Blue-in-me-Veins

52% possession, 4 shots. Eat It.

Bundesliga on the USA Airwaves...phenomemal.

Over/Under on number of matches we see Baba--Azpilicueta as fullbacks? Ima go 5 max. 2/3 COC matches. Matchday 6 of UCL otherwise known as "Academy Day". And 1/2 FA Cup matches.

Why don't some people understand that grown-ups can work their differences out. Why must there be an ultimatum in choosing between JM and Dr Carneiro? The rate at which some members on here want to move on from Jose Mourinho is just unfathomable really. Did we do the double last year anyone?

I just hope he and Traore will impress in training and be given many chances to showcase their talent, besides the first round of COC mathces.

i think Cahill would love having his long lost little brother at CFC.

I for one don't. He's the most overrated manager ever imho. At what point does his "Gentleman persona" make up for his horrible league performances year after year after year at the biggest clubs across Europe. Also don't forget the Ray Wilkins fallout happened under his watch. (not saying he was responsible for his dismissal, but he is responsible for the results that followed.) But I agree generally that it's getting annoying always having one major Negative PR story surround our club. Every manager has had one, but JM loves stirring the pot even when it doesn't need to be touched at all. I'm just surprised he always has the energy to create a conflict at any given moment, doesn't it get tiring?

Jon Fearn is also off the bench too.

Most entertaining PL club since 2003 bar none....None!

Bright side is if we do happen to lose this, it may spur the board to hurry up on those transfers!

Past 5 PL winners began their season on Monday Night Football. Man i hate stats like that, when there not in our favor. Lol

Fox didn't screw it up. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thegoalkeeper/Fox-Sports-2015-16-Bundesliga-television-schedule.html

Exactly. Yaya was THE MAN, but in this new potential setup, Sterling and KDB will help carry the load and actually make his job easier. The distribution of workload will help. I've said it before, but KDB is one of my fav footballers, and it would absolutely crush me to see him in the Sky Blue of City. Praying to the high heavens Bayern Munich tell KDB they'll buy him after this season. Just don't come back to the EPL, please KDB!

The worse thing about this ordeal, is that Hazard the player that JM always praises for being honest and never cheating the game. ASKED for the physios to be brought on! You couldn't write this stuff. I swear lmaoo

JM is very adverse to just putting our best XI against another top teams best XI and hoping our players are just better on the day like Pellers and Le Voyeur do for every big-game. And i get why he doesn't do it. (Not that I always agree with that mindset) But for this game, I would play same line-up from Saturday. Too much offensive quality is lost when Oscar is replaced with Rambo, or any other changes are made. We've seen it time and time again. If JM is worried about Cesc getting over-run in midfield its just a risk you gotta take. The lack of transfer activity for a Witsel/Koke type of CM has ensured the lack of options we have for these big games. As for Ivanovic vs Sterling. Its another risk that can be attributed soley to JM's loyalty to him. All we can do is pray he performs better.

What's with the ultimatum? People can work disagreements out man. JM was clearly in the wrong here, and airing the dispute to the media was low. But i'm positive he has already apologized/talked it out with Eva.

Will all the people on TC who predicted Arsenal to take the league this year please stand up, please stand up?

People can work things out. I'm no expert in marriage but isn't that the way it works? (Not trying to be condescending here, im only 18 lol) JM imo belongs at Chelsea FC, we were built for each other. And if the board are becoming penny pinchers then there's no manager i'd rather have to squeeze the most out these players than him....well, Maybe Le Voyeur Any-who, i'd just like to see JM get some real signings that he wants and not cheaper alternatives. Unlike some at the moment, I really believe that CFC can do some great things in the coming years with the proper investments in players. But over the past couple of days everything around the club seems so dark, lots of bad vibes, hopefully that will change soon. Would like to hear your take.

What do we gain/lose on the pitch by having a neat tidy Net Spend comparable to our rivals? I havent lost hope that we'll sign some players, but the penny pinching and rumblings of unrest from JM about the lack of signings do not sit well with me. Hope its nothing.

We're teetering on a very fine line where we're trying to make-up for all those free spending years and change public perception that we no longer will be held hostage to clubs' demand of inflated tranfer fees. But this window we look to be only fooling ourselves if we take this high and mighty approach to 'balancing the books'. Man U have spent shit ton of money, and City got their man Sterling and paid the premium without blinking. Costa and Cesc were such great value buys that rarely ever get done in today's market. I dont see the harm in paying whatever it take to get Stones and to get Koke (tho £46M is quite a bit if they indeed did turn that down). What do we gain/lose on the pitch if we have a neat tidy Net Spend?

These players are not robots. Will say though, One thing about Hazard that I notice is that whenever the team is in a bad place ( Spurs Away, Maribor away after he missed the PK, Burnley at Home or Today w/10 men, there are some other i just cant remember right now) Hazard plays at such an insane level, magical really, that you wonder why he didn't play like that from the start. But on the flip side, from those games i mentioned, his efforts never seem to been rewarded (in carrying us to 3pts), and that kills me everytime. Because in the flip of a switch Hazard today played at 150% doing all he could but nothing was coming off. I'm not saying Hazard has never carried the team, i'm talking about those instances when we're down a man or losing by 2+ goals, it pains me to see his incredible effort never rewarded. At the end of the day, I still love this man, and always brigs a smile watching him skip past defenders with ease.

And everybody was crying about pre-season lmaoo

The number of backheels from Oscar today...

Oscar what a Goal!!

Championes Championes Ole ole ole!! Lets fucking go Keep The Blue Flag Flying Fucking High!!!