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Not funny mate, many people lose their lifes over being stabbed so making a joke out of it is quite disrespectful

May I just stop you there. His creativity is excellent and one of his best atrributes. He led the assists chart in the French League last season with a total of 16 assists, that is brilliant considering he got 21 league goals last season. We are getting a player who can create and score. Here are the statistics for the record. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/assists/_/league/fra.1/year/2011/french-ligue-1?cc=5739

Lukaku should of taken the shot there, it was the perfect angle for his left foot

WTF is wrong with you people who are criticizing Lukaku. He had quite a bad game last game but he is only 19 and is our future, less of the crap talk and support him on. Even Drogba was not highly regarded at the age of 21. He will be a big player for Chelsea in the future

Chelsea win the Oscar, I like that

Of course, even though I highly doubt it what would be perfect

Tbh I wouldnt blame AVB for that, he is merely backing the chairman, he accepts that Modric wants to leave. It is Levy who is having the stubborn attitude, AVB knows who he wants as a replacement but Levy wants a good fee for Modric

Disappointing that Mata is at olympics. I would like to see a tryout of Marin, Mata, Hazard and Torres tbh

I rated him for the first few months last season then after that I just lost that opinion off him

And we certainly do not want him

Yeah, him, Saville and Toddy back home because of expected arrival of Torres and co I guess. I guess a bit harsh that Bamford travelled and did not play but still good experience training with first team I guess

Just no, he has gone home, he played some decent games in reserves but is no way near the first team and still needs devloping and Torres should be back for game against all stars

Many teams do that to put teams of making a bid. If we made a £40-50m bid for him they would probably accept it. I remember Montpellier chairman said Giroud would not leave for less than £40m but went to Arsenal around £12m

Simple solution= buy Cavani

Not one shot on target yet, disappointed. Mikel and Lamps only ones who look decent. We need more from our attack. Pastore and Lavezzi are looking dangerous. Can't wait to see Marin on

I do, but there are players you just love to watch

Wish we had Lavezzi, outstanding player. Imagine a trio of Hazard, Mata and Lavezzi. Whewww

Don't think anyone has mentioned Alex yet, but I always liked him when he was down there, was solid and good going forward and quite brilliant technically as well. Was sad to see him go, hope he gets a good reception, still will always remember those goals against Arsenal, Liverpool and Middlesbrough

wait team is Cech, Hutchinson, Luiz, Cahill, Ferreira, Lamps, Mikel, KDB, Hazard, Kakuta, Lukaku that is the team lol. Where have people got these other fake sources?

Not exactly, some of them need to gain fitness and the goalie, most of the defence and the 2 holding mids are likely to be back up this season

Ashley Cole is a legend

Completely agree like imagine we did not have Drogba last season. If we only had Torres we would have struggled as Drogba had to help out so much times when Torres wasnt firing. If that happens this season then we have either a young player who plays there but maybe needs to go out on loan and another one who isnt proven he can play as a striker at us. I know if Torres misfires next season the question will be "why did we not buy another striker"? and I certainly will be one of those as well as although Torres showed glimpses of his former self last season he was largely inconsistent and invisible while Cavani is just a brilliant striker and would love to have him here but looks unlikely.

From what he has shown in this match, this is why I would love a player like this in my team. He is a brilliant player, I don't see that much guys who muscle out Richards, him and Neymar have been excellent

Thanks for that. Maybe it is that the board are thinking of cashing in on him in future for better profit but like you, I don't see how he is going to have a major influence. Eden said his younger brother is more talented but maybe that is just to hype him up but who knows?

As much as I am excited with our signings, this is uneeded and is unfair on the young players we have already like I have stated. We also want Moses, Oscar, where the hell are Piazon going to feature if he is apparently our "brightest prospect". Is it maybe to keep Eden company or what but I don't feel this move is necessary. Anyone know what the fee is for the player?