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Sigh...sometimes I genuinely feel the quality here has dropped below that facebook comments. Gets really annoying reading the same whinny fickle reactions over and over again...

Shots? That's more of a nuke or an H bomb, tbh!

What a rocket to basically kill off the tie! Apart from the goal he's been impressive. Incredibly dynamic and energetic. Technically sound on the ball as well.

He's a great guy, a top professional and a very good left back, but it was a HUGE mistake for the club to sign him last season. Happy for him that he got to experience the EPL and won a couple of titles. Really hope that the club managed to regain most of the huge investment we made last season. Thanks for everything and best of luck, Filipe

You have rather small dreams in life!

That's not creepy at all! :ph34r2: :ph34r2: :ph34r2:

Non-league Bashley manager and former Chelsea defender, David Stride, has been sacked after just 40 days at the club due to "a run of poor pre-season results and lack of player signings". It is believed that the owner of Bashley Football Club is a regular member of the TalkChelsea forum. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33674078

Honestly, Vitesse are the ones who should have a Chelsea flag on their kits for all the free players they've got from us, not the other way around!

Might be worth a bet on United for the title then, Ron

Our defense is not world class. Not even close. Cahill is an average CB, Zouma still has a lot to learn and a lot of experience to earn. Iva is a CB who thinks he's a ST playing at RB. JT is limited by his lack of pace and that is only emphasized each year. The only world class defender we have at the moment is Azpi. United's defense lacks experience and world class players but they are all good, physically strong defenders with technical ability. Our defense looks a lot better than it actually is because our midfielders have more defensive duties than most teams.

The challenge for Van Gaal is to integrate everyone into the system. It's never easy to bring several new big players into a team.

Their defense is not weak. Individually, ours and City's defense is not better, after all, Cahill and Ivanovic are starters for us! In attack, I'm pretty sure they will sign another striker but even if they don't, Rooney is capable of getting 15-20 goals as a striker easily.

They have more quality in midfield than any team in the league as well as a better bench than everyone else.

On paper, utd are favorites. There's no two ways about it..

Post match threads around here are getting boring. It's always either sack Jose/the board or sell Mikel/Oscar. Let's have a bit more creativity, guys! As was the case with the first match, obviously result and performance don't matter in the slightest. To the people trying to analyze individual performances, I give you the German Messi: What actually matters of course is the fitness and physical conditions of the players. I'm just about to start watching the rerun, but I reckon we'll need at least 2-3 more matches before we're even remotely physically ready for the new season.

Yeah, sure, I'll give him a call

First rerun in the morning, for me. Was planing to stay up for this one but I haven't slept for over 40 hours!

Wait, where/when did you see his junk?! The French Beckham!

I obviously have very different taste in men than you lot! @Barbara, give us some expert opinion, how good is Falcao on scale from Petr Cech to Ribery?

Honestly, this wasn't aimed at your post in particular, and I'm not at all saying that there aren't many valid criticisms, but just the series of negative posts one after the other all already writing him off just defy belief. Let's all put some trust in RLC!

Can someone please direct me to TalkChelsea? I seem to have accidentally clicked on TalkCynically.net Jeez, some people just feed on negative energy that I feel they pray and hope that everything goes wrong. Shut up and give the kid a chance AT LEAST till the end of this coming season before you even start to pass judgement.

YOU're an oxymoron!

Proper Chels.

Meanwhile NY still riding their luck. How many more times do we hit the woodwork in this match?!

What type of grass is the stadium? Everyone seems to be either over hitting or under hitting their passes...