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Starts against Norwich in 30 minutes, I'll keep you updated on his performance!

I am disappointed, I was very much looking forward to the world ending. That way Chelsea would have remained Champions of Europe forever.

His own age doesn't matter one bit. It's a well known fact that you only win trophies with a squad full of teenagers in Football Manager, not in real life. It's great that we have all these young stars in our team and I can only imagine how good they'll be within five years but to balance things out we need players who are at their peak and have more experience, for example Falcao. People who say Falcao is too old at the age of 26/27 have played way too much FM and Fifa. For example, does anyone consider Manchester United to have done bad business in buying Robin Van Persie who is 29 years old? Henrique was not trying to bash Hazard, Oscar etc. but he only meant that in addition to those we need experienced players with leadership skills.

Prague and possibly Amsterdam too, the traveling Chelsea fans are going to have a great time in a few months. Would love to go, too bad I can't afford to.

Way better than Turnbull and Hilario combined. A no-brainer if he's willing to be Cech's backup instead of playing regular football for some smaller French team.

Even thought it wouldn't be anywhere near the easiest of draws, I wouldn't mind having another crack at Napoli.

Changed the game. Was 1-1 when he came on and we didn't really look like scoring before he entered the pitch.

Tonight, should start any minute now. Europa League draw tomorrow.

1eed5 were worse than I thought.

What a pass from Luiz to Hazard.

Mata has 13 goals and 14 assists already this season. He already has more goals than he did last season and only a few more assists to go and it's only December. Some scary shit going on here, from the opponent's point of view of course.

This is getting embarrassing. Are you watching Abramovich? Shocking to even think Di Matteo was sacked for this shit.

Haha, I was talking about her hat which looked like Fellaini's afro. Assuming we're talking about the same person.

Looked a lot like Fellaini.

Lampard going to get himself sent off if he keeps playing like that...

The poor lad has played so few games they don't even know his name. It says Marko Marvin on the official teamsheet.

He's been that way for two years now and last season he definitely didn't play too much but the end result was the same. Torres ran out of excuses ages ago.. Oh well, let's hope he can score a few goals today. A team playing in the Championship should match his current level just fine.

The way he plays, standing still like a statue most of the time, I'd be surprised if he even manages to break a sweat during the games...

No full team news yet but I'm hearing Marko Marin starts. The world really is going to end in two days. edit: Cech, Azpi, Ivanovic, Luiz , Bertrand, Oscar, Lampard, Marin, Mata, Moses, Torres

"The crazy transfer season has started and nobody attracts more attention than Falcao. Mostly because it is clear that at least four clubs (Real Madrid, City, PSG and Chelsea) are willing or thinking about paying his buy out clause of 60 million euros. This is what I have been told: Chelsea are favourite for his signing but Florentino Perez at Madrid would like him to be the galactico signing of next season. Atletico will not contemplate him leaving in January. It is not totally up to the club as the payment of the buy out clause leaves the decision in the player's hands. But IMPORTANTLY the player has told the club that he wants to stay till the end of the season. Ideally he wants to decide where to move next by February or March, and he has told some team mates Madrid or London are his preferred destinations. So, Atletico Madrid insists, negotiations are not as advanced as people are claiming. And the have the word of the player to stay to help the club fight for a top two or three finish." By Guillem Balague. Sounds about right. To me it has been clear all along that he's not leaving in January but is likely to sign for us or Real Madrid in the summer. Atletico would no doubt prefer Chelsea over their local rivals Real Madrid and I would think Falcao respects Atletico and their fans too much to insult them by going to Real Madrid, especially if he is given a choice to join another club (in this case us) instead.

Team news any minute now. Getting nervous...

So that's Member of the Month for December decided.

Word on the internet (The Times) is he was due to undergo a medical today at Liverpool but it has been postponed because of a slight delay in negotiations. Find it hard to believe because we have a game today and Sturridge is likely to be there... Don't know what to think about this transfer, should it even happen of course. On one hand this is a player nearing the end of his contract who has score only five goals in the year 2012 and has also been injured for a few months. Also, most of the time he has played his attitude has been questionable to say the least. On the other hand I can understand his frustrations because he has had to sit on the bench and watch the ladyboy playing like shit but still get picked game after game. No one can deny that Sturridge should have played more and given the chance he could have easily outscored Torres but still, £12m for a player like this isn't half bad and it allows us to invest more in the January window. I'll reserve my judgement about this sale until we know who the player replacing Sturridge is. If it's someone I have wanted for a long time, losing Danny will be much easier to accept but if we're stuck with the ladyboy I'm not happy, not at all.

Never nice to hear things like that, even though I hate the club. All the best to Tito for his recovery. Guardiola to go back now?

Would love for this to be true but as long as neither one of the clubs confirm something is going on, I'm not getting my hopes up. Would make no sense for Falcao to move in the middle of the season and I'm sure Atletico would rather wait till the summer as well. Keeping my fingers crossed though, it really would be a Christmas present like no other!