Sheva.

Their president said we were, and it was on their official twitter.

Armenia won 0-4 at Denmark, lol wtf?

After unveiling, i guess he'd also have to talk to papers.

If the 3 strikers are Cavani, Lukaku and Ba then it's ridiculous imo, because they can't contribute positively anywhere else. Cavani though tbf can do an 'Eto'o' and work very hard on the wings, but we won't be paying that much money to play him there while an inferior player plays upfront lol. If say we sign someone like Jovetic - unlikely - he can start as main striker, play behind the main striker or even on the wings. Anyway yeah i'm done with this discussion, we will see what Mourinho does It's better for the team if most of the players are happy. It's why people like Anelka and Alex were shipped off, due to their unhappiness with their role in the team.

04/05 and 05/06 - Eidur played all over the place and not exclusively as striker. 06/07 - Kalou played a lot of games out wide. 08/09 and 09/10 - Balotelli was around 19 under Mourinho, they got him when he was 15 so he was basically a youth team player, and he made many appearances as a substitute. While Eto'o played every time on the wings. So you pretty much proved my point lol, it's impossible to keep 3 strikers happy unless at least 1 of them is able to do a job in another positon. Ba was shit on the wings at Newcastle and hardly scored btw.

"Some Portuguese journalists brought a cake for their fellow countryman"

Iniesta can do one.

On Lukaku, you're right, i hardly watched him at West brom and ignored most of the wanking over him because it reminded me of Sturridge at Bolton, and that didn't exactly turn out well for us. But he says he's coming back and will be given games so i'm assuming he will be 2nd choice. Anyway you can't just have that 3rd striker sitting there and waiting for someone to get injured, not an experienced player like Ba who has admirers in the PL and Bundesliga. Also, if you're going to have more than 2 strikers, then one of them must be able to play in other positions making room for others - in case nobody gets injured. At Man utd, they have Rooney, RVP, Chicarito and Welbeck. Chicarito is the only one who plays exclusively as striker. RVP and Rooney can play behind the striker and Welbeck gets a lot of his games on the wings. At Man city they had Balo, Dzeko, Aguero and Tevez. But Tevez rarely even played as main striker, same as Balo. So can this happen with Cavani, Lukaku and Ba? definitely not, none of them are that flexible like the aforementioned Manc players (Cavani plays wide for Uruguay, but never plays well) so in a scenario where there's no injury, your 3rd striker will hardly play. That's why teams have youth players to fill that hole, they will hardly complain with a few minutes here and there, and won't be getting 60k too.

You're looking at the worst case scenario. Your question previously was what if Lukaku was injured, and i replied, you can get Feruz/Bamford/whoever to come in and play a few minutes here and there. If it's the other way around, then Lukaku will start, with the reserve striker as backup. It's very unlikely we will have both first team strikers injured at the same time, but if it miraculously happens, you can put Hazard or Schurrle up front. We don't need that 3rd striker. If Lukaku and the main striker go injury/suspension free, Ba will play ridiculously low minutes. Minutes that wouldn't warrant the wages he'd be on and the Non HG spot he'd be taking. Also, this season just gone, we went from January till May with only Ba and Torres, and they were rotated pretty well. There would have been no talk of adding another striker if both actually did their jobs and put the ball in the net.

His job is to score and everyone knows he does that very well, all other aspects don't matter if your striker isn't scoring.

Golaso.

Real Madrid have had only Benz and Higuain the past couple seasons, and whenever one is unable to play they get Morata from the Castilla. There's no reason why we can't do the same. Also, Schurrle is another option.

Get someone from the reserves to back up the main striker till he returns. We don't need to waste wages and non HG spot on a 3rd choice striker who will rarely play. Barring injury, 2 strikers is perfectly fine.

This. Always wasting chances and falling over like every game, smh. If Lukaku is going to stay, then we don't need him or Torres.

Are you describing Prince or Ramires?

Yes. Like Leif said, he can play anywhere, from midfield to attack. Perfect utility player i'm sure Mourinho will like.

Fucking hell. Napoli have learned from Porto in demanding nothing but the release clause. Very frustrating because 50m for one player is still a fucking lot, and they can use that money to improve more than 3 positions

Get him and give Napoli Ramires in exchange for El Matador

Lol. Mate it's a forum, you can easily look past someone's post or block if you don't want to read any of it.

Eden

Eden

Yeah fair enough. I just don't think Mikel was as bad for Chelsea - during his entire time here - as some of those other players to deserve that.

Even at Madrid, he did the same with Benz and Higuain.

Definitely. But this is not the same Essien, and he's only going to stay at Chelsea because of his Mourinho butt-kissing. I only included Torres because of his price tag. His first 2 seasons at Chelsea were terrible, he did alright last season. But overall his production is nothing you would expect for a 50m striker, so everyone involved with the club should be happy to see the back of him really. Mikel cost what like 4m? (minus the extra we paid Man utd for all the complications ) and has been a main-stay in the team for a while now. We can get a better DM than him, but it's not like he isn't good enough to be backup. But like i said, we have many players, and there's Ramires and Romeu, so somebody has to leave.

You won't see me posting gifs about any player, but i can understand it for some - Bosingwa, Benayoun, Kalou don't belong at a club like Chelsea, and their donkey play is so apparent for all to see. Anyway, Mikel stepped up when Essien was injured under Carlo and we won the PL. He was also instrumental under RDM and was probably our best player in the CL final - that is enough good imo. He's very inconsistent that's for sure, but generally he does a good enough job - but unfortunately for him, fans have come to expect much more from that position having watched Maka and Essien in his prime.