The Mak

I think i'll wait till the end of the transfer window to fully judge this transfer....

To be fair, Benitez would've attempted the same, but it probably would've ended 2-2 like Reading and Southampton....

My main point is that we have other areas in need of investment, ST, DM and even another solid CB. For Lewa in particular, I know his situation, but I can't believe another club hasn't put in a bid of say 30m for him just to see what would happen. Dortmund would obviously rather sell now and (even when I remove my blue glasses) it's not inconceivable that his head would be turned just a little bit if a CL club like us made the bid.

I don't understand why we can't just spend the 32m on a striker or CDM...Lewandowski, De Rossi anyone?

Lukaku might actually start this one. I think José might use the 'Lukaku Vs. Benteke for the national team' thing to try and light a fire under Romelu. I still think he'll mainly be used as super-sub material like he was at West Brom though.

Great display. I know he likes to put power in his shots and get them off quickly, but a little less power and a little more accuracy couldn't hurt. It would've been nice for him to get one on target. Fantastic debut though.

The usual Torres below mediocrity display. Even when we were on top he never really imposed himself on the game. I doubt he'll start against Villa. If he does, it's only because José is probably saving Ba for United considering he likes to score against them.

What I was going to say. If we can win against Hull and Villa within the first 30mins and relax for the rest of the game considering we didn't have big guns like Mata & Luiz, not to mention the niggles with Moses and Mikel, then I'm very happy. It means we can go all out against United.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11675/8859737/transfer-news-tottenham-in-talks-with-toulouse-over-midfielder-etienne-capoue Looks like he'll be off to Tottenham. A player I really like, and I think we could do with in the pivot, going to a team I absolutely detest. Fuck them anyway. They'll lose Bale and won't be a significant threat to us anymore. 3 point lane!

I just want to mention something about these fucking clueless random football 'fans' commenting on Luiz-Barca articles: they are some of the stupidest people I have ever witnessed in my entire life. How they considered themselves knowledgeable, in any sense of the word, is nothing short of a miracle. Someone who has only seen one football match ever would not come up with some of the shit they say. Gems like: "luiz to barcelona fabergas to united rooney to chelsea ,evrybody wins" which was actually responded with "Your comment has got a lot more 'dislikes' than 'likes' but it is probably spot on for what will happen!!" Again: "Lets hope this happens..... If Chelsea allow Luiz to go, this would pave the way for Ronney to come to the club. As surely Barca would let Fabrigas go to Man United then in turn would allow Rooney to move on....." "Pave the way", I love that. A defender being sold would 'pave the way' for a new striker. Or can Rooney play CB too?!? Or: "Let the merry go round commence... Cesc to United, Luiz to replace him at Barca and with Cesc signed United can get rid of Rooney to Chelsea!" Luiz is going to replace Fabregas in midfield accroding to this fellow, he'll eventually replace Xavi then I guess.... Then there's just plain ignorant/bitter ones: "David luiz is possibly the most over rated defender in the premier league. Granted when playing cdm he isnt bad but for Barcelona to be interested baffles me. Gets found out against all the top teams." I like the way he doesn't even give an example... Idiots. Especially those who believe in some sort of domino effect between a fucking defender, midfielder and striker; they're a special kind of stupid. So this is for all those random football 'fans' (not say their ours specifically) commenting on stuff they obviously haven't got a fucking clue about:

As long as Jose doesn't try to turn him into the 'new Mikel', then great! I doubt it though, because MvG can actually move!

Oh Didier, it's amazing how you can still make us all laugh at Arsenal from outside the premier league! '264 users are reading this topic' Are you watching Arsenal fans?!

Or simply just giving minutes to as many players as possible...

Jim tbfh!

Safari on a Mac then it seems...Chrome works fine!

While we're on this topic, I can't see the tabs at the top of the homepage (Home, Forums, Archive, Club, etc.) when browsing on a Mac. No biggie; I just set my bookmark to forum.talkchelsea.net so I can come straight here, but I thought I might mention it in case new people arrive and they can see the forum etc. (This is since the big update!)

Eh....Reus?

Oh but we can only hope...

General Ayub....seems legit.

My thoughts exactly, great post mate.

I didn't want to say it in those terms, but yes, I agree!

Careful Choulo, you're starting to sound an awful lot like one of those Mikel-bashers you so despise!

It is! I think it's right after it happened to be honest!

I love the fact that José purposefully paired KDB with Lampard for training. No doubt to learn as much from the master as he can! (and to keep Lamps on his toes!)

Oh look, ignore the football and attack me. No surprise there then since you were wrong. Go talk to yourself about non-footballing matters, I won't derail the thread.