Amblève.

Racism/discrimination.

It's enough! I'm going to the owner of the house next to me to complain about his lodgers. Not only are they idiots in general but they're also much bigger idiots at night. They chose not to lock their balcony door while they're making love! FFS I know it's warm as hell here (that's why my window's open -.-) but this unacceptable!

It's fucking warm here.

Good read, Peace. The biggest problem I see, and I have been saying this for more than 1,5 years now, is our midfield where we desperately need new QUALITY players. Back in 2008 (when we had the strongest midfield I can think of, with the likes of Ballack, Lampard, Essien, Makelele, Mikel) we were an absolute force in this area and I fully believe that this is the standard we should be looking for in future. Three of those midfielders from 2008 were in their prime, one was at the end of his career but still one of the top players in his position and the last one was a very promising talent. Now we've got Mikel (who's 1-2 years away from his prime), Lampard (who will just get worse), Essien (who should be sold ASAP), Meireles (squad player, nothing more), Ramires (who is very limited in regards of his position and technical abilities, thus it's very difficult to use him correctly) and Romeu and McEachran (two very talented players but their futures here are in doubt). So, we don't have ANY world class midfielder whereas we had 4 of them just 4 years ago. I know this is past, and I also know (like Term X once said) we should have strengthened our team when we were on top of our game, my only intention was to show up how crucial our situation is, as many Chelsea fans still think our midfield is good enough. I really did expect us to look for a world class midfielder to buy this summer but when I saw that we were after Oscar I was, tbh, shocked. I know 90% of all users will go mad at me because I said this but let me clear things up before you start with your rage: I like him as a player but I don't like this transfer as Oscar doesn't fill our team biggest need. Instead of signing a world class player we signed another project who could turn out to be world class, but only in a couple of years, and is a CAM or RW. We have been witnessing the lack of creativity from our midfield for 1,5-2 year now, and we still haven't solved this problem. I can't see us doing better in this upcoming season because we haven't done ANYTHING to get better in this area of the game. You could say we'll become even worse as players don't get younger. Thinking of our double pivot I have read a lot of times that people expect Oscar to play alongside Mikel and therefore take over from Lamps. It's not that I highly doubt this, I know for sure that it won't happen this season. We’re talking about the most important position in the modern football game, so how on earth can anyone think that a lad, who has to bulk up extremely, get used to a new country/culture/lifestyle and league, learn how defend and to play in a new position, will be our messiahs?! I’d like to go on, but I’m tired now. Maybe tomorrow. I just want to say a last thing: Our squad is far from being balanced (like Peace. already pointed out) and IMO it’s our midfield where our biggest concerns lay. Whereas strikers can be influenced by the rest of the team and jump on the bandwagon during the season and start scoring like crazy, the midfield is the part of the team where everything starts, every attack, every defensive effort.

As far as I know, he would have been the first one ever. Think I read that somewhere, not 100% sure tho.

Well, if you say so. Have fun!

@ChelseaChick, you're after Luiz right now?! What's Anelka gonna say about his?

When I look back at these 21 pages, it doesn't look like they're doing it "just for fun". It's become more of a competition by now. No, not really. I had about 88%, which kind of surprised me.

One simple question: Don't you have anything else to do?!

"Now no one can say nothing to me. This is the reason I came here." - Ashley Cole, post CL final. He won't go anywhere.

And on top of that: They're earning tons of millions for that what they do (I don't really know how I should call it lol).

Torres won't be able to play 60 games a season, will he?! If Lukaku goes on loan, we'll need to sign another striker! What if Danny or Torres get injured, or both of them? Who will we play then? It's vital to buy another striker. Period. I see. I'm running out of options...

What's up next that harms his confidence? Maybe wearing the wrongs socks on Mondays? If Torres can't stand the pressure of having another player at the club who wants to play he can fuck off and become a chess professional instead of playing competitive football. This is Chelsea, not fucking Liverpool where he's the only striker! Rondon could be an option as our third striker, but I think we'd be better off with someone like Ba (he didn't move to Turkey, did he?).

Ollie.

He's good on the line as he has got nice reflexes, but his composure in the box is below average, and, at times, more than shocking. Tho, he can pull off a good save from time to time which gives your team momentum, but aside from this I don't think that he has anything to offer that would differ him from any other back-up gk.

Test, test. @Kez, working now?

Our youth policy before Roman took over hasn't been good either. It's not completely the managers' fault, that would be too easy to say. There have been many factors which caused our youth problems in the last few years, such as changing management almost every season, not enough talent/potential, English youth system in general etc. The first step will be a coach (RDM!) who stays for more than one or two seasons here. With the changes coming I can see a good chance for our youths to break through and make the first team in a couple of years. Not all of the will, but if we can get some of them involved, it will be a success.

I'd keep Sturridge as a back-up for Torres, and if the Spaniard doesn't show up play Danny as the main striker. But we still need another experienced striker to be our third choice guy. Though, I don't know who we should target.

The FA is acting like a pubescent youth... tragicomedy at its best.

That's what I'm thinking too. If he didn't wear the hat it would be easier to know.

Does this guy look like Essien? If so, I may have found his personal twitter. What do you think?

One Torres flop is enough

Don't like the third kit. It's like this year's Nike ones - too much and too overloaded.

Calling Cristiano Ronaldo the "true Ronaldo" is blasphemy to the the one and only Ronaldo

@We Hate Scouse, we need a "Champions of Europe" banner as well.