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I know I had no idea Demba was so funny!

The you should really change your location in your profile We don't even have paypal in Lebanon

Why would that be contradicting? I'm saying that MVG is better than Essien and that's why he got more games before he was injured. Marco has had two full seasons at one of the best teams in Netherlands, he is miles ahead of Nathanial in terms of development and experience. You can't compare the two. If Jose or the club thought that Chalobah was as good as Marco, he would have stayed and played instead of going out on loan to the championship, in fact if he was that good already we wouldn't have had to buy Marco. Luckily, Nathanial is still 19 and has all the time in the world to develop into a great player. He just needs game-time to develop which is why the club will almost certainly find him another loan in January. And as for Kalas, he's been back from injury for almost two months and he hasn't even made the bench when recently we had no CBs there due to Luiz's injury. Jose, or any other manager in the world, simply won't risk it when the team is under pressure for results.

LOL This so funny. I guess he got tired of people calling him Dave And I didn't know he had his own youtube channel!

My beard before it goes off:

Hey. Haven't seen you around here in a while! How you doin'?

Well that's simply because Jose could trust MVG more than Essien. How many games have we had this season where we could take risks and not start our best players especially at CM? Our performances as team are still not "stable" enough for us to take chances on young players. That's why Kalas, who was promised at least 15 starts by Jose in preseason has only featured for 2 minutes so far. I agree that the decision to send him to Nottingham was stupid especially when we could have sent him back to Watford where he had earned a starting spot and knows and loves the manager. But unfortunately, for young talents like Nathanial at a club like Chelsea, I don't see any other way than going on loan repeatedly at this age. We just can't allow him the time and patience of putting up with mistakes and sub-par performances, because every teenage footballer no matter how good he is will have plenty of those. There is just too much pressure on the manager and the team to get results. So to answer your first question, yes playing time for a kid his age even in the championship WILL help him develop like it did last year. Nothing can replace actually playing competitive football.

Toure is the deserved winner for his performances with CIty. But for some reason he very often failed to produce with Ivory Coast.

Yeah, he probably can, but Essien has played less than 180 mins so far this season, do we want Nathanial to play that role with our squad when he can be playing regularly and developing elsewhere?

"Service" is one the those football terms that I really hate, like creativity and pivot..

It's like shoes fashion. It becomes trendy every once in a while

What was the deal with the tekkers yesterday?! His first touch was to control a 50 yard long ball and just stop it on his foot, then he was making all sorts of flicks and later he had that amazing back heel to Hazard(?). It was hilarious to see he was capable of such things!

Not sure if this has been posted or not: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17sv6o_an-audience-with-hazard-ba-de-bruyne_sport

Brilliant. Well worth a read

I agree, except I don't think we need to offload 2. I think, and have been saying since we signed Willian, that one of the six will leave in the next two windows. There is just not enough games for all of them!

Ah yes. The tactical genius of Avram Grant!

Even if we assume that all the examples given are true, those are the exceptions, not the rule. Surely it's not that absurd to suggest that a player that is not doing well at a lower league will probably not get into our team. My point is, expecting an out of form teenager to come into a side like Chelsea and in the middle of the season when he was not with the team before that and does not know the system and where there are four players ahead of him for his position on both ability and experience is pretty desperate. Nathanial just isn't the solution right now and having him back would just be unfair to him and his development. We need to find him a loan where he will be guaranteed playing time. As for the wage thing, while your theory does have some logic in it, it just did apply to reality in this case at least. Especially if you consider that the other club that was interested in in taking Nathanial is Watford where he did so well last season, knows the system and where he loves the manager who knows and trusts him. He would have been a nailed on starter in the spot that he earned there last season. In this case, we really only preferred to loan him to Forest for an extra 5k/wk.

I don't

Yup, I read that it was his first in just under a year. Says something about our set piece delivery..

I know the feeling!

Tbf, teams play differently against Arsenal than they do against us mainly due to the fact that they fancy their chances against Arsenal's defense and often commit men forward while most teams play very defensive against us. That is also helped by the fact that we play a much slower tempo than Arsenal do so teams know that they have a decent chance of keeping us out for 90 mins if they just sit deep while they know that they are very likely to concede if they do so against Arsenal.

I was very worried about him for this game as Southamton have a very mobile attack with great movement and he is known for his notorious positioning issues, but luckily he had a great game and the Saints didn't have a single meaningful attack after the first 13 seconds. Vital goal as well. I had a feeling he would score as he was firs to a couple of balls from corners in the first half as well.

Yeah we should definitely get Shaw now so he can join Bertrand in the stands while we play a RB in their position.

I really don't get how you expect someone who can't get into Nottingham's to start for Chelsea. The most he'll get is a couple of starts in the League Cup or against teams of lower leagues in the FA cup. I know that we have some serious issues at CM, but to suggest that the options we have there are worse than championship players like Lansbury, Majewski and Jara that Nathanial would start over them is an over-exaggeration to say the least. He should go back on loan in Jan and hopefully to team where he will play and be a key player, not to the team that pays the most of his salary.

No need for that. If he annoys you that much, just stick him on ignore.