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Another stupid money-driven decision to take Eden to the US when he could have been in Belgium healing from his injury. Smh.

I think I asked this once before, but since this is looking very likely now, I'll ask it again: How much power would you give Jose in the team? Personally, I have major reservations of getting him involved in player contracts. He completely screwed Inter over with the wages and length of contracts he offered for a group of players who were reaching the twilight of their careers.

Not fair! I know Jaimin is a Roma fan and Jason a closet inter fan, but I have no idea who you support in Italy so I can't tease you back! Sooo...how are you feeling, Jai?

Can we please stay on topic? Please, take the Essien debates to his thread and the petty fights to PMs. Thanks.

Get in Lazio!!

And Torres with the arm band I said this in the match thread yesterday and I'll say it again: I realize that football is mostly about money these days, but I find it absolutely absurd that whenever the clubs financial benefit conflicts with the footballing benefits the club seems to always choose the first!

Will be very interesting to see how Jose handles it if he really is coming..

Don't make me dig up those embarrassing tweets, Jay!

Hey, it's not my fault that your team would rather play UFC than football!

Thank goodness Jason is supporting Roma, now I KNOW Lazio will win it! He tipped Inter to win the Scudetto back in November :lol2:

The problem with Torres's first touch is more mental. He shows that he can have a great first touch when he gets the ball on the wing or in the half way line, it's just that when he's close to goal he shits himself and messes everything up. Even his passing and dribbling are technically excellent when he does them right. I never said that Hazard is not a good passer, just that his technique in passing is not perfect which are two different things as I attempted to explain in the Ramires example. You are mistaking technical ability for flamboyancy. For example, Claudio Marchisio and Niko Kranjcar are for me two of the best players I've ever seen when it comes to technical ability, but they are by no means the 'fanciest' players around.

I am a bit worried some players will die on the pitch! Going to be feisty! I have a feeling 'dirty' Roma are going to win, though

Technical ability is the how well players can execute skills on the ball such as passing, shooting, ball control, first touch...etc according to certain references that have come to be defined as the perfect way to execute those skills like how to execute a half-volley, or first time control or long pass..etc For example, Ramires does not have 'traditional' goo technical ability but he can still execute stuff, even at full speed but in his own style. (Tbf, Ramires is an exception to the rule because he was never part of an academy when he was young). Naturally, any player at this level must have good technical ability, but the players that have overall world class technical ability in our squad are for me Mata, JT, Lampard, Luiz, and to a lesser extent Oscar and Cole. Hazard has world class technical ability when it comes to ball control and dribbling, but I can't say the same for his passing. Mikel has world class technical ability when it comes to passing, but I can't say the same about his shooting and dribbling. PS: For all his faults, Torres still has excellent technique on the ball.

I'm more excited about this final than I was for the CL final last night. Should be a great match. Come on Klose, come on Lazio!

Go back to the previous page, Jaimin posted quotes of him saying that he would rather not go out on loan..

Played 3 different positions in one match and was excellent in every one of them! Very excited to see his involvement with the first team next season.

Go ahead then start one!

Finally, we can lock this thread for good!

That's always the case when the season ends. Not much to talk about and people resort to fights.

Party anyone?

Wouldn't be Chelsea without some drama throughout the season..

Are we trying to work our players to death?!

I think that was his 99th.

I don't want to go off topic with a long post, I realize that football is about money these days but in short, the big deal, for me at least, is that whenever footballing benefit crosses with making money, our club seems to choose the latter while for example Bayern can manage to choose football while still remaining a top club.

Apparently he's going to turn down captaining England on his 100th app: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10080052/Chelseas-Ashley-Cole-expected-to-rejected-offer-to-lead-England-out-against-Republic-of-Ireland.html