coolhead23

Phew!!! 3 points finally ... Ivan and Fabregas r fast becoming a liability ... We keep losing our defensive shape and ends up being a chaos .... Positives: Loved the directness that Pedro brings in ... I mean never saw that with Willian ... He drafted into the team so easily, was a very very good performance ... For a change Costa was on his toes rather than the shenanigans I m glad by assessment on Pedro is proving wrong for now ... And hope it keeps being wrong throughout.. .

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! ... Come on Jose! Ivan starting again ...

:tophat: Had you been the negotiator, Pogba would have already put in his transfer request ... These pointers would surely have him running to Chelsea and no place else

Honestly, if Zouma can play CM from time to time so can Pogba For me it is not a position suited for him .. yes he like going forward but that doesnt make him a no10. CM is the position he should be at and own it, potential is clearly there to be there among the best. Feel that with Pogba coming in Oscar would be able to play a free no10 role and could have an excellent season. This is purely my opinion, no disrespect to yours.

I dont think Pogba would be a good no 10 or a no10 at all ... however he can be a legend if he plays CM and becomes b2b kind of player who drives forward.

Not sure about this signing ... Pedro wouldn't make it to the first team for sure ... Is he going to replace Willian or Oscar, I doubt. He has been with Barca all his life where they have it ease in terms of referring decisions and less pressure as it was shared mainly by the Messis, Xavis, Inisiteas ... PL will be difficult as it is much more physical than the La Liga and he doesn't come across as someone who is going to take the hits. Performance end as well there is anything great, decent player for me ... Having said this I wish and hope that I'm wrong in my assessment ... And also happy that atleast we finally ventured into the market ...

If we have to shell out more than 30m .. why not try to lure Varane, better chance of Madrid accepting it than Everton ...

Bingo!!!!

Not sure to be happy about this transfer ... because he is going to be on the bench (i dont think he can replace Azpi from LB right away) or might be played out of position and he will fade off ...

What is he talking about? ... How can u be happy with the performance, we didnt offer anything ... City dominates us through and through ... The only positive was that we didnt park from the 1st min ...

Bad really bad performance as the match progressed ... Jose is just losing it Honeymoon over for Costa ... Someone needs to tell that he is playing football not Rugby. The only plus for the entire match was that we started pretty positively and not by parking over-selves. Also Begavoic and Matic were absolutely superb.

So who is Mr.Jose gonna blame today ... the extra 8000 crowd?

The Bloody F***, Begovic! Phew!

That was the start of things from which he never recovered ...How can you explain someone who was supposedly the next best thing to just another 18yr old player in a span of a year ...

Not sure what did they not see in him to give him a chance as a third striker instead of pinning hope in a 29yr old brittle player ... Anyways different story. Palace already have 2 strikers in front of Bamford which will be more preferred players than a loanee ... this decrease his chances a lot to get into the starting eleven. Having said that, I hope he get a chance.

Good point however how is he going to prove himself if he doesnt get a chance ... Josh Mceachran was on a good momentum when he was loaned to Swansea, look what happened. His career actually went backwards instead of going ahead. I really hope Bamford gets good chances which he can grab with both hands...

Guessing, Jose is deliberately doing what he is doing ... because there is a tough competition in town (LVG) ...

The moment the match started my jaw actually dropped seeing Costa's run (WTF, wasnt he injured or something) ... I was confused/shocked/amazed/etc/etc/etc seeing the start ... This was a very different Chelsea than the one in the pre-season... We really played well in parts ... happy about it. Bad substitution in getting Zuma, not sure what was the plan there. Happy with the point because of the efforts put in. Oscar might .. just might turn out to have THE season that we all want him to, Matic is going to be the integral part, Iva is bad, Begavic is good, Terry is slowing down and somehow (i hope i m wrong) I feel Hazard has hit the ceiling in terms of what he can bring to the table. Teams have started reading him out now. Arsenal loss is the cherry on the cake after yesterday results ...

Beat this ... I had Guzan in as the keeper and at the min (with like 15mins to go) ... had a brain fart ... changed it with Tibo ... ended up with -2

Right now, I'm just seeing a bad dream which will end when the Swansea game starts and all will be well ... Desperately hoping this is the chain of events for me ... Everyone is talking about Hazard tries to push a level and the Oscars, the Willians, the Falcoas ... One thing that I feel is that if any point in time Matic has an injury or a suspension, we will get exposed big time. Matic is the most underrated player and he is the one who can push his abilities to the next level. Back to sleep now ... Alarms set for start of the game.

For me Ake is a versatile player who can play in the LB position plus the fact he is just 20 and if given a chance he will do much better job than Rose ... Not wanting to sound arrogant but I stand by on what i said. I m not comparing them just saying Ake would do a better job. And if u think Rose is a better player and someone who should be part of Chelsea then maybe you must have seen something which I didnt while he playing with Spurs ... For me he just about average and I would be disappointed if he ends up here ...

Fair play ... He did improve last season but he was at zero and he went to like 2 or 2.5 (on a scale of 5) ... Spurs had no one to rotate him with because they got no pace at that position. So yes he did well because nothing was expected out of him ... I mean all he had in his career were those 2 wonder goals against Arsenal (or was it one) then he was no where to be seen. Now in terms of quality between Spurs and Chelsea ... I believe you would agree that we are head and tails above them ... We kept Luis on the bench who is rated highly as a LB (atleast in comparison with Rose), so please explain how does it make sense to replace Luis with Rose ... (Please dont say Home-grown) On the insult part ... I m not sure who is insulted here ... Is it Rose or Ake? I will stand by to what I said ... Ake would do a much better job if he plays at that position. Rose might be a world class player for Spurs (& their fans) who only aspires to be part of top 4 but he is just about average for Chelsea who are expected to win titles year on year. We got a much higher ceiling in terms of quality.

Are we so desperate now? Better to give Ake a shot at that position and I'm sure we will do better than him ...

There is nothing new that we offered. Kinda expected result ... Just about average and very predictable, just having more possession doesn't mean we were in control ... how many break did we get after so much possession? How many efforts on goals? Says it all ... Didn't like the approach towards the game ... I understand still pre-season, less training, too much travel ... But then everyone has same level playing field and this is a competitive game whether we like it or not ...And we didn't play like Champions ... Arsenal is adapting... It is a dangerous sign, as they have the team ... it has been their approach which was their pain area in the past. If they strategize properly and get a player or 2 more ... Feel they will start as favorites.

Ohhh .. Crap! I gonna try again ... Brendan, is that you? Sometimes ruthless, sometimes democratic, you can make the tough decisions , even if occasionally you get them wrong. You are confident you know best – but you’ve not quite proven yourself at the very highest level yet.