Barrettinator

Keith needs to be given a knighthood asap. Absolutely bang on!

Probably just a sub appearance.

Yeah and we finished 10th. Big deal. Buffon has made more errors and let in more easy goals than Courtois over the past 3 years. You don't see anyone saying Buffon isn't world class.

Why are you STILL arsed about Lukaku though? We have Morata. Why does Lukaku matter? Just let it go.

Yeah I'm sure they'll conspire to play like sh*t and destroy the entire season because they don't like the fact that Costa's off. Never mind thus being a world cup year which requires them to put in top performances in order to be called up. Nothing like that is going to happen. A rubbish story with zero sources made up of pure delusional conjecture. Is this the first time you've seen tge Daily Mail do this? Especially concerning Chelsea? You should know better.

Stop trying to tie yourself in a knot trying to slate Courtois. He had a bad season. Like the rest of the team. Simple. Even De Gea as great as he was couldn't save United from finishing 7th and United weren't even nearly as bad as Chelsea were in 15/16. Let it go.

We can say that he suffered a massive loss of confidence like pretty much every other player in the team not named Willian. Go on, try to convince me that Hazard also isn't world class because of that season.

Usually, GKs save their teams blushes a lot when their team is actually sh*t. Like De Gea with United the past few seasons.

Pundits and "experts" will always find a way to put Chelsea in a bad light no matter the situation. Why should they matter? All you have to look at is Matic's performance in United's game against West Ham. He put in several of those in 14/15 and they said "oh he's great". Same thing last year and the same reaction. He does it in one game for United and he's being compared to Roy Keane and they're asking if he's the best DM in the world. Ridiculous. We've never been their favourite team. They're certainly not going to start now. Didn't they all predict Conte would be fired after the Arsenal game in September last year? https://twitter.com/ConteTweets/status/863326678570991620

Considering the fact that Costa himself some 4 months ago or so confirmed that he had wanted to leave Chelsea a few times in the past and he acknowledged that it soiled his relationship with Conte initially and now he's acting like he's been happy all along and never wanted to leave, I think I'd rather believe what Conte and Chelsea are saying. Costa has proven himself to not only be an unprofessional idiot but also a dirty liar. So really, I don't care what Costa says. Chances are, it's a bloody lie. His agent is Jorge Mendes after all and that guy isn't above using dirty tricks to get what his client wants.

He has asked to leave Chelsea 3 different times and when we finally tell him to f**k off we're the bad guys? Oh please spare me.

Did you miss the part about how he has turned down all other offers and only wants Atletico? And the c**ts want to take advantage of that to throw peanuts at us. I saw somewhere a few weeks back that they were "only willing to pay 20m". Such a fee is actually disrespectful to us tbqh. I'm 100% behind the club on this. Since he only wants Atletico, they need to pay our asking fee or f**k off. He'll rot in the reserves for 2 years if that's what he prefers. Since he's making us miss out on a good fee for him, we'll make him miss out on the World Cup. No bloody way he gets a Spain call up if he hasn't played football for the entire year, especially if other Spanish strikers like Morata and co are firing on all cylinders.

Not sure we watched the same game. We were in complete control before the red card and showed have even scored one from a Willian tap in if it wasn't for a last ditch clearance by a Burnley CB, which is why Cahill's lunge is even more stupid. Absolutely no need for that. Make no mistake about it, we lost that game because of Gary Cahill.

He'll move to any top 6 club that comes for him. Don't kid yourself. Southampton would rather let him rot in their reserves until his contract runs out than sell him to Liverpool. It's about ego for them now.

No, it wasn't. Azpi was RWB, Christensen played in Luiz's spot while Luiz played at LCB and Rudiger RCB. I actually made sure to take note of the shape of the team. I think it changed again when Fabregas got sent off but I was too angry to take note of what the shape was afterwards.

Got no problem with Rudiger. He looks solid and he still has potential to grow a lot under Conte. Cahill will never ever be better than he is now and he's bang average right now. He's already 31, isn't he?

We played with a 3-4-3, not a 4-5-1. Not sure where you've gotten that from. Even after the red card, the Boga-Rudiger sub put us back in a 3-4-2.

Apparently, he might be rushed back for the Spurs match. Not sure I'd really want him to be rushed back when we can play Luiz beside Kante and stick Christensen at CB tbh.

That's the 3rd Chelsea player (that we know of) he has been in contact with over the past few months.

We've already commented and it's incredible that this DM reporter - who was obviously invited by Costa's camp to come do the interview - chose to ignore the simple question of "You say you were shocked to find out via text but Conte says the situation had been clear to all parties involved since January. You're lying, ain't you?"

I am absolutely fuming at that interview and have gone on a rant in the comments section. The absolute cheek of this idiot to say the things he has said. Wow!

Well there you go....

Here we f**king go again. This c**t just won't shut up! So sick and tired of this victim card he's playing and the media should be ashamed of themselves for entertaining it because of cheap clicks.

Playing as good as he played in our 13 game win streak. As always, he'll play the last 60-70% of the season like a clueless git.

Really not expecting much from this. You'd think Luiz in midfield would be the logical option. He can certianly play there. Rudiger-Christensen-Azpi is a good back line.