Pizy

And you know that when he is finally fit to play he won't be starting straight away. Over or under under 5 starts for Chelsea? That's a hard call.

Don't see any chance of us selling him. Unless they offer us £50m which they won't/can't.

The fact that he's like Diego Costa is a bonus for me! We're gonna need a big personality and inspirational leader to battle with the superstar managers that our rivals will have. Would be glorious to watch him get under the skin of the likes of Wenger and Pep who are obsessed with "pure, pretty" football. What a boost in confidence it would be for Costa and Tibo to work with him again as well.

It could be made and I feel the same about his time at Bayern. Not impressed with what he did there at all, really. Took a stunningly brilliant team in a weak league and kept them great. No real challenge.

To be honest, not that impressive to dominate Serie A when you have by far the most expensive team with by far the best players.

Allegri just doesn't impress me or instill that confidence in me that he'll return us to the summit of the PL where we belong. I'd be very underwhelmed if he's our pick.

Can we get on the phone with a few Chinese sides this summer and offer them Ivanovic? I'm sure one of them will offer £30m.

This is all true, but would the board really back Hiddink with the money and signings necessary to get us competing for the top 4 knowing that he wouldn't be here long? We need someone with a long term vision ASAP that can begin implementing their style right away, not another season in limbo.

People have been calling for Azpi to be moved to his actual position for years now. Astounding how we all see it's a serious problem yet the people paid millions of pounds to make the decisions are blind to it. It'll probably continue through next season as well because new captain Ivanovic won't be dropped.

Dreaming of seeing a Chelsea team next season that is set out to dominate weaker opposition and asserting ourselves with our superior talent. You see City, Arsenal, and every other "top" team that play attacking football set out to unleash themselves on opposition.

Manager has to take the lions share of blame for that result. Poor starting lineup, poor tactical approach, and waiting nearly 75 minutes to bring on our best and most dangerous player. We were pathetic for the majority of that match until we actually realized that we were playing Watford and not fucking PSG or something and actually had superior players. They did almost nothing in the second half. If Hazard is fully fit he HAS to start. Every fucking PL match. Opponents easily contain everyone else. Our central midfield is absolutely terrible this season. Who could've foreseen Matic just falling off a cliff after the first year he had back at Chelsea. We need serious investment from the new manager in the summer in that area or we'll continue to struggle.

Matic, FFS!

They just lump it into their strikers and there's nothing we can do. They're winning every aerial and 50/50 ball.

Surprise, surprise, a player trying to get Diego sent off. Other than the last 10 or so minutes of that half we were embarrassing. Utterly dominated up until then by bloody Watford. Mikel is offering literally nothing to this game. May as well take him out. When we actually do play with the ball at our feet and get into decent positions all of our attackers are playing well. Hazard would be mighty effective against this lot.

We're just an absolute shambles defensively. Getting bullied by their forwards.

Fucking hell, it's so annoying watching us just play it long over and over. String some passes together and play it on the ground! We're making it so easy for them.

Already struggling with their strikers...

Come on, boys! A win heading into the United game would be HUGE for confidence and we'll feel like we can go on and climb the table.

It's not a bad lineup, but 2 DM's against Watford? We should have set out with great pace and trickery from wide areas and really blitzed them. Hazard and Willian. Can see this being a slow start with them containing us defensively due to lack of width and pace.

Hazard!? How does he not start if he's fit?

Kind of funny that we'll be within 3 points of Liverpool if we win this. Even at our absolute worst we'll probably still finish ahead of those bastards. I really wish this was at home, though. The confidence has to be really high in the team and if this were at home the players would feed off the energy of the stadium and blow Watford away I think. Nervous about it at their place.

Pellegrini being boring is precisely why he's seemingly a leading candidate. Roman and the board have to be sick of their manager getting negative headlines and having outbursts in the media. In Pellegrini they'll have a classy, dignified, soft spoken manager who doesn't do or say anything controversial. If Simeone or Pochettino are absolutely impossible then I'd reluctantly accept Pellegrini. Assuming we give him a whole bunch of money to spend in order to keep up with our rivals.

This is crazy! Vardy is a monster when afforded space. That's the only reason I doubt he'd be able to do what he's doing for Leicester if he moved to a big club. He won't be afforded a lot of these opportunities. Still, hats off to him and Leicester.

Wonder what Emenalo will be wearing in the Pellegrini unveiling photo. Some skinny jeans and a pair of Crocs, maybe?

Agree on Stones. Think we'll blow away the world record fee for a defender and finally sign him. Maybe the board will do the right thing and keep JT around for another year to help him. Pogba we have zero chance at. City, Barca, Real Madrid, or United are the only clubs with a chance at him. Not sure where Barkley fits at Chelsea to be honest. Unless we sell your boy Oscar.