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Lukaku scored a brace against Reading yesterday. 9 goals in the EPL in 20 appearances, 12 of them from the bench, is excellent when you consider he is only 19. It seems all the early hype he received was justified.
 
Alcaraz said:
Except Lampard has hardly aged with the grace that Scholes has and it would be totally unfair to compare them.

And tbh mate all the reasons that you are giving sound very FM-ish to me. Chelsea still have a number of experienced players in the squad in Terry and Cech to guide the new players.
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Maybe true, but if it came between Lamps and JT I know who I'd lean toward. I know JT has done a fantastic role at the club but at the same time I'd lean towards Lamps for leadership. Don't get me wrong, JT has done sterling work in the defense, but he hasn't covered himself in glory. Yes I'm probably biased, but still. I really do think letting go of Lamps is a mistake. They should keep him. He's been a fantasic player and can still play a pivotal role. If he left, and my club had the money I'd snap him up in a half heartbeat.
However, I do think letting go of Sturridge was a good plan. He's a very selfish player and clearly doesn't suit Chelsea. Talented-yes. Be an even better player-no.
 
To be honest, I would say that its worth the investment to keep him around simply to keep rival teams from snatching him up. I would seriously be devastated if MU were to sign him...

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Yeah, hes been in great form this season. I was a little surprised when chelsea didnt recall him. I really think the best way to get torres firing again is to introduce fresh competiton. Ba plus Lukaku would be the perfect jolt for torres imo.

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Alcaraz said:
One was Roberto Di Matteo who is a club legend and a big personality at the club. A tough man to take on if you ask me...
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Not tough enough to make any difference when he was AVB's assistant, apparently, so i somehow doubt he suddenly became so much more respectable after switching jobs to contain all internal drama just by waving his hand.

My guess is AVB got in over his head.
 
Tyton said:
Not tough enough to make any difference when he was AVB's assistant, apparently, so i somehow doubt he suddenly became so much more respectable after switching jobs to contain all internal drama just by waving his hand.

My guess is AVB got in over his head.
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IMO if Pepe came to the PL like AVB did, he'd have exactly the same problems. Both very talented, but too big a scene too soon
 
Tyton said:
Not tough enough to make any difference when he was AVB's assistant, apparently, so i somehow doubt he suddenly became so much more respectable after switching jobs to contain all internal drama just by waving his hand.

My guess is AVB got in over his head.
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My point still stands that Lampard hardly conducted himself in a proffessional manner after being benched even if AVB was largely to blame.
 
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zzeezzy said:
#RAFA OUT!
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It's funny i didn't see you post this the last two Wednesdays!!!!



Must say it was a fantastic performance and result yesterday, we always seem to do well at Stoke and a bit of the old Chelsea came out again. We always matched Stokes physicality and done so today but it was more impressive today as we had so called "small flair players" instead of the older more suited to the PL lads. Couple of points to make 1. At last we have a proper right back! 2. Lampard ran the game from start to finish dictating the flow of the game, just sensational! 3. Hazard starting to hit a patch of form again and has been impressive in recent games, goal was sensational.

On the Lampard contract thing i do think we should offer him one of course on reduced wages. I see people saying "he played well against the smaller sides but cannot do it against the bigger sides" and i totally accept that argument and even agree with it. But we will play "smaller" sides next season too where he can do it still as he keeps proving lately. At 34 he is our 2nd top scorer this season and that is just outrageous! A man who can dictate play against a side who have nearly gone a whole calender year without losing at their pad and should have scored a hat-trick if it wasn't for arguably the most in form keeper in the league at the moment is a key player still 100%. I will finish on something i posted on Facebook.

Now i want to clear something up here because this is really starting to grate on me. Pundits, opponent fans and even some of our own fans are suggesting the reason we may not be winning at home is because of the anti Rafa chants and the booing. B***S**T!!!! Going on my own experience i.e being at QPR and then 3 days later being at Southampton that is tosh! QPR at home you heard the odd pocket of anti Rafa songs (never really took off) but was no booing until the final whistle. In fact the anti Rafa chants were MUCH more vocal 3 days later at Southampton where as we all know we won emphatically. I was not at Swansea 4 days after that but pretty sure boos started to happen after 80 minutes when Torres was bought off and not before when we were already 1-0 down and never looking likely to score. Even Rafa himself has dismissed the "hostile" chants and booing as the reason for the blip at home! Its because we were not good on the pitch and the man who is paid heavily to change it wasn't good enough on the day either! Needed to get that off my chest WOLUTB!
 
CJACKO11 said:
It's funny i didn't see you post this the last two Wednesdays!!!!
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It doesn't matter whether I did or didn't, you performed well against Swansea and lacked penetration.... but I suppose that was partly down to the selection of Torres. But to be honest I can't blame that on Rafa knowing what Roman is like.....

The fact of the matter is #RAFA OUT is still relevant considering how pathetic some Chelsea fans are being about this still.

I would like to see if Rafa did go who you actually expected to come in next, you are running out of great options. Only guy I can think of is Klopp but **** I doubt he would want to go to Roman's reins.
 
zzeezzy said:
It doesn't matter whether I did or didn't, you performed well against Swansea and lacked penetration.... but I suppose that was partly down to the selection of Torres. But to be honest I can't blame that on Rafa knowing what Roman is like.....

The fact of the matter is #RAFA OUT is still relevant considering how pathetic some Chelsea fans are being about this still.

I would like to see if Rafa did go who you actually expected to come in next, you are running out of great options. Only guy I can think of is Klopp but **** I doubt he would want to go to Roman's reins.
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We want him out because we have a personal agenda against him and surely changing our opinion just because he wins makes us fickle? I also have question marks about him as a manager which have been proved right at times too.
 
CJACKO11 said:
We want him out because we have a personal agenda against him and surely changing our opinion just because he wins makes us fickle? I also have question marks about him as a manager which have been proved right at times too.
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And that frankly is stupid. Roman is totally right to ignore the fans on this one.
 
CJACKO11 said:
We want him out because we have a personal agenda against him and surely changing our opinion just because he wins makes us fickle? I also have question marks about him as a manager which have been proved right at times too.
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Chelsea fans? Fickle?

​Heaven forbid.
 
Mike. said:
And that frankly is stupid. Roman is totally right to ignore the fans on this one.
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Fans are being incredibly stupid. We are frankly very lucky to have a person of Rafa's calibre to step in as an interim manager. He is far better than Di Matteo and I am quietly confident that Rafa will bring Chelsea back into the title race as long as he is backed in the transfer market this month which he has been so far.
 
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