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Had the nerve to get a stamp in after. Not doing himself any favours.

Willian's guide to attacking: Step 1. Receive the ball in a good area Step 2. Face up to defender and do not move for 3 seconds Step 3. Schimmy Step 4. Pass backwards Step 5. Repeat the above

Anyone see when we had a counter with Schurrle (I think) at around the 88th minute and the next thing I see is Ivanovic charging past him at 100mph and continues into the box? I admire is offensive instincts but at 2-1 up late in the game it was not the time to do so! Was going to absolutely go spare if we turned it over and our right side was exposed.

Lmao at people wanting Oscar sold. No idea.

We need to start showing faith in these guys who are going out on loan and give them an opportunity in our first team. After a while they will begin to think that they will never play for us. I mean Lukaku is in doubt to be with us next year FFS!

My bad

He has changed his Twitter handle to LukeShaw3. Yoshida is still at Southampton, Baines has the #3 for England and Evra has just re-signed for United...

Been some talk he could be headed to Australia to play for Sydney

I wonder if the actual building is used for hill sprints and training?

Would not upset me for him to go Bogarde on us for the rest of his contract so we can give games to players that care

Have been very happy and surprised we have taken FFP so seriously. Thought it might be the case when we started stockpiling young talent before any rules were enforced. Not only were we hoping for a Barcelona style system where most first eleven come from the youth system but that we can also start selling at a profit. Speaking of selling when have we done that? Mata, Sturridge, KDB all indicate we are trying to be accountable. This was enforced when we complained about City. It was clear that we were upset that while they haven't been giving a stuff we have been strict about our policies. Finally we have kept our wages stable and expect the same once Cole, Torres and Eto are gone.

Eto with three goals and Torres has two for 2014. What striker problem?

Mata still has an extremely important role to play in this team even if he is no longer a first choice starter or the main man. Oscar is not going to play every game and we need someone world class to fill the gap. Juan will continue to get plenty of opportunities but he has two choices: Continue to improve as a footballer and adapt to Jose's game or leave the club.

Lmao at name. Please never change this!

There was a moment in the game where someone went to play a through ball to a sprinting Mata. It was intercepted easily by a Saints player and you Juan threw his head back in dismay. The old Mata would have just jogged on but you could see it click in his brain that he had to get the ball back so sprinted and forced the defender to play the ball quicker than he would have liked. Nothing major but it shows the impact Jose is having on him.

At least Eto is in the right places and creates those chances unlike Torres who struggles to do it once in a game.

Is there anything she can't do? <3

First Mata now Lukaku

What does everyone think of this story? Mourinho wanted to loan out Hazard initially. Very strange. Bayer Leverkusen contacted Chelsea in the summer to ask if Thorgan Hazard was available, but in response Mourinho asked them if they were interested in Eden too. The guy who came up with it is the head analyst for the Flemish public television - kind of like the Belgian BBC, a very reliable source. He said he got his information from Hans-Peter Lehnhoff, who is a team manager at Leverkusen and is well known in Belgium after he played for Antwerp in his career. http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone/programmas/extratime/EP_130909_Extra_Time It's from around 27:00 onwards.

So could we possibly get him on a free?