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been impressed from what ive seen at the confederations cup...small samples obviously. physically he's a beast, extremely quick not just for a defender but for any position and looks like he can play a bit too. kinda feel like he is the player zouma could of been if not for his injuries

if we sign morata or belotti then we indeed dodged a bullet if we sign llorente and/or no one then its not looking good so just depends on how the club goes about the next few weeks. still, i'm bloody amazed at how many chelsea fans are depressed over this whole ordeal, kiddies living vicariously through a footballer just because they thought he was a chelsea fan like us and they wanted the dream move to happen only for reality to hit them smack in the middle of the face. once you remove his supposed association to chelsea you'll find united have signed a lumbering albeit, physical specimen who is often lazy and although he is a good finisher in the box....he cannot dribble or hold up the ball at an elite level...or at least at the level that some of these so called chelsea fans really aspire to.

shut the f**k up you f**king snowflake d**khead take your victim sh*t elsewhere this is a football forum

if you asked me a couple days ago i would of told you i was just eager af to sign any striker, didnt care who, and whilst im not lukaku's biggest fan, if we signed him then i would trust conte to make it work. ive gotten into arguments on here with pro lukaku fans about his ability. and to be quite honest, i feel like they are way too attached to a guy that not only isn't that good but they feel an affinity with him just because he's a chelsea fan. so naturally these types blow their loads and the thought of a chelsea fan living the dream and playing for chelsea. thats another story - but my point in the end is i think we've dodged a bullet here especially if we go on to sign someone like morata instead. but im also wiling to admit that if we sign someone like llorente or decide to keep remy and costa in the squad for this season and buy no one else then that would be a catastrophic fail on the clubs behalf and that we would of been better with lukaku. but thats if something like that is to happen....which going but whats happened so far is a possibility i guess lol

awesome opportunity for colkett he still has a long way to go but he's filling out physically a lot better than some of his predecessors who he seemed to be compared to both in style of play and build (mceachran in particular).

take a break from the internet/tv/radio for a couple days and see what happens

watched him a bit at the confederations cup, looks like a physical beast, extremely quick and strong as a bull. but can play a bit too. i have high hopes.

we all have a strong desire for a young player to come through the ranks as it's easier to relate to them as most of them have an affinity with chelsea just like we do but it doesn't work out like that in real life. Just as someone else has said earlier in the thread - the role of the academy is to produce professional footballers period. not just footballers for chelsea. and our record in the last 10 years has only gotten better and better - jack cork, ryan bertrand, scott sinclair, nathan ake, patrick van anholt, fabio borini, jeffrey bruma, miroslav stoch, gokhan tore, gael kakuta, bertrand traore....these players in particular have all gone on to play at the highest level of league football in the top 4 or 5 leagues (indeed, with varied degree of success). but we played a significant part in their development and no only did the club make money on them in most cases, but the academy takes a lot of pride in the results of their education at chelsea. that's not even including the legion of academy graduates we have playing at lower levels in the system, all earning a living doing what they were trained and taught to do at chelsea.... Eventually, one will come through that will be good enough for the first team which is an absolute bonus - but the priority of the academy is to educate and produce footballers + make a profit on them if possible ...which we do just about as good as anyone in this country.

social media in relation to chelsea is cancer even during the best times, right now it's a lot worse than normal though

i've read GC's twitter from time to time and even when he's playing well, you see dickheads with chelsea avatars flaming the sh*t out of him. it's toxic as f**k. complete disrespect

lol apparently emenalo just recently got his coaching badges. im calling it now, conte out - emenalo IN, this place will be in meltdown!

judging by his most recent comments, looks like he only wants to go to atletico even for the sake of 20m + his wages..i'd say we give him the malouda treatment and let him rot with the u23s for the next 2 years

so either conte is savage AF or diego could be throwing the club under the bus going to be an entertaining summer!!!

this could be a blessing in disguise for us, like others have said, puts pressure on the club to sign big so the burden isn't all on Eden. i just hope that when eden returns that he'll be on the front foot despite the lack of match fitness. worst case scenario is that it takes him 6 months to kick into gear and we're already knocked out of the CL group stage and lagging behind in 4th domestically....

he had a great loan in the first half of the season, then a solid one for the second party of the season. ready for a championship level team or vitesse for sure.