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Good in patches against Stoke. Torres looked ****ing awesome at stages, had heaps of quality touches and looked sharper than he ever has for chelsea. Ramires also shined, hes an absolute star. Kalou you joke, please go away FMD. Alex is a must keep, absolutely phenomenal player, doesn't lose a header. Bosingwa also had one of his best games in a chelsea shirt, looked menacing going forward and decent defence. Would still rather Ivanovic though, EPL right back of the year last year. Mikel was ok, but we really need Josh Mceachran to play with Lampard playing more defensive, he just doesn't have that extra yard or so of speed to get to balls that he would of got to 2 years ago. Anelka was better than Malouda when he came on imo, looked sharper and quicker. I think when Sturridge comes back from suspension, it will be an Anelka - Torres - Sturridge top 3 with Drogba coming on for Torres if things aren't working. Ivanovic should take Bosingwa's spot and we're sweet.
Chelsea make £27m bid for Valencia's Spanish international winger Juan Mata
Chelsea have bid £27 million for the Spanish international Juan Mata as manager Andre Villas-Boas made a decisive move to improve his squad before the transfer window closes.
The offer is expected to secure the 23 year-old from Valencia who are likely to accept the bid ahead of interest from Tottenham Hotspur.
Arsenal dropped their interest in Mata last week, having allowed a £22 million buy-out clause in his contract to expire, and it now appears that was probably in response to Chelsea’s intervention and the knowledge they would trump any offer.
Villas-Boas is keen to add pace, creativity and width to the team and has agreed that Mata would be an important addition to his squad.
Valencia do not want to sell so close to the start of the Spanish season but Mata is agitating for a move.
Although Mata predominantly plays on the left, the move does not mean that Chelsea have dropped their interest in Porto’s Alvaro Pereira. The Uruguayan can play as a full-back or wing-back while Mata is also adaptable and can even play through the middle if required.
His arrival would leave a huge question mark over the futures of Florent Malouda and Yossi Benayoun especially as Chelsea also have to create some room in their 25-man squad for new signings who are experienced foreign players such as Mata.
Chelsea held talks with Porto on Wednesday evening to discuss the availability of Pereira and also Joao Moutinho who has been identified as an addition to the centre of midfield should their efforts to sign Luka Modric from Tottenham continue to falter.
Chelsea have discussed the prospect of offering €20 million (£17.4m) for Pereira and €25-30 million (£21.7-£26m) for Moutinho and have received encouragement. Although this falls below the buy-out clauses for both players, Porto would like to do business especially as they have already signed replacements in Alex Sandro and Steven Defour.
Chelsea have been weighing up for the past two weeks when they should submit a revised third bid for Modric — having had offers of £22 million and £27 million rejected — and are likely to finally submit a cash offer of £30 million in the coming days.
The deal is in the balance despite the continued insistence of Spurs chairman Daniel Levy that he will not sell. Villas-Boas said on Thursday of the club’s interest: “It depends on a lot of things. It depends on the club’s decision, if they are willing to go forward or not, up to which value and to decide whether they want to keep the interest in the player.
“It depends on what you have available. On the price, and availability, on the age of the player that you get. On everything. Luka, on this particular occasion, is a young player but there would be for sure a sensible price to pay. We have to take sensible decisions. Every decision is a club decision as well.”
Villas-Boas stressed that he made the technical decisions at Chelsea but, when it was put to him that he wanted the player, he replied: “It doesn’t depend on me. It’s not my money.” Chelsea have moved for three of the world’s most promising teenagers this summer and it was suggested to Villas-Boas that an established superstar would offer something different. “Hopefully,” he said. “I think the ones we have are superstars.”
Chelsea formally confirmed the signing of Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku on Thursday, while goalkeeper Thibault Courtois and midfielder Oriol Romeu have also arrived.
