying a solid CB as 4th choice CB why not give Zouma a chance to realise his huge potential? We can't really afford to bring in more foreign players to begin with anyway so I don't see the point in bringing in another CB, and I can't really see an English CB that I would like to start over Zouma either.

Because he's a CFC legend.......£2m is nothing for someone like Frank.

Nope, from my knowledge it's a minimum of two GKs that need to be registered. Blackman and Beeney don't even need to be because they're u21.

I wouldn't say one of the best but in a 3 man midfield as the anchor man, Mikel is certainly a good player there.

I agree that he does have the scope to improve, hence why I said in the Romeu thread that it's better for him to go out on loan and get regular playing time rather than being a squad player like Mikel, who as of right now is a better squad player to have because of his experience and reliability.

Might as well just relocate completely to Paris then pal, can't see it happening in the near future.