calculatingInfinity

I disagree. He offers lots and has shown it lots of times. He didn't have the best match today, neither did Fabregas, Luis or Oscar. Neither are robbing the club of anything, and I find it idiotic to claim anyone are robbing the club of anything.

Clueless. Mikel is extremely useful for keeping possession and wasting time. Go back and watch that match he had against Bayern, class performance. He's not robbing anything, the club willingly gave him that contract and the manager clearly likes him, although Matic is pretty much superior to him in every way.

Only really good player for Chelsea today were Matic, Willian and Courtois. Hazard didn't do nearly enough on the wing, Drogba despite the goal is still 36 years old and moves like a tank, Oscar didn't do much at all. The defense was mostly fine too, Luis not looking too good in a few moments going forward though. Fabregas dissapointed, but Fellatio (easily Uniteds best player btw, are they done booing him yet?) marking was good on him all day and with the lack of speed with Drogba is made it a lot easier for the United defense to focus on Hazard and Willian that he couldn't get the passed to properly. Oh well, 1 point on City is decent, but it sucks the way it was lost. Also this match just shows even more what I said since the beginning of the season. Chelsea doesn't have the depth needed for people to already congratulate Chelsea on the title. A few injuries and the team looks weak, a few more and there's very untested players being played like Ake will have to with both Ivan and Azpilicueta out. Should have kept Van Ginkel or Romeu.

Don't think that is true at all. I was getting really sick of him in the last 1/3 of last season, but he has been fairly consistent this season and delivered on a generally high level.

He might have ebola, but even then surely he can score a goal or two against United.

I don't know what is wrong with a captain nearing 30, but Cahill is at least a good shout if we exlude Ivan and Luis then.

Well first of all I disagree with Khedira not being a step forward, he's a very useful midfielder if he should sign. But more importantly, there's just not a lot of depth in the midfield. Mikel will be gone for African cup of nations soon, that will leave Chelsea with only Ramires, Matic and Fabregas for a good months time with lots of matches, it wouldn't take many injuries to completely fuck over Chelsea and destroy the title hopes. Pogba is apparently refusing to sign a new contract at Juve and he only got 1 ½ year left on it. It would make sense for Juve to sell soon, if he still doesn't want to sign a new contract, otherwise he would just go free.

Even when he isn't having much success with anything, as was the case for long periods of the match today, he keeps fucking going without hanging his head down and works hard as fuck for it. It usually ends up paying off. What a change from Torres.

As you say, he's getting asked the same boring shitty questions and just say the same boring shit in response. It's the journalists job to ask of something more interesting, can't blame him for auto piloting that shit.

We really need the video of that.

I wouldn't laugh at that argument just yet, Jean-Louis Dupont probably knows what he is doing. Also don't forget that FFP isn't just about world star players on top teams like City and such, it's also teams from Malta, Latvia and all kinds of places you probably have never even heard of a footballer from... So the argument while maybe seeming silling for the big clubs, that he is actually doing it for, it works on the other levels too and could very well be seen as a breach of european competition law.

Well I can only speak for myself here but... Hell fucking no. Nothing will make me forget him for Chelsea, even if he scored and "took" two points from Chelsea.

Hard to blame Lampard for doing his job. Of course it sucked to concede, with one player more on the pitch, and a former very loyal player and legend of anyone scoring. But well, not much to do about that now, still think letting Lampard go was the correct decision no matter how much this right here sucked. What I am pissed about is sending Drogba on... and going too defensive when up one goal with one man advantage, gave way too much of the ball to City.

That selective quoting, where you are cutting out "Matic is going to need ramires and willian/oscar to fightt he midfield battle". Look at your video again, Luiz is right there. Alone with Fabregas, Matic has been overrun by most midfields but our offensive flair has been enough to win matches anyway, but with Ramires next to him I think they could do it and I'm pretty sure that's going to be the option Mou goes with.

There's only one reasonable response to this. Fire Mourinho. On a serious note, as some of you already pointed out: Luis looked great.... and so did Hazard for the most part. But there's not that much else good to say.

Why is that funny? Bayern has done well and Bayern Munich is written as Bayern Monaco a lot of places. I at least have a hard time pointing towards a club having done better than Bayern other than Chelsea.

Arguing about who is the very best is always a bit hard and usually just ends up being silly, but I will say I doubt there's anyone that fits Chelsea better than Diego Costa does, so for Chelsea he is the best.

I'm sorry to bump this but with Van Ginkel possibly going out on loan, the central midfield at Chelsea all of a sudden looks extremely thin. With rumors of Southampton being after a midfielder, I think Schneiderlin would be a perfect signing for Chelsea, especially with him also counting as homegrown.

Coleman deserved that, fucking cunt lol