BlueLion.

Cup-tied. We should revise our offer to a lower one.

Changed my vote to Courtois.

Ooops. Must have... slipped my mind...

As Unionjack has just pointed out, he's so injury-prone that they'll probably need two players!

That's exactly what they are. Stupid things. They mean nothing in the context of the universe. Let's move on to more important things.

Vidal replacement, don't get excited.

All these so-called ITK are all frauds.

This would be a dream signing, can't see it happening though. Absolutely no reason for Pogba to want to leave Juve. I call BS.

Stones is homegrown.

#PogbaDenied

In light of recent email complaints (yes, some of you are sad enough to indeed email Jim)*, but more importantly because changing thread titles can cause issues with URLs on the homepage, I'm changing them back. Well. Some of them. *I really wish my life was stagnant enough to have the time to even give a shit about such trivial things, I really, really do.

You're all fucking boring.

About 40 mins away for me. Lovely.

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Chelsea target John Stones has handed in a transfer request, the BBC has confirmed this evening. The Everton defender, who has represented England at senior level, had been subject of a number of rejected bids from the Blues, the latest of which being a reported £35 million. Stones, 21, arrived at Goodison Park from Barnsley in the winter transfer window of 2013, costing the Toffees £3m. Everton manager Roberto Martínez had suggested earlier this week that no transfer request had been submitted by Stones, and Stones' Everton colleague Romelu Lukaku, himself once of Chelsea, had urged his team-mate to stay at the Merseyside club. Chelsea had today been linked with Zenit St-Petersburg defender Ezequiel Garay after it seemed the Stones transfer was dead in the water, but after the Russian club suggested no enquiry had been made for the defender, this all seems a ploy to force Stones into action. Whilst the transfer request can be blocked by Toffees chairman Bill Kenwright, the fact the England international has demonstrated his desire to leave the club and join the Blues may force Everton's hand and encourage them into a quick sale with the transfer window close to its conclusion.

They can have him. In exchange for Griezmann and Koke,

You're on a Chelsea forum, what do you expect, compliments?

Azpi - Cahill - Zouma - Baba

6 for Garay

Changed his number to 3. #WelcomePogba

Garay = stop-gap. We'll be back in for Stones in January, I envisage.

I've literally just projectile vomited all over my PC.

Patch has those blonde bits though #littlebithomo

Drop/kneecap Ivanovic, Baba has to start or, failing that, play Zouma at LB and Azpi on the right. Same midfield/front four. Maybe bring in Lord Mikel for Fab.