Thendo

Let's do this! Very excited for this! COYB!

Great news if true!

Ridiculous...

Come on...

MATIC what a guy! Happy for Salah aswell!!

Good to see Salah getting a start, but a bit strange to see Hazard being rested (?) not many games left and he should have the stamina to play every single one.

We need to win this one! Even if we don't end up winning the league a 2nd place behind city is much more acceptable than finnish 3rd behind both them and pool...And not to mention the fact we really need to bounce back and get a positive result ahead of Tuesday, after 2 consecutive defeats. Cech Ivan---JT---Cahill---Azpi/Cole Matic--Lamps Salah--- Oscar---Hazard Ba

Tbh he has to say something like that when asked directly. But it sounded pretty clear that we will get a "top" striker come summer, whatever happens to Torres I don't care aslong as he isnt playing for us. I'd rather have him rot in the u-21's ala Malouda if he refuses to leave than him taking up a squad/bench role...

I kinda like it, a bit refreshing with a striped kit and not only the plain colour ones.

Very dissapointing result, decent first half but a terrible second. We're still in it tho, it will be tough but it's not impossible!

For fuck sake....

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SO close!!!

uncalled for by Wilian

GET IN!½!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

suprise suprise Ramires getting a yellow...

....Worst possible start....sigh

Come on Chelsea!

I kinda like this line up. It's time Schurrle got a start as a striker, especially when the other option is either Torres or Ba now that Eto is out.

That's a hefty punishment! Quite hilarious aswell seeing that they've got some gaping holes in the defence and gk department (unless Ter Stegen was somehow signed before all this). Wouldn't be suprised if they get around the ban somehow tho... Btw imagine if they'd revealed this yesterday, everyone would've thought it was a april fools joke.

TAKE OFF FOR FRANCE Posted on: Tue 01 Apr 2014 A squad of 19 players has this morning left England for Paris. Samuel Eto'o continues to be unavailable due to the hamstring problem that forced his early withdrawal from the win over Arsenal and absence from the weekend game at Crystal Palace. Ashley Cole remains out with a knee ligament injury suffered in training prior to the home game against Tottenham last month. Ramires, currently serving a three-game suspension from domestic football, is available for Champions League action, however Nemanja Matic and Mohamed Salah are not having played in the competition this season for their previous clubs. The travelling squad is: Petr Cech, Mark Schwarzer, Hilario, Branislav Ivanovic, David Luiz, Gary Cahill, John Terry, Nathan Ake, Cesar Azpilicueta, Tomas Kalas, Ramires, Frank Lampard, Oscar, John Mikel Obi, Eden Hazard, Willian, Andre Schurrle, Fernando Torres, Demba Ba. Jose Mourinho and one of the players will be speaking to the media at the Parc des Princes at approximately 5pm UK time. The conference can be followed via our @chelseafc Twitter account. The players will then train in the stadium http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3742953/title/take-off-for-france

Love it, quality banter!

Well, it might have been the case that he really wanted to stay in the PL but I don't completly buy it, I belive the move was mainly to get more minutes and book himself a ticket to Brazil this summer, and I suppose he didn't realise how bad things would turn out at Utd.

I feel kinda bad for him, he really should have waited til the summer for a move to the likes of PSG or so...doubt he's any closer to Spains NT squad than he was back in december.Now he's stuck in Manchester for aleast a couple of years or so, and probably without CL football aswell.