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This. His last words were down the line of him and his agent would see what is best for him. He might of sounded to big for his boots but he basically was saying he feels he is capable of scoring goals and starting and fighting for honours. He never exactly said he is not going to play for a team if he is not made the undisputed striker. So much criticsm of him but I guess we will know more this upcoming week. If he comes out with the news that he is willing to fight for his place I think regardless of previous comments all Chelsea fans would appreciate that.

I still don't think MVG is ready for the first team yet. I would compare him to Baker and say what does he do that is actually better than Baker? They play same position albeit that Baker does more. Creative, two-footed, versatile. Goal threat and good with set peices. John Swift is a better dribbler of the ball than MVG, faster, more stamina, very strong, goal threat and also versatile. MVG is coming back from an injury but what I have seen of him, he has not shown me is any different from the likes of Mceachran. Nice tidy play, both deep-lying playmakers but not much else to their game. But I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he has not had a full season and he still needs to be observed.

He is extremely open to a move to Everton apparently. Dharmesh said that while Everton enquired about Lukaku and which I assumed they were told he wants to return or we want him back, talks turned to Atsu and he is very open to the idea of staying in England and particularly is open about going to Everton. I like how they use their loanees tbh so would welcome this loan for him.

Dharmesh who does the transfer round up on skysports and is very reliable just said that reports of Lukaku joing Everton on a permanent transfer is not true. He is currently on holiday with his girlfriend and will return for pre-season traning on monday and has claimed he wants to stay and fight for his place. I hope this is true.

Boga always looks like making something happen when he receives the ball. Hope he has an injury-free season to show what he is capable of.

Boga is the one starting. Not Baker. But who just saw Akinfenwa Bloody hell

OK. I agree with the fact he wants to leave and why I think it would be a bad idea selling him I also see the other hand if he wants to leave and we want to get a lot of money before his value decreases but I don't agree with statements such as he "made a bitch move by quitting". Like yeah he could have stayed but he is ambitious and wanted to be starting every week. I just say that is a player who is eager to play football. I won't call him a coward or a bitch for that reason but yeah I agree if he stayed he probably would have got a lot of starts last season due to the inconsistencies of our strikers. I mean look at pastures new. I know Mourinho would rather players who want to stay here but for the benefit of the club and perhaps even player I would rather Mourinho just come out and state he wants him as part of our squad next seson and he sees him playing a key role. That is the vote of confidence he needs. It might initially annoy him but once he realises he is playing for a team competing for major honours he might just acknowledge the position he is at. I can't say for sure but some sources like the one I seen on this thread earlier state Lukaku never received any sort of call during his loan spell. He feels a bit outcasted imo not just because he feels he won't be no.1 but also because he is not feeling like he is wanted. As much as he talks to the media we should remember that he is still a young boy. I would rather a solution where we state he is staying. He will get his games this season and once the season finishes he might just reflect that he is not always a starter but he is getting games at one of the best teams in Europe. If he gets a vot of confidence as explained above I think that would be best for all parties concerned because we are in a position where with out current strikers, we don't need to look for another one imo. But that all changes once Lukaku leaves and what I think Lukaku, fans and the board need to realise all together is that even if he is not undisputed striker for the next season or 2 I still think he remains the future of this club.

He should be 2nd choice standard. He has earned that chance at least. It is ridiculous to say otherwise. We keep going back and forwards with this "he got a chance" and "he never got a chance" thing but simple thing is he scored goals again last season and now we have Costa, Lukaku should be 2nd choice striker. Simple. Why shouldnt he be second choice striker? He is better than Torres and proved he is capable of scoring goals. Costa as our no.1 striker and Lukaku as no.2 would be excellent. Also I will make my point firm on this. You say he asked to leave. I say Mourinho let him leave. He is the manager and he made the decision. Mourinho is manager end of the day right?

Is he no.2 though? He should be or is he going to have to wait for Torres to falter again. He is better than Torres and was coming into the start of last season. Costa is going to be the undisputed striker. He will be subbed some games when he looks tired and for cup games and might start the odd league games but think about it if Costa is ever rotated or subbed there is Torres. We saw what happened when Torres and Lukaku were in the same squad last season. Torres started 2 and Lukaku none and that was with us not knowing who our best striker is. Costa is here now and Torres. People seem to think it is guaranteed he is 2nd choice stiker. He should be but will he? Maybe not because there is still Torres

TBH while it was speculated I don't think Mandzukic was ever going to come here realistically unless it was as a last resort. He would have gone to a team which offered him guaranteed first team football which Atletico eventually did. If he came here he would of found himself in the same predicament he did at Bayern with Lewandowski coming in.

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If Drogba coming means getting rid of Lukaku that is ridiculous. Drogba won everything he needed to here and we should be building on with the future which I hope Lukaku is part of.

