BlueLion.

Played Giroud onside for the second Arsenal goal. #AgentFrank

Cech Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Luis Matic, Cesc Ramires, Oscar, Hazard Costa Diego, Eden, Ossie, Cesc, Matic, Terry and Cech can then all be rotated with Remy, Schurrle, Salah, Mikel, Willian, Zouma and Courtois for the Bradford game.

Agreed B, a lot of the more level-headed fans who, when the others were shitting their pants, have said all along that City closing the gap was inevitible, have seen this coming from a long way off. Our first "half" of the season was far tougher; they've dropped points in games they should have quite easily won (Burnley, Everton, etc.), all from winning positions as well. We only really have Arsenal away as a tough, potential banana skin - games against City, Liverpool and United at home should produce a minimum at the very least of 7 points, IMO, especially if we want to win the title. City have it all to do; they won't win at Anfield (especially as that game is sandwiched between two games against Barcelona) or Old Trafford, to be sure, and they still have tough games such as Stoke and Tottenham that they have to visit.

Again, why pay £6 million for a loan for one year on an injury-prone player who has proven he is not up to EPL standards just to sit on the bench, when we could go out and buy a young, hungry striker like Destro who could become part of our long-term rebuilding? Makes no sense to me at all.

I haven't seen anything from Falcao this season to suggest why we should pay £40 million when he has barely got a game ahead of James Wilson and an ageing Robin van Persie.

Banned for even suggesting it

He was an average footballer at best and an even worse pundit, but this is comedy gold, like something ripped from a thread off RAWK.

I'm sure he said "Queens Park Racists" tbh.

Barcelona winning it in the end offered some credence, but it was a year to forget, as you say. A low in terms of quality, to be sure. Compare it to the 2011/12 semis - Chelsea, Barca, Bayern and Real - and you can see the difference.

I call it "Ramires Syndrome", which we can safely ascertain is contagious.

Maybe in size 8 Times New Roman?

Is it now acceptable for me to get his name on a shirt?

We should change his song to "He hates woodwork".

So glad we didn't sign him. Some great, great strikers are just not cut out to play in the Premier League. And a lot of those players are South American, i.e. Crespo (though I did rate him), Diego Forlan, etc.

I still maintain that Schurrle is and always will be an impact player from the bench. That's how Loew used him in the World Cup and he was an absolute boss when coming on. He's essentially a better version of Kalou, and there is nothing wrong with that. You cannot expect 20 goals a season and an obscene work rate from all of our players.

We're making less chances because we can actually fucking take them now. Like all strikers, Diego will blow hot and cold and whilst he will have little streaks like now (four goals in three games) and when he first joined (seven in four), he will also go weeks without goals. However you'd back him four times in five to stick the ball in the back of the net. With Torres, I would normally put money on him missing. Him scoring used to come as a surprise. Diego is the best possible striker we could have bought. Well done to Mourinho and the boys who made this transfer come to fruition. We have our striker for the next 5/6 years and he will easily score more than 100 goals for this club. He already has 17 in 25 games, ffs.

Oscar isn't the most technically competent midfielder. That's why Fabregas is in the side. Oscar is an absolute work-horse and that's his role in the side.

Like I said in a previous post, people "don't care" about the League Cup because it's the fourth-most important trophy. However I'd rather "just" win that "fourth-most important trophy" than fuck all, like last season.

It was a poor, poor season, wasn't it? How United won the league with that squad is solely down to us being so abysmally shit.

I only think he'll go if we sign reinforcements. An injury to Hazard or Willian would leave us with no recognised wingers on the bench should Salah be sold.

Chelsea manager José Mourinho has ruled out talk of an exit for Egyptian international Mohamed Salah in the January transfer window. Salah, who had made only three starts for the Blues this season, only arrived in January 2014 alongside Nemanja Matic and Kurt Zouma as part of Mourinho's plans for long-term rebuilding. The former Basel man, who starred in the Swiss club's 2-1 defeat of the Blues at Stamford Bridge last season, has found opportunities hard to come by considering the form of Willian and Eden Hazard, and is behind Andre Schurrle and even midfielder Ramires and striker Loic Remy in the pecking order for a place out wide. Widespread media reports had indicated that the Egyptian winger would be set for a loan move this month, with Roma the most likely destination. Besiktas had been considered the favourites to capture Salah, but The Mirror yesterday reported that Italian giants Roma have entered the negotiations with an immediate loan offer, and the potential for a sale in the summer. However, Mourinho, speaking after Chelsea's 5-0 romp over Swansea, said there was next to no chance of Salah leaving. "He can't leave", began Mourinho. ""Didier Drogba was ill, Cesar Azpilicueta injured. I have a short squad. For Salah to leave we need someone to come". Mourinho had only 20 fit players to choose from for Saturday's match day squad, and even considering the side's lucky escape from any serious injuries thus far this season, Mourinho is cautious should a bout of ailments cripple his small squad. "I don't think we are going to let Salah go on loan. If that happened we would have to spend money to bring someone else in, so I don't think he is going." Mourinho has already explicitly stated there would be no new arrivals this month in an interview in December, but that has not stopped the Blues from being linked with a number of reinforcements. Alvaro Arebloa, a favourite of Mourinho's during his time at Real Madrid, has been touted for a switch to Stamford Bridge to offer cover to Branislav Ivanovic in the right-back spot, whilst young Internazionale striker Mauro Icardi is allegedly the subject of a £30 million offer from the Blues.

Instead of Hazard? k.

That doesn't count since I omitted the season where we purchased Luiz and Torres from my memory.

649 and counting. Legend. Greatest player in the history of this club.

Gutted he didn't get his hattrick but the more I watch it, the more I think that if Schurrle didn't touch the ball, Taylor might have toed it away.