Sheva.

Wow Romeu is alive.

Doubt that, considering i saw a few Marseille fans talking about how they will need a replacement when Azpi leaves. Meaning they're not exactly satisfied with their options at that position atm.

But why do they have all their other best players in the team? (Gignac, Remy, Mandanda, Mbia, Ayew, Valbuena)

Nothing will happen to his confidence if he gets dropped for one game, lmao. People love making a big deal about everything. He will start against Newcastle and Atletico, so there should be no problem at all.

Nice!

That should be enough. Perhaps one of Mikel or Lampard will be rested - most likely Lampard who featured for England last week also.

We can't afford to over rotate, 2-3 changes and that's it.

Fuck, i forgot the league started today, and i lose the first game, le sigh.

I'm all for experience, but they still have to be good players. And Malouda isn't anymore imo. Will have no problem if Benayoun stays.

Just went to his twitter page and saw nothing of this, he deleted it?

He started playing badly before AVB left.

But still they're paying money to a player that's not even theirs anymore, they also pay Bridge's wages and Santa Cruz is still on their books. Ridiculous.

It is understood Spurs refused to break their strict wage structure to accommodate Adebayor. But with the player refusing to accept a big pay-cut, City were forced to accept having to continue to pay the player the difference between his new wage of around £80,000 and his earnings at City in order to complete the deal. Lol.

saw that yesterday, very funny.

What you suggested is absolutely unlikely to happen, Spurs won't take 5m, it's not like Meireles and Sturridge are that good. A more likely scenario is 25m + one of the two, at least a better deal than what Madrid are offering.

No reliable source has reported anything about Hulk to Chelsea lately.

Saw him play there vs Man city, wasn't great, just kept diving all over the place.

It was a superb start, after that he was roughly hacked down, and fouled several more times. And then we were never really able to put pressure on Wigan again, as they had most of the ball. I'm looking forward to see how he does in his first home game on Wednesday.

Well done Everton.

Well deserved goal.

Everything you said makes sense and would make him a good option, but i just can't see it happening because of his age. Sure you might think his age is an advantage, but what's to say RDM and the board think the same?

1. I thought the job of a striker was only to score? hardly anyone cares about anything Torres does, except from the fact he can't score, and Chicarito sure can score 2. Not many good players will join to play as back-up striker. Edit: If we want a striker to be strictly a back up, then we can get pretty much anyone, from Steven Fletcher to Crouch to Berbatov. Hardly inspiring options if Torres can't play though. Fair enough then, personally i don't really care what Torres said, i want (and hope) Chelsea to get a better striker than him.

Question is, do we need a back up striker or do we need someone capable of putting Torres on the bench like Drogba did? someone who can show up in the biggest games, don't think Berbatov is that man. Chicarito is better imo, sure he doesn't do a lot right, but he scores goals when it matters.

Pirlo is world class, i don't think any team can turn him down even at his age. But Berbatov is not. Yes and that's great, but it's his age that concerns me the most. 31 years old and is probably (or will soon be) on the decline.