Pizy

WTF! Would that spell the end for Moses?

Fair enough.Just believe that we could improve our team by bringing in literally any of the DM's we've been linked with. De Rossi, Matic, Khedira, Kondogbia, Witsel. Any of those players offer far more than Mikel does.

He's a physical beast and one of my favorite Chelsea players, but he's got that Luiz factor where every single time he goes for a tackle or goes for the ball in the air I hold my breath. Almost like a yellow or red waiting to happen. A ticking time bomb.

Can you really see Jose selecting him ahead of Lamps, MvG, Ramires, or even Essien? Mikel doesn't really offer anything that the others don't.May as well cash in while we can and replace him with a player who can contribute much more.

Can someone compare him to a more familiar player so I can get an idea of what he's like? YouTube can make anyone look awesome.

Anyone else find the number of long balls we play annoying? We have all of these flair and possession keeping players, yet we still heave the ball up to an offside Ba over and over again. When Luiz plays we see it even more. We just bypass our awesome midfield and more often than not just give the ball away. Guess this is one of the main reasons Jose wants Rooney so badly. Can get the ball deeper and play closer to the midfield instead of isolated on an island up top like Ba and Torres are.

It's pretty clear that he's the absolute bottom of the barrel pick in midfield. I'd say sell him.

He just hasn't had any urgency in his play for large parts of these first 2 matches. He looks unstoppable when he actually takes his man on, but that's happened little so far.

I actually saw some fucking plank on twitter saying he'd accept Mata + £20m for Rooney. Absolutely insane.Another wants Mata and Lukaku for him.

United could really fuck us here if they really wanted to, and I wouldn't put it past them either. Say we put in a final bid in the days following the match and United don't accept or reject it. What's to stop them from just waiting until the deadline night and then reject it then leaving us with no one? Think we should either move on to someone else now or make that bid something they'd seriously consider like £40m. Only thing that would make me confident in this happening again is if he picked up an "injury" between now and Monday that would keep him out completely.

BBC reporting that Arsenal are trying to sign Benzema and Di Maria. Can't see them selling Benzema as he's the only senior striker there, but Di Maria is possible I'd think. Think he'd be great for them too. Hope this doesn't work out for Le Arse.

Case and point why Lukaku should be first choice. Like last season, I get nervous each time our opponent crosses the ball. Luckily every team doesn't have Benteke. Edit: Agreed with everyone that Lamps was awful. No way he should start @ United

We're gonna get embarrassed at Old Trafford playing like this.

Hazard has been nearly invisible these first two matches. Just doesn't even try to attack. He just goes at walking pace and passes it off. People are tipping him for Player or the Year and you'd expect him to want to take that next step.

So fucking typical. Dominate the game and then have a stupid defensive lapse at the death. How do we let Benteke stand still at the penalty spot? And goddamn it's annoying watching a side pack the box so we can't find a way through. All of this possession and almost nothing to show for it. Get Lampard off! Been horrible.

My thoughts exactly.

Damn, man. Feel bad for Lukaku. He probably figured he'd done enough to be first choice.

Hopefully we see the awful Benteke today and not the unplayable one. I want to see the one who looks like he doesn't know the offside rule like he did quite a bit last season. These games against lower table sides always make me nervous. This one more so since we have United up next and need to go into that one on a high. I wanna see Hazard go crazy this game after a rather timid start against Hull.

So if we were to hypothetically present Dortmund with an offer of say £30m and they agreed, do we really think Lewandowski would turn down a chance to play under Jose and with our awesome squad? Just find it a bit confusing how he's so dead set on going to Bayern. Gomez had a brilliant season for them and then got brushed aside like a scrub and had to transfer within a year. Now if Lewandowski goes there they'll brush Mandzukic aside. If Lewandowski struggles or doesn't score 40 will they go after the next big name? Bayern just seem like the Real Madrid of Germany. Why would any young star player go there at the moment where no matter how good you are, you have so much competition for a place that you won't play as much as you could.

Just don't start Torres. Unleash the fridge!

Yeah, it'd be a pretty bad oversight if we let a lifelong Chelsea fan go to our biggest title rival when we have 32 year old LB who probably only has a couple seasons left here.

Bit anxious about this one. Only thing I'm slightly concerned about is our defense. Putting the right CB partnership out there will be extremely important.

If it comes to Eto'o or stick with who we've got I think we should pass on Eto'o. I just can't see why we're after ONLY a striker though. Wish we were as dead set on getting a CM as we appear to be a striker. If we bought someone like Witsel or De Rossi and no striker before the deadline I'd be elated.

I doubt he ever followed it. He hasn't been active in twitter in ages, so he probably hasn't logged in since the official twitter was created.

Imagine how hyped Lukaku will be going head to head with Benteke trying to show he's better.