Jase

FC Basel starting line up: Sommer; P. Degen, Schär, Dragovic, Park; Frei; Salah, Elneny, Serey Die, Stocker; Streller.

Team: Cech; Azpili, Ivan, JT ©, Cole; D Luiz, Lamps; Ram, Haz, Moses; Torres. Subs: Turn, Cahill, Bertrand, Mik, Oscar, Mata, Benayoun. Luiz in the pivot it seems.

Moved the discussion about spending, Roman, FFP etc to the Roman's thread. Please stick to talking about the game here.

Democracy FTW!

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3156659/title/hazard-about-the-team

If Mata wins the Player of the Year again this year, he'll be only the 4th player in the club's history to have won it back-to-back since the award began in 1967. 1. John Hollins (1970 & 1971) 2. Ray Wilkins (1976 & 1977) 3. Frank Lampard (2004 & 2005) Full list of past winners can be seen here.

Only 5 choices? You're jumping the gun there CHOULO...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/25/robert-lewandowski-leaving-borussia-dortmund?CMP=twt_gu

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2314641/Andre-Schurrle-close-Chelsea-Leverkusen.html

No no no. Roman obviously wants another big expensive 50m toy to play with..... I do really hope his 4 goals yesterday would have caught Roman's or the board's attention, if it hasn't already!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2314515/MARTIN-SAMUEL--THE-DEBATE-Luis-Suarez-disliked-cheating-hated-bit-Branislav-Ivanovic.html Read that debate by Martin Samuel on this Suarez-Ivanovic. It's bloody hilarious especially with the fans' comment.

Erm, why would it be fake?? Here's another one...

Eva at Luiz's birthday party..

That's if you trust the info I post is not from some random ITKs..

It's him or me: Scott Sinclair wants out of Manchester City if boss Mancini isn't fired :lol:

Bayern fans already jumping the gun? Would be hilarious if they were to lose the CL final alright!

Great news! The thing is though, would we see him in the first team soon?

Before the game earlier...

Don't think Lewandowski heading to Bayern is as simple as it look. There seems to be some contradiction of reports saying he will leave for Bayern, he will stay at Dortmund till 2014, could end up in PL etc. Nothing is certain yet. And heck, even Gomez (not that I want him here) is available for only 25m!

There is that but the thing is, why spend 50m for Falcao when you can probably get a good quality ST for a much lower price and then spend the remaining money on someone else to improve other areas that we need to fix. It's a case of probably of wanting to see the club spend wiser than they are right now.

Yup. And his post-match interview after the Malaga game is even better.

Okay. Klopp didn't exactly say "Chelsea is our inspiration" word for word but something close enough that imply that. http://www.football-espana.net/30205/klopp-takes-chelsea-example

If Madrid do lose the tie, then Mourinho can't blame any conspiracies, refereeing decisions, ghost goal and all that. That is unless something extraordinary happens in the second leg next Tuesday.