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Good job Chelsea. Now any word if it's true we have given them 2 players on loan? Or Benfica just accepted the offer of 20 million? Thanks

Well to be honest, it does not makes sense that Benfica will accept an offer of 21 mill or whatever when his clause is like 30 something. So a player or two going their way makes sense, unless we are indeed paying more then what it is reported.

Any definite word on what players they are taking? They keep saying kakuta but I also heard is for two players.

Nice this is very exciting. Hopefully he is able to play at least part in the game against United. Wouldn't expect him to start because that is a bit too soon, but see a cameo of him after 70 minutes or so would not be that bad.

Yeah I know. I would like it if it's true. I think the man has shown that he is still up to the task. I was afraid that Madrid had killed his desire like it has killed many players in the past.

Very interesting sub headline: Roman Abramovich hands Jose Mourinho the power to decide whether veteran players are worthy of new contracts at Chelsea

I agree, I feel like it's a pr thing that they have to do. Because when Joe went to France he convinced hazard to join Chelsea. If he had any cared for Liverpool he would have sell the pr brand.

Wow 600 pages of Torres. From the excitement at the beginning pages, to hopefulness and then complete despair. Yes sir, Torres has been one hell of a topic for the past few years. May it long continue. :-)

Any details on what players benfica is taking?

Really good if true. When we gave him away we didn't know how good he would be. Also managerial instability was a problem. Now with mourinho we will have some stability and he will know what type of players he's looking for in his system.

Really looking forward to this match. But then again in the past matches that promised a lot fail to delivered and finish in a boring tie.....

Starting to do really good now. I think it also helps that he knows what his starting 11 is. All that chopping around made it hard to have any consistency, and in William-Oscar-Hazard he has a very direct and creative attack minded players. As always the missing pieces are the striker and Central Midfielder. So really looking forward to see who we get for these two positions.

Why is David Luiz now playing as DM? I thought Mourinho did not like this before? What changed?

Half a season and saw nothing that you mention. Kagawa and Sahin where amazing for the Bundesliga, but that's where it ends. Cause outside of the Bundelisga they where total shit. So KDB, Just another hype up guy from the Bundesliga like the other two mentioned

How do you know? I thought pochetino was average and he has done good. Maybe we should wait before coming to conclusion about Mel.

Just read that pepe Mel is the new coach of West brom. We are starting to get a lot of managers from La liga now hey?

All I can say is thank god we are allow to like different type of futbol and people can have their own opinions. While I don't agree with Xavi opinions, I respect it. We are not a nazi camp where we are not allow to have different opinion! You have been a great futboler Xavi, but sadly don't agree with your thoughts. It sounds like you are still bitter from the many times Chelsea or Mourinho has overdone you.

Are people still defending this dude? He is not good enough nor had the mentality to take his opportunity like azpi did.

People still won't believe that. They will say that United turned him down. It would have been awesome if SAF had said what he thought.

And azpi might not be the best but just like at real when mourinho had arbeloa who was not the best neither but he played him a lot. For mourinho, no matter what the most important thing is that they where hard worker and follow what the coach told them.

Well many people get the Brazilian national fútbol shirt because their fútbol is better......

Yeah that looks much set. Now to work on the CM positions and Forward position. I assume Ramires is untouchable now, thus the other player by his side will be important like these 3.

So Barbara what system of a team you think he wants to implement? You mentioned real Madrid and inter, but to me it looks like he is using dortmund as a template. And that was my favorite, better then Tiki taka. That for me was complete futbol, as they can play different system for different opponents. Not like Barcelona that go shit when they get pressured.

It's good to see this thread without all the trolls. Mourinho shut them up once again! :-)