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Mourinho to get sacked after the game. Signs as Chelsea manager tomorrow. Gus Poyet takes over at Madrid.

It's like there's a huge magnet inside of Courtois and a smaller one inside of the ball. How he leaps as far as he does i'll never understand.

GOLAZOOOO!!!! MIRANDA!!! SIGN HIM UP!!!! (I know if Falcao scored that there'd be 10 posts right now saying "That's why we should sign him, told you.")

So how is he a complete striker?

DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT SMOOTH PASS HE MADE IN THE 78TH MINUTE? I think that's proof enough that he could easily transform into the playmaker we need for midfield and then he can be used as a striker if we need it. 2 players in one. Let's sign him! It's sad he hasn't been 'creating his own chances' much tonight though. Why aren't you crossing into your own head, Falcao? Why?

Falcao makes 1 good assist = Instantly it's a speciality of his

PAY MORE ATTENTION TO MY JESE POST!! He is honestly like C. Ronaldo 2.0 only he's 3 inches shorter I believe. AND HES SPANISH!! So another friend for Mata Screw Ronaldo. He'll clearly always love United. But Jese? We could turn him blue I know it's unlikely as there's no recent reports linking us to him, but I'm positive we were heavily linked a season or 2 ago!!! He'll probably end up at Leverkusen as Schurrle's replacement however is my understanding.

Reports in Portugal are that he's agreed personal terms with Monaco.

C'MON ATLETICO. SEND MOURINHO PACKING!!

Instead of paying an obscene amount for Ronaldo, why not go for a player not being used properly by Madrid at all who actually offers a lot more than Ronaldo did at the same age? He'd also cost peanuts in comparison. Mourinho not using Jese is apparently a huge reason as to why fans turned their back on him. So maybe it wouldn't make sense if Jose is our next manager, but anyway:-

Seb isn't God. He's not the next Mourinho combined with SaF, with all respect to him. His view on Mikel is his opinion and shouldn't be passed around like it's fact. I remember him saying Torres was a key player, Ramires was one of our best passers and that Cahill would be a disastrous signing.

I can't describe how frustrated I'd be seeing him at Tottenham or Arsenal. I really can't. We're his boyhood club. At his young age he's already one of the Premier League's best full-backs. He is the only player in the world I want to see succeed Ashley Cole.

I feel like, despite being exclusively used on the wing as an inside forward, he'll never fulfil his potential unless he either works on his first-touch & passing and adapts to a second-striker role in a 4-4-2 sort of formation or works on his finishing and becomes a counter-attacking poacher type striker like the old Torres. Regardless, it may be a little difficult due to his height. That said, Messi's the same height as him.

Cech; Azpi, Luiz, Terry(?), Cole; Ramires, De Rossi/Benat(?); Hazard, Mata, Ronaldo; Cavani Oh and when Ronaldo or Hazard need a rest we can just bring on Di Maria/Schurrle while Oscar can rotate or cover for Mata and eventually (probably) take his starting place in a few years And if we want to rest Mata and Oscar vs. a cup team? Just chuck Mr. Over 200 goals on Excuse me for a moment while I clean up this sticky mess on my screen.

...but Hazard is better and brings more to the team

If Mourinho joined Barcelona and won them the Europa League and secured CL football for next season where they should be anyway I'm sure he'd get boo'd out the building, especially if he crashed out the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey to some team like Granada; our equivalent (of sorts) of crashing out of the League Cup this season, too. Now I'm not saying my opinion on him is formed due to that strong possibility; it's just an example, but yes. Still hate him.

hehehehehehehehe i feel like a young teenager discovering his first boner over this news. Ah, last week was good.

Obviously there'll be posters saying he's not good enough for Chelsea because... well, I don't know. Maybe because he's not built like Lukaku and starred in as many adverts as Ronaldo, but yes, he's one of the few proper wingers who play a consistent and high quality game these days. I'd take him. Then probably jizz all over my laptop.

