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Would he qualify for a PL winners medal/COC should we win them?

The problem is, I can so easily see us signing 2 world class defenders in the summer t.window and Zouma gets relegated again.

Fair enough if that's true. It would be incredible. City sign a player in Mangala who cost them £31.8m & we have £12m Zouma who's already better

With Varane and Mangala, could that mean actually Zouma misses out on being a France regular?

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I'm a better fan than you are! Your opinions are rubbish! This thread sometimes

Lmao is it weird that I simply didn't care when he came on? Felt no hatred, no admiration, nothing. He was just another City player to me. Maybe in the future when things have passed and if he should come back in a managerial/coaching capacity... I don't think it'll matter. In the meantime, I'm beyond caring now. Which is a shame in itself after all he did for us..

For all that was said about our 'weak' bench today - Schurrle is still a Chelsea player, isn't he? Could've been of use.

Yeah exactly. The lack of possession by Hazard was also reflected by Cesc's absence. Such games really highlight his importance, I think he would've done really well too because Yaya was missing and in the reverse fixture Toure made Fabregas mute.

This has a draw written all over it lmao. Fabregas back will be good, I hope Mourinho lets Remy have a successive run of games before Costa's ban is complete.

That's why I think missing Cesc was more of a factor today than Costa. We can manage without Costa, we did it earlier in the season when he couldn't play consecutive games. Fabregas is a catalyst in big game that mean any of our other player can score from what he provides. It's no wonder to me why Mourinho chooses Fabregas over Oscar in these big games.

I've heard this too. Perhaps the hype got to him? 3 years ago (I can't believe I'm the OP on this lmao), I would've loved if we made a big money move for him. Now I am not so sure, but I can't say much since I haven't watched Serie A for a long, long, time.

Our own version of Pogba, so to speak* -- Anyway, I don't really put down KdB in the bracket of players I wish we never sold. Kid didn't want to stay here long enough to try and fight for his position, the same thing we criticised Lukaku for to be honest. Yes, he's developed into a fine player but we'll be fine without him.

Thing that annoys me about Gary Neville is that he's just like every other pundit, they know the world about big clubs and their players. But when you ask them to analyse games which don't feature such big teams and such big players they're completely clueless most the time. I mean, it's sort of their jobs to do such homework but they don't really do it 90% of the time. The other thing is, they spend so much time talking about a few incidents that occur in matches and sometimes they fail to talk about the match over all. While it's entertaining sometimes it's quite boring on the other hand.. We don't need to see a potential penalty 3000x, slowed down frame by frame for another 2000x. I seldom praise pundits because they're a face. Behind them are teams of people who produce these statistics and these animations that highlight these key features. That being said, like DYC. said, he's one of the few pundits in the world who does say good things about Chelsea from time to time. But I wouldn't rate any of them so highly as to make an appreciation thread lol

@We Hate Scouse will it be a straight bidding war now or is there another aspect to negotiations?

How much would they be able to expand by, do you know? I wonder if this plans to force a redevelopment is the club bottling it with their stance on the CPO. If moving away means we'll have increased potential for expansion, I think that should be their first priority imo.

Sterling, run down your contract and join us lmao. I wouldn't want us to buy him for the quoted sums of £20-50million.

True, but I think with such an important match he'd take the risk. Ramires would be more effective versus Everton and West Ham anyway.

When we win, it will be a big statement to everyone that's we're more than capable of beating big sides without our best players. Smh, we've proved it before anyway, and we'll continue to do so! CAREFREE.

This is a comment on the Cuadrado story in Sky Sports by a user called 'manutd fan'. Shows a lot of how we're beginning to be perceived now in world football. The change in attitude from our board deserves a lot of credit and you can see why there's a drastic revamp going on with the board now, to meet this attitude. Buck and Gourlay represent the 'old' Chelsea, of reckless purchasing.

Never have my thoughts been summarised by another so well..

Northampton is that place where the London Midland train stops for about 15-minutes on the way back from Birmingham

Wanyama doesn't surprise me either, I suggested to sign him as back-up to Matic.

Songs of Fabregas, Terry and Drogba should be sung in his direction. Fabregas as his replacement and the latter two for their proven loyalty.

Omg! My favourite conspiracy theory of all time on TC. Mikel is only here because ME is Nigerian