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Torres has scored a hatrick for us btw, credit due when deserved

As in more agile and ability to move well with the ball etc

Hardly a replacement lol. Not a striker as well. They still will buy another striker to replace Cavani.

They really ran us close that game. Should not take anything for granted.

Well we have bought Andre Schurrle for a start.

Mikel

Him going to Liverpool on loan has to be some kind of April fools but we are not in April. Not going to happen. Will not get in their team as he is not better than Sterling, Coutinho, Downing, Borini ... They also have Aissaidi who may be loaned out but again why would they loan him out then loan in Piazon? Does not make sense. BR would laugh at this rumour I am sure. Piazon needs a loan where he is going to get regular starts, whether that be the Championship, then so be it but this move is totally unrealsitic. BR would not block the path of Ibe by bringing in Piazon and as Tomo said, they have far too much pride to loan a teenager from us.

Not taking sides but the amount of people who are stating what a fan is etc etc, TOPTB does not disagree. A bit of a misunderstanding. Both useful members/mods however you say. Let's just lock the thread and move on!

His nose is nearly as big as her face

I was watching ESPN Press Pass and they stated what Mourinho had said. Can't remember if they used a source however if they were to publish false quotes from a manager which was not true, they could have legal action taken against them. He definitely said it. If you type in, there are a few sources.

Yes, he did. Mourinho is fully quoted saying this. Do your research.

On his reported interest of KPB, Mourinho said "we want football players, not fashion models. Last year he had more hairstyles than goals".

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8768815/Transfer-news-Partizan-Belgrade-claim-Lazar-Markovic-belongs-to-Chelsea So signing for us and going on loan to Benfica for 2 years. Interesting...

Just reading over some of the comments on skysports about Lukaku confirming he is going to be with us next season. These two stand out and represent the true potential of him fully IMO: "Lukaku deserves his chance at Chelsea; as a West Brom fan, I saw him run rings around defenders at times and truly change games. His all-round game is lacking but he's incredibly young and will undoubtedly flourish with the likes of Hazard, Mata, Oscar and Ramires behind him. He played in a top 8 side last season, and he would be welcomed back to the Hawthorns with open arms, but now is the time for Romelu to show his worth in Europe and at a title-chasing side. You will always be remember down the Hawthorns Romelu." "Lukaku has one thing that Drogba didn't have and that is blistering pace for his size and weight. With that pace and Drogba like playing style he could become the most feared striker in the world." Seriously cannot wait to see him in a Chelsea shirt next season. Hope he gets a few goals in pre-season and can prove to Jose he can be our no.1 striker.

Your an asshole. He is one of the youngest players in the tournament and youngest in the squad IIRC. He has not even been awful, just not been at his best. Still a decent prospect. Nice how we judge someone to be awful at age of 18. I don't mind when people criticise him and say he has a lot of things to improve on and might not be ready etc but comments like yours are just ridiculous. Maybe judge him over the course of the season rather than few games. Many players his age and older are not even in a position to claim a place in the squad.

So, Skipper would not have been the deserved winner had he won it then?

He has only been on for about 8 minutes you muppet.

Will someone ever vote me?

Have some respect if you are going to interact with other members of this forum. You have only been here for what, 2 weeks? And you are calling people morons and other abusive words. Learn some respect. I thought some of your posts about Luiz few days back was ludicrous. Doesn't mean we should call u names does it.... FFS grow up!

Don't know what to make of this. I would not call him world class but do I believe he deserves to be starting somewhere else? Yes, because he does score goals. I have an improved opinion of him from what I had before. I mean for his country where I would say he is not surrounded by world class players, he has scored 9 goals in 6 world cup qualifiers and considering that he has been benched for Man City in 16 of their Premiership games, a return of 14 goals is not that bad IMO. Not as good as Cavani or Lewa IMO but do I believe he is better than our current strikers, of course. If he was given more starts by City he would have more goals for sure.

He is never going to join us for reasons aforementioned and he has that bond with Arsenal where he will never join Arsenal's London rivals. If this thread is going to remain open just keep it as a wish because we will not make a bid for him as he will not come.

You clearly are living in another century. He was rotated between CB and CM. I remember when we beat West Ham this season 2-0. Had an excellent game at CB. Luiz did not give their strikers a sniff. LOL and to say he is average in both positions, LMAO. Yes, he makes the odd mistakes but he certainly has improved over last few months. I thought he was our best player in the games against Swansea and United this season in our wins against them. Fulham 0-3 Chelsea three, another game at CB where he had an excellent game and scored one of the goals of the season. Stoke 0-4 Chelsea, played at CB, another excellent game he had. So where you get your facts from I don't know but in 2013 I think he has been along our best performers. So compare his mistakes this season with his good games and come back please. You have no idea.

I don't think he will be scared to put Courtois as no.1 next season. He asserts authority over his players, not the other way round. Just look at when Cudicini was replaced with Cech and around those times Cudicini was arguably the best GK in the Premiership. I did not expect that at all but Mourinho saw something in Cech to be our no.1 and was justified. Replaced Pepe with Varane, he is not scared to make decisions. I really don't mind who our keeper is next season, I trust Mourinho on that. Two excellent keepers we have got.

Varane is not going to join us so lets stop dreaming. He only joined Real last season and they will not let him go regardless if Mouriho wanted him or not. He will get games under their new manager and he will probably be there for a few seasons. I am sure when he joined them he knew of rumours about Mourinho which started from last season so he will not move after one season. Some people have some unrealistic expectations regarding transfers sometimes.

He scored against us in two friendlies. Big deal. We had a 17 year old with no prior first team experience marking him. He has not scored against us in actualy competitive fixtures IIRC. You make it sound as if he is a nemesis against us.