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But it's 4:30 am

Here te match starts at 4:30 am, staying up doesn't sound too practical.

Happy Birthday Sam. Have a good one mate

She's been confirmed as the first team doctor for next season

That doesn't make sense in any way. I'm saying since this is a friendly and it's timing is strictly in the hands of the club, why not play it at 1 or 2 pm instead of 9:30 pm so that way it would be noon in the US, early night in Europe and the middle east and morning is Australia.

Still a looong way from a team that can challenge for the CL.

1. Cech 2. Pirlo 3. Falcao 4. Ronaldo 5. Iniesta 6. Messi 7. Van Persie 8. Drogba 9. Ozil 10.Aguero

I'd give Arsenal 25m to NOT sell walcott to us.

Everyone seems to be looking to rip us off in this transfer window.

Arsenal bend over for Drogba, leave all the trophies for us and have reportedly rejected our 25m bid for Walcott. They seem to have our best interest in mind.

I think Twatenham can get the money from the Modric deal, but it still doesn't make sense. Why should Hulk leave Porto to join a smaller team that's not playing in the UCL in the foreseeable future?

I don't get it, why can't they schedule the match to be in the morning in the US so that the rest of the world can also watch.

The details of the "Today's Top 20 Posters" are also in white.

The idea is that the tittle is changed with the latest injury news, but as you may have noticed, it isn't exactly up to date

Don't forget Hazard's brother

Isn't Romeu at the Olympics?

I completely agree. Actually if you check Raul's thread you'll see that I am one of his biggest critics around. However, I would not start Oscar over him in any important match because firstly Meireles works a lot harder and is much more experienced, and secondly because Oscar's defending is weak even for the Brazilian league. Add to that, I think Oscar is best in a 4-3-3 when he can rely on two other central midfielders to cover for him, I'm not too sure how well he'll fit in a double pivot role.

I have watched him play a few matches with Brazil and two times with inter. He did not exactly impress me at his club. I thought with Brazil he was a better: his passing is good for his age and his vision is excellent. But he is no where near a finished article: he needs to improve technically, he has good movement but is sometimes just lazy, and his defending is just unacceptable in the PL. I'm not saying that he does not have the potential to be much much better than Raul, but at the time, if I am RDM I would choose Raul over Oscar for any important match. And that is coming from one of the biggest Meireles critics on the forum.

Have you seen Oscar play? And I don't mean youtube compilations, I mean actually watch him play full 90 mins?

Quick question: Why is everyone putting Oscar in the starting XI? I swear the thing we Chelsea fans do best is hype players. He is a 20 year old with POTENTIAL who is not, yet at least, good enough to start over the likes of Lampard and Meireles in the double pivot and certainly not better than Mata, Hazard and Rambo in the three behind the striker. If we are to buy him, which I am totally against consider his price, he will most likely spend most of his first couple of seasons here on the bench.

Wow, the club is doing an excellent job preparing for the FFP rules.

Meireles seems to have the power and technique but I have never seen him take a pen.

Only Hazard and Mata? What about De Bruyne? Kakuta? Yossi if he stays? Even Marin played behind the striker for all of last season with Bremen. Even in the pivot role we have all of Lamps, Mikel, Essien if he stays, Romeu, Raul, Josh and Rambo for only two places in the starting XI. What I'm saying is that we are paying 25m for a luxury signing when we have more pressing needs at RB and the wings.

Who said we have too much creativity?! If you are refering to what I posted, I said we have too many central attacking midfielders, we can't play them all, so why pay their fees and wages?

Who made the Torres joke?