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Lets hope he signs now , would look rather daft after publicly saying he wants to stay and then does not. We need players like Terry around they are vital for their experience. Now just bring Drogs back as the new team "motivator" and its a good start to the summer

I'll be honest if there wasn't a CL place up for grabs I wouldn't careless if Liverpool won the Europa. The fact that there is worries me. They win and they are a more attractive club to join in the summer than us. I just hope players see through our poor season. Let's hope Sevilla bring their A game in the final!

I think he deserves another chance. Maybe as a squad player next season , Sell Mikel and keep Matic (if he wants to stay). Hopefully he will have something to prove...

New lukaku had it in him :( , might be Drogba mk 2 in the end.

Good thread which has got me to post for once. I think one of the main issue is the players , As you said in your first post we could relate to the likes of JT , Lampard etc as we knew they would fight 100% for the club and we could count on them to get us through the touch patches. Having them around and others from that era made you proud as a Chelsea fan and made you look forward to games knowing we always had a chance. When you have players , like Fabregas , Oscar , Pedro etc it makes us all pine for players like Essien , Drogba , Cech etc. I am not saying they are bad players they are just not what i call Chelsea players. We now seem to enter big games with the underdog status which is what i would like to think is something Roman and the board is unhappy with. The main issue is we haven't progressed maybe it was the conflict in style choices from Roman wanting attacking football and not getting the right mix with the players and managers. I have been reading Drogba's new book and you can see from his words the unity and belief that era of players had and how they wanted to win everything in a Chelsea shirt , the fact that Lampard was one of the sole reasons Drogba stayed says alot. I am extremely happy that it was in my lifetime we saw this group of players. Nowadays i have lower expectations but still hope for us to do well. Missing out on the CL won't stop me watching games or not caring as much but i do feel we have been spoilt over the last few years so we kind of now expect CL football and to be challenging for the PL every year. All i want is a team that trys and i will be happy its when you can tell they don't care when it gets to me.

What did I just watch...

Remind me why Torres has been playing instead of BA?

I don't want to come across as a doom monger but I just feel this PSG team are a lot stronger than Napoli and things repeating themeselves is rare.

People mention the Napoli game but PSG have better players and a better manager and we also have no Drogba. I just can't see PSG not scoring they have to much quality I'm not being pessimistic just realistic we where bad in the Second half tonight and deserved to loose I'm afraid.

You have to give Torres his due for being one player to help us win a trophy last season far from the player he was but can be useful at times. Sheva just reminds us all Of the first big name flop I'm afraid. If this thread is not limited to strikers then I would say swp was our biggest flop.

City's stars are purely for decoration. it says that here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_City_F.C. As they had the 3 stars last season and they only had 2 league trophy's.

Thats why its called Silly season. I think we might see some more news in a week or so now the Euro's have ended. Just wish it didn't have to drag on so long. the Transfer window should be a week,

Completely agree , i could never get myself to fully appreciate what Anelka did. Mainly because he never looked interested even when we won the PL he just kind of smirked. As for Alex I think he would of been good to have around when we had our CB crisis. But for me they moved on at the right time.

Didn't do great here , but i wanted him to suceed. I think he will do well at Spurs but hopefully not at the exspense of us. I love how many spuds fans think he is there saviour. There are so many excuses for him doing so badly here. maybe he just wasnt up to it. Time will tell if he has learned his lessons.

His a decent backup at best. its a shame how he has declined due to these injurys. His future will be decided by the players incoming.