Jype

Nice finish.

Cahill is shit.

For fucks sake the game was supposed to kick off 25 minutes ago. These Americans and their commercials...

No Mata, De Bruyne or Schürrle. Was hoping to see the strongest possible lineup available for the league opener next week and not an experiment with the 4-3-3 but I guess this will have to do.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/420406/Chelsea-to-move-for-Samuel-Eto-o-and-Willian-as-Anzhi-Makhachkala-plan-dramatic-clear-out Didn't take long for the lazy journalists to start linking Willian and Eto'o to Chelsea. Willian because we have supposedly been interested in him before and Eto'o because he has previously played under Jose. In case they didn't know we have already brought in two new players André Schürrle and Kevin De Bruyne for the attacking midfielder department so Willian wouldn't be needed in the slightest and Eto'o is making £350k a week at Anzhi which is twice as much as any player on the Chelsea payroll. Despite his age Eto'o might be a decent shout if we fail to get Rooney and the man was willing to take a massive paycut in order to get back to playing top level football but at the moment there are way too many variables to even start these silly transfer rumours.

Maybe QPR will take him back for £12m again?

Haha, didn't even realize there was something wrong with the picture. Wonder what happened to his hands, other than that minor fault the photo is legit.

Kick-off at 4am, luckily I'm on holiday.

Already had him once:

Barcelona can just fuck off, he's not for sale. And even if we did reluctantly agree to sell Luiz, they couldn't afford to pay our asking price anyway so why even bother trying with these low-ball offers. The fact that Barcelona came close to paying €35m for an inexperienced 19-year-old centreback Marquinhos as well as being interested in buying Thiago Silva for a world record price for a defender tells us all we need to know and that is the fact there simply are not enough quality centrebacks available at this point in the transfer window. If we now sold Luiz even for €50m we'd still be fucked because there's no way we could get an adequate replacement in time for a reasonable price and we would most likely end up overspending on a replacement who might not be even half as good as Luiz is. The only realistic option I could think of who would be good enough is Eliaquim Mangala but knowing Porto we'd have to cough up €40m for him so there really is not point in selling at the moment. I'd be willing to let him go if he submitted an official transfer request but if he doesn't mind staying there's no way selling him would be a good decision.

Dear God not the old shirt sale argument again, hasn't that logic been proven wrong more than once already? If you really think the club makes a £60 profit on all shirts sold at £60 a pop you're in way over your head here. When we remove all the manufacturing costs and other expenses the profit from a single shirt is not tht significant anymore. Also from every shirt sold Adidas take a huge cut, the taxman takes a cut and I would guess the main sponsor Samsung also get something. Whatever small amount is left for the club after everyone else have taken their shares the player whose shirt is sold also gets a slice out of. If we also take in account that most of the people buying the shirts are Chelsea fans who would buy the club shirt regardless of whose name is printed on the back, the club will have to sell A LOT of fucking shirts to cover even 10 percent of the expenses that acquiring such a high profile player takes.

Apparently they also sacked their new manager Rene Meulensteen, Ferguson's old assistant at United. He was appointed as the Anzhi manager only 16 days ago. What's going on there?

Cech Azpi - Ivanovic - Terry - Cole Ramires - MvG KdB - Oscar- Hazard Lukaku Here's my choice for the starting lineup. Apart from maybe including Luiz in the if he's fit this is the team I'd like to see start against Hull next week so it would be good to test them together against a top class opposition first.

Schurrle—"As a kid, I had a Chelsea shirt with Lampard's name on it. So, after I signed here, my mum said to me: When you were young, you were always running around with your Lampard shirt on and now he is your team-mate!" Always nice to have players who supported the club as a kid.

Now why didn't I just listen to your warnings and stay away from that link? Serves them banned cunts right to have to watch that though.

Maybe we should just withdraw the bid as the cunt seems to be injured all the time.

He failed to impress against Seattle Sounders and PSG. At times it looked like he was trying too hard to impress and ended up being disappointing. If memory serves, he also used to complain about Di Matteo playing him out of position (at RW). Back then he was still a raw youngster with no real experience and that's why he was loaned to Werder Bremen, to allow him to take the next step in his career and he went on to exceed everyone's expectations which confirms it was the right decision to loan him out. He became more versatile, more consistent and also got a taste of what it's like to play against the top teams. Playing for Werder Bremen as well as for Belgium really has done his confidence a lot of good and instead of the afraid looking young boy we now have a real star player on our hands, I don't believe for a second he would have turned out to be this good this fast if he had stayed at Chelsea last season. Expecting magnificent things from this lad.

No one is overtaking anything, it's a squad game and every player has an important role in the team. For now let's just be happy we've replaced Benayoun and Marin with KdB and Schürrle, as well as got more depth in other areas too.

BBC reporting that the new bid was £25m upfront and £5m add-ons. Reckon £30m + add-ons will do the trick once Rooney has submitted a transfer request.

Not a bad pre-season so far, eh? 5 wins in 5 with a goal difference of 17 to 2. KdB, MvG, Azpi and Courtois, where the hell do the Chelsea board keep finding these guys for around the £7m mark? That really is some amazing business done these past couple of year and we can all be very proud of the club right about now. No more infamous record-breaking flop signings but instead cheap youngsters who are ready to make an immediate impact and can offer the club over ten years of service if everything works out.

Torres ffs

Ramires shooting from outside the penalty area is soo frustrating!

Is it just me or has Oscar been playing slightly deeper than usual today?

Some whispers coming from Spain that the club have today rejected a loan offer from Valencia for Torres. Just finish the Rooney deal and offload this cunt, even on loan. A loan to a Spanish club could potentially be excellent for us. If he succeeded, it would be much easier to sell him next year for a half decent amount but if he stays and sits on the bench we're even more fucked with him than we are now.

Nice, been a while since we last had opposition views. Some sensible lads with a decent attitude towards the Chels, unlike the English opposition fans.