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Craig Gordon is a free agent but has very bad injury problems. If he could stay fit he'd be an amazing back up, hes underrated as a keeper. In the SPL years ago he was miles ahead of every goalkeeper and he got better at Sunderland. He'd be a great signing if kept fit but still he wouldn't play that much likely.

Have to be honest, I just hope that against AC we don't defend as badly and play a strongish first XI. enough with the 9 different players each line up. We don't want to see any of this chopping and changing shite halfway through the season like with AVB, we all know what happened last time.

I have to be honest, this thread has taken it too far. I know I criticized the team but I don't think we need a our squad is overrated topic, noooooooo hell no.

Ok I maybe was a bit too harsh but still I'm disappointed we should have beaten that team!

Yeah but still, we are better than what we played tonight. Hazard, Lampard, Ramires, Marin, Essien, Mikel, Terry, Luiz, Cahill, Cole etc are all good players and played so you would of thought that a team containing them would of scraped a better result than a 3-2 loss.

Yes but we are the Champions of Europe, we should be cruising this 4 or 5-1, especially with the players we have too. Pre season or not we should be performing better than that too, the performance wasn't great.

Have to be honest, majority of this game has been disappointing, we should be smashing these cunts pre season or not.

Not too bothered about Lukaku as much, think pre-season is great for him tbh. Hilario and Benayoun though fuccccccccccccccccccccksakeeeee

Major League Soccer ‏@MLS .@ChelseaFC Starting XI v #MLSAllStar: Hilario, Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Cole, Benayoun, Essien, Lampard, Marin, Ramires, Lukaku

4-1 Chelsea!

Bet half of us have all put Oscar in our teams... I haven't but I am tempted.

If Ramires was naturally better technically he could be a natural winger. Offers great defensive work on the right as well, if he could get his touch and crossing much better than what it is now then he'd be a good option there too. Maybe we should look to pip Arsenal to Santi Cazorla? Isn't he not able to play as a winger and had decent assist stats for Valencia and Malaga over the last few years? Only problem for me is the team is vastly unbalanced and without Ramires or Kalou on the right/left offering help by tracking back and doing some dirty work we could be exposed.

True but I'd rather a winger similar to Antonio Valencia, as in he gets at least 10 assists a season. Marin could be but I'm unsure if he will be a regular or just an impact player. Mata and Hazard are capable but they are probably greater at scoring goals than setting them up. Mata had a lot of assists last season but tbh we only looked to him for creativity so someone like Valencia would be a perfect fit on the right wing. Just a pity every winger wants to come inside these days!

If we need any sort of winger, it should be one who can get to the byline and cross 9 out of 10 times rather than Hulk who prefers to come in and shoot more than pick someone out.

I have a funny feeling he will get Didiers shirt, just a hunch though.

Hate to put a negative spin on this signing, but it seems that Lamps days as a Chelsea regular will be very slim either next season or the one after. Oscar will probably be his successor, or Josh maybe.

Probably, Fergie is going crazy.

We'd be linked with Torres ever since after his first season with Liverpool!!!

If its true about him wanting £175,000 p/w he can get to fuck. Plus if the transfer fee is over £30 million, the same applies.

Seen this earlier, isn't he not doing youth coaching with Milan now?

If he doesn't cut here, its nothing major, if he does its a bargain.

Seems this rumor has picked up again after Whelan coming out and saying we're still in talks for him. Personally if he plays like this for us I would love him. Maybe he should of scored when he went clean through and crossed it when he shot but still played class against them! Absolutely tore Sagna a new arsehole. Also in this video showing his goals his finishing and movement is very good for some of the goals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSR53VXw-yo&feature=player_embedded

Watch the Team GB vs Brazil friendly again and look at how well Oscar played against the likes of Joe Allan, Ryan Giggs, Tom Cleverley in the midfield. He was MOTM imo because his passing was very accurate, didn't complete every pass but he did complete the majority of them. He also made a few interceptions in the game and for being "lightweight" he was strong in the tackle and trying to regain possession. He linked the midfield and attack really well, got in to advanced positions* and managed to test the keeper once or twice. Was only one game but he looked very promising, very very promising. *With Sandro and Romulo more defensive minded players he was able to get in to the attacking positions, only question is if hes playing in the double pivot will he have that freedom? Just wondering what will happen but we will see.

True, I have hated Levy ever since the Modric saga last summer despite us possibly paying them 40-50 million for him just half a year after giving Liverpool 50 million for Torres (and we all know what happened with him.........). He is a spunkbucket.

Modric has done a Tevez... gone missing.