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I don't necessarily disagree with that BUT would like to see us strengthen the key areas first before looking elsewhere. And if the players in those key positions that we get is versatile and can play in different positions, then I don't see why we need to go after someone like Isco. Also, people want us to buy all these young players but then later complain we don't youth a chance when they can perhaps solve our problem in some positions without having the need to go out and buy other talents.

It's 20 goals and 30 assists this season, not the other way round.

It would just be a luxury buy if we get Isco. Already have a few players with similar qualities as him. How many of these kind of players and young ones are we really gonna stock up here?! What we need is different kind of players to fix the key areas needed in the squad, not buying more players in positions we don't have much worry about.

I never specified he does a 'good' or 'bad' job, did I? But he did do a decent job when he replaced Cech at Goodison Park at HT back in December.

Wonder why Turnbull never gets the same love as Ferreira. Never complains, can come in to do a job if needed...

Meh. Was hoping for some battle of assists here.

Break down the assists in all competitions then. Hazard has 11 in the league, 2 in FA Cup, 2 in League Cup, 2 in Champions League, 1 in Europa League and 1 in Club World Championship.

Hazard actually only has 19 assists (and 13 goals) in all competitions this season, excluding the penalties and free kicks won.

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.