bluesman2610

To your point Cech has been fantastic to/for us. But you have to also admit there have been some moments when you wondered about the soft goals he has let in. Like Alex said above he isn't the Cech from the 09-10 campaign and these injuries that he has are making him less confident in terms of his collection of air balls among other things, this you can see on a weekly basis. Everyone saying he has another 8 years are being a little sentimental, which is warranted in what he has done for our club but cech has maybe 2 years reamaining at top level before we see a serious decline I think it would be better that we bring the Belgian back loan him to a team that has a keeper get peppered with shots to keep him sharp sign him up for longer term deal and the following season have him and Cech battle for number 1. If we could do it with Cudicini and Cech why can't we do it with Courtois

happy wife happy life is how the saying goes I believe haha

ramsey scores and gets sent off during the game lol

Did anyone watch the France V. Georgia game.. if not check out the highlights for the France third goal and look at the ball Valbuena plays to Ribery exactly what we are missing in our current team

my question is how can we justify taking a gamble and players "unproven in PL" like hazard and oscar and not take the same with lukaku who in his first true season in the PL has shown he can do more than just a job... granted the two mention are a different breed of player but the idea is the same... I say give him a shot the lad loves chelsea lets show him chelsea loves him back :cfc:

man I am glad this tie is over so the boards can get back to normal...

Come on guys he got kicked in the face.. I know you hate him but jeez

This could be the approach for most teams if this goes through who get knocked out of europe due to FFP just play in the tournament once in every 2 years and you will have made more than winning champions league 3 times haha

I'm sure by now you have all seen the news about this new league the Qatari's are trying to start their own elite competition.. 24 teams with each participating team to be paid £175m Do you think this will spell the end to champions league? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2292509/Manchester-United-Manchester-City-Chelsea-offered-175m-EACH-play-new-24-team-summer-tournament--Qatar.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

if only..played with johnathan when we were kids before he moved out to the netherlands and was always better than julian to me.. but now hes officially capped theres no way thats going to happen.. and he looks so promising just looking at how well he has been playing for swansea.. but that will always be OUR downfall our players don't really want to play for us begovic(stoke) haregraves ( in his prime before injury) de guzman and hoilett

Our Canadian De Guzman( Julian) had bananas thrown at him while playing in La Liga for Deportivo part of the reason why he left and came to MLS 3yrs ago

and Rio escapes any desciplinary action frmo FA as he plays for United if that was Terry or any other Chelsea player there would have been a suspension.. i.e ivanovic vs wigan last season unseen by officials and subsequently banned by FA #bunchoftwats

Cech has a year 2 at most remaining at top level his body and injuries like his elbow surgery in the summer are taking their toll on him.. and you can see it in his confidence with air balls.. Petr Cech will always be chelsea legend but we can't risk losing possibily the next great world keeper to keep an ailing Cech happy

also to point out Ramires has often popped up in important games to score a big goal... that is something that so far with his career here has been invaluable..

and if we are being critical suffers from a lot of errors like Luiz as well..

I dunno about that but I did think he made the right call with Hazard on the bench after Hazard looked so tired on thursday come on fresh and totally took over the game with Mata.. fair play to Rafa for that

LIke I was stating before in romania Hazard looked tired and sluggish.. 60th minute appearance today could turn match on its head if still close...

to be honest hazard in the last game looked very fatigued so I understand the sitting him to start.. he'll be fresher with a more tired united back line could cause lot more damage.. but no terry for a game so important is madness I really hope this works!

yet you bash bertrand...why do you think both PVA and L.S look so good.. they have match sharpness from playing every week ashley cole may be small but he casts a very large shadow

plays week in week out for a team mid to bottom of the table not the high spending easy to replace former champions of europe less pressure for his development

completely agree with you if you check what i had posted in Ryan's thread he needs more games more than just cups and cause thats not what is going to develop him into england number 1 left back that is why shaw looks so great he plays week in week out vs some of the fastest wingers in the world...

did a job on the possibly the best RB in the world in Lahm.. can't completely denounce him as a footballer

to be fair all those players minus romeu and bertrand I completely agree but the two i have mentioned when getting extended game time have shown to be more than capable especially romeu..its just unfortunate he got injured because he is that ball winning ball playing dm that we have been missing

yes rafa out but the players have been playing with no desire since the starting 8 games of PL... manager be damned they need to do better for us as supporters...

something that we are sorely missing within the squad currently