Leif

Oscar has the most tackles on the pitch. Once again showing he'll be better than Zidane

Catenaccio

We can't sell Luiz.

I love Gus Poyet when he's a pundit for our games

Goals, or lack of, from a player who isn't a team's primary goalscorer shouldn't be used to determine whether he showed up or not. Work rate. tackling, key passes and the like are all to do with turning up though, and were all usually brought to the table vs. Bayern by Schurrle. Idk if that makes sense, I'm kinda high.

Definitely a game for Schurrle IMO. He's usually turned up vs. Bayern.

Think it'll be Mangala.

We've rejected a loan offer from Ajax. Confirmed by Marc Overmars.

Tablet & Whisky is the best combo at night when you've got a sweet tooth. Those are the 2 best things to come out of Scotland, aside from Pat Nevin

We're gonna win the trophy again. I can feel it in my balls.

Gonna try go to the game vs. Steaua Bucharest. Refuse to be out-sung by them again.

I think our group will end up in the order the teams were picked.

Fuck sake, wanted Celtic more than anything.

I think Leverkusen will do damage to Man United personally! Son has settled in great over there. They're a good team. Very strong and very good on the counter attack. They're basically the team we once were only with slightly lesser players. As for Basel, they've lost all their best players pretty much. They're no longer those giant killers...are they?

Schalke have conceded more than double the amount of goals they've scored this season. The manager is an absolute mess and Huntelaar is out for the foreseeable future due to injury. Hoger is like how Essien was for us before his Madrid loan and Draxler's form has fizzled out for now. Farfan is inconsistent, but he and Clemens should be their only decent attack outlets vs. us. I already have an image in my head of Ivanovic making Draxler cry.

I love this from his interview. So confident and what we need: Today is the Champions League draw. As a multiple winner, you must be excited at that? Eto'o: No. It doesn't matter what teams you are drawn against, big or small, you have to give them the correct level of respect to achieve the right results.

Ron Gourlay: 'Juan Mata is not for sale. David Luiz is not for sale - we have not had a bid.'

Since Eto'o's officially signed now and already has pre-season behind him obviously, would a flight to Prague to take part in this match be too much too soon? Or is that plausible? I guess with Jose anything's possible . I just really think we'd win if Eto'o started and I really don't want us to have to win the Champions League again to have a shot at getting this trophy.

How the hell does Eto'o end up with less followers on Twitter than Benayoun? 10 times less to be (almost) exact?

Hopefully he goes to Roma. Lazio are about to sign Yilmaz so buying Ba would somewhat even that potential mind-game out (which is obviously a huge part of their alleged interest in him.) I think he'd end up with around 20 goals this season in Italy. Don't see him recapturing form in the Premier League.

His wages are less than whatever Falcao, Cavani or Rooney would have demanded. He's come as a free transfer(?). This is Samuel F'ing Eto'o. Even on a 1-year contract I think this will be one of our most important ever signings. He's going to kick off the re-revolution of Mourinho's era here. He'll leave a legend after only 1 season I believe, just like Drogba did at Marseille.

I love the fact that pretty much every modern world-class African player can say they've played for us now. Like Arsenal have their link with French players, I think we'll always have this link with African players. Drogba, Eto'o, Weah, Essien, Kalou That's impressive.

How many strikers get the chance to be tutored by Drogba and Eto'o? That's crazy! Lukaku you lucky guy.

People outside and away from Chelsea (even some, but very few, people on here) thought Kagawa would be a 'gem' and offer as much as Hazard or even more for much less price. The same people thought Holtby would end up being a bargain who'd quickly outshine Oscar and that we should have been looking at that deal instead. When we signed Azpilicueta, there was an outrage from so many of our fans that we didn't get Maicon who had a below-average Premier League stunt with City. I know it's early days, but during pre-season and the few weeks the Premier League has been back, I've seen nothing from Fernandinho, even Paulinho (although he has been better than City's new midfielder) etc. to suggest they were the sort of players we should have gone for to fill our central midfield. Ramires is completely outshining both of them. In fact, I'd say he's been the best central midfielder so far this season. Look at the first 2 players, Kagawa and Holtby, now. Being linked away with loan moves today while Hazard & Oscar continue to be 2 of the best players in Europe. Maicon has now gone from City bench-warmer to Roma aka 'Europa League place' hopefuls. The board seem to know what they're doing (finally ). I trust them and Jose completely with this transfer. We continue to sign and play proper top calibre players while our rivals are typically signing overrated players (like the ones i listed) and ones who never fulfilled their potential; Navas, Negredo, Flamini :lol2: Sometimes you just have to sign an ageing geezer full of experience who still has his shooting boots on while your rivals sign deadwood; like United did when they signed Van Persie and their rivals went for Ba, Marin, Sinclair, Giroud etc. That one signing in Van Persie completely lifted them above their rivals despite United not strengthening anywhere else really. Eto'o will do the same for us.

Willian kinda reminds me of Malouda during that freak season Malouda had.