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Completely 100% agree with this. The question is does Roman? Time will tell. Like you I think unless changes are made next season will be Groundhog Day again. BTW, I completely support JT giving any player a swift kick in the ass and telling them to get their sh*t together. Evidentally Kalou has never heard what happens in the dressing room stays in the dressing room.

Backstabbing, gossiping, cliques sounds like high school. I feel like I'm watching "Mean Girls" with my daughter. Instead its Chelsea FC, a professional club. Chelsea can get whatever players it wants but the sh*t above is a problem. A strong willed manager who knows he's in charge and who the players know is in charge needs to happen. The inmates are running the asuylum. The way Liverpool handled Torres departure makes me hate them with a passion. BUT.... they said and meant it that no player is bigger than the club. Ferguson has given the boot (literally in Becks case) to long-standing United players without batting an eye - Becks, Keane, etc. The club has to be bigger than any player and until that happens we'll continue to read about this behavior in the media and see it on the pitch. Too many Chelsea players think they ARE the club and the badge is their personal property and their #1 focus is me, I, myself. smh

I get what you're saying about wanting a mentally tough player for the tough times. That said, fighting for your PL lives like Wigan did for weeks has to give a player some experience dealing with adversity and challenges. It may not be CL stress but I'm sure it was no picnic for Wigan players the last month of the season. I'd personally be happy to have N'Zogbia but Roman didn't ask me.

Kinda looks turtlish. It's not complete sh*t but I might have to NOT buy that one.

It's a Sneijder topic with a little Lampard/Essien/Mikel/Ramires thrown in to keep us on our toes.

That's why I asked you yesterday if those were your words or maybe you'd copied them from somewhere else. It made me go blind temporarily.

Isn't he another one whose been linked heavily to Liverpool? Then I thought I read that Wigan said they'd let him go to a CL side so that excludes Liverpool. Maybe all quiet on him is a good thing? Think he'd be a good addition to Chelsea.

Chelsea players, Terry, Lampard, Cole, regulary get picked and play for England, and they still get nothing but abuse from England non-Chelsea supporters. Their desire to play for their country has been rewarded with the consistent kick in the butt from the media. Chelsea and these players can't win.

Posted twice for some weird reason.

I'm not English so I don't share the obvious English flavor you do. Do you think Roman's #1 priority is supporting England or making Chelsea FC the best they can be? Roman being Russian he may not share the same philosophy you do about Chelsea and the English flavor. Roman or whoever is in charge may not agree the English way is what is going to get him the elusive CL trophy.

Are these your words or are you copying them from somewhere else?

There are a lot of dumbasses on twitter who think they're experts or funny. Unlike those of us who post here.

Another goal would have been nice but as long as he didn't pick up an injury I'm happy. Enjoy the month off.

Fernando on for Spain 62' minute. Nothing much happening this second half.

Spain up 3-0 at half. Villa, Pedro, Alonso.

2-0 Spain, Pedro scored.

VDV has committed to playing everybody (supposedly) that he brought on the trip. Even Valdes is finally getting to play.

Everything I read says he's on 175,000 a week.

Evidentally thinking with his little head.

Is Chelsea going after any of them is the question that only Roman knows and he's not telling. I'd be happy with any of them tbh.

I hate Liverpool! Liverpool's mistakes w/Torres "If he (Suarez) then believes it's all about him then I believe we could have a situation we saw with Torres. When you empower players too much to believe its all about them as I believe happened to Fernando Torres you could see what happened to him his last year (at Anfield)". - John Barnes I am so sick of their revisionist bullsh*t. When Fernando was scoring goals faster than any other Liverpool player they were happy it was all about him. Whenever Fernando was hurt the owners couldn't pressure Rafa enough to get him back out on the pitch even if he wasn't fit and they wonder why over time injuries caught up to him. Fernando was a money machine for Liverpool via shirts and other LFC merchandise. When the owners didn't get a backup striker (and not N'gog) they continued to rely on Fernando and Gerrard to carry the offensive load, healthy or not. Fernando told them repeatedly they needed to get better and they needed to be more competitive. Fernando and Reina were one of the few players to publicly speak and say H&G needed to go. Fernando wanted to leave last summer but agreed to stay to help facilitate the sale because even dumbass H&G knew he was valuable to the bottom line. Yet the stupid ass Liverpool kool-aid drinking morons will continue to spin their hate in the Liverpool loving media and tell a headline reading public that Torres did nothing for them and was an ungrateful selfish bastard. I'm a little hostile today. My daughter was diagnosed with her second torn ACL and reading stupid crap like this just pisses me off even more.

Sneijder - great player with astronomical wages. Wouldn't his wages also bump up Terry's and Frank's? Modric - wonderful playmaker, a goal or two would be nice (doesn't need to be 20). Nasri - the more I think about this one the more I like it. Won't cost an arm or leg like Sneijder. Only 23 (soon to be 24). I'd go for Sneijder, Nasri, then Modric. Aren't all three linked with United as first options?

More than anything from Saturday's ass-kicking of the US, I'm glad that after he missed a great opportunity from Alonso's great ball (hesitated too long), he came back and finished off another opportunity. That was a huge + for me. I want to be cautiously optimistic about the future but the unknowns (manager, creative player, players in/out) leave me still wondering what the hell is going on with Chelsea and what will it look like next season.

Torres is his most successful playing on the shoulder of the last defender waiting for the final pass, moving to find space, timing his run, and going to goal. He has never been what one would label a workhorse on the field. As Madmax, Blue Heart, and I've said ad nauseaum, he is like that.

Thought Silva was absolute class in the first half especially. Alonso played the deep playmaker to perfection. A creative midfield can do so much. That said the USMNT was awful in the first half. Bradley's 6 second half subs were an improvement.