Courtois has already been loaned out to Atlético Madrid and, despite news that Petr Cech has suffered a medial ligament injury to his right knee, cannot be recalled. Cech will be out for up to four weeks, leaving Ross Turnbull and Henrique Hilario to play in his absence. Hilario was on the bench against Stoke City last Saturday and is most likely to start against West Brom tomorrow.
Villas-Boas admitted that he was ultimately relieved that the damage to Cech was not more serious after one of his team-mates landed on him during a training ground incident on Wednesday.
Lukaku is only 19, but Villas-Boas already believes that he is ready for the Premier League and he could even make his debut against West Brom. “He has tremendous physical qualities to play in the Premier League, that’s for sure,” said Villas-Boas. “He is tremendously powerful, very strong in the challenges, although, despite his size, he has an explosiveness and an ability to react quickly which looks pretty amazing. But he faces the biggest competition of his life with the forwards that we have.”
Chelsea have bid £27 million for the Spanish international Juan Mata as manager Andre Villas-Boas made a decisive move to improve his squad before the transfer window closes.
The offer is expected to secure the 23 year-old from Valencia who are likely to accept the bid ahead of interest from Tottenham Hotspur.
Arsenal dropped their interest in Mata last week, having allowed a £22 million buy-out clause in his contract to expire, and it now appears that was probably in response to Chelsea’s intervention and the knowledge they would trump any offer.
Villas-Boas is keen to add pace, creativity and width to the team and has agreed that Mata would be an important addition to his squad.
Valencia do not want to sell so close to the start of the Spanish season but Mata is agitating for a move.
Although Mata predominantly plays on the left, the move does not mean that Chelsea have dropped their interest in Porto’s Alvaro Pereira. The Uruguayan can play as a full-back or wing-back while Mata is also adaptable and can even play through the middle if required.
His arrival would leave a huge question mark over the futures of Florent Malouda and Yossi Benayoun especially as Chelsea also have to create some room in their 25-man squad for new signings who are experienced foreign players such as Mata.
Chelsea held talks with Porto on Wednesday evening to discuss the availability of Pereira and also Joao Moutinho who has been identified as an addition to the centre of midfield should their efforts to sign Luka Modric from Tottenham continue to falter.
Chelsea have discussed the prospect of offering €20 million (£17.4m) for Pereira and €25-30 million (£21.7-£26m) for Moutinho and have received encouragement. Although this falls below the buy-out clauses for both players, Porto would like to do business especially as they have already signed replacements in Alex Sandro and Steven Defour.
Chelsea have been weighing up for the past two weeks when they should submit a revised third bid for Modric — having had offers of £22 million and £27 million rejected — and are likely to finally submit a cash offer of £30 million in the coming days.
The deal is in the balance despite the continued insistence of Spurs chairman Daniel Levy that he will not sell. Villas-Boas said on Thursday of the club’s interest: “It depends on a lot of things. It depends on the club’s decision, if they are willing to go forward or not, up to which value and to decide whether they want to keep the interest in the player.
“It depends on what you have available. On the price, and availability, on the age of the player that you get. On everything. Luka, on this particular occasion, is a young player but there would be for sure a sensible price to pay. We have to take sensible decisions. Every decision is a club decision as well.”
Villas-Boas stressed that he made the technical decisions at Chelsea but, when it was put to him that he wanted the player, he replied: “It doesn’t depend on me. It’s not my money.” Chelsea have moved for three of the world’s most promising teenagers this summer and it was suggested to Villas-Boas that an established superstar would offer something different. “Hopefully,” he said. “I think the ones we have are superstars.”
Chelsea formally confirmed the signing of Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku on Thursday, while goalkeeper Thibault Courtois and midfielder Oriol Romeu have also arrived.
Courtois has already been loaned out to Atlético Madrid and, despite news that Petr Cech has suffered a medial ligament injury to his right knee, cannot be recalled. Cech will be out for up to four weeks, leaving Ross Turnbull and Henrique Hilario to play in his absence. Hilario was on the bench against Stoke City last Saturday and is most likely to start against West Brom tomorrow.
