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I am suspicious and think Pistorius is regretting the consequences of his actions now but that is only my opinion however whatever the charge is, pre-meditated or not or whatever the judge concludes, the only person who knows whether it was intentional or not is Pistorius himself.

Markovic is better and Kiwomya is couple younger and no way near ready for first team football yet. But yes, Kiwomya is one to watch out for the future.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1533715-why-chelsea-need-romelu-lukaku-back-from-west-bromwich-albion

I can see where you are coming from, in the way it sounds but I am sure he did not mean any racial offence, he just stating that due to a lot of black players physical presence.

Probably, Cole has lost his sense of brilliant attacking runs what he used to have over the years.

Yes.

Mata goes missing in the big games? Rubbish, sorry. Against Arsenal away from home he scores and creates one, at home he scores 1 and played an integral part for the second goal and after Ramires was the best play on the pitch. Tottenham 2-4 Chelsea, was our best player on the pitch, scored 2 that game and created 1. Also, when we lost 3-2 to United this season, his excellent free kick got us back in the game, he went missing when we got players sent off but certainly started to influence the game before the sending off. Also he is not obviously the strongest but he makes up for that with intelligence, skill and brilliant awareness. Mourinho loves players like Mata, Ozil, Di Maria. He is also not the fastest but he is certainly not a slouch. Also in our Champions League win last season he was along with Drogba and Ramires, one of our most important players throughout the tournament and certainly stepped up in the big games. How you have drawn out those conclusions completely baffle me.

Apparently was excellent for Benfica in their win over Leverkusen last night. Has become an integral member of their squad and is a huge fan favourite and scored the odd brilliant goal as well. Sad because when he was here I always thought he had potential, but we were not patient and looked to get the cash and looking at things now, we could do with someone like him now. Tall, strong, good vision, technique, young and improving. His value is going to shoot up and I am sure big clubs will come in for him some time soon.

This. He has been very prolific in the youth and U21 games but most of the players he are up against are not prem quality and are similar to League 1 level. Needs more experience first Not ready for the first team at all yet. The annoying thing about the U21 is most players are not of an elite level to see how much our players really are progressing.

Lukaku pretty much has everything: pace, acceleration, strength, heading ability, technique, decent right foot, movement and most importantly goals. We are very lucky to have him here, surely to be one of the best strikers in the world has he grows older. Frightening thing is he is still a teenager, yes a teenager. So exciting watching him play. I remember last season him getting criticised for his price tag and not contributing much but now I am glad he is proving himself and showing what qualities he brings.

What a goal!!!!!!!!

I partly agree. Put it this way, I would not spend over £40m for him. We have seen it with too much strikers here now, Falcao may be different but there is no guarantee to say he will be the clinical striker we are looking for. Falcao is like that in a lot of games though. He doesnt really do much in the match but he always pops up at the right moment, that is all I require from a striker tbh. I would like us to have Ba and Lukaku here as the focal strikers. If we are going to just dish out money on new strikers, not really a vote of confidence our strikers need.

Scored a last minute consilation in a 2-1 loss and tbh was overally poor but the key point is a goalscorer can look totally out of it but he will put the ball in the back of the net. Don't have to play well, but the job is to score and that is what he does.

Too good to be on the bench. The odd games yes but most times should Ramires start? Yes. The amount of times he has popped up like Lampard and done something special. Even against Arsenal this season where he played CM was the MOTM. It is good that we can have a player whose best position is in the CM but can put in brilliant shifts on the wing.

Don't care what the team is. Just want to make sure there are no injuries from this game.

LOL, a game he needs to win and rest Mata? Think he is signing his own resignation card.

What happens next is that Fellaini says he was misunderstood and his comments were taken out of hand.

No one can mention that it is good experience training with their first team squad and experiencing travelling with them. He was doing the exact same thing with us. Really baffling move, especially as he is not ready for that level yet.

The one player I am gutted we never tried to sign is Cazorla. Not to say he would of definitely join us, but he would have easily fit into our system and would flourish in a team with Mata and co. What also bugs me is the price that Arsenal got him for around £12-16m and he has been a joy to watch in the PL and it is not like it was a surprise, everyone knew he was a quality player. Annoying that we pay hefty fees like £50m for Torres who we got for treble what Arsenal got for Cazorla which is crazy and I would have liked to see us make a bid for him especially as we could of offer hima better salary and he is one of them rare players who can use his left equally as good as his right. Just imagine Cazorla, Mata and Hazard in a team. Devastating!

He was impressive second half. He will have his bad games. Remember he is only 20 and is a big reason why Palace are around the play offs. When he moves to United he will be around better players and facilities and will only improve as a player,

I think he deserves a chance to prove himself rather than sending him on loan again first. Look how well he is doing at WBA with a team with inferior creativity compared to us. If he was in a team with Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Moses etc he is bound to score even more goals. He is only going to get better as well and I would like to see him here next season. Getting better every game and he can be a big success story at the Bridge next season.

How about Mikel?

Which out of the two is going to create the fake account to vote themselves?

Brilliant post but looks increasingly likely that they will lose Lewandowski in the summer.

Well no, Nigeria won so we will have to wait for them two. But not a game to turn up and think it is a guaranteed 3 points for sure.