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Chelsea subs for Villa: Turnbull, Ferreira, Ake, Ramires, Oscar, Marin, Piazon. Weak and makes the Sturidge medical at scum credible. On a different note, Lamps makes his 500th PL start today!

Thanks. Here are the highlights if anyone is interested: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw5tt6_highlights_sport?start=1#.UNcf2W9ti8o

Luiz in midfield. Anyone else nervous?

Disagree. His diving is very underrated

Found this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AorJAm50D4s

No idea. Jim?

I hope so, but that Norwich was more of an exception than the rule.

No, it seems the problem is only with your profile. Check if you have turned PMs off in your settings.

Manu being completely outplayed, yet again. Naturally they will go and grab a winner in the last 10 mins

The fact that a team with such a shit defense is 6 points clear at the top speaks volumes about the level of the PL this season.

This was the first thing that came to my mind:

I guess it depends on your taste. Just gonna have to get used to the new one.

Must win game. Our main problem under Rafa has been that we are unable to keep the momentum from one game to another. We have 4 winnable games in 10 days, if we can find our form and win them all or at least get 10 points, we will have some breathing space in 3rd place. Plus, we are currently 7th (granted with 2 games in hand), but it's just not a healthy position to be in (for me ).

To be quite honest I like the previous one more. This one is a bot too blue and just blends in with the background and makes the white text a bit harder to read. Not that I don't appreciate the hard work you are putting in, Jim.

[rant] No, it's not our scouts' fault that we can't make buys like Malaga did with Isco. It's because our owner is like a little kid who always wants the shiniest toy out there. It's because our managers rarely get a say in our transfers. It's because some of our fans are the biggest bunch of spoiled brats who always only want the 50 million pound player, just because he has the highest attributes on FIFA, and because cheaper players are all "Liverpool quality" and taking chances on younger players would "turn us into Arsenal". It is because even when we get players like Isco who could turn out world class, we dump them on the bench for the sake of the big names in the team even when the they are much much better than the said names, as I'm sure Danial Sturridge would tell you. That, my friend, is why! [/rant]

Yup. Everton, Arsenal, West Brom and City got late lucky (in some cases undeserved) wins today. I fear we won't be able to do the same tomorrow.

This is EPIC:

I'm sorry but I have discussed these points over and over again. I feel I made my points here and have the right to my opinion. I'm done with this thread.

All over twitter that he is having medicals at scumpool tomorrow. I have been in denial so far, think it's about time I come to terms with the fact that he really is leaving

Heard that too. He continued to play at DM and was subbed off in the 90th minute but that's all I know about the match. Too bad it is hard to find highlights for Championship matches.

Quality not great but it's all I could find: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw5b29_wba2-1norw-spherachannel_sport#from=embediframe

It seems we have different ideas what a poacher is. Any way, Falcao is a better finisher than the strikers you mentioned, but that is all. All of them have much better link-up play and technical ability in terms of passing and crossing and all create space better than Radamel.

I'm not saying they don't nor stating as a fact that we can't afford him, it's a just an opinion that I formed based on some estimates that I made some pages ago and just quoted above.

Not True. Torres has been playing exactly Drogba's role this season. All goal kicks and long balls are aimed at him to win first headers, he is constantly moving to the wings and dropping off for Hazard and Mata to make runs behind him.

A few logic gaps: 1) The transfer fee does not have to be uniformly divided on the length of his contract neither do we have to give him 5.5 years. But let's over look this point because both could be possible. 2) Josh and PVA are not adequate replacements for Lamps and Cole, at least not at the moment. 3) Our squad is very thin and we need reinforcement not just at ST but in several other areas. 4) Our expenses this year have been far more than last year. This year we bought the likes of Moses, Oscar, Hazard, Marin and Azpi who cost a whole lot more than last season's signings who, apart from Mata who cost 23m IIRC, were relatively cheap deals. 5) Last and most important, we got 47m for winning the CL last season but we'll only get 3.9m for making the group stages this season. And even if we win the EL we will only get 3m. That is 40m less than we made last season! There is no way that the deals we made can cover the this deficit, we'd be lucky to even be getting 15-20m a year from those deals. That is still a 20-25m less than our income last season unlike the article that assumed that we would have about the same income. Sorry boys, but this is written in hope rather than logic.