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So the fee should be somewhere between €60-70m. Hope it's enough to break the British transfer record to wipe Torres off the history books!

Lukaku came off injured today against Arsenal, don't know if it was serious enough to keep him out of the game next week but I certainly wouldn't mind him sitting this one out. Costa Hazard - Cesc - Willian Matic - Ramires Azpi - Terry - Cahill - Ivanovic Courtois My choice for the game would be nearly the same XI as in the first two games with only Ramires and Willian coming on for Oscar and Schürrle. The two Brazilians will provide much needed work rate to battle it out with Everton's strong midfield and if things get tough we'd have Oscar and André on the bench as impact players. Would also be nice to see Filipe Luis but I don't think this is the right game for him to be making his debut so the back five should remain as it is.

Yeah, he hasn't looked this good in years. The added competition has definitely lit a fire inside him and driven him to work extra hard to keep his place. I like what I'm seeing so far.

50th start actually, today is his 69th PL match overall.

First of all Di Maria has only been playing at a top club for four years. Whatever he did at Benfica doesn't really matter because the Portuguese league is so much below the quality of the top 5 leagues in Europe. During the four years at Real Madrid his goalscoring record has been pretty much underwhelming (36 goals in 190 games) and he's never scored more than 10 goals a season in all competitions, although I'll admit it's hard to shine at Madrid with Ronaldo scoring as many goals as he has. However with assists he's done reasonably well. In the first three seasons as a Real Madrid player he was always hitting 13-16 assists in all competitions which is a decent return for a guy who plays around 50 games a season, but then again it's nothing spectacular and at the time I could have thought of many players who'd have been capable of doing the same. Now last season he had the best year of his career and got 27 assists, which is miles ahead his second best season to date. If doing pretty well for three years and then having one perfect season is your definition of being consistently brilliant throughout the period, then fine, but I'm not really buying it. Now let's take Hazard. In the same period of time from 2010 to 2014, he has scored 64 goals in 212 matches. Regarding assists, while he doesn't really reach the heights of Di Maria's 13/14 season he hasn't been bad either and last year was the only season in the last four years where he hasn't hit at least 15 assists but he made up for it by scoring 17 goals which is much higher than Di Maria's highest ever scoring season. He can have games where his form is inconsistent but everyone does, and looking at the bigger picture he's been just as consistent in the last four years as Di Maria has. It's also worth noting that in that time Hazard has been 19-23 years old while Di Maria has been significantly older at 22-26. Basically Hazard only now needs to start being as good as Di Maria was back in 2011 to make this an equal comparison.

1. I agree, but NT performances are still not to be overlooked completely. 2. I watched it. Some shocking missed chances and misplaced passes there but also shows me exactly why he was bought, he's got some great attributes and he offers an entirely different dimension to our other AMs and can make a huge impact on a game when he's on his day. He's still young and can improve massively over the next few years and if he does, there's nothing stopping him to become one of the best wingers in the world. 3. So basically you're judging his overall game based on a single match, which happens to be probably his worst performance in a Chelsea shirt. Everyone has games like that every once in a while, I'm pretty sure we would find plenty of similar performances from Hazard if we started going through matches one by one but really, what's the point? Works the other way too, Torres is still shit even though he's had a few magical performances and individual highlights from those games make him look like a real world beater.

He never had it. I've been disappointed way too many times with these rumours of Torres leaving and I don't see why it would be any different this time around. Milan are not the same club they were a few years ago, they can't afford Torres' wages and even if they could I don't see why they would want to.

Maybe he would develop more by going there but that's not why he was bought and I'm pretty sure going to Sunderland for the 14/15 season was not on his mind when he decided to join Chelsea last January. He's more than ready to be an impact player for us and as the 5th AM he will get plenty of chances throughout the season. Even without injuries he can get a good amount of games, at least as a substitute, and he's only one injury or suspension away from playing in every game. I seriously hope there's nothing in these loan rumours, same goes for van Ginkel. If we need to free up that one foreign player spot we can easily just leave out Schwarzer at least until January because behind Courtois and Cech he's hardly going to get a game.

To my knowledge it was alive. I didn't watch it long enough to be sure though.

Yeah, it's a video of a dude going balls deep inside a huge snake. Maybe the internet has already corrupted my mind to the point of no return but it really wasn't that bad. I would post the link here but sadly it's been deleted and I couldn't find it anymore. @The Skipper did answer to my question earlier that he's not afraid of anything so this would have been a good test to see if he was for real.

Trust me mate, you don't want to see it. Even @Stingray said it was too much for him.

Nah, at least then he'd have one familiar face in the team so he wouldn't feel so left alone anymore.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2730307/Malky-Mackay-Iain-Moody-investigated-FA-sexist-racist-homophobic-text-messages-time-Cardiff.html A racist, a sexist and a homophobe. Shocking stuff, good luck ever finding another job in football management Malky Mackay. I remember being surprised when Cardiff gave him the ultimatum 'resign or be sacked' because I thought he was a promising young manager doing a reasonably good job with the squad he had but now it's all starting to make more sense if what I just read is anywhere close to being true.

Eva and Jose Drogba is a God amongst men.

What's your biggest fear?

Costa Hazard - Willian - Schürrle Matic - Cesc Filipe Luis - Terry - Cahill - Ivanovic Courtois Oscar and Azpilicueta weren't at their best against Burnley so I'm hoping for Willian and Luis to come in but other than that I don't see a reason to change a winning team too much.

I think I remember sometime seeing you say you're in the UK to study. If that's the case, then what are you studying?

Not most of his wages but rather all of it. For a €20m fee and letting Sporting have Nani, who's on €6m a year, on loan without so much as a loan fee that's not so good a deal for United. Decent player based on the World Cup but Woodward's getting shafted once again in the transfer market.

That was two years ago when there was still a glimpse of hope that he might yet come good. A lot has happened since then.

Hasn't had much to do. Burnley's goal was pretty much unstoppable and that's the only proper shot they've had on goal, caught a few crosses though.

Exactly. His only real experience of professional football was a mediocre season at Bolton three years ago and after that he's done nothing but sit on his arse and his development has stalled massively. Boyata is already 23 years old so the age argument is out of the window as well with Mangala and Nastasic both being younger than him.

Doubt they'd actually get rid of Nastasic. He's miles ahead Boyata and this season he can even be registered for the B-list in the Champions League so they won't have to worry about the HG quota. Kompany, Mangala, Nastasic and Demichelis is a solid set of central defenders but Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, Boyata is a disaster waiting to happen. Would be glad if they did offload him though, anything that weakens our rivals can only be a good thing.

Compared to some of the things I've seen you post here I seriously doubt that.

I'll just leave this here. https://vine.co/v/M3vbOOv5uWD