Duppy Conqueror

I don`t want us to lose Oscar so if that offer has any truth which I doubt I`m glad it was turned down. I wouldn`t mind having Pogba but only if we had to add a player it`s one we don`t need. I think if a player plus cash offer was to be good for us,the best chance of it happening was before we loaned them Cuadrado.

hope he has a good season on loan there. no telling at this point how it will turn out or what his future with us will be.

I certainly would be doing whatever it takes to get Kalas back even if we sign another CB we need players at Fullback too but then I didn`t want him to be loaned out in the first place this season. Azpi is the only sure thing at fullback. Baba may hit the ground running,he may not..and then there`s the daily possibility of injuries. I don`t want Bran to play another game at RB unless we playing a team whose coach and players has no access to game film.

I want anyone who puts on a Chelsea shirt to succeed. doesn`t matter who. when we are talking center forwards my money is on Costa doing more for us. it would be better for us as a club if Falcao,the player we haven`t signed to a longterm contract like we have Costa to, would have the least impact/lesser year. but that doesn`t cloud my opinion of the two. I am replying as somebody who has not been for or against loaning Falcao..just for those who are lazy in reading what others have said and decide to sweep members who don`t entirely agree with you into the "fanboy" or "hater" piles.

Drogba used to flop around like a salmon on a river bank,cost us the 2008 European cup and if his head wasn`t in it was completely useless regardless of what service he was given from behind. he was the ultimate looked like tarzan played like jane player in our history. do I love him,for the good times yes,when he matured,he mostly cut out the shameful behaviour. his latter years went a long way to make up for the earlier shame but not enough for certainly me and those who don`t have selective memory to forget them. as Costa is in his early years,i`ll say I am enjoying them far more than I did Drogba in his. from them as individual players and as team mates.

I`ve always liked Oscar. he is our tempo setter. his lean spells I blame on the workload he has had with no rest in the summer until this summer. needs to work on his stamina but an inform Oscar is a joy to watch how he glides around the field. taking different angles,reading the game well. we should play a 4-3-3 and Oscar in our midfield 3. that formation would be the best base formation but of course all formations must have fluid interchanging.

after the game when I was tuning into the radio for the after game talk somebody made a good poit about the shock results so far this season..the lesser teams have got quick down the flanks and are exposing the top teams who don`t have quick fullbacks. with us it`s only working down one flank but boy are they working it. I sort of understand why Bran was selected today..because Palace do pose a threat at set pieces. but they didn`t need that today..just attack down their left and Bran will just let them cross whenever they like. I`m more annoyed with Jose for keeping him out there at this point. Bran is woefully out of form and may be shot at this point but it`s not him whose keeping him on the field. bring on Kenedy by all means. but move Azpi over to RB.

Italy is a beautiful country..but the competition in that league is not good anymore. some players like the comfort of an easy challenge some thrive on the challenge of better competition. anybody with the option to join will understand that in football things can change pretty quick and 4 games is a small moment.they don`t change an opinion of who is good or bad based on such a small example.they will have had experience of going through good and bad spells themselves. top players have egos that like to think that they can make a difference. despite what is happening now he will see we have more good players for him to play with than they do.and more financial clout to continue to improve. then there`s the chance to earn more money for him and he may feel that he has unfinished business in England. he may not want to come but there are plenty of reasons why he may.

Azpi for me. the captain needs to be one of the players who is consistently good and he is that. at present one of only a very few. I expect the majority of those currently out of form to get it back but the only alternatives to him are Matic or Costa for me but Costa plays a position that is rotated more than fullback. a good DM is like a skipper anyway and when Makalele was with us I felt of him as our skipper,the way he would co-ordinate his team mates.i don`t know how much that would show up on tv but on many occasions during games I would find myself watching him directing his team mates when he was off the ball. I like Azpi as a candidate because he is a good blend of competitive and with good composure.i hope he will do that at RB where I think he would offer more offensively but either side he can be a leader.

a teenager showing promise. recent Chelsea logic would be to loan him out immediately on badly suited loans until all promise is gone.

I'm slightly brain damaged..i don't remember stuff like what order they come in just a collection of random memories Especially when it's against teams we play every year.

I usually hate international breaks but this one has come at just the right time. we are on our knees but we can get back up. I expect a different team and formation after the break.

pigs used to fly in England..

our strikers (and goalkeepers) are the least to blame for our current woes. those are on our midfield ,defense and Jose.

does the media making shit up make the club idiots? I know we are doing a good job of it ourselves but not every transfer rumour has anything in it..

offer them Ramires and cash. no need throwing multiple midfielders away and then needing to sign more..Ramires is the less needed.

of all our players out of form and that`s almost all of them apart from our new signings who get a pass and have atleast shown something. Cesc and Bran are clearly the worst. atleast with Cesc tho I think it`s just a rough spell..need to atleast give somebody else a go until he gets his mojo back and bring in another option before the window shuts. nobody should be undroppable regardless of how bad you are playing.

I have wanted us to keep Kalas around for last season (I admit at the time I didn`t think Zouma was ready to contribute the way he did,tho I didn`t and don`t see him as the black maldini that some fans seem to think he is just yet) and even more so for this. like always when I think we are making a mistake I always hope I`m wrong rather than CFC suffer because of it. but when so many Chelsea fans were saying stuff like,he`s better off going on loan where he can play every week,he won`t get enough games here etc.. wouldn`t everyone love to have Kalas now at RB with his added bonus of being able to provide depth at CB? I know Azpi should be the RB and Baba the LB and that would be better than what we are currently doing at the fullback positions but what if Baba takes time to settle..we may be able to sort out the RB spot but then LB would be exposed..either way,even if Baba hits the ground running,we will be back to our current state if one of them gets injured. we could really do with Bran getting back to being a good option at RB with the ability of adding cover at CB but I think it`s fair to say he isn`t gonna get back to what he was in the past. Kalas tho can be that man and if we can`t find a suitable player before the window shuts we really need to do whatever it takes to get Kalas back.

I did type out a long post on what I think we need to do but not all of it was "throw the baby out with the bath water" kind of stuff. so I`ll give it a few days. people go crazy during a bad spell and somebody being able to keep calm during these times is like pouring oil on a fire. I`ll wait till all that are boiling have had chance to simmer down a bit.

nobody is in good form at the moment.if we are to comment on who isn`t we should really be commenting on all of our players threads apart from Baba,Pedro and Kenedy. possibly the keepers too..

I looked on his wiki page (I know...) and it said his favoured position is left wing but he plays mostly at CB..so that explains the Luiz similarity for me...

I feel dirty and disgusted by myself for saying this,but for the first time in my life..Come on Tottenham!!!

maybe a height restriction...some people don`t class goalkeepers as human..i don`t know,so I`ll sit here and make shit up..

if all the major powers dropped their nukes on each other the only things left standing would be cockroaches, Keith Richards and Mikel.

they miscalculated how bitter and twisted a low level Spanish midfielder turned small club manager could be. I would say this transfer window has been a success if that deal went through. Pedro,Begovic and hopefully Baba was a good pick up. there`s atleast one player coming before the window shuts I think. I would have kept Kalas around and maybe one or two others but I put that on Jose. perhaps a 6 or 7 out of 10 so far. not great but could have been worse.