BlueLion.

Purchase option is €50 million? What the shit?

I'd have loved him here before we signed Matic. But I am now of the opinion Matic is the better player.

He's fucking shite. That's my professional/analytical opinion. Over-rated dirge. Not even the best young winger at Liverpool, let alone in the Premier League. Shaun Wright-Phillips v.2:0.

Can't wait to laugh at you all this time next year after he's helped fire us to another double. 15 goals next season as our second choice striker. Happy days.

Some of these were very tight, so congratulations to those who won all their awards. I didn't even have to fix anything this year. First time for everything.

Well done to the winners!

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Remember when Demba Ba was going to Arsenal? Watch this drag on for months before, at the last minute, Mourinho forces Cech on loan somewhere in Europe.

I'm not a doctor, I don't know if him being a triplet affects his body condition. But the fact of the matter is he struggles with repetitive, niggling injuries, that are extremely debilitating for a goalkeeper. Go and research cricket wicketkeeper injuries for more details.

Cahill was indecisive. It was a defensive error and he played his part. Played the striker onside, did he not? Didn't read the turn in play.

Repetitive injuries to his right calf and repeated surgery on his left elbow for what is otherwise known as tennis elbow. He is an "old" 33 year old, I doubt he'll be playing into his 40s like Schwarzer. Late 30s at a push, I predict.

I hate all three of them I'm sure I'll grow to like them by the end of the season, anything with a Chelsea badge is wearable. I hated the 11/12 home kit and then we won the UCL...

Banned again.

I banned you for not voting for me in the other topic. I've unbanned you after this.

Banned.

Dave Grohl broke his leg two songs into a Foo Fighters show yesterday. Went off stage, got his foot bandaged, came back and played for two hours. Incredible.

I'm making a point in reference to your own. "People are forgetting who we bought Fabregas from". Yes, Barcelona. But he was never really a Barcelona player. He's a guy with Premier League footballing DNA. No wonder why he's had such an incredible impact for us and made next to none over in Spain. It would be like taking another excellent Premier League midfielder in Lampard or Gerrard and expecting either of them to adapt to tika-taka after years of Premier League football. It wouldn't work.

West Brom, Sunderland and Newcastle in for him. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/west-brom-patrick-bamford-chelsea-9438713

RIP Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Scaramanga, Count Dooku, Saruman, etc. A true legend of the acting world. Also served in the SAS (or at least its precursor). Knew JRR Tolkien personally, also.

Imagine those two in a genuine 4-4-2. Matic and Cesc holding, with width supplied from Hazard and Willian. Balls into feet to link in the final third with Costa; balls in the air for Falcao to attack (despite his size he is still a phenomenal aerial player). An excellent, genuine "Plan B" against, as you say, the more stubborn teams who are happy to sit deep and give us a lot of time and space when in possession. As for the cost, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Almost very source I've identified has suggested it will be a loan deal. If he's useless, it'll have cost us next to nothing. If he does a half decent job but doesn't warrant the price suggested in the follow-up fee, as United demonstrated, we aren't beholden to anything and can always negotiate a cheaper deal (potentially a cash-plus-player transaction; Mikel may well become useful for something ). We can't lose out with this transfer, IMO. His loan fee will be around £3-5 million, I guess, which is what United paid. Can't go wrong with that. More exceptional manipulation of the transfer market by the club.

Agreed on this first part, but the great thing about potential is that it is limitless, and Happy has precisely the correct mixture of hard work and determination to push himself far. Its impossible to say at this stage who will be better out of Zouma and Varana, but right now, yes, of course, Varane is the more adept footballer.

Sky Sports "sources" saying that we, quite rightly, won't sell Luis for anything less than the £15.8 million we invested in his transfer.

But Cesc is an Arsenal player who went and played for Barcelona. He has Arsenal footballing DNA, not Barcelona footballing DNA. Regardless of the years he spent there as a kid.

Which is my point. The players can't be registered until Wed 1 July; so whilst you can sign players, if you were to play a mid-June friendly, for instance, they couldn't take part.

Not officially. The Premier League allows clubs to announce signings throughout June, but a player's registration cannot be officially transferred until July 1.