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Great news. Good that it is finalised now. All that talk can stop now. Very exicited to see all the boys playing together. When do you reckon can we count on seeing i.e. Mata - Hazard - Oscar play their first game together ? Surely only in the first few games of the season.

Werder Bremen really is a good option for KDB. They always try to play attacking football and have nurtured some amazing attacking players in the past. Maybe they could Lukaku on loan as well.

Thanks, my thoughts exactly. I don´t know why everyone is acting so childishly on here. Seems as if The Champions League doesn´t mean a thing and that people can´t relax and trust the team and the management with what they are doing.

Throw Mata, Hazard and Marin in there and you´ve got a decent midfield that doesn´t cost truckloads of money and delivers the EPL trophy by goal difference. I don´t know if you´ve watched last seasons Champions League, but i´d say that our midfield did quite well against Messi.... Oh, and of course they don´t look fit. That still is the whole deal of pre season. The games are frustrating. You can´t take anything from them seriously. Given how our Pre Season under Scolari went and how we were sweeping the floor with teams, the season following pre season was pretty bad, to put it diplomaticly. So, don´t stress it and approach games like these realisticly.

I am used to some negativity on this messageboard but the way some people talk on here right now really takes the biscuit. It is not the Fucking Title Decider (FTD) we are watching but - again - our second pre-season game partly held for commercial reasons and partly for fitness reasons and trying out different options. Don´t make it to hard on yourselves and get to engaged about this, it means nothing.

People, please, it is the 2nd game of pre season against a team that played a lot more football thus far. So everyone take a breather and not pretend that this stuff actually counts for something.

Whish i was in NY now, in general and for this match. Looks like a beautiful day over there. It is kind of a merging of cultures, playing football in a baseball arena. Interesting questions for all the culture studies in Academia (not the Portugeezers). Can´t wait for the match to start. Watching footie on a sunday night itself and with no urgency to wake up early on monday is kind of great.

Absoloutly. On his day he was one of the best the PL has seen.

....and Ledley King retires from football.

The games against Barca and Bayern clearly didn´t fit his style. He just isn´t a warrior type of player like Cech, Cole etc.. Physicially he´s just been struggeling and with Chelsea sitting back and waiting for the counter attack, Mata is redundant because he obviously struggles with that type of game. He isn´t inexperienced.

Cech made a few saves but the rest of the Bayern shots he just forced wide with his cinetic view.

I am not buying it until it is official posted on the Club´s website. Saving myself the frustration since Robinho.

It feels like ages since we´ve played Seattle Sounders. Is that just three years ago ? Exciting times ahead of us. Can´t wait until the season starts again. Pre Season is nice, but the first matchday of the new EPL season is always a fun day with a lot of good banter going down.

please, please, please, please!

Absoloutly. I just start to realise what it all means. I watched the whole game today and then it all came to me suddenly: CHELSEA are the CHAMPIONS Of EUROPE. And we´ve got Robbie DiMatteo as our manager, a club legend even before all that, we´ve signed amazing new players, the future looks brighter than ever. I am buzzing for weeks, waiting for the new season to start.

Urgh, the "tribal tattoo" on the Liverpool shirt looks so aweful. It will look good on thugs like Skrtl, given that he is fully inked with some bullshit like that anyway. Which club would make a deal with a company called Warrior Sports and declare it as a massive kit deal and as a success, whilst all the top teams in Europa have either Adidas or Nike ? Liverpool would. Totally matches their position in football.

If he was found guilty and be fined, would there be any other consequences i.e. from the FA or Chelsea ?

Maicon didn't know who gareth bale was. Maicon made gareth bale a credible footballer.

Always respected and liked the guy. Hope he can prove what he is all about. Within bounderies, always stay under Chelsea in the league, be pushovers in the Cups and not trying to sign any of our players. Maybe he dips into the market trying to sign Anelka if Adebayor doesn´t stay and Alex if Kings legs finally implode.

What is their fucking sponsor there ?

Hey man, this is all shocking to read. I just hope that you will push through. My thoughts are with you and your family.

I still watch the game and it´s just as exciting and goose-bumps material as it was watching the game live. Incredible scenes. I love it how in some sort of initial reaction the bench is jumping up and down after Petr saved Schweinsteigers pen.

The longer the game stays 0-0, the more Bayern's players and fans will wonder: what if? This level of dominance is all fun and games till Drogba roofs one from 15 yards.

Absoloutly amazing. The first sketch is absoloutly impressive.

Although against a poor oppostion, his first goal against Ireland was class. 2 touches and the finish. Just great to watch. He played well against the Italians too. I think he will have a good tournament and take his form into the season.