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Happy birthday! I fully expect a thread like this be made for my birthday as well, I'm counting on you cap.

Now off to sleep. Was great to see the new boys in action scoring goals.

De Bruyne should have scored at least one so far. Promising display from him nonetheless.

We're like Spain in disguise, playing without a striker.

Hopefully De Bruyne on for Benayoun right after half-time. KdB to go left wing and Marin to try his luck on the right. Hilario should be subbed too, give Jamal a chance.

Lukaku again! Great assist by Marin.

Lukaku has both impressed and unimpressed you, how does that work out exactly?

Good finish by Montero but Hilario really should have done better. Defending was shocking too...

Maybe he's being given a chance to impress his future employer?

Marin's movement is simply great. Fast as fuck and defends well too. Hazard with a nice finish!

Wow, Lukaku.

He's versatile and can play CB, RB as well as DM. From what I've seen he's not as good at right-back than he is at CB or DM.

Essien, Ramires, Lampard, De Bruyne, Cahill, Hutchinson, Kakuta, Piazon, Blackman, Kane, Saville Looks like 11 subs to me.

Was hoping for De Bruyne instead of Benayoun but other than that a very good lineup and surely we get to see De Bruyne in the second half then so no complaints. Very excited to see Hazard and Marin for the first time in a Chelsea shirt. :blue scalf: Just renewed my ChelseaTV subscription too, all the free streams I tried were laggy as hell and low quality.

Bullshit.

Torres is also one of the best paid players in the world, so that's a big problem too. Not many top clubs are in need of a striker at the moment, and those who are couldn't even afford to pay his wages let alone any transfer fees. If we were to try offloading him to clear room for a new striker, the only options I can realistically see is him going on loan to one of the Italian giants and that wouldn't be very wise business from Chelsea's point of view and we might as well keep him as the most expensive bench warmer in the history of football. Not a single one of the options available to us regarding the forwards sound good to me. Torres staying and being first choice is a high-risk, high-reward type of situation (and the risk is very, very high with this one) but buying a new top striker like Cavani would be expensive as hell and Torres would then either have to be let go for next to nothing or sulking on the bench. I'm sure the board are aware of all the options and are weighing the pros and cons of every scenario and soon deciding what the best move is. I honestly don't know the best solution but I have faith on the board and hopefully they are wiser than me.

Agreed 100% but only problem is we're stuck with Nando. No point keeping him if we got Cavani for silly money to lead our attacking line but I don't see us offloading Torres so easily.

https://twitter.com/Mikel12Official Our favourite Nigerian is now on Twitter, account is verified and followed by @chelseafc. Gotta love the self-irony:

Romeu just came on.

Preparing for the Olympics. It's the U23 team, not U21.

Okay. Why is this matter then being discussed in the Eden Hazard thread without even mentioning that you're talking about a different player? Didn't watch the video and you didn't quote whoever posted it so how the fuck was I supposed to know you were talking about Lukaku? And who the fuck are you to be calling me a child?

Since when? How someone can even come up with such comparison is beyond me because they are two very different type of players. How about we don't compare him to anyone and let him just be Eden Hazard, our new number 17?

Thanks for the link mate, didn't know such a game was even on. Good warm-up before the match against Seattle Sounders.

Since when has a starting player for the Brazilian national team been an unknown footballer? Just because you haven't watched enough of the Brazilian league or their national team doesn't make a player unknown or bad.

4:30 here in Finland as well but I'm still planning to stay up. I don't have work nor school tomorrow so it doesn't matter if I don't sleep well.