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If he stayed, he would have been a squad player and then sold anyway - would laugh if he went to Citeh!

Usual Chelsea deal on deadline - a transfer to make Jim to show his brilliance:D

RVP, Rooney, Welbeck, Berbatov and then Hernandez, got a large amount of strikers with the latter two not really being consitent enough nor good enough to compete imo, especially when they have Macheda, and some other young strikers who will have one good game and then be highly touted as the next God of football. Wouldn't want him here, but could see him go to a team like Sunderland in a surprise deal or something like that and then score a large amount of goals. Or maybe i am being deluded, you guys choose

Wasn't there another player who came from the academy, who went on loan to Forest? And isn't that guy meant to be like a legend? Destiny!

Rather ahave sammy on the right-back position, but i could see Roberto making the same decision - this should have been the team (attacking wise) that should have started for us!

Poor game performance. Defense seemed to have there balls chopped off when Ivan got sent off, for a pretty stupid challenge, especiall from someone like hismelf. Nice to see Torres score, i think if he is given the chances he will make them count, and nice to see him trying to make runs - but needs to curve around players except for running into them and hoping they would flop over undoubtly. Mikel was annoying to watch, and just doesn't know how to pass forward - at all. Think we might have gotten something out of it if Ivan didn't get sent off, and if Daniel started instead of Ramires - not a big fan of Rambo on the wings.

I ahte it that we have a new squad (well, essentially) and yet most key players haven't been here for pre-season. We are left with the same questions now as we did before Seattle, with other questions being asked and more faults coming into alignment!

Put Rambo where Raul is, Raul subbed for ANYONE - and then sold!

I can't believe a championship side is tearing us apart! Next week we are against Manchester City, yet we can't seem to be able to defend!

FFS....

Bring back Didier and clone him 10 times, and we will win everything!

And there it is. The same thing that has happened to many times this pre-season, poor defending....

OMFG! Did i fall asleep and dream or did we just score?

Mancini out, Term X in!

Rambo can't cross consistently

Match is so boring the commentators have decided to make this a lesson on Birghton Albion's history.

Brana is our most attacking threat...

FFS! It is only 10 million for a player we need at RB!

Any stream links?

You can overstate and claim to interpretate what i say in your own way, but i can;t see how a player that is still 19 years old could have his career summed up from a couple pre-season game.Just because he hasn't hit the ground running from the start, doesn't mean he can't improve -- and i do agree that he has a poor first touch and he needs to close down better, but these are things that could be developed with a few good loans. What i do get is how some people can be obnoxious to insimulate that Lukaku will not have a career here, yet again, down to pre-season games - with a team playing a new style, with new players - and didn't score like 100 goals and therefore will never reach the expectation. Maybe he is the great Wizard who decieted everyone by pretending to be this poor peasant, but only to reveal himself over a period of time to be a grand and rich noble who will gift the patient and virtuous people? Maybe he is a donkey? But that main point is that he is young, young enough to improve. He has strengths, he has weaknesses, like many teenage footballer players have - but by the look of it, he will forever be in the shadow of the one person he adored, Drogba. A player who players completely differently, and is a legend for this club, but due to the fact Lukaku has this amazing physical aspect the comparisons will stick and so will the high expectation - you can't have two different pies and love them both as much in a pie eating contest! What i truly don't understand is the amount of tribulation that has come out against him, from a few games, when he didn't really play at all last season, except for the reserves where he was scoring goals (like a striker should!) and some pre-season games. Just beacause we have only Torres and Sturridge as strikers, the majority think Lukaku could step up and be a saviour if the other two fail, which i can't see happening from a 19 year old, but i have the hope he could succeed, after all this was the first team he got the chance to represent the club he loves and maybe the reality of it finally hit him. Overall, my opinion that he is 19 years of age and the areas of his game could increase greatly with game time, maybe not here, in order to get a better feel of the style of play. His positioning, passing, first touch are the areas that need to be improved, and he has a couple of seasons to fix that! In a few years time he could be a the dark horse of the team, or he could be just a donkey pretending to be a horse. Send him on loan for two years, then reevaluate him, not from some pesky pre-season games where the team as a whole failed to impress the majority/reach expectation.

No Kalou to hate on, and now Lulu is the victim.

I was kidding hehehe

Malouda has been sold to Santos? Really, can we celebrate

Josh, Oscar, etc could be used for the Under 21 which isn't restricted, right?

Meant in the defense, he wasn't that bad. Actually he impressed me greatly!