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It's always difficult against teams that go to every game in their brown pants. Every game is like a final to them.
 
Two changes to the starting XI tonight, Fabregas for Matic and Willian for Hazard. Also... Zouma returns! He's not starting, but even so, it's fantastic to see him back.
 
Don't know how, but Conte has to find a way to slot in Fabregas into the team.
 
Chelski Shogun said:
It's a ridiculous price and according to reports he'll be earning £350k p/w, so the move is understandable.

No, I wouldn't sell Matic or Fabregas (he offers something different) but we do need midfield reinforcements. Hence Nainggolan. As for Loftus-Cheek, he should head out on loan because he needs game time and he isn't getting that at Chelsea. Plus Chalobah is ahead of him in the 'pecking order' atm.



Simple, without Oscar our backups to Kante and Matic are Cesc and Chalobah which isn't good enough. We need better depth in there, so a CM in January is a must.
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Cannot blame Oscar at all for moving there. This is truly incredible money.
 
Alc said:
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Cannot blame Oscar at all for moving there. This is truly incredible money.
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I'd beg to differ there.

I'm not naive enough to think money isn't important. But he's ridiculously well compensated regardless. There comes a point when it's just flat out greed. And to put that greed over your career say's FAR more about your lack of ambition for your career as a footballer than anything to me. The Chinese league is never going to take off and be a rival to Europe. No matter how much they plough into it, it just isn't. Oscar's 25. He's not the end of his career looking for one last big payday. He's in the prime of his career. Yet he's all but decided to go China and disappear off the footballing landscape. He'd be a stand out star in somewhere like Italy or Spain.

Little time for anyone of note the could still do well in Europe that sells out to China.
 
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Congratulations on 10 straight wins. I don't think people appreciate just how ridiculously hard and rare that is to do. To put 5 straight together in the PL is a fantastic achievement. Double figures is just ridiculous.

We had eleven straight the '13/'14 title challenging run, matching a few others. And there's only Utd with 12 and Arsenal with 14, split over two successive seasons, I believe who've had more.

It really is a special achievement and deserves top recognition.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Congratulations on 10 straight wins. I don't think people appreciate just how ridiculously hard and rare that is to do. To put 5 straight together in the PL is a fantastic achievement. Double figures is just ridiculous.

We had eleven straight the '13/'14 title challenging run, matching a few others. And there's only Utd with 12 and Arsenal with 14, split over two successive seasons, I believe who've had more.

It really is a special achievement and deserves top recognition.
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Indeed. It's a magnificent achievement, especially when you consider just how competitive the league is at the moment.

But our best run is eleven straight back in '09, which was stretched over two seasons and two different managers (Hiddink and Ancelotti). However our current winning streak is our best one because of the opposition we've faced, and we've done it during the same season. Also that team in '09 was a f**king juggernaut who should've extended their winning run to nineteen if it weren't for some ridiculous loses against Villa and Wigan away.
 
Bujakaa said:
Going for record? 14th opponent would be Spurs.
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Our record should get to thirteen with wins against Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke. But then again Palace are unpredictable, as are Bournemouth and Stoke. So who knows? But all I care about is that we win the league tbh.
 
Chelski Shogun said:
Our record should get to thirteen with wins against Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke. But then again Palace are unpredictable, as are Bournemouth and Stoke. So who knows? But all I care about is that we win the league tbh.
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I think if you come out of xmas period still 6 clear that would be a massive result
 
epic terrorist said:
I think if you come out of xmas period still 6 clear that would be a massive result
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The game at Anfield under the lights the end of January is looking more and more pivotal.

Quite happy to be going into that on Chelsea's coat tails. (If they drop points the interim even better like.).

That will be quite the Tuesday night the 31st.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
The game at Anfield under the lights the end of January is looking more and more pivotal.

Quite happy to be going into that on Chelsea's coat tails. (If they drop points the interim even better like.).

That will be quite the Tuesday night the 31st.
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Out interest Scouse, do you still think Conte will change tinker with his system for that game? (Should he have a full squad to choose from).
 
RhQQ said:
Out interest Scouse, do you still think Conte will change tinker with his system for that game? (Should he have a full squad to choose from).
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I think he'd be taking a heck of a gamble if he didn't.

Can't see them coming for anything more than a point.

*Edit* Just as interestingly being as we're talking is what Mourinho will do the middle of January. His career MO has been to be more attacking the big games at home so you'd think it wouldn't be a repeat of Anfield. But then he's never taken his usual Anfield negativity to the level he did this year so who knows what he'll do if he's desperate for a result?
 
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On the one hand, I'm glad that Conte has made all of those critics - the ones who were saying he was going to be sacked in September after the back to back losses - eat their words.

On the other, I wish he didn't completely obliterate them. They've been proven wrong already, just drop some points now! Please :P
 
Costa is a different animal this season. It'll be interesting to see how they'll cope against Bournemouth, who are flying at the moment, without the now suspended Diego.
 
RhQQ said:
Costa is a different animal this season. It'll be interesting to see how they'll cope against Bournemouth, who are flying at the moment, without the now suspended Diego.
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And Kante is now out. It is at home like so it'd be a real shock if they didn't overcome Bournemouth even without those two. But every little helps.

Ver hard watch again but it's effective. 11 straight would be phenomenal.
 
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