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Falcao needs more than 6 shots on goal to score. People have this idea that Falcao would come into Chelsea and just score every shot or something. He has limited skills apart from his finishing.Would he be better than Torres? Yeah, but a lot of strikers would be. Would he be a good fit for Chelsea? No. I'm happy that he only has 1 goal in his last five games because maybe it means the hype will start to die down. If Chelsea go out and sign Falcao, it will prove that they've learned nothing. Going after a big name for ridiculous amounts of money who doesn't really fit with the squad.

Ironically, I'm pretty sure RDM was fired when he was fired because Roman felt like he had a small window to fire him. Nobody would have been shocked had we lost to City and the next 9 matches were all quite easy (although we got only 1 point from the first 2). I'm sure we'll go on a good streak soon because our competition is so weak, but I thought that streak was going to start against Fulham.

Probably but really unfair IMO. Arsenal are a club that's built for making money for their shareholders. In the past five years, look at this difference Net spending on transfers: Man City-430M Chelsea-250M ManU-59M Arsenal- -30.5M They've actually made a profit in the past 5 years. How do you expect to compete long-term, being out-spent by 50M pounds every year? Wenger has done a fantastic job at Arsenal.

He should have scored one goal. Nobody is denying that. But 1) Every striker misses more opportunities than they score. Everyone here is gaga about how clinical Falcao is and he has scored 6 goals on 38 shots (not including penalties). 2) We didn't lose because Torres missed. I want to be clear. I've never though Torres was the right player for Chelsea and was pissed off by all the love he got despite being awful last season and he needs to go, but am just sick of the way people on here want to blame everything on one or two players. Your cataloguing is exactly what happens when people look to do that. If you do that, you can make any single player look at fault for everything.

We won under Mourinho/Ancelotti/RDM without basically any help from the academy. The problem is that our transfers have been awful and our policy for them have been terrible. We have chased players that don't fit into the system bjust because they are big names or are exciting or whatever. We are spending massive amounts of money to buy players that are highly skilled with no idea how to fit them into the squad. We've spent 80M pounds in the last 2 seasons on 3 offensively-minded #10 players. Why do we need three different players who play the same position? And then leaving the centre of the midfield and our depth at striker completely bare. How can you go into the season with 1 striker even if he were in great form (which he certainly never was). We have a board and owner that's so obsessed with buying skilled offensive players , that that's basically the only thing we ever look for-even in defenders. We don't have a team, we have a collection of players.

My guess is that Sturridge, Lampard, and Terry will all be back either for Sunderland on Dec 8th or more likely Southampton on the 15th which is good because things get really hectic around Christmas and we need the depth.(Not to mention the cojones)

Exactly...And a board who understand football more than the average supporter. Know about how to build a squad rather that just going "oh my god, did you see his youtube skillz video, let's go and buy him!!"

No,, we're not. He's shit, but we also play in a system where nobody crashes the net (we miss Sturridge for that). Some of that is because we generally almost never cross the ball, some of it is a lack of physicality. Torres himself had two excellent crosses right through the box and nobody was near them. Torres played like shit for some of the game but he also had a number of excellent moments which is more than can be said for most of the club. He's not good enough, but I'm getting sick of how everyone just blames him for everything. You don't lose 3-1 to West Ham because your striker missed a great chance. We were absolutely dominated in the second half, not because Torres couldn't finish, but because our squad played like crap.

Sigh...really dispiriting time to be a Chelsea supporter. We're just a mess right now. Torres had one very bad miss but actually was one of our better players overall today. He isn't good enough to be our #1 striker, but he's not to blame for everything. We were just atrocious in the second half and it was the entire team, not Torres. Maybe it's time to accept that we're just not good enough. We have an owner and a board whose demands are obscure and probably unattainable and whose decision to sack managers and buy big-name, one-dimensional players at inflated prices has been disasterous. We have a squad without any identity or leaders.

We badly badly need Lampard and Terry back. We are completely soulless and rudderless right now. Worst few weeks following Chelsea in my life. A complete and utter clusterfuck.

Fuck me

Ashley Cole-line clearing expert extraordinaire

Woodwork!

We should have scored there.

Jesus...

Except Liverpool at least have some talent. Not saying West Ham can't come back, but they certainly have the feel of a team that will end up near the relegation zone. Also, not the type of team that is comfortable coming back from behind. This is a team that's scored 0 or 1 goal in 11 of their 14 league matches coming into today.

Wondering if Cech is more aggressive on Rafa's say-so. Reina was always like that under him at Liverpool, or if it's just down to Cech.

Would have liked a second goal but we dominated that half. It looks like West Ham are down to 9 men. The gap in talent is obvious.

What a save!

Dangerous...

Wow...some fantastic play from Azpi, Hazard, and then Moses. Mata should have scored.

Agreed. He does what he does. He counters well, is very fast, plays aggressive defence in the centre of the pitch, but is always going to be poor at providing that final ball or seeing the field with excellent vision.

We're beating them to every ball. It's like we have an extra 2 players on the pitch. Really only worried about set pieces against right now.

Yes!

Ugh Ramires, you can't lose your man like that.