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To be fair, me and a few others commended him

I'm not getting my hopes high yet. I think it'll happen after the world cup. But I'm hoping we scoop koke by then instead.

I like his confident attitude, especially when you compare it to torres

The world cup is the reason he moved, he didn't want to risk being benched here and miss out starting to benteke in a world cup year. He recently said he made the right choice going to everton and his overall game is more complete, and his back to goal is improved because of that and I also think that it was the right call loaning him to Everton. http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2014/6/9/5793338/chelsea-fc-romelu-lukaku-transfer-news-quotes

Exactly. We need those defenders to fear our strikers again, either by skill or pure physical confrontation. Fear!!

Love hazard. Combines natural talent with humility.

I was waiting for confirmation on whether the earlier arrogant quote I saw before I rain down insults on the nerve to say "other clubs are interested in me"Glad he's not that stupid. But seriously, Belgium players need to hire a public relations manager its as if every single thing a Belgium player says is translated to be offensive.

Our board seem to be getting smarter by the day

The difference between costa and those 2 is that he is at his peak, and can only get better at 25. He is also coming from a team playing with a similar system so no 1 year adaptation problems to style. Costa is a physical beast, with pace and infact his physical attributes is built for the EPL. Where those defenders bullied torres and he falls on the ground complaining, it'll be costa bullying defenders like drogba did for us. He's also the exact kind of player that gets stuck in the action, puts his head into 50-50 balls just to score and never goes missing in matches, even if it means pissing off defenders. Apart from his strong mental attributes, Costa is also a good finisher and infact has the best shot to goal ratio in europe. He is someone that always runs behind the defence, and I mean ALWAYS!! No more torres waiting like a statue for the ball to fall perfectly to him, but we will now see movement into channels from the striker. That will now make the defenders follow him and free hazard from some markers. His back to goal is better than torres, eto and ba combined because of his obvious physical advantage, and he can easily turn and shoot in tight spaces. He is also a good link up player as you see that he provides assists when required (15 assists last season is no small feat). The only fear pple have is that he doesn't score a suarez screamer from the half way line. Trust me he's good.

One thing fabregas will add is through passes behind the defence. We lost it when mata left. Nobody in our team right now does that, so defences expect sideways passes from all our AM's and CM's. Accurate, over the top direct passes from fabregas to costa would add a new dimension to our game against opposition.

One thing fabregas will add is through passes behind the defence. We lost it when mata left. Nobody in our team right now does that, so defences expect sideways passes from all our AM's and CM's. Accurate, over the top direct passes from fabregas to costa would add a new dimension to our game against opposition.

So this is the end of another legend cech Hopefully courtois will show half the passion cech has for us.

I liked as he came deep and was spraying passes to alves and marcelo. He looked so comfortable in that deep free role

Played in a deeper role, and played very well in it again.

This^

Laughable that we are having a "can we sell" discussion on hazards thread. I mean our best player, ;doh;

I won't be shocked, especially if this saga lasts more than a week. Hulk, cavani, aguero and falcao rumors looked set and done and we know how that turned out.

Wow, one of the best ever players in world football in his prime. I can't believe I'll rarely hear super frankie chants anymore. I suggest we should have a super frank chant on the 8th minute of the first 8 matches at the bridge next season. In honour of or greatest player

I just felt like quoting these two fantastic posts that prove how false a lot of things said about mourinho are

Please get koke. I want to be standing up in anticipation everytime we get a corner again

This^^ I'm afraid fabregas is a direct threat to oscar too IMO. Unless we are changing to a 4-3-3 which is going to suit our team better IMO.

I would be very surprised if this pulled through. I want more creativity though, but I'll be really surprised if its fabregas mou wants instead.

Worth it imo, he would add 10 goals to our centerbacks. Imagine if john terry scored from one corner against crystal palace, newcastle away, westham, norwich, we would have won the title if we had what Gerrard was doing for skrtel and liverpool in corners.

Oscar not a through pass player doesn't mean he's a bad player though.

Exactly. Each time a big name transfer drags for so long like cavani, falcao, aguero, hulk it most likely doesn't happen.