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Eto'o is a Cameroonian international striker who joined Chelsea on a one-year contract in August 2013. A highly successful and decorated player, he was won the UEFA Champions League on three occasions, twice with Barcelona and once with Internazionale, in addition to numerous domestic honours in Spain and Italy. He has also won two African Cup of Nations titles with Cameroon and has been named African Player of the Year a record four times: in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.He scored his first goal for Chelsea on 19 October 2013 against Cardiff City, in which he gave Chelsea the lead. In Chelsea's home Champions League match against Schalke on 6 November, Eto'o scored twice in a 30 victory. In Eto'o's first league start of 2014, on 20 January, he scored his first hat-trick for Chelsea, earning the Blues a 31 victory over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. Click here to view the record

Well let's be fair, he's never been first-choice at Porto. He'll play the majority of games at Vitesse - again better than sitting on our bench and playing cup games here and there. Best of luck to him.

He won't be cup-tied. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24032010/58/champions-league-uefa-relax-rules-cup-tied-players.html Gianni Infantino: "From next season, if a player's club is eliminated and he signs for a new club by the end of the summer transfer window on September 1 he can play for his new club in either competition. If he is not signed by the end of the summer window, he can move in the January window."

What a fucking brilliant draw. It's not going to be a walk-over, but with José at the helm and the squad we have, we have a wonderful chance of finishing top of the group, and doing so with a game spare. Realistically we have to take six points against Basel - highly possible, if we go by the results in the Europa League last season - and then four points from Steaua and Schalke. Those two in particular will be quite tough to beat away from home, but if we get 9/9 points at home we'll be in a fantastic position.

This time last year we had Sturridge and Torres. Now we have Torres, Ba, Eto'o, Schurrle and Lukaku. Decent business, with a net spend of about £15 million on forwards (Ba and Schurrle, approx £27m).

Hi all, I have written to the club and they have given me permission to set up a new supporters club for Blues fans in the East Midlands. The proposed area will include: LeicestershireRutlandNottinghamshireDerbyshireNorthamptonshireand, to a smaller extent, Lincolnshire (which has it's own group).In order to set up the group officially, I need membership details of 50 members who live in these locales. If you live in any of the aforesaid areas, please let me know! Alex.

Must be a 23-man squad. Count how many are there. He's eligible for inclusion - the final squad must be submitted to UEFA by 6pm tonight.

This is going to be the toughest season in the history of the UEFA Champions League. No bad teams here.

Last season: Marin, Benayoun, Moses, BaReplaced over the summer with: Schurrle, (de Bruyne), Willian and Eto'o.Forget age and experience, we're going the right way.

Congratulations on 200 clean sheets Petr. Absolute genius.

Welcome, Willian! Now time to bring in the rest of the Black Eyed Peas and we'll Get It Started!

I would have automatically put Ivanovic-Luiz, but John Terry has been our best player so far this season. Okay, it's only been three games, but over those matches he has been out stand-out performer. Looks like his old self again.

What a twattish statement, Torres hasn't even kicked a ball yet; Sturridge on the other hand scored one and missed six other glaring chances.

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Why, because you disagree with me? For Chelsea last season, out of Sturridge, Torres and Ba, Torres was our best striker. Sturridge got few chances, but the odd game he got at CF (ie Blackburn away), he was fucking dire, and people soon got used to the idea of him being second-choice. And also I presume you're saying that because unlike you I don't think Drogba was the best thing since sliced bread. Any post I make about Drogba with even the slightest criticism of the player, you jump all over me. You ought to learn to construct an argument with analysis and evidence rather than saying "ban yourself" for attempted comedic effect.

Granted, and I see what the poster is saying. But Torres is Torres. We know he can't carve a slice of cake the same way Didier could: Fernando needs to be spoon-fed. That's the type of striker he is. But we knew that at the start of the season - Torres was our best striker; better than Ba and better than Sturridge. The fact he isn't able to cut the mustard every other game any more is a failing by the club to sign another forward after selling Anelka, Drogba and Kalou without replacing any of them. My point is we can lay the blame of Torres all we like, but was anybody blaming Drogba when we lost games in 2011/12 and he didn't do anything? Because, trust me, there was as many performances from Didier between 2011 and 2012 that were as bad as - actually, probably worse - than anything Torres has done for us. No-one likes it when people bad-mouth Drogba, but it seems to be fashionable to make out Torres is at fault for everything! It's a very ineffective analysis.

You can't really blame Torres for moreorless any of those results. Did he fuck up a 1v1 when 2-0 on Reading? Nope. Blame our piss-poor defenders.

^ just a possible team. Is KdB fully fit after his ankle injury? Highly unlikely Oscar or any of the other Confed Cup players will start.

Possible team: Cech Ivanovic-Cahill-Terry-Cole Essien-MvG Hazard-Lampard-Schurrle Lukaku

Team news (from the BBC): Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has a number of selection issues as he prepares for his Premier League return at home to Hull on Sunday.Cesar Azpilicueta, who was an unused substitute for Spain against Ecuador in midweek, and Victor Moses, who was in South Africa with Nigeria, are likely to miss out.David Luiz had a limited role on the pre-season tour to the United States and was an unused substitute for Brazil against Switzerland in midweek, so may also be doubtful, while Andre Schurrle and Marco van Ginkel could make their debuts.

That was the second-best cross Drogba ever put in for us!

On a 12- or 24-month-long deal, this is brilliant business, as far as I'm concerned. Torres is largely useless.Ba is still relatively new at the club, but has shown little more than glimpses of his talent.Lukaku is inexperienced - but signing Eto'o wouldn't restrict him game-time as much as signing Cavani or Rooney would have.Schurrle and Moses are unproven as a CF at EPL level.Eto'o is an absolutely brilliant finisher - no-one can say he isn't an improvement on Ba and Torres.It's low-risk because it will be a short-term contract. Yes, we don't buy many older players anymore - but simply going out and purchasing for the future doesn't necessarily work. Sometimes you have to invest in the immediate future, and if we are to miss out on Rooney, at least we have a fourth striker who will still score you 15 goals a season. Fuck his wages, they don't matter. I don't see how people can be against Eto'o arriving on a short-term deal, and yet people are willing to acknowledge a five-year contract for Rooney at £220,000-a-week (or whatever he's on at United). Madness. Buying only for the long-term - Hazard, Lukaku, KdB, Mata, Oscar, MvG, Azpilicueta, Courtois, Moses, Piazon et al. - doesn't work. Arsenal have proven that. You have to substantiate those players by signing experienced heads. Having that core of older heads in the team (Cech-Cole-Terry-Essien-Lampard-Eto'o) could be league-title winning. The older players are the ones that make the difference in the really big games: that's where your Cechs, your Lampards, and your Drogbas did their damage. I'd support this signing big time - as contingency signings go, this is a decent one. And it might even mean we flog Torres or Ba. Two birds, one stone.

£8.20 and a Yorkie,