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Lukaku asked to leave on the last day of the transfer window. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/9048809/romelu-lukaku-made-a-transfer-request-at-chelsea-before-his-everton-loan Of course you can dispute that if you want. Why not? Might as well.

Sign Kroos or Pogba and push Fabregas forward. Play Schurrle either as 10 or move him to left-wing and put Hazard there. I hope Oscar improves because I think he has a lot of tools, but he's been poor for a while now. At some point it stops being a phase and starts being the norm.

Um, can we buy him please? Dictated the tempo, took his goals brilliantly and PRESSED.

Love this guy. Was absolutely brilliant when he came on and he's going to be awesome for us. Do it in the next one Andre.

Fucking hell he looks distraught. If he recovers from this then I'll be impressed.

He scored a goal. That's the brightest he's shone in the last six months.

Is this lack of effort in defending him a tribute to David Luiz? LOL.

You're magic - every time you defend David Luiz, he makes a mistake and Germany score again. Quick, I've got Germany to win 9-0. Convince me twice more how great a defender he is. Cheers.

At last. Would read the rest of the post but laughing at David Luiz just standing and watching the sixth goal go in. Will only respond if you actually talk about his defending for the first goal. You won't because you can't defend it.

This is where we differ. I think a player who gives up and doesn't fight for his place is probably going to struggle. Is that was Jose Mourinho wants from his players? Any answer other than NO is a flat-out lie.

So you don't actually want to talk about his marking for the goal? I talk about David Luiz's defending, you talk about his free-kicks. To be fair that's the best tactic. He sang the national anthem beautifully though.

First goal was his ability to mark Mueller and his positioning for every other goal was shocking, but you've put too much effort into defending him to stop now. Which is ironic considering how little effort Luiz puts into defending. LOL

He had chances in three of our first four games against good opposition. You can bury your head in the sand about that but it's the truth and yet he asked to leave. What has changed? Oh, we've got a better striker in. I swear the only thing more delusional than Lukaku are some of his defenders.

We did give him a chance, he asked to leave.

I love how they push Kagawa to the front purely to attract Asians. Obviously Rooney is there to attract fat useless cunts.

He doesn't want to play second fiddle. What the fuck are we supposed to do? He keeps on firing his mouth off and pissing everyone off. At some point he's more trouble than he's worth.

"For my development and with the World Cup coming up at the end of the season, I cannot afford to stay on the bench," Lukaku said, while on international duty with Belgium. Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/lukaku-expects-regular-playing-time-everton#LAIoW2ij4Irs3VIh.99

People are bored with his incessant talking. It's getting boring seeing him saying the wrong thing over and over again.

I'm happy that one of your last words was 'retarded'.....it's like a little tradition.

Which is a big 'if'. I'd be surprised if his future isn't sorted in the next few months either with a transfer or a new contract. His problem is he's still saying all the wrong things.

And that's a problem. He either signs a new contract now or he's sold in my opinion. His value is probably at it's peak now and it only drops from now until summer 2016.

A common refrain. Are you saying the tabloids are lying? Did he not say all these things? Chelsea supporters know him pretty well and are beginning to bore of his incessant commenting. I can show you links to so many comments where he just says the wrong thing, yet you want to defend him in increasingly desperate ways. The fact is I've praised him for his commitment to wanting to be the best footballer he can be, but his mouth is stopping him. It's a shame but a lot of Chelsea supporters have gone from loving this kid to actually not being bothered if he stays or goes.

What a ridiculous post. Seriously. It's an embarrassment. He is free to say what he want, but that doesn't mean he's free to say what he wants without consequence. His problem is he talks....and talks....and talks.....and talks. It doesn't help that he says the wrong thing so often, making himself sound a lot 'bigger' than he actually is and making a rod for his own back. If he just shut his mouth then he would've been playing for Chelsea last season. If he shut his mouth then he wouldn't have lost a huge amount of goodwill from the Chelsea support. And quite honestly posts like your's don't make him any more sympathetic. If the only post defending him is your's then he just looks like a bigger problem in all honesty because your post was absolutely ridiculous, favouring hyperbole (barely cogent hyperbole) over reasoned discourse. Throwing in allusions to slavery and maybe even a hint of racism (either intended or not) is heavy-handed and adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. It's a strawman....and it's complete bollocks as well.

So HE hasn't decided where HE wants to play and what would be best for HIM??? Are you serious? You'd have thought after that World Cup he'd just keep his head down for a bit but he says the wrong thing EVERY time. He's even managed to reduce his transfer value with those performances. Is anyone else absolutely bored of him?

One of the differences between James and Hazard is that Columbia built that team around James to get the best out of him. Fuck know's what Wilmots tactics were half the time but Eden was often marginalised and pushed to the side so De Bruyne became the most important player. Still Eden does have a habit of looking a bit disinterested at times. We can all remember the games where he did decide to show up and run at his marker at every opportunity but those still aren't frequent enough. He HAS to do it in damn near every game next season and if he does he becomes one of the best players in the world. And Jose has laid down the challenge. He's given him a very privileged position in the team but he's also been critical of him - it's Eden's job now to respond and I think he will....hopefully.