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All we fans want to see from mikel, is desire to get the ball from opponents (he didn't do that against juventus and against yaya toure) and have a nice passing range like luiz to torres in europa league (instead of just passing to the back four). His style of play is exactly like xabi alonso except he lacks any kind of long pass range with chelsea and lacks any desire to put in tackles to stop opponents. Till he does those two things, he is not good enough for our team in my opinion.

How many assists does mata have this season because its getting ridiculous. #Assistking

Voted leif. Very clear posts, he is a good man. Skipper is a close second.

Double post

Does he have a high potential? Yes Will the media make it hard for him because of inexperience in the EPL? Most definately Will he be benched in chelsea for a long time if he has one bad peformance? Yes Will he have to wait for only the capital one cup and few fa cup matches to have a chance to play? Yes we all know because he will be behind ramires, mikel, romeu and possibly essien Do we want another example of lukaku's first season situation, where he had no playing time bcos pple thought he was not ready? No Because of all these questions, the best solution is to leave him in his club if they get promoted into the EPL and get him back in January if he shows he can peform at the highest level in england. If not, he can spend the full season there and return to chelsea with enough experience (30+ epl games in his belt) to challenge our DM's for the first team spot

Happy birthday mate,

Luiz + ivanovic have 4 clean sheets in 5games. Best centre back pairing.

Yesterday, someone asked my brother who scored for chelsea against manutd and he said torres. #aprilfooloftheday

He was the third best player yesterday after Ba and Cech. His runs open up a lot of space. Anytime hazard is on the ball, I wish the other players will take note that he plays far better wen his teamates are making runs ahead of him. That's why he enjoys ba and mata. Its the same with messi in barca and messi in argentina. In barca, every player is running when messi is moving with the ball so he easily gets a return pass or an assist or gets more space to dribble since the defender is distracted by the teamates runs. But in argentina, they don't make half the runs pple do in barca, meaning messi ends up crowded out by 5 players that are not distracted and this is the case most times for hazard. He is the most mobile in our team, and thrives in more mobility from the players.

Perfect summer wish DLP - forget Moutinho, modric or benat. Just get cabaye since he has premier league experience and is cheaper than modric. CM/AM - bring back KDB, sell marin(sorry he's useless) Strikers - bring back lukaku, sell torres, buy lewandoski Get Essien, benayoun, malouda, off our wage bills. Get rid of benitez. Oh dreams....:wut:

I was so frustrated with that ping pong football, especially as they all didn't find any target. Anyways you're right, marin and moses made it difficult for them with pathetic peformances.

That was no excuse for that nonsense they were doing. Torres was the striker and not drogba, they can't be pumping balls foward and hoping drogba does all the work for them anymore. If david luiz did that the whole forum will be screaming and slating him. They could have done it once in a while but not pumping the ball in the sky every single time If they kept it simple between theirselves and allowed the attackers to drop in, we wouldn't have had an abmysal first half with only 39% possesion.

What type of tactics were we playing with cech, ivanovic, lampard and terry pumping the ball anywhere foward anytime??

Azpi please you are so good but u need one year training on your crosses

This guy here is the NEW LEADER of our team.

One thing that people failed to mention, who was lampard trying to find in the sky through out the match

Wat the fuck is with mikel and his high positioning in this match

Mikel as shit as ever not staying in his position. In front of the fucking defence

If these players can't put a decent peformance, then they shouldn't be good enough for chelsea next season. They should be able to put a strong peformance today.

I love how vanpersie has turned to torres and ba. Missing clear cut chances. How did he miss dat last minute chance lol

They can't lose anymore money can they?

I don't know if its just me but, I think neymar has gotten worse than he used to be. He used to be better at dribbling, passing, shooting, crossing and even his vision seems to have reduced. Hazard is looking the better player now, I wouldn't have imagined that a year ago.

People are forgetting that mourinho also brings in fans for the club (just like rupert follows benitez). He attracts a lot of media attention and indirectly means more money to chelsea. I miss how he takes all the media pressure to himself and reduces pressure on our players. All these media that hate chelsea will have something else to write about with mourinho at the helm.

Can we stick to the match thread and ignore that rupert or better yet ban him.

Congrats to super lamps for being the highest goal scoring midfielder (28goals) for england ahead of david platt(27goals) :bluescalf: