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So we probably won't actually see him on the pitch for a while judging by what he said. He won't be match fit for a couple of weeks is my guess. The phrase "helping him get fit" just makes me cringe, though. We said the same with Falcao. As if Chelsea FC is a rehab clinic now or a charity that helps crocked players heal.

Don't think so, myself. Roman won't allow Chelsea to slip into the wilderness. Don't believe any of our best players will be sold. This season will hopefully be a wake up call and I think we'll invest pretty significantly in the summer in top players. Hope we do a United when they finished 7th and went mad with their spending.

Still desperately want him at Chelsea in the summer and will be totally gutted if he ends up with Mourinho at United. He clearly needs work and that needs to come under the tutelage of a top coach and surrounded by top players. That deluded, whiny cunt Roberto Martinez is a fraud and doesn't have a clue how to coach defense. We get a top coach (Simeone, Pochettino) and keep JT around for another season or two to mentor him and we'd have a world class player for a decade. I really hope that just because José is gone we've ended our interest. He should be priority #1 still after a manager.

Appears that way. This summer will be the true indicator of where the club is headed.

That's why a bunch of us are annoyed. The club seems more interested in the farm than the first team these past couple of windows. Buying players who will likely never see first team action (Djilobodji, Hector, Miazga) and players who look doomed from the moment we sign them (Falcao, Pato) makes it look like the higher-ups don't have a clue.

I'd rather not make any changes at all in January than sign players to "save" this season. We aren't making top 4 and we aren't winning the CL. Think we have all we need currently to make an FA Cup run. Signing anyone but elite players is in my opinion a waste. And you don't sign elite players without a manager so we may as well wait.

Is this really what Chelsea is becoming? Signing crooked strikers on loan and unknown, cheap players no one has ever heard of? Are we becoming a stingy, bargain basement club like Arsenal have been over the past decade?

My resume has been sent.

Mikel outlasts another one!

That kind of cash should get you a sure-fire, world class player not a gamble. If we're willing and able to spend nearly £40m on an attacking player just wait until the summer!

I'm on an iPad.

How do you delete quotes? I can't post in a few threads because I can't figure out how to delete a quote from someone who I didn't end up replying to.

Very useful player in very specific situations but he's got no football brain. Just a high motor athlete. Can't pass well enough (even simple passes, which infuriated me) rarely scores, and is very limited in the creative side of things. Simply having a good "engine" isn't good enough. The rumored £25m is highway robbery.

With our board making signings I wouldn't be so sure. I also doubt that Mourinho said "yes" to Djilobodji and Michael Hector but they were still signed.

Take the £25m and offer it to Pep as a "signing bonus."

I think his "say" goes as far as "sure, I'll work with him," rather than him telling the board to go and sign him.

All f these sources saying "Hiddink is unsure" or "Hiddink blocking the move." I highly doubt our interim manager has any say in transfers. Any signings we make in January are Emenalo/board signings.

Since we've got the 3 points and I can laugh at it now rather than shake my head, did anyone else see Sanchez glide past Mikel around the half way line as if he was a 90 year old granny with a walker? Fuck me, he made him look silly!

This is the dream for me. Simeone + a handful of nice signings and we'll be right back in business. He'd have us playing like pit bulls and destroying dainty little sides like Arsenal.

Made it way harder than it should've been but in our fragile state that's a beautiful result. If Cesc and Costa keep in this form and didn't just summon this motivation for Arsenal then we should climb into midtable soon enough. If Hazard wakes up and reaches form he could be a Godsend.

Getting domiated by 10 men. It's like we've simply stopped playing.

Our defense is so bad. So, so bad. They look like a newly promoted, rag tag bunch of players. It's pathetic.

I don't see any way we prevent them from scoring.

This has been a shockingly refereed match. How was that not a pen!?

When he's on the ball,Matic reminds me of Mata when he was here in that he has ZERO awareness of what's behind him and constantly gets it pinched off him. Annoying as hell. It's like he thinks if he runs by them they disappear.