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Pretty good. But the one bad thing about it is the audio. It's interfering with the match commentary and sounds annoying.

Honestly, watching games against City these days are getting more and more painful and pathetic. Getting dominated all the time. Can't handle their off the ball movements. Kamikaze play and defending. Concede cheap, soft, poor goals. The players usually don't look bothered at all. We have been making it so so easy for City every time.

Debate, discussion, argument whatever you want to call it, just drop it.

OK. Enough with the debate/argument! Go continue it somewhere else. Get back on topic!

Gotta love those assumptions from people who assumes Mourinho will return, revert back to old times and just put Terry (maybe so as he's still the captain), Lampard, Essien etc into the starting XI. Someone like Mourinho is not silly and will be able to recognize they are not the players they once were.

OK. Think it's Valencia and not Benfica who are participating in the tournament as mentioned in their Twitter account.

Pretty sure most of you, if not all, by now would know that we are having our next season's pre-season in Asia with 3 matches to be played in the continent. 1. vs Singha All-Stars - in Bangkok on 17th July at 2pm UK time. 2. vs Malaysia XI - in Kuala Lumpur on 21st July at 2.45pm UK time. 3. vs BNI Indonesia All Stars - in Jakarta on 25th July at 2pm UK time. NOW news have come that we would also be playing in United States (again) in a 8-team International Champions Cup tournament along with AC Milan, Everton, Juventus, Inter Milan, LA-Galaxy, Real Madrid and Benfica (or Valencia) from 27th July to 8th August. The news is yet to be announced by the club but Everton have done so. And here's the competition's website - http://internationalchampionscup.com/. Can find out more details (sort of) in them. Everton said Benfica are participating in the tournament but the website says Valencia. And think it's Valencia as stated on their Twitter account. All in all, we are playing in this yet for more money. Already having our pre-season in Asia and now we facing these teams all the way in US. Flogging the players to death even before the season starts. Brilliant. Just brilliant! P.S. Will post the club's announcement once they announced it.

Chelsea will face Bayern Munich in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup on 30th August (Friday) at Eden Arena, Prague.

Think it's fairly noticeable that most here do not have Terry and Lampard in their choice of starting XI. And this would lead to the question (again), who will be our next captain. Will be interesting to see what Mourinho (or whoever that manager is) does with this situation.

Blimey!

But that's the purpose of a forum - to have discussion.

Well, Alex has never bothered adhering to rules, not when he has the Thor hammer! And TBF, when you said 'no opinions. no discussion', it could mean that we aren't supposed to have discussion with others, agreeing or disagreeing with them through our own opinions about the team. You were like basically saying we are free to post what we want without thinking/worrying anybody come firing at you.

Freaky!

De Rossi may be defensively strong (and comparing him with Modric is just wrong) but I wouldn't take him especially he has been in poor form for seasons now. And not to mention, he would be someone that commands high wages. Cabaye is an underrated player. Excellent passer and vision in him. Maybe because he just doesn't look flashy or anything like that and people don't really take note of him. And so much for this eh?

That's the general thing but doesn't mean we have to go along with that. Gotta evaluate the circumstances as to why that player has had a bad season. In Cabaye's case, his form was affected by the injuries and own personal problem and could even include Newcastle's poor form into the matter here. It's not like he was injury free all season, played most games but his level of performances have dropped. Then that would be a different issue altogether. This can't exactly be said for De Rossi though.

So, you are basically saying that we should buy De Rossi because he is cheap and not actually judging his past form and performances? Again, you are basically just judging Cabaye on 1 bad season. Yes, I don't deny he has struggled this season. His injury problems and personal issues have not helped but some players go through these things sometimes. Does that mean he has gone downhill? No. Cabaye was excellent in 11/12 season. And let's not forget that generally, Newcastle have been awful this season as well.

Judging a player based on 1 bad season? Then I gotta wonder your reasoning to include De Rossi when he hasn't been in any great form for ages now.

Here. Rafa Benítez made my life a misery at Liverpool, says Yossi Benayoun

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-transfers-thibaut-courtois-worried-1909022

Somebody actually took that post a tad too serious... Anyway, said it because Benitez always has the tendency to play him here, regardless of their relationship.

Like you said, 'if'..

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-hKDJkCAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvt-qkUMAE