The Rising Sun

boga is our sterling....but better.

boga is like hazard while dribbling and runing with the ball. Very Impressive~!

So it Begins. The many hours of my life i will never get back !!

Dundee 2 Man City 0 Lineups: Manchester City: Caballero, Bossaerts (Richards 46), Kolarov (Leigh 46), Denayer (Rekik 46), Boyata (Nastasic 46), Navas (Garcia 46), Fernando (Zuculini 46), Rodwell (Nasri 46), Huws, Jovetic (Negredo 46), Guidetti (Sinclair 46) i know its pre season, but most players played atleast 45 mins including their new signings. Lost 2-0. Pre season - doesnt matter. But they lost. Wrong topic i know!

He is is probably the only World class defender(english) in engand at the moment. Not that he would get into any team, but he is immense in his last minute tackling, headers and in general, i cant remember him making a mistake for a goal. Humble too.

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Really dont understand why he is going to link up only 3 weeks before PL starts. Its different for players who were already in the side, as they dont require integration, just match fitness. With New Signings, they should be asked to join as soon as possible so they can be fully integrated into the Chelsea way of things. A week more of training with the Manager and players can do wonders for a new signing, so i think this is an issue which should be taken care of in future summer windows.

FFS just looked at that video. Cant Wait. Much better than i remember him at Arsenal, but then again, he was at arsenal, so didnt appreciate fuck all that he did back then. He can be absolutely deadly for us.

Wrote another big post with Lineups and more. Pressed backspace and everything is gone permanently as somehow this loads the revious page. Anyways bottomline, this is unlikely, but could happen if Jose sees what we could do with those 2 upfront

Even for free, Dont need him. Dont want him.

why have they started playing that stupid music at the end. This is not the shire.

No matter what anyone says, he will be missed. One of the most passionate and versatile players we have had in the last decade.

Oscar is not going to do Neymar dribbles. Dont expect him to. He has the ability to keep Pirlo quiet. He is exceptional playing in small spaces, creating the sort of 1-2's that get you past opposition defences. He needs to improve his crossing ability, which is something that you can even get better at when you are 30. No worries there. As for a few people who were saying managers are not that important, its the players mostly, do you remember the Liverpool away game ? The City away game? The manager has to assign systems and roles, and then its the players that must apply that on the pitch. When our manager sent out 3 strikers in a few of the games mid season, risky move, and then we ended up winning in the late stages of the game. You simply cannot discount a managers job of affecting the game, start to finish. Back to topic. It will be enjoyable to watch Oscar this season prove everyone wrong. One average season does not make a player average. He will come good.

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30 million - steal of the decade.

I say keep him. He will learn a few things about growing up and becoming mature. His childlike behavior of throwing his toys out of the pram if he is not getting whatever he wants is quite ridiculous for a professional footballer. If he does prove that he is indeed the "complete striker", then that will cement his place in our starting line up in many games, and might force mourinho to play 4-4-2, or some formation with 2 upfront. He will earn himself more and more gametime even if we play 1 striker up front. If he cant prove himself as the complete striker, then the club can decide what to do with him. He signed a contract and should learn a thing or two about respecting it. His tantrum at being substituted in the WC, and then mouthing of at his coach for some time after was disgusting to watch. The thing about bad behavior is that it can be forgiven and forgotten. But his belief in himself, which at one point was a strongpoint, is now becoming his biggest weakness as he has fallen into a false sense of accomplishment which is simply not there yet. If Benteke was fit for the WC, HE WAS FIRST CHOICE. Lukaku needs to get over his hype and realise ATM he is second choice even for his national team, to a striker who plays for Aston Villa. Yes. Aston Villa. The worst part is, that if we bid for Benteke, he will gladly come to Chelsea knowing he wont be first choice. He knows he is talented and will get gametime based on merit over the season. On the other hand, we have Lukaku, who can simply not be a first choice for any CL team that goes beyond the group stage. In the future he might, but not yet. Not sure what he is aiming towards. Unless he thinks Juventus will play him over Tevez, which is even more delusional. With Atletico buying Mandzukic, if Lukaku thinks he will start ahead of him, that too is not happening. That is the case for almost all CL knockout teams. Battling for more playing time at chelsea will actually be the best thing for him as a person and as a part of growing up. A positive reality check will in the end make him the great footballer he can become. However, living in this delusion of " i want this" " i will decide" " i want CL football" , is not going to take him anywhere. Not any time soon atleast. There is a difference in being selfish towards your ambition and being an asshole. Period. Rant Over!

he is worth 50 million pounds imo.

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This is just getting annoying now. Pre season begins in 48 hours. What on earth are we waiting for? Sign him officially. I dont know if atletico are stopping the transfer till they get a replacement but now its just got too delayed. Show him holding up a chelsea shirt a cobham.

That would in normal circumstances be acceptable, but having Torres as the second striker is not going to cut it for us. I simply cannot see torres coming on and making us win a game, or if Costa is injured, Torres doing the job for us. If we dont buy another second choice striker, selling Lukaku will be a huge mistake for the club. If he is worth 25 million with 2 years left, at worst he will be worth 18 million with 1 season left on contract. For a few million extra, its not worth having Torres as the one to rely on after Costa.

we should just keep him as our second striker. He signed a contract, we sent him to places where he could develop. Now lets use him. If he does exceptionally well, he will get more minutes and maybe will even force the manager to start playing 2 upfront. That is the bottomline for the club. Be strong. We bought him for some 15 million pounds, and have got him good loans where he has developed. He has 2 years on his contract left. Lets at least use him for one year and then decide on whether he proves himself at chelsea, keep him further or sell. If we sell him now, he surely must be worth atleast 25-30 million pounds, doubling his value from when we bought him.

Dont think there is any crisis with midfield. There was simply too much pressure on them over the last 2 seasons, due to our strikers scoring no goals. That causes us to have too much expectations from them. Hazard was third highest midfield scorer last season, with assists goals and bonus points combined. Dont know how he is in the crisis column, when only yaya and one more player scored more points than him. Willian got in the best of positions, and needs to give more assists, and a few more goals. Assists only work when there is a striker converting those chances created. Costa should take care of that. Should not be in crisis mode either. Salah hast played enough IMO. Oscar is crisis mode and needs to up his game this season. Fabregas is going to be awesome for us. No crisis.

The only thing he needs to keep doing for Chelsea is to keep his pace up. Slowing down completely takes the edge off his abilities and allows defenders to double team him. Belgium were too slow and devoid of ideas, so everytime they got the ball, it was mostly debruyne crossing the ball in the box. Chelsea play quicker and it suits hazard. He should be even better with Costa and Fabregas. He didnt show passion in the WC, but neither did any one else on the belgium team. That is the only thing he can be found at faullt for. At Chelsea, the demands from a player are much higher than they were at the Belgium NT. He will do better for us next season, surely. No need to panic!