didierforever

for how much??? the wiki page says, its a FREE TRANSFER...

because he is a united fan and god forbid we make a bad impression.

same thing again. as i said before, not what we want.

in all honesty, i think lukaku would have cracked a couple of goals. and how are you saying torres did much better than lukaku would have done against hull is beyond me. all torres actually did was one good pass to oscar. the penalty which torres got was well foolish from th keeper and you have to admit these kind of balls are lukaku's prowess. the fk that he earned was a dive and 35 yards out. i seriously doubt that such a thing should even be mentioned while putting on the credentials of a player but that is what torres makes u do. except for these 3 events , i dont remember anythign. his general play was bad as usual and the reception he got here after the match would prove me right. he dint get into a singl goal scoring position/oppurtunity. he created 1 goal scoring opp (penalty), and none from open play which is not something u would generally expect from a striker who is playing in the team due to his link up play.

oh... ok... btw i seriously dont see united/juve/ even dortmund winning the CL.

the villa game is the perfect example. teams will try to close our 3 AM's down. every1 knows, that they are our strength and our X-factor. and hence we need an outlet for those guys. not another person who adds to the congestion. believe it or not i felt we played the villa game more as 4-1-4-1 with rambo as our holding, lamps, bombarding forward. their was no natural width to our play as mata and hazard both kept coming in. ba simply could not provide as an outlet. somthing which happened many times with torres last season, albeit for different reasons. our whole system is built around the AMs and not the striker - 100% AGREED. but those AM's are going to be less ineffective with a striker giving them the chance to put in the end ball. that is the reason we wanted falcao, cavani. torres simply cant do that. lukaku is going to be more effective.

but the mould of experience and youth is amazing in that team. moreover the no. of matchwinners are the real reason these guys give me the hibbie jibbies... can turn the game around in a second. i for one dont want them in the group , infact atleast until quarters.

no PSG??? jallet, alex, silva, maxwell, matuidi, verrati, moura, pastore/lavezii, cavani , ibra. their 1st team is good enough to give nightmares to any1.

lets not include ba in our discussion. he is a goner. no point in including him just to make torres' stats look good. sturridge's movement was off the ball, not on it, and that was what i was talking about. torres has 0 movement and even if he makes space for our mids, he does not make any space for himself to score. lukaku on the other hand gives us a far more direct approach. instead of playing on the wings, he likes to stay central, play on the cbs shoulders and run the channels. that way lukaku proves to be far more of a goal threat than torres does and that is what we want from our strikers. its not jut that one individual event. tell me the no. of times torres was dispossessed in the united game. its not a one-off. u just said that @las7 's stats are useless because they are not of lukaku playing for chelsea and yet the whole of your articles seems to be based on his time in wba. i am sorry but u cant have it both ways. i am baising my opinion on what i have seen in 7 pre-season matches and 3 PL matches. so i simply cant find a good reason to accept torres as chelsea's best striker at the moment.

i seriously think these stats are kind towards torres. if somehow u can get the stats of no. of touches torres takes in one match, and the no. of touches leading to dispossesion, that might show exaclty his involvement (or rather lack of it) in our link up play.

ok then. take out willian and play,,, ummm... Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.... KDB IT IS.

first of all, torres' link up play is abysmal. this myth of torres having a good link up play needs to end. how do u have a good link up play when you lose the ball at least 50% of the time it touches your feet. man united match was the prime example of it. his MOVEMENT? he has no movement. watch sturridge's goal against villa. that is MOVEMENT.torres simply makes the most obvious runs and takes defenders with him. i ll give him that but what i saw of lukaku, he does that too (i am not including ba in the discussion because its looking more and more obvious that he is going). torres' decision making is better??? seriously, dude??? did you see what he did against man united. last 40 seconds to go on the clock, iva makes a run on the line. a simple straight forward pass to iva, would have either won us a corner kick or iva would have put in a cross. but what does torres do, he loses the ball, leaves us open to a counter which could have so easily ended up as a goal. whats worse, he dint track back and try to win the ball off his own mistake. also as u said, lukaku has better pace, dribbling, better hold up play, his 2 sub performance showed that he can link up with our mid better than torres did in the hull match or the united match. lukaku can act as a much better target man. and his work rate is a 1000 times better than torres. sometimes lukaku's runs are not what is expected, and he fails to engage defenders, but in overall play LUKAKU IS A BETTER STRIKER THAN TORRES AT THE MOMENT. PS - u know sometimes our hate/love of a certain player can cloud our judgement and maybe that is the case with me and i am absolutely wrong. but the fact that ALL of my united fan friends were HAPPY that jose brought on torres and not lukaku, goes on to say a lot about this issue. and it was not just them. united fans took a sigh of relief where as there was a collective groan from the anti-united contingent (pool, city and some arsenal fans).

the team for me is simple... need to play mata, mvg, azpi, luiz,mikel, bert,lukaku to give them some much needed game time. cech azpi luiz JT bertrand mvg mikel willian mata hazard lukaku subs - schwarzer, iva, cahill, rambo, torres, schurlle, oscar. hazard needs to step up and show some of his magic. mata needs to show every1 who still is the no.1 no.10 in town.

how?

vidic looks like he is about to pop one...

will be one hell of a tough task though... hopefully we get some suprises in group stages itself.

atleast??? i think if we make it to semis, it will be one big acheivement. i mean barca, RM, bayern, dortmund, psg, juve, with a maybe of united, city all have better/equally good team compared to us. will be very tough getting into the semis.

this guy just keeps pouring salt over my wounds... anyways gonna make him my captain for this weekend's match against united in FPL. will defo score atleast one.

definitely and probably dont go well together.

25.5 + 4.6 (bonus)

seems like messi cant even score against chelsea youth keepers... hahahahaha...

will it be confirmed today?

i thought that was courtois. thats why i used blocked rather than save... my bad...

i feel it would have been worse than his swansea loan. would not have got any chance in sociedad.

the 2nd shot in the 2nd chance? because it was just him and messi when he blocked it.