Gets confusing sometimes on the phone!

Romelu Lukaku
I have an announcement to make... Next week i'm going to london for the medical tests! #chelsea... More news next week

Apparently it has been confirmed that's his real Twitter account. Don't think they really need him to be honest. Drogba, Torres, Anelka, Kalou and Sturridge. In fact Sturridge must be seething.

anelka's contract apparently expires next summer and drogba is 33 yrs old.

Lukaku doesn't seem like the kind of guy that's going to spend a season sitting on the bench, neither does Sturridge for that matter, and Anelka and Drogba, especially the latter, will be hard men to leave out of the team let alone match day squads.

lukaku is 18 and has proven nothing. he'll sit on the bench and be grateful for it.

You obviously haven't heard much about Lukaku's personality in that case. He's the sort that would moist likely put a transfer request if he's not in the team by Christmas!

JamieDalton82
Javier Pastore has completed his move from Palermo to PSG for €42m. Pastore wears 27 and will be presented against Lorient this evening

Mental money.

Ricky1985 wrote:

You obviously haven't heard much about Lukaku's personality in that case. He's the sort that would moist likely put a transfer request if he's not in the team by Christmas!

then they'll sell him. he might be a big fish in a small belgian pond, but at chelsea, he'll see how much he has to learn before he can claim a place ahead of the players you mentioned.

anyway, i'm not sure what your point is. lukaku is a twat, so chelsea have to indulge him? maybe we'd do that at arsenal lest we "kill" him, but i dont think chelsea will care. they'll do whatever they have to do to win, with lukaku or without. and if he is a dressing room cancer, great!

I'm just surprised they're going to pay big money for him at this point. Doesn't look like a world beater in the making, and they don't need him. I'm also surprised he wants to go there, basically, I think it's a stupid move all round.

But don't care enough to talk about it more. Like you I hope he does cause problems.

gotcha.

i worry that villas-boas is going to have chelsea playing some slick stuff this season. it wasn't too long ago that they scored over 100 goals in the league.

they've looked far from impressive in all the pre-season games I've seen. I believe they'll be grinding out wins rather than brushing teams aside easily- at least until he gets them playing whatever system he's got in mind for them.

Jamie Dalton
Newcastle have signed Gabriel Obertan from Manchester United for £3m on a 5-year deal.

Wasn't he rated very highly by United fans?

Yup. Apparently the new Ronaldo by many of them.

Obertan could be one hell of a player some day with the right manager. Ferguson was the wrong person to get anything out of him though. You wouldn't expect someone like Alan Pardew to succeed either.

Just further proof of how hard it is to do what Wenger does with young players. It's alright buying them for £20M and turning them into first team players, ala Ferguson, but trying to buy them cheap (and usually very young) and getting first team players out of them is very, very difficult. Takes a lot of hard work and even more patience.

I think that Obertan will do well. Glad he left United

sneijder to man u for 33 mill?