Villas-Boas admitted that he was ultimately relieved that the damage to Cech was not more serious after one of his team-mates landed on him during a training ground incident on Wednesday.
Lukaku is only 19, but Villas-Boas already believes that he is ready for the Premier League and he could even make his debut against West Brom. “He has tremendous physical qualities to play in the Premier League, that’s for sure,” said Villas-Boas. “He is tremendously powerful, very strong in the challenges, although, despite his size, he has an explosiveness and an ability to react quickly which looks pretty amazing. But he faces the biggest competition of his life with the forwards that we have.”
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Pride of London with your 4 league titles. lol johnny come lately's.
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mata on for his first game. torres and drogs ineffective today, playing up front together. drogba knocked out cold in a sickening collision, hope hes ok. bosingwa is going great has been a real find for us this season as of yet. i say bring LUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKU on !
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btw ivanovic has been very frustrating this match, heaps of mistakes at the back and bad mistimed headers and tackles. alex, david luiz >>>>>>>> ivanovic at centre back.
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geeezzzzz i love ramires. by far our best signing over the last 2-3 years so far. exceptional pace and skill shown to get that penalty, love him to bits. lukaku getting ready to come on, cant wait to see him and mata hopefully combine 
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2-1 lampard penalty.
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ivanovic **** off already you ****ing joke. **** me dead your pathetic.
BTW HOW GOOD IS MATA <3
BTW HOW GOOD IS MATA <3
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mata will be a chelsea legend. what a player !
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Hope drogba is ok what a sickening concussion. Beauitufl first goal
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In:
Meireles - will most likely play as a midfielder with lampard holding as we did in the friendlies.
Mata - absolute star, very similar to silva from ****ty. way better than malouda, kalou, anelka and very creative.
Lukaku - next drogba, simple as that. faster version and even bigger than drogba, not as technically gifted though
Romeo - holding mid, decent frame spain u21s captain and named in the top 10 players of the u21s champ recently, which says something. 5 mil pound signing, hope he turns out to be quality, i like the looks of him.
Davila - havnt seen much of him, another chivas product like hernandez and vela i think. hopefully a good signing, hes been loaned out to our affiliate club vitesse though.
Courtois - goalie from genk, apparently very talented, loaned to athletico as a replacement for DDG. hopefully will turn out good.
OUT:
Zhirkov to anzhi for 13 mil roughly. shouldve been kept as cover for ashley and as a reserve midfielder, but nothing too damaging.
Rajkovic to hamburg because he couldnt get his visa after 3 years here. big loss this one, has massive potential, in the vidic mould and even bigger with great technical ability for a back. devo we lost him.
Loaned out:
Kakuta to bolton - great move, hopefully see him get game time, he is possibly our next big thing along with josh mceachran.
Benayoun to Arsenal - no big, was only depth anyway. past his use by date at 32.
PVA to wigan - immense talent, hope he gets lots of game time and develop to be ashleys understudy with bertrand.
Davila to vitesse
Kalas to vitesse
Lalkovic to doncaster
Walker to northampton town
Bruma to Hamburg - arrogant feeeeck, enormous potential though. needs an attitude fix up if he is to fulfill his potential. can be a cb for a big club in the future i think, but not for us. at least 5 cbs in front of him atm.
Meireles - will most likely play as a midfielder with lampard holding as we did in the friendlies.
Mata - absolute star, very similar to silva from ****ty. way better than malouda, kalou, anelka and very creative.
Lukaku - next drogba, simple as that. faster version and even bigger than drogba, not as technically gifted though
Romeo - holding mid, decent frame spain u21s captain and named in the top 10 players of the u21s champ recently, which says something. 5 mil pound signing, hope he turns out to be quality, i like the looks of him.
Davila - havnt seen much of him, another chivas product like hernandez and vela i think. hopefully a good signing, hes been loaned out to our affiliate club vitesse though.
