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If you're at a club with a billionaire owner and you NEED and DEMAND a player like Lukaku (at seemingly any cost) then please leave. A player with the first touch of a cripple. Just fuggedabouit.

If it's Conte's decision then sack him, honestly. Start again before it's too late.

No weaknesses

It is so fucking frustrating man. I am so sick of these Lukaku links because there has to be some truth to it. 50m+ for a player you're unsure is ever going to control the ball properly. How can you build a fluid and consistent attacking team around such an erratic footballer? Marcelo is a better football and attacker than damn near our entire attacking midfielders and strikers. A LB! Embarrassing.

From what I've seen he is painfully slow. There has to be a reason why nobody is signing him

It seems we're on intent on building a team that plays shit football forever.

Love it. We need more characters and players with personality on the team.

sheesh look at Cahill. my goodness, how bad can you get?

Look at Terry there hahahahaha he can play for another 2-3 years they said joke ting

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Every move breaks down after the second pass. Pointless watching this to be honest

He is a better attacker than everybody at the club not named Hazard to be fair.

Marcelo is a better attacker than every Chelsea player not named Hazard. That's a LB.

I know. I just wanted to reinforce how shit Oscar is...because he is woeful. This idea that he will be better in CM needs to die asap.

Considering how badly Matic is playing that's not saying much. Both awful.

Matic and Oscar is even worse than Matic and Mikel. Oscar is not a CM. The definition of a nothing player; he does nothing well.

Nonsense story. Emenalo won't let this happen.

His English is improving all the time. By the end of the year he will have an even better command of the language. Really impressed because he's clearly given it a lot of effort.

Hazard could probably lose the fluff with some serious HIIT sessions Conte already knows what to do

Mourinho sabotaged us. He tried to weaken us knowing he was going to Man Utd all along. I even read a quote from Kennedy where he said Mourinho tried to play him at CB ffs.

Trust me, I get what you're saying: use this season a platform to build on for next season, get back to basics etc. I wouldn't be averse to that if it ultimately does come down to just that, but we have a rare opportunity. With no European football we can speed up the transition process somewhat. If we make the right signings, Conte has an entire season to figure things out. Whole weeks, uninterrupted, to really drill and coach players must be a manager's dream. Agree with most of that. Is Zouma only really 6 weeks away? I thought he'd be out until at least November. I hope and pray Zouma doesn't take too long to trust his body again because I don't want to see his development cut short; these are prime education years for him. I do agree that CB is our most important need. We can't start the 2016 season with a Terry and Cahill partnership. Absolute nightmare and a joke for a club with our ambitions and resources. As for RB, I want to see Azpi move back to his natural position and for Baba to be given a chance. What is the point of buying players and not giving them a chance to develop? Managers need to do some coaching, you can't just keep having ready made players all the time. Coaching and player development is part of the the job. And if he doesn't take his chance then that opens the door for an Aina or or somebody else. If we signed a new CB we would be able to go into next season with new CB, Zouma, Christensen and ideally a young player promoted or somebody back from loan. I absolutely agree with the last part though; I think Conte will get the best out of some of the players who underperformed last year. I have had this feeling from the stuff he says and how hards they seem to be training during pre-season.

In terms of importance, how do you rank our needs for the 16-17 season?

We have one game a week for most of the season so there's no midweek games to worry about. Conte has the perfect conditions to sign quality players (in all areas of the team) and work on them throughout the year. No CL is potentially a blessing in disguise. All that time to prepare, train and coach shouldn't be wasted on keep it tight, try nick a goal, shit on a stick football.

True true, maybe we can play Azpi at RW.