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He pretty much confirmed the deal when he arrived at the training ground today. Said this would be his last day at Milanello (Milan's Cobham). Remember this nutcase saying he is homesick and doesn't like living in Manchester? How about that shit hole Liverpool, Mario? hahah

Finally a reliable outlet to report it. Come on Roma, make it happen!!

You should watch Wilshere's challenge. I swear it's like the all ice in the world is in that bucket lol

Fulham is going to be relegated at this rate. They are dreadful.

Bring on Eva in a sports bra!!!!

Is there a Filipe pic outside of a bathtub or anything related to water since he came at the club?

Steve Holland though... (0:25)

FIFA - what a corrupt organisation full of fat old Cialis addict scumbags they are. So they ban Barcelona from making any transfer, then upheld the ban, let Barcelona spend more than £120m on Suarez, Rakitic, Vermaelen, Mathieu, ter Stegen, Bravo and Halilovic and then ban them again for the next two windows. I'm more than sure that the reported figures for Vermaelen and Mathieu are nowhere near the real ones. There is no way these two mugs are worth £31m together. I bet that half of that money went to some shady FIFA agents and officials.

Destro (out) and Nastazic (in) I guess.

Just watch the Burnley game one more time (livefootballvideo) and pay attention to 1) Cesc, Matic and Oscar's movement. 2) Eden, Schurrle, Diego Costa's movement. Look at Cesc, Matic and Oscar how close they are to each other. They are moving "in a triangle" every single time. Cesc is on the right hand side, so is Matic and Oscar. Matic is on the left hand side, so is Cesc and Oscar. Cesc is close to the back four line, so is Matic and Oscar. It's the same triangle Guardiola was talking about when he was in charge at Barcelona (Xavi, Iniesta, Sergio). No playmaker, only three midfielders staying close to each other and distributing the ball to the strikers. Then it's Andre acting like a pure winger, always looking to make those beautiful runs in behind the defenders and Eden with a more of a free role (winger and playmaker at times), while Costa is the deep lying forward. An important aspect you will see about him is that he always looks to drag defenders out wide and make room for others to attack the spaces. It is obvious that Jose has changed his approach and I think he will take more risks from now on, especially at the Bridge and especially against the smaller sides. The way Chelsea played against Burnley resembles a bit with the way Barcelona was playing in the Guardiola era, bar the high line. It was the same movement, the same passing style, the same pressing high up the pitch, the same triangle between the three midfielders and the same approach when it came to build from the back. No wonder there was 24 or 25 consecutive passes before the 2nd goal. I, for one, like what I saw against Burnley and hopefully Jose will stick to the same approach in the next games, too. There is no point in playing a counter attacking game week-in, week-out when you have players like Cesc, Matic, Oscar, Eden, Andre, Diego Costa (Filipe also) that are comfortable enough on the ball and can keep the posession for how long you want. If Jose can find a balance between this beautiful approach Chelsea had against Burnley and a solid defence, I think we can be in for a great season.

A Bola say in that article "according to the English media" (Express was the first to report this story so it's probably 99% bs).

Raul!! Yesss

Leicester are pretty decent side going forward, but sexy football is back at the Bridge and Chelsea should put at least two or three past them. -------- Diego Costa -------- --- Hazard Oscar Andre --- -------- Matic Cesc --------- Filipe Terry Cahill Ivanovic ---------- Courtois ----------

Even though he is not one of my favourite midfielders, I think Chelsea should be in for him if he'd still be in Madrid come the Deadline Day. Heard something about Madrid lowering the asking price to €10-12m. Decent amount. Buy Khedira and let van Ginkel go out on loan. Cesc, Matic, Oscar, Khedira, Willian, Ramires, Obi Mikel. Quality and depth, sounds good to me. Would even allow Chelsea to go for a long, long run in the FA Cup and Capital One. A potential starting line-up for the Capital One would include Mikel, Ramires and Khedira as the midfield trio, Willian and Salah on the wings and Drogba the CF. Not bad.

Julio Cesar from QPR to Benfica and Nani from United to Sporting. Rojo will go the other way.

To humiliate him and make him feel like shit, yes, I agree. But if he thinks Torres will put in a transfer request just because he can't get enough playing time, he is wrong. It won't happen, the guy is such a pussy and a coward, he doesn't have the balls to do this. He'll prefer to stay at the club for two more years, earn another undeserved €21m and then leave on a free. He is a fraud and he is not man enough to leave now because he knows he is dog shite and he'll embarass himself wherever he will go.

You can see in that article "Relatos na Imprensa inglesa indicam". This means "according to the English media", so this isn't a ABola rumour, they are just following what the Express or other bollocks newspaper wrote the other day. Not happening.

Spot on hahahah

I never got the hype around him to be honest. Injury prone and an error machine at times. Not EPL top4 quality IMHO, City should have kept Savic, he is way better than Nastazic. Apparently Juventus are closing in on his signing.

Glad Jose didn't subb him off for Didier, let him enjoy his night. Perfect debut, Torres can rot on the bench oh and hopefully Chelsea can appeal against that yellow card. Penalty all day long

Regular starter from now on, no doubt about it. His runs are impeccable

Man he was simply faultless tonight, some way to announce your comeback to the EPL. More of the same Cesc, glad to have you here

Gary Neville music to my ears

Man he was in the mood today

Impressive. Gotta love this one, two touch football. Bring on Leicester!!