Courtois - goalie from genk, apparently very talented, loaned to athletico as a replacement for DDG. hopefully will turn out good.
OUT:
Zhirkov to anzhi for 13 mil roughly. shouldve been kept as cover for ashley and as a reserve midfielder, but nothing too damaging.
Rajkovic to hamburg because he couldnt get his visa after 3 years here. big loss this one, has massive potential, in the vidic mould and even bigger with great technical ability for a back. devo we lost him.
Loaned out:
Kakuta to bolton - great move, hopefully see him get game time, he is possibly our next big thing along with josh mceachran.
Benayoun to Arsenal - no big, was only depth anyway. past his use by date at 32.
PVA to wigan - immense talent, hope he gets lots of game time and develop to be ashleys understudy with bertrand.
Davila to vitesse
Kalas to vitesse
Lalkovic to doncaster
Walker to northampton town
Bruma to Hamburg - arrogant feeeeck, enormous potential though. needs an attitude fix up if he is to fulfill his potential. can be a cb for a big club in the future i think, but not for us. at least 5 cbs in front of him atm.
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oooooh and + we lost borini as most would know to palermo i think? and lost a good talent in left footer gokhan tore to hamburg and jacopo sala to hamburg. borini would never have made the epl with his size and style he plays
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lolgeeezzzzz i love ramires. by far our best signing over the last 2-3 years so far. exceptional pace and skill shown to get that penalty, love him to bits. lukaku getting ready to come on, cant wait to see him and mata hopefully combine
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the post was done after a few of our games? he was getting outpaced, outmuscled and beaten to the ball everytime, do you think he warranted a 23 mil price tag? now hes certainly made up for lost time. btw josh mceachran is a possibility to start for us next week according to some forums. looking forward to it !
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Chelsea - 25 squad players
Player Home Grown
1 Cech, Petr No
2 Ivanovic, Branislav No
3 Cole, Ashley Yes
4 Luiz Moreira Marinho, David No
5 Essien, Michael No
6 Santos Do Nascimento, Ramires No
7 Lampard, Frank James Yes
8 Torres Sanz, Fernando Jose No
9 Mata Garcia, Juan Manuel No
10 Drogba, Didier No
11 Mikel, John Obi No
12 Malouda, Florent Johan No
13 Meireles, Raul Jose Trindade No
14 Bosingwa Da Silva, Jose No
15 Ferreira, Paulo Renato Rebocho No
16 Kalou, Salomon No
17 Turnbull, Ross Yes
18 Sturridge, Daniel Yes
19 Terry, John George Yes
20 Dias Costa, Alex Rodrigo No
21 Bertrand, Ryan Yes
22 Anelka, Nicolas No
23 Sampaio, Henrique Hilario Meireles No
Chelsea - Under 21 players (Contract and Scholars)
Affane, Amin
Ashton, James Alexander
Baker, Lewis Renard
Bangura, Samuel
Blackman, Jamal Clint-Ross
Chalobah, Nathaniel Nyakie
Clifford, Billy
Clifford, Conor
Courtois, Thibaut
Davey, Alex James
Davila Plascencia, Ulises Alejandro
Deen-Conteh, Abdul Aziz
Delac, Matej
Djalo, Aliu
Figueira, Walter
Gordon, Benjamin Lawrence
Gordon, Alastair
Howard, Tom
Ince, Rohan
Kakuta, Gael
Kalas, Tomas
Kane, Todd Arthur Lucien
Lalkovic, Milan
Loudon, Reece
Lukaku, Romelu Menama
McEachran, Joshua Mark
Mellis, Jacob Alexander
Mitrovic, Marko
Na Bangna, Buomesca Tue
Nditi, Adam Eric Richard
