Chelsea Legend 11

If things come together as well as it can, I think we've assembled the most complete squad front to back... Whether its Cech or Courtois we're sorted. Back 4 of Terry, Cahill, Luis, Azpi and Ivanovic. Anchors in Matic, Romeu and Mikel(he's very good at slowing the pace of a game) B2B in Van Ginkel and Ramires Playmaker from deep in Fab... Incredible attacking options in Hazard, Willian, Schurrle Oscar Complete striker in Costa Target man in Drogba Change of pace in Torres or Lukaku. I can't think of a more complete squad in Europe if things come together as they should.

I think he's making a bid to stay. Who do you mark if your Arsenal in a set piece situation? JT, Brana, Cahill, Costa, Drogba, Matic, Zouma with Cesc on the delivery? my word. This is gonna be a fun year and the club will be wise to allow him to stay and learn from JT. Positioning seems to be his weakness right now.

Better question is why are you reading Goal.com?

Pretty much what I said in my post. Striker needs to score goals though... He needs to make amends for that miss soon, we have options now.

The two a days may have had an affect on him. He looked much better today

Wow... Loan him to Scunthorpe.

The pieces were there but didn't have any glue. NOW we have a squad capable of winning everything! And guess what Real Madrid? We haven't spent near a half billion in the last couple years to do it!

So direct and accurate too. I can't remember the last time we had a distributor who could pick passes from range first time. The fact that I was in awe of Luiz when he hit a few speaks volumes. Proper footballer and Jose has obviously drilled him to get it forward quickly.

More like it. -Cesc is fucking class! No nonsense, direct football. Love the early ball over the top and the understanding that Costa already has with him. This is going to be a fun year... -Costa is a beast! We have a footballer who can use the ball and an assassin in front of goal again. Love that he gets on the half turn and looks to get in behind the defenders. -Zouma had an incredible game. Looked a lot more confident and composed... Still needs to work on his positioning but on another day could've had a hat trick. -Chalobah showed some nice quality on the ball and also broke things up a bit. Be interesting to see what we do with him this year. -Ake probably played his best game as left back both defending and going forward. If he can build on that performance he could be a decent option as a squad guy because he can already play a few positions. -Salah had a couple plays but aside from a couple moves he was poor. Really need to see more from him, he's played an awful lot and hasn't really impressed. When the big boys come back he's gonna get buried. -Torres didn't look too bad playing up top with Costa, he started well and linked up nicely a couple times. If he doesn't score next game he's in trouble... That was an awful miss, you'd have to really try hard for that not to go in... Having seen the presence and impact Cesc and Costa have on the XI I'm so looking forward to the start of the season! And Didier's back too!

Kurt Zouma having a fantastic game this time out.

Yes Lukaku scores goals but he's not proper Chels, he's a little cry baby.

My point is he scores goals.

He scores goals.

This is gonna be a fantastic year.

I never understood why people think the shape needs to be ridged. "oh looks like 3-5-2 now Azpi and Luis look to be getting forward at times." LOL people move around the pitch its part of the game!

Of course but our set formation is still 4-2-3-1. Everyone expected that to change and for Oscar to play next to Matic even though all last year when we played 4-3-3 Oscar never played

Big news today is Fab playing in the pivot. I'm not surprised but I know many were saying we'd be switching back to 4-3-3.... Not so much. As I said before too much investment has been made for us to switch back to 4-3-3.

Fernando Torres has 683 pages I guarantee no one would care if he left either.

Who cares... So long as its for a decent fee he won't be missed. We'll just buy someone else.

GIve me Benteke over Lukaku...

Hilarious. For those of you who keep making the ridiculous comment that if we lose Costa for a stretch of time we're screwed, how does having Lukaku make that less of an issue? He's not exactly the type of guy that can win games for us on his own. If we lose our no.1 striker we don't have anyone in the ranks who can power us to the title whether its Lukaku, Torres or Drogba.

I think a few of you forget how poor he was when given the chance! Did next to nothing against seriously weak opposition. Swindon???

Oh ya, Mata and match fitness.... LOL. After signing with Chelsea how long did it take for Willian to make his debut? De Bruyne was given loads of chances and didn't take any of them... He started against a shit team like Swindon and was invisible, played again against Arsenal and was even more disappointing. I don't know what you guys want do you want to win or play give guys million chances to play just so you can say you were right about them when the ball deflects off their chin into an empty net in a 3-0 game? You need to take the opportunities that are presented to you, this isn't a midtable club who don't have 100's of options waiting for a chance to prove themselves.

And I'm not convinced Lukaku is Chelsea quality anyway. The way we want to play doesn't play to his strengths

You think its Jose I think its Lukaku... Stalemate reached. Nothing in life should be guaranteed you need to fight for your position, if Lukaku is unwilling to fight with a terrible Torres and a 36yr old Drogba for second fiddle then I don't want him at the club anyway. Need to have more self belief than that.