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As I said before, why must our next striker be another Drogba? Why should we start comparing those two?! Why can't we just put his legacy aside when he leaves and let whoever our next striker will be, be his own man?! Lets get it straight, there will never be another striker like Drogba for us. Whoever becomes in as our next striker and/or be the first choice, should be judged on it alone and let him create his own legacy. AND That's the problem I'm fearing. Because of the level expectations that people have gotten used with Drogba, anything our next striker can't do and/or fail to do, he will be immediately compared to Drogba & criticized! Regarding other transfers, yes, I do remember we need a creative midfielder or two and a new right back but who's to say each one of them is gonna cost more 20m?! By now, the club should have learned that spending big on players are not always necessary especially when you look at the likes of Newcastle. You have a quality RB at Marseille in Azpilicueta who is quoted to be priced at just 12m in January. Then, you have a quality creative midfielder in Cabaye who probably won't cost more than 20m IF we raid Newcastle and also, there's Moutinho from Porto who would arguably cost between the region of 15m to 25m. The point here is you can find quality players at a low cost in perhaps some of the clubs in Europe. It only depends on whether Roman and the board are smart enough to venture into those markets! It's not that we are underestimating his value in big matches(how can we?!), it's just being realistic. We cannot hope to play Drogba in big matches next season and expect him to turn up like he has done this season. He's already 34 and is not getting younger. IF there is a time to let him go, it's this summer. Let him go on a high with at least 1 trophy to go with it.

Totally wrong then! Thanks for pointing that out.

Aah right. Apologies.

Tweet that to Chris Cohen. However, that part aside, it is a decent interview.

All 20 and he only appeared in 1 of them as a sub.

Mauricio Pellegrino(Rafa's former assistant) will be the new Valencia manager next season with Emery leaving at the end of this season and is said to be taking over Spartak Moscow! It would be tough for Pellegrino to replicate Emery's achievements in La Liga of consistenly finishing 3rd every season.

That lineup looks decent except not quite liking Mata & Lampard starting.

Have read that and also positive comments from Bundesliga fans. Will reserve my judgment till I see him play for us. Cahill is a good example for this.

Jeeez, some people are just so skeptical!

We need both Tottenham & Newcastle to drop points..

Why are you assuming that all the quality striker out there is gonna cost 40m? I know the FFP rules is coming in this summer but the way you're saying is like we have only 40m as transfer budget to spend! Every top team needs at least 2 quality strikers for rotation or sometimes be used to play together in matches. Torres is likely to be one of them. Sturridge remains to be convinced and Drogba has already shown signs this season and last that he can only bother turning up in the big games and not in the matches against the likes of Norwich, Wigan Villa etc. We need to have at least two strikers who are their peak or peaking that when we play them, we expect or demand them to turn up and contribute to the team and not Drogba, who is almost a hit-and-hope striker right now sadly, to turn up in every games, not just the big ones. Furthermore, keeping Drogba would mean we have to waste a foreign spot in the squad registration for PL and in Europe.

Certainly won't bet against that.

So, you want us to gamble relying on Torres and Sturridge for next season?? I'm sorry, that is just plain suicidal. Torres may have been improving as of late but there's still no guarantee or even a strong hint now that he's gonna return to his best. As for Sturridge, he still blows hot and cold and if he doesn't change his attitude, it would be worthless even playing him upfront. Regarding Lukaku and the other youth players, we can't be expecting them to just turn it on when being put in the first team. Need to nurture them up carefully before blending those players into the first team. Wouldn't want expectation levels to derail their potential and development.

The 2nd leg of the FA Youth Cup Final is just 24 hours after this game, no way the younger lads will be playing in this one. Regarding Hutchinson, doubt he will be starting this match. No news whatsoever on whether he has fully overcome his injury problems yet.

Problem is he only nutmegged them in 2 games. What about the other games? He's not consistent enough. The first thing in his mind everytime when he gets the ball is shoot at first sight and/or look to cut inside to his left foot.

Surely he can't be stating the obvious so fast just yet...

That tackle counted as an assist?!

Mikel and Meireles are both out for this and so are Cahill & Luiz still.

He kept Downing and Bellamy quiet.

One minute I hear he's going to Arsenal and the next he's heading to Spurs!

Unfortunately, that might be the case. You need pace to deal with Bayern down the flanks and Bosingwa has that, while Ferreira does not, sadly.

Find it hilarious that people are thinking Roberto Martinez is a great manager out of a sudden having saved Wigan from relegation when only months ago they were criticizing him and thinking'e he rubbish when Wigan were doing badly.

What makes you so certain that we will be spending 40m on Cavani etc?! Sooner or later, we'll have to spend and perhaps spend big to get a new striker anyway.

Nothing to do with confidence. He has tons of that! It's just his attitude and mentality that needs to be sorted.