Tomo

Betrand is so defensively good he is wasted on the wing and i am worried about him getting too comfortable there. On the wing he knows if he gets skinned (which is a very rare occurance) Ash is behind him to bail him out, if he gets too used to that, it will take a while to get use to him not having that when Ash leaves and he is first choice. IMHO it should be a slow transition of who is first choice left back, starting with Ryan there tonight against The Royals.

2 thing's a young player needs to make it at a club challenging at the top, firstly the quality to do it and secondly the patience to wait for the break through. Josh has the first and then some, if he has the second then he will be a top top player for us, no doubt about it.

It's good we have the badge on the dugout seats now, i can't wait to see Wenger and Fergie sitting on them, just ashame Kenny and Rafa are still not around

How long before one of our players tweet saying their jealous there not on the bench

Ours is better

That's true, QPR were never a prem club during his time at Stamford Bridge, i doubt any of our current crop who played on that sunday afternoon in October will touch will place,especially David Luiz.

Just rise above it or use the ignore button.

I like you myself, but you don't do yourself any favours by randomenly insulting other user's.

If he is the main man to getting Boro promoted and they want him for their Premiership campaign he would have a pretty solid platform to force his way in with us.

We can't go throwing away experience whoever it is, have we learned nothing from laughing at Arsenal these last 7 years?

A year late a loan like this but better late than never.

I would say there is more off an obsession with so called attacking full backs who have a little bit of pace. That is the only reason the likes of Alves, Bosingwa (before his injury), Johnson, Walker, Rafeal, Fabio and Van Aanholt are rated at all, let alone as high as they are. Take their pace away and the lot of those listed players are utter donkeys.

The thing is it is not just us out of the top club's that have failed miserably at promoting youth players in the past decade, were just the one's scapegoated for some reason. United only really brought though Fletcher through the whole of the 00's, Welbeck and Cleverly have broke through recently but that was after a full season on loan in the Premier League and they were both in their 20's when Fergie started playing them, so they had to be patient. Liverpool have brought no one through since Gerrard, apart from really Kelly. I don't count Spearing as he has only made minimal more appearances there than McEachran has for us and he's 4 years older than Josh. Teams that give youth a chance from a young age usually lose them by the time they get to 22, Rodwell the latest the long list of examples. Had City not got took over they would have lost Richards and Hart years ago.

Whether Josh makes it at Chelsea is down to him, to make it at a top club challenging for trophies you need two things, quality and patience, Ryan is the prime example. Now Josh is undoubted quality so he is half way there, whether he makes it here depends on whether he is patient enough to bide his time like Ryan did.

This is going to be a controversial opinion but for 1 or 2 years, then i think this will be a really good move. Now the title is imo out of reach this season, we finished 25 points behind the Top 2, something that will not be rectified in 12 months, our main aim is to get back in the Top 4. What was it that cost us our Champions League place (via the domestic route) last season? The stupid amount of points we dropped in the so called "lesser games". As he shown in 2010/2011, Berbatov is one of the best in the business when it comes to "sweeping up" against the weaker teams, yes he may not be that much of a big game player, but if we get say 50 points out of a available 60 out of the bottom half teams, we will only need 20/60 against the top half teams to all but secure our Champions League place the following season. Berbatov around would sure mean we drop less points at places like Carrow Road this time out.

He will be the best manager ever by the time he retires, there really is no body like him, the confidence he bring's to team's, the assurance he gave our fans. If the worse happens and RDM gets sacked, then Jose has to return. Im usually against second coming's and have been against a Jose 2nd coming for a long time, but the more i think about it, the more i would want it if Roman pulled the plug on RDM.

Spurs? a team that are currently in close competition with us If we are stupid enough to let him go, then let him go to a club that haven't got a chance of finishing above us, like Liverpool.

Was happy he went for his own sake, there were a lot fans that didn't rate him, which is far enough he wasn't that great but what really did annoy me is they couldn't even praise him when he has a good game and still were in his player profile talking shit. While were on the subject is the old Kalou thread still around? i wanna see what the reaction was when he scored a hat trick against Stoke.

I can still never forget the roar of disappointment around me in the Matthew Harding Lower when fans found out Lampard scored the goal against Sunderland and not Torres off the bar. The most cringe worthy moment of my life (life not just footballing life) and its beat's some stiff competition.

When we won 6-0 there 2 season's back, we only had 7 shots, and the one that didn't go in the goal got put in on the rebound. So we could say we were poor that day too.

There is a huge difference between hate and not trying to glorify every little thing he does. Why does everything said about Torres that isn't a full blown compliment get translated as hate? it's not. Do i critisize Torres? yes, his performances for Chelsea have not been good enough for a player who overall cost £100m, (contract and transfer). I also can't stand the myth doing the rounds that we supposedly owe him. The excuses made up for him annoy me when you consider Malouda, Kalou, Danny and even Didier have got bashed (in Danny's case still is) for much less. Do i hate Torres and take happiness in seeing him suffer? no, far from it, i would love it if he turns his Chelsea career around.

I know im kicking myself, tommorow when im out getting pissed with a mate i haven't seen for years, i will be screwing that i didn't respond to you sharpish, tbh it might ruin my day

Don't like what i post, then feel free to use the ignore button.

It's called rotation and competition. This is Chelsea FC not Torres FC

Thought we defended well today, very well.