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They never had any in the first place. The best they could do next season is 3rd behind Juve and Milan and even that is unlikely.

That's pretty normal. We had our parade organized last season a week before the final. Just some lazy journo trying to create a story out of nothing.

The second longest serving manager at the same club in the PL right now is Brendon Rogers. Before Jose announced he's leaving Madrid, he was the longest serving manager in the Spanish league! Any manager staying at the same club for more than 2-3 years is an incredible achievement. A complete rarity.

Unlikely, tbh. So let's 'hope' and not 'expect'.

Al Jazeera today reported that he's signed a 4-year deal which will be announced next Friday which makes things 90% done. (They also reported Benitez to Napoli before it was confirmed).

Can't really fault Blackman. He didn't really make any huge mistake and you can't expect an 18yo keeper to make world-class saves.

Napoli is the wrong choice, imo. I doubt he'll be able to get them a CL spot next season. Good luck to him, nonetheless.

Had a great performance yesterday. A couple of amazing saves.

He was very good on the ball, as I expected, but his off the ball movement still needs a lot of work, imo. Overall, very impressive for his age.

Had a good first half but was all over the place in the second, especially after we conceded. Can't be too critical of him at his age.

Exactly! I can't decide if I should go to bed now and then get up at 3:30am or stay up and sleep after the match. Won't get proper sleep either way!

We're going to need more than 11 players in our squad. He's a bit more of a traditional winger so he can give an extra option, especially against teams that defend deep. I'd take him for under 15m.

LOL, tbh, I rarely read through transfer threads

NO!! Please, not that thug!

Same here. Except it's at 3:30 am I think I'm going to stay up till 2:30am and see the lineups, if Benayoun is in there I'm going straight to bed. I have to be up by 9 tomorrow!

For me it's Zola and Nedved and to a lesser extent Raul. The first two are the reason I am a football fan and it's because of them that I support Chelsea and Juve. Two magicians with on the pitch and great gentlemen off it.

I want us to buy him just so I can push this button when he scores: http://www.gomezbutton.de/

Time to move this to the ex-blues section

Alright! I think this thread has been derailed enough. We do not want some Turkish teams fighting on our forum, thank you. Now, please stay on topic.

Looks sunny now. Loftus-Cheek just tweeted this pic:

Anyone knows if Mikel is fit for this one or if he even traveled? He still wasn't fit on Sunday.

That's not fair either because the vast majority of those matches he's come off the bench late on and almost always he comes on to do a defensive job on the wing to preserve a lead.

That's not really fair. We have Torres as a striker, of course his crosses never found their target!

So has a lot of our other loanees like Clifford, Hutch, Kane..etc but the club has taken none of loaness with them to the states. Josh is now taking a well deserved break after his first full competitive season before he joins the U21 in the Euros.

No, this is not another thread about Eva; not in particular anyway You may remember that our current medical department at Chelsea were put together by AVB's staff at the start of last season, and I have to say they have been a bit of unsung heroes of our team this season. They have done an absolutely incredible job, imo. The fact that we've played 69 games this season with so little injuries is just unbelievable. Rafa has mentioned this in interviews a few times as well. The job of the medical staff is usually underrated because it goes down behind the scenes, but it could really define your season at times. For example, look at Inter this season who at one point had 13 injured players at the same time, half of which got injured in training and warm ups! So here is a shout out to our amazing medical staff at Chelsea. Thank you, and please keep up the great work :cfc: