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Kalou defo should of been kept instead of Malouda tho, but moses is probably better then both on form alone. Dont understand letting Kalou go free, while keeping malouda or even selling him would of got more money the other way around ah well.

Everything about that goal is beautiful, look at the movement of torres especially, amazing.

Great game and a real handy result for newcastle, they couldnt get near us! Thought david luiz was poor missed so many headers out if Ba or Cisse were having a better day we'd be down a few from that, Mikel was better and meireles had a great one aswell which im glad!!! and remember lamp romeu will all have a place to play we got alot of games this year! You do miss Terry to boss the line, still think david luiz home is midfield, Hazard what can you say? amazing the man pays for himself!!! Torres on the right track back to the good old days!! Great result and well needed especially after the joke of a lose last year.

I dont think from the reactions of players when seeing sturridge waste another chance, most recent example Torres's reaction to sturridge 1st wasteful shot at reading, him leaving would have no impact on squad harmony, now also the squad always has had about4 new wingers who all will most likly play when fit, the squad harmony their is already fucked and no one cares, and belive me im all for squad harmony, the team this year is built around Torres to not sturridge so the point is moot, also weve spent 75 mil so far without a care for FFP another 35 isnt going to make a difference were already well over our budget in FFP terms, if the clubs willing to talk about spending that kind of money let's have faith they know what their doing. Sturridge isnt HG either btw he was a city academy player, we also have bertrand who is HG and hutchinson even tho he went on loan i do belive he'll be back at some point, so were as "winging it" as we always have been.

If hazard is as good at penalties as you said then thats a fair point and better then any others have put forward, tho it still does not say why we should not get cavani and no one either has said sturridge is a better player, and if we can onyl have 2 strikers for some reason (implying we'll play the same formation all season and not swtich it up to btw) then surely sturridge out and cavani in is a reasonable ask, 2 great strikers instead of 1 great one.

Its over hyping yes, but with something to back it up isnt it, is Cavani best in the world? probably not, but least he's still world class. You missed the point again tho, Pirlo is an example of people week long memory's, he has a good euros and everyone needs him or a player like him? its just sheeple. I already have tho, a few times actually and if you werent so busy defending sturridge without a lookin from anyone eles you'd see that, which is quite ironic i must add. He dosent pass, all he ever deos is cut inside and take a shot, he has no team play, he's wastes more chances then he puts away, and is still hyped like the golden child of english football and all of you are great examples why.

Im not even sure what thats ment to mean, but cheers for proving the hyping of sturridge right, that you cant even have a discussion about him without going he's great and im right lmao. Still dont see how being a good peno taker is a bad thing? since we only have one prove taker. Go back to fifa

Lol theirs no point discussing this with a person who dosent think a quality striker who can also take peno's and defend, an all around team player isnt w worthy buy for any team, Sturridge has never been a team player and he scored 11 in 30 fine, but how many chances did he waste to get them? as i remember so many he was benched. And drogba scored 5 in 26 and still impacted more on our season and made more chances. I think that says more.

You missed the point so badly its amazing, i was comparing players and their over hype to players who deserve it but dont get any, never mentioned chelsea in any of it bar that i think Cavani should come, and its even more laughable that if has to be Torres OR Cavani with you people what a joke, this is just liek after the euro's it was all Pirlo this and that, and how everyone needs a Pirlo player what a joke, sheeple. Anyway we'll see what happens wont we as i said heard this all before and the man everyone loves never delivers. To even mentioned sturridge and Drogba in the same post is a ridiculas, drogba was always a team player who has some poor season's but was their when he was needed and scored important goals and more importantly MADE important goals, this is something sturridge has never showing. He also wasnt even in the euros lmao, so i dunno how he played so well.

Heard it all last year the year before and way back, before he was loaned to bolton, youve not been the first to say he's great and you wont be the last but the theme that brings you altogether is that your all wrong, and he is indeed dead weight.

Sturridge more then 20 goals? lmfao, if he did score more then that surely must mean about a 100 chance wasted and no team play to get him anywhere near that, he is useless, fine dont bring in cavani but bring someone in i'd rather lukaku any day then sturridge, and 2 strikers is not enough, Also Cavani can take a penalty like lampard, and dont you dare say david luiz or mata or cole, bar the CL final they barely took them and when they did the usualy miss, so thats not good enough, Cavani is a proven peno taker. which is worth having him on the field alone. That's just laughable, i heard Jamie rednapp compare him to messi last year ffs, He is so overhyped its not even funny, the only reason he hasnt been lately is his form's been so poor it's impossible. I'd also never call him a competent finisher. He can beat his man but that's no good when the ball always end up in a glory shot because he's a selfish child and ends up in row Z.

