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Also worth noting that last season he didn't even have any pre-season with the team, having only arrived in late August when the season had already begun. I remain confident he'll make a much bigger impact this coming season, same goes for Schürrle too.

I know, but playing for Stoke is the second best thing.

Not at all, at least now he can say he has tried what it's like to play on a cold, rainy Tuesday night at Stoke. Bojan > Messi

Wouldn't be surprised if the injury was just an excuse for him not training with his transfer being all but signed. Wouldn't be the first time that happened...

Courtois Azpi - Cahill - Terry - (Luis) Matic - Fabregas Willian - Oscar - Hazard Costa vs. Lukaku Schürrle - van Ginkel - Salah Ramires - Mikel Bertrand - Zouma - Omeruo - Ivanovic Cech Don't know about you but I consider the team below to be more than good enough for the starting XI of a club competing for top6 finish in England. Bertrand, Omeruo and most likely Lukaku won't be at the club come start of the season but we might still have some incoming players too so that more than makes up for it. Amazing squad depth really, especially when we add potential squad player signings like Tiago in the mix. As for the original question, it's still too early to say if this team is really as good as it has the potential to be. We'll know more once the new signings have had some time to settle in and we get to see how they fit Jose's tactics, and also whether or not players like Hazard and Oscar can step it up a notch which IMO is needed for this team to really be as great as the one from Mourinho's first spell or Ancelotti's debut season.

Yes and some of us love our girlfriends but would swap them for Scarlett Johansson without hesitation if it was an option. Mourinho only 'loves' Ramires because last season we didn't have anyone else with Ramires' skillset but if we had a world class midfielder like Pogba I honestly think Mourinho's supposed 'love' for Ramires would be put to a test.

You're barking up the wrong tree here mate because I always liked Kalou and defended him both here and elsewhere when others abused him. Everyone gets frustrated if players don't perform, we all do it sometimes, but when someone leaves the club then that's all in the past and as long as the departure is not under bitter circumstances with the player being disrespectful towards the club I honestly have no idea why the abuse should continue.

No I don't think you're in the minority at all with your opinion. Bertrand is a very solid left-back, not necessarily one I would trust to be first choice but still more than good enough to play second fiddle to a player like Filipe Luis. Only remember a couple of really bad performances from Bertrand, with the Shakhtar Donetsk game where he was constantly skinned by Willian and Srna in 2012 probably being the worst game of his career but other than that he's usually a 7/10 player whose hard work goes unnoticed because he just does his job without doing any fancy tricks everyone likes nowadays. Would love to still have him as backup next season but clearly he doesn't want to stay so might be best to let him move on. If the club can get the rumoured £8m price for him then I won't have a problem with him going.

Great, now it's time for Diego Costa to take the honor of being the biggest cunt striker in the league.

If the only argument against getting him back as 3rd choice striker / coach is the perfect way he left the club the first time around, then I'm not sure I understand. If Mourinho thinks Drogba at 36 to be a perfect candidate for the player-coach role because he won't complain about the lack of playing time yet can still contribute massively when called upon then why not get him? Also who's to say his second farewell wouldn't be even more legendary, for example after a treble winning season?

Taking joy in being proven right and being happy that he's sold for such an inflated price price is one thing but posting "funny" gifs about him in tears after the worst moment of his entire career and going on and on about it is another. To each their own but IMO that's a bit over the top.

Can't wait for the Liverpool PR department to force him to say they're a bigger club than Chelsea, if he ends up there.

Had a look at Redcafe and they're trying to paint Van Gaal as some genius mastermind who can easily utilize Shaw and Rodriguez in the same starting lineup. Apparently the solution is to play Shaw, the worlds most expensive left-back ever, as a centre back.

I really fail to understand why some Chelsea fans seem so glad he failed his country massively. Sure, after a performance like that I'm very happy that the club managed to sell him before the World Cup and not after, but I still like the guy a lot and wish him well in the future and it broke my heart seeing him cry like that. Say what you want about his footballing abilities, or lack thereof, but David Luiz is still an amazing person and a player who contributed massively in the club's recent success, especially the 2012 Champions League campaign where he even played the final injured and didn't put a foot wrong. Show some respect ffs.

Bayern Munich recovered after we beat them on their own backyard and came back stronger than ever the following season. Now they suffered a 4-0 defeat at the Allianz to Real Madrid only a little while back and look how their German players are performing at the World Cup now. People are underestimating the mental strength of professional footballers. I’m certain Oscar and the rest of the Brazil boys will take this as a lesson learnt and use this experience to drive them to bigger and better things in the future.

Always liked the guy and he's proving to be every bit worth my admiration. Will score 15 league goals for us next season, mark my words.

@RomeluLukaku9: No dissrespect to Arsenal who is also a big club but i don't understand why ozil has left real madrid.... I guess will never know.. Now that's the way to go lad, if you just have to talk about something then disrespecting Arsenal is always good.

Will this guy never shut up? Everyone and their dog already knows he wants to go so what’s the point of going on and on about it every fucking day? Chelsea are not a club to keep players against their will, especially ones that haven't even done anything for the shirt, so all he needs to do is tell the grown ups he wants a transfer and they'll sort it out. Absolutely no reason to involve the media every day and giving disrespectful interviews only makes himself come across an unprofessional douchebag in the eyes of many. Well done Romelu, in just a few months he's managed to turn me (and many others) from desperately wanting him to succeed at Chelsea to first being indifferent on whether he stays or goes and now even wanting him to fuck off. Lukaku's got all the potential to be a quality player and it's a real shame things didn't work out for him at Chelsea but no matter how many goals he bangs in for his new club I won't miss him because of the way he's acted.

Yeah definitely would have, but that's what you get when being paid £57m a year and for that kind of money Chevrolet are free to do whatever they please with the logo.

This Mexican ESPN journalist seems to think we're close to signing Khedira with moves for Kroos to Real Madrid and Di Maria to PSG also on the cards. Anyone know who this guy is exactly, looks like he has over 1 million followers on Twitter?

It actually doesn't matter what the fee is, as long as it has been negotiated with Atletico directly instead of going behind their backs and trigger the clause at the LFP headquarters. Chelsea just confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Atletico so I would assume there was no need to trigger the clause and therefore no additional tax has been paid.

Whether or not Torres stays I hope Costa stays clear of the 9 shirt, that number seems to be cursed at Chelsea. Kezman, Crespo, Boulahrouz, Sidwell, Torres...

Like I said, it's possible. In Mata's case I think it was more like him not really playing a big role in the Euros that year but who knows, he might have gone anyway. Maybe Oscar wants to go with the tournament being played in Brazil, especially if they don't win the World Cup this year, but then again he might just as well not be interested or selected even if he was. It's still two years from now so way too early to speculate, at the moment it's impossible to say if he'll even be a Chelsea player at the time!

What makes you think Oscar will play at the 2016 Olympics? By then he will no longer be U23 and would have to be included as one of three over-age players. It's possible he'll go but not very likely IMO.