BlueLion.

This. I don't think anyone is happy about Juan going, but £37 million is a lot of money!

United aren't even the best team in Manchester, let alone England.

Mata isn't a Mourinho-style player. Get over it. Players come and go. Mourinho put faith in Ozil over Kaka. He put faith in Lopez over Casillas. Now he's putting faith in Oscar over Mata. I'm gonna stand in his corner.

HAHAHAHA THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS

Fuck.

Sam, as if you made me buy one of those

The Telegraph is probably the best source out there in terms of reliability.

The football club > Abramovich > Mourinho > any individual player. There is a hierarchy involved in the business that is modern football.

Bye Juan, thanks for Amsterdam and Munich. Shame it had to end this way, but this is Chelsea FC, not Juan Mata FC. Thank you and good luck. As a side note - £40 million for our fourth-best attacking midfielder?

Why would Eden want to leave? He is the big fish in an incredibly large pond. The only clubs in world football bigger than Chelsea are United, Real Madrid and Barcelona. So it only makes sense for him to stay here - moving to PSG would be a step down.

I think we've been Rick-Rolled.

Guess he liked the Europa League after all!

He actually said last night on SSN's Sunday transfer programme that we're about to sign someone - Bryan Swanson then said the same, and then nothing else was added. I sat watching that shit until 3am.

If he signs in the next 24 hours you must all worship me. Just had a funny feeling we'd pull this off after Jim White said we're making a signing.

Erected?

This is happening. I feel it in my bones.

Try banning me, motherfuckers!

My qualm with Luiz is that he is almost too good a footballer, in terms of his technical abilities (which are incredible), to be a defender. It means he is over elaborate and complicates things - instead of being hardwired to thump the ball upfield the way someone with less technical competency, such as Cahill, does, he knows he can either do that - or - he can dribble the ball out of danger or try and play some kind of hollywood through-ball. Yes he can be very impressive, but I prefer my defenders to do the simple things. But I suppose that is the goalkeeper in me talking, as anyone who tries to dribble in and around my penalty area is sure to get an "accidental" punch the next time my team defends a corner.

What? What AVB did to Anelka and Alex is disgraceful treatment. José is being fair - he has told Mata what he has to do to win his place back; which is to contribute more defensively. Whenever he's played, he's put in less of a shift than even Hazard or Schurrle have, let alone contribute less than Oscar or Willian have in recent weeks. He's had ample opportunities to impress, and for me, he's playing at about 40% of the capacity he did last season when he was given all the freedom and centrality of Rafa's system. Mourinho is doing the right thing, for my money. He's forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, so I'll go with his judgement on the matter.

You can vote but you won't get, peasants

I reckon Ba said Eto'o could shag his sister if he scored a hat-trick. That's why he played so well.

And that's something people can't get into their heads. If we played with the same freedom, and with a lack of rigidity, Hazard would be playing even better, Oscar would be a world-beater, and Mata would be playing as well as last season. But we'd also probably be about 5th, because we wouldn't be able to cope - stylistically - with the Arsenals, Citys and Liverpools of this league, who can outplay us offensively. Our greatest strength, believe it or not, is our defensive prowess as a unit. That's why we're so damned hard to beat.

The latest injury news coming from Stamford Bridge is, erm, actually about the Blues boss José Mourinho... The Special One, who yesterday masterminded a win over David Moyes' Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, attended a dinner in his own honour, hosted by the FWA. However, it has been revealed that the Portuguese manager is to be admitted to hospital after - somehow - fracturing his elbow. It's not sure how Mourinho damaged himself - whether it was whilst celebrating Samuel Eto'o's hat-trick, or elbowing United firmly out of contention for the Premier League title race once and for all (the defending champions are a massive 14 points off top spot, and 12 behind the third-placed Blues). Fist-pumping is a dangerous sport and José Mourinho is a trained professional. You should not try to replicate the action. More as we get it.

Yeah I agree he should have just swung a leg at it. But I think what happened was, he gets the ball from Cahill, seeing Welbeck closing him down, so goes to shift it away from Welbeck and onto his stronger left - at which point he realised Cheese Dorito is right on him, so after some Ronaldinho shizzle, manages to clear the ball. Just don't think he checked his shoulder. He nearly got Eto'o'd!