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Nono, definitely agree with you. One just needs to look at his drives into the box when playing to know how much more he gives to our attack. His drives are tremendous vs Aston Villa last year (in the 7-1) it was his strides into the box that won us penalties because defenders could simply not handle him. His improvisation is also something we miss, his cross for Ivanovic in the game vs Blackburn was sensational. The way he twisted his whole body to get that beauty of a cross to Ivanovic was just beautiful and hardly picked up by people. Certainly, when he comes back, he'll give us a big boost when we attack.

Am I the only one frustrated about lack of information about what's wrong with him? :mellow:

They tried it at Liverpool at the beginning of the season. Didn't work. Also, don't compliment Joe Cole here, you'll get gunned down for it.. Trust me, I know.

I guess this sums up the thread: :getyou:

Excuse me but. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Playstation experts? Are you watching the same games we do? Or are you playing with Chelsea on your playstation and judging Kalou from his improvements on there? Honestly. If he didn't play for Chelsea, you would have the same views as us, the blue tinted shades clouds your judgement. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can see Kalou is not Chelsea quality, and he's not in the top5 of African footballers. But since you'd rather ignore these views and brush them off as coming from "play station experts" then there's really no point in even discussing this

It's about f*cking time. (For Bruma)

Ashley Cole vs Sunderland. Any day.

Perhaps my fault, the sub-heading is a bit misleading. I really didn't want this to turn into a Ramires bashing :\

Difficult.. Very difficult.. Gary Cahill is the most obvious one, because we don't need to wait for him to "adapt" to the Premier League because he's already used to it. He's got a good header and a good tackle, his pace isn't half bad too. The problem is, imo, he's very small for a defender. While I don't expect central defenders to be big, butch, and powerful, there is a certain expectancy they can go shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Ibrahimovic, David Villa, Benzema ect. I think in one-on-one challenges with these types of attackers, they'd get the best of him. David Luiz on the other hand is much stronger. From what I've seen, he's got a great crunching tackle, his headers are good too. The fact he's been called up to play for the Brazilian national squad shows he's one of Brazilians up and coming stars, at the age of just 23 that's quite an accomplishment. The trouble we would have, is the "Ramires issue", how long will it take for him to adapt to the demands of the Premier League and moving to England. The hefty price of £30million is quite off-putting too. To be honest, I haven't seen much of him (don't follow Portuguese football). Kjaer. Got no clue.

Rajkovic has been receiving some praise from the Vitesse coach..

I hope Bruma outshines Terry

I like Aston Villa's squad right now.. The likes of Albrighton, Downing, Young, Abonglahor, all impressive right now. But they do have problems at the back right now, so an early goal will go a long way in our favour.

Agreed. But Benayoun was bought like a month before Van Der Vaart even became available.

Ah I see And yeah Max, you're probably right. Still, it's such a standard thing for Chelsea to do, I guess to some extent we can understand because of the point you made about lack of game time, but just imagine if we'd taken that gamble.. We'd say "what blip?" Ah well.. What could've been hey?..

ignore?

Haha agreed.. But remember, Ramires is defensive so no-one expects him to grab goals, like Van Der Vaart is. I like Ramires, what he's doing in the team, showing good improvement. But I don't see why we didn't give VdV a chance for that price, we have enough to sign him and Ramires LOL

the emphasis isn't on us signing Ramires, it's not signing VdV

Trust me, I remember, I remember so well.

Hands up if you're surprised (keeps hands down.)

Those are based on opinions too.

LOL exactly. Example; David Silva says he wants to join Chelsea.. And then he joins Man City. If it was the other way round, I wouldn't be so happy.

Wonder what 'Dinho's thinking there..

Ok, but the fact that he's proved them wrong (in their opinions) should be something positive.. Or is it a case of "I told you so"?

He mentioned it before (Esk)

You better hope this rumour about him wanting to go Liverpool is all it is