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2.5M + add-ons. Not sure if he has a chance here, maybe just to give Eden company.

Hazard, Marin, Lukaku were nice. BUT did you lot see Essien!! Dude was beasting the midfield by himself hahaha, man he looked gooood. If he gets back to decent form boy we'll be beast. I thought Essien was the most badass player in the world when he was on form. I'm very excited for him, hopefully he continues and doesn't get unlucky with injuries, would be a huuuge bonus.

lol chillllllllll we won UCL broooo

Where'd you get that from?

Congrats. I got suspensions at the wrong time and now on a horrible run of form. That said, you deserved you were consistently better over both legs. Don't think I would have beaten you even if I had everyone.

Lampard, Hazard are top two. Then take your pick between Mata, Luiz, Meireles, Cole.

I don't think you can call a penalty good or bad just by looking at power and placement. Deception is half the battle when it comes to penalties. The short two step run-up Drogba took screws with Neuer's head because he would have seen all of Drogba's penalties and realized wait wtf he's never done this before, now I'm not prepared at all.

No one called him a racist. But do people think he said those words as an insult? Yes possible. Still doesn't make him a racist. Even if he was found guilty, it's wouldn't have been for being racist rather for making a racist remark.

Yeah exactly. That's what my point is. If I look at it logically and use common sense I am pretty confident he's guilty. However, I'm not sure if there is enough evidence to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

Lip reading isn't the only evidence. The second evidence, the indisputable one is that Terry has admitted to saying "Fuck off, fuck off, yeah yeah, you black cunt? You knob head" So even if the video and lip reading is complete dismissed, you still have Terry's confession of saying that quote. The question then becomes what context it was said in. Terry has never denied he didn't utter "black cunt" The case is simply regarding the context it was uttered in. Was it simply Terry repeating Anton or was Terry in fact the first one to say it. That's the case. I thought he was guilty until Cole said he "saw" Anton say "black cunt". So if you dismiss lip reading, which I'm fine with, you can dismiss Cole's testimony. If you do that, I think he's guilty but even then not sure there is enough to convict him.

Ramires, Hazard, Sturridge and Marin. I am not putting Oscar ahead of any of those guys on the RW right now.

The pivot role is way too deep for Oscar. His future is CM or CAM. In a 4-2-3-1 he'll play CAM. In 4-3-3 he can play CM.

No Moutinho didn't. Oscar has played on the right before, however I do agree with you he shouldn't be considered an option there. Oscar at wide right is only a possibility in instances similar to when Bosingwa is asked to play CB. Has he played there? Yeah. Can he be servicable there sometimes. Sure. First choice there? Hell no.

Dude, I don't know if you're a busy dude or not, but I wish you would do match reports for every Chelsea match. I would love to read your analysis. You should also do a player analysis of every single Chelsea player. I swear I could ask you so many things, you seem to know a lot and I'm curious and want to learn as much as I can. Of course doing all of that is a lot of work, but I figured I would ask because I love stuff like this more than anything lol. Great post, hope you do more.

I was just reading, Terry's statement that he gave to the police and Terry said with full certainty that he said these words after he "heard" Anton accusing him of calling him a black cunt. "Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, yeah yeah a black cunt? You knob head" I'm sorry, if someone accuses of call them a black cunt, you don't respond like that. GUILTY!

I'd love Azpi here but would he be happy being 2nd choice considering he's in his prime and good enough to be first choice on a lot of teams?

Where did you get those quotes from? There are videos or transcripts?

I'm not sure if he can play in a 4-2-3-1. If you put a gun to my head, i'd say a #10 is the only option you have. He's a fit in a 4-3-3, he can play in the midfield Lamps role. The double pivot requires too much defensive work for McEachran to be even considered. Maybe in the future he can add that to his game since he's still just developing but I really don't see the potential in that aspect of his game.

I really hope we don't loose Danny cause of this guy. Torres with Sturridge 2nd choice is LETHAL imo.

Playing Josh in the double-pivot is as good playing Mikel alone in the double pivot.

Someone created this exact topic earlier today and mods merged it to the "Future Chelsea Team" thread. And, people are discussing it there, so I guess just continue there since this will be merged or deleted soon.

Oscar isn't a #10, he might be able to play it, but I don't think his future is there. Even for Brazil he wore the #10 jersey but played nothing like a #10 but more like a centre-mid, which is where his future is so he wont be rotating with Mata & Hazard. And, Marin's best position is LW not in the hole. He also can play in the hole but it's not his best position either.

I don't know if we should. He's still only 17 and with the changes to the youth and reserve games and the u18 CL tournament, I'm sure he'll get a lot of good games. And, I think he's still eligible for the youth cup. All of that > championship imo.

Chelsea is doing exactly the right thing. We seem to be the only interested party and Hulk will also agree terms. Porto wants more money right now, but the fact is that even the 30M Chelsea are supposedly offering its the most they'll EVER get for Hulk. No one is giving them more than that, and since they are a selling club, I'm pretty confident they'll agree eventually. They will hold out as long as possible though, just cause they can and to allow Chelsea to feel the pressure and possibly increase the transfer sum, but at the end of the day if Chelsea has made an offer, they will accept. Hulk is 25, if they want to make money off him, this is the time otherwise it's as good as asking him to retire for Porto, cause no way they make as much money off him as they can this summer. However, considering we've been going after Moses and Oscar, total of probably 30M which we offered for Hulk might seem like we've given up on Hulk altogether, cause I don't see us spending THAT much this year. Moses & Oscar + Hulk, that's too much money imo. I think Chelsea had two options 30M Hulk or 30M for Oscar + Moses and they chose the latter.

There are two options really. 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. Both formations I used the same starting eleven, cause I think those are our best 11 and should be starting. Now preseason is where RDM tries these 11 in both these formations and see what works best. In the 4-3-3 the midfield 3 all play in their best positions, but the front 3 not necessarily. In the 4-2-3-1, mid seems fine and so does the attack imo, maybe Ramires isn't the best RW in the world, but I think he's good enough there and I will always have him on the team sheet cause he's such a dynamic player. 4-2-3-1 4-3-3