BlueLyon

Cant agree more. We have 23 players, but half of them is missing something vital to our team. Rambo has energy but lacks touch, Mikel has strenght but lacks pace and stamina, Mazacar has creatuvity, but lacks balance, finishing and game-changing decisions, we have no striker,... Our DM should be both fast and skilled in defending, but we have to play with two DMs to do that (Rambo and Mikel). And there is no space for a creative CM in double pivot. We should play with wingers and some strenght and crossing in middle to powerful striker. Personaly, despite how great Oscar signing was, he is not the kind of player we needed (CM or winger). Board should stop looking after talented young players, but after players we NEED. With long term manager with full support and trust, we would have much better team now.

If he would play lot, I dont see why would this stall his progress if he returns from loan in january. If he wont play enough, I dont see why would we recall him in first place.,,

Fantastic game from us, but I think Torres is slowing us down as a team...

Shaarawy scored two more goals yesterday vs Catania, now already at 12 goals in Serie A. What a player at 20 yrs old only, right now best in form striker along Ibra, RVP and Falcao.

Wilshere for CM would be absolutely epic signing. English, young, versatile, PL proven. Great deep lying playmaker and could become leader in few years. But unless we offer 40-50mio for him, I dont see it happening...

We will lose 3:0. That said, at least I cant be dissapointed again. We transition and I can understand why such results, you didnt thought we will be winning all time with such young team?

Personaly I would go after better player, but if we get him and he turns great, I will be even more happy. But the risk is huge and he is not decently proven scorer even in Ukraine...

BALAZS DZSUDZSZAK Surprised no one mentioned him. 25 years old, proven long shot scorer and crosser. Had bad season at anzhi, but is fantastic now in Dinamo Moscow. Very versatile, can play both sides on wings or as LM/RM. For 14mio I would take him imediately. We lack of crossing specialist and player that can shot from distance. Him or Reus would be perfect. Add scorer like Cavani or Jovetic and our attack is fixed.

Romeu is some talent, but just because he is playing for us, he is not good enough. Once he will shine and you will eat your words, I just hope he stays at this club...

German Messi Seriously, Marin has some skill/style similar to Messi, but he is not as efficient. With enough games, he could turn in very fine player.

Lets be honest, with all the striker problems, Mata, Hazard and Oscar are not doing the job now. Simple as that. They are trying, but are useless at the moment. But Torres is shit too, I cant wait till january...

Sometimes I think of how good will this players be in next 6 years or so. This guy could be next Messi in 2018 or just a forgotten talent... Right now, I heard for him the first time, but in couple of years, it could become name that we will hear all the time. How fast the time goes and how everything changes...

If we play Oscar in CM, I would love to see a winger in attacking trio, rather than another lightweight CAM. Bale or Sanchez would be awesome, they can offer big speed and Bale tracks back too. Bale-Hazard-Mata Oscar-Mikel/Romeu Or maybe even Jovetic/Fellaini. But another small playmaker is not what we need now. Another option is Kdb, dont forget him. He looks stronger player than Mazacar trio, could operate well in CM position, but maybe its too deep for him. Hopefuly, we try 4:3:3 too eventualy with Mikel as DM, Rambo and Oscar as CMs and Hazard/Mata as wingers. Marin, Kdb, Romeu would be enough for rotation along new CM/winger.

Lulic seems like very good versatile player and perfect for rotation. But definately not a starter, at least not yet.

We are fourth now and we need victory. I expect tight win, but Rafa is known to lose points against 'smaller' teams. Everything is open, but win is MUST if we want to keep fight for top places. It would give us some boost and confidence. Its realy 50:50, but I just cant see another draw or defeat...

The perfect double pivot should be something like De Rossi-Modric (just example) De Rossi as classic DM with great positioning, strenght, tacklink, movement, marking and more defensive style. Very reliable and experienced. Good ball control, shots on goal, long passing, even vision. Modric as more creative, DPL. With better passing, going forward and linking midfield with attack. Still decent at tackling and positioning. --- What we have is energy (Rambo) and strenght (Mikel). I guess we stucked with them, but there should be more creativity indeed.

With Barca B (or just LaMassia) success isnt only because of their talent, philosophy or training, but also the fact that they play in Segunda division. Like Chelsea B would play in Championship. I bet we would have 2 new promoted players from youth team every year. But now in England, you cant gain experience as you do in Spain. FA should make something similar, it works.

LOL Rafa said that Torres is bad because of lack of service. Cant.Believe.This.Shit.

Some players dive because they are sick of opponent defenders who use only strenght to stop them. Ref considers not to give a foul, despite defender made foul almost 10 times, but ref thought it was not. And the lightweight dribblers depend on speed and fancy dribbling. If their opponent plays too harsh against them so that he cant play his normal game, he will dive and defender will get yellow card and from then on he will be more carefull and try to take the ball from dribbler in fair way, not by bullying. Something similar is doing Neymar. But Suarez is diving with purpose to get penalty, or opponent a red card. That is disguisting!

