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Haven't watched Roma at all over the past year other than the Cup game. Should this be a fairly comfortable victory?

Hope to God that he's waiting until after Rio's big night tomorrow before handing in the transfer request as to not fuck with his friend. Like I said earlier, if he plays in the Community Shield and starts getting friendly with the squad again he ain't leaving.

Ha! I know it isn't a bad thing mate. I love it since its how most of our big sports are. Prime time, whole family watching. Perfect.Don't mind getting up at the crack of dawn for my Blue's during the season though.

Maybe it's just because its preseason, but I hate how he doesn't immediately sprint at defenders and attack. It's like he uses his incredible dribbling and technical ability only in a reactive way. He'll wait until he's closed down or in danger of getting tackled before he explodes and flies past defenders. Most of the time he gets the ball in a 1 on 1 situation he's at walking pace and passes it away. You watched the master CR7 yesterday get the ball and instantly burst at his defender and blaze past him with skill. Hazard needs to be doing that more often. God knows he has the talent.

I'd say Ba instead.Imagine how much shit we'd get if Torres goes back there and miraculously finds his form again. "See, Chelsea DID ruin him! He just needed to come home!!!1" Seriously though, I'd be absolutely delighted if we ended up with Suarez on deadline day. Teams will be extremely intimidated seeing a player like Suarez playing in front of Hazard, Mata, Oscar, and everyone else. They'll know they're in for a nightmarish time trying to defend.

In that case...

That's what I was thinking.Don't want to see him play in the CS, winning it, and bonding with his teammates again. The fans will have realized that they aren't getting any big names and being the fickle bunch they are, they'll band together and cheer Wayne on rather than booing him to try to convince him to stay. I think if we see him in that game he'll stay.

Hope so mate. We need him.

Fine by me. Very quietly did a nice job last night as he usually does.So what do you guys think, if he plays in the testimonial or Community Shield, will he still be leaving?

If there's anything you need to know about this country is that money is always the priority. These marquee games need to be played in prime time here in order to get the most viewers and therefore money.

It's De Rossi's farewell testimonial for Roma. He'll be a Chelsea player after the final whistle.

"93 - Luiz Gustavo had the best passing accuracy of all Bundesliga players in 2012/13 (93%, min. 500 passes). Interest." -OptaNot just a destroyer. He's a very accurate passer who can perfectly link up play between defense and attack. Sandro is the Brazilian destroyer who limited in other areas not Gustavo. We could certainly use him.

Rooney and Gustavo in. Ba and Mikel out. A proper, solid, imposing DM like Gustavo paired with Ramires or MvG would solve our problems. He's inexpensive and is actively searching for a CL club to go to and get playing time. He's there on a plate for us. Think the fee being mentioned is around 15m. A steal.

I actually feel bad for Mikel, I genuinely do. Must be hard for him to see a young kid like MvG come in and instantly get in the side in his position and an aging, declined Essien come back from loan and get more game time too. Hell, Lamps who hasn't kicked a ball this preseason starts and plays and he doesn't. Think he's gone sooner rather than later. Maybe January.

Could actually be harder to get them to sell now that they've once again embarrassed themselves in their pursuit of Fabregas. They just wasted like 3 weeks bidding for a player who they never had a chance at. Can see them forcing him to stay.

Yeah, I'd think if it were true that he was banished to train with the reserves Sky, BBC ect would be all over it. Edit- hmmm...maybe not

Waiting to hear from more believable outlets. If true, think its only a matter of time.

Smacked back down to earth, really. Not the end of the world to lose to possibly the best first XI in the world, but I thought we'd at least compete better. Clearly we aren't quite there yet. Not worried at all about us. Just need a player or two.

He seems like the kind of striker who would do well with a partner up there against the top sides.*cough ROONEY *cough*

We look a bit star-struck at times. Ramires faded, Oscar and Hazard can't influence the match as we can't keep the ball. Lukaku so isolated that he can't do anything at all.

We gotta have entertainment before each of these matches. Annoying but this is how it is at most sporting events here.

So they know we're fucking desperate for news about Mata and still nothing. Wtf!?

Mata injured now too? Fuck me.

Yeah...can't see us getting the result with this lineup. Madrid's strongest 11 and not ours.

Yeah, you're probably right. They should be a strong side next season even if they lose Bale. Better than Arse if they buy a couple more.