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Even then it will all be sub appearances, and then he said he wants to play for France at the next WC... pfft.

He will never play.

I put in bold the previous post where you talked about other fans. And Mikel doesn't play just because we have no one else - he plays because several Chelsea managers have deemed him good enough for this football club - whether as reliable backup or as a starter.

Why do you care so much about what other fans say? if he's really as bad as you make him sound, he won't have started so many games for a club like Chelsea, under several managers.

Or maybe it's because of the 2 man midfield we play? don't think it's fair to blame Mikel alone for us conceding goals, and this wasn't the first season he was first choice. When Essien suffered long term injuries he was first choice, and we won the PL with him as DM (and also CL, but we all remember that )

You can't even compare both cases. A player still in his prime going to Russia shows a lack of ambition, there's no 2 ways about it. No disrespect to Russia really, but it's not even one of the top 5 leagues in Europe! And Hulk was saying at the beginning of the summer he would love to play in Spain or England because "they're two of the best leagues in the world" then he ends up in Russia lol.

Lyon want him, their window closes today. Will be good to get him off the wage bill.

I can understand his point - being a 2nd choice keeper is terrible, it's not like you can get 30 minutes each game to impress the manager. But i believe Friedel will be benched for him sooner rather than later, he just has to do well to keep his place.

Fuck

Why did they pick this forum lol, i'm sure they're many other Chelsea forums out there.

What the fuck? don't you know he's better than Xavi?

Mata cost 23m pounds, Hulk on the other hand cost Zenit 40m pounds, big big difference.

8m for him is not bad business at all, the timing could have been better though.

According to Abola - the same paper reporting the Hulk news - it should be confirmed soon. I will be very disappointed if it's true.

Zenit are not only getting Hulk - don't really give a shit - but also Witsel? fuck.

Yeah, we have many options out wide, Ramires is needed more in midfield.

What i hope this means is Ramires returns to playing in midfield. I'm not so sure he will be great in a 2 man midfield (because of his shitty passing) but we should maybe give it a try. We can also switch to 3 in the middle and things should be just fine: Ramires-Mikel/Romeu-Lampard/Oscar.

I agree with that, especially about Ramires, but RDM keeps using him there, so he counts as an option. Marin and Moses are not as good as him, but would be actually perfect in games against lesser teams where we need width and trickery out wide.

Hazard-Oscar-Ramires Bertrand-Oscar-Hazard Hazard-Oscar-Moses Marin-Hazard-Moses We have a lot of options in his position.

"Borini is fucking shit" KSI? and it's not just black people ranting on youtube, for some reason though that's what most people are interested in posting lol.

I take this back he looks pretty average - but tbf he has been playing on the wings. Only a matter of time before he starts complaining like Sturridge?

With FFP it's very unlikely any team can come up with an offer to take him away from Madrid. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if all this a ploy to get a new contract.

He was talking about his injury there though.

Don't believe this, where would he go? Man city?

He's not going to do this by playing 15 minutes here and 10 minutes there. He needs to start games then we can really see what he can do.