darren2607

Wow so much hate of Pulisic! It's been a few years since I've watched much football, but I used to quite like him and was excited to see what he would become

Yeah I think the FFP rules get more severe as time goes on so we should be OK. I'm less clear about the homegrown player rule. I thought that you must have trained for 3 years in England prior to your 21st Birthday. That means non-Biritsh players can qualify and so a few of our overseas players could qualify, although I'd be surprised if Ivanovic and Essien were part of them. Maybe this is why we are buying so many young players now? Players like Courtois, Lukaku and De Bruyne will all qualify as homegrown in a couple of years. I guess the comfort is that the club know more about this than we do. I'm sure that they have a plan in place to deal with it. But back to the matter at hand, I like Moses and think he'd be a useful signing

Can't say I'm massively excited by this, very rare for two siblings to be both really good. One is usually pretty average. Think John to Wayne Rooney and Peter to John Terry. The exception is obviously the Da Silva twins, because in that case they're both sh*te

I have two concerns with this massive spending spree we are going on this summer, (1) how can we afford to with FFP? and (2) do we not need more British players? With these two questions in mind I worry about how we could justify signing Hulk, much as I would like him. The signing of Moses sits much more comfortably with me. Plus, I agree with what Notnowjim says, he is a very useful player who would add something to us. He shouldn't be put down because he plays at Wigan. Just look at how Valencia has progressed since leaving Wigan for Man Utd. I would say that Moses and Valencia are at a similar level in their Wigan days and Utd paid £16m for Valencia! In summary, cheap(relatively), English and a good player. I say fo gor it

I don't want to sound like an arse but I think a lot happens during a game that you don't pick up watching on TV but can see when you're there and it's easy to blame Torres for not scoring. From where I was sitting it was obvious that Chelsea lacked any real width during the first hour and when Ivanovic was bringing the ball forward he had noone in front of him. Drogba was understandably staying centrally and I'm not really sure what Sturridge was up to much of the time so it needed someone like Torres to run into those channels and pockets of space. That's what he ended up doing and I thought we looked much better with him on running into spaces. People around me were commenting, and I agree, that you could see from some of the touches, runs and dribbles he had that he is a classy player but his confidence in front of goal is just absolutely shot.

God this is so depressing. Why can't we just stick with a manager and give them an opportunity to build? the only silver lining that could come of this would be for Jose to come back. Even then, if we don't win th CL in his first year back he'll probably gt sacked again. Someone said it yesterday on another thread, but with all the money we've had pumped into th club we've done nothing to ensure the long term future of the club. We should've been turning the screw in 2005 to 2007 and building foundations for the long term instead of chasing short term goals o a season by season basis.

I think we paid £16m for him if I recall correctly. £12m to his original club and £4m to United. Useful squad player but I wonder whether what he can offer actually justifies the wages he is on.

I remember at the Villa game this one being sung to us by the travelling Villa fans: We're winning away, how sh*t must you be? K.T.B.F.F.H, could you link the thread please? I searched but couldn't find one, hence why I started this one

With FFP now in effect is building a new stadium/developing SB going to seriously effect our ability to buy any players before it is finished?

I would also love it if we could get the East and West stands singing more. I think it's a great shame that the atmosphere is a bit flat in those stands

So, I was in the MHL stand yesterday enjoying a good sing song but there were a couple of chants I didn't know the lyrics too. I thought it would be useful if we could share chants and songs here so more of us can join in and they don't get lost to the ages. I'll start the ball rolling with the famous carefree: Carefree, wherever we may be We are the famous CFC And we don't give a f**k Whoever you may be 'Cos we are the famous CFC

Good 2nd half performance today. I was in the MHL and I loved the support being given for Frank all game. He obviously loved it too, at the end of the game he came over and kissed the badge whilst everyone sang "Super Frankie Lampard". Great to see him in the team again. let's hope him and AVB can patch up their differences so Frankie can start playing more instead of Meireles. I don't want to lose either Frank or AVB. On another note, is there somewhere I can see lyrics of all the Chelsea chants? There were one or two today I didn't recognise

Agree that Piazon looks like a talent, excited about how he might develop

I wouldn't mind seeing Torres and Drogba paired together. If we don't have any incision at least we can hit Drogba who could hopefully flick things on for Torres. It wouldn't be pretty to watch mind.

I agree it should be our minimum requirement but commerical reality is that he was the hot property at the end of last season and Chelsea were chasing him around like a lovesick teen. He could probably gone to any one of a number of clubs and his agent would've held the ace card in negotiations. I doubt any manager would agree to a contract that says they can be removed for nothing given how precarious their positions constantly are