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That is a bonus. Winning is the first thing and hopefully we get a few today. WBA demolished them and so should we

No Fletcher!!!! Big news.. Wickham starts up front.

He will be more sad when he finds out that Fletcher is a doubt

No way will Rafa play Oscar in the double pivot role IMO. Quite sure it will be Mikel (if he appeals) and Ramires or Ramires and Romeu or possibly Mikel and Romeu.

I wonder if Oscar will be on the bench for a third consecutive game.... tbh i would like to see Hazard, Mata and Moses again.

What kids though? Piazon possibly.. who else? Chalobah, Bamford, Kane and other promising youngsters all out on loan

Lol, we are going to have to get used to the idea of playing on Thursdays and Sundays now and that being said vital we finish top 4 as we don't have the Champions League to fall back on this time if we finish outside top 4

If Shakhtar equalize defo a fix, if Juve win doubt it

Juve scored fuck!

Shakhtar.....

I voted for Peace. I normally always agree with his viewpoints and find it interesting and common sense so for that reason I vote for him. Had he not been there, would have voted for Rmpr, another whose viewpoints I normally agree with as well. I think Rmpr has a lot of votes anyway so feel that is a fair conclusion.

Chielleni is a doubt as well, while Lucio is also out. Okore out tonight as well, quite disappointed about that considering how impressive he was first game. Oh well, should make the game much easier for us then.

We will!

The thing is someone said to me the other day "I feel really sorry for Torres". I thought to myself why should I feel sorry for him. He is getting a ridiculous wage weekly, still earning over £100k when tax is taken out, he is paid to score and although he wants to score desperately do people really think he gives a toss about what people think about him? He probably don't as he got the money, a guaranteed spot basically every week for some deluded reason and his silly fanboys. These reasons I do not feel sorry for him at all, he needs a wage cut. He might score even a couple tomorrow but that will prove nothing, he is virtually finished here. Really do hope he scores tomorrow but can't wait till we sign a new striker.

I will literally support Shakhtar as my joint/second team if they manage to muster a victory against Juve. The way I will just want to gift Shakhtar some how. If it is a draw fuck both of them because that is that is something I definitely don't want or I will just get suspicious that they both played out for it. I would rather a Juve win than draw, that's how bad it is. Just pray for a miracle on the night, because Shakhtar can certainly beat them.

Everyone goes through a blip and people always expect the worse but teams recover, like we will. We just need a morale- boosting victory to get us on a winning streak which hopefully happens soon. No team in the Premiership wins every game in the league. Norwich for instance at beginning of season were being criticized and tipped for relegation and claims Hughton could not to what Lambert did there. Now guess what they are doing very well, IIRC 8 games unbeaten so far and have beaten both United and Arsenal. We don't go from beating Arsenal and Spurs away and being Champions League winners to a team in crisis. Just a poor run of form which will turn around soon, I am sure of that

It is quite common actually tbh. Lewis Baker and Reece Mitchell and a few of the other youth team players are seen training with the first team. Hopefully he is a decent prospect but I doubt he will be a regular starter here in 2 years, he needs a reality check tbh. Long way to go till that.

LOL, I am sorry but that is quite a ridiculous and unfounded post. At 26 years of age he has years ahead to score goals. Did you not see Dorgba pull out stuff till up to age 33 with us. If Falcao comes to us we have a good 5-6 years to expect goals from him so where you got that from i don't know. Also, El Shaarawy has been performing brilliantly at Milan but Falcao would be the much better fit here for now due to being more of a complete fit and due to El Shaarawy young age best he stays where he is. RVP and Defoe are around the age of 30 and still scoring goals for fun and I am sure Falcao will. You need to stop being influenced by Football Manager, this is real life mate.

Courtois said himself he would be happy to go out on loan but I just wonder how long he will start to get fed up of going on loan which I think he might well do. It might come to a case similar to the one at City where Hart returned from a brilliant loan at Birmingham back to his parent club City and competed with Given for the no.1 jersey and everyone thought Given would edge him out but Hart won the battle and has shown himself to be one of the bets keepers around. Maybe Courtois and Cech will do the same thing because Cech can realistically go another decade playing in goal for us

In 3/4 + years I definitely think it could be a possibility but knowing us we probably will buy a developed centre mid and maybe will halt one of the 2 progress

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That would be a total pisstake. The way I would always have an agenda against Rafa would be crazy, I think I would catch a case haha.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/anzhi-makhachkala-ready-to-give-chelsea-1468641 While the newspapers make a up a lot of crap, I pray that this is true.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2228105/Fernando-Torres-dumped-Wilfried-Bony-says-Chelsea-loanee.html This was really brave for Kalas to come out and say this if it was true but he is right. He spoke his mind and Bony is getting rave reviews over here. I want that Drogba type of striker back here and he fits perfectly

So envious to know we spend that amounts of money when Barcelona made history last week by fielding an all 11 academy graduate team. Unbelievable!