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QPR Home although i am pretty sure our opening weekend luck will run out this year (birmingham, pompey, hull, westbrom, stoke). i am expecting everton away

i smell conspiracy

he's the perfect fit. creative and deep lying with a stinging right foot

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its true. pepsi advert

Long overdue but

u didnt get the memo?

agree with your hypothesis. but keep in mind that robbie played deep and tried to launch quick counters at the end of the season. it didn't work out with kalouda on the wings but i think the tactic will be tried out again with hazard and hulk atleast against a big team when we have to soak up pressure. that way, torres' runs will be useful but he has to improve his finishing. he should go for the kill rather than try looping buffon or going around buffon. he expected torres to take it round the out side on that one occasion

u didn't get a permanent ban. you got banned for a week to cool off now before u start typing a racist response,note that i did not insult you in anyway

he had a pretty poor season. europe may overrate him but the dutch know exactly how good he is and they are not impressed. would love to see us ignore vdw tbh

"Robbie has been offered the one year deal at chelsea and has taken it" - Jason Cundy #CFC #Chelsea

the dynamism of the new chelsea side will be built around our new signings. personally i would have preferred hulk Or hazard and moutinho or cabaye but given that we are signing both, i think the gameplay has to be tweaked to their strengths. now, assuming we dont sign a deep creative midfielder, mata operating at CAM will be the one pulling the strings. given that he is one of our 4 attackers (hulk hazard and the striker being the others), he will end up with just 3 options in front of him. i think we should play ramires alongside Lampard to give us more bodies in attack without compromising the defence.

for now i would be okay with adding a backup CB rather than a first-choice CB. i think the club sees luiz and cahill as our first choice central pairing down the line with bruma and kalas as backups to them. also, chalobah as the 5th choice. dont think we need CB's given kalas has been immense at vitesse and if bruma comes good next season. maybe a stop-gap backup for this season would be needed if there is an injury crisis but i am fine with adding an RB so that ivanovic can move to CB if necessary

as mentioned already, it depends on the person. an english fan may probably not think too much of the euros but ireland is buzzing about the euros right now. maybe if england were a bit more successful in the past, things would be different

i'm an indian. so i would put a world cup win over a CL win for the sheer comedy of it

i feel that by december we will be wishing that we had signed a creative midfielder in the summer

Lampard may have been CAM in the christmas tree/diamond formation that ancelotti had employed but ever since the sunderland(?) game i think in january 2010 he has played in a deeper role at CM. he continued making forward runs until this season when he converted into a deeper midfield role the point is with juan mata - CAM since december 2011, lampard, benayoun, kdb, hazard - cam for belgium and for lille often enough - all capable of playing CAM we dont need another CAM let alone a foreign converted one. you have an opinion - voice it, mate. don't get worked up about every post

this is turning into a frank lampard discussion to get back on topic,if we are in the market for a backup attacker, i think having someone with prem league experience like dembele or moses is better than getting an expensive foreign talent like jovetic at the moment

while it is true that we need a genuine back up to mata, i think kdb will fit just fine for now. in the event that he is sent out on loan, hazard and lampard are more than capable of givin mata cover. stefan jovetic is really a luxury atm.

Gregory van der wiel. enough said

where would you have him go? newcastle, shalke or somewhere else?

i think they are letting go of both salomon kalou has worked his ass off everytime he has been in a blue shirt. its true he makes stupid errors sometimes like valencia away but i dont fault him for the hardwork he puts in. he has chipped in with 60 goals as well but he was always a back up and nothing more than that. he isn't great with the ball and breaks up promising counters with bad passes or his hopeless shooting but at the end of it all, i wish him the best wherever he ends up. always puts in 110%

lacks creativity tbh. a kagawa or a modric instead of raul would have been perfect. now the onus is on mata to find the attackers but the problems he is an attacking position himself. this will force him to drop deep more often and we end up with only 3 genuine attackers 2 of whom will be on the wings and only one through the centre. i hope our attacks are predominantly through the centre next season as dumping in from defenders wont work without drogba

frank will be the first choice for this season atleast. whether we like it or not. so i would prefer ramires over mikel alongside him because that way we get a different dimension to our attack and an extra option for mata to pick out while at the same time, he has the stamina and pace to recover. de bruyne should be incorporated into the first team this season and from 2013 or 14 he can become the first choice if he can prove his worth

we need another forward - backup. an attacker who plays different positions eg - dembele, moses, hoilett. next season will be hectic as hell and backups will be needed and they should be better than kalouda .. de bruyne will plug the benayoun position, marin will be backup to hazard on the left. we need another player who will play forward and wing . that way lukaku can be sent on loan. lukaku on loan for a season and he will be ready i think for the 2013-14 season and this backup winger will fill the sturridge role freeing sturridge up to be played at his favored ST role and we do need a modric-esque player in the midfield. maybe de bruyne will fit that role but our next signing should either be cabaye/moutinho or dembele/moses