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yeah. Sinclair is another. both were great for swansea and borini is now in the italian squad i believe. shouldn't have let go of them easily.

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agree on that... as i said, i am not at all against this deal and coming to think of it, the Board may have thought about Todd Kane and Billy Clifford while choosing Maicon, if he does sign.

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Debuchy had a solid season at Lille and defended Young/Chamberlain with ease in a man of the match display against England. He has very good stamina and also is not an entirely attacking Rightback although he did supplement the French attack well. He is available at almost the same price as Maicon with presumably lesser wages than the 80k quoted for Maicon. Maicon is old and he will at best be a "Belletti" signing. So yes, Debuchy is Better in many ways than Maicon. edit: Also, Maicon has a shaky knee which has been surgically repaired more than once. he is no longer the maicon of 2009/10 when he was in the discussion of the best RB in the world

Assuming that we play Hazard on the left instead of Kalou, i don't think it will bring about much change in our play yet. we need more signings. frees up hazard as welll because otherwise, he will be expected to be creative(as in threading passes) And explosive with his pace and trickery.

maicon is not a bad deal at all but there are better-younger rightbacks for the same price of 6m and lesser wages- (debuchy).

yup. Explosive wingers and a Pirlo in the middle. Hulk - Modric/Moutinho/Cabaye - Debuchy would be perfect. if this was 2010 we would have signed Moses, Fellaini and Maicon but thankfully, despite our CL win, the board knows that the club is lacking in many departments. Also, Hulk on the back of a Chelsea shirt would be BOSS

Good luck to Villas Boas. Want him to do well but yet Spurs should be outside top 4. i think its a paradox in itself

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the voting reflects harshly on the other candidates. LDN deserves the job but the others are worthy too. 20 vote difference is not reflecting the true story

fair enough. good article u should write more. this place needs articles more than anything else

good roundup of the chelsea representatives at the euros But

with Arsenal. 2005. very good pen tbh

even with a good scouting system in place, we will go for expensive heralded players rather than cisse, cabaye , tiote. there should be a shift of policy from the board

i'm surprised tbh. cole should have expected buffon to go that way. he took a fantastic pen in the fa cup final against manunited. high and towards the Keeper's right with a kinda david luiz run-up. should have practiced that and done it yesterday

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no. i dont have an informed opinion of him. don't really watch bilbao much but have seen him a couple of times.he's combative and creative but cabaye's technical ability and his performances in the premier league swing it for me.

The chelsea scouting team maybe shit But you would need to be God to pick out unheralded talent like that. by your point, we should be signing the likes of Junior Hoilett. your logic is wrong though you have a point. we should indeed be looking at Cabaye, Debuchy etc but we need TOP quality in one or two positions and for that we have to pay,mate

Torres Hazard Mata Hulk Ramires Romeu Now that's team may become a devastating attacking force

would prefer Ramires as a B2B than Romeu. added attacking option plus his stamina enables him to get back and defend. our very own yaya toure. Torres Hazard Mata Hulk Ramires Lampard Shit just got real

let's all cover up that tactical discussion with some Hulk related posts. We don't want BlueLion to try out his new Ban system now Hulk is a no-brainer . i can understand some people having reservations over Hulk's price but whom would they have ahead of Hulk? Johnson? Krasic? Hell NO

we'd need a creative mid in addition to Hulk

, for the record I will say exactly what i wanted to say and what a lot of people misinterpreted #smallclubmentality - i meant last Season when we didnt attack against Benfica, Spurs and Liverpool as well. Also #smashingsmall clubs - yes we should play ATTACKING players against small teams - (i consider liverpool, newcastle, arsenal as small teams)

as i said, barca-real-bayern i.e the big teams. you can loosely add the top 2 english teams to that as well agree with the zero creativity. we need to play better passing football and retain the ball better. personally, i want di matteo to change this system where he keeps 6 players in defensive positions. as kof said, we have to be dynamic next season. Hulk gives us that extra attacking weapon we need but i would rather pick Ramires on the flank for a game against big opponents with world class wingers