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I am very lazy. I woke up about an hour and a half ago..... I was up until about 8

Goal was ok, very poor goalkeeping from David Marshall though. Gonna have to download the game and watch it, slept in and missed it!

Gomez is so overrated, hence why Germany have been playing with a false 9 recently. He'd not be a good fit for Chelsea. Maybe if we played to his strengths to provide him with a lot of scoring chances then sure he'd be good for us but we play around Oscar, Mata and Hazard so someone who can link up play and run the channels is vital for playing in tandem with those 3. Anyway I'm glad it didn't take Eto'o 19 games or whatever to score his first goal for us

Read he scored and got a controversial assist today hahaha, not seen the goals yet though... good that hes scored his first for us though, time to kick on.

How is that his choice? Does he think hes going to just waltz in and play every game? He will have to sit on the bench at some point. Players don't have as much of a say as their managers do.

Just noticed the tags, what a cock you are Jake.

Slow starter? He started last season on fire for us.... wasn't he not directly involved in all our goals after 4 or 5 games last season...

Sign him up on a big ass new contract... keep him as for next season to compete with Petr then re-evaluate, he won't walk into the Chelsea team, if he thinks that hes stupid.

Its a hard decision but I'm glad Jose will be the one making it in the summer. He can keep Cech and have Thibaut stay as well to compete with him, at least he gets a season to see Courtois himself in person and make a judgement if he feels he's ready to move Cech on or whatever. Jose won't back down from making a decision, look at what he did to Casillas, just because Jose was here before and Cech was his number 1 then it doesn't mean when Thibaut comes back, he won't drop Petr if he reckons hes not the best GK at the club.

Napoli really looked shit in the first half... Roma albeit having to make 2 earlyish changes with Totti (their best player) and Gervinho whos been good, still looked comfortable except for 15 minutes in the second half. Wouldn't say Roma are title contenders but you never know if they keep this run up... Also Pjanic's freekick was great

Its Juve I bet they will get away with it... they seem to get away with most things

Kalou was released!

Does anyone else think he could perhaps be reverted into a striker like player? or used as a false 9? Can't see him playing as a #10 or winger for us tbh. He says his style is like a midfielder upfront, likes to pass and then make runs as opposed to hog the ball and do flashy moves. I don't know though...

Since when did Chelsea use release clauses? When has any other Chelsea player been reported to have a release clause? Its just bullshit media reports I reckon, many clubs in Englands don't include such a clause in contracts, its more a continental thing as we've seen in Spain, France, Portugal and Italy in the last 10 years. Plus Chelsea aren't a selling club as well, we've seen that. Bar Robben who was the last good player we sold?

He never did much off the ball anyway, at Inter, Madrid and Ajax it was the same

Third goal was a beauty, just looked so easy, touched the ball inside and let rip.. great goal

Work rate? Sneidjer has always been a lazy bastard...

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Still gutted we let him go, sure he wasn't in his prime or that but his performance vs Bayern? Probably one of the best in his career.

Could just be a coincidence, 33% of the population of Poland speak English. Could also mean he wants to play in England so learned how to speak English too though... Also video title is very very misleading haha...

Why would Pep have seconds thoughts on a player at least 10 times better than Mandzukic? He'd be perfect for Bayern, don't take some ridiculous AS article seriously haha, if he was having seconds thought why did Lewa say he will sign for Bayern in an interview. It will happen.

http://squawka.com/news/2013/10/09/chelsea-linked-with-new-makelele-do-the-stats-stand-up/2013100924867 Seen him play three times for Marseille already this year (games against Guimgamp [his old club], against PSG and against Monaco). He looks a decent player; strong, calm on the ball, good at tackling.. obviously being French and playing a holding role hes compared to Makelele but he could be a good signing for us. Guy Hilton has confirmed our interest in him and also the Marseille president has said that they beat us to signing him in the summer. I'm unsure about paying €30 million but hey, who knows.

Fantastic take there, reminds me of Bergkamp somehow.

Like Pogba hes an all round midfielder... who is better in the box to box role where he can be more effective for the team, getting into positions so he can arrive late in the box as he has done for the last 10 or 11 years at Chelsea. Hes not mobile enough to recover as quickly as Rami due to the fact he is 35, he leaves whoever his partner is exposed 9 times out of 10 when they switch roles and their is a turnover of possession...

Lampard is useless anywhere in the pivot, he doesn't tackle as we seen against Spurs several times, hes just glided past easily by more mobile players, his positional sense is also quite bad. When we are under pressure he is careless in possession, sloppy passes that lose the ball. He isn't a deep lying playmaker either... the sort of player we need to play next to Mikel/Rami/whoever has to be able to break play up as well, Lampard doesn't do a lot of that in my eyes. He claims he is trying to play a more disciplined midfield role but he is like Yaya Toure, he is closer to the opposition box than his own half the time.

It would be difficult because it will be similar to when Lampard is steaming upfield because of his goal threat and then Ramires is left playing a role he isn't accustomed to. Sure Pogba is an upgrade on Lampard but I can't see it working imo.