Jase

http://www.football-italia.net/41451/napoli-target-azpilicueta-report Napoli reportedly interested in getting Azpi..

Mourinho has talked a lot about of making 'lots' of changes but I doubt it's gonna be a major one. The usual easy targets will be kicked out while his favorite sons will play. In fact, think the lineup tonight will be similar to the one deployed in Germany 2-3 weeks ago except changes made to the LB and ST.

Did Oscar really call Mourinho as 'Mr Mourinho'? MISTER MOURINHO?!

Not that this is a big issue OR it's completely wrong but it should all be about objectivity, not subjectivity.

Yes, but one would expect a fair representation or objectivity of what the manager would pick. I don't necessarily always disagree with such lineups but looking at this, it's more of a 'preferred' one as opposed to an 'expected' one.

Considering it's Choo Choo, I'm not surprised one bit with those 'kock' ups..

If you are putting out a lineup that is down to you, perhaps you should have stated there 'Preferred Lineups' rather than 'Expected Lineups'......

The point is and in regards to the original post, what does getting Lewandowski gotta do with selling Mata anyway when they operate completely in different position? If anything, it's Ba and Eto'o (or hopefully Torres!) that will leave before we even get to the idea of talking about any one of our AMs leaving.

Time to cheer up this place with a 'What the hell?!' moment...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-andre-schurrle-reveals-how-2679180#ixzz2joUZBRGm An interview of Schurrle in the Mirror..

Schwarzer has reportedly decided to retire from Australia NT..

Eriksson told Abramovich to buy Chelsea over Spurs if he wanted trophy success

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbStZ2KvRY Still can't find the full press conference. Meh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHHkJBRN4U

Fixed.

Fair enough on the United game but, maybe this is on hindsight, one would now question if it was better to take the game to United given how wobbly they looked after that game. What about the Spurs one then? He started the game with playing Ramires on the RW when we had Schurrle who can play there and arguably execute our counter attacking better but yet the former is used there to just contain Spurs. And you already saw what happened when we took the game to Spurs in the 2nd half. Had we began with that approach, we could have won it. Moreover, Mourinho only changed Ramires's position to the pivot because we were 1-0 down at HT. Had it stayed at 0-0 then, would he have done the same? Doubt it. And as much as we played well then in the 2nd half and managed to get at least a point, funnily enough Mourinho hardly got any stick for starting Ramires on the RW when our previous managers usually got it for doing so and what's worse here is that Mourinho had better options now than say AVB, RDM and Benitez but yet stuck Ramires out wide. And Cicero, I don't really buy into the reason that because it was Spurs and this 'avoid losing' negative approach adopted by Mourinho has served him well to justify his selection and approach then. It has also came back to bite him. That was hardly even a 'very attacking approach' against Newcastle. It was just that players didn't turn up and bottled out of challenges, losing those 50-50s etc and putting ourselves under pressure when we could have avoided it.

Yup. We play Sunderland away on 4th December (Wednesday), just 3 days after hosting Southampton at the Bridge.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3524663/title/capital-one-cup-tie-scheduled The game will be played just 3 days after our home game against Crystal Palace and 6 before we face Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

Looks like Cahill may start tomorrow then though Ba didn't after doing the presser for the Basel game.

Fernando Torres doubt for Chelsea's Schalke tie with thigh injury Chelsea's Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard face axe against Schalke.. and Fernando Torres is injured

Lampard given an award by the PFA for recently reaching 100 caps for England...

In other words, he has been dropped by Mourinho..

Judging by how he has been utilized this season, the only way he's gonna get a goal is through penalties or free kicks. Have hardly seen him getting so much forward like he used to, even less than last season.