The only reason people are not wanting another striker, Is because of the complete over hyping of Sturridge, like walcott and welbeck, his is a brainless selfish player who has the ability to only ever be "good" never great and you need great players not good players, Now the english media has alot to do with this the same people will complain about romeu, Meireles etc and hype up sturridge. walcott, oxlade chamberlain, who are britains great hopes for players but utimately useless to top teams in which they play, a good example of listening to the media and not forming your own opinions is the complete over rating of players like Ben arfra, and Tiote (a "destroyer" ive seen destroyed more times then doing the destroying) and players like cabaye and jonas get over looked completely. We need cavani or AT LEAST a good replacement striker.

The lack of by line crosses and fast play has cost us results and made problems breaking teams down since the double year of ancelotti and thats fact, passing slowly a million times isnt going to help, see Barca Vs chelsea semi finals CL for example lmao.

Dissapointing but once again its only pre season, Only thing i'd say is that least its showing that the slow assed "barca" "beautiful" "football" isnt the way to go and isnt going to work for us, 2 crosses 2 goals one good corner one by line cross, every time we got to that area which was about 3 times during the match looked dangerous, We need to play like a premiership team again, at least even pass fast again christ :L Barca and spain have made football into the very thing everyone who never liked football said about it, slow,endless passing and faggots falling over.

Lol if cavani comes, sturridge's ass wont hit the ground on the way out, torres will be tried and if he succeeds kept and rotated, if he fails cavani will be our number 1 all the wile lukaku will be 3rd choice and get some good experiences, and all will be well at chelsea football club.

Anyone eles feel that the second half team was a far better balanced side then the 1st half, sure the 1st was exciting but had huge flaws, the second half team looked more like a side in the premiership, now some kind of hybrid between the 2 and we'll destroy anyone, keep the small players to a minimum but keep the most creative, marin/hazard/ or mata/rami etc etc and vice versa, anno its only early days but looking at city and the second half team with essien and lamps its clear we need height in the midfield as well as creativity. Looks really impressive tho well happy with hazard and marin!! cannot fathom how oscar or any other small players will work tho as well but i cud see them working as back ups defo.

Did you ever get around to making this patch?

40 odd million which is one figure being thrown around even 30 mill is a bit much for a player "we could" need tho i do agree strength wise he looks great as a premiership winger good and strong.

What do people actually think of this lad tho? Is he good enough, deos he actaully overlap into CF? if he selfless as a chelsea player should be and will pass? If so sounds good, If not should we not go for someone eles who will do a job of a winger, and pass/cross and bring the ball to the by line.

LMFAO and i thought scouserpool and manure's was bad LMFAO

Honestly some of the posts in here are the reason theirs any kind of divide at all, If Celtic fans support terrorists' then so to do Rangers, Their 2 sides to every coin the UDA,RUC, UVF, and even the proud British Army have committed much "terrorist" behavior and atrocity's in their "glorious" history to, you can't condemn the IRA its splinter groups and glorify their counter parts, never mind that this is a political situation seen by many as oppression from certain denizen's of the British isle's to another for the guts of a 1000 years, the complete lack of understand of the entire situation is why theirs such ignorance from fans and some of the post's in hear, for all the winging and moaning of "political correctness" are prime examples of what PC should try and wipe out, ignorance and hatred. Are either fans good? no. Are either teams good? no. And should Chelsea its in attempts to become a global brand and a global club should distance itself greatly from it? Mostly definitely!, (ofc theirs good decent fans on either side who care nothing for it and just want their fav clubs to do well) beside half the Chelsea squad are Catholic, fairly ironic for any die hard's of the sectarian divide eh?

The point is he did, doesnt have the fund? Utd are the 3rd richest club in the world behind madrid and barca, they have more then enough money.

Utd spent 34mil on Ferdinand, if they want someone they can and will pay the money, dont confuse ferguson's miserable transfer policy's for them being poor or unable.

Dont get me wrong i agree i dont think Josh should be in the squad, what am saying is if everyone wants modric to play so badly why not just play josh instead more or less the same player bar a few year more experience, i would not personally go with either tho at the present time, and i know were changing but look at the team in the late 90's early 2000's chelsea especially during De Matteo's time as player at chelsea, it was an attacking "sexy football" as anyone would want with still strong able players, and i realise we can discuss it all we want and it dose not matter but ofc then why a forum at all Anyway i have complete faith in RDM to get this shit done right and only time will tell at the end of the day!

Technique over physical? in the premiership? the hardest toughest league in the world? online forums make me sad sometimes the lack of understanding is incredible, you need a balance between technique and physical, were chelsea and if you havent noticed we arnt going to get every decision our way like cheatalona, manure etc, we need to have a balanced team, and the one posted above while on Fifa would be great in real life would never win a header in midfield to save its life, be bullied off the ball by stronger premiership teams and as man city showed us without a few big players cannot score no matter how much technique and passing is represented on the field, now why spend big money on modric when Josh mceachran could possibly as good in a year or maybe even know, is as defensively minded and is the same size and is HOME GROWN why spend money on something we already have, Mceachran cudnt even get in the side because he's too dam small why would we pay 30-40mil for a player thats more or less the same.