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To challenge for the title! Or at least show some fight in games! Play like we are the current champions!

Do you think he's doing it deliberately to get the sack? Can't think of any other reason to pick the same old duds game after game, with the same dull tactics!

So who's it gonna be lads?

Doomed from the start. What an awful line-up. Hopefully that'll be the last we see ok Bakayoko!

Yep, I checked a different site. He was there but wasn't amongst the favorites, so I didn't include him.

Wasn't among the favorites when I checked but I'll add.

Who is your choice for the next Chelsea Manager going into next season?

Am I in the wrong thread? I'm sure I clicked the one that said Palmieri! Anyway, noises being made around the web that this and the Dzeko deal are close and that they'll be doing a medical soon, maybe today.

Last nights game was one of those that we usually wish upon our rivals. "Bad tempered draw with a few red card"! Never seems to happen to them though.

We'll see if we sign him. How good is Carrolls close control???

Good argument. And yes that is how City beat the pack defenses they come up against. My only counter would be that everyone of Citys front line are far better than Mahrez. P.S. There were 13 games after the City win, not 12.

Listen, I hope you're right. And if he comes to us, I hope he does as well as your hoping. We won't know unless we do sign him, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case this window. As for who we do sign! I refuse to get drawn into the Andy Carroll rumors, because if that is who we end up signing, I will be hugely disappointed.

Yes, he doe's all those things for Leicester, like I keep saying.......Leicester! Hazard is the best dribbler at our club and probably in the League. But he has rarely been able to break down these stubborn defenses we've come up against this season. Mahrez is nowhere near as good as Hazard, so how on earth is he going to break them down. Just look at Mohamed Salah for instance. When he played for us he was playing against teams that sat back and soaked up all the pressure that we threw at them which countered his ability, which was and still is his speed and shooting from outside the box. As soon as he moved to Italy he was banging them in again. And unfortunately now he's playing for a team that plays to his strengths and is ten times the player he was then. Now I'm not comparing Salah and Mahrez in ability, but Mahrez will have to put up with the same sort of conditions that Salah did for us, and I just don't see what he has that will help us that we don't already have at our club.

I hate to come over like a broken record at the moment but I don't think people understand where I'm coming from in regards to Mahrez. I'll try and be clearer this time, maybe I haven't been before. I will agree that our defense if better than Leicester. Our defense is one of the best in the league and is one of the reasons we are where we are in the league. Our midfield is non-existent at the moment and is only just holding up due to the fabulous N'golo Kante. Our front line however is the joint worst out of the top 6 due to our team being unable to break down stubborn defenses. All I ask is for somebody to counter my argument with some facts that Mahrez is an upgrade on what we've already got!

I understand what you're saying, but I still don't see him as an upgrade on what we already have. He could be a replacement for Willian or Pedro, but I don't believe he will add anymore than what they already do. However, like I've said before, this is just my opinion. If he comes here and plays a blinder for us I'll be ecstatic, just like everyone else here will. I just have my doubts.

Ok, lets take your title winning season as an example. At the beginning of that season not one team that played Leicester played against them as if they were playing against title contenders. It wasn't until the game against City in which you won 3-1 that teams actually stood up and took notice. After that most teams played not to lose, rather than trying to win, which meant that they sat back and packed out their defense to try and nullify your attack. Up until and including that game against City, Mahrez scored 14 goals and had 10 assists. Then came Arsenal which you lost, and from then on for the final 13 games where teams sat back to nullify your attack like they do now to Chelsea, guess how many goals Mahrez scored..........3. Guess how many assists he had.......1. So yes. He was one of one of you best players that season. Until he had to try and break down a packed defense.

3-4-3 would be a far better system for Mahrez, though I'd prefer Sanchez. The problem with that system is still the two in midfield. We've got to prey that Barkley is better than what we already have for that system to work.

I have no problem with you disagreeing with me, such is life. However, the snappy little one liner about me having not watching many Leicester games when you don't know a thing about me is not needed thank you. I have an opinion, you have a differing opinion. Shall we leave it at that.

In that case I apologies as I did misunderstand, I should have read your post more thoroughly. Which also means I wholeheartedly disagree with you. If you was to put Willian or Pedro into the Leicester team, in my opinion they would be far more effective than Mahrez has ever been, for two reasons: Firstly because, as I mentioned above, they would have far more space to work in while being closed down far less than at Chelsea. And secondly, simply they are superior players! Mahrez is a player we do not need unless we are going to completely change our formation and style of play. More in the lines of how City and Liverpool play, which unfortunately is not Antonios style, so not likely to happen.

Almost exactly what I was about to post. Mahrez looks great for Leicester because he's given the time and space by opposing teams to play his game. We don't get any space for our forwards as teams set up to squeeze us out the game and hit us on the counter. If players like Hazard, Pedro & Willian are being marked out of the game while playing for us, what the hell is Mahrez going to do for us!?

Seems like there's too many routes with this transfer, and most end with us with egg on our face. Kinda wish our involvement hadn't been mentioned!

Regardless of the hatred of Liverpool on here (believe me I hate them too), They are in far better form than us, and have a far better attacking threat than we have too. In their recent 3 matches they have managed to beat Leicester, Burnley and City. Guess how we did against those teams! Some fans won't like to admit it (and I know it's hard), but Liverpool are better than Chelsea! Their defense is the only area which I would say is weaker than ours, but it's now far stronger than it was last year. And if you're defending from the front and outscoring your opponents then I would say it doesn't matter so much about defense as it does to us. What I will say is this. Depending on our transfers this January, I believe we will finish below City, Liverpool & United. It could be a fight between us and Spurs for 4th. Don't think we will fall further than that unless we somehow end up worse than Arsenal. But even we can't be that bad! Can we?

All I can say is, that if this is how football is going to be for the foreseeable, I might have to give it a miss for a while. It was suppose to be us building a team for the future. WTF happened!?

Well ain't I glad I gave the footy a miss today