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come on lets do this... The most excited i have been for a pre-season game, in a few years.

Lukaku has a real chance, i know its only preseason, but he has a great chance to show RDM what he can do, especially with Hazard and Marin behind.

They are talking about Caroll. If we signed him i would shoot myself.

Didier is on, im getting emotional...

The whole bench should, and it would be great to see him.

A good performance and no injuries would be perfect...

In pretty much every team photo with the Cup, BOS is either holding it or is exactly in the centre of it. Did sort of ruin the iconic shot of JT and Lamps lifting the trophy together, but we won the CL, so tbh i can get over it

Thank you very much, here we go... Lets do this pre-season..

Can't wait for this... Best birthday present i will get all day, especially if we win

I am sure the powers that be just give roman a catelog, annd he points and says " i want that one, that one and that one,ooooo and him"... The only explanation for how we seem to be linked with everyone lol.

Oh i understand your argument, and in many ways its made up of far better logic, i too went in to every game, thinking this would be the one he did it and in the end there were only a few of those games, i just want to give him one more season or at least til January to see how he does, whilst knowing he will start and be our number 1 choice, with the improved supply line. Just my opinion... And this forum would be pretty boring if we all just agreed on everything...

Can't wait for this game... Only means staying up an extra 2 hours than usual so not a problem for me, shame they couldn't do it at lunch time thier time so all the people who have to work can see it... Can't wait to see Hazard in a blue shirt...

Didier Drogba cost us 24 million, and i am really not going to go through every other striker, also out of the ones you mentioned i rate Cavani as being the third "worst" out of that list, yes he is still an amazing striker. I understand your Mata argument, but whoever we brought in, unless we went crazy buying the Ozil's of this world, he wasn't gonna lose his place in the starting XI, unless for some reason which is highly unlikely he doesn't perform then could come under threat. I think we should just agree to disagree, you want to see Cavani brought in to replace torres, and i would rather see us go with torres, as lot of the great midfield we have brought in has been done so to help torres ( or whoever the striker is) and he has a great link with players like mata. I think we have 3 strikers which is enough and that they are good enough... We will soon see what happens.

Great news can't wait to see him in a blue and gold shirt...

Its great that Nando would have competiton from existing players in the club. I have faith that Lukaku has great potential and i would like to see him given a chance and that would be an argument for keeping him and not buying another expensive striker. , and ramires is a box to box midfielder, and watching every game last season, it is clear he is best in a 4-3-3, where we can use his vast stamina. Tackling isn't his strongest point and he isn't a holding midfield player... He won't play over Mata or Hazard at CAM, leaving only the right hand side of the 3, where he can play. That is his best option, but he is more of a central player than a wide midfielder/ winger. Cavani is a great player, but he is not a steal, and you could only define him as being one if he comes here and lights it up. A "steal" was Hernandez at 6 mil, or Mesut Ozil at 16mil or papiss cisse for 8 mil ( who has a 16 mil buy out clause i think). I also love the Hazard signing and really like the oscar signing as they are great players that should hopefully fit in well. Oh and the job thing... I don't know what you do, but i doubt it entails have millions of people watching your performence, and means you need to be the best in the world at something... Also you make a mistake, and maybe you get told of by your boss, as opposed to having 100's of millions of people talk about it... Yes they get paid a lot for it, i am not debating that i am simply saing it is nothing like a regular job...

I understand your point, and i am not doubting Cavani's talent but i feel with the signings we have brought in we are a different team. If we bought him for 35 mil then it wouldn't be too bad, though if that report of 60 mil is truthful then i like that is crazy.

Exactly, i love that we have a club willing to spend when need be, but we really should give people we have a chance, and if that is true then it is ridiculously expensive.

Since when is Hulk a midfielder. I do rate Cavani, but its another 35 mil on a player that is no guarentee to do amazing. I am saying if we were to spend the money i would prefer Hulk, and i thought you were compalining about all the arguments about it unsettleing players which is what you are doing. We have already brought in some great talent, which will be one of the best supply lines in the league, and i would like to give torres another chance, its also unfair to say that torres was the only one who played badly last season. If we loan Lukaku however then we will need another striker, as we can't just have 2. Also with our attacking 4, we won't need as many goals from our one striker as a team such as arsenal would need as we have loads of scoring options... I.e. Mata, Lampard, Hazard... etc.

I like arsenal for never wanting to win anything.

Your really comparing a normal Job to a footballers Job.. ok, my point is that Torres cost us 50 million and actualy was an improvement towards the end... Your comapring Torres being unsettled and Kakuta (Someone that has little to no play time for the club). I don't think we need a new RB and are happy with Ivanovic. Super frank will always be the biggest legend in my eyes, and no one could surpass him. No way Mata is going to be unsettled as he is guarenteed a place in the team. And ramires may not be in the team because he suits a 4-3-3, as opposed to a 4-2-3-1. And torres already has competiton... We also have a guy called Lukaku who we paid a lot of money to be at this club, and Sturriddge who performed well at the start of the season in a position he doesn't like playing. Torres should play better otherwise he will be replaced, i am simply saying we shouldn't go around buying a new highly expensive player everytime they don't play that well. Hazard and Oscar are both amazing talents. And in particluar i can't wait to see Hazard play. I am simply arguing out of the 2, Hulk fits a role as we don't have an out and Right sided winger, whilst providing backup to torres wheras Cavani replaces Torres and still have somewhat of an issue on the right side.

They are second choice, we never change keeper except for injury and suspension.. I would rather have a quality really young keeper as our number 2. Yes he is not the finished article, but we are not asking him to play 15 games a season... And if something did happen to cech, then he could step up. We would still have our 3rd choice keeper if things don't go well. Turnbull is 27 and isn't very good... Our best number 2 in recent times was cudicini...

Yeah i know where he plays... I am saying i would rather have a proper RW who is hulk, who can also play ST, than an ST who can on occassion play on the right. IMO we only need another striker if we loan out any Lukaku, and i would rather we have Hulk than Cavani. Torres started getting better and better towards the end of the season... Wan't overly impressive in the Euro's yet still won the golden boot, and atm he is our number one striker and he knows that... That should give him extra confidence. Also whats to say buying Cavani will automatically result in massive success. Torres was at times considered the greatest striker in the world at Scouserland... I would rather us fill a position we have greater need for atm than get someone who will probably be better a bit better than someone we already have and mean we completely ruin torres for putting him on the bench.

In fact i would rather have Blackman as our second choice keeper... I don't have faith in ross turnbull, and whilst hilario has always been good to us i would much rather see Blackman just given as shot as Cechs understudy...

Yes they are on paper better strikers, but neither of them will want to play RW, whereas Hulk does play there and can be a backup to torres, making him imo the better option than cavani or falaco. Also, If we get Cavani then, either him or torres will have to be on the bench and we still have a bit of a problem on he right hand side. Wheras Hulk fills the position and solves the striker shortage problem.

It won't stop his development, but if it comes to us needing an extra spot is a very viable option...