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Looks like an 80-20 split in Chelsea's favor in terms of support on TV.

New kit looks AWESOME on the players! Not skin tight anymore so the sleeves and everything look mint!

Exactly.Man City is less poplar here than even Everton and Fulham. United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Liverpool are king here. TONS of Chelsea supporters here.

LOL just as I predicted. City trying to impress clueless fans. They'll think "damn! The light blue team is amazing!"

Finally! A game in which Rafa trusts Mikel!

Haha Azpi on the wing.

Last time I was watching Chelsea play in our prime time hours was during preseason where we saw Hazard in a blue shirt for the first time. Unfortunately this one wont be as exciting. Knowing how desperate City are to gain more fans around the world, I wouldn't be surprised if they played a bunch of their first team to try to impress Americans by beating our 2nd or 3rd team.

Think we'll embarrass City with fan turn out in both of these friendlies. The vast majority of the fans will be wearing Chelsea blue rather than City blue, I reckon.

Is Tevez not the ugliest cuss you've ever seen? My word.

It's a moot point anyways as he'll be a City player soon enough.

Absolutely IDIOTIC article. Luiz is about as untouchable a player as we have. No possible way he's sold.

Nice, man.We couldn't ask for more. Does he look like Messi too?

I actually think we should sell both.Buy Cavani or Falcao and have Lukaku as second choice while still getting a bunch of game time and learning under one of those world class strikers and Mourinho at the same time. Then we'll have Schurrle likely too to play up top if necessary.

Falcao I think is still possible but unlikely, but I think City will throw so much money at Napoli that they'll eventually get Cavani.Cavani + Aguero with Silva and Yaya behind them. Really is imperative that we make the right moves.

All that hype about us bringing in Falcao or Cavani and now it looks like we'll miss out on both.

We need to be setting our sights much higher than Gomez now. I call BS for sure.

Most of the journo's I follow on twitter seem to agree that Jose won't be announced as manager for a few weeks. I'm not expecting anything right away

My mistake. I can't see into the future.

What if they come out and pull an Everton-Moyes and say "We've decided to part ways amicably and Jose has expressed interest in joining Manchester City." -_______________-

Yeah, but c'mon. How many of those goals were against teams that didnt even belong on the pitch with us?For the cash we spent on him, he should be scoring 23 goals in the league alone. We need to move him on for us to take that next step and get back to where we should be.

Even if it kills us, apparently.

Now we just have to pray its to Monaco and not United or City.

So the writing is on the wall by the looks of it. Official Chelsea website and twitter have been posting all of these blogs and quotes about how he's looking forward to next season here and beyond, and how he can't wait to continue working with the rest of the squad, and how much he loves the fans. We see him in every photo shoot for the new kit and training gear. Our board aren't even contemplating selling him are they? Looks much more likely than not that he'll continue holding us back next season. If I were Jose, the first thing I'd say to the board is that the first order of business is to move Torres on. Can't see how he'd want him.

I'd be excited if we got him but not disappointed if we miss out. Can really see him hurting us if he lands at United or City. We struggle mightily against the size and power of Yaya Toure alone so imagine Fellaini next to him. Having the calm and discipline of Carrick next to him at United would allow him more freedom there. Plus he'd be under Moyes again. Think he'll almost definetly be a United player.

Imagine the headache the Belgian manager will have trying to decide between Benteke or Lukaku...