Nkumu, Archange
Nortey, Nii Nortei
Osmanovic, Anjur
Pappoe, Daniel Mills
Phillip, Adam
Pirez Araujo, Jhon Alexander
Prosenik, Philipp
Saville, George Alan
Seremba, Ismail
Stenning, Daniel
Swift, John David
Taylor, Rhys Francis
Van Aanholt, Patrick John Miguel
Van Homoet Bruma, Jeffrey Kevin
Vidal, Oriol Romeu
Walker, Samuel Colin
Vidal, Oriol Romeu
Walker, Samuel Colin
Player Home Grown
1 Cech, Petr No
2 Ivanovic, Branislav No
3 Cole, Ashley Yes
4 Luiz Moreira Marinho, David No
5 Essien, Michael No
6 Santos Do Nascimento, Ramires No
7 Lampard, Frank James Yes
8 Torres Sanz, Fernando Jose No
9 Mata Garcia, Juan Manuel No
10 Drogba, Didier No
11 Mikel, John Obi No
12 Malouda, Florent Johan No
13 Meireles, Raul Jose Trindade No
14 Bosingwa Da Silva, Jose No
15 Ferreira, Paulo Renato Rebocho No
16 Kalou, Salomon No
17 Turnbull, Ross Yes
18 Sturridge, Daniel Yes
19 Terry, John George Yes
20 Dias Costa, Alex Rodrigo No
21 Bertrand, Ryan Yes
22 Anelka, Nicolas No
23 Sampaio, Henrique Hilario Meireles No
Chelsea - Under 21 players (Contract and Scholars)
Affane, Amin
Ashton, James Alexander
Baker, Lewis Renard
Bangura, Samuel
Blackman, Jamal Clint-Ross
Chalobah, Nathaniel Nyakie
Clifford, Billy
Clifford, Conor
Courtois, Thibaut
Davey, Alex James
Davila Plascencia, Ulises Alejandro
Deen-Conteh, Abdul Aziz
Delac, Matej
Djalo, Aliu
Figueira, Walter
Gordon, Benjamin Lawrence
Gordon, Alastair
Howard, Tom
Ince, Rohan
Kakuta, Gael
Kalas, Tomas
Kane, Todd Arthur Lucien
Lalkovic, Milan
Loudon, Reece
Lukaku, Romelu Menama
McEachran, Joshua Mark
Mellis, Jacob Alexander
Mitrovic, Marko
Na Bangna, Buomesca Tue
Nditi, Adam Eric Richard
Nkumu, Archange
Nortey, Nii Nortei
Osmanovic, Anjur
Pappoe, Daniel Mills
Phillip, Adam
Pirez Araujo, Jhon Alexander
Prosenik, Philipp
Saville, George Alan
Seremba, Ismail
Stenning, Daniel
Swift, John David
Taylor, Rhys Francis
Van Aanholt, Patrick John Miguel
Van Homoet Bruma, Jeffrey Kevin
Vidal, Oriol Romeu
Walker, Samuel Colin
Vidal, Oriol Romeu
Walker, Samuel Colin
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I was just having a laugh lol I think even you probably know now to judge him so prematurely was a little unfair. :thumb:
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Chelsea intend to loan out Fernando Torres in January.
The Sunday Mirror says Torres is set to be loaned out in January if he fails to find his goalscoring boots.
A temporary deal, *probably back to Spain, is *being considered by Blues boss André Villas-Boas as he attempts to solve Torres’ loss of form.
They have not considered selling Torres because his poor form has decimated his market value.
Cash-rich Malaga and Torres’ former club Atletico Madrid could offer him temporary sanctuary.
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/chelsea-offer-torres-spanish-clubs-january-1889492
The Sunday Mirror says Torres is set to be loaned out in January if he fails to find his goalscoring boots.
A temporary deal, *probably back to Spain, is *being considered by Blues boss André Villas-Boas as he attempts to solve Torres’ loss of form.
They have not considered selling Torres because his poor form has decimated his market value.
Cash-rich Malaga and Torres’ former club Atletico Madrid could offer him temporary sanctuary.
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/chelsea-offer-torres-spanish-clubs-january-1889492