Waterfall

Yup. If it's only for 3M, I think it's worth it. He's only going to be a backup (a much better one than Turnbull) and we'll probably easily be able to sell him again when he's not needed.

Absolute disgrace that they are not charging Swansea. Appeal all the way for me

Most papers are predicting the ban to remain at 3 games. Good time to rest for him.

Read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jan/24/eden-hazard-ballboy-chelsea-swansea?CMP=twt_gu Best piece on this ball boy saga

Rest Mata. He needs it

Media's going to go absolutely crazy now. Look at the picture Daily Mail decided to use Makes it look like Hazard kicked the kid in the head

Both the French and Belgian media always spoke highly of his character, I am obviously biased, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was being naive. It seriously didn't look malicious and he was obviously trying to kick the ball. Deserves a ban, but no need to discredit his character

His form's dropped quite a bit I think. I wish we could give him some rest, but with Hazard out, we've got no chance without him

I probably would have done the same thing, but he shouldn't have done that. End of story. 5-10 games ban.

No ball movement with Ramires, Cahill and Ivanovic all playing so close to each other

This kid is so impressive, I wish we could secure his rights and loan him back to Southampton or something

I hope that little burst of pace from yesterday is enough to convince other clubs to take a shot at him

Didn't Liverpool hire a manager because they liked Swansea's style of game? How's that working out for them?

Hiddink should come out of retirement

I would have liked Guardiola, but my first choice has always been Jose anyway. The only problem is that if Jose decides to stay at Real or got to City instead, our Plan B would suck

Hope this was worth it cause his HG eligibility is now gone

I'm surprised that Malaga even want him. He's a talented player obviously, but getting such an inexperienced player on loan seems rather random for a club as good as Malaga. Maybe we are targeting Isco

Mata only joined Valencia when he was 19 and left 4 years later with just one trophy. One would think Chelsea is arguably already the more important football club for him as this is where he won the CL.

I think he scored a brilliant goal quite recently.

Making a legit case for not spending 50M on a striker this summer.

You guys are making it sound like Kalou and Bosingwa were worse than Torres and their only attributes were work ethic and commitment. They also performed better than Torres. It's an insult to compare Torres to any of our former players

How's he with the ball? Because I think we've already got decent ball-winning midfielders in Luiz and Ramires and a capable holding mid in Mikel. I would like a ball-playing mid in one of the two pivot positions. The link between our defence and Mata/Oscar/Hazard is so weak right now

Everything Drogba's done for us feels even more like a dream after 5 months of playing with no striker. Honestly how the fuck did we go from that to this?

Torres had it EASY for last 2 years. Everyone's been cheering and singing his name for TWO FUCKING YEARS. If his name was Kalou, people would have started booing him since the first week. If you don't do your job, you get sacked. Since a footballer can't get sacked, you boo the fuck out of him. I've got no sympathy for him. Don't boo him because he already knows he sucks? Well... if he knows that he sucks, it would be nice if he gave back his wages.

Why do we keep playing Torres?