"We won't use him." What, like Ake? Or we won't send him out on loan like Piazon, Chalobah or Lukaku? First of all, it's exaggerated how 'bad' we are with youth. Second of all, the club has to generate money. This is often done by signing young starlets and eventually making a profit on them or using them in a trade for a ready-made player. Would it be preferred by some on here if we stopped signing young players and just signed 40 year old wannabes to put in the reserve team? It's better to have a young talented player who could make it and could make us a profit in the long-run than to not have a talented player and thus zero chance of having a youngster breaking through and zero chance of making a profit this way. He's also a player the youth/reserve teams here at Chelsea need. A more direct version of Boga; A more talented version of Lalkovic. He'd improve the players around him and could be the difference between the youth team winning a trophy or not each season, which could have some say in whether the players get looked at by upper-management or not.

I must say, I think Gaitan is shit. I know it looked like an incredible flair performance from him, but his decision-making is awful. He seems to fail under pressure and his crosses are hit-and-miss. Bad finishing too. He actually reminds me of Robben only he drifts in central a lot more. . and isn't as good.

While Feruz has been missing chance after chance at youth level costing our team multiple games now with a huge part of the blame laying on his shoulders after the defeat to Norwich, Nathan Ake has stepped up to the senior team and impressed every time he's played. So I nominate Boga for Young Player Of The Year

Just did some research Apparently Roma fans are split. Some feel it's time to let him go so that Bradley/Florenzi etc. can start to flourish in their midfield as De Rossi is getting on in age (and has experienced a dip in form) and they need all the money they can get, while others feel that once they get in a stable manager he'll revert to his top midfielder status like Totti has been able to in his position. The guys saying they want him gone also add that he'll probably return to good form at another club. It's not really being said he's no longer a good player or anything. Also on numerous Italian websites, forums and the likes, it does indeed look like he will in fact be leaving; this isn't just a 'rumour'. This is a big concrete proposed transfer in my mind.

"But let's remember that we started to have a bad season even before he arrived." Despite the cups before the season properly got underway and the CL exit I thought our other cups and league campaign were going just fine. "3rd place, Europa League title." We're not even guaranteed 3rd place yet. "Made Torres look better, Made Luiz a world class midfielder AND defender (He wasn't defending well before)," What, helped him look better as in encouraged him to get a haircut? What? Luiz is far from world class in any position currently; he's too inconsistent. (He was defending well before. He simply defends a bit better now. Playing him in midfield was also no tactical genius considering how many fans have been calling for it since his arrival.) "Helped Lampard break the record." A complete fallacy. "Won us a very tough game. Everton and Stoke City away," And fucked up vs. the likes of Southampton and Reading. "He's done A BRILLIANT JOB." So it's gone from 'great' to 'brilliant'. . . for... what, guiding us to the 2nd-rate trophy in Europe? "Yea, He talked some shit about us, But it's from the past." Hitler did some bad things in the past. He shouldn't magically be forgiven or have his ways forgotten. (If you can't tell, I despise these Chelsea pages on Facebook which were started by people who became fans this year etc.)

Didn't Hilario, Blackman, Romeu and plenty players who weren't part of last night's action change into their kits too? This is only being made into a 'problem' because he is John Terry. If Scholes, Gerrard, Kompany or someone changed into their kit after not taking part you just know the opposition fans would be all "OMG HE LOVES THE CLUB, HE'D RATHER BE LIKE A FAN AND WEAR OUR CREST WHILE CELEBRATING THE WIN INSTEAD OF WEARING A FORMAL SUIT! ". This is nonsense.

Remember when people were saying Pirlo would be too old? Italians are like fine wine as they get better with age. De Rossi has never been a pace demon but still has the energy and determination he had as a youngster. That, plus his no-nonsense tackling, great interceptions + positioning and decent shooting from distance makes me question how anyone wouldn't want him here! He'd also bring experience, physical strength and a strong mental toughness to our squad which is desperately needed. He's also played very well in central defence for Italy as a ball-playing centre-back and has one of the world's best beards.