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Because I have Dzeko as well.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/07/blues-to-take-part-in-turkish-charity-tournament0.html Two 45-minute games, one against Fenerbahce and the other against Besiktas. Will be seeing Demba Ba again in that game!

Haha, didn't even notice. I hate my phone...

In that case there's probably no chance of him playing in this game. Oh well, all the more reason to wait for the Welder Bremen match. Hazard, Courtois and Lusaka should be back for that one as well.

Sure, I just don't consider having three attacking players from the same team to be a good idea no matter which team we're talking about and the fact it's Liverpool makes it even worse.

Too much Liverpool.

Why not both? I've got a monster of a team at the moment, still trying to fit in Alexis Sanchez somewhere in there but it's not so easy because I don't want to lose anyone else. At the moment I have Giroud in the team but if I can figure out a way to get the extra £2m I think I'll upgrade him to Sanchez.

The Belgians will be back in training on Wednesday this week when we play Vitesse but think that'll be too early for them so they'll probably play their first pre-season game against Werder Bremen on Sunday the 3rd of August. Still plenty of pre-season action for them with games against Ferencvaros and Real Sociedad coming up and also the mini tournament in Istanbul against Fenerbahce and Besiktas.

Yep, check Wikipedia. I noticed it a while back and thought it was funny, he must have epic parents for them to give him his first name after a Van Damme character and middle name Happy!

Well, his full name is Kurt Happy Zouma so maybe his parents knew something when they were picking names.

That yellow shirt is beautiful, will definitely be buying one of those as soon as the price drops a little. Been planning on getting one with Schürrle on the back but now there's also Drogba. My old Drogba shirt is too big for me nowadays so I can't really wear it anymore... Tough decisions.

No, they're joining the squad on 30th July, the day of the match, so there's no way they'll be playing yet. The Spanish lads and Cahill already had a few days of training for the RZ Pellets game but none of them played. Lukaku has trained with Anderlecht so he could be fit enough to play but probably still won't. Drogba has been with the squad since Friday so there's a small chance he will feature.

Except the club gave that to Victor Moses in 2012. Anyway, now that Moses is not in Mourinho's plans Thibaut will get the 13 shirt if he wants it but it was by no means reserved for him.

Some players have them more often than others.

Van Ginkel not afraid to throw himself into a tackle, good to see.

From Fabregas to Costa and a goal. Imagine we'll see a lot of that this season.

No, he and Brown got substituted for Torres and Van Ginkel.

Looks a lot like 4-1-4-1 at times, Cesc is clearly higher up the pitch than Matic.

Come on ref, not every contact between players is a foul.

No one's saying they don't rate him, especially not anyone inside the club. Yes, he obviously has some flaws in his game like every 21-year-old but his career has still been very impressive so far and looking a the transfer market talented youngsters like him go for big money all the time. Also, you left out the part where Lukaku himself is the one pushing for a move. Every player has a price and if they're not willing to stay then they're free to go as soon as someone pays the asking price. I don't think the Lukaku of now is worth that much but in his case the asking price is very high because Chelsea have already paid a lot of money for him three years ago and he has since then improved a lot and still has an even higher ceiling. If a player like Shaw goes for £30m because of how good he can potentially become, why should we price Lukaku based on his current abilities and not his potential?

Why wouldn't he? Jose is all about commitment and if a player doesn't want to work with him, why keep him against his will?

Well, to be fair free agents can be signed outside the transfer window.

Delighted to see this back in the 'Current squad' section instead of Ex-Blues. :blue scalf:

Yeah, it's all about the new flavour of the month with them. More James shirts sold -> less Ronaldo shirts sold. Only extra they'll be getting by signing James is the sales peak at the time of the signing when people go crazy and feel they need to have the shirt of a new Galactico despite perhaps already buying some other player's shirt earlier, and also the increased amount of shirts sold in the player's native country Colombia where I would expect them to be buying a lot more Real Madrid shirts now that James is there. This additional income matters very little when we're talking about a player who cost them €80m in transfer fee and another €80m in wages for the duration of the contract.