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Daily Express quoted Metro. Definitely rubbish.

How does it not make sense though? Some managers do prefer the comfort of having players with experience in their starting XI over ones without experience, even if they are talented. Some likes to go with less risk and pick players who have the know-how to deal with dangerous situations. You are right about that but Mourinho showed no hesitation in benching Cahill for Zouma when needed to. Other managers could easily just persist with Cahill and hope he regains his form. Cahill might be first choice but the situation showed his position is far from secured.

And that is why it's misleading. How can one say Arsenal (or any other club on the list) filled 99.27% of their stadium when that's not the case in their home games?

Too late, pal.

Meh. Looks more like a training kit than an away shirt.

England's CB duo isn't impressive but one could simply argue that Hodgson simply prefers the more experienced players, regardless of their talent. Whether that is right or not is another debate but should also remember that, different player develops differently. Varane is something of an anomaly, if you like and if you don't think Mourinho would pick Stones over Cahill, then look at Zouma last season. Only got international recognition recently and he's probably for the 4th choice CB for France right now but that did not stop Mourinho from selecting him ahead of Cahill. Think it's highly questionable to say Smalling and Jones are far better players now than they were 4 years ago. Don't think they have progressed much considering with the all injuries and constant changes at United - both on and off the pitch - in recent years. There's no suggestion that our transfer business will stop if we get Stones. The club sees him as the replacement for Terry and is pursuing him before United, City or anyone else get him.

Misleading figures. Arsenal filled 99.27% of the Emirates Stadium? As if.

Chelsea and Tottenham warned over plans to move into Wembley by Premier League

As Gilvorak mentioned above... Manchester United poised to trigger Pedro’s £22m Barcelona release clause

José Mourinho confident of success in pursuit of Everton’s John Stones According to the article above, Everton are demanding £30m+ for Stones.

How is Stones inferior to Cahill? Also, you do realise Stones is only 21 years old? It's normal that he's the 4th choice CB for England right now and even then, like lucio said above, we shouldn't be using that as a factor whether to sign Stones or not.

Losing to Hodgson's Liverpool was one of the worst experiences ever.

Jose Mourinho enters critical season at Chelsea

Atletico Madrid president confirms talks are in replace to sign Luis - http://talksport.com/football/chelsea-defender-filipe-luis-talks-over-atletico-madrid-return-150717157810

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/07/kalas-in-boro-loan.html Kalas joins Middlesbrough on season-long loan deal...

#RESPECT

@didierforever and @JaKstone, stop it fellas before the warning drops on both of you.

That's the thing, they are just decent back-ups - Mikel is limited while Ramires blows hot and cold. They are not the players who will help take us to the next level. And if you take Fabregas out, for instance, then where is the creativity in midfield going to come from? We all know our squad isn't exacly blessed with creative players. No but some times, the moaning tells us something and in this case, people had good reasons to moan about it.

Chelsea 2015/16 home kit launched: adidas unveil new kit that will be first worn during pre-season friendly against New York Red Bulls

That's their problem. Doesn't mean we need to accept what we have now and like I said, we don't even have ONE decent replacement for Matic/Fabregas. Didn't we moan about having Mikel and Ramires as the only back ups last season?

But that's an 'IF' though and it's only one player. Aranguiz might help us in the big game but will he add genuine quality to the squad and give us that bit of X-factor? I don't think so. Moreover, if you take the likes of Matic, Fabregas etc out of the starting XI, we suddenly look awfully short in that midfield area. We don't even have decent replacement for them in the squad.