But offensively we were limited because Cole lost his legs and Azpi is not a natural LB and with him being right footed we were not as fluid attacking down the flanks.

Don't take this offensively but some people need to chill out a little. Some seem to think that a thrashing against Wycombe merits a first team place. It does not. Wycombe are a league 2 club who just about escaped relegation to the conference last season. We should be beating these teams. Nice for the youngsters to experience competitive action against physical players and 'professional' players but that does not indicate anything. Brown will not likely make an apperance for the first team this season unless he is extremely lucky or has very exceptional form. He is likely to be strictly with the U21 next season while playing in the youth cup as well. Bamford has done very well in his loans and would be a better 3rd choice option but I would rather him go and play regular football every week. Think it would do him good and also because we want to win the league this season and looks like Torres will be staying and possibly Lukaku he probably will be loaned again. If Lukaku leaves we likely will look to sign another striker. Brown scoring was very good for him. His second goal was exceptional but talk about him being part of the first team squad next season is ludicrous. He is not ready yet. If Solanke scores 2 against Wimbledon are we going to start saying he should be 3rd choice striker? I really hope not.

Cahill as to be there. Ivanovic should not be considered as an alternative. IMO he is the best CB at the club. Him and Terry are undisputed starters. MVG looks a good prospect and would be good to see him given some games but he is not going to be a starter. Definitely not imo. Needs to work his way through the cup games and then we can see if he can force his way into the first team. MVG has not done anything awful but he has not exactly shown anything remarkable. He is not good enough to be a guaranteed starter just yet.

As much as it may annoy people I really think people are forgetting that if the midfield stays how it is and there is no new additions, Ramires will start quite often. Especially if we play with a 4-3-3. If it is 4-2-3-1 he will be a sub some games but if we are going 4-3-3 he will often play alongside Fabregas. He really excels in a 4-3-3 btw and think he would do well there. Can see Mourinho doing this often.

I remember when the reserves had a match against Fulham a couple seasons ago and he was playing aged 15 and think it was his reserved debut. He was playing with the likes of Lukaku in a game we won 3-2 and he was the best player on the pitch. He played without no fear and so much flair (yes that rhymes ) and excelled in that no.10 role. Reading up more info of that particular game, it turns out that not only was it his U21/reserve team debut but amazingly he had no U18 football to his name at the current time which shows how much faith the reserve team manager had in him and trusted him to make the step up. Also scored a first half hatrick for the under 18s last season against Arsenal. Just look at that remarkable assist for Reece Mitchell at around 2:16

He is training and playing with the U21s.

I really don't see how claiming Koscielny is the best CB in the league is outrageous. He was brilliant last season. He could have easily got into the PL team of the season and probably got into other people's teams of the seasons. What you have to remember when Arsenal got battered by us 6-0, Liverpool 5-1, Man City 6-3 etc, it is easy to say he is not a world class CB but the simple reason is that there midfield gets overpowered and outrunned all the time in these big games. His main weakness is that he gives away penalties quite often but apart from that he is one of the fastest CB in the league, maybe the fastest, has a brilliant leap and he pretty much excels at everything else. People who reckon it is a laughable claim to assume he is an excellent CB are watching the Koscielny of his first season. I know it is just an opinion but even Micah Richards last season claimed that Koscielny had been the best CB in the league last season and that came from a non- Arsenal player. Him and Cahill are pretty similar. Same playing style but I would not take anyone over Cahill because like Koscielny he has came on leaps and bounds here and is arguably the best CB in the league himself judging on his performances. It is laughable that Kompany even got in team of the year. Should have been Cahill and Koscielny imo. Arteta does the job in games against much inferior teams but against the big teams he does not work hence why I think if they sign Khedira it will improve there physical aspect against the 'big teams'. He is also a much better all rounded better player than Arteta.

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Boga is quality. I reckon he is one of the best teenage talents coming through and would be devastated to see talents such as him wasted. This is not just some knee-jerk reaction based on the game against Wycombe. This is from watching him over the last couple years and he always has stood out for me. A joy to watch. He plays exactly like Hazard and has the physical qualities as well. Hope he makes it here. Very level-headed from what I hear to.

Jay Da Silva on Really talented player. Versatile at LB and LW. Very dimunitive but really special talent.

He is perfectly fit. He is training and playing with U21s. Guess Mourinho feels he has too many CM at his disposal for this pre-season. Shame about him though. Thought he would have been a definite. He played our U21 game against Sutton United on saturday. That will be his group for the summer.

Already envisaging the link up play between Luis and Hazard

I seriously, seriously hope you will be made to eat your words. Despite his flaws I seriously reckon he will be unstoppable in a few years and reckon his sheer pace and power will help him. I reckon people are being quite oblivious if they think he won't improve. He is 21 and training every day. With time he will work on his flaws whilst improving on his strengths. I can almost guarantee that he will be scoring goals galore in a few years. He is really going to prove people wrong.