Yes, but Scholes or Giggs did for United. The point is that I dont understand why would mean Lampard more to play in USA in shit league, rather to stay here in Chelsea with legends and still play cup games, etc. Because of MONEY? He wont have major role in any bigger club, as he is too old. And he has enough of money. We can give him some other job after he retires.

We have some big issues, that need to be fixed eventualy. As team in transition, some people expect too much from our team in this or next season. Transition period lasts few years to fully repair problems and makes perfect harmony in the team. Real, for example tried to fix their problems too quick and they still lack of many things to be succesfull for several years, despite their La liga last year. This year, they are very bad. Not just Ronaldo, but team as whole, the midfield, the idea of play and Mou have several issues. We should take step by step slowly and not rush. Sure, we wont win PL or CL right this or next year, but eventualy we could become team that will be on top level for 10 years, like Barca. Right now, we have lots of problems that should be fixed in 2-3 years, not in one year. Im ready to wait couple of less successul seasons and then see Chelsea with new style, manager that we trust, soul, trust of fans, respect from others and understanding between players. That is most important. Trophies come along by themselves if we achieve all this. 1.) Team needs to gel together. That takes few years, players need to understand each other and know their roles. 2.) Coach that will stay for 3 seasons at least. This will give us proper formation, style of play and players that will be required. 3.) Striker issues. Bringing new striker is obvious. 4.) Fixing defensive errors. It doesnt mean we need to buy new defenders, but to fix current ones and give them proper roles and teach them what exactly to do. 5.) Some creativity in midfield. By buying new CM or try KDB/Mceachran there. 6.) Strenghten our attacking midfield. Our trio looks very unbalanced and lightweight. Buying strong attacking midfielder/winger or making Oscar, Mata and Hazard more balanced (like barca did with Xavi, Iniesta, Villa,...) 7.) Expand our sub-team for better rotation. Including CB, CM and another striker/winger. That will keep us strong when there will be injuries or first team players will be tired. To make good enviroment, subs should play enough time. 8.) Getting new backup GK. Either that will be Cech with Courtois eventualy becoming first choice or we buy someone like Helton (experienced and still in good form, ready to be back-up) 9.) Be patient enough to except our team wont be super great next two years, but what comes then will be well worthy of waiting. RA and fans should both understand that. 10.) Give youngsters chance, we dont need to buy all the players we need, but simply take them from academy (like Feruz, Lukaku, Piazon, Josh, kalas, Chalobah,...) 11.) keep our team balanced with experience-talent. Both should be there, one for future and other to win you games now. There we go, if we complete this problems, we should turn into world class and respected club that anyone would be afraid.

I understand this are becomming ''unusefull'' people to us, but they are also legends at same time. Lamps, Drogba, Di Matteo should all end different, despite they became to ''small'' to our club (by Roman's opinion). Drogba should retire here, but he decided to play couple of more years, cant blame him, he left with huge respect from both sides. But Lamps should definately retire here, as he is greatest player to play for our club. No doubt. I understand that club wont paying him that much for second tier games from now on, but Lamps (if he realy loves our club) should accept lower payment and stay here for rest of his carrer. If he puts money ahead of staying with club, I just dont understand and cant accept. He only played for us then, but he doesnt care much anymore about us too if he cant accept smaller fee to stay here. I mean, he can still go live in America later or anywhere else. The point is to remain loyal. That is what it counts. And club shouldnt pay him more for that just to stay here. No one is bigger than club. And Di Mattteo, well he should definately stay here until end of season and win CWC and maybe FA/Capital cup. I doubt he could win the PL or CL again. He did more than enough to at least finish one season and leave in big style, like at home stadium with fans cheering etc. Not with a defeat and the next day; ''you'r fired!''. The last bad games werent that bad to end his job. We are in transition and we were doing just fine. That game vs Napoli (at home), I felt the soul of our club for first time and something magical happend. Players were cheering, we had manager with passion and love to our club and fans were singing like never before. Stadium was full of magical energy. Afterall even Real are doing bad recently and they have much bigger goals to achieve, but they didnt sack Mou. For fuck sake, Rdm should stay here till end of season, even if we played in europa league or finish ''only 3rd'' in PL. And for those who are happy with sacking because of bad results, YOU DONT SAY THANK YOU LIKE THAT TO A MANAGER WHO WON US FIRST CL TROPHY. Anyway good luck RDM and thanks for the trophies and great moments.

Yes, but its still different feeling than scoring a lovely goal, as Falcao usualy does. From the gameplay, Falcao didnt score about last 5 matches now i think...

He scored a penalty though...

I would go after Cavani then...