i wonder did chelsea include buy back clause or first refusal on Lukaku?

JM mentioned in an interview that its possible to play with 2 striker. Costa Fernando. We are looking into things. - extract from ChelseaTV

No wonder Torres and Costa switching yesterday. Experimenting.

looks like Mourinho not going sell Torres.

multiple sources :
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/sports/footba...o?#.U9pjPvmSx8E

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/sport/foot...owhere-1.501018?

yea, his hairline reminds me of Zidane, Robben and Iniesta.

aiseh. last night when got friendly, i was super sleepy, tonight not sleepy pulak.

Cech could be leaving?

I love Cech. Hes a legend but to be honest, Thibaut is better.

Maybe. Goal.com

Imo, Cech is slightly better now. EPL is tougher league to play than La Liga. More competitive. Courtois perfomance is very close. Age wise though. He can only get better. Id say, split the game, or wait for a howler or injury before removing cech.

Here a good article on it by Talksport

Cech has hit his peak. Thibaut's only going to get better. And performance wise they are quite close to each other. I watched a bunch of athletico games last year, Thibaut was very impressive.

Too soon giving credit to COURTOIS ? Spain is not England. Is not just between La Liga and BPL but also the town, the club, the coach basically the change of environment. If he are not able to adjust or not happy with it, then it will indirectly affect his performance. So at the moment CECH still have my vote as no.1 being tried and tested

Hope they will just fight it out and let their performance on the pitch do the talking and not their mouth on media whine like babies.

This post has been edited by chitchat: Aug 1 2014, 11:16 AM

I'm hoping that Courtois will be patient enough to earn his place in the team... maybe play Cech in BPL and play Courtios in UCL and cup games.... that way, both will be happy...

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Well, I think Cech leaving rumors is gathering speed coz we haven't sell any of our international players to reduce the international quota yet.

Perfect scenario is sum1 bid for Mikel/Torres. For Mikel, we have enough cover in pivot. For Torres, we can keep Bamford and make him 3rd choice bhind Costa and Drogba, Schurrle can play there too. If no1 wanna bid for Mikel/Torres, we might end up selling other international players (Cech)

Seconded

I have same question. Except boutique. Bro, which ure getting? Im getting 3rd kit

gonna get home kit first..then will come back for that sweet sweet 3rd kit

i dont think goalkeeper will face any problem in adapting to new league.

i'm on team courtois if the team decided to let go one of them.

all the best to lukaku. Guess it was inevitable then aye. Surprised we didn't ship him off abroad though. Could still potentially hurt us whilst being in the epl.

I for one find it hard to believe we're going to endure the season with just costa and torres as our main strikers. I mean..can nando even be considered a decent back-up option? will drogs get a sprinkling of games? how many exactly? bamford getting a few? everyone here knows jose's not that kind of risk taker either.

sorry for being such a pessimist, but i feel even one minor injury (2 - 3 weeks on the treatment table) to diego costa at a crucial period during the campaigh could turn our season into a complete disaster.

^ well, at least we can rely on Schurrle. He can play as striker too, or false 9.

the problem is home grown quota. If we wanna have better back up for Costa. We'll nid to buy a striker which is considered as home grown. tbh, Lukaku's sale might come back to haunt us. Just few more months, he is considered as home grown dy, now still consider as U-21.

I don't think JM will worry too much if Costa couldn't perform... We had been without a good striker for the past few years... And we still manage to wrestle with the team on top... so, to me, a goal scoring striker is just a compliment to our already good team.... if we get a consistent striker, then we'll be one of the most fear opponent in Europe.

So what about Torres then? Last time Torres and Drogba compete for first spot, now they compete for the second spot? Keeping Torres this season just feels weird for me. At this point, there's more reasons to let him go rather than to keep him.

As usual we are still going to hope for the best from him. And who knows, may be the lesser risk and reliance on him this time around might do the trick.