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At least he'll be better than anyone we got upfront.

This^^It wasn't just essien, it was the pivot partnership of essien and MVG that worked wonderfully well that made the fowards better. No ramires in the first half to be misplacing all his passes, it was annoying. MVG reminds me of ballack. Immediately mvg was taken off the defence collapsed in the 2nd half. Mceachren was good attacking wise with great vision and passing, but he needs to work more. on his defending if he wants to play more in the pivot. His timing of tackles was off. I think hazard was drunk today lool Lukaku needs to work on his ball control (first touch and quick passing) he doesn't look like he'll survive against teams that crowd the box, especially since we'll hold the possesion. Schurrle looks terrible, I'm hoping its match fitness. Traore was great, I like his ball control. (I'm a fan of people who have great first touch I know ) KDB, my goodness. He has the vision to help mata, he has skills, strength, work-rate, shot power, crossing, long passing. I know its just pre-season but he should be in our starting line up from now on. I hope he is not injured cos I need him to play with mata in the US tour, it will be magical to see two vision players link up. This match made mourinho analyze and I'm sure he knows more about his best players so far. Watch mou play MVG and essien as his best pivot so far.

I think we got it now

Nope, chelsea are not a selling club(arsenal :lol2:) He's not going anywhere

Happy bday hutcho, have a great one

Happy bday TC legend, now give us all a party and tell us who we're signing this summer

FIRST TEAM zabaleta - Kompany - Nastasic - Clichy Azpi - Luiz - Terry - Cole Toure - Fernadinho Essien - Lampard Navas - jovetic - Silva VS KDB - Mata - Hazard Aguero Lukaku SECOND TEAM Richards - Lescott - def - Kolarov Iva - Cahill - Kalas - Bertrand Barry - Javi garcia/rodwell VS Vanginkel - Ramires Sinclair - Nasri - Milner Moses - Oscar - Schurrle Negredo/dzeko Ba/Torres

True, but options are running out only suarez, higuain and ibrahimovic left.

This exactly

just when i was getting started

get a room guys

Nope, ribery was bayerns best player and is in contention for ballon d or this season behind messi and ronaldo Mata doesnt disappear in big games like you say. But he doesnt like physical games or matches where opposition presses us, But when the opposition relaxes, mata has more space and automatically becomes our best player. Thats why mourinho can help him develop his strength and workrate to make him even better, so that against high pressurizing teams like barcelona, brazil, juventus and mancity he could evade a yaya toure tackle, be strong enough on the ball without loosing it and still give that final pass we know he does well.

Yea i dont envy ribery because we have hazard, and i dont envy pirlo because he's too old. But you cant deny that all those players will come before anyone in chelsea in the world best list for the last two seasons (bar pirlo last season).

you ended up being harsh on mata lol. But what i understand from your post is that the top clubs in the world have better star players when on form Bayern - Ribery Dortmund - Lewandoski Real madrid - Ronaldo Barcelona - Messi Juventus - Pirlo So in order to dominate europe as one of the worlds best teams, we need that star player on those people's level to score goals and wow the world. And we all hope hazard would be that man, if he starts adding goals to his game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbpzGW1y0g

Mourinho always likes left footed players on the right. chelsea- robben inter - pandev madrid - dimaria or ozil So meaning mata will definitely play on the right, with oscar and kdb battling for the center. Lukaku/Ba Hazard/schurrle - KDB/Oscar - Mata/KDB/Moses Vanginkel/lampard/ramires - MIkel/Essien

i'm a HUGE fan of hardworkers with good technique.

He was shooting more, which is what i want from him this season. He needs to put fear into defenders with goals to become among the elite best players.

Play Aussie Wallace Kalas, terry, Cole essien, MVG, schurrle, KDB, hazard Lukaku Lets find out a strong team for the american tour

If we get anything close to essien of 2006-2007 were in for a bargain, but lets not get carried away, it was against crap opposition.

This^^^^ He was quick with his decision making and passing and never looked to slow down the game for one second. I like that about him. We need to get rid of that slow aimless passing at times last season

I just had a bad feeling about this transfer. Damn

Finally we have someone to take our corners from the left, since we have mata on the right were set. He will become our best direct freekick taker if he isnt already. His technique and curl on the ball is as class as the best out there, i love him already. I can imagine him and oscar, two attackers that have high energy and intensity will make our game so much balanced. I really love what i see

Ramires, cahill, ba and moses were terrible. But kevin de bryne was the best player by miles, then wallace, hazard, essien, schurrle and vanginkel Ivanovic was bad, contributed nothing going forward and left moses alone. Wallace is a pure brazillian dribbler, just like marcelo.I could see that vanginkel is actually a good long range passer himself. I know its just the first pre-season but lukaku looked better than baWe've found our new set piece taker, KDB

Who's dumber, chelsea for offering the bid or united for rejecting it?