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Mourinho's club has a meeting scheduled on Monday with Ausgburg to complete the deal for Baba. Chelsea already reached an agreement with the player on a 5 year deal worth €2 million net a season. -source: Gianluca Di Marzio

just one question. where would the buy of baba rahman leave ake? a 21 year old LB bought for 15+mil. i think if we buy baba, we might as well sell ake cos i cant see him getting into chelsea anytime soon.

if he did not want to fight for his place and just wanted to be an automatic starter then good riddance.

motta will play? i thought he did not want to be at psg this season. also they sold coman.

just the start. a lot more to come. remembering now, it was almost comical.

each to his own. was and still am a little surprised by "last night" being used as negative for the likes of mikel and moses. as for our AM department hazard - the best player of PL willian - one of our best players from jan-may. oscar - one of our best players from august to dec. cuad - jury is still out there. 343 minutes of football spread over 14 games is hardly a yard stick to measure anyone. moses - a very good back up. hard working, physical, and a very good dribbler. a handful to any full back. traore - one of our best academy products. these 6 wont be the best 6 options out there but they are good.

goal line?

we were pretty good in the first half. moses, mikel, remy all had good solid 45 minutes. cesc was the motm by a light year.

honestly speaking, i dont see much difference. i mean day before yesterday and yesterday, people were excited about a 35mil pounds bid for john stones. people are just desperate for a new signing (does not matter if it makes a difference or not). this loss just added a little fuel to the fire.

"Last night showed how much dead weight we currently have and what we're missing." am i misreading this post of yours? cos it specifies last night. as for our depth, i think it is quite good in the AM department.

and i said, its not just based on this match. aranguiz and witsel along with pogba/vidal have been talked on this forum way way way before this match.

rambo was not poor alone. there were 10 other players who were poor. as for the other "dead weights", they were quite good. so i am just surprised how this match showed anything about them when it was actually our first team (costa, hazard, oscar, matic, rambo, jt, zouma, azpi) that conceded 4 and in general were poor.

remy, mikel and moses (especially moses) had very good games. we should have been leading 3-0 at HT and if remy comes in your definition of "dead weight", then i have nothing to say to you. iva was the best RB in the PL while azpi is the best defensive LB in the world probably.

what exactly in this post makes you think that i was debating your point? i have not seen anyone calling for jose to be sacked or that we need a overhaul. what people are insisting on is that this squad needs a better back-up CM which most of us already agreed on even before the match. as, for the rest of your posts. what do you expect. most of the people woke up in mid night and had to see their favourite team get massacared after almost 2 months of no chelsea football.

i "blame" jose.if we wanted to make signings, we could easily make signing by selling some players like marin, moses, salah, romeu etc etc. i simply think jose actually believes that our squad is complete and quite strong (which is kinda true but there is still a massive scope of improvements in almost all areas except GK and STs.

i would really want to know which all "dead weights" are you tlaking about?

huh?

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2015/7/23/9022965/moses-next-time-ill-score great attitude. hope he gets the chance he deserves.

"The very best sides like Real Madrid, Bayern, and Barca barely have any academy players in their teams. They go out and splash millions and millions on players EVEN AFTER WINNING TITLES." even 4 players out of 11 IS not a small deed. pique, busquet, iniesta, messi. 4 starters. NOT AT ALL A SMALL DEED. infact its a massively thing. and lets talk about their squad. currently they have the above 4 plus pedro, rafinha, bartra, haddidi, sandro, roberto. infact most of their bench is their own youth products. these are not their just to make up the numbers of the HG spot, these players get fair enough game time. pedro, haddidi and sandro will be their backups for MSN. roberto, rafinha are their only options for midfield in case biscuits, iniesta or rakitic get injured. also, at one point of time valdes, pique, puyol,biscuits, iniesta, xavi, messi, pedro.. were all from their youth system. barca products. so the "very best of sides" like barca and bayern did have plenty of academy products. infact they were at their peak with their academy products. also, if you consider the amounts spent on making the barca squad and the chelsea squad, i think we will be way way higher.

awkward!!!

filipe luis played 26 games last season and that was with azpi and iva being fit all season long (or hardly ever injured). 20 games for chelsea is far far far better for his development than 30 games for boro where he will definitely boss as his level already is over them. this 2nd LB spot can be a massive step in the right direction for ake.

cech has already been replaced by begovic and luis's role in the team can be replaced by ake.

probably cos my team was playing after 2 months and i wanted them to see playing and i wanted them to win. something wrong with that?

u do understand that most of us here had to get up at midnight, watch the whole fiasco and then somehow make ourselves go to the office. the pent up anger had to come out somewhere. so let bygones be bygones and acting like you are the only one who gets things.

nope. actually, i would not mind one bit not buying luis and simply promoting ake. now that would be a statement of purpose of actually going to integrate the youth.