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You are talking about Heynckes or Pellegrini? Not too sure about Heynckes but would like to think he can speak English. As for Pellegrini, he can apparently speak English according tp Gabriele Marcotti.

Gomez a target man? He's nothing more than a goal poacher. No doubt he gets you the goals but he doesn't offer anything like Drogba apart from scoring. His constant lack of touches (despite his goals) in games show that. Think we can do better by looking elsewhere first and get somebody like Drogba can hold/link up the play and all that and equally get you the goals as well.

Nope. We should find more about this later today.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3155398/title/cole-and-cahill-travel

John Terry hopes to open contract talks with Chelsea in the summer

That meme fails...a bit. The sequence of results are: 4-0 win vs Nurnberg 6-1 win vs Hamburg 6-1 win vs Hannover 4-0 win vs Barcelona

Chelsea star Kevin De Bruyne stalls on Bayer Leverkusen move as he waits on Borussia Dortmund

We get a referee from Czech Republic - Pavel Kralovec - for this game. His last officiating in European competitions was Arsenal's 2-0 win over Bayern. English teams record with him in Europe - W3 D3.

That's what Benitez will do because he wants 'troffees' over Top 4.......

Think that's where the problem comes IMO. It's because we have become so desperate of wanting a ST that can score goals due to Torres's failure that people have let it blinded them into taking any STs that score goals. Do people really want a limited ST such as a goal poacher when an all rounder kind of ST can score you goals and do so much more than the former?

Well, okay. Have been saying that for ages till the point I have sounded just like a broken record. Think we can do better in looking elsewhere first and spend that 25m a tad wiser.

Maybe we are over-relying on Mata this season but in 2-3 seasons time, think we will see less of that with the likes of Hazard, Oscar etc all improving and becoming an integral player in the team where we can also really rely on. We would then have many players that can win games for us, and not just one.

Yes, I don't deny that at all, never have. It's just that we should be looking more in a ST. Drogba's goalscoring record was never exactly all that great, like if you compare with Gomez for example, but he was extremely vital for us because of physical presence upfront and having the ability to link up the play and creating chances for others, while not forgetting him banging in his fair share amount of goals too. We need somebody like that because with this current team, the players can create for the ST and score goals themselves so they need someone upfront that can be played of to do the latter as well. Maybe it's just me but I would much rather to see us being a team where we can play in different ways - short, long, direct etc - and have goals come from everywhere as opposed to just focus on creating for a goal poacher like Gomez but can't create for others. That would make us unpredictable and more of a threat to play against.

One word about Heynckes. He will be 68 y/o come May and hiring him when he could want to retire in 1-2 years time doesn't sound like a good idea, especially when we want some sort of stability at the club.

Gary Cahill and Ashley Cole train ahead of Chelsea's match with Basel And this funny bit.

Exactly. Many focus on his goalscoring record and not looking into his overall game as well as how he would fit into here.

Simply stunning from Bayern. Very impressive. Well already into the final now.

QPR forced Julio Cesar to issue a statement... http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/230413-julio-cesar-statement-789088.aspx

Understand where you're coming from but the thing is how often can we rest Mata though? Even you pointed out that we need a decent back-up player and it's because we don't have a decent back-up player, we have to play Mata more often than not. And yes, when you look at the bigger picture, Mata has played loads of game but it's not like he doesn't get some rest here and there(thanks to Benitez's rotation!). Unless he plays like 9-10 games in a row, don't see why he should be rested anyway after just 3-4 games etc. Mata is strong enough to handle this issue even though it's tiring.

The thing I don't get is this. If Gomez is available for only £25M, why are we not going for Lewandowski then? He's available for around £25M, has so much more about him as a player and would be absolutely perfect for us with the players that we've got.

Now now. There's no need to go and read so much into these things. Maybe the others just went for Mikel's birthday.

Oh gawd. Please no. Not Mario Gomez!!!

Then this happens...

If Guardiola really is trying to create the False 9 role with Gotze, then he really is a limited manager. Guardiola obviously wants to play expansive football but there are other ways of going about it than trying to create what he did at Barcelona with Bayern(assuming if that's his intention). And furthermore, there is only 1 Messi around.