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I think someone from our coaching staff mentioned before that a loan move is good for Josh to keep his consistency up. He is talented, yes. But he needs to have a playing consistency of at least 20-30 competitive games per season. The transition from swansea to middlesbrough loan was big for him and in the middle of last yr season he got injured and got fatigued!
He is skilled and talent-wise he is ready for first team but he will develop better his whole-rounded game if he gets consistent playing time.

I've been hard on him and I know its only against a team of scrubs but he probably played the pivot today better than any other player we've tried there in a long time.
Great performance.
His defending isn't even his biggest flaw it's his consistency and passiveness.
Thiago, Scholes, Verratti, Pirlo, Modric, Pizarro etc none of these players are even average defenders but are the cream of the crop in that particular position.

Yes it's only preseason and yes it's only for fitness. But I couldn't help but wonder today, why in the hell are we sending this guy out on loan but keeping Van Ginkel who looked like he was struggling with some basic passes?!

Couldn't agree more. His natural ability to keep rhe ball moving and pick a pass is Xavi-esk! I have said it a 1000 times before and I will say it a 1000 times again, give Joshy a chance and he will show thst he is worthy of becoming a starter for Chelsea.

Pre-season-Yes, its only for fitness- Yes...
but I'm saying it again, we will see the best of Josh only when the players in front of him make good movements. That's why he's better off playing with Chelsea's first team rather some team in Middlesborough, and I believe the recent friendly is a testament to that.

But the point is, Chalobah can develop well anywhere, because his main assets can be valuable to any team. Josh on the other hand needs good players around him to be at his best.
On any account, I think both will be going on loan as Jose only talked about Kevin, Romelu and Kala when talking about players returning from loan and joining the first team. I think it is best if Nathanial goes out on loan again. He still has a lot of room for improvement and he will be behind Mikel and Essien in the pecking order here.

He isnt ready to be our number one. Sucks that we dont have a decent striker.
Lukaku is still clumsy with the ball at his feet. He does make good runs and he is also very strong. Luckily he is young and still has time.

Thanks Chairman.......anything else to add?

What so you're going to get out of your mom's house and book a flight to England so you can have a punch-up over a minor disagreement on a Chelsea fan forum ?
Your winning at life bro!

If you want to write an article, then write an article. You have to be pretty egotistic to think that your 2 page analysis on a fan forum is important enough for people to read it.

Am I the only one skipping all The Madrid One's discussion posts?

Please try to stay on topic people. We have proper threads to discuss almost any subject. This thread is getting derailed to death!

Mm, wat should i say..

My first Chelsea game in my life. Been supporting the Blues for like 10 years now? It was the greatest night in the History of Chelsea Football Club for me. I went with my dad to the ArenA. Like traveling for 1:30 hour. 19:15 arrived at the Bijlmer (station @ ArenA) met the guy who was selling me the tickets. And then walked to the intrance. It was all RED. All of them were chearing and screaming SLB, SLB, SLB. At that moment i was a bit worried about my place in the stadium. Sitting between Benfica supporters isn't the best place to cheer for your club. But then the game.. it was.. awesome, amazing, great, a dream come true, wet my pants, incredible! The offside goal of Cardozo (he's really a beast) i was so sad.. YES HE DIDN'T COUNT. And then the great Fernando Torres (what a great game did he play) with an amazing goal! I thought he's gonna put it in the net on the outside but YES. And then that silly penalty of that tw*t Cardozo, with his arrogant face. After that the stadium again : SLB,SLB,SLB,SLB oh men f*ck off. And then the 90st minute. Corner for Chelsea.... YEA...........YEAAAAAAAAAAH IVANOVIC! All benfica men were crying and i was smiling my mouth of. Pff, great feeling. After that.. WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE, CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE! Pff, it was really a great day for me. My first CFC game with such an end. It has cost me some tears yesterday. I fucking love this club.

After we threw away 7 opportunities to win trophies this season, winning this Europa League is absolutely massive. Not just because it's winning a trophy but it will also likely help to banish any doubts and (continue to) breeds in the winning mentality for the players especially those that just joined last summer.

Congratz to you all It was a good game, i think Benfica was stronger on the first half but on the second Chelsea made a good game, i only wish that Frank had scored on that amazing strike, Benfica fans are gonna be traumatized, another goal on 93", saturday they lost the lead on the league, today they lost the Uefa on the same minute.
Cheers and sorry if my english is kinda weird, got to practice.

Talk about deja vu... look at Frank Lampard's movement, action and posture in these two goals... jump included!
Michael Essien vs Arsenal

David Luiz vs Basel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DzN54vGGjw

To me, the moment david luiz screamed at webb changed the game in our favor. Next thing webb started making the proper descisions and rooneys claim for a foul is ignored and we score and rafael gets rightly sent off.
Reminded me of drogba's spirit

This Meme and Troll business are taking things too far. Few years ago, nobody would ridicule a player for fluffing a penalty but poor Sergio Ramos last year was the butt of a ridiculous number of jokes.
The media will milk any small incident because for the first 75-80 mins the game was dead and this one incident is suddenly elevated to "big-controversy" status

I don't get how our own supporters can be upset at DL for smirking not more than a few games ago Mata was taken down in the box and when he got up smirked and winked at Hazard and no one said anything then but oh wait.. we hold Mata to a different standard over DL who has rekindled the fire in the team for the last few months... yes he probably could have not smirked fine but who cares what the media thinks of him they already think our team is a joke by the way we sack managers and our "negative football" win of the Champions League

He was a ball boy. His job is to get the ball back to the players ASAP. He was laying on it like a fat cunt and Hazard tried to kick it from under him. Little fatty then roles around on the floor and starts crying.
Kid deserves a beating from his old man, although in Swansea that could literally be anyone.
His twitter's already been found too. Apparently he bragged about timewasting 4 hours ago.
Start running kid.

The kid was laying on the ball, Hazard tried to kick it out from under him.
People laying into Eden need to have a fucking word with themselves.

Same here, looks like the only missing is a parade!