Duppy Conqueror

The Burnley fixture will favour them as they can have longer to game plan against us( when us having the same time,won't be as advantagous to us) and opening weekend their players and fans will be fresh and not have had the wind beat out of the sails yet. We shouldn't be fully on the same page,firing on all cylinders early on in the season,but we should still have too much class for them. I only look at fixtures with things like not wanting a long distance night time game because of work in the morning and european away games taking enough of those slots on the calender.not really bothered by the level of competition..easy is for pussies.

Shown some flashes..he certainly knows how to find space..some crosses need to be better but that goes for our first team regulars too..one for the future maybe...tho there's alot of competition for places under contract for us.

I didn't see the Nigeria v Iran game..but from what i've seen of him and Zouma he impressed me more..

Drogba did some twatty,selfish acts in a Chelsea shirt...the bitch slap on Vidic in Moscow..the antics against Wigan when he wanted to take the kick..the dramatic diving..the games where his head wasn't screwed on and he would sulk around the pitch. He was much older than Costa and still acting up. Some players have drama in them..it's up to coaches and veteran team mates to get more of the good out of them and less of the bad.when they have the talent it makes it worthwhile or we can stick with torres..

Inter want to swap him for Lukaku apparently..hope that doesn't happen. It's funny how some fans still think JT shagged/stole Bridge's missus. And not Bridge's ex..

Brazil are stuck with Fred instead of him..it's bound to leave a bitter taste..

He knows absolutely nothing about us or how we treat our legends..he's also a slimey bitter cunt of a child. How he treats a Legend of his club is telling him to fuck off..nice,double standards.

Any relation to Frank ?

He's a winger/forward..has a decent goal scoring record for Ukraine and in club football..scored 20 odd goals this season..

He's David Speedie with an exotic twist.. He'll be hated by opposing fans all over the world and i'll love him for it.

I think Cesc can wipe his hands clean of that defeat..it was their back 4 and former great keeper who caused it.

Only in football can you be shit at your job for multiple years and still keep your job.

I think we will just have 17 non-homegrown..JT,Cahill and Fabregas and use youngsters like Swift,Baker etc...youngsters that aren't counted in the 24..when you think about it Moses would be 3rd choice on either Wing..might aswell be Swift to play in Milk cup games etc..than just keep players who don't really have a future with us. I wouldn't mind keeping Bertrand tho as back up LB.

27 year old Fabregas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 36 year old Lampard. Some of us spend thousands following Chelsea every year...why should we be against the club signing players who can help us get the Premiership back so a nice guy whose legs have gone and is a shadow of his former self without them can plod along whilst our rivals keep collecting titles.

He was imo the only Brazilian player who deserved to be on the winning side..take him out of their side and at best they deserved a draw. Both Keepers looked like the second coming of the immortal Les Fridge. :eyebrows:

Great performance. I don't expect 22 year olds to be consistently great in various roles.

The way 21/22 year olds get slaughtered by our own fans when they go through their growing pains.it's probably for the best that we keep loaning our youngsters away.

27m for a player of his quality..a bargain in these times. If you want to play in London there's only one club for players with high ambition. Matic and Fabregas should be a great duo and those who play ahead of them will be well fed by them. Two or three more signings and i think we are set and maybe won't need to buy anymore for a few years if youth gets developed well.

Ballack was fucking superb btw..wtf?? Imo he proved without any doubt what a class player he was by adapting his game when he came to us..he played second fiddle to Lampard in our midfield but whenever Lampard was out or underperforming he was there to take over. There's very few better complete CM's in the history of the game and was technically the most gifted CM we have ever had along with Gullit (tho Ballack was better in his Chelsea days than Ruud was in his)

For me i won't add any of the great players that have been mentioned as over rated.i don't know how great players can be over rated really. For me i will go Doug Rougvie..rated as the best left back in europe when we signed him..he was pretty shit really..only remarkable gift he had was as an headcase. In one game against Wimbledon's notorious on field thugs he once got sent off for headbutting John "Fash the bash" Fashanu.

John Charles is classed by many to be the greatest british player of all time and among the best worldwide..he was welsh too so Giggs atleast has competition.

I'd pay those cunts 27m in penny coins..a compromise.

Whilst i believe Courtois is the longterm first team GK in waiting,i expect him to have some problems in his first season here so would want us to keep Cech for 1 more season for that reason (and a few others) Cech is apparently likely to miss the start of the season,so Courtois can start the season and we take it from there. We let Courtois go on loan in World cup year when it would have been better for us to have him in our squad instead of Schwarzer. We have employed Cech for 10 years on high wages and given him the oppurtunities to play in many big games and win alot of medals. Both of them should atleast be prepared to compete for one year.

Personally i would pick Kenny O..but think Jose will favour Zouma because he was signed on his watch. For it not to be him i expect Kenny would have to be the star player for Nigeria in them getting to the semi's in the World cup and/or a place on the all World cup team, as one of the best CB's in the tournament. I can see the huge potential in Zouma but as they stand today,i'm not a great fan of his yet.

Like i said if a youngster is promoted to be Matic's understudy like Chalobah then i'm all for it.in a 4-2-3-1 formation tho Mikel as a DM if Matic missed time is alot better option than having Ramires who isn't good at tackling,keeping possesion or passing..Van Ginkel could maybe evolve into the position but is at this point better at the other CM position as is Fabregas. So for those 2 CM positions you have one at DM and 3 to play the other. There's no one really there without Mikel to partner Matic if we want to shut up shop in midfield with 2 DM's Another option would be to bring Oriel back to be Matic's back up..but again not ideal.