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Oscar vs Pedro. Huge battle for the Most Useless award.

You are looking really good in your profile picture.

hahahah

Now Kenedy must replace Pedro.

Great move. Oscar was incredibly bad.

Mr. Guus used his best players available to produce this brilliant piece of shit.

haha Pedro is such a poor player, to think he arrived as "world class".

City is fighting for PL and have a reasonable chance of winning the UCL. Doesn't make any sense to compare with a PL14th placed side. Just calm down and watch the game.

I told you guys. FA is Chelea priority this season, since the team want Europa League football. Those line ups full of players like Musonda and Banford never made sense, but I was expecting 2 or 3 players like Kenedy and RLC in the starting line up. To other side, Hiddink must use as much game as possible to give this team a chemistry and his football vision, so that line up makes a little sense.

Its not a good idea to use those line ups full of "kids". A team like that lacks chemistry and any tactical discipline, and usually the team play a shit football and in the 2nd half the manage introduce the big boys to win the game. That won't help the development of those players. I would start Baba, RLC, Kenedy and Traore, and players that were sitting on the bench in the last games, like Cahill, Ramires and Matic, and believe Guus will come up with something like that.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jan/09/pep-guardiola-is-putting-manuel-pellegrini-in-the-shade Thats the problem with a twitter page that only quote what they want, probably only to atract attention. This twitter page is a joke. The actual article talk about Pellegrini situation, and if he indeed leave for Guardiola, then Pellegrini would be reasonable option, since the promotes attacking football and speaks english. Its only the writer opinion about the subject.

No Isco and no Ricardo Teixeira. This team need reiforcement in different areas.

Neymar is just miles ahead of Hazard, and don't come up with "you are brazilian argument", because anyone outside Chelsea fan base would understand that, there is not even reason to discuss that. I'm not even convinced Hazard is the best belgian player.

o.O You started your post saying Ballon Dor was ruined because they turned it into Golden Shoe, but in the past Henry never won, even though he was scoring for fun. lol The problem with Ballon d'Or is the same problem with former FIFA's award: its too much La Liga's centric. I mean since 1999 (besides 3 years), the award went to Barcelona's or Real's players, and I don't think they are giving to players who score more, they just favor fancy skills. Think about Ronaldinho winning the award in 2004 when won absolutely nothing, while Henry was on fire and just won PL without losing a single game. I agree with you, in recent years it became even more ridiculous with Ronaldo and Messi around. Think about 2010, Iniesta deserved. Somehow Messi got the award. In 2014 Messi was 2nd, and that was total insane and even Ronaldo inclusion in this year list doesn't make any sense.

Hazard is yet to put a great performance in UCL game while I'm reading this kind of assertion, and no, I'm not saying he should be sold or he is bad or useless, just not even close of being as good as some of you picture the man.

Suarez is way better than Hazard, not slightly, but just in another level. Even though I think Ibrahimovich is overrated, I would say I rather have him than Hazard in my team, and if I mention players that are not exactly attacking, I would include the likes of Iniesta in that list. Hazard is a great player, just not as good as some people believe. Only a huge Hazard fan would say that, beyind doubt, he is better than Bale.

No Hulk rumors this window?

As a Chelsea fan I want as much information about Chelsea as possible, even the bad ones. Those reports deserved headline, because its something unnusual (its not common, as someone else suggested, its not the kind of thing that happen every training section, every week). Untill weeks ago people were denying media reports about: Hazard being unhappy, Jose losing the dressing-room.

The post was a simple answear to a previous suggesttion that Azpi was so good that he can't even be compared with Fabregas. Fabregas is a boring player, but is definetely more important than Azpi, and I rather have Fabregas than Azpi in my squad. People say he is superb, when actually he is correct in the basic of defending. Its the same reason why people were saying Cahill was world class months ago: he usually doesn't make those horros mistakes that Luiz used to do, bu he has never been better than average. Terry is still better than Cahill, even if his best years are long gone. A fullback that can defend is obiously a better option than one that is superb attacking but a fraud defending (but this kind of player are usually guys that should be playing as wingers rather than full back), but I a good full back is the one that find the balance. For me Azpi is not even decent going forward, he is pretty bad. As a whole he is average.

Well, I just read the reports. The media never said the team was in crisis because of that. Oscar is obviously lying, because sumething defintely happened.

Azpi is good defending, there is no doubt about it, and there is reason why he became a Jose favorite. He barely make mistakes or is caught out of position when everything is working, but again I don't see anything special about what he does. For me there is no such thing lile "all-round fullback", because full back is a position that requieres balance between defending and attacking, of course of full-backs strongest points are attacking, while others are defending, but a full-back tha can't defend, is very limited one, and same happens to the ones that can't attack. Azpi is just not good enough with the ball on his feet. Its not uncommong to see he emabarrasing himself during the games, like passing the ball to the opponent or even not being able to dominate the ball. He is the typical one dimensional player that Jose favored since 2013.

I'm not misreading things. Sometimes the noise in communication can be cause by the emissary. In my first post I said Azpi is not Cole quality, and you said something like "bullshit, Cole was embarrassed by the likes of Walcott, and Azpi is fantastic". Next time you should just avoid the noise.

That story is everywhere, and it was first released by Guardian, and was pretty reliable to me.

Agreed. Not sure how anyone can compare a manager that was sacked for leaving his team one point above relegation to another one who will fight for the league until its end.

Barbara, this post doesn't make any sense.