Losing established players like essien and mata for young potential squaddies like Matic and salah, either way, I'm more confident about beating Chelsea now. An injury to Oscar or Hazard and United could even overtake them.

I disagree as Essien never fully recovered from his injury and Mata was not getting picked.

Rayman, lol at Mata and Essien transfers mattering to Chelsea's season. Will.i.an and Schurrle are both Mourinho prototypes and both are probably underused.

Chelsea are just getting rid of their deadweight.

Klaus wrote:

Chelsea are just getting rid of their deadweight.

just doing what we did last summer

Since when did Mata become dead weight, And not convinced by Schurrle.

Your opinion. Not Mourinho's though

Rayman wrote:

Since when did Mata become dead weight

When Mourinho took over. He has barely played for them this season, and when he did he contributed with fuckall.

An injury to Hazard, Oscar or Willian - Salah as an option instead of Mata is a weaker Chelsea in my book.

Schürrle is a better winger. and Mourinho wouldn't have played Mata centrally anyway.

Moyes watched Bayern with Kroos' agent. Bayern and Kroos have been at odds over a new contract for awhile. I'll be seriously annoyed if they get Kroos. We should be all over that, he can be adapted to Arteta's role.

Rex wrote:

An injury to Hazard, Oscar or Willian - Salah as an option instead of Mata is a weaker Chelsea in my book.

Disagree. If Oscar goes down Mourinho will switch to 433. Matic/Mikel holding with two of Lampard/Ramires/Matic ahead. Chelsea simply don't concede in that formation.

Volante wrote:

Moyes watched Bayern with Kroos' agent. Bayern and Kroos have been at odds over a new contract for awhile. I'll be seriously annoyed if they get Kroos. We should be all over that, he can be adapted to Arteta's role.

fuck sake that would be annoying. kroos would improve them more tha mata

Looks like Moyes was actually watching Hermann, not Kroos. Good right sided player, but not United quality IMO.

I'd be absolutely shocked if Bayern let Kroos go, his contract is up in 2015 and they're struggling to agree a deal but sooner or later I think they'll offer him the money he wants. Top drawer and produced by their academy, they won't let him go without a fight. Some people on twitter saying that Sammer has said Man Utd are interested in him.

Various reports coming in that they have bidded 22.5m pounds for Shaw.

'They' being Man Utd presumably?

Clrnc wrote:

Various reports coming in that they have bidded 22.5m pounds for Shaw.

*bad

They have bad 22.5m