Rubber bullets

I honestly could not give a fuck what he thinks. Boo-hoo.

If a full independant inquiry comes to fruition, then I suspect all of the newspapers will be building gigantic paper shredders.

To just stand on the pitch like lemons and do nothing?

He will join Man City. He wont join Man Utd or Chelsea who were Arsanal and his biggest rivals.

I fear that AVB will try and convince many of the players 30+ to stay

Its a bit concerning that these stories about David Luiz keep popping up, even though he has just said he would relish the chance to play under AVB http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_7016064,00.html

Brazil play like England, slow, bland and unimaginitive.

Brazil at the moment are playing with the jitters. Its like some kidnapped 11 random strangers and forced them onto a football pitch to play as a team. Not a comfortable performance by the Brazilians

Anyone paying close attention to current tournament? Currently watching Brazil after seeing a very dissapointing Argentina draw 1-1 with Bolivia. With the way things are going, I can see Columbia being a very good dark horse in this years Copa America

Well, I dont think we need a player that has been forced to join us and want to be at another club.

I did a calculation of the mean average height of our squad and compared it to that of Manchester Unitd (as a variable). I decided to use the first choice 11 team that was used for Chelsea's win against Portsmouth in the 2010 FA Cup final while doing the same for the first 11 of Manchester United's team that lost to Barcelona in the 2011 Champions. The average height for the Chelsea starting eleven was an average of 6ft 1inches, compared to Manachester United's first 11 which the average height was a mere 5ft 8inches tall. It was well known that under Jose Mourinho, he prefered to have a squad that was full of tall, strong physical players, such as Drogba, Essien, Ballack, Lampard, Terry, Mikel ect. Who were either over 6ft tall or who had a large amount of physical strenght in order to use power and drive to win games and less on free flowing football.. Since the core of the team has remained after Jose left we still depend on power. Helped by the fact that we keep buying players like Anelka, Ivanovic and Ramires, who are also either over 6ft tall or are more known for their drive rather then creativity. However we face an ageing squad where they are in decline, but still used tactics last season that relied on trying to ram opposition teams down even thought a lot of the players seemed to have no strenght in them. Meaning we played bland, gridlocked football. There is a growing number of fans that are crying out for use to use players that have a more creative approach to football. However creative players like Xavi, Modric, Nasri, Moutinho and Ozil are not as strong like a Mikel or Drogba and often are 5ft 8inches to 5ft 10inches tall. Yet with Chelsea apparently wanting to buy players like Lukaku on the basis that "he reminds us of Drogba" we seem to hit a dilemma. Do we try and keep the physicality and strength that we have been known for for the last few years or do we sacrifice that and play more football that is akin to a free flowing style like Barcelona or Arsanal? Will AVB try and sell off the more physical players and bring in players that are shorter and weaker, but also more creative or stick with the status quo?

He was being sarcastic

Looks like an emo with that hairssyle

I remember last season everyone kept going on how crap he was, now people dont want him to move

I bet you Man City get him!

No he had to go, too old and did not give much to the team. What is it with Chelsea fans and wanting old and craggy players to end their careers with us? First it was Drogba now its Ballack.

All had to really go either due to age or contract disputions.

Fuck off! Your only having £30 million like you originally asked!

Hooray!

To be honest its best that some of the oldr players that worked under Jose (Drogba, Essien and maybe even Lampard) have to go otherwise they wont take him seriously since he use to work under Jose

Thought the title said Emile Heskey!

Anyone know his position?

I bet you the bid fails.

Just put him in the first team for christ sake! I will be pissed off if the deal breaks down becuase the board kept insiting he would go on loan.

If Anderlecht want something for the Lukaka deal, why cant we just loan him back to his parent club for a year? Especially if the board are keen for Drogba to stay becuase that means we dont need him yet. Have the board never thought of this possibility and maybe thought that a player like De Bruyne is what we need?