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Jose Mourinho's first Press Conference on his return : "Frank has agreed a new contract" Emotionally speaking, that would be incredible

Falcao - di Maria - Moutinho - Pepe Maybe - Yes - Yes - No

He was pinging fantastic through balls to Srna during the games vs chelsea. Plus, I don't remember him losing out in a challenge in the games

Genius from Jose. Hardly anyone talking about Real's exit . . .

BUMP.Looking forward to some of the reasons. I went for Modric - obvious and Diego Lopez - Looks like a good backup keeper who'll do well when asked to step up

Luka Modric - DLP Diego Lopez - To replace Hilario and Trollbull

I prefer Lampard's technique though. Blast it. For instance, if Hazard get's it wrong like vs Nordsjaelland, then it's an easy save for the keeper but in Lampard's case, the power of the penalty alone is enough sometimes even if he get's his direction wrong Lampard vs Neuer - Neuer positioned himself well but it was past him before he could react

Agree with Bale. Can't point to 'inconsistency' this season. He's been unreal. As for Rio, The big club factor helped Ferdinand. Performance for a big club > similar performance for a small club. Ashley Williams and Jagielka had good seasons but Rio is under the spot-light at United.

true but Nastasic? Jagielka? Ashley Williams? have all had good seasons. consistently better than Rio imo

Yes. I agree. Adding Lukaku and de Bruyne will not drastically improve our squad. I will focus on Lukaku. He will add that bit of power and depth up-front but I really think we need another striker, one who can take half-chances and drag us out of tricky situations. Chelsea have always relied on a bulk of the goals from midfield but it was no coincidence we won the league when Drogba got 29 league goals in 09/10. he scored 6 goals vs Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal that season and we didn't drop a single point vs those 3 teams. as for who we bring in; Falcao will be a big statement of intent but I would have Lukaku and Lewandowski sharing striker duties with Ba as the impact sub. That would be a dream

It's not competitive football doesn't mean that we will play Ake, Piazon, Feruz in it. Some of the seniors will be indulged in it and it will become a nuisance to the team. Regarding your points - All true but look at the degree to which we have to improve we are what 20+ points off the top now? there's a lot of work to be done to the squad to challenge for the title. That kind of work, unless Mourinho does come, is near impossible imo but we will progress.

Rio F***in Ferdinand in the Team of The Year? I give up......

That is true. We won't turn into f****in Liverpool but it slows our transition period down. In the case of Falcao, Modric etc, I don't think ALL of the big players will come tempted by money. A few might view the PL as a step-up while others might be aiming for first-team football but I don't think ALL the big-name players can be tempted by money if we don't qualify for CL, we will be in the Thursday night freakshow again and that is worse because Thursday-Sunday is a lesser gap than Tuesday-Saturday or Wednesday-Sunday. Plus, EL is a bunch of meaningless games compared to CL. In the view of our players; Out in CL groups this year. No CL next year and some star players will be thinking of moving if we don't win anything next year as well - *cough**Eden Hazard**cough* I get your wider point. We won't slip down to midtable or anything but Fergie will be around 2-3 years and he'll be looking to keep winning league titles till then btw; ignore the conspiracy theory. I was clearly on something

Tbf Oscar's first touch was very frustrating.

It must kill the players. So near yet so far

This weekend makes up for last Sunday

Giggs misses. Damn it! That would've eased a lot of nerves

Cech was bored lol. No shot on target in the first half

Already finished Rubin!

Lampard showed our players that willingness is as important as talent. Great performance from him

Goal Number 201. One step closer to Bobby Tambling's record.

I will reply after the games. Wait for it

Not really. We will be in the Europa League and we cannot compete for the top players i.e Lewandowski etc. Our priorities will change to the likes of Willian

Offside ffs