Has everyone calmed down?

[Henri 115]

Meireles: How about let the guy play for us, before we all talks about poor signing and so on?, jesus christ!.

competition keeps everbody sharp, or on the bench, that goes for Frankie boy to.

[GodZola 630]

There are only a few negatives that I am disappointed with this summers transfer dealings & the first is that we didn't sign the attacking midfielder that I believe will take us up to the next level, there were 2 available that are imho the finished article - Aguero & Sniejder. Unfortunately Aguero was snared by City & that left Sniejder, were I still can't get my head round us going in for Modric instead of a player that CAN/WILL link up our play offensively, score goals & provide the vital assists for our starved front players. Lastly I still think its a mistake letting Courtois go out on loan, Hilario & Turnbull are not good enough to replace Cech.

The obvious in letting Benayoun go out on loan - don't need to explain that!

Now by contrast look at the pro's,

- 4 young players signed.

- MacEachran & Bertrand signed up for another 5 years.

- Add Piazon to those above & we are on the right road - finally.

- Whilst I would of preferred Kakuta to stay the young players can only benefit from getting game time & experience elsewhere so blessing in disguise for me.

- Mata looks the real deal, quality!

- I am open minded about Meireles as I would of been with Modric as I not too sure how they will improve our play, but I will put my trust in AVB on this one.

Lastly fans/members need to remember where we were & think to those dark days compared to the luxury we are in now before firing all the negative bollocks that keeps rearing its ugly head! There are obvious disappointments but I would rather us go through a transitional period were we integrate young players into the team & watch some exciting attacking football than have to go through watching & paying for the dross I watched last season.

[Henri 115]

Mata, Lukaku and Miereles, i'm fucking happy.

Totally agree :dude:

[Kez 2,727]

I'm glad we didn't get ripped off by Spurs and pay over the odds for Modric, we've signed a decent player in Meireles, he can give Lamps a bit of competition and hopefully Lamps can find his form again, I feel that Josh will feature quite a bit this season. Lets judge the signings by what they do on the pitch and what they achieve for us this season as Chelsea players. I still feel this could be a good season for us.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

Im getting more and more happy with the signing of Meireles, and more and more happy with our squad. If everything will go right,

we can do great this season. Cant wait for Sunderland...

[Kojo 4,676]

I heard someone on CTV say that he is an apple that fell away from the creative-player-tree (Barcelona). He plays more of the solid DM role rather than create something from the deep. I am looking forward to an appearance from this lad. Maybe Carling Cup against Fulham might be the day..

And Josh is someone who has awesome vision, from what I have seen of him. He is always looking for a vertical pass, not the tiring horizontal play that CFC has played over the past one year..Excited about him. Go AVB. Hone these young talents and u will remain a legendary manager of CFC.

Ah okay, well at least we have Josh, and i agree, all we play is just a simple pass game, i mean it might work if we had good wingers, because we could of relyed on them, but we didn't. Josh has excellent vision i agree, something our current midfielders lack, Essien has very good vision to but he's injured. Josh has the technical ability to pick out that pass, so can't wait till he gets a game, Oriol should be good to see what he can do, i don't want Oriol to take over Mikels place or anything, because Mikel needs this starting oppertunity now that Essien is injured, otherwise there will never be a chance for him i'm afraid.

[Laylabelle 9,356]

We signed someone and long he he doesnt just watch the ball fly pass him,walk as he looses the ball.Looks like he wants to be here and plays like he should then dont give a monkies.Hard to go 'OMG what have we done'and shit before he has even played

[xjdd 11]

Looks like we are all clear about our deals ... In Josh we trust