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Singha All-Stars vs Chelsea POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Pre-Season Friendly No.1 17th July, Wednesday 2013 Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok 14:00 Kick Off (UK time)

To go along with that... Chelsea's Juan Mata and Fernando Torres told to ignore transfer gossip in personal calls from Mourinho

As everyone have said, it's a good signing. Solved our small issue with the goalkeepers. Now for the ongoing and persisting striker and midfield department...

Think you should do a comparison with Ivanovic's...

Discuss about him here in his own thread. http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/16388-mark-schwarzer/#entry716797

On 9 July 2013, Schwarzer signed a one-year contract with Fulham's West London rivals Chelsea on a free transfer. He has been quoted saying "It's one of the biggest and best clubs in the world, and it's an honour to sign for Chelsea. I didn't take much convincing to come here." Click here to view the record

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3233254/title/chelsea-sign-mark-schwarzer

Hardly a surprise when you have people talking about the sexual orientation of Schurrle recently...

Looks like it hasn't been announced yet. Sorry for the wrong info. Should happen soon I believe. Nearly 1 month left before the season begins.

By the way, WHS is still having the Member of the Month 'crown'...

He has handed in a transfer request at Villa apparently. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/christian-benteke-transfer-request-handed-2039240

If we are going to sell Ba, then I think we would very likely bring in another striker, somehow and from somewhere. No way Mourinho will go into the season with only 2 out and out striker in the team. He always has had at least 3 proper strikers in his previously managed team.

http://youtu.be/WHYysBiSdQg

Well, at least Villa is going to Atletico Madrid and not to Spurs and improve their squad. Still a decent player despite recent injury troubles and form. One of the most clinical strikers you'll ever see.

Gomez has officially joined Fiorentina, as confirmed by Bayern. http://www.fcbayern.telekom.de/de/aktuell/news/2013/43542.php Google Translate...

Congrats @Stingray...

If that turns out to be true, then it would seem like a waste. Ake was promising and played reasonably well from his games in the 1st team last season. Should be staying in England and play in the Championship at the very least.

Here's another one but with Kylian as well...

So, the post-season hangover has come to this? Discussing about whether one of our players is gay or not?!

Jovetic shouldn't even be considered as a striker. He's more of a player who thrives behind an actual striker. And not to mention, he's an injury prone player. Ruptured his cruciate ligament once before and has never played a full season without injury since the 09/10 season.

So what if Torres has showed the potential or that world class before? We have been waiting 2 1/2 years for him to even get anywhere it and hardly saw anything of it! Said previously, Ba was never a world class player yes but he was effective in what he does and he didn't suddenly just become a bad player after joining us. Under Mourinho next season, he would fit in nicely as the 2nd/3rd choice ST especially when he's not yet a 'finished' striker like someone. As for praising Ba's movement, I only pointed out what I saw from him in the games he played. Didn't even try to pretend and make it like it's out of this world. Can't be helped if people can't see it, choose to ignore it etc. Since when I was making excuses for Ba's poor finishing with his good movement?! All I did was comparing the aspects of play (the goals aside) that I see from Ba and Torres and stating the former's one is better! Yes, those were his better games but let's not make it as if all his other games were horribly bad. And no doubt his goal return wasn't great but had he buried those many chances he got, we would all be speaking of Ba differently right now... Not exactly fair to judge and compare two players' season like that when one had a full season while the other only had 5 months with us.

Why? That sounds like a comment made based on past reputation as opposed to who can actually give more in terms of the two. Think most would rather believe in Ba who can still perform decently enough and give him some chance than continuing to have blind faith and hope Torres will get anywhere near his best after 2 1/2 years of rubbishness! Did you actually even read the full post of that before taking my point out of context? I acknowledged that he should have scored more goals from the chances he has missed but I actually also pointed out the good thing he did to even get in those positions in the place, unlike Torres.

It actually isn't only against Man United, but also against Stoke(A), West Ham(H) for example. Yes, no doubt he should have scored more goals from those chances that he squandered but in those games, as Tomo has alluded to, Ba actually offers better off the ball movement by constantly making runs in behind the opposition's defence. This doesn't just only help provide threats to them but also pushes the opposition back and in turn, open up spaces between the lines and midfield for us to cause more damage. With Torres, you won't see that happening considering he's a statue upfront and he expects people to play the ball into his feet without making much effort to receive it. We hardly saw Torres made such runs last season and Ba basically trumped him in that aspect in just 5 months.