didierforever

did u just compare sturridge to BA? seriously? anyways since he is simply not doing ANYTHING for us. we might as well sell him off. specially if a team wants him (and any team would do, PL teams included), i dont see him making a very big difference.

with defoe leaving wont tottenham need a 3rd striker??? how about BA? just offload him.

no one wants to buy him. simple.

mvg, rambo, matic, romeu, mikel, lamps, essien, josh, chalobah. a lot of options for us.would be interesting to see what jose chooses.

so let me get this straight, we should loan out thibaut to fulham/sunderland to see how he performs and then take a decision if he is capable of playing for us!!!! i mean this has got to be the weirdest statement i have read in a long time. and also, your statement shows exactly how less u have seen of courtouis and ATM over the last 3 years. also i found this very amusing, lukaku is not good enough for us cos he played in a "weaker" team like wba and scored 17 goals, hence he cant play with us cos we dont play the same style. and now courtious is not good enough for us cos he is playing for a strong team and has not proved himself in a weak team. hahahahaha... i doubt if neuer would be able to make it here.

hahahaha... some of the comments here are hilarious. i guess jealousy and our pathetic striker situation plays a big part in this bitterness.

really? where is it written that "proper football" is conceding 3, and scoring 5 out of which 2 were flukes and one was a dive. are u sure u r a chelsea fan. i remember u saying that pool would "thrash" us 3-0.

he is back bitches!!!

will mikel be available? i heard he might go to nigeria or something..

i dont expect any change from the previous match. cech azpi GC JT AC DL rambo willian oscar hazard torres.

"leper"!!! No one is casting aside cech like a "leper". but it is one thing to give him a legendary status and another thing to take a decision simply out of sentimentality. courtious IS already a WC keeper and he is only 21 year old. Cech IS also a WC keeper but he is 31. ina heartless world, there would not even be a discussion of what the right decision would be. but sometimes such decisions have to be taken. DD was "let go" while FT was given the mantle of our no.1 striker, but that dint mean he was cast aside like a leper. sometimes tough decisions have to be made for the long term

liverLOL...

one manager can and probably will make one mistake in his lifetime but when 2 different managers do the same thing and that too beniyez did it over a period of half a season and now jose has done it, there must be something to it. Its not a decision thst they have made in just one match. Moreover, we seem to be winning games and DL seems to be playing well.

so u just compared heskey's striking prowess to DL's defensive prowess. seems legit!!!

^ OH DEAR SWEET MOTHER OF GOD.

seriously cant understand how DL had a bad game. he did start slow, gave away the ball a couple of times in the start but later, he was running the show. literally. and all those clearances, and interceptions aside, his passing was simply fabulous. every1 would remember AC's flick to EH for the goal, but DL's ball to AC was as important and impressive.

mourinho and benitez beg to differ on DL's worth as a DM.

persists!!!! Yes cos he has started doin it right now and I would like it to continue. I don't see him using schurrle as a Cf any longer. Also schurrle as a Cf wae barely successful whereas DL as a DM is. There in lies your dofference.

first things first, GC just turned 28 (on 19th december to be precise), and DL is 26, so they both have atleast 4 good years each left. JT might not go on forever but he has been our best defender this season too and he has a couple of years in his bag too. now, i get your idea of buying zouma, i really do. but the main point of a good back 4 is consistency, how much time would zouma get in chelsea as a 4th choice CB. look at kalas !!! so thats 2 years atleast wasted for him. plus players like ake who are showing tremondous talent dont get a chance. simply does not seem worth it to me, especially since we have such big DM/ST issues as of this moment.

yup. kalas' non-involvement (even in the domestic cups) has been shocking!!! i just hope atleast one of these 3 makes it big here. ake would be my best bet.

to be honest, i have watched him only against the 2 big teams (barca and RM), and he has been phenomenol. i remember a couple of seasons ago when barca scored 5 against ATM, he was still fabulous in that match. another mind-blowing performance that he put in was last season's copa del ray final where i have to say that he should have been MOTM. i dont know how his whole time in ATM has been, but i can say this, it was not as easy as it has been for him this season. ATM have been brilliant defensively this season. i watched the 2 super-copa, the match against RM and today's match, in all he has conceded 1 goal in those 4 matches and he has had to barely do anything. on the other hand, i was watching the highlights of malaga vs ATM, and valencia vs ATM, and i have to say that some of the saves from thibaut were amazing.

where is the post match interview?

barely had anything to do all match. probably just one odd moment with the messi shot.

we have chalobah, kalas, ake as our youth players so why do we need a 10/12mil pound player as our 4th CB?

best solution.