calculatingInfinity

Who needs strikers?

Great stuff and some players really showed some fantastic skills. There was a lot of good performances, Hazard was obviously the offensive oracle, but the whole defense was fantastic as well, Azpilicueta has been a revelation this season and Cahill started making much better decisions. Matic was also nothing short of great, powerful and strong to win most of the midfield battles, but also very competent at going forward. It was a great win, but if you must look at the negatives, which there were some of, I really wish Ramires would start fucking thinking before he does what he does. Today he seemed to lose the ball and destroy counters nearly every time he got the ball in that kind of situation, often also just blindly running into a wall of City defenders when there was much better passing options or just making bad passes. He works his ass off though which is always admirable, but dammit he can be frustrating. The lack of goals is also still as worrying as ever, imagine what a team Chelsea could be with a striker of some physical presence of some quality.

Can't blame West Ham for playing the way they did, it proved to be the correct one for them. The lineup from Chelsea however was rather dissapointing and shows how much Chelsea lacks some strength up there. Ba could have been the solution to that, but he came in way too late, although still managed to do a few good things. Also rather dissapointing with players like Mikel who offers absolutely nothing offensively starting when the opposition is playing with 11 in their own box. Also jesus fucking christ, learn to cross Ramires.

Didn't do much at all, but then neither did anyone else on that team... Cardiff was just even worse.

If nothing is signed the price can change just fine, happens all the time that the selling club will keep changing their demands.

Yes, that is why they said he didn't train for the last few days at least.

To be fair I would fling spit and snot at those two bellends too. Don't believe for a moment Chelsea are getting Costa in this window though. Don't even really believe in the next one.

He admitted to lying with the exact same last transfer window.... and he should lie about it, why let anyone know you're desperate for their players or promise fans anything when you can't be sure it will happen.

I don't agree he's a similar talent. Even if he was Ravel is a fucking window licker though, not worth the trouble.

What young quality left backs are on the market? Only one I can think off with the same class as Shaw at such a young age is Digne but he went to PSG and I doubt he would want to move already... or that it wouldn't be even more expensive. Great full backs in general seems to be a rarity these days.

Rooney is a fucking master at contract negotiations. First he will go all unhappy, not play a few games and get all of Old Trafford to booh him. Then he will start talking about not being appreciated, just to sign some bloated contract offer from United.

Go read it. It says they agreed a fee, and the player is still to accept personal terms and pass his medical.

Of course it's bullshit. He's there with another player on a visit as they got a few days off by Zenit.... So they went to London for a small holiday break.

I don't appreciate him being so willing to go instead of staying and fighting, but then again you never know what might have happened behind the scenes. But I also wouldn't call him Judas at all, he did a lot of great stuff for the club and he left a big mark on it, Will remember him fondly but won't mind him doing terribly at United even if they are of no threat to Chelsea right now.

He should be allowed to express his opinion however he wants off the pitch (well as long as it's not racist/anti semitic/hate speech shit) and I do agree with him to some extend, but if it affects anything on the pitch the least I want him kicked out on his ass. Can't have cunts running around who are unsure if they want to go to Israel to play a football match as they don't recognize it as being Israel. @The only place to be That is one of the things. In the first match (of the two qual matches) he actually refused to shake their hands under a terrible excuse of putting on new boots... He went and put the boots on the sideline and then ran over there when they were about to shake hands lol... and that was after him making a hell lot of comments about Israel.

I like how there's some kind of self acceptance in that, saying Arsenal aren't title challengers.

Quoted the wrong post sorry lol, there was a post on the same page with that #10 talk. I blame it on the freezing cold outside, my poor fingers were dying typing on the phone.

He never actually did this. The whole Hazard transfer was a saga in bad translations or rather the English media's translating they pleased. What he said was he preferred the number 10 position, not number... He even confirmed later he didn't talk about that later on.

Altidore is coming, greatest striker in the premier league.

Well what can I say, extremely dissapointed in the board. But will always love Mata and what he has done for Chelsea, I wish you luck, but also United to crash and burn... Why couldnt it be Madrid, PSG or something like that?

Come on man...

Fuck this

Hopefully all this is bullshit. Selling Mata to united is beyond stupid, sure they might not threaten Chelsea this season but Mata is a good fucking start for rebuilding their squad. If Mata was go sell him to another league.

Twitter can be great. The problem is people trying to get the scoop by posting obviously fake stuff as they just want to be the first, without even thinking first.