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No Drogba wasn't an average player, Drogba was incredible, he could come up with that bit of magic that would win you games, fought for the team constantly and he had an incredible winning mentality along with JT, Lamps and Petr that rubbed off on others. Llorente isn't as good as everyone makes out, if he was so good and meant so much to Bilbao, Bielsa would play him anyway despite the contract problems because you pick your best players usually. He's decent but there's better out there is what I meant, he'd be a cheaper option for us, you have to consider stats sometimes which shows he doesn't actually have that great a strike rate and hes had 2 stand out seasons where hes scored more than 20 goals.

Yes which was last season. I don't think signing a player based on one season where he scored over 20 goals is right tbh, it would be like signing Michu because hes had one decent half a season. I checked my stats again it turns out in 244 league games hes scored 82 times. Hes only scored over 20 goals in a season twice in his whole career. Negredo has scored more goals than him in La Liga (107 goals in 260 games) and obviously so has David Villa (230 goals in 443 games).

Hes scored 70 something goals in nearly 300 appearances. That is average.

How can you say Llorente is "good"? In his whole career hes had one consistently good season which was last year. Nobody ever heard of him until last year when he scored 20-30 goals. In fact if Bilbao hadn't been so good last year in Europe and Spain nobody would have known who he was. Hes an average player, better than Torres but still average.

Negredo is decent but hes not that good, same as Llorente. Hes quite average actually... thats why I'd prefer Ba or someone else.

Don't get me wrong, Llorente is a decent striker but I personally think Ba is the best option in January.

Meh still would rather Ba/Villa.

QPR always step it up against us and the fact 'Arry dickface is their coach he will have them up for this game just because we are one of the big boys so to speak. Lampard hattrick against his uncle would be nice. Anyway a 3 or 4-0 win would be great but so would a 1-0 or 2-1.

Gonna vote for , most of his posts are good and its about time Australia won something

Fuck Liverpool fans, get some bottles of kopparberg and then pose a toast to Liverpool never winning anything ever again #bunchoftwats haha

Happy new year! Have a great 2013 and I hope all your wishes/targets come true/are met!

I did say to you on twitter he'd make 10 appearances max this season haha!

FFP isn't a reality. FFP is a joke. It is to stop small clubs being taken over and having 400 million pounds spent in 2 transfer windows basically. Its basically so the AC Milans, Barcelonas, Real Madrids, Man Uniteds etc are all going to be the only elite clubs - making as much money as they want - spending it if they want with no consequence. Basically it won't allow teams to grow into top teams in the manner us, City and PSG did.

If Sturridge got 60k a week then all the bullshit about him and City must have been true, that he left to get more money. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/09/daniel-sturridge-manchester-city-compensation-chelsea I hope he hasn't been sitting getting 75k p/w since joining us as we are refusing to give someone better than him 80k p/w........

I think its a clause he had in his contract. The other 2 million is probably more agent fees haha.

He obviously feels at Newcastle he demands more wages after scoring 13 goals this year and how every man last year for them and rightly so. So do you think hes going to just keep his Newcastle wages to move here? Of course he isn't. Fuck FFP, just fuck it. We signed like 5 deals at the start of the season to increase the amount money we available so why can't we give ONE player 80k p/w. Remember we spent over 100 million in the summer, FFP did fuck all about that. Also Ba is from Senegal, Chelsea is big in Africa because of players like Moses, Mikel, Drogba, Essien, Desailly etc. It increases our fan base because maybe Senegalese people will see their idol playing in Chelsea blue and think "Oh I want to support this team" or whatever Yes his knee is a problem but still, 7 million is low risk compared to 48 million for Falcao who also has a troubled past with injuries actually.

This guys got it haha. Anyway Lamps will go one way or another, we can keep him and use him but at the same time possibly using him more than youngsters like Oscar/De Bruyne/Josh etc. it hampers there development To develop you have to play games and if a 35 year old is playing 20 games a season its preventing young guys who haven't be on loan getting a game. Getting rid of him has its cons and so does keeping him as well as positives for both.

Thats true but if you want quality, you have to pay that little bit extra. 80k p/w is not that bad supposing he makes at least 50k p/w at Newcaslte. Ba gets 2 million out of the transfer fee I think and he splits it with his agents and advisers. I read we are also going to give an extra 2 mil for some reason.

7 million, 80k p/w and at least 15-20 goals a season is a steal. Rather than 50 million, 175k p/w and 2 goals per season. Ba since being in the PL has scored the third most goals since February 2011. If we are going to let this guy go to PSG/Arsenal/Liverpool when hes been banging them in for fun since 2011 because of 10k p/w or whatever then we are fucking idiots. Absolutely fucking crazy, give him the 80k p/w and give Newcastle the 7 million (which 2-2.5 million goes to him and his agents) means they get 4.5 - 5 million pounds for their best player. We pay Malouda about 100 odd K and hes training with the fucking kids but won't give Ba 80k p/w, absolutely fucking crazy.

Exactly. If he wants 80k p/w lets give it to him. He has 13 PL goals so far, imagine if he'd scored 13 PL goals for us we'd maybe still be sitting top of the pile. Really gotta push if we want this guy, can't let him go to Arsenal or PSG. Rate him highly, would score goals for fun in our team. A big improvement on Torres, big big big improvement. Also he'd be stupid to decline us just to provoke other clubs to try and sign him... I mean come on for fuck sake, why would he just negotiate with us and reject it to get other clubs wanting him? Chelsea is a bigger club than Arsenal, Liverpool and PSG... And his knee injury hasn't fucked up yet at Newcastle/West Ham, hes played 2-2 and a half seasons of football and scored like nearly 40 goals...

Hes the perfect candidate by the looks of it but he'll need to learn how to play as a CM rather than an AM. Hes got the right attributes just needs time to get used to being a CM. This could take years tbh. De Bruyne looks like someone who could be useful in where Lamps is playing too but I'm unsure.

Give him 12 months with an option for another 12 based on appearances. Same with Cole. I'm sure both would get at least 20 appearances or whatever the contract appearances would be. Lampard is a decent option to throw on when we need a goal, he will be used more as a squad player but still a good one at that.

Exactly. He didn't take the fact that we were playing a Villa side that put no pressure on the ball at all. Every time Luiz/Lamps had the ball they had about 15 yards free space to do whatever they wanted. Lampard and Luiz doesn't work because Luiz's positioning is constantly poor and he dives into simple tackles, loses them and a team of better quality would start exposing Lampard or where he should be as he usually marauding forward as if hes the CM version of Cafu (or he was in pre-season anyway). One of them needs to sit back the whole time, both were usually high up the pitch vs VIlla, if Villa pressed us and won the ball they would of easily then bypassed our midfield because both of them would have been in a more attacking position, then boom they could have a whatever v 2 or v 1 or whatever. Thank fuck Paul Lambert wasn't born with a brain.

Well that is alright then haha, as long as he keeps heading the ball to Cole/Azpi/one of our players I don't mind

I reckon Anichebe will start upfront, play as a focal point so they've got something to aim for with long balls/crosses. Reckon Branna and Cahill or whoevers in CB should be able to cope with Anichebe. I mean yeah hes a big lad but Luiz, Branna and Cahill are all excellent in the air.