didierforever

agree with your post except the bold part. luiz has better defensive skills than cahill (and for that matter even iva) but i feel cahill is "safer" than luiz and more conventional. tbh i dont like luiz as a cb but simply love him as a dm.

could not agree more...

nope no one will remember that now. we "remember" the leeds rivalry, even though i can comfortably say that more than 90% of people on here were not even born during that period (well i was not and the last match we played against leeds was in the 2003-04 season if i remember correctly), and yet we are deemed "plastics" by idiots like @the only place to be. we are expected to show hate towards leeds but when it comes to the single most hated in the roman era (rafa benitez) people so easily forget everythin. i mean i dont remember any other person who was unanimously hated by evry chelsea fan all over the world and yet we have forgotten everything.

tough fixture. hopefully we can get a favourable result and by that i mean a win or even a draw. team's pretty much unchanged for me except for oscar and hazard swap. cech azpi cahill iva cole luiz mikel moses mata hazard torres

well thats the difference between me and you. u would want nothing more than to "move forward" when the blonde's gone but i support CHELSEA and want what is best for CHELSEA, and no one player be it DD, BALLACK or LAMPS is gonna stop me from doin so. but by reading your comments on the blonde bi###"s thread and here today< i can pretty much guess your main objective here

congratulations... all wishes came true...

when u read things like "danny got his chances but could never do anything" then u know what that person is. danny is a real good striker and he ll prove it when he gets more than 20 mins on the pitch in 2 consecutive matches and its just sad that we are letting this guy go because we want the blonde's investment to pay off.

that is y i am telling u to avoid these torres fan girls..

one poor game? which one? he started one game in COC and got a people. one game in PL and i think we saw what some basic movement of strikers can do.

word of advice - check his username and his photo and u ll probably know he is one of the torres fan girls who would ridicule any1 who gives torres the least bit of competition. just wait and watch how these fellows would go on to ridcule falcao/cavani/villa/any striker we buy in jan if they have even a single bad game.

its too many times to be luck dude. i dont know how those bastards do this but its not just luck.

nathan ake...

southampton away.

open play?

can some1 please tell me how the goal happened. like in detail. please.

a long term observation and that is the only reason i am speaking out. u r extremely prejudiced against marin. he might not be as good as most of us would want him to be or expect him to be but i surely think he is not as bad as u make him out to be. as far as your latest comment goes, it very unfair to marin. he has got no time at all on the pitch and the only match that he did start was leeds in which he was our best attacking player for the first 60 mins.

i am not arguing against that. infact i am all for it. but the point is do we have those kinds of players. no.we are even thinking of selling lampard. so right we dont have an option. our pl squad has 24 players out of which 2 are surely leaving (so 22), 2 are extra goalies (so 20) and romeu is gone for the season (so 19). u need 16 outfield players to choose for a single match!!!

sure. we are loaning him and tell me the squad then please. the main point of mine is OUR SQUAD STRENGTH. which is already weak and would only become weaker. we are not goin to buy any wingers/cam in the winter. if we do it will be stupid after acquiring hazard,marin,oscar, moses in the summer. at max if their is any addition in the midfield it ll be in the pivot. what happens if our players get injured because the way hazard and mata are tackled we can get bad news any matchday. then what? should we not have the cover of having a winger to even come off the bench even if we dont start him. plus as i said before, wat bout resting players? we were just talking about mata and hazard getting rest and the most they have got is to not start but come in as a 60th minute sub. plus i dont know y every1 is getting jumpy bout it? we have sent 30 players on loan, if we dont send one just to have some sort of a cover it wont kill the guy. the way every1 wants piazon to go on loan you would think he was our only youth player who had any chance of making it big. plus as said before if we had wanted to we could have sent him on loan before but dint for a reason.

first of all we are not buying 2 midfielders at max its going to be 1. secondly lucas piazon has been somewhere near the fringes since the last year. so if we had to loan him we already would have. if we can loan mceachran, chalobah and the gang then we could easily have got some1 intersted for this lad too. but we dint. and tht has to be some for some reason. DONT FORGET PIAZON PLAYS IN OUR UNDER-21 SQUAD TOO. plus y is it that youngsters will develop only on aloan spell and not with our own team? and as i have said it before that i dont want him to go on a loan this winter not in the summer.

what are u talking about? we all know how rambo, bert and azpi have worked on the wings. plus y would we want to play them in cup matches when we have piazon. our cup team would seem something like cech, azpi, cahill, iva, bert;rambo, oscar (in the pivot hoping lamps and mikel are the no.1 pair); marin,?,?;torres. tell me who the ? marks are considering mata, hazard get injured and we have to play moses every match along with oscar. i am talking about giving most of these guys a break from football for 2 days. plus tell play how much would an 18 year old develop in a 6 month loan deal. sometimes u need to do something for the team instead of one particular player.

fine we loan him now. now suppose hazard and mata gets injured tell me who we will play? probably rambo and some1 okay? tell me our bench with sturridge and malouda gone (which seems totally likely). letting him go on loan is not an option right now. plus i dont see y he cant play in europa cup against sparta praha? but do agree with u on that he has not proved himself yet but with both rdm and rafa keeping him on the bench in most of the games u have to think that he has that quality. but this winter is not the time to loan him. we are already running thin on the squad and this would be suicidal specially in initial fa cup matches and europa matches.

precisely that was my point... the last 2 games and not "surely and slowly"... anyways i get the feeling that we are saying the same things but u r saying it being pro-rafa while i am saying it being anti.

please no. he has already shown he is good enough for chelsea or atleast to play in CC or FA cup games. he can easily start those games and even give some depth if some1 gets injured. plus a loan spell would mean one of our subtitutes (he does make the bench in most of the matches and that shows that he has the quality). plus with sturridge leaving we would be left buck naked in case of injuries to wingers.

may be not... but u do expect the players to turn up with way more fire than we did in his first 2 games which are actually the toughest opposition he has faced so far. also tell me precisely what we are arguing about because as far as i can remember i quoted u on " we are surely and slowly getting our confidence back" which seemed to me to take our last 2 performances (infact as i said before, our last 135 minutes) in a too big way, when just 2 matches ago (against corianthians) we were horrible. so my point was not to jump the gun.