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Your completely right! I mean De bruyne is coming which may help, but we havent got a David silva or modric to play him in. Don't get me wrong he isnt helping himself hiding on the wing but in some games he makes some superb runs which are just wasted just to our poor attacking minded midfielders. Mata is great, but world class, is up for debate.

I cant understand really why he would do something like that ? in this day and age pretty much every player can be seen by a camera and i know he is Serbian, but is he really that stupid ?

I do agree with you, dont get me wrong, BUT: Chelsea are a rich club and our owner is worth over 12 billion and there is no deny buying expensive and talented players gains success, so surely we would be made not to do that ? Personally i think we need to combine buying players with bringing up the youth. A point is that Bertrand has been excellent for us recently, but he doesnt stand a chance of breaking into the first team with Cole in the team so what can you do ? My point is that you say try out youth players but none of them are good enough to be playing premiership football at the moment at a club like chelsea, give them sub apperences yes. And it must be noted youth get more oppurtuinities at liverpool and arsenal especially because they havent got as good a 1st team as chelsea!

Our youth does look promising I agree. But compare our academy with say Man United, the ratio of people actually progressing is very impressive, so although Chelsea's academy is rated highly, we aren't seeing the rewards quite yet, so money has to be spent!

I hope chelsea undergo a thorough re build in the summer. I know we have spent a hell of a lot on players (Torres 50 mill) but at the same time with the owner we have and the success he thrives I can see him splashing out. To be fair Roman is worth about 13 billion! If he payed for torres himself it would be about 0.4% of the money he had, so put it this way just because Torres has only just got started, i doubt Roman will be eating beans on toast tonight. What I am saying is to get back into the Champions league, money has to be spent, it will be intresting our approach because to get people to come when we havent got top 4 will be hard.

It will be interesting what team he puts out, whether he goes for the experience of Ferreira again and the "freshness" of Kalou. The players he brought in were a suprised to me, but the gamble paid off.

I hope he gives him at least 30 mins not like 10 minutes at the end

Nickname is oman and i was born 4th March >>> 04/03 so oman43

If they make plans and come up with a picture of what it could look like, everyone will want it !

Refs never like us in Europe. Remember the Barca game ? The problems will get ironed out, Chelsea are a winning side and just in a bit of poor form. One thing I will say about AVB i wasnt happy with: Merieles was in my opinion one of the best players on the pitch, now to take him off and put mikel on is slightly confusing. I know he was on a yellow card but pro footballers should be expected to calm it down when they are on a yellow. Personally i do dislike mikel as i think he doesn't do his job that well. Did you see Song last night ? he was amazing, especially in the setting up of the goal, could mikel dream of doing this ? Course not. But apart from subs i think AVB is right to attempt to play good football !

Good performance, we looked a lot more structured, still no where near the standard we need to be, but we are getting better, just slight slips in concentration punish us. AVB should not get slated for this. Could he stop Ivanovic not picking up the player? Could he stop the referee not giving a stone waller? No! This is our problem we don't give managers a chance, we are playing a total different style of football, under Jose we played not the most attractive football, now we are building an intelligent footballing side, it wont happen immediately, I am not giving up on this season already but next season under AVB we will grow and win trophies! Also Valencia wont fancy coming to the bridge needing at least a scoring draw, we will win that game. Give AVB a chance to install what is a good style of play which I enjoy watching !

He is only 23, his confidence is outstanding, he played really quite well against liverpool !

FINALLY, someone who speaks sense! Torres is an exceptional player, he isn't in form but form is temporary! He has taken too much time yes but how can people right him off? it takes one single goal, even a tap in and everyone will be singing his name, also drogba i believe is poor, i thought Torres should have played more then 10 mins against Liverpool, hope he gets his chance this weekend! him come back. Him being out of form doesnt prove or mean anything. He was and -is- a good player and always will be.

Cahill is set to be chelsea's target

I hate sponsored stadium name: Sports Direct Arena is just appalling, however i understand Chelsea wouldn't mind 10 million a year I just hope they keep the name Stamford Bridge in the title and don't ruined the history of the bridge.

Danny has actually a high chance of starting tonight's game, i know capello said he was on the bench, but welbeck has now got a muscle strain, so he most probably will start in a 4-1-3-2 formation, him and zamora up front.

I think he had every right to criticise the referee. They get paid to do a job, and like in any field of work, if you are poor at the job you do, you will get criticised, and when results on the pitch are getting disrupted by poor officiating then what do they expect him to do ?

At the end of the day, genk played well, yes ? but the players lacked leadership, in my opinion no one stepped up to the plate? the penalty was a prime example, we are lost without terry or lampard ? Torres was not the only bad player and the one thing he needs to get back his form is fan support, give him a little more time, he will turn out good, however I am starting to think Danny Sturidge may be the answer and the recipe for our future success.

Its clear Anton Ferdinand wanted some media attention for once, afterall what has he done with his career?

I really like Josh, he is a quality player. I do however slightly feel he need more first team action to become a great player. I understand he is very young but i want him to turn into a wilkshire etc, whether he will do that will the competition in the midfield i do not know, with this manager I would say he will