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Well, he's also good friends with Hazard and Ba which could make Chelsea an attractive option for him if we were to show interest in him. Debuchy has been rumored to be on Monaco's radar so if he left Newcastle after only six months, then I'm fairly certain Cabaye would at least think about leaving too. Cabaye's a good player and proven in the Premier League, though he may be a bit prone to injuries. For under 15m it could be worth a shot.

"Jesus' work has not gone unnoticed with the likes of Chelsea, Manchester City and Everton, who are all on the look-out for new managers this summer, all believed to have him under consideration." Please, just no.

Because the rape face is his normal expression?

Even he's not that fucking Special.

But that's the thing, Chalobah is still only 18 years old and perhaps needs some more experience before coming back to Chelsea. If we now bought a player who's 25 and nearing his peak, the chances of Nathaniel ever making it at Chelsea would decrease significantly but an experienced player who's still got at least another two or three seasons in him at the very highest level wouldn't hurt Chalobah's chances at all. Win-win situtation for everyone, we'd get one of the best midfielders out there for a couple of years and it would make for a relatively easy transition if we simply replaced him with Chalobah when the time's right. If what @Leif said is true, there's a real chance De Rossi will leave this summer and there aren't that many clubs out there who need him so if we got Mourinho as manager we could easily attract De Rossi to the club as well, I'm sure they'd love to work together. Anything below 20m would be a great price.

Or maybe he will bring back the old Torres?

Well, there's always Malouda.

@chelseafc: Goal of the Season award has just been presented to Oscar.#CFCPoTY

How is Lampard overrated when no one outside of Chelsea really rates him and he's always disregarded as scoring only penalties and tap-ins but Beckham on the other hand is somehow universally rated as one of the greatest ever. Hell, even Steven fucking Gerrard is usually rated above Lampard despite there being absolutely nothing that suggests Gerrard is better. All about the media, whoever they decide to rate as a good player the whole world will think is a good player. Lampard: 803 appereances with 243 goals and 205 assists in his club career while always playing in the Premier League. For England he has 95 caps and 28 goals. Beckham: 389 appereances for Manchester United with 85 goals and 82 assists, then off to Real Madrid where he got 155 matches and scored 20 goals and got 33 assists in four years. At LA Galaxy I won't even bother counting his stats because they matter fuck all when he decided to ignore football and go print money in a weaker league in the States at the age of only 31. During those two loan stints at Milan he played a total of 29 games while scoring 2 goals and assisting 7. His club career total at top level amounts to 573 matches played, with 107 goals and 122 assists. For England he played 115 times and scored 17 goals. Now tell me, which one has had the better career? Sure, Beckham got a couple more league titles to his name but tell me with a straight face that Frank Lampard wouldn't have achieved the same if he had played for Manchester United most of his career and I'll politely tell you to fuck off.

Didn't he retire like six years ago?

Cavani £45m Schürrle £20m Moutinho £20m De Rossi £10m

After the season is over, I'd assume. Hope they award some of those who have played the most with an extra few days holiday and leave them back home. Hoping to see the likes of Lukaku, De Bruyne, McEachran, Chalobah etc. there as well. Maybe if KdB went there and impressed the upper management he wouldn't be sold.

Nic. That's definitely one for the record books, can't see anyone joining that special group anytime soon.

What's not to hate? Anyone see his reaction to Ivanovic's winner today? I couldn't find any, hopefully he was at least as heartbroken as he was on Saturday:

Last game of the season, hope we can win and seal the automatic Champions League group stage qualification. Hope we don't end up with identical points and amount of goals than Arsenal, wouldn't want to face them in a play-off match after the stressfull season we've already had. Anyone know if we'll wear the new kit for this one?

Fuck you Jorge Jesus, that's now two years in a row your team lost to us. It's not luck if our players are simply better and more experienced to winning things than they are. Given the difference in resources and everything, Benfica played really well and got to give them credit for that and I do feel sorry for their fans, especially after what happened to them against Porto last weekend, but Jorge Jesus deserves all the misery he could possibly experience on a football pitch.

When he took over, my minimum expectations were to finish top3 and win at least one of the remaining cup competitions (League Cup, FA Cup or UEL). Now we have sealed top4 with a chance to get the third place if we win on Sunday and brought home the cup I wanted the most so what's not to be happy about. Failure to win the much awaited Club World Cup or even the League Cup is a bit of a disappointnent though, as both of them were definitely there for the taking but I guess winning them all would have been too much to ask. Champions League qualification could have come in a slightly more convincing manner if not for silly points dropped against the bottom teams but doing it the hard way seems to come natural for us and looking back I'm not too disappointed with the way this season has gone. Thanks Rafa, but now it's time to make way for The Special One. Good luck to Napoli or wherever.

Happy birthday! Can't think of a better birthday present than winning a European title.

Brilliant. My pick of the bunch:

Mata too. Torres has two European Championships though, Mata only one.

After Ramires won the corner, somehow I just knew we had won it. Was predicting Luiz to be the scorer because of all his Benfica connections but happy it was Ivanovic. He deserved this after missing out on the Champions League final last season following his heroic actions in the semis.

Gary deserves a lot of credit for today but also deserved all the stick he got from Spurs & Villa. More than fair to criticize a player when he plays bad, but got to remember the good times too and today Gary played one of his best games of the season. Well done!

By the way, I predicted the scoreline and Torres scoring the first goal in the prediction league. Do I get a cookie?