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I'm torn with this one. He's a big personality, he's won everything with the club, and he seems like a good guy to have in the dressing room. 
Luiz is now entering his 30's his hamstring is damaged due to the heroics in Munich, and his knee is damaged due to aguero. Both of these injuries will make it harder for him to play regularly at the highest level well into his 30's. 
Cahill is also going to start slowing down, but at least with cahill, he has a good injury record, and I think he will be more accepting of a squad role, which would be good with him being homegrown. 
Maybe it would be better to cash in on Luiz, and if the club don't think rudiger or zouma are cahill's long term replacement, then we have some funds to go after a van dijk, laporta, koulibaly. 
Luiz has been a fantastic player for us, but christiensen is the future. 

Costa wanted to leave Chelsea the second the ink on his signing contract with Chelsea dried.  Conte could of handled it better sure, but his biggest crime here was telling a player who kept asking to that fine, you can go I've planned without you.  Conte was the means to an end for Costa who put on a performance worthy of those famous Spanish (Mexican maybe?) Soap Operas, and not the reason.  Costa stopped playing for Mourinho, he a sh*t man manager too? He left Athletico to come here, do we disparage Simeone's man management too?   
Matic wanted to go work with Mourinho, which I found funny simply for the #of people who claimed Matic must hate Mourinho over being subbed on and off in the same match (even though in the context it made perfect sense for the teams tactics and wasn't at all a message about Matic or his performance) and it was intentional by Mourinho to humiliate Matic LOL. No, like many other players Matic wanted to follow Mourinho to the new gig and unlike most actually did.
I see no reason to doubt Conte's man management.  You could even argue that this season has helped prove his abilities here.  I have no doubt that Conte demanded and still demands as much as Mourinho ever did did, yet look whose having a second season almost as good as the first and who had a team not willing to play for him because "fatigue".
 
End of the day, managing the squad is more important than managing any single player, and sometimes to maintain the former you need to replace or readjust the roles of some of the latter.

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Historically, he was voted by his peers into the 2013/14, 2014/15 & 2016/17 PFA Team of the Year. He made 36 appearances when we won the league in 14/15 and 37 when we won the league in 16/17.
He played in the final of both our recent European successes (with an injury in 2012), contributing massively (remember his last minute tackle in the Europa League final?).
Di Matteo, Benitez, Mourinho, Hiddink and Conte have all picked him. Not bad for an average player.
 

Yes, especially the 2012 Double - couldn't have done it w/out Mr. Cahill - BTW GC got his 250th appearance with the club today
 

Since Cahill has played for CFC, the Club has won the following:
1X CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNER 11/12 Chelsea FC   2X ENGLISH CHAMPION 2017 Chelsea FC 2015 Chelsea FC   1X ENGLISH FA CUP WINNER 2012 Chelsea FC   1X ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP WINNER 2015 Chelsea FC   1X EUROPA LEAGUE WINNER 12/13 Chelsea FC   Yeah He has cost the club a lot <_<

Qarabag just nicked a point against Atletico. Good stuff.

They look good at the moment. Their form is red hot and I'd be delusional to say otherwise,they will probably be in the top 3 this season. but the league is not won in October after 8 games.


Let's wait and see

Jesus, it was a joke alluding to the common accusation that Lukaku only scores against small teams which I made before we played Palace.
Football is banter like that.

Sorry, I forgot we're supposed to be on 24/7 total self-deprecation. 

Well, we’re through. We lost 2-1 on the night but advance on the away goal. That isn’t half the story though. So much drama and incident. Injuries, own goal, missed sitters, disallowed goal, bad decisions and six minutes of added time!
At one point I had no idea how many players we had on the pitch. We made three injury related substitutions but still the knocks kept coming. We were down to 10 when they got their first and we had 9 or 10, I’m really not sure, when they got their second.
Phew I said elsewhere and that really is the word. 
Draw for the next round is on Monday. There are at least three sides left in who are better than Bayern, and who we could do with avoiding.
BBC report

Our “useless incompetent” board somehow managed to get 60m for a 29 old costa and replace him with a 23yr old replacement for the same fee who’s already banging in the goals 
Got 40m for a 29 old matic and replaced him with a 23 yr old who’s already a huge upgrade for less 
Got Rudiger and brought back Christensen who’ve made our defence even more solid and with more options than last year
Almost as if these highly paid experienced people know more than forum dwelling nobodies. 

Same tune but "he comes from sunny Spain, he's better than Harry Kane" instead.

Really into Ghost Recon Wildlands now, would thoroughly recommend it to any fans of open-world shooters.

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Offensive or not (I personally think it is), there's no reason for it. The Willian song is brilliant because it actually means something, this is just pointless.
It's similar to how some people chant "WE HATE TOTTENHAM" during the liquidator at the Bridge, can't stand that.
Nothing wrong with singing about rivals, but not in every song and definitely not during the liquidator. 

The 'Spurs fans use it' argument is nonsense and purposely missing the point.
The clubs stance is correct.
 
 
 

Offensive or not (I personally think it is), there's no reason for it. The Willian song is brilliant because it actually means something, this is just pointless.
It's similar to how some people chant "WE HATE TOTTENHAM" during the liquidator at the Bridge, can't stand that.
Nothing wrong with singing about rivals, but not in every song and definitely not during the liquidator.