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I don't though. I'm happy to disagree. I'm happy to have a bit of banter with supporters. That's exactly what you don't understand which is why you keep on having pops at me saying I think I'm the best Chelsea fan ever.

I don't.

I know some of the best supporters, the guys who kept this club alive through blood, sweat and many, many tears so that people could still enjoy this club now. The guys who turned up in the pissing rain when it wasn't fashionable to do so and worked their bollocks off all their lives so they can continue to do so.

And I love the guys who travel from places like Belgium and Holland every other week to support this club because they enrich this club. I don't think I'm anything special - I think I'm very lucky to be part of this club's family though which is why I don't constantly look to rehash old transfers and take pops at the club.

I leave that to 'fans' like you, and I will occasionally criticise that. Either in person or on t'internet. Enjoy. :yes: :heart:

continously ridiculing posters does not make you look as the most pious supporter though.

people ARE different. some can easily accept a thing and move on while the others would like to hold on to that something as long as they can. but name-calling and ridiculing and specially doubting the "fans'" credibility is no way to answer or argue here specially when that something WILL turn out to be the one of the biggest and the most obvious mistakes we have made.

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Please take to PMs, lads. We don't want to derail this thread.

And if someone says something in a PM that upsets you, start a thread about it right Choulo?

He's right though didierforever - if you want to continue having a pop at me, feel free to do it in PMs. Love you. :heart:

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Torres has cost us a lot more than just the transfer fee and wages being paid for him for. At least Liverpool got rid of Carrollol and made some money back Torres is still ruining attacks and loosing the ball here. If one tenth of the time spend on trying to get Torres to score was spend giving Lukaku and Sturridge a chance by now we would have two of the best young striker in the League for us.

By the end of the year I expect Sturridge to have twice as many goals in the League than Torres has managed in three years with us.

To say that our team is not setup to create chances for a striker is laughable. Our team is simply not good enough to create chances for Torres because it takes extra effort to create a chance for some one as awful as him.

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Torres has cost us a lot more than just the transfer fee and wages being paid for him for. At least Liverpool got rid of Carrollol and made some money back Torres is still ruining attacks and loosing the ball here. If one tenth of the time spend on trying to get Torres to score was spend giving Lukaku and Sturridge a chance by now we would have two of the best young striker in the League for us.

By the end of the year I expect Sturridge to have twice as many goals in the League than Torres has managed in three years with us.

To say that our team is not setup to create chances for a striker is laughable. Our team is simply not good enough to create chances for Torres because it takes extra effort to create a chance for some one as awful as him.

I expect Chelsea to be at least three spots above Liverpool in the league. I expect us to be challenging for the Champions League too.

The Torres deal went south fast and it had knock-on effects, but you can either look at the mistakes we made in the past or focus on the good things going on now and in the future.

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I expect Chelsea to be at least three spots above Liverpool in the league. I expect us to be challenging for the Champions League too.

The Torres deal went south fast and it had knock-on effects, but you can either look at the mistakes we made in the past or focus on the good things going on now and in the future.

We are challenging for the Champions League in-spite of Torres - until we reprimand this mistake and he is gone and we actually have a striker who is banging goals in we are going to be looking for alternatives.

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We are challenging for the Champions League in-spite of Torres - until we reprimand this mistake and he is gone and we actually have a striker who is banging goals in we are going to be looking for alternatives.

We have looked to rectify this issue in our team though. We've also looked to strengthen in other areas though and in players like Hazard, Oscar, Schurrle, Willian, De Bruyne, Lukaku etc. we have some of the brightest young attacking talent in Europe. I'm not saying it's ungrateful to harp on about the sale of Sturridge but it is wonderfully myopic to focus on that one instance.

My view is that maybe we shouldn't have sold him but circumstances did perhaps necessitate it. That doesn't make it the worst mistake in our history, and as a club we're actually far, far stronger overall than we were when he left. That's why I simply don't understand the maudlin, depressing, constant rehashing of this one point. If I look at Chelsea Football Club there are dozens of things to be excited about, so why people choose to focus on this I don't understand.

It happened, I wish him well but quite frankly he's dead to me now. He chose to leave the greatest club on Earth and joined a 'humongous' one (I think that was the word he used). I'll shake his hand, say thanks and then check on how Izzy Brown and Lukaku are coming along, but that's just the way I choose to view life.

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Torres at the moment just seems to be there making up numbers and doing not a lot.Hopefully we'll learn from this deal..in the ways we didnt learn from Sheva.Seems a case of going for the name rather then the actual ablity of the player at that point

We bloody better be spots above Liverpool in the table lol...the thought urgh!He probably will be top scorer and we'll be far behind but if we win the league then all good :D

Ian Holloway is grumpy

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Good stuff by Cardiff...but I'm expecting City to be too strong in the second half.

Also surprised to see Spurs haven't scored against Swansea yet. Paulinho and Capoue looking good in midfield.

I think the key for cardiff is can they keep doing this for another 45 minutes.

They are playing 110%

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