Chelsea have alot of young promising striker before, but with Chelsea ambitions, they need to be alot better that they have been and alot more patience to penetrate into the team.

Maybe he can prove himself more and Chelsea will take him back. As for Lukaku better than Torres, at this point is just confidence but in terms of experience sure Torres is better.

From yesterday match looks like Costa is the correct type of striker that Mou needs with the same game play he have.

Im glad to see Costa got his goal last game. So this game he can show different side of his game, teamwork/unselfish play. Setting up MoSalah and Matic.

His pace and power remind me of Drogba really, and his intelligent movement. Future is Bright for PL Title.

Whats even more amazing is that we've still got Eden, Thibaut, Oscar, Willian and Ramires who are yet to feature. The future is bright indeed.

Now that u mention it. ^^^ Next interesting battle is Cech v Curtouis. hmmm This sunday. I want to see Curtouis starting/half time sub. If hes working hard in training.

Wtf..just kno solanke is only 16-18

Hahah. Whtever it is pls dont loan him out for the next 2 seasons. He needs to try and learn the curve over here

#KTBFFH

It's time to change the 1st post showing Lukaku is still in our squad~

JM say 16-18 won't loan out. He only loan those who can get first team in other clubs. That's why solanke, Christensen etc will play for u21 while training with first team.

say bye to Lukaku and Bertrand. Lukaku's case, i kinda expected it. Now we have Costa, Torres and Drog. Still ok, we have enuff cover.

But Bertrand?

LB - Luis / Ake
CB - JT / Cahill / Zouma / Christensen
RB - Azpi / Iva

So we're putting our faith on Ake and Christensen? I thot Bertrand will be a decent back up for Luis.

I actually quite impressed with ake.
not bad but he still need more experience.
well playing him as sub or at cup will help him.

Iva and Azpi versatile, especially Azpi. Temporary cover.

Like yinchet mentioned, with Ake, if hes matured. Dont do rash things and loose possession. should be OK.

LB tho, Felipe very industrious and calm. Able to hold player and awareness is superb, bombing forward also gooding. I think Ake win him only in Pace but he is still young, can learn from Felipe.

Ake trained with first team since january..iinm he is backup behind cole ofcoz...but azpi doesnt get injured and his performance always gooding last season

Cantik

16-18 i think quite hard to get loan spells at championship level oso. Maybe at league 1 yes.

Let him develop and give him some cup minutes

LB - Luis / Ake
CB - JT / Cahill / Zouma / Christensen
RB - Azpi / Iva

If we take out the youngsters Ake and Christensen, we only have 6 players fighting for 4 positions. During the climax of the season, just afraid we will be short handed with suspensions and injury. Rmb the game against Pool? With PSG coming next, we have to play Iva and Kalas as CB.

I hope Christensen and Ake is ready to step in to play some crucial game. I think Carling Cup and FA Cup Ake and Christensen will surely get their chances.

tbh, Ake reminds me of Luiz. Can play both in defense and pivot, gud pace, can attack and defend well. Hope he'll turn out to be a younger Luiz playing in the pivot in the future.

I'm quite happy with the current backline having to put some faith on the youth is something I always wish for.
Besides adding one more defender would not do us good I doubt on his chances to get some playtime.
using our youth as backup would be good though risky but we able to develop our youth and they might get their chances to play.

This post has been edited by yinchet: Jul 31 2014, 04:35 PM

with the current situation, I do think we're gonna dip into transfer business again despite mou told the press few weeks ago that we're done.

For our gk and defense line, we have 2 players for each position dy. Good to go. Striker department, Costa, Torres, Drogba, good to go too. Trident - Hazard, Salah, Oscar, Schurrle, Willian, all good to go too.

for pivot - Romeu, Matic, MVG, Ramires, Mikel. Mou even played Fab in pivot in recent games. overcrowded?

We still nid to sell 1 international player. Mikel or Ram to go? Or loan out Romeu?

I think everyone want to see deadline swoop on Pogba

Hold out till January if theres injury to our backline.

Ram + Mikel + Mutu's debt = for Pogba.

if one of mikel or ramires getting sell, yes. current situation seem ok. schurrle can cover striker position.

We need to sell/loan at least two international player.