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Shaw said this in a pre-game interview with his club ahead of tomorrow's game. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/shaw-savouring-chelsea-contest-740468.aspx

And yet you want Higuain(even if he's cheaper)? Lewandowski's contract is expiring next summer and think we can get him for around 25m and I don't see why that amount would be expensive to anyone really. He's basically the kind of striker we need. Can create goals for others by linking up the play(he's very good at that) and score goals himself too. And given he's only 24 this year, getting him for around 25m would be wonderful especially when he hasn't reached his peak and the fact we have shelled out similar amount of money to buy the likes of Oscar, Mata, Hazard etc.

Doesn't offer anything else apart from scoring goals. And we need a ST who can create for others and score goals himself, an all rounder basically.

César Azpilicueta: 'English football is much more physical, much quicker' An interview with Azpilicueta in the Guardian. Good read that.

According to Azpi, he started out his career at ST and played there for several years before moving to RW, LW, LB and then finally settling in at RB. Only played there at 19 too! And he also said he was immediately interested to join the club after hearing our interest last summer.

There is the 'Petr Cech 400 Not Out' show tomorrow on Chelsea TV at 6.45pm UK time. Neil Barnett will be interviewing him.

Seems like a classic fabricated quote from Twitter. Typical.

Someone has posted? Apologies. Have missed out lately thanks to some unforeseen problems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y5wyAKkANgo

Don't think the stats tell much TBH. It doesn't take the context into account for each of those stats especially when you compare our style of play to Bremen's.

http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/44726_chelsea_midfielder_ramires_out_of_russia_friendly.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed Ramires will miss the Brazil's match against Russia tonight because a thigh injury. Hope it's nothing serious. We can't afford to get any injuries right now! And Happy Belated Birthday Ramires!

That's the typical Mourinho for you. He seized the moment to grab the headlines knowing that there is nothing much going on in the media due the international break. He first stirred some chaos regarding a conspiracy against him in the FIFA Manager of the Year voting and now this. So so typical of him to hog the limelight..

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2013/matches/round=2000359/match=2010083/prematch/background/index.html Match background and facts on upcoming tie against Rubin Kazan.

Lots of people here are gonna suffer a meltdown crisis if he doesn't return after all this stories..

Investigative Journalism.

Spotted in the Macedonia v Belgium game...

Aww. Don't be angry.

I'm sure you can just move the conversation here without having the need to move the posts.

Don't be sensitive Raphael. It's just that you led it to going off topic. That's all.

*ahem* @, please do not spam the place. And just curious, what's with everyone wanting to change their name lately?!

http://www.chelseafc.com/chelseatv-article/article/1955492/title/speak-to-azpilicueta-live Azpilicueta will be on Friday Night Live(or rather Thursday Night Live) next Thursday on 6.30pm.

Another one of his funny faces.

As Ollie pointed out, the last time we played at the Luzhniki Stadium, this happened.

Happy Birthday Kojo. Have a great one!

Guys, please don't turn this into a Belgium NT thread. There is one in the Football Banter section for you to discuss already.