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I disagree. It's not as if we've looked shaky when Terry's been rested this season. In the long term, it's better for us anyway, he gets a 4-week break. Plus we have him in Europe etc, so he's not missing at the crucial point of the season.. Could've been a lot worse in retrospect.

We don't have to resort to that

Can he just accept the charge and put this all behind the club? All this is doing, by dragging it out, is taking the club's name through the mud. I think, tbh, even they're slightly sick of it cause I was surprised when there was no mention on the website about Terry's England retirement. I don't think Terry's a racist. In the eyes of the law he's not.. If the FA believe so, then let them. ..And really, what's 4 games? With the rotation Di Matteo's doing he probably wouldn't have played half of those anyway!

Congratulations!

This mean, literally, f*ck all.

Yes but that was a gamble. Lucky for Madrid it paid off, but Perez won't be thinking it financially anyway.. Madrid need Ronaldo more than Ronaldo needs Madrid, which is why they'll find a way to keep him happy.

There are actually some valid points about people not sold by RDM yet which should be acknowledged.. We're only not accepting them cause we're reading them after a defeat which makes it seem like they're 'crying after a loss.' Just sayin'.

Meh. They'll sort it out with him soon enough, perhaps by throwing a couple thousand more into his wages.. I don't see him leaving Madrid any time soon, Perez wouldn't let it happen after investing so much into him.

It's paramount we bring him back next season & allow him to get cup games etc. Otherwise Real Madrid will probably try to lure him!

It's not even strikers department I'm worried about, it's the lack of defensive options in midfield. Mikel, I'll defend him when needs be, isn't right for the "style" of football we're trying to play and Romeu isn't getting his chances/lacks match fitness even if he was thrown in. I think if we'd have pursued Modric again our squad would be near-perfect. I believe we're lacking severe depth in midfield. Yea we've got the attacking options of Hazard, Mata, Marin, Moses etc. But we've only got Mikel, Meireles & Romeu to give us some cover at the back. That cover is vital in attacking football cause as we saw yesterday, we're quite vulnerable on the counter attack. We lack that link between defensive & offense. QPR signed Granero from Real Madrid.. I can't believe a player like that is ending up at QPR because he'd have fitted perfectly into our system! Other than that, I'm satisfied.

It's true. On his day he's wonderful and on a bad day he's awful. There's no sort of in-between with Luiz.. Just hope the bad is coming to some kind of decline sooner than later.

My god guys I knew this backlash would come eventually, didn't think it'd be this quick in such an irrelevant game..

And in the end.. Sparky will still manage to have them fighting relegation.

They're saying it's just a rumour at this stage. And they've got conflicting reports about it too.. But it wouldn't surprise us would it, after we loaned Benayoun to them.

So apparently Sky reported rumours of Essien being loaned to Arsenal.. We can't be that stupid, can we?!

Yes but I hope fans to get too over-expectant on him getting minutes on the pitch. It must still be remembered that he's 17.

Glad we've avoided the temptation to sign Maicon. Let City have him accumulate their wage-bill even further, which I'm sure he did significantly as well.

Come on Chelsea, give us some excitement

As much as I hate to see him, potentially, join Spurs.. We have no use for him (imo).

I love how everyone got taken in by the troll. Oh the power of twitter

Meh, it's sort of premature though ain't it? I mean look how excited everyone got after Mou said he'd like to come back to Chelsea again lol

Did anyone know Fulham have 2 Moussa Dembele's on their books? They're not even related or anything, one's an u18

At least we'll see Johnson reignite his career, at long last.

Are we sure he didn't mean return to the league instead of Chelsea?

I take it he was good today?