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With Hazard and Mata behind you even a POS striker will score goals. He'll be fine. Even when he wasn't scoring goals, he's still very very good at making some ridiculously good key passes and his vision is probably one of the best among EPL strikers, probably second after Tevez imo. I think Danny and Torres will both be successful playing striker next season.

Maybe I'm one of the few that doesn't rate him. That said, maybe I haven't watched him enough. But if we do sign him, he'll play LW which means Hazard goes to the right? Or I'm thinking he's just a squad player. Since guys like Moses and Schurrle are being linked with us, it seems Di Matteo is convinced we're going to deploy Ramires at RW otherwise we would be looking at strictly first choice RW and not these versatile wide players that really aren't good enough to be first-choice.

Can we just have a thread where we ask you questions and you give these jizz-worthy answers. Thanks to you and Ollie for the info.

If it's viral meningitis, he'll be fine.

Butland Richards - Caulker - Tomkins - Bertrand Bellamy - Allen - Cleverly - Giggs Ramsey Sturridge

crappy airlines, funny im using them to fly to the chelsea preseason game in new york haha, i want a discount now for being a chelsea fan

She's standing next to Frank, she can wear whatever she wants it still won't make people look at her. Damn, Frank is sexy!!

Dont have sunglasses, but my prescription glasses have photochromic lenses that turn dark in the sun.

Got my tickets for the NY game Can't wait.

Fixed.

I had the league and cup games all with X-rated in consecutive matches, I thought today was the league game and the last one was the cup game. So stupid, just handed him a league win when I thought it was the cup loool.

lol it was a joke dude, relax every single pundit in the world was saying the same thing that ever since RDM took over he's playing Frank more, he just said the same thing but joked about it, dont see the big deal

Jesus Navas would be such a beast at RW if he didn't get homesick every other day.

This is good news, because it'll speed up the process. Now either he just takes the new contract and or force a move by putting in a transfer request. Another good thing is that we've been negotiating with him early in the window so even if it doesnt go through we have plenty of time to look at other targets.

No I don't mean we need a tall defensive midfielder, not at all. My point is that our TEAM needs some kind of aerial threat in the midfield/forward line. Nowhere did I say that a defensive midfielder has to be tall to be good. When we had those average height defensive mid or center mids, we had height elsewhere in the midfield/forward line to compensate. Our team needs some height, and Fellaini addresses that.

What if Ivanovic gets injured? We need a RB for cover.

The reason I want Fellaini is because he's tall as hell. We lost a lot of height with Drogba and with all the midgets we have now, we are very short and weak. We need that tall guy who can win some headers in the middle of the park, otherwise we're stuck with just one way of play, always have a plan B. Fellaini is a one man Plan B like Drogba, of course not as good, but at least he gives us that option. And the way he's played for Everton further up the pitch, he'd be great.

Dooooo it!

3rd goal was amazing.

a lot of hard work there, just for you

Relax mate, Lampard is a CM and this season has went back to CDM (in the pivot). Mata did play LW earlier in the season, but ever since we switched to 4-2-3-1 he's played as an CAM and that is his best position. Maybe people shouldn't have been mean spirited when they corrected you, but you are misinformed about some of your claims. I mean, it's not like we're arguing opinions.

When's the last time you actually saw a Chelsea match? Mata has ONLY played CAM for the second half of the season. Hazard also played CAM at Lille all year, although he'll be a winger at Chelsea since we have Mata. Meireles can play there as well. And, Jovetic can NEVER be like Lampard, not sure how you think he's similar to Lampard.

Yup, in basketball. I think it's a great system. If some over ambitious team wants to go over the salary cap, they still can, but it'll cost them double and they are forced to compensate the rest of the league. The only problem with it is that it has to be implemented in all football leagues, otherwise the premier league will loose a lot of quality. It'll get more competitive domestically and it'll encourage youth development even more so than now, but if it's not implemented worldwide then the premier league gets significantly less competitive in Europe.

You're way way too quick to judge a player's mentality. I respect your footballing opinion though and agree with everything else you said. But saying stuff like he wore a big hoodie and seemed like he thought of himself as a great prospect is ridiculous.

Can't be setting a cap on player wages. If anything have a team payroll cap and implement a luxury tax, where if you go over the cap by 10M you have to pay the same amount to the rest of the teams as a luxury tax. So if you plan on going over the cap by 10M, you have to reserve another 10M as luxury tax and distribute it evenly to the rest of the teams in the league. This will still allow some teams to go over the cap, but at a heavy price.