Rubber bullets

And will Essien give a shit. No. He will be happy that he somehow still will be playing for a big club, when last year he was close to being sold to smaller club personally.

Why? Done nothing wrong.

Yes goals are nice, but if your playing in the pivot then you have more important task to take care off, I mean for god sakes the likes of Newcastle were piking him off, even in the game against Villa he was struggling to compose himself before Villa were down to 10 men. He either accepts a much reduced role or reinvents himself as a midfielder who will sacrifice goals for the ability to play as a deep-lying play maker.

Again, nice (but pitiful) to get worked up on someone who has no impact on your life and won't know that I called him shit. Enough to make a person weep.

And 995 (unless they are incredibly deluded) also know that Essien would not give a shit to know them personally - whats your point. You seem really defensive and insecure to keep clapping on about how everyone agrees with you and that your the king of objective fact over subjective issues, chill mate. Must have had a lonely childhood.

More the fact that we have to accommodate him in the formation, he hardly does the job of a pivot DM because he is always acting as if he is in a 4-3-3 that is set up to allow him to run into the box ever time we go forward. We still can't control a game for shit a lot of the time an we really need a Modric type player to take his place and downplay his role to that of a squad player.

Gave a stupid back pass to the box that was latched on to a City player, took a shot, parried by Hilario and went to the feet of Barry who scored on the rebound.

Wow, your pretty confident about yourself on what is a subjective debate about the morals of the world. I mean from what you said, you basically argued that the idea that Essien earns ridiculous amounts in a week should not be compared to the fact that many people live in fear of their lives. But, I guess since your so confident then it must be that 99 agree with you on that principle you give (sarcasm),

Thank god Oscar did that during a friendly and no in an important game.

That does not alter the fact that Lampard is not the ''complete' midfielder that you sing about. He is an aging midfield who has lost a lot of his athleticism but can still pop up with a goal every and then. Good for as an impact squad player but it would be suicidal to make him one of the main cornerstones of the team

Lol how about no (what makes you think you have the objective and absolute truth in this issue). Its nice (if pitiful) that you are defending someone that does not know you and will never make an effort to find out. You argue about the injustice of people living in fear about their lives and homes on a daily basis, but what about the fact that people like Essien earn ridiculous amounts of money for what is essentially a hobby for most people on a Saturday afternoon and he can't do that properly - clearly your perspectives on life are agreed by most. I mean god, you pullout the "but he does things for charity card". Well so does Craig Bellamy, that won't alter peoples view that he is an ugly looking twat, so that won't change my views on Essien.

Yet funnily enough it was when Mikel replaced Lampard against Man Utd that we suddenly managed to control the game and almost win it (but doing a remarkable job of scoring two to equalize against them). A big reason that he was played a lot is simply because of the ridiculous small squad we have. But it was Mata, Hazard, Cech, Azpi and Luiz who were are big game players this season, the ones that were consistent throughout, we still struggled in a lot of games (Benfica being a perfect example but those players helped us all through them.

So apply that logic to players who earn at least £60,000 a week, enjoying the high life, have all of their injuries and living needs taken care off. Where many people have to work and work, spend 3 years studying hard, budgeting so we can afford just to eat shit food in the hopes that we can earn half of what they earn in a year. I don't need to treat him with nothing of respect. i only care about the team I support, not the individuals who earn huge amounts of money despite being shit at their job. Lol at the treat him like a brother comment. Why? He doesn't give a shit about you or me personally, you will never know him apart from at most a 5 second autograph signing. He lives in a completely different world from you and me, so there is no need to be sensitive about him, fuck it people don't do it for other people like Torres or Malouda.

If you are a fan who wants to improve the team, you would no want Michael 'no kneecaps' Essien in it. How the hell does he improve a team nowadays? His addition to the Real Madrid squad did no improvements to their abilities on the pitch. The image that best sums up him in recent years is him smiling after the Man City match, where his stupidity cost us a penalty that led us losing the game.

Fuck off Essien you useless bag of shit. Its going to be grating watching Jose try and put Essien back in the starting 11 out of some miffed up relationship they have. I mean calling him daddy, what a twat.

Yes, the Man City game and the Man Utd games clearly showed what a complete midfielder he was and how the games was controlled by him (sarcasm)

We don't need two big egos managing the team, atleast have Jose be the egotist and have a Steve Clarke type charater who is more subdue.

We look so ill composed defensively, won't be surprised Everton wining this game.

But you are basically supporting my point that where we are is not down to simply Jose who did it all by himself, but through years and years of work done by numerous people all the way back to the days of Ruud Gullit. Anyway, you can't discredit him for being the one who put Terry and Lampard, seen as two the most essential players for the club the last decade, as cornerstones in the team

One thing I won't miss about Rafa is his absolute rigidness when it comes to formations.

What a patronizing and arrogant assumption. And what about the likes of Ranieri and even as far back as Gullit who set up the foundations to get us into playing in the Champions league which help get us bought by Roman. Remember a huge part of the core that were part of the back to back title winning side (Lampard, Terry, Makelele, Gudjohnsen, Duff, Gallas, Joe Cole etc) were put together and reigned in by Ranieri. Even as far back as Gullit and Vialli, we were winning cups both domestically and in Europe. There was so much more that happened that made us into what we were in. As with what Toronto said, he is a good manager but he will benefit again massively by inheriting a good side and having huge transfer funds to work with. It's the huge ego I will not be looking forward to and the certain conflicts he will get into with everyone including the club itself.

But is it also the case of will Jose stay here for long. At heart Jose does seem to have conflict written in his blood. In 3 of his jobs as manager (Benfica, Chelsea and now Real Madrid) he has left because, at least in part, tensions and fissures started to from between him and the board. If its correct from reports he won't get full control of everything football related like transfers. I can't see it any other way then that sooner or later he will start getting into conflict with the hierarchy and eventually have to leave like last time because his relationship with the board and other members of the club become too tense to work properly.

I think this is the first time we absolutely agree on something!

Its sort of matters in this new world of financial play rules. And him getting a new contract means that his wages are now put in front of direct ffp scrutiny when i comes to Chelsea's spending. For someone who should be at best a squad layer, £120,000 is way too much considering that the likes of Mata, Luiz and even Hazard earn less then him despite being far more important to our performance this season and contributing the most. It also gives us the potential uncomfortable situation of these players demand bigeer wages on new contracts of threatening to demand a transfer (just what Lampard ad Terry both did n 2008 and 2009)

I rather he would leave to make way for a younger player like Ake or Chalobah to have that role and start gradually becoming regulars in the first team.