mitsoschelsea

I think this game will be far from easy. But given the circumstances such as the first team players' rest I think we will have a solid performance. They owe us the security of their championsip last year, so will they do us a favor? :D

Damn right. I was three or four days moaning about this. Couldn't believe it.

Martin Atkinson the ref... Any thoughts?

A post about Ruben Neves was my first ever post here in Shed End. No one answered. Now it is rumored. Thoughts? For me is a bargain, I hope we do it. Enormous potential and was captain last year when we faced them, being 18 YEARS OLD!!

Why not? I can't see anything wrong in this... Hart is an exceptional keeper, I can number 4 or 5 games from 2010 that he wasn't good. With Thibaut speaking nonsense, I think that if it's not for Hart, we will surely go in the market for someone, But as a big fan of Begovic, I don't know if Hart is really needed.

We can't play Swansea with Alonso AND Luiz. You can't just take the risk of putting two new defenders like this. Defence must be solid. If there's any chance one of them to play, I think it will be David Luiz in the place of Terry. If you ask me, I would put him on Cahill. But remember what was said in the end of the last season, that Terry would have a "different role"... So sadly the coming of Luiz could see Terry on the bench. Very sad though...

According to Calciomercato, we are talking about signing him for free. How does it sound?

No he can't play. With that back 4 and with Matic being so-so, you need at least one more to defend. And that is Oscar. That's what I am talking about. If we get another CB or Matic is reliable enough at the upcoming games, I think that Fabregas is going to play. Now if Fabregas isn't a Conte type player, we don't know it for sure. I am not a fan of Fabregas, I never was. I always thought of him as a foreign body despite helping us winning the title. You may be right.

What I think is that Fabregas is not playing because of our defensive line. Imagine Fabregas playing (without Oscar who did a splendid work today and at the first game vs. West Ham) a 10 role without defending. Or imagine Fabregas playing without Matic. Far more than sure at least one goal conceded. Conte is not an idiot. We'll see that if we buy a reliable CB, then Fabregas will get more and more playing time. Extra: N'golo Kante is SUCH A BARGAIN!! I don't know why no one did a better proposal than we did in order to buy him. Matic seems to find his old good form (for me his good form was when he came again in the middle of 2013-2014 and not when we were champions!) Hazard not more than being Hazard! And last but not least all hail DAVE for his passion. I can't even remember a single bad game from him, since he started playing in 2013. KTBFFH!

What about Koulibaly?

I think that Chelsea fans need to see attacking football, like Ancelotti back in 2009-2010. Do you see Conte doing us the favor?

I've once read it on the Internet and I hope that it is going to be true.. His name: RUBEN NEVES!!! We all saw him how good he was in our match, and don't forget he also captained Porto F.C at 18 years old!! I heard yesterday about a rumor of him going to Liverpool and I hope it isn't true!