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You and me both mate.

Michu, you fucking legend!

If we were to buy Isco, I could imagine us loaning out Marin instead. Isco is miles ahead of Marin as a player and could play a big part in our team straight away (if we were to sign him).

If that means Ba starting against Stoke, I can live with that. I'm pretty sure we can beat Swansea even with Torres on the field, but I don't think we can beat Stoke with Torres playing instead of Ba.

Congratulations Spike!

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Britton, De Guzman, Ki, Routledge, Dyer, Graham Still a lot of creative players there. Capable of beating Arsenal I think.

Planning to sell Luiz? I seriously doubt it mate.

I hope Ba doesn't play. Williams will try to kill the lad.

True, but Lamps is 35 and he's not going to play every game. He's also not the 20-goal-per-season midfielder he once was. (I wouldn't get your hopes up about those rumours mate. Just wait for something official and you'll save yourself a lot of stress. )

Not exactly. He most likely has a limited amount of games left to play for us, so he should take every chance he gets to beat the all-time record.

I've been calling for this for over a year now, so I'm not going to get my hopes up.

That's a good point!

You either have an insanely good memory, an eidetic memory... or you know of a fairly reliable statistics website.

Considering the level Shaw is at now at the age of just 17, I think he has the potential to be a lot better than Bertrand.

Definitely. That's actually a very under-rated quality in a full-back. IIRC, Azpi assists Hazard's goal against West Brom with a left-footed cross after cutting back from his right. 7 million, is that what he cost? A bargain. It's so hard to find a quality full-back nowadays.

I agree fully with this. But he usually does have a good cross. He's whipped in some lovely crosses and has a few assists this season so far. But his crossing was woeful today, like you said. And it really is delightful to have a quality right back. I was never convinced by Ivanovic at right back, I much prefer him at centre-back. But yeah, Azpi was awesome today.

Fucking hell. How? How do they always do it?

In what way has Lampard taking penalties ever affected the team's morale or performance?

The biggest cheer from me today came when Lampard scored that penalty. I desperately want him to become our all-time top scorer. He deserves it.

I can see where you're coming from mate, although the word 'disagrace' might be a bit too harsh. But surely you can understand, after everything Lampard has given to this club, why Lampard took it himself?

Ba is going to get all the headlines, and he deserves them to be fair. It was a breath of fresh air to have a striker that poses a constant goal threat. But how good was Mata? It just shows how much we missed him against QPR. How many times did he take the ball down from the air with an amazing first touch? And with ease too. It's no secret, but Mata is truly a class act. A future CFC legend.

Demba Ba's first Chelsea game: - 2 goals for Ba - 2 assists for Mata - 1 assist for Hazard Need I say any more?

No Mikel?

I think it's pretty likely that we'll still bid for a top striker in the summer. Ba seems to have been signed as a way to help us out for the remainder of the season with us playing so many games. I reckon we'll sign a top striker in the summer and Lukaku will go somewhere on another loan move.