Jase

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/stoke-city-ibrahim-afellay-signing?CMP=share_btn_tw Stoke have signed Afellay on a two-year deal...

Reckon we'll see movement (if there's going to be any) in the transfer market once we get back to England.

To be honest, couldn't help but laugh a little bit when Van Gaal said our trio of Hazard, Oscar and Willian is creative. And it's also funny that after spending more than 200million, Van Gaal can still say the current United squad is not his.

Call me crazy but waiting for the day we let Terry (along with Cahill and Ivanovic) go so that we can play a more proactive and aggressive defence. It feels like our slow, reactive and sometimes even ponderous backline is holding us back.

That's your interpretation I guess. It's funny how people overreact and scrutinize every word that comes out of Mourinho. We all know he talks a lot and half of the things he says are BS and sometimes even self-serving but despite that, people still get pissed at him and think he truly believes everything he says. Thought people should know enough about him by now not to take him too seriously.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/9926127/chelsea-boss-jose-mourinho-will-up-falcaos-workload-on-tuesday-night Mourinho said Falcao, Cuadrado and Willian will get more minutes against Barcelona than they did against PSG.

Mourinho on Hazard... http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/594015/Chelsea-Jose-Mourinho-Eden-Hazard-Arsenal-Man-Utd-warning On a side note, Mourinho seemed to have indicated Ivanovic is the vice-captain right now (second last paragraph).

But they reported the same thing last week - 26m bid in next 48 hours or something along those lines.

But Mourinho didn't say 'we didn't buy the league'...

John Terry: I'm not ready to leave Chelsea, I've got two more years left at the top He also said he won't play for another Premier League side if we decide to let him go next year (or whenever).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11764394/Chelsea-transfer-news-Jose-Mourinho-prepares-26-million-second-bid-for-Everton-defender-John-Stones.html Another one of those 'Chelsea prepare to make new bid in next 48 hours' stories...

http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-soccer/story/2537129/montreal-acquire-didier-drogbas-mls-rights-from-chicago

*click on link and see it's Daily Express*

Our backup options are so average. We are so screwed if Hazard and/or Willian get/gets injured (*touch wood*).

Mourinho on Salah... http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/salah-not-staying-chelsea-mourinho?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Some people are just lazy really. Just because we don't 'dominate' against the big teams, they immediately accuse us of 'Parking the Bus', even when we do not do it. The term has been thrown around so much till the point those people have failed to grasp the true meaning of 'Parking the Bus'.

This thread has been quiet. Begovic looked a tad better against PSG, making three very good saves in the first half.

The International Champions Cup standings. That's how they determine the winner of the tournament.

Wow!

That's really ignorant considering we just started our pre-season and the PSG clash was only our second match.

Decent for the first five minutes and was awful for the rest of the time he was on the pitch. But because he scored the equaliser, he got the Man of the Match award.

Punishing? By playing the 90 minutes, Azpi is one step closer to getting full match fitness.