With a contact for only a few months?

There is no point buying a player no matter how cheap he is

A loan deal was the only way forward at this point.

He is looking for first team football and that's not really what we was looking for.

Would be a waste of time and money even offering him a contract

Possibly wouldn't have wanted to come in as a back-up, though if we'd offloaded Remy (as we appear to be doing) and not signed Pato, then Austin would have only been competing with Costa really. Falcao can be ruled out of the equation, he's hardly ever fit and doesn't cut it anyway - if we could have cancelled the loan I'm certain we would have done it. Even at Southampton Austin won't have a guarantee of starting every game.

Remy might wish to leave due to lack of gametime, but as some of us have said he actually would have played quite a bit more if he hadn't been injured a lot of the times Costa was ruled out. That wouldn't necessarily have been the case with Austin, who I also think is a bit better than Remy.

Who says it would only be for a few months? If he'd worked out we keep him on for next season, if not then we'd probably have no problem getting our money back in the summer. Seems a low-risk transfer to me, if he was up for joining.

I don't think he's a long term solution to our striker problems, but as things stand now he's capable of challenging for a place in the team. Costa has not been so good that he should be considered a nailed on starter, in fact he's been piss poor this season up until the last few games.

A loan deal is only the way forward if the player is worth loaning in the first place. Otherwise we might as well stick with what we've got. Pato just seems like another Falcao/Torres/Shevchenko that's well past his best but we'll see.

Bamford's gone to Norwich. Can't see much good coming from it to be honest.

Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill Terry (c), Baba; Matic, Fabregas; Oscar, Loftus-Cheek, Hazard; Diego Costa

Remy injured yet again .....

Won't be an easy match. The dons will be up for it, and it will be nice to see a few younger players given a chance. Let's face it we've fallen behind there after numerous Youth cup and U 21 successes over the past several years. Even Man City are using youth more at the moment, and Liverpool under Klopp are very impressive.

We're on a roll though, and I think our lads will come through with another win.

Come on the Chels'!

It would have if that was what we were actually doing, but that isn't the case really. Aside from RLC it's a team full of experienced players.

Is Kenedy injured as he's not even on the bench?

a terrible deflection gets mkd level

How many games since Hazard scored now??

edit: 30 matches without a goal. Incredible.

it should be 5 nil already

what a hat trick from oscar!

3 - 1 half time. Cheeky's playing very well, as is Rahman now he's getting more minutes. Hazard looking more enthusiastic but lacking a bit of match sharpness. Could be 7 - 1 at ht let's be honest. Plenty of free flowing, compact football and they look like a team.

Oscar, hatrick already. Well done lad!

The muffins here must be gutted!

Oscar showing Hazard how it's done. Shame he doesn't do that more often.

MK Dons have been as bad as anyone we've played all season though, so I don't think this performance will tell us much.

4 - 1! Eden's back! RLC starting to walk / stroll. He needs to cut that out, although nice to see Traore on and with plenty of mins to go. Fab's quiet.

not quite the top tipster are you?

I know this is nothing to do with the match but MK Dons has got to be the worst name for a football club in history and where did they get the Dons from that is Wimbledons nickname Welll they did nick the name i suppose

i still dont understand the hatred for MKD

I wuppose everyone should hate Arsenal for the same reasons?

More the tit tipster

All a bit too easy in the end. In the hat for the next round which was the main objective

Tough draw against City, but it was a good performance today. Well done.

JT leaving. Another thing for the fans to be unhappy about.
Club just can't help themselves at times....

he hasnt gone yet

its just that the club hasnt extended his contract yet

Sounds like we've decided to let him go. Yet another dreadful decision from the idiots in charge.

Keep Ivanovic. Boot Terry.

It's hard to put into words how angry i am with the club on here without getting banned.

John Terry, our greatest ever ( in my opinion ) waved away like he is nothing. The guy IS Chelsea. He's been here since he was a 14 year old kid. 21 years at the club giving everything he could possibly give and now he has been told he is no longer wanted. What a way to treat a club legend. Terry should be retiring a Chelsea player, it should be up to him when he wants to call it a day at the club, not the board.

Who will be left at this club that understands everything about it ? there won't be anyone once Terry is gone.

A good day after the F.A cup win has now turned into a horrible day for the fans. Just when i thought the ill feeling surrounding the club had disappeared the board come out with this.

I hope the fans make it known to the board just how pissed we are with them because i am tired of this crap now.

Lampard released and allowed to go to City for a season, Cech sold to Arsenal and now Terry being told he is no longer needed at the club.........it's one thing after another. I'm so disillusioned with the club right now.