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Ulises Davilla sent on loan to one strange Spanish Division 2 club.
What's the point?

debosky: Anyone know how much Chelski has spent so far this summer? Sounds like there's a pile of cash burning a hole in Roman's pocket.

£25m for a 20 year old straight from Brazil? I have my doubts on the value of such deals.

Like Ritchie said, this boy could be worth it after all.
That said, I really doubt the £25m reported.
Firstly, Luigi, Inter's president says the deal is in Euros or dollars.
Many times these figures get mixed up in translation.

Secondly, the reports I heard today are that Chelsea will pay £10m now and the rest over 2 years.
That's a pretty good deal if you ask me.

Regarding how Chelsea have spent. .

Hazard £32m
Marin £6m
Oscar £20m perhaps


Deals yet to finalise

Azpilicueta £7.5m
Hulk £35m perhaps


A tiny little bit over £100m . . .
Jeeez. That's 5h!t loads of money by any standard.

chelseabmw: Oscar is a done deal already.......We need just one striker or maybe Hulk

There'll be one more forward player I think and Cesar Azpilicueta.

joeyfire: Nah you got it out of context. 1025 was referring to man utd as an average team and I was making an illustration.

Ah! My bad.

lalaboi: He's had loads of abuse from arsenal fans including loudmouth piers morgan. . .A chelsea fan then tweeted this lol
. Classic!

Piers is a loud mouthed bitter soul and a pathetic sore loser. . .
I can't count how many times I heard him on the radio talking trash - always talking about how Wenger should go.

joeyfire: Chelsea finished fifth and 28 points behind united. Not bad for an average team.

Chelsea won the Champions League. . . Not bad for an average team.

coogar: we don't need another attacking player - fergie should spend that money on a central midfielder!

Is it looking like a CM will happen?
Fergie seems to be concentrating on the attack.

And when did it become Fergie-style to talk about United's transfer targets in the press?
So far, he's been open about Moura and RVP.

What do you guys think about the links with Lucas Moura?

dyabman: Kakuta should go on loan again
KDB should stay and progress with the team...
Chalobah anoda loan
Sam H. should stay
Lukaku already confirmed loan , gud 4 him.
Piazon shuld stay too 4 carlings nd FA things.

Chalobah has not been on loan and I do not believe he has to go on loan.
He is only 18 and will benefit more from participating in the next gen series and U21 league.

Kakuta needs to seriously invent himself. He did his application no justice last night.
He needs a loan move to an EPL where he is guaranteed to play football.

I don't know what will happen with Sam. All indications are that we are signing Azpilicueta.
With Ivanovic as back up RB and Ferreira not likely to be off loaded, it's looking difficult for him at RB.
He will certainly never get minutes at CB, his natural position.

KDB, I hope stays. Secondly, I hope this wing thing with him stops. KDB is not a winger.

Ends 1-1.

Nice play Piazon. And great run to finish. 1-1.
Playing the striker's role for the second game in a row and doing considerably well.

Marin doing really well. Playing in the hole after Hazard was substituted and not looking out of place.

Tunrbull, Josh, Terry, Malouda, Chalobah, Piazon, Cole, Essien, Ramires, Marin all in.

Bros, it's only a friendly and I am not having a panic attack.
This is Chelsea without Sturridge, Mata, Terry, Cole, Marin, Torres, perhaps Oscar and Hulk.
I am not very worried.

What I am disappointed about is the lack of a clear tactical build up.
It may not come off frequently because of lack of sharpness but you'll see glimpses of it.

Quick transitions, swift off-the-ball movements, pressing, one-twos and swift and incisive use of space. I am seeing none of those.
It's all going in through Hazard. I prefer us to play a system that relies on the 11 players creating chances for one another - not one guy being the fulcrum of play. In the former system, anyone can slot in. In the latter, it's dependent on one guy.


KDB and Kakuta were not in the game because they are not wingers.

We don't need Mikel and Terry to be pacy. It's all about the transitions between the midfield and attack. If they all move together as a unit, exploiting the spaces, without each person trying to do too much, defensive work will be easier as well - as the shape isn't distorted which allows you to press the opposition and win the ball back before pace becomes a problem.

