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So after 10 years he developed an appetite to play? Been a good servant, but goodbye.

Yes, quoting is butchered after the big update. It's easy to remove the quote box though, just hover the cursor top-left of the box, click on the cross icon which appears and press delete on your keyboard.

Excited. We are linked and apparently already negotiating with exactly the kind of targets we should be looking at. Would still need one more midfielder, full-back and striker in addition to Radja and Manolas.

Pedro would be a useful squad player, not sure this is what he wants though because he could have been that in a much better team. Oscar I agree should be shipped regardless.

It's pointless to speculate what happened. It's definitely not a coincidence that all players suffered a big loss in performance levels (Willian being the only exception). Something caused it, it's not possible for us to know what, but for me the most likely explanation is a combination of things: short pre-season resulting bad fitness; season starting on a negative (Evagate); consecutive bad results snowballing and affecting confidence; possibly some of them disagreeing with Jose's methods. I think these are the most likely explanations for their fall from grace. Hazard and Matic don't seem to have the mental strength to recover, while the likes of Fabregas and Costa have it and have recovered. These four were our most important players last season along with JT, so it's no surprise we were relegation fodder at one point. With ~half of them having recovered, we're now 10th - seems about right. We would still have needed Hazard, Matic, JT, Ivanovic and Oscar to reach their true levels, but I'm afraid it hasn't happened, so we are where we deserve to be.

This is going to be ugly.

Yeah, could be that as well.

Bottom line is the club is shit at identifying real talents. Think we can all agree on that.

Didn't he get banned?

Mou didn't do much to keep KDB around. I wouldn't be surprised if he literally watched him for 10 minutes and then made up his mind. About Oscar... it's sad to see how he hasn't fulfilled his potential. He used to be good, now he's the Mikel of attacking midfielders. 100% sell.

Not bothered, have nothing to play for anyway and even when we had the team was still shit. Good minutes for Ruben Cheeks, happy for that. Lost only by 1, well defended.

Glad I usually watch and understand Russian streams. Commentators are either unbiased or rather FOR Chelsea

I wonder if a defender had played in his own box like Pato with shoulder/chest, would a penalty have been awarded? Of course not, even blatant arms aren't whistled against defenders. Fuck the refs, the goal should've counted.

Meh, lose or win, doesn't make a difference. Just glad RLC, Miazga and Baba are playing. Hoping to see Colkett and Traore in 2nd half.

Conte having positive effect on the team already.

Okay.. But regarding PMs, I encountered another issue. Check out the picture below, this happens when I click on "Inbox" and want to see other options like "sent messages" or something, but as you can see it cuts off. The same happens when clicking on the settings cogwheel.

Did you get my PM? It said it sent, but maybe it didn't go through. I was trying to report this issue. Didn't anybody find it suspicious that nobody posted for a whole day except admins?

I thought it was me as well at first, but for a day there were no new posts besides a few from admins, so I realized it was a general fuck up.

We can finally post now? What happened? EDIT: Yeah this post went through, success!

What happens if he is found guilty in court? Another shitcloud over Chelsea?

Yeah sounds good

Impressed. First start and full 90 in the EPL coming from a weak league, he was rock solid and barely put a wrong foot in, calm in possession and facing opponents. Looking forward to seeing him more, he might not be another Papy after all. Borderline MOTM for me, considering between him and RLC. Miazga, Zouma, Christensen + a new established and experienced CB would do the trick for the next years to come.

His first full 90 and best game in the first team yet imo. Very well done. And both goals he's scored have been Lampard-esque.

Young man getting his debut(?), no complaints, this is what we all been asking for. Pedro did his job.

GET IN RUBEN! So special seeing him score