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I would kill for a HQ version of that!

Why would it deter Benfica? We added Matic to shave 2m off the Luiz deal and a potential 6-8m profit for them in 18 months maybe would have seemed great to them at the time.

King Carlo to destroy Barcelona next season! No I don't believe that will happen, but one can hope..

We would have had him for something like 10m instead of the rumored 40!

He did incredibly well last season, why would we include an option to sell him? If Genk want him they can have him on loan only. Although, since he did play in the Belgian league last season, I'd actually prefer to see him go on loan to the Bundes Liga maybe like Kevin did.

Exactly. Imagine if we had a buy back option for Matic for example.

The difference between you and me regarding Neymar is that I have absolutely no emotional attachment to the issue. I couldn't care less if he proves me wrong. I watched him in 3 games this tournament so far. He scored a good goal against Japan was bullied off the ball and went invisible for the rest of the match. He played an amazing game against Mexico, he was absolutely outstanding the whole game. And then yesterday he was terrible and all he did was dive.

At least he'll definitely have a career in acting if he fails in Europe.

True but how fans rate footballers usually coincides with how he is valued in the market. I think we can easily get 15-20m for him.

The 3 you mentioned all were part of our first team squad at some point in the 2011-12 season so those numbers were once theirs. When they left us on loan their numbers became 'free' but they continued to sell the shirts with the numbers. The reason Kevin's shirt is on there but not Chalobah's is simply because of popular demand. There is no rule or methodology for the kits available on the website, it is simply about selling the biggest number of kits.

They were selling shirts with the number 14 on them because that was his number at Genk and that was the number he used during preseason. But he was never given that number or any number because only first team players get numbers and he was never one.

LOL why not? They want to sell shirts and Kevin has a lot of hype around him which makes a lot of people want to buy a shirt with his name on the back. It would marketing idiocy to not sell shirts with his name on the back.

But that's it, he never had an official number because he was never part of our first team squad. We signed him in Jan where he went straight back on loan then he joined us for preseason only where he used the the number 14 shirt but t was never his. Just like the number RLC used in the post season matches is not his.

Still it's not like he has played in this number for years here at Chelsea and it has become associated with him. He's just arrived here, he can have a different number and come to be synonymous with it. Technically he doesn't have a number: http://www.chelseafc.com/first-team

Yes, dear. Whatever you say

Cavani is having an average game?! What more would you want him to do? He's practically playing at RB, giving 200% effort, defending brilliantly and still managing to score and contribute to the attack even though Uruguay have had less than 40% possession.

That awkward moment when Uruguay's striker can tackle better than Brasil's defenders..

Yes I meant he won't have his plans for Luiz figured out already. Watching players in games is completely different than seeing them in training. He'll have to see him train before he decides on his plans for him.

Done

Yeah I remember his remarks about German people at the start of last season. LOL

Tevez with the Juve shirt. He got quite the reception in Turin.

Exactly, he has no reason to make big deal of this and I'm sure he won't. He seems like a very nice guy.

Yes, but can he play in the pivot?!

I don't get the fuss about the shirt numbers. I'd understand if it had something to do with marketability (like Ballack and the #13) but in this case there is none of that. The 14 was not even Kevin's number, he only wore it during preseason here. He'd be very silly to make a big deal out of it.