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The funny thing about that is first they said Barcelona could go after Vermaelan and then in their picture caption, they say we want him. Typical rubbish from Daily Fail.

Any legit source for this?

Luiz to be first Chelsea casualty of Mourinho's second reign with Real and Barca waiting in the wings

Late.

Adding to that...

José Mourinho will face greater expectations at Chelsea this time round

It's just them simply overpowering and outfight us with their physical strength in their squad, which is desperately lacking in ours. How they have bullied and getting on top us in recent matches is like how we did the same to Arsenal in the seasons before last.

Another Premier League manager gone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnS1mKtTDk Eeeek! Apparently the players could see the storm from the tornado that happened at Oklahoma.

Too early to even make a prediction. As TorontoChelsea and Hutco pointed, much will depend on what the clubs do in the transfer market.

Perhaps I'm in the minority here but they did make some decent points there about Mourinho though I don't necessarily agree with the overall things they mentioned. We still don't know what Mourinho is gonna do with the current squad and what Sam Wallace and Paul Parker said there is based and evident on what Mourinho has done in the past few years. One would like to think Mourinho is more than capable of adapting and get the best out of the current group of players but right now, what we think Mourinho will do with this current squad in terms of utilizing and maximizing the set of players to its full potential by playing the right style is basically just that, our thoughts on what Mourinho is gonna do though not necessarily what he will do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3_oQU69GY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33U23LDmoU

I agree. Ba is not a top class ST for us if we are to challenge for the major trophies but he's a decent 2nd/3rd choice ST to have and come in to do a job against the lesser sides. The thing that annoys me most with this Ba situation is that many of the people I see on Twitter wants to sell him after just half a season and keep Torres! Granted Ba hasn't exactly blown us all away or anything like that since he joined but the double standards shown towards him and Torres when he joined is bloody pathetic. Ba looked average for 4-5 months and people say he's rubbish and wants him off already BUT yet, the same people showed a bloody 2-year patience with Torres! And when he was struggling in his first few months (he played even worse than Ba is right now), or basically anytime with us, many were finding silly excuses to defend Torres but the same patience wasn't shown for Ba. Ridiculous!

Oh gawd. Not the Oscar-Coutinho comparison again. Why on earth do people continue to compare players whose primary position and role is totally different from one another is beyond me! Those who says Oscar is nothing special or even already writing him off have well probably been spoilt by watching too much of Hazard and Mata already.

Fixed.

Jose plans to back young talent That is from The Sun but it's written by Rob Beasley, who of course is a close friend of Mourinho. Not sure how true is that though. Seems too true to be good as like that was written based on how we all want it.

In the LMA Manager award night...

Slightly old video but Mata did this interview before the Basel game speaking about playing with Hazard and Oscar and one or two other things.

Apparently... Gareth Bale to sign new Tottenham contract worth £150,000 a week

Just some post-match stats (if anyone bothers)... - Chelsea are the only Premier League team to complete the double over Everton this season, having won 2-1 in both home and away encounters. - Chelsea completed their first Premier League double over Everton since the 2004/05, when the Blues won 1-0 in both meetings. - Chelsea have won the most number of points in Premier League matches between the Top 7 teams this season - 22 (P12 W6 D4 L2). - Mini league between the Top 7 teams in Premier League this season: 1. Chelsea - 22pts (W6 D4 L2) 2. Man Utd - 20pts (W6 D2 L4) 3. Man City - 17pts (W4 D5 L3) 4. Tottenham - 15pts (W4 D3 L5) 5. Everton - 15pts (W3 D6 L3) 6. Arsenal - 11pts (W2 D5 L5) 7. Liverpool - 10pts (W1 D7 L4) Only 2 defeats against the better quality teams this season (pretty good) and both came against the Manchester clubs with 1 of course coming in controversial circumstances. And this obviously points to the fact of dropping silly points against the lesser teams... Oh, not to mention, we finished 14 points behind Man United and just 3 behind Man City this season compared to finish a massive 25 points behind both of them last season.