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Or come in for the last 10 mins against Norwich if we are beating them 3 to 0. I just wanted to see him play, would have been awesome if Swansea take him when he turns 18 to play with Josh.

He can play the next FA Cup match if it's with that lower league team. If QPR that will be tough.

Oh I thought he would be 18 in the new year. Actually in a couple of days = Date of birth 20 January 1994 (age 17)

So what's up with the kid? Will he be getting time for Chelsea this season? Play in the reserves? Or send him on a loan? If a loan I request Swansea!

Good to know. What has happen to Davila? Delac never did good playing here.

City buying him would be the least of my worries, when they got Nasri, Aguero, Jonhson and much more. They need to sell first before buying. So if City is not crazy they will not go after this guy right now. Madrid in the same situation, they are overloaded with players and wanting to add more will require to sell as well. But then again, giving that City and Madrid are similar in wanting to buy every player just for the fun of it, it can't be ruled out. And if they do, we can assure ourselves that they will sell some of their players at a premium. Like Madrid did with Robben and Sneijder!

Dam Madrid! I never liked that team, and has been hard to watch and support that team with Mourinho. I hope Mourinho wins his stuff and leave that club asap so they can go back to their mediocrity!

Well putting it that way, it is a crazy idea! lol

Well people here keep mentioning how we keep player for a long time without selling them. Like with Essien. I think A. Cole has been in declining form since Carlo double winning. And I remember how A. Cole was saying that it was getting harder and harder to continue with the form, and how it hurt when he wake up in the morning....something like that! lol But we could easily cash on him and get a descent replacement while integrating Ryan to the team.

People keep mentioning that Chelsea will have 3 english national defender....but am I the only who thinks A. Cole should be sold this summer? It's time for either Ryan to step or buy a new LB! And David Luiz is the future, so I would not go discarting him. More like Cahill will take over Terry in a season or two!

They are sort of like a Swansea. Play good game. And yeah they beat CFC before, but today? Nah, more likely to beat Arsenal!

He is alright. Very hard for him to get time with Modric in the team. Owen Coyle or Brendan Rodgers would surely take out the best from him. But for 4m, is not that bad! And yes def. a step up to Malouda, Kalou put together.,

It's not just Beti, every small team do that against big team. Look at how some small team play against Chelsea? Playing against big team motivates the smaller teams.

I would choose Neymar any day, but he wants to go to Madrid, so let's get Hazard!

I saw the match on Fox Soccer plus. Saw some spark of genius, but still got some ways before he is in the big leagues. However I did like what I saw.

Montero from Real Betis has improve from his time at Villareal. Most people know A. Valencia from Ecuador because he plays at United, but I like Montero better. I think he got more skills then Valencia. The only problem with the boy is that he does not have enough stamina...sort of like A. Johnson.

Depending how Josh does in his loan with Swansea, we could easily see Josh and Romeu in that double role. They even did play in that role in the first Carling cup game. All we will be missing is that LW, which I am sure AVB will figure out by the summer transfer window. P.S. Can't forget about Kakuta. If somehow the boy finds his game back in France, then we will have to consider our midfield formation.

Maybe. But talking about Real Madrid Kaka and Ozil, a player who impress me was actually Canales. He was not going to get much chances from Madrid due to having those two and a lot more players, so his loan to Valencia was great. Sad that he got injured. But I would not mind throwing a bid for him to steal the player away from Mourinho!

Yeah as I said in the past it went downhill for Mourinho and every coach by not replacing Duff and Robben properly. Getting Malouda, and Kalou was laughable! And neither Joe Cole was as grandeur as Robben or Duff. One thing that also hurt Mourinho from making the difference in those CL games was a creative player. He had Deco for Porto, Sneijder for Inter, and now Ozil for Madrid. At Chelsea who was his creative force? Lampard is not in that mold of players. He is mostly a finisher..... Now giving that Chelsea is so used to a 4-3-3, and AVB is keen with that formation, we have the right ingredients to bring that style back, but this time with more flair. Mata gives you something different which we never had in the Roman era. Add to that a growing talent like Sturridge on the RW and all we will be missing is a LW...which for me could be someone like Hazard. And if young talents like Kakuta, Piazon, Lukaku and Josh do manage to come through and delivered, then we could be set for something even greater then the old Mourinho days. All we need is time and patience with our current manager.

And further difference is that United keep a same manager, while we fires our manager after every bad spell, and thus new managers cannot really see what an old manager saw for a whole season....

Tittle contenders and CL contenders....getting a bit too early says me. Even if we where to get Hazard and Goetze in this transfer window i will not put us in that category. This season is for Chelsea to either finish 3rd or 4th. Anything else you are setting yourself to be disappointed. My expectation for Chelsea with AVB in his first season was no trophies and 3rd or 4th place. Second season an improvement of the team. Better game playing, and an improvement of position in the table. 3rd or 2nd place finish. With maybe one trophy going our way like Carling Cup or FA Cup. And third season is when AVB should really brake loose and start killing everything. I think that is a modest goal for a team in transition.

Yeah this is what Zola said: Torres 'in bad place' http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/0,,12384_7434072,00.html And what Wise said: True Blues http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/0,,12384_7434146,00.html

I think what made more sense to me about the topic of wages was this, what Kostas posted:

Wow that was long! lol But I will say you have a point as well with the exception of what seems meaningless to you might not be meaninless for another person.

I really think the subs he has been making in the past few games are more to protect the game. He is trying to guard the result and try to get the 3 points. I guess AVB has learned some lesson in trying to be to open..... Our team is still not good enough to show of like we used to do in the past.