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very poor today, nearly as bad as his performance against Swindon.

most of Hazards goals are from open play, and no he doesnt need to score more goals to reach the highest tier of attacking players, he is a creator first, no one says Silva has to score more goals to be considered as a top player, but for some reason Hazard has to score 30+ to be a top player.

I think Branford, Atsu, Piazon, Kane, Hector, Omeruo, Cuadrado, Salah, Feruz, Chalobah, Moses, Wallace and Marin all have no chance. Van Ginkel, Kalas, Christensen, Perica, Baker, Brown, Ake and Pantic all have very small chances Boga, Solanke, Pasalic and Nathan all have potential to become first team players imo.

He will be the next Desailly. LOL

I was saying the same thing also, doesnt mean he didnt flop at Chelsea, De bruyne couldnt perform under Jose simple as that

yeah because we won nothing last season with Ivanovic in the team.

he absolutey did flop! there was a reason why he only played 2 league games, he wasnt strong enough mentally to fight his way back into the team and then his performance against Swindon was just embarrassing that was the final nail in the coffin for him, he was a huge flop for us! he wasnt treated unfairly he just had no fight in him to show Jose he should be in the team.

The bookies have got things wrong countless times, like today when i saw Lewandowski was 4/1 to score anytime against Germany, i couldnt believe it and was all over it like a rash. Easy money also at the start of the season 888sport were giving 12/5 on Roma to win Serie A without Juventus! again a crazy price which i was all over, and i have already got money on Chelsea at 5/1

No idea how any Chelsea fan could write us off, especially with the amount of times we have had great starts to the season only to implode, that is what i think will happen to Man City with their overrated and ageing squad. In 2008/09 we won 10 of our first 14 games, only losing 1 and then on Matchday 15 we lost top spot and never regained it and ended up finishing 3rd. In 2010/11 we stayed top from Matchday 1 to Matchday 14 and lost top spot on Matchday 15 and never regained it. In 2012/13 we won 7 of our first 8 games, drawing 1, we led from Matchday 3 to Matchday 9 and lost top spot on Matchday 10 and never regained it. I find it bizarre how anyone could think we cant win the league after 4 games! we have had great starts and blew it in the past, Man City clawed back an 8 point lead on us last seaon only to implode, Man City are mentally not strong enough and not good enough to lead from day one till the end like we did last season, also their manager is bang average, i am not worried about our start at all, and am very confident we will win the league with a few games to spare.

no they dont, we didnt go top until the 12th matchday in 2004/05

De Bruyne has always been good for Belgium and in German football for both Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg, i think he will flop in England again and move to Bayern and look incrdible in Germany again.

shows he is expected to be 4th choice CB and isnt expected to surprise anyone and become 3rd choice.

I disagree, its simply not his game, just like its not Di Maria's, Ozil's, Isco's, James', Iniesta's, Ribery's or Lucas Moura's to name a few to score 40+ goals a season. I dont know why people think Hazard should aim to score 40+ a season when it isnt his game, its like saying Mata should aim to complete as many dribbles as Hazard and Messi every season, even though that isnt Mata's game. Hazard should just focus on being a great dribbler/creator, he has ability to win us games on his own without even scoring, he can put in MOTM performances without scoring, how many attacking players can do that? even the best 3 strikers in the world who's job it is to score goals have never managed to score more then 36 goals in a single season while playing in Spain and England Costa - 36 goals in 13/14 Aguero - 32 goals in 14/15 Suarez - 31 in 13/14 And people think the creative player Hazard should aim for 40+ a season when the best strikers cant even reach that number. I dont think people realise after Messi and Ronaldo hang up their boots its highly likely we wont see another player who can consistently score 40+ goals year after year at the highest level for a long long time.

Hazard is just unlucky that he is playing in the Mess/Ronaldo stats era, where everyone is obsessed with goal and assist stats! Wingers these days are judged on how many goals they score, which is bizarre. If Hazard played in the Ronaldinho/Figo era then no one would be talking about how many goals he scores and just judge him on his football ability which is how it should be. I have heard people say Hazard is just a good dribbler but doesn't have good end product, which again is just ridiculous, Hazard is a creative player his main role in the team is to create, last season he created more chances then any other player in the PL, he was also top 3 in key passes and final third passes, which shows the end product is there, he also got a decent amount of assists, but the problem I have with people so obsessed with assists stats is that assists don't tell the whole story, and doesn't necessarily mean you have good end product, because as a creative player you dont have full control of whether you got an assist or not, its also down to your team-mate to put the chance in the back of the net, which is why I always look at chances created over assists. I agree Hazard will never score 40-50 goals a season like Mess and Ronaldo, Hazard isn't obsessed with scoring like them, he has like 1 or 2 shots a game, Ronaldo has 5 or 6 shots a game, Hazard is a different type of player, its like Man United fans who use the fact that Scholes could control games as a reason as to why he is better then Lampard, that is ridiculous, just because Lampard wasn't that type of player doesn't mean he wasn't as good, to me its as ridiculous as saying Aguero isn't as good as Drogba was because Aguero couldn't play with his back to goal as good as Drogba. for me Hazard is a better all round player then Ronaldo and Neymar, but this is the stats era where because Hazard scores less goals then the other two so the statement I just made becomes such a ridiculous statement, where most football fans would just laugh, that is why after Ronaldo and Messi's goals stats die down I really hope no other player for a long long time comes along and starts scoring 40-50 goals a season, just so this stats era can die and we start judging players by actually watching them and not only look at how many goals they score.

if we are going to win the league Hazard needs to be a level above then what he was last season, he wont have to carry us this season though as we have Pedro, Costa and Falcao (who i think will score for fun for us) if Costa's hamstrings decide they want to play up again!

Courtois Azpilicueta - Zouma - Djilobodji - Baba Loftus-Cheek - Mikel Pedro - B.Traore - Kenedy Falcao

no idea why people are complaining about this, its not like we havent been signing players like Hector and loaning them out for years now. This shoudnt surprise any Chelsea fan.

Today is the day Chelsea sign a CM...

Powerful, fast CB who is two footed, he could turn out to be what Kolo Toure did for Arsenal or he could turn out to be out of his depth. He looks to have some potential though.

Has Sky Nigeria announced this yet?

My resources tell me we will be getting Sissoko from Newcastle.

so City are now going to destroy the good balance they had in their attack, they lose width and pace now also, and will become more narrow, Silva will get less space as a result and City will now become easier to park the bus against for many teams. Pedro would have been the perfect signing for City, I would have given them a chance in the CL also if they signed Pedro, I can't see De Bruyne getting to double figures in goals or assists this season, such a bad fit for him.

Falcao has 1 goal in 53 minutes of football so far this season, and he is still getting criticized by people on here? it makes me think the people who are criticizing Falcao after 53 minutes of football, are people who are desperate for him fail, and probably the same people who think Bamford should be in the squad instead of Falcao, Bamford can't even get into the Palace team, and its highly likely he will never make it at Chelsea! Falcao has looked good so far but its too early to judge whether he will be a success or failure, so the best thing to do is just support him and hope he does well, because so far its looking like he will be a success here.

Hope to see Courtois Azpilicueta - Laporte - Terry - Baba Sissoko - Matic Fabregas Pedro - Costa - Hazard

I really want to see Kenedy - Hazard - Pedro Kenedy looked a bit special today.