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He was in contention between January 2014-January 2015, but both of them would eat him alive at any other time.

Maybe Traore will be played out on the wing with Hazard moving centrally?

I don't know if we need to get someone else in as a direct replacement, for the 2 CM slots we would have: Fabregas, Kante, Matic, Mikel, Chalobah & RLC. Sell him and spend the money on defence.

This is a huge issue right now. Playing both Azpi & Pedro on the left yesterday gave us zero width down that side with two inverted players. Azpi needs to play on the right and an actual left-footed LB is needed with all haste. Optimistically Jay DaSilva could grow to take that spot, but in the meantime somebody is needed to replace Rahman if he's off on loan.

I really hope we're not going through with this to placate Athletico. Seems like we go out of our way to accommodate other teams and player's wishes when everyone and their nan seems intent on screwing with us for as long as possible when we're the ones buying. We gave them back Luis and allowed Courtois to play against us in the CL despite having the legal ability to stop that, for seemingly nothing in return. Play hardball with them and stamp out the idea that we're a soft touch.

No excuse to be selling him whilst we have other assets sitting around that we don't intend to use. Players such as Cuadrado who clearly have no future here should be cut long before promising youth players, especially one in a position we are sorely lacking in. Going into the season after the one coming with Zouma/Christensen/Kouillabily/Cahill would be a very promising batch of CB's, if a little lacking in experience.

Wasn't there talk that Ozil was reluctant to sign a new contract unless some well-established reinforcements were guaranteed to be joining them?

Hope so, I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong on this matter

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/07/27/chelsea-winger-eden-hazard-vows-to-bounce-back-and-reclaim-pfa-p/ Really don't like the sound of this interview in regards to his long-term future at the club.

Official Twitter account is teasing some news coming up I presume sometime soon EDIT: Turns out it was signing some sick kids from a foundation in LA. I applaud the sentiment but feel very blue-balled.

That's more his fault for not making sure he had secured the number before launching the brand.

There's that English midfielder at New York whose got a decent eye for goal and some above average stats...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It was hard to judge as for starters he made a number of fouls that would have seen him certainly booked by half-time in the PL & possibly could have been sent off, especially for one nasty 2 footed tackle that missed the ball completely. He moved the ball forward well, but the opposing team gave us an unreal amount of space to do so which you would never get in a competitive top-flight game. There were some good long balls, but nothing Fabregas can't do and has proven to do week-in/week-out at his best.

I'll never forget a friend of mine trying to convince me Aquilani was going to be the next big thing.

Do that in an actual match and Conte's going to hit him with an axe

Moses beginning to usurp Mikel as Nigerian Messi.

I'd be interested to see Hazard as the support striker similar to Greizemann, just for the fun of seeing opposing CB's trying to man-mark him in a one-on-one scenario. Leave the tracking back to the industry of Oscar and Willian who have a better engine and get him running at people without the burden of having to be the main goal-scorer.

Apparently this is free to watch at 7pm on the club website.

Very underrated player who stood in very well in 2014/5 and should have seen more game time last season. Saves us having to fork out on a replacement as well.

All this says that they have made an attempt to bring him back. He's hardly going to come out and say that negotiations are going badly so take everything with a pinch of salt.

Ignore the so-called ITK's on Twitter saying he wants to leave, yet to see a credible source once.

Having seen the video it looks like a career ender to me and especially seeing as he's the other side of 30. Man should have had a knighthood for what he did to Liverpool.

Hazard's charity game has been cancelled after the events in Turkey, but I assume he'll go on extended leave following the Euros.

JT confirmed to be remaining as Captain