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The Premier League fixtures for next season will be out soon, in just over a week's time. http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/when-does-2013-14-season-start.html So, who do you wants us to face first? Home or away? What are the game are you looking forward most to in the 2013/14 season? Etc... Discuss.

€25m for Lewandowski and €63m for Cavani........

Regarding the 'Mourinho wants to sell Mata' Marca story...

Oh joy. If we get Cavani in and sell Ba because of it, we then would have a player earning 175k p/w wages warming the bench every week... Gotta applaud that idiotic decision made by the board to pay the flop blondie that much wages for a week!

Yeah. According to Mediaset (people quoting them on Twitter), Jose will announce the signing of Cavani in his presser on Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10108338/Jose-Mourinho-to-target-Xabi-Alonso-as-he-starts-to-rebuild-the-Chelsea-attack.html Telegraph linking us with Alonso again, claims Mourinho wants him.

If we want to play the Christmas tree formation, then we should bring back this fella... He's like the only manager who actually plays the 4-3-2-1 formation. While this formation has its weaknesses (every formation does) like the ones pointed above, it's worth remembering that we did have some success with it under Ancelotti.

If we are to challenge on all fronts and win the big trophies, we need a strong squad depth. Don't see what's the problem with keeping Moses TBH especially with the depth issue has caused us problems for the past 2-3 seasons. He might be the 6th choice overall if you list all the players playing just behind the STs but that's not exactly the case if you break them down into their best positions - Hazard/Schurrle, Mata/Oscar, Moses/KDB(maybe). Moses can still come in and do a good job against the lesser teams and furthermore, he's a HG player which means he doesn't take up any of the foreign squad place AND he's not on big wages either. As said, we need a strong squad depth and players used in proper position, no more filling squad pegs in round holes like last season!

No thanks. Moses is a decent squad player to have. Our squad depth is already thin enough as it is and it would be needless to weaken it further. And moreover, Moses is like the only player right now who is actually suited to play at the RW. De Bruyne is probably another one but that's about it. Would hate to see us filling squad pegs in round holes again next season.

Good decision to let him stay there. Best for his development especially with the World Cup next year. And will be interesting to see how he fares in the Champions League next season. On the other hand, it also means that we are very likely in the market for a back up goalkeeper too. Hope we can acquire a good 2nd choice keeper with experience.

http://www.acmilan.com/en/teams/roster_player/8240 Milan's website also agrees with you.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/08/galatasaray-president-tells-chelsea-they-can-have-wesley-sneijder-for-just-15million-3833374/

Each to their own views. Agree to disagree.

Just because KPB played in that role, doesn't mean he can actually fit in there in the long term. There are other factors that made him somewhat of a success in that role. Moreover, the technical ability that you pointed out about KPB is only his shooting and yet in terms of other aspects of it, he lacks them. And the vision to pick out decisive passes is also something that he's lacking if people are gonna say play him in the No.10 role.

@We Hate Scouse, all hail Sam, the great forecaster of TC.

I doubt that is a a real quote. Likely to just be another fabricated on Twitter.

Might want to read what I said after that... Not comparing here. It's the fact that if KPB comes here, he will take up one of the midfield space which Ake can operate in. Having him for CAM will just be nonsensical as well when we've got options there already. It's about him taking unnecessary place in the squad when others can fill in. Different people made different opinions. Don't go all categorizing everyone into one group. So, we are suddenly buying players because they can score the odd screamers and all that? Still doesn't take away the fact his main assets are his stamina and pace. As for your point that he excelled in the No.10 behind Ibrahimovic and Robinho, he didn't exactly achieve that on his own merit. It helps when you have someone like Ibrahimovic upfront doing most of the damage and making him look good. KPB is by no means an out-and-out No.10.

Seriously, if we are gonna spend 15m on a player that will add nothing significant and improve our squad, would much rather see us give chances to someone like Ake.

Just because other say different things from one another, or rather say something different from you, you just jumped the gun and accused these people of not watching the player?!

Thank you for your wondrous insight. I'm sure it will benefit the discussion a lot...