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Had never heard of him before, crazy stats this season! https://www.whoscored.com/Players/239872/Show/Nicolas-Pepe

Money doesn't come from shirt sales, that is correct. But the US is an rapidly growing market in football (or soccer) and since Chelsea is more and more run as an organization I would really understand the move. Also, Pulisic has a contract with Nike, and as Nike is an American company I could see that Pulisic + Chelsea + Nike could be a partnership that will be pushed in the US. That could grow Chelsea's fan base enormously because this is a rather unspoiled marketing area. In addition, he seems to have quality! However comparing him to Hazard at this moment is unfair, he's nowhere near him at this moment.

Possibly one of the players I'd prefer most in todays market - imagine him costing ~£60m but Dembele ~£135m last year. He's a natural right winger, already has experience in one of the biggest leagues in Europe and the Champions League and is only 19. Could (and I think would) become a Chelsea star.

Dream: Bale - Alex Sandro - Renato Sanchez Realistic: Ox No Deal: Drinkwater

Interesting tweet from the official Chelsea account, "...geezer.."

Of course his aim was to sign at a club in Europe, such as Liverpool and Chelsea and I would've liked to have him at Chelsea. The little I've seen from him seems like he offers another dimension than our current players. Shaktar had offers from Europe but declined, their asking price was outrageous and I understand that neither Chelsea nor Liverpool were ready to offer this kind of money. On the other hand, trash-talking Texeira for moving to China I thinks is ridiculous. He has stated before that he doesn't like living in Ukraine especially with all the crisis happening there lately. So being offered loads of money to move away from a place he doesn't like, I guess is really hard to decline. My guess is he'll be in Europe within two and a half years time.

Scored two against Real Madrid yesterday, one from a penalty. He now has 3 in 5 in CL group stage this season. Did anyone see the match? How was he? Here his goal from open play: https://streamable.com/e34j

I think Oscar has been superb today.. Great movement! He should've buried that chance though.

Caughtoffside loves creating new rumours without any evidence, but I believe that this is exactly the player we need. He has also generally played really good against us.

Torres never would've taken this run!

2013 - 2015

Can't wait for Ba in our line-up... Lost ALL patient with Fernando!

Unfortunately we do :(

Did Torres just shoot? Wow!

Why didn't Torres run on that great cross from Azpi?