Pizy

How can Swansea afford to let him leave? Isn't he their only notable striker? They already look useless without Bony. They'll be in serious danger if they lose him too.

They're the kind of team that gets spanked the match before playing us, play the game of their season against us, and then proceed to get spanked again in their next 5 matches after us. I hate them. Just like Sunderland. I hope they both get relegated, the pointless bastards.

Even if they manage to fluke a goal or score on a lucky counter, there's no way this defense should be able to prevent us from scoring more. They look atrocious. If Cesc is back and we show up there to make a statement then we should win by at least 2 goals.

Just look how bad this lot are. Making Arse look like Barca from a couple of years ago. Would be almost as embarrassing as Bradford if we don't win next weekend.

I'm not sure Arsenal will be after him. Walcott and Ozil are back healthy and Cazorla has been great this season. Sanchez speaks for himself. I think all of their business in the summer will be in the middle and back of their XI. The real worry is that he ends up at City.

Villa look absolutely dreadful here against Arse. Like worst side in the league bad. But we all know what'll happen next weekend. Chelsea come to town and every Villa player will turn into Superman.

Christ... We're going to announce this at the last possible second of the window when everyone and their mother knows he's been a Chelsea player for days, aren't we?

Possible. Or maybe the terms for Salah's loan are still being worked out.

Imagine if we bought Varane as Terry's long term replacement. Zouma & Varane as Chelsea and France CB partnership for the next 10+ years.

I expect to wake up tomorrow morning and see the tweet.

Against small teams: --------------------Costa------------------- Hazard----------Oscar------------Cuadrado --------------Fabregas----Matic--------------- Luis------Terry--------Zouma-------Azpi -----------------Courtois----------------- Against big teams/in big matches: --------------------Costa------------------- Hazard----------Willian------------Cuadrado --------------Fabregas----Matic--------------- Azpi------Terry--------Zouma-------Ivanovic -----------------Courtois-----------------

He and Jack Wheelchair are the two most overrated players in England.Kompany is brilliant on his best days but mediocre a lot of the time.

aka the Arsene Wenger approach

Same as he says every time they play us.Only one team tried to win, they had 9 men in the box, blah blah blah

Beginning to hate that smug, loud mouth Pellegrino more than I do Wenger. Can't keep his mouth shut about us.

- League's top scorer OUT - League's top assist maker OUT - 20 year old CB making only 2nd ever start against best striker in the league - Ramires still fresh off of injury spell - Played 120 minutes just days earlier - Played against a side desperate for a win and contained them And people here are bitching.

Don't know if I've seen Azpi play a poorer match than that. He made Navas look like Robben today. He was getting past Azpi whenever he wanted. While Ramires played well, we desperately missed the creativity and tempo that Cesc provides. We were hardly able to get the ball to Hazard at all because of this. There was no real link between our CM and AM. Zouma is a beast, Ivanovic was decent, Matić was a monster for the most part, Willian did what he could but similarly to Hazard didn't have much help. Oscar was totally anonymous and he plays like this far too often. Happy with a point in the end.

We look totally clueless with in attack. No idea what to do with the ball and can't keep it for longer than a touch or two. We can't win like this.

Oscar just isn't consistently productive enough. He'll have a brilliant match and then go completely invisible the next. So poor that half. He needs to assert himself. This is why I think he'll be the one more often dropped for Cuadrado than Willian. Willian can be the #10. His performances are more consistent.

I'm so nervous!

I'd take an injury-free point to be honest. Not the end of the world.

Cahill must be embarrassed. To be honest, Silva and Agüero up against Zouma has me a tad worried. Hopefully he has a brilliant game. We don't have any game changing subs today by the look of it other than Drogba.

No leaked line up yet?

7-4=3 Half Life 3 confirmed.

Schürrle hat trick in his send off. Or better yet, a hat trick and we hang on to him.