Reddish-Blue

He needs to keep developing at his current club. Hope he doesn't end up like Matej Delac (our on loan Croatian goalkeeper). He was touted as Croatia's next International keeper...then he joined Chelsea and ruined his career.

Expecting a 1-0 win for either team. If Sturridge is fit, hopefully he gets to play, watching Torres just stand around in the box just makes me sick. I think it was Alan Shearer who said that Torres' lack of movement makes it easier for the opposition's defence.

Overall, we managed a clean sheet and our counter attack looks good. The biggest problem is Fernando Torres. His lack of movement in the box is pathetic for a player that used to be recognized as one of the 'best' strikers in Europe.

I completely agree. Also, I don't think Luiz and Cahill will EVER be a good partnership. Whenever they play together, we have no 'leader' at CB, both of them are like headless chickens and we tend to leak 2-3 goals a game. If we wanna see Luiz develop into a solid defender who has the odd poor performance, he needs to play alongside someone like JT for a full two seasons.

When he finally starts playing in the first team, we'll have another option for the left-side of our attack. He'd be the perfect substitute in a tight match. Last 20-25 minutes, bring on Moses and/or Marin and let them run at tired defenders, try to make something happen.

Whats with all these Anti-Hazard posts? With the correct manager and tactics, Hazard should develop into a world-class player & possibly our best attacker in a few seasons. No offence to Oscar but I see his future as a CM and as for Mata, he's already great. Just imagine Mata, Hazard, Moses and a clinical striker playing together upfront in 2-3 seasons, the opposition's defence will be in serious trouble!

I dont know about reliable info...but according to the Telegraph: Hazard is going to get wages of £4.6 million a year net of tax, so around £9  million a year for his new employer. That averages out to be £170,000 a week.

Couldn't care less who Rafa plays. A win is what we need.

Don't know why we made a complaint in the first place.

All three in the same window? That would be f**king awesome...but I doubt Porto are gonna let go of James anytime soon. Let's just get one of Falcao/Cavani and a proper DM/CM who can compete with Mikel, Rambo, Romeu.

You must really like Lewandowksi. The guy has talent and he's a good goalscorer, but I'd take Cavani, RvP, Falcao ahead of him anyday

Obviously Reus would be playing better, he's used to playing in the Bundesliga and Klopp's tactics play to his strengths. As for Willian, he's 24, he started to mature as a player from around last year and now he's capable of influencing a match at any level. Hazard has had a mixed first season in the EPL but I wouldn't say he has been disappointing. I remember when the Hazard transfer was confirmed, the Lille coach and a number of Hazard's Belgian teammates came out to the media and told them that although Hazard is a special talent, it will take him a season or two to find his feet in the EPL.

Ramires will be a good player...but I don't think he'll be able to replace Essien. Essien at his peak was the complete midfielder, he could basically play anywhere in midfield. As for Robbie not being the right guy...if you're under that much pressure as a manager, your first instinct will be to use the more experienced players rather than bring through youngsters from the academy/reserves. If you want a successful youth system, you need to give your manager at least a 2-3 year period where you will back him 100% (unless of course your club starts seriously crumbling).

That kid is a massive talent.

Just looking at Rafa in a Chelsea kit is weird. He's suited to the colour RED not Blue. I'm just glad he's only here as an interim manager.

I just read that article! So Roman and the board force RDM to use Torres...even though he never suited our style of play...and then, RDM gets the sack for not being able to bring the best out of Torres. When a player is finished, thats it. Unless he's a legend for the club, Sell him off and move on.

So i guess both Eddie and Steve will be leaving the club.

I'm not trying to defend Benitez. I feel absolutely disgusted by the sacking of RDM, I personally didn't think he'd survive beyond the season..but to sack him like that was just wrong. For all we know, RDM might have been able to turn around this rough patch of form and results, those pundits on SkySports summed it up perfectly..'after the City match, Chelsea have a number of fixtures that can easily be won..' I'll never understand Roman or the Chelsea board's way of thinking...why sack a young manager at the top level in November, just to go and hire a free agent interim manager. Keeping Robbie till the end of the season would have made more sense. But at the end of the day, RDM is gone, just like Mourinho, Ancelotti (both of whom are world-class managers)...and once again, we're left with instability at the club.

I bet if Guardiola ever became Chelsea manager...and he was given a Barcelona kit, he'd sign it. In the same way, Rafa signed the Liverpool kit.

Just to point out, it was Benitez who signed Alonso from some mid table Spanish club, gave him the chance to improve as a player and Benitez reaped the rewards when Alonso started to hit his prime. I don't like the appointment of Benitez but you gotta live with it.

That's good news...if only we had a striker who could take advantage of Citeh's defence without Kompany.

Meh. Rafa is here and he's our coach, we might as well support him. It's not like posting quotes from 5 years ago is going to change the fact that Roman gave the job to Rafa.

True that. I think investing in a better DM would be a good option.

This. Our midfield lacks a proper high energy DM. Mikel is good but if we could get someone 'better', that would be awesome. I think we have 2 playmakers that have the ability to play deep in the future. 1. Oscar 2. De Bruyne. Hopefully in January, we can get a young, cheap CB with good qualities like Jores Okore and then in the summer, we could go after a real top-class CB like Hummels, that Greek dude playing for Schalke...etc.

Fair point, he's probably up there with Mark Hughes who just had to sign an entire starting XI worth of strikers at Citeh..and then went to QPR and decided to sign like 20 players in one window.