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Can't expect more from the first half tbh. We were always going to concede on the counter when Oscar is our holding midfielder. I'm actually surprised we are creating so much when 2 of our attacking 4 are basically playing for Leeds.

Lamps shoots, Torres would have been first to the rebound had he made the run any striker in the world would have made

Timely interception by Torres to deny Lamps a goal scoring opportunity from Marin's cross...

Mata lost the ball 5 times in the first 3 mins

Leeds team: Ashdown, Byram, Lees, Pearce, Peltier, Tonge, Green, Brown, Thomas, Becchio, Diouf

As good as gone.

Chelsea Subs: Turnbull, Cole, Hazard, Ferreira, Piazon, Saville, Ake. Could be wrong but I think this is the first time Ake has made our bench, congrats to him if so.

Rumors: Azpilicueta, Bertrand, Oscar, Marin (1st start) in. Cahill, Ramires banned, Cole & Hazard subs This would make it: Cech, Azpi, Iva, Luiz, Ryan, Oscar, Lamps, Moses, Mata, Marin, Torres Pretty much expected.

Is it me or are team news running a bit late? I hope no last minute injuries..

Hmm, weird. Have you tried marking the whole community as read?

And whose to say Falcao won't turn into that loser if sign him? And I would take a good striker, a RB and a CM over Falcao alone any day of the week. A few players can sometimes win you games on their own. Players like Messi, Drogba, Del Piero ( I'd even say Cech)...etc I wouldn't say Falcao is in that rare bunch (he relies on his teammates service and very rarely creates for himself) but even if he did, those players can't win you a league or a competition alone, you need 10 other players doing their jobs. That's why squad depth is more important than one star, imo. I have no idea what you label as "elite". But we have arguably the best keeper in the world in Cech, we have JT who may have lost what little pace he had but is still a top class defender, we have Ash who is still the best LB in the world on his day, and we have the best play maker in the League in Mata, not to mention all the young players who are on their way to being world-class. I really don't like how our team is portrayed as a mid-table team with shit players and even worse how Falcao is the supposed messiah who will turn us into world-beaters. It's not either death or the demise of Chelsea FC. Falcao is one player, an excellent striker but still one player. We can sign him if the deal is suitable or we can look at other players if the deal does not suit the club; simple as. Again, Falcao is not the only striker in the world. Yes, we need to replace Torres, but it does not have to be by Falcao. If one or two of the 4 players we could buy instead of Falcao flop, then it won't be the end of the world because signing players is always a gamble and you can afford lose some average gambles but the last time we made a 50m gamble it cost us 4 managers and we still have not recovered from it.

Lol I know mate, it was a (bad) joke

Happy now? Great work Seb. I hope this puts to bed all the nonsense about signing Fellaini to replace Mikel.

What picture?

^^ Why is JT training next to giant penises?

Hope to be proven wrong but I'm going with 1-0 to Leeds tonight.

I don't get it. People are getting excited about us paying 50m and 200k/wk for one player? We have the thinnest squad in the top 6 of our league. We could use that money to get 3-4 good players and solve a lot of problems. Besides don't we already have a striker that cost the same and with similar wages?! Funny how many people saying that Torres was done when we bought him because I don't remember a single person saying that back then. Same goes for Shevshencko who was a much better striker and all around player than Falcao. Point is Falcao can flop here and I don't think, we can afford that risk tbh.

Well Avram did get us the CL final...

How many of these have actual quotes from Danny saying so?

Found this article which is either completely misleading or greatly informative: http://plainsofalmeria.co.uk/2012/12/17/no-love-lost-how-chelsea-and-leeds-teams-learned-to-actively-dislike-each-other/

I know that. I've known that since three month after Torres signed here. But that does not prove that we won't make it to the CL with him as our main striker. That is not guaranteed that he would be successful here. In fact, by that same logic Torres should be scoring more goals than Falcao now since he cost more.

Not disagreeing with what you are saying. But you were complaining about people making assumptions in this thread then you go and make 2 huge assumptions yourself.

That's a bit self-contradictory, don't you think? Saying we can't make it to the CL with Torres is a huge assumption. Saying that Falcao will enable us to get into CL is a completely unfounded assumption.

Amen!

I love you Jim!