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I imagine his great form is only adding to Jose's selection headaches. Another player who clearly plays best in the number 10 role. Will it be him, Oscar or Mata vs Arsenal?

Dude, that's like the easiest engineering major out there! You should try electrical or mechanical engineering

Hardly a surprise. 40% of all money spent on weapons in the world is spent by the US. They used to spend more than the entire rest of the world combined before the financial crisis.

I thought he did well in the first half and the start of the second but got tired as the game went on. Was non-existent during extra time, but tbf so was the rest of the team except for Schwarzer and Willian.

Electrical Engineering. I wouldn't recommend it

If you can, write the introduction before you leave and if you don't have internet access, I'll continue it.

This is brilliant. Raja players kissing Ronaldinho and taking his clothes and shoes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3IW2UdDkE&feature=youtu.be

You need to ask TheOnlyPlaceToBe. I'm just the translator here

I count the most advanced central midfielder as an attacking midfielder like Lampard, Oscar..ect and Guarin. The reason for Guarin having so many successful dribbles is that he usually is the one who takes the ball forward for Inter (due to the lack of creativity they have in the middle. That is also part of why Inter fans want Kovasic to start in his place) but that does not make him a good dribbler. He loses the ball way too often while dribbling and that is in Italy where most teams don't press in midfield, imagine what would happen in the EPL!

I don't want to sign him now. In fact, I don't want to even sign him in the summer either because we have our own young talents to bring through. But I'm saying if we want to do business with Inter, then Kovasic is 18/19 and is already better Guarin and closer to what we need here at Chelsea..

Yeah well theoretically, Essien can play Ramires' role as well. Not available? He'd kill himself to get a move to a club like Chelsea. What about the other two I mentioned? What about someone like Ki who has been fantastic this season? What about some other CMs from the Serie A who are also not cup-tied (although I don't imagine that is something of great importance to Jose and the Chelsea board as the main concern is the league)? Players like Pjanic? Ilicic? If we want to do business with Inter then why not get their best CM and one of the most promising young play makers in Europe: Kovasic. I'm sure you'll find the Inter fans reaction to be much stronger if we are linked with him instead of Guarin.

But that's it. How "safe" will Freddy Guarin make us? What does he offer that is better than the other options we have. To me the difference is the same as between having Torres and Ba or Torres, Ba and Eto'o i.e. not much at all.

An 18m stop-gap? Plus, the last stop-gap we got isn't really working too well right now. If a stop-gap is what we want, give Chalobah or Josh a chance. Or even Ake who has already fllled in as a stop gap last season and did pretty well.

Well from the EPL alone, I'd much rather someone like Schnielderline, Cabaye, Morrison..etc off the top of my head. All would not go for more than the rumored 18m and all would be dying to make a switch to a team like Chelsea. The Guazette who are the ones reporting this story say 15m plus bonuses = 18m. And again, this is my opinion from watching Guarin and I don't think he can play in a pivot and if memory serves he even played in a 4-3-3 with Porto so he hasn't played in this role before.

But you can argue that all of our options at CM atm should be squad players and what we need for that position is a world-class player. Plus 18m for a squad player? Then there's that he doesn't really fit a 2-man central midfield, and that there's better options available for about the same price or even cheaper...etc

He and Essien were at fault for both goals. Made a few other mistakes as well. Saying that you can't criticize his performance yesterday is just ridiculous.

Probably loan him to the championship and see how he does there. Would be the logical thing to do.

We won't lose this match. I'm always confident when we face Arsenal regardless of our form.

"A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men"

Jaimin posting again? Shit just got real!

You and I remember Raul's performances for us very differently...

He was very good because he pressed very well and won the ball back in the opposition half many times, he never gave the ball away cheaply, always offered himself as an outlet when one of our players got pressed, played a few long balls straight to the striker, always covered for the fullbacks and Luiz when they made runs forward and defended well inside the box and made a couple of clearances when we got pinned back. What else do you want from a defensive midfielder? He can't do the job of the front four for them when they can't score.

He's our only available LB to play vs Arsenal....

It's no use anyway. @Stingray has already stolen the hearts of all the midgets in town