Mr_President

When I had my first driving lesson when I was 17 I hit a cat @ 30 mph.. The official "advice" is not to swerve when an animal is in the road so I didn't swerve.. in fact I didn't move at all, just drove over it - it wasn't a great start I had trials at Arsenal when I was younger and it seemed to go well until I had my ankle broken -- at which point I decided to play rugby instead.. and broke 3 ribs a year into playing for my county. I have now given up with team sports and just go to gym/play tennis - i think it is better for my health!!

Would be an awesome signing + he's another Belgian.. surely some of the Chelsea boys can have a word with him and recommend London??

I think Oscar is much better centrally, too. Just wondering a 4-3-3 would suit him better with: Hazard---Lukaku---Mata Oscar---DM------KdB A bit of a dilemma because Mata is our best player..so don't really want to shove him out wide.

Hope he goes to Madrid instead of City

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3208938/title/agreement-reached-for-transfer-of-andre-schurrle

Why on earth would they pay 20m for him, they could probably bid 10m and we'd accept just to get him off the wage bill - this story sounds way too good to be true.

Can't see us having both him and Torres on the books, whilst also trying to give Lukaku experience.. we also have Ba. If we can offload Torres then I think Rooney and Lukaku with Ba as backup is a pretty good strike force, and rooney can also drop deeper to a no.10 if we suffer loads of injuries. Think a lot of people are against him because of the perception that he is fat, lazy, granny shagger etc.. + he is a tick scouser which doesn't really help, but he is a cracking CF, of that there is no doubt.

Does anyone know why Oscar seems to have been stripped of the no.10 in Brazil? I thought that shirt was special and was given to him as a sign of how important he is to the team or something.. but now it has gone to Neymar?? Every Brazil match I have watched recently Oscar has consistently outshone and outperformed Neymar, why have their shirt no.s switched - is it related to football reasons?

55-60K seems about right, 80K would be way too much unless we brought in safe-standing and drastically lowered ticket prices..

guys, how do you block a member so you don't have to see their posts? thanks

thanks, hopefully he will be here! Loving the look of the Belgium team by the way, I am finding myself watching their matches and looking out for their upcoming games because of how many Chelsea players there are!

now we just need to hear the same for De Bruyne

so glad I have finished my exams now, going to start getting very excited about next season!! Bring it on

wish the season would just start already!!

Suarez just schooled him for Uruguay's first goal 1-0.

commentator just said he had Cavani + Forlan in his pocket for the first half..

No i'm pretty sure Pearce is just as you describe, TOPTB.

I cannot believe people actually get paid to write that crap

Realistically, I think we should be at least putting in a decent title challenge and aim for one of the domestic cups + as far as possible in the CL. The problem with saying at least a quarter/semi in the CL (or any knockout competition for that matter)is that you can easily draw the eventual winners/finalists in the round of 16 etc - there is always an element of luck. As Jose said in his interview, to win the CL you need a little "click", sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't. Therefore, if we got knocked out by Bayern in the Ro16 I don't think that would constitute a failure of a season on its own. Also, another important factor by which to measure a season as successful would be how the team has progressed and improved (not only individually but collectively). E.g. tightening up the defence, getting our no.9 to score goals, retaining possession better etc. I believe Mourinho also touched on this in his interview. Overall, I'd be happy seeing our team play some good football whilst not leaking too many goals and always making improvements for the future.. that is most important.

Amazing interview... "i don't need holidays..." "i am disappoint there is no training tomorrow" haha

I think his time at Madrid and Inter will serve him well, he seems a bit more mature and collected - possibly even humbled. Can't wait to see the interview at 6.30

fucking yes!! interview on chelsea tv at 6.30 !1 fucking come on

We Hate Scouse

For me, he was Brazil's best player until they took him off. Why did the fans boo when he left?

The one who gets them their bloody 'la decima', only then they'll be rewarded by the sack as soon as something inevitably goes wrong. Sounds familiar.