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Oh boo hoo, he didn't start at the beginning of the season. God forbid he showed some patience and worked hard to win that shirt. Other players have shown that ability but apparently that's beneath Romelu. In reality it's no skin off our nose if he talks his way out of the club. We'll get a decent fee for him and bring someone else in and still be successful. He can go off and have a lovely career far away from SW6.

He said himself that his season at West Brom in some way entitled him to start for Chelsea. The guy is fucking delusional, or insanely entitled which is impressive for someone who has done pretty much fuck all in the grand scheme of things. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and work hard and he would've probably had a good shot at starting for us next season. Instead he went to Jose and asked to leave. He did pretty much everything he could to sabotage his Chelsea career and he still can't shut up.

A real chance? You mean handed to him on a plate because he got chances in 3 of the first 4 matches and then asked to leave because his competition was Torres, Ba and Eto'o. Those are all facts. I'm sure he'd love to go to Atletico because there's no competition there. Juventus might not be his cup of tea because they might sign someone else. I suppose it's a good thing that Benteke got injured otherwise he might've asked for a transfer to the Algerian team.

He'll always have a place at Everton or West Brom. The thing is no young player has found as much good favour with Chelsea supporters off the bat as Lukaku. His talent, his resemblance to a Chelsea legend and his professed love of the club meant he had to do some mind-numbingly stupid things to make a lot of fans so ambivalent towards him. And boy has he done that. He seems intelligent but he just says the wrong thing over and over and over again that you wonder if there's any self-awareness rattling around inside his head. What type of people is he surrounding himself with if there's no-one there simply to tell him to shut up once in a while? He's just so frustrating. Last season he had the chance to establish himself at a top Champions League club....and he asked to go to Everton.

I'm not entirely sure how you're in a position to know that, but I disagree with it being a 'fact'. Chelsea is one of the world's biggest clubs. If Lukaku doesn't want to play for us then that's fine by every single supporter this club has because we'll survive without him.

If he wants to play for a club like Chelsea then he should probably stop talking so much.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27852571 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/15/qatar-world-cup-bid-2022 I know some people like to have a pop at the English media (often from a position of naivety and ignorance) but it's actually something the people in this country should be rightly proud of for the most part. When it comes to investigative reporting, we have a fine tradition of fine work as well as one of the best examples of a truly free media. That some would try to besmirch that is utterly pathetic.

I think it speaks to your naivety that you use terms like 'neutral media' when there is no media without bias anywhere in the world.

Every time you post a link I get this sense of deja vu, that I'm going to Google the source of a quote in your link and see something that undermines the credibility of the comments being made. I wonder if that will be the case this time. Goes to link...sees source of comments are the CEO of a telecoms firm called Ooredoo. Googles Ooredoo and finds Wikipedia article about them. Looks at who their chairman is....Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani (born February 28, 1966) is a Qatari prince[1] and former minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Rinse...repeat....rinse....repeat....

So your source is a media outlet who can't get the name of Rupert Murdoch correct? One of the most important figures in world media, and they get his name wrong? Bravo young sir, bravo.

He's never had a decent target in the box.

Mikel and Ramires out for 30-35 million and Song in for 10 million. Matic and Fabregas as main starters with Song, Van Ginkel and Chalobah backing up as well as the possibility of Tiago is a strong line-up.

Crosses to whom? Brazil's problem is a bit similar to our's in that neither of us have a decent target man (or had in our case hopefully).

And here we have Luiz in a nutshell. Great game but falls asleep/loses concentration and the opposition capitalises. It was hardly a moment of genius that undid him either, simply a near-post run that he didn't track...much like Anichebe's run against West Brom. Football is a 90 minute game and it only takes one mistake for the other team to knick a goal. If the referee hadn't been bought then it probably wouldn't have been so easily swept under the carpet, but that's PSG's problem now.

That would be the former Secretary General of FIFA....I'm amazed that this leading light in the world of free media, the Gulf Times, is the only news outlet going with this story.

So any reputable sources?

Any other sources for that story apart from a newspaper called 'Gulf Times' whose chairman is Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah??

Missed him for a bit then was reminded of his naive defensive skills. That near-post run from Jelavic was a carbon copy of the one Anichebe made for West Brom. He just switches off at key moments and will ALWAYS give the opposition something. Then there were a few textbook long-passes that went straight off the pitch where a simple pass would've sufficed. As a bloke his personality might be missed, but as a player he won't be.

Best player on the pitch after a bit of a slow start, but that was back to his early season form when he was the best player in the team. 4 tackles, 3 interceptions, 3 key passes, 1 assist, 1 goal. Outstanding. Keep it up.

What bitter, classless cunts Barcelona really are. Hope he shoves that statement back down their throats in the Champions League next season.

"He's a specialist in failure," Mourinho, February 2014 "They have an ...incredible manager." Fabregas, June 2014

Gonna be weird seeing him in a Chelsea shirt and I still have some reservations over how he'll fit into the team, but it's another fine bit of business when you look at his price, the fact he's homegrown and he's a good player. I trust Jose and I hope he's a massive success here. Might be a while before my first reaction to seeing him is CUNT! but I'll try. Welcome to the only club in London to have won the Champions League Cesc - when it comes to the Sky interview before the Arsenal match, keep your mouth shut please.

The people moaning really aren't making much sense, but when you see who is doing the moaning then you come to realise that the logic or content of their moaning really isn't the point - it's moaning for the sake of it. Kalas needs games and he should get them in a competitive league. As fourth choice here he would get very few games unless we suffer a couple of injuries. With more full-back cover we can afford to play Ivanovic as CB and he is a very good CB. In fact in the Liverpool game he carried Kalas and was MOTM for me. Jose won't fiddle with the back four unless he needs to - just look at how Luiz was ignored for much of the second-half of the season. Kalas got a chance to train with the squad, learn what it is to be a footballer here and even got some first-team experience. Now he'll take that and apply it to a full season of first-team football (hopefully). Next it's probably one of Omeruo or Zouma's turn to experience that, possibly both.

Sends 21 year old on loan and will probably promote a 20 or 19 year old = short-term oriented.

He's a fairly unique player in the sense that he can run all day long (seemingly) and is capable of scoring goals and creating stuff....occasionally. He's also massively inconsistent and is amongst the stupidest players I've ever seen. His lack of composure, his temper (which has cost us) and the fact that you never know what you'll get from him with the ball at his feet are problems. To a certain extent we've already replaced him with Matic. If we get Fabregas then you'd expect those two to start and Ramires be reserved to a 60th minute role to secure the game and matches against teams who will look to dominate possession against us. Is that worth more than the £25 million Real Madrid have offered? Possibly. If we get Tiago then maybe we can do without him, and then there's Van Ginkel and Chalobah who show promise defensively. He's got three years left on his contract and he's 27. This is probably going to be the peak of his transfer value although you could probably wait a year and still get £18 million + for him whatever type of season he has. As much as I disliked what he contributed last season, I can see the logic of keeping him or at least holding out for more money from Madrid.