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We won't get anything out of him this year... reminds me a bit of Dzeko's first season in ManCity... but season 2 could/should be much better... he is not a complete sh*t... just sh*tty this season I hope!

You would need Enzo Ferrari as a manager then :) Today the rule is: drive it until it crashes... managers who can't make Ferraris and decision-makers who (by the looks of it) have no idea what they want to accomplish (compare young academia midfielders and recent purchases of midfielders ala Barkley).

Conte obviously wants to be a manager (GM in the NFL) but is clearly seen as a head coach by the board forcing this "new-era US approach to running the club". Conte has no future in Chelsea, like it or not. The games, the results, it really has nothing to do with it. It is just the fact that his style of doing business is the opposite of what Chelsea wants and aims at, and now we see the clash on pretty much every press conference. Currently, we invest heavily in the academy, developing talent, send 30+ players on loan spells, and with Conte's philosophy it will take a plane crash for them to get a chance to play some serious ball for Chelsea. Christensen just confirms the rule. So does freaking Ross Barkley at the other end - sending message to every other young midfielder, waiting on his chance, to piss off. Yesterday we played Bournemouth without a striker!!! Morata is injured, and we trade Batsman (who busted his ass in these past few games) for a fu** injured 31 y.o. knowing we won't have a striker for this game. It feels like there is a bit of bad blood from both the board and Conte at this point, for him to continue with us.

AS Roma plays against Inter tonight. Will be interesting to see their line-up...

It would be an upgrade for us... much better than the other forwards we've been linked with in Jan... we've seen him this season anyway against us, so no need to doubt his skills.

The rumor is that we are up for another AS Roma player - Edin Dzeko. Saw it on a bosnian FB pages referring to italian pages.

Hello world... ... from Oslo, Norway. :)