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Good to see Frank is sensible about it. It was interesting to see him play a slightly different role yesterday....

Would be a shame to see Aguero go to City, have wanted him at Chelsea for a long time and he will most certainly improve City a lot. His wage demands have been an issue according to reports and i am sure City would have been willing to pay him what he wants which could be why we are not making a bid.

Chelsea are always so cagey when it comes to transfers and have pretty much kept most deals under wraps until the last minute. We will definately go into the market and soon. No idea for who and i just hope it is for the right positions.

Best one IMO, will look great.

Honestly our club can be such a joke sometimes....... Hope he gets the games there to help him progress to be a top keeper.

Well Matic and Borini are only moving on this summer (Borini has already scored in pre season though). Stoch has had a decent first season at Fenerbache making 23 appearances and scoring 5 goals. Would have loved to have kept Stoch, when we are desperate for wingers we seem to let our talented ones move on without a fuss (Stoch, Tore, Sala)

He is talking about radical changes... We will go into the market for sure but only for about 3 players max...

An interesting player, and yes with Essien out it could be the perfect signing for us. One that will not cost a fortune but has a lot of potential...

We don't need strikers. Lukaku would be a luxury signing. We need wingers, a creative midfielder and a right back before we need a striker................... Torres, Drogba, Sturridge, Anelka, Kalou! we really do not need a striker.

It is likely that there will be 2 teams playing 45 mins in this game again.... Really need to start seeing some improvement. The quick passing in tight areas and tenacious closing down that AVB has been talking about is so far missing...

You cannot read much into pre season games, thats for sure. Especially when you are only giving 45 mins to players and chucking in quite a few youngsters into each side. However the old problems are still there, AVB has time to work on those but i most certainly would not wnat to go into the new season without making any additions to the current squad.... We badly need wingers with pace and skill....

No progression? Have you seen him play? Carl is a very good centre back and has progressed really well in our set up. Not Chelsea quality but he will do well somewhere. He has stayed around a lot longer than he had any right to for a "reality TV show winner" a couple of very serious injuries in there also......

Carl is still a Chelsea player for the time being and is on trial at MK Dons, i am sure though that he will not be a Chelsea player by the end of the season....

Would have prefered to keep him around as back up rather than turnbull or Hilario to be honest. We don't seem able of having young players as squad players giving them the chance to fight for a starting spot.... However Atletico will be a good loan for him. We have some good young keepers around on loan Taylor, Delac, Walker and Blackman going away with the first team on tour.....

Our interest in Modric shows we are definately after a creative attacking midfielder. Yossi will be the backup to that player but certainly is not and never was the player to take us up a level with our attacking play and creativity...

Lol, tell me about it!!!!!

Our best young 11 for the future: .........................................................Delac...................................................... Kane.........................Chalobah...................Bruma.......................Bertrand ....................................B.Clifford...................C.Clifford................................. ......................................................McEachran............................................... Lalkovic..........................................Mitrovic.......................................Kakuta

Saying that Jack Cork wasn't good enough to play here is a very unfair comment. Mainly because he was never given the chance, as i have said a number of times Jack could have been a very good squad player for us. Secondly, we are producing plenty of talents, they are just not being given a fair crack at the whip, the only one is Josh McEachean, and even he was being played out of position. I have said it before, if we are looking to produce only World Class players then we may as well shut down our academy now! Ryan Bertrand is a perfect understudy to Ashley Cole, he may never be as good as him but who around at the moment could be? Unless we give these players real minutes on the pitch they will never reach their potential.

lol. very good :-) there is one reason and one reason only that people are unhappy with his appointment and that is he did not get the job on merit. whatever romans reasons for keeping him around and keep promoting him it is not down to anything other than his relationship with roman/the board.

Have to say i am not thrilled about the appointment. Gone down the road of some very good appointments on the coaching front and would have liked to have got someone with good experience as a Sporting Director in this role.....

At the same time we are also pleased to announce that after a successful spell managing the youth team, Dermot Drummy has been appointed reserve team manager, replacing Steve Holland who is now working with the first team. Adrian Viveash succeeds Drummy as youth team coach while Joe Edwards moves up to coach the Under 16 squad and former Chelsea player Andy Myers takes on a full-time position coaching the Under 15s. Source: Chelsea FC Good step forward for Dermot, and Adrian Viveash. Both well placed to step forward to then next level.

Descision probably made some time ago. Strange to have not given Jack a chance to impress AVB but it may have been by then he was fed up and just wanted to move on which would be fair enough, Bruma as i said i can understand the need to send him on loan

Initial reports saying £750k, but i am sure it is well over that to be honest.

Lol, was interesting seeing my own comments on him from last May. We certainly did see a lot of him last season, fast tracked to the reserves and a key player in the FA Youth cup squad. Such a talented young man and can go a long way.....

He has no chance, i think he will be sold this summer. How can he get a chance with Terry, Alex, Branna and Luiz here........