PSG obviously fitter than we are. Nothing to get from the half.
I have stated this before . . DeBryune is not a winger, neither is Kakuta.
I hope RDM gets this quickly.

We need to protect our talents and play them in their most effective positions.
I hope we won't be attempting to play Oscar on the wings when he arrives.
Marin should come in, if we cannot get either KDB into the middle.

Ibime: Knackered sotay he only made 48% of his passes in the classico against Marseille?

Nateevs, Pastore is not ready for the big time!

Besides, I told you that Pastore always shines at start of season and becomes woeful at the end when we had this argument last season!

Abegi. . . Did you miss the part that clearly stated that at the time he played 21 games for PSG, he had only ever played 12 games in the same period in Italy? The dude is not a machine na, it will take a toll on him. He should adjust and step up.

Ibime: Very much like Nateevs to cream himself over pre-season friendlies and youth games. . .

Where did Pastore disappear to in the second half of last season sotay Ancelotti was threatening to drop him, meanwhile Chelsea was busy winning UCL and FA Cup. . . oh yeah, lemme guess. . . losing to Montpellier!

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/French-football-blog-Why-record-signing-Javier-Pastore-s-form-has-flickered-out-after-a-bright-start-at-Paris-St-Germain-article837012.html

Sharap! Any player can be knackered half way through the season.
It's happened to every player before. Go Siddon jor!

Kakuta trying to be too safe.
We are all over the place.

Though pre-season, I'm not very impressed as to our lack of pattern.
It's like everything is trying to go through Hazard.
I hoped to see something in this game that showed a certain attacking philosophy about us.

It's looks like we will camp in our half and play on the counter in this season as well.
Even with all the new players.

Pastore running things like no man's business.
Where's Ibime?

0-1 PSG

Are we still camping in our half?
That's 9 players I counted defending.
Kakuta was like a right back.

lalaboi: PSG signed Lavezzi??. . sheeet lol

Yeah they did.
And Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva

Kick off.

Kakuta gets a chance to impress. Hope he takes his chance.

Hutchinson Luiz Cahill Ferreira

--- Mikel Lampard ---

-- Hazard --

-- Kakuta Lukaku DeBRyune

lalaboi: What GMT time is the game vs PSG? anyone?

00:00 UK Time.

I read what he said. I even read his comments about how Chelsea were in contact with him and according to him "before we had an agreement with Oscar" . . That's why it amazes me why some Chelsea fans are still puzzled that Oscar may not sign. That's the 2nd comment this week I have heard from an external source confirming the transfer. The other was from Menezes, the Brazil coach.


On Willian, if he's going to cost £25m like Shaktar are demanding, then I will prefer Hulk. Hulk is a more robust and tactically flexible player in that he can play across the front line. Willian cannot.

RDM, while discussing about the youth players with Gigi Salmon in the post pre-season game interview, referred to George Saville as "another one like Ryan Bertrand that has come through".

Geroge Saville did play well on the day. I'll be very impressed if RDM actually means that and George can find a few minutes in the Carling and FA Cups. Then we can say that young players are indeed coming through after all.

coogar: 90% of them own a portugese passport!

Are you sure about that?
Portuguese Citizenship laws state otherwise according to a Portuguese friend here and of course the "Internet"

Diego Costa is Brazilian, who if I recall, has never played for Brazil, perhaps does not have a European passport and as such, will not get a work permit in England.

dyabman: @1025
@Nateev
did you watch oscar yester-night ? he was awesome, very mature ,confident ,disciplined ,precise just like lampsy but he is skillful .

You are not allowed to say this here. You could get into trouble.
WRT Oscar, what can I say? Absolutely neat player.



RC Lens have confirmed the transfer of Thorgan Hazard to Chelsea.
Chelsea yet to confirm deal complete.

End of game. 4-2.
Nice work out on the way to fitness.

FBS: hehehe. Just had a few things doing. Time is 07:25 in this part of the world ooo.

I don forget say you dey the end of Europe.

FBS: @nateevs, I dey here.

I think say you don dey cloud nine.

Wonderful strike from range by Kane.
I've seen him do that many times.

KDB couldn't connect on the rebound.