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Full lineup of the pots for tomorrow's group stage draw... POT 1 Chelsea Barcelona Bayern Munich Juventus PSG Benfica Zenit St. Petersburg PSV Eindhoven POT 2 Real Madrid Atletico Madrid FC Porto Arsenal Manchester City Valencia Manchester United Bayer Leverkusen POT 3 Lyon Dynamo Kiev Olympiacos Galatasaray Roma CSKA Moscow Shakhtar Donetsk Sevilla POT 4 Borussia Monchengladbach Wolfsburg Dinamo Zagreb Maccabi Tel-Aviv Gent Malmo FC Astana BATE Borisov - No team can play a club from the same country - The group stage draw will take place on August 27, Thursday, at 4.45pm BST

Can't wait for the day Pellegrini drops him to the bench. Would probably go 'crying' in the media.

IF/WHEN we sell Hazard, we better demand 80-100m pounds for him. Scandalous fee to pay for De Bruyne!

New names added into the poll (can't believe Costa wasn't in it...).

Don't think Fabregas is suited to be captain for us when he has been consistently inconsistent with his performances. He might have the leadership qualities but he also needs to lead and show example by putting in performances week in, week out.

But this late in the window? Talk about showing conviction in trying to get the best young English CB. Only United fans with red tinted glasses would view this as a triumph over us. Logically, do they even need Stones? They already have Jones, Smalling, Evans and (even) Blind playing at CB. If anything, they need a top class/experienced CB right now, not another young central defender and United have more urgent issues in other areas to solve, like their ST department for instance.

If United get him now, it would just reinforce the fact that they have no idea what they're doing in the transfer market. Why wait till the last week of the transfer window to try going for Stones when Ramos and Otamendi turned them down weeks ago? If anything, it looks as if they're trying to make themselves interested in Stones just to get on the good side of the fans again after what happened with Pedro. He's too nice. Needs to unleash the inner Raheem Sterling in him. Does he realise that if he does play and pick up an injury, it would jeopardize his move away from Everton?

Everton's John Stones prepared to play in League Cup tie at Barnsley despite transfer request

It's the 8TH time out of 12 we have gotten an away tie in domestic cup competitions (excluding semi-finals and finals) since Mourinho returned in 2013. League Cup Swindon (A) Arsenal (A) Sunderland (A) Bolton (H) Shrewsbury (A) Derby (A) Walsall (A) FA Cup Derby (A) Stoke (H) Man City (A) Watford (H) Bradford (H)

When will people learn to not feed the troll...?

Should note that former Chelsea player Milan Lalkovic is currently playing for Walsall. And looking forward to that 2 huge derbies!

Full 3rd Round Draw: Middlesbrough v Wolves Norwich v West Brom Hull v Swansea Leicester v West Ham Aston Villa v Birmingham Tottenham v Arsenal Man United v Ipswich Liverpool v Carlisle Crystal Palace v Charlton Fulham v Stoke Sunderland v Man City Newcastle v Sheffield Wednesday Reading v Barnsley/Everton Walsall v Chelsea MK Dons v Southampton Matches to be played on September 22/23.

On that subject, here's an article talking about the Everton fans' unhappiness with their board. Everton protests grow louder as club fail to keep pace in Premier League

Okay. You need to stop saying that. You have done it for a millionth time FFS! If United really wanted him, they would have registered their interest and submitted their bid for him by now. The fact that they haven't done so means they aren't really interested in getting him. If they do, it would feel like a smack of desperation at this point.

:rant: :rant:

Chelsea transfer news: Blues to bid £33m for John Stones after he hands in transfer request at Everton

Welcome John Stones.

Here's something interesting (or contrasting) about Crystal Palace's results under Pardew... HOME form - P13 W5 D1 L7 AWAY form - P11 W9 L2

We can always change the names in the Ex Blues section. @...

We have been hearing about the 4th bid for the past week and yet, there has been nothing regarding it from a decent/reliable source.

Consistency is so overrated.

Why selfless superstar Pedro is a dream player for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea The article is now five days old but it's a good one.