For me, there is just no contest. A peak terry was fantastic - and he still gives 100% every game, and is willing to put his body on the line to win.

Of course, many top footballers could be considered an "arse" in the media. Lots of te op players like rio, terry, beckham etc have baggage, but the press do give some an easier ride.

Yes, I can't see that Courtois has done a lot wrong. We are in the enviable (but awkward) situation of having two world class keepers and having to try to keep them both happy.

We have looked vulnerable In defence, but as you say I think this stems from playing a different system. I don't think playing Fabregas in the pivot with Matic is ever going to work long term. Yes, we've out scored our opponents so far, but games like the Everton one are just freakish exceptions. But Jose knows this, conceding 5 goals in two games is not the Mourinho way.
The buses will be back soon and parked in place. Then we can continue with our plan to ruin football as we know it. I actually welcome a couple of 1-0, 2-0 victories, with lots of time wasting and Jose intimidating the refs.

Stick Ramires in for Oscar or Schurrle for the next few matches. See if that tightens us up at the back.

As well as Costa's record, Fabregas became the first ever player to record an assist in 6 consecutive Premier League matches

You might see that on Sunday.

Or when we play Utd

We should go for it against that United midfield and defence.

The midfield looked good against QPR, but i cant wait to see them tested against stoke, or for someone to test the fragility of Falcao.

If had acces to a time machine and when we played them we went back to last weekend then I would agree BUT since we are playing them at the end of October how they looked at the weekend has nothing to do with anything.

RVG along with Jose is one of the top managers around and if you really think how they looked yesterday with very little training and prepration is how they will play in a months time then thats your call.

It comes at the end of a very tough and busy run of games for us.

Falcao is far from fragile and more so when managed correctly. He is as good as Costa on his day

Costa looks made to the PL.

He is looking like the best striker we have had in 10 years - and controversially i include Drogba in that.

And?

All I am saying is Falco is a top top class striker hence the rumours we was looking at him awhile ago. Costa is a great striker but so is Falco and someone we need to work at stopping from scoring if he plays against us

Worth quoting.

Ouch.

There was always a question over Costa, nowhere near the "donkey" that Dixon stated, but he has had the best start possible.

He seems to score first or to equalise, and not just ice the cake.

Yes, Dixon has never been one to hold back.

I think a lot of Chelsea fans had a few doubts about Costa, particularly after the World Cup. I had a feeling he would score goals given half a chance, but I didn't realise how good his general link-up play would be. There's a lot more to his game that the "big hard man who likes to put it about a bit" that he was labelled by many.

So are we expecting Cech to be our Champions League goalkeeper this season? Personally I'd give him that, as well as the other cups.

We've actually conceded 3 goals. The very same number you conceded in one game against Everton.

Never worth quoting. Not when most of the views comes from the daily comics and talk-shite

But do you chop and change a back 5 at a time when we need to add some defensive stability?

If we was continuing our defensive record from last season I would agree but it's something we need to work on improving at the moment and that will only come with time and games.

Hazard about to sign a new 5 year deal worth £200K a week. Great to see him committed to the club after the talk in the summer of PSG and others sniffing around.
If he can find a little more consistency, he'll be right up there among the best in the world. He already does things that I haven't seen since the days when players like Zola and Robben were performing their magic.

It is a huge amount of money, basically £50m over 5 years. But it would "guarantee" his services, or increase his transfer fee to something approaching that of 70 or 80 million.

Some of the dribbles he made on saturday were fantastic. We all want more product at the end, but he did make the goal for Remy after a brilliant run.

The addiction of a striker who is a goalscorer and a real handful for centre backs will help our smaller front players like Hazard, who has suffered because teams put two or sometimes three players on him.

I cannot wait to see Hazard, Cesc and Costa play against that dodgy QPR defence on the 1st November.

I see you mention Cech above, will you sell him or loan him out in January? As surely he is still far too good a goalkeeper to not play regular football for a whole season?

Loaning him out would be illogical and pointless.

He more then likely would be cup tied by then so I doubt many clubs would buy him in January.

As far as I am aware he has not asked for a transfer and if that continues I don't see a reason for him not staying.

Dixon will only appear again as a "Chelsea fan" if things go wrong.
Busy posting on his own teams thread at the moment

And you kept out Burnley Ninn, top stuff

How would he be cup tied if he doesn't play?

Unless you are planning to play him sometime soon?

Equally, I hope we test what has appeared to be a rocky back line that you have got, I would love to see Falcao, Di Maria, Adnan, Mata, and Rooney pulling them all over the place, and running in behind them!

We actually have looked far more solid defensively than a lot of teams this season so far, previously or perversely it was our attack which was the problem for us, and seeing as that is now no longer the case, other teams should be far more worried about us, then we might have been about them previously.

You are confident for a fan whose team has only beaten QPR so far this season.

As i have said in the forum, i think this season will be won by a team that has the best defense. I am more confident in Courtois, Cahill, Terry, Brana and Azpi with ram and matic infront of them than the United defense i watched at the weekend.

Still, you should be confident in your team. 250 million spent must improve the team.

err, he is going to play in the cups.