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Actually Ramires is his first name.

Marin is a winger and he's only a replacement for Malouda. Signing him doesn't exactly rule out buying that playmaker in midfield we've needed for quite some time now.

What the fuck man? Lavezzi is an outstanding player and while he may not be a clinical finisher like Cavani that doesn't mean he's not a good player. If you'd watched Napoli you would know he creates most of their goal-scoring chances and that's exactly what Chelsea is lacking at the moment. And what's wrong with Kalou?

There's a good chance Hutchinson could get some minutes because Ferreia isn't fit to play 90 minutes. And at the same time Sturridge with a nice goal,

Why not have both?

Bosingwa at centre back as expected. Was hoping to see Bertrand instead of Cole and maybe Romeu for Essien but that's good too. Hutchinson made the bench.

If he's even half as good as Messi then I'm a very happy man. :blue scalf:

He's a fan of Bayern who joined here after the UCL semis.

That looks a bit creepy.

Chelsea doing business early. What's next, Hell freezing over? An interesting signing and the price is reasonable too. We shouldn't worry much about his form this season because he's suffered from injuries and that's probably why we got him so cheap. If he'd been as good as two years ago his price would have been triple but he's still very young and can improve a lot.

Who the fuck cares?

Ramires vs. Barca. Stupid to vote something like this with two most important matches of the season still to go. Who knows, maybe Kalou will score a 40 yard screamer as the winning goal against Bayern and we don't even get a chance to vote it for goal of the season.

That's a promise then so be prepared to post pictures of it.

Winning the Champions League would be twice as much fun if it meant Tottenham, Arsenal or Newcastle would have already finished fourth and qualified to the CL only to have it taken away from them.

Going to be an awesome final in the UEL. Athletic are a wonderful club and they deserve to lift the trophy but Courtois winning it with Atletico wouldn't be bad either.

As long as Guardiola stays away from Chelsea I really couldn't care less. If I had to guess Barcelona will go for Bielsa next.

Any news on whether Chelsea will play either of the cup finals in that new kit?

Agreed. While Ivanovic and Ramires are huge losses for us then so are Alaba, Gustavo and Badstuber for Bayern. They don't even have a proper replacement for Badstuber in central defense and Alaba is quickly turning out to be one of the best left-backs in the world and it's amazing because he's not even a left-back. Now they have to play something like Contento and Tymoschuk as their defenders. Gustavo is easily replaced by playing Kroos deeper in midfield and Müller at CAM but their defense is shit. Oh how I wish Lahm would be suspended too. He came close to really hitting Marcelo with a yellow card worthy tackle in extra time but unlucky for us he just missed it.

Bayern probably get 25% also and the rest goes to neutrals and UEFA sponsors and other associates.

Also he would be very much like AVB with his tactis and terrible man-management. The man simply does not know any other styles of football than Barcelona's tiki-taka or whatever the fuck it's called. AVB tried something like that when he was at Chelsea and when it didn't work with the players he had he was clueless so what makes people think Guardiola would be any better? The only one I would even think about giving the job is Mourinho and as it turns out he may not even be available so that leaves only one choice and that is to stick with our very own Roberto Di Matteo.

Any proof of this? Someone must have made a truckload of money on that if they really had 1000/1.

Bosingwa and Malouda. If my math isn't off that makes two people. :eyebrows:

Last I heard he was back in training. QPR probably comes too soon for him and with all the suspensions in the UCL final there's no way we can risk him so soon or we'll end up playing Bosingwa as centre back against Bayern / Real.

At least it's not Chris Foy. Interesting to see who's going to play with Terry in central defense. Bosingwa, Ferreira, Romeu, Essien, Mikel, Hutchinson and Chalobah the options. I'd probably go with Chalobah but that's not going to happen.

Cech ; Cole, Luiz, Cahill, Bos ; Lampard, Mikel ; Malouda, Mata, Kalou ; Drogba There's just no way we can experiment with things like Torres on the wing in a Champions League final so there's really not a lot of options. Anyone else fancy Kalou to score a lucky tap-in as the winning goal?