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Remeber too well bc i was banging on about how we should sign him. He is injury prone tho

but what kind of draw was that? a spurs and an arsenal fan drawing four balls out of something with sucha big hole everyone can read a number out of it and they still end up giving manCity the free one?

its spurs and mancity with city of course getting the gift

Spurs celebrating like they won the trophy. As if they will not get spanked by City

Wilson is so brilliantly suited to playing with Willia both dont know the offisde rule. Future of CFC

No. This is exactly how we assembled a squad full of average players. Buying them cheap, after lengthy injuries, at an age where they will hardly improve significantly any more. Sure there is always a possibility they will turn out world-beaters but that is like 1% and 99% of times they will end up with way too fat contract riding our bench or being loaned out because they can not be re-sold immediately being on that big money. We still got some of those on loan and we got Drinkwater, BArkley, Emerson, Alonso, Willian, Giroud, Morata in the squad. We are a top club or are supposed to be one and the only acceptable policy is buying genuine, proven quality or absolute top class talent and pay what is necessary or dont. But do not go for 2nd rate players, even if they are on a purple patch just because it is less risky. This is fine for mediocre clubs who can not afford or attract absolute top quality and thus settle for ok players for ok prices because the risk is low. That is how so many clubs like Bayern after their CL win 2001, the Milans more lately, Lazio before, many previously very successfull German clubs like HSV, BVB, more recently ManUtd (who admittedly took risk by overpaying for average players) relegated themselves from CL winners to mediocre squads not able to compete internationally. This took those clubs 10+ years to recover if at all. We can not have this. Not even for squad players. There is a constant outflow of world class talent in this club, mostly because of incompetence by the board so if we continue selling our better players and assembling "squad" players who we can not get rid of we will be more and more reliant on those. Look at it this way. We sold Felipe Luis and Bertrand, bought Emerson and Alonso, sold KDB Salah, bought or retained Pedro and fucking Willian who are still at the club, we sold Costa and Lukaku bought Morata and Giroud, we will lose Hazard- currently our main striker and - what - buy Callum Wilson? I know its not planned to be a 1 on 1 replacement but it could very well turn out to be if we continue to fail landing our major targets. If we want average players to be the solution, well congratulations, we got an academy full of average players who will cost us peanuts and at least give a shit about the club. If this club goes down to mediocrity which it bloody looks like at the moment I would rather want this to happen fighting with young, homegrown Chels than with some random donkeys like the Moratas, Willians and Alonsos of this world who we signed as replacements for the rare successes of our scouting system which we graciously donated to our main rivals.

Dont think those two will even line up. I hope we see CHO, Emerson, Barkley and RLC from the start, Giroud up front and no Willian. Throw in a few starters like Kepa, Azpi, Rüdiger and Jorginho in for good measure.

Conte with their unlimited funds will be dangerous. I think Mourinho will have one more stint at Real.

He's only got contract till 2020 so not much we can do about it. i can so see him tearing bundesliga apart so better fucking make him sign a new one. If we lose both Hazard and CHO with Willian and Pedro staying i will lose all faith in the club.

yeah but in the end their goal was their only real chance, defended well except for that. what a tank RLC is milked minutes off the clock with his size alone. ^but after the 2-0 we were so wasteful. hazard and rlc both should have scored and willian was once again a pain to watch.

Others will step up. Omg Willian just retire

Beautiful

What i find lost dazzling is how decent english refs are when employed internationally. In CL and in Wolrd cups they always get picked for the big occasions. That being said most refs struggle with the intebsity and pace of the modern game in general Omg wiööiam whatvare ypu doing

Lol even the commentator is ranting about the ref

He's like, "I am not the one to complain" but then he is complaining in that exact interview. He can not honestly entertain the notion that he deserves to be a regular starter here. Hes simply a spent force, plays like a 40 year old which is no wonder cos he has like 700 top-level games in his legs. Reminds me of the dying days of Schweinsteiger. Really should just end his career or go to tiny league like MLS or CSL

He's always been a talented player and his last season was also quite decent. Brilliant in tight sapces. But then again he flopped at Newcastle and does not really have the pace a real winger needs. I would love to have someone super direct with raw pace and the skill and decision-making to back it up. Thauvin has that one attribute that makes m e always go mad esp when Hazard or Willian do it too: He has the player beaten but then instead of shifting a gear up and breezing forward into the space they created for themselves they stop, shift the ball on their back foot allowing the opponent to recover and jus tpass the ball sideways. i fucking hate that, completely takes the sting out of every surprise attack.

But its not gonna work like that. Hazard is not the leader type who will bring them to cl glory instantly. De ligt and de jing are still not finished products. This would still be a transition and hazard is running out of time.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/olivier-giroud-spares-chelseas-blushes-blues-held-vidi-195248406.html eh... right

ah well 10m, 20m its not that the club gives a fuck i guess. he is on huge wages tho. should have offloaded him in summer already tho.

+ it is not that Real Madrid are not in transtition too. they are in a phase were they are way behind barcelona who are not at their best either. i dont think that real will win the cl during hazards remaining career either so he can just as well stay here.

yeah nothing to add to the team anymore i fear. how mcuh would we get for him tho? surely no more than 20m

lol the ref is such a joker

yes but at least hes beginning to give the impression that he does give a shit. maaaan ref that would have been an awesome solo goal from Pedro.. dat pace at age of 30

what a ncie freekick that was...typical giroud misses the easy ones scores the crackers but did not even know he had that in his locker. thought he would put his foot through it but you will seldom see a more precise one

true. him and RLC should walk through their team but both are not that good in spaces as tight like these. But at some point Vidi have to open up