Jase

international duty! Hope he's out for only less than 2 months. Any thing more and that's gonna be a major issue for us.

Yeah but he also he talked about not wanting to sit on the bench and doing well in the Champions League with next season...

Is Hazard really that daft that he doesn't know how to avoid answering journalists' questions?

He should just be loyal like Azpi and stay at the club till he retires.....

I get that but did he really need to go on and talk so much about Real Madrid and their interest?

I don't think Hazard will leave this summer - different question next year - but I just don't get why him and some of the other Belgian players like to talk a lot about their futures while on international duty. One week he says he's gonna stay and the next, he might not. I mean...WTF?!

Are you suggesting that Hazard will leave this summer? Bale would be great if he wasn't injury prone. Would take Rodriguez in the current situation.

Yeah...and 3 months from now, he'll get injured and miss months out.

You do realize Bale has been injured like almost every other week in Madrid, right?!

More paranoia...

What's the club waiting for?! http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10902428/thibaut-courtois-staying-at-chelsea-and-needs-new-deal

http://www.101greatgoals.com/101ggvideos/alvaro-morata-opens-chelsea-man-united-video/ Rules out moving to Italy.

Juventus actually played worse than we did against Arsenal last weekend and that takes some doing.

This thread since last Saturday...

I don't see why Pedro or Willian has to leave if we sign a right sided attacker. Both can play on the left and do a decent job. With plenty of games coming up next season and taking potential injuries/suspensions into account, those players will get their fair share of game time. And both of them seem fairly settled and happy to play for this team and under Conte.

That might be true but we don't play exclusively on the counter attack and while I do believe we scored a decent amount of goals from those situations this past season, we didn't score such goals in every game and we certainly didn't play on the break every time. It's just when we have to defend, we defend and when we can attack, we attack. Do agree that the smaller sides do take a more proactive approach against us but not all and compared to against Leicester, teams are way more likely to commit men forward against them than us. That's the risky part here. Mahrez was on fire 2 seasons ago and has been for only 1 in his career. Can we be certain that isn't a one off thing? I know Leicester struggled in the season that just ended but on an individual level, players should still perform week in week out to do themselves justice, much like what Willian did last season. But did Mahrez do that? And if we are going to spend around £40m - assuming the price tag on him mentioned above is true as he did only sign a new contract last year - on someone, I want certainties that the player will improve us and put performances out there on the pitch. Last thing we want is another expensive flop a la Torres who only turns up once in a blue moon.

http://www.espnfc.com/blog/soccer-usa/3/post/3136781/riyad-mahrez-has-missed-his-chance-to-seal-a-big-move-from-leicester-city

Did he have a choice though? Besides Zlatan, there's no one else that can do a job for them and Mourinho doesn't even fancy Martial.

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There's one difference though - Mata is already a well developed player while Lukaku isn't yet. Is Mourinho willing to develop the latter? I doubt it and Mourinho always has an experienced striker to lead the line of his team.