Stingray

In a few weeks he will be sold, patience.Rejoice MourinhoKING. Team plays nowhere like kings though. Good thing there are immortals like you to guard us from mayhem.

Exactly, but Mou would not do this, I fear.

Could we maybe try a good direct passer such as KDB? Ow no .... He allready left us mentally due to never included. Good thing our play is so rich. Good thing we nailed our play ith all that talent. [/cynical mood over]

How can this be .... Champions of Europe, I read?

Lol

Well maybe its better that he plays because he's been very good the last 2 matches. Rest him in a cup game or somethin'.. Schurrle can fill in. True! He needs a lot of games to shine + CL is not a B team competition.

HAHA what !?> Please tell me its photoshopped. Loooooool! This might be real , they are best mates irl. Bit gay, but i like that

I will join you in that request and raise you a mesmerizing Hazard display.

True. Willian is a great signing. I love his style as well - velvet like! For KDb ... I think a buy back clause would be useless. If he goes after not getting a real shot, why would he accept a 'back to sender' transfer. He might be really unwilling, and rightly so. I am curious how Mou is going to handle it the next weeks. KDB seems to be pushing for that transfer if one can believe the Belgian media. What a shame really ....

Ok. Back to data then. 67 minutes against Hull. Played really well. Manu 60 minutes. Bad game. Period. And benched. Now a month of no play time. From the 26/08 to 21/09 How is that a fair shot? Nope, not a fair one. 2 times 60 minutes: one really good, one below average .... Anyway ..... Enter again KDB after a month of no play: 5 minutes Fullham. Ok played. Three days after: the match against Swindon which is not good and he is out. He got a replay against the Arse for -60 minutes which was ok, but the tide was turned for Mou. Ps: Again no. Pre season is of the essence for clubs. I dont care you think otherwise. But I have personally experienced and heard the people in charge of top clubs say the opposite. Belgium, Dutch and German clubs in the premier league. I do NOT mean heard in the papers btw. I do not know where you base that firm conviction on. It seems a bit hollow.

Lmaooooo !! Dude. Then be clear. You just wrote: 'he had a shot' after someone saying he never got a real shot at the team.

Triple p.

Dp crap ipad!

@Stingray-Pre-season doesn't matter at all!!! I wish people would just stop bringing it up. It's entirely about fitness. Nothing else matters at all. Literally, on a scale of 1-10, your pre-season performance on a team like Chelsea is a 1. And yes, it's OK for Mata or Hazard to be rusty. Mata is a back to back Chelsea player of the year winner, made the PFA team of the year last year. Hazard also made PFA team of the year after winning player of the year in France in back to back seasons. Both players have proven their quality so when they struggle, it's not the same as when a player who has never played in the league struggles. Are you really suggesting that De Bruyne should get the same slack as Mata and Hazard? It's absurd. Of course teams treat proven players with a longer leash. Anything else would be idiocy. No. Not really what I tried to say, mate. One, I disagree about preseason being only about fitness. I think that is a noarrow minded view few coaches would share with you tbh. If you think that is fact, I disagree (and some first league coaches with me btw here in Belgium). Two: the rusty part: it is nowhere near about 'being ok rusty' or whatever. I know Mata has a track record and Hazard is awesome . My argument is that when they don't play (or dont play well) it is because they are rusty - so people say. When it is KDB, it is suddenly not taking his 'chances'. I remind you I reacted on a post saying he didn't take his chances, whatever they might have been. I found this line of reasoning to be a pure fallacy. Idiocy? No ... I simply never said that actually. He doesn't need more slack. Completely different topic to say that. Again: it is simply unfair that one player has a bad match and he 'didn't take his chance' and another is 'rusty'. If you do that, it is such a category mistake. I do believe in match rythm and even our stars need it. Why wouldn't the young guys? People so much underestimate that + the accompanied psychological/motivational component when talking about players. I find this ...... quite baffling and it is what i was reacting to in my original post. Please, do not make my argument a strawman, i beg you.

Not necessary, I feel. Right you may be, I read

He has had a shot. No he hasn't. Not a fair one anyway. If it is Mata, it is ok to be rusty. If it is Hazard, he has underlying potential. If it is our entire defense bar Terry, it is whatever .... Fact remains KDb was one of the best in pre season and pays heavily for not playing that well one game and some odd minutes. That is not a shot ... Especially after such a long time of simply no games .

We don't go there .....

Just imagine if he goes there though, surpasses all expectations, scores maybe 10 goals and is regarded as one of the best young players in Europe. Then we can loan him to an even better team. And then the season after that we could loan him to an even better team. Just think of the possibilities - when he's in his prime we could probably loan him to any team in Europe. Yes awesome solution

Ow yes? for a fact. And do you know how much it matters? What are the variables? Was he famous? How was life in Brussels btw? Do you know this ... for a fact? lol.

Of course !! Especially because the 'home situation' of Lukaku after being a Boom guy (Antwerp) was Brussels. Drogba some to Le Mans. It is only 541 km with NO cultural difference. If anything, In Anderlecht there are more footy squares than in Le Mans. So spending? Nah. Lukaku's dad was a Pro. Lukaku got it since he was a year old. Everything he lacks in natural gift from a non existing god, he gets from thinking about it. This guy does that.

Torres. Eto'o. Our pivot. Transition speed. Accuracy. Defensive robustness. Not having an eye for youth while the oldies fuck it all up too much to be healthy. Let's all do mindfullness. ow.... it kinda fails after losing to Stoke ..... Wtf fuck Mou .....

I would not call him that at all :-) More like a genetically modified Drogba in an early stage. DD was nowhere at 20 to be honest.

True , We certainly are glad to have the magnificent likes of established Multi millionaire footballers such as Torres and Eto'o Have a pint as some say!

True .... I liked seeing them today. He is only human, but you just see those defenders hogging around him. It leaves space for all the rest. He is improved, still a bit raw but in productivity terms (for the team - not his goal tally) - he rocks. He brings something (along with the bad touches). Yeah well. Still, we lost at Stoke WTF.

Indeed !