I agree that team is great, but as i good as romeu and josh are, i wouldn't play them week in week out and for me Meireles is a must in the team. Would also have Boss over Ivan at the moment. However, very excited about Josh and Romeu who linked up very welll and i actually think that Avb will play josh against swansea

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Agree with everything Don said

I think Ramires and Miereles are currently musts. The last midfield spot could be anyone out of Romeu, McEachran, Lampard or Mikel. Nice headache for AVB

But give it 2-3 years and Josh will be much better than Miereles is now

Cech
Ivan Luiz Terry Cole
Miereles Ramieres
Sturridge Mata Malouda
Drogba

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Maybe not week in week out, bring in lamps, meireles or anelka every so often.
And yes Meireles has been very good for us, but McEachran has impressed me even more. Ramires at the moment is key for us.
So, yeah I respect what you've both said, Meireles has been brilliant, but i feel that McEachran can do what he's done but possibly even better.
And Gazza, McEachran has himself stated that he is best in the no.10 role.
Messi is small, and he can play in that role, along with silva and plenty of others.
I don't see why his height should hinder him.
Plus I don't think he needs to be particularly quick, just needs to be able to pick a pass and be creative, which he is. But he's not exactly slow, we saw he can accelerate with his disallowed goal, he left the defenders for dead.
But a week ago I wasn't thrilled about our midfield.. now there is a lot of competition for places, and just imagine when essien is back. We've forgotten about Mikel too.
Its a lot stronger than we thought, or certainly than I thought.

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I think the team should be this with rotation though

Cech
Bosingwa/Ivanovic Luiz/Ivanovic Terry Cole
Mikel/Romeu
Ramires Mceachran/Meireles
Stturridge/anelka Torres Mata

Bosingwa to start against teams like fulham and norwich teams that are hard to break down and ivan for bigger games well need his strength ..

Luiz for me is th eonly defender tha carrys the ball out he makes those runs and looks for the forward pass always keeping the tempo fast .

Romeu and mceacran are too young to start week in week out i think meireles should start with mceachran on around 75mins with romeu instead of kalou and malouda who have enough time as it is .... then some games they start like home games against swansea etc ....

Fair point, he is stronger than you think though.
Well, this formation of mine could easily be a 4-3-3, but i just thought chelsea play better with a 4-2-3-1.
I do understand what you mean though Gazza.
But.. is he worth a try there? He could surprise you

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Cech
Ivanovic - Luiz - JT - Cole
Ramires - Romeu
Sturridge - McEachran - Mata
Torres
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mceachran hasnt gt enough games under his belt to start otherwise you got it SPOT on

Everyone seems to still be picking Sturridge, despite him yet to have a good game for us this season, yet leaving Nico out, who has only had one bad one.

He was good vs Leverkusen, you could argue the same with Cole and Ivan who have only had one good game so far with more appearances. I don't know why you're so against Sturridge

McEachran needs to start!

I don't know either! I mean I think he is a real talent, but I just can't seem to buy into the hype.

For me, he just seems so greedy, and when I see Nico actually impressing, I don't see why he is rated so much better than the latter.