GermanBlue

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MvG on game time at Chelsea
"That has been indicated to me. I will get minutes. From the conversations I have had, they are coming."
"In my position, in the middle, there are 4 or 5 candidates at Chelsea. There is great competition, but you expect that at a top club."
Good.

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1544383/everton-loanee-romelu-lukaku-was-90-per-cent-sure-chelsea-stay?campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=5739

Fair enough as the club wants to end the rumours, too, and wants the player to be able to totally focus on his performances.

I remember one of our new signings of last season (anyone remembers who?) saying that Juan knows every corner of London so to say. If you tell him you want to eat a pizza or something, he knows exactly where you can eat the best pizza in London and all this stuff. It seems that he's really settled by now.

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Mata was again overlooked for the internationals so he'll be one of the few players staying at Cobham to train with Jose for the next week or so. Trust Mourinho to get him back to full fitness in time for Everton so he can give a massive fuck you to those who doubted his role under Jose.

So they didn't play the current Champions, and beat them, today then?

Just a stat to throw in here:
"Most goals + assists in the PL since August 2011: van Persie 75, Rooney 55, Agüero 47, Bale 44, Mata 43, Suárez 42, Walcott 40, Dzeko 36" @WhoScored

Just a stat to throw in here:
"Most goals + assists in the PL since August 2011: van Persie 75, Rooney 55, Agüero 47, Bale 44, Mata 43, Suárez 42, Walcott 40, Dzeko 36" @WhoScored

Lukaku isn't an idiot. He realises Benteke is playing at a club that is probably mid-table at best whilst he's at a club pushing for domestic and European honours.
So he probably doesn't think that, does he?
He hasn't ignored him. He's a young man with immense potential and we've played 3 games in 8 days at the start of the season. He'll get his chances and I'm confident he'll take them, but people need to be a bit more patient.

Come on, you're being naive. Okay, Ba hasn't been that good for Chelsea but if you think Torres is better than Ba then you must've been sleeping for the last two and a half years. Forgetting the price, Ba has been a much better striker than Torres over the last 2 and a half years, that's fact. Torres was not the best striker before he joined Chelsea, that's nonsense. I love how people are willing to forget how garbage Torres has been over the last 2 and a half years but when Ba has a rough 6 months with us it's easy to write him off.
Anelka was exactly the same when he joined us in January 2008 and guess what? He finished top scorer in the league the season after, after he had a proper pre-season with the team.
Again, I love how you're saying "forget the stats" but then being them up for your convenience when it comes to your argument against Ba. Ba has scores 2 in 14? Torres has 8 in 36. To even say Torres has been better than Lukaku last season is absolutely laughable.
You can't just forget their wages or prices either. Ba was brought to be the 2nd/3rd choice striker, whilst Torres was bought to be the leading striker. You can't have a £50m who's on £175k a week as your 2nd choice striker. That's nonsense.
Ba's been off form in his last couple of games so it's easy for people to look at him and write him off. Torres has ended the season quite well and people are willing to forget his whole time here. It's nothing short of delusional I think.

Yup. "Chelsea and José Mourinho have told us that Kevin will definitely go back to Chelsea next season."

Ivanovic blocking the entire Belgium wall.

PICTURE OF THE DAY!

ok it's officially in all belgian media as well! YES!!!
Also love his quote: "I'm sure I can play as many games as at West Brom + if I don't manage to succeed at the Bridge this season, I got to be honest and admit I don't deserve to go to the WC in Brazil!"
Love his ambition and I'm sure he will succeed!
We better get used to this image boys:

So wait....we've got rid of Benayoun and Malouda today, there's a transfer bid for Mikel and we're closing in on Cavani.
Lads, get out on the town tonight and go for the fittest bird you see because our fucking luck is in today.

I just can't see Ba leaving after just a half year. If one striker leaves, it will be Torres. Ba is the perfect rotation striker to me.
There's a bigger chance of Hazard doing the false 9 like at Juventus than Schürrle playing the striker I think. And for a reason. Schürrle is awful if he plays alone up front. I can see him as a second striker, but not alone.

Who'd pay that 63m though? Even City will think about this.

Timid. Passive.
Afraid? Scared?
These are the words I think of when I see Josh play nowadays. People comment on his size but whatever his frame might be, he makes himself look half as small. I'm not going to get into the blame game regarding his career, but I'm terrified about his future because of his seeming mental fragility. If you look at players like Wilshere then there's a tenaciousness to their football. It's one thing to have the talent (which Josh has in abundance) but it's another thing to decide to use it and impose yourself on the game.
I can't recall ever seeing him really fight, really grab a game by the scruff of the neck and drag his team forward.
In terms of loan, I have no idea where we could send him because the team has to really be built around him not just going forward but also in defence. You need players who can cover his deficiencies in workrate and tackling which means a three man midfield is a must (in my opinion). I've said it before but I think that he might be better off staying here and being used off the bench and in league cup games mainly for the influence of Jose. It's tough to expect another team to build around him when he's only there for a year.
But it's worrying to think that he's been leapfrogged by Nat who is two years younger than him. Even Ake has caught up with him and if he's not careful then Loftus-Cheek may also be ahead of him in the pecking order for that midfield two before the season is up. Starting to think that this season could be a make-or-break season for him.

Who'd pay that 63m though? Even City will think about this.

Who'd pay that 63m though? Even City will think about this.

It's ok, he's been given the lead role in a remake of Titanic...