More than a little surprised.

[riddick]

I'm fired up after the window. Stopgap might be stopgap, but stopgap beats no gap. Who knows. Lukaku might want to perform at Ski now, but them stockpiling strikers and some success (hell, even time on the pitch) at EFC might adjust his loyalties.

No one know what the future holds.

As a dumb Yank I was hung over yet fired up to see the Blues take on Cardiff. I'm now salivating to see the new look squad's next (US) televised match.

if you have nbc sports network they play every game live. if not on tv on the interwebs.

 

[Furey1878]

Robles played 9 games for them last season, he was hardly first choice. He was on loan, initially he was 3rd choice. He ended up playing 9 games because Al Habsi and Pollitt both got injured. Robles kept several clean sheets including in the FA Cup Final.

Alcaraz isn't injury prone. He played 30 games in 2011/2012, and was suspended for 3 games. He missed 5 games through injury that season. Last season, he had one bad injury that kept him out for 6 months, and made 14 appearances. When he played, Wigan kept 6 clean sheets.

Saying Alcaraz is injury prone is like saying Jagielka is injury prone, just because Jags missed 6 months with injury in 2009.

I have noticed though, Jags always seems to get injured at really inconvenient times:

Missed 2009 FA Cup final
Missed 2012 FA Cup semi final
Missed 2013 FA Cup 1/4 final

So I believe the medical term is unlucky.

 

[royalblue66]

This season will be our 47th attempt to win the league cup

 

[Moomin]

Maybe but the players are all aging -he left us with a dads army squad then raided us for are star players! Got one but thanks for your loyalty Bainsy!

Thank god that Martinez buys us elf's from middle earth who do not age.

As for Dads army, we have 8 players over the age of 30, 2 of them were brought in by Martinez. And, that number will be 9 when Kone hits 30 this year.

 

[SchoolOfScience]

The loan of Lukaku albeit amazing for us this year is a bit of a lose lose outcome in my eyes.

If he does incredibly well (which we all want), then I'd imagine Chelsea will want him back as he'll be another year older with another year of Premier League experience and had been performing well for us.

If he doesn't do as well as expected then I can't see us wanting to fork out a big sum of money to land someone who never lit the place up.

Hopefully either I'm wrong or we can challenge for a european spot where bigger fish will be interested in filling our striking void.

 

[deipnosophist]

huh?

I'm fired up after the window. Stopgap might be stopgap, but stopgap beats no gap. Who knows. Lukaku might want to perform at Ski now, but them stockpiling strikers and some success (hell, even time on the pitch) at EFC might adjust his loyalties.

No one know what the future holds.

As a dumb Yank I was hung over yet fired up to see the Blues take on Cardiff. I'm now salivating to see the new look squad's next (US) televised match.

Think you mean stopgap beats gap

 

[dannyboy]

The loan of Lukaku albeit amazing for us this year is a bit of a lose lose outcome in my eyes.

If he does incredibly well (which we all want), then I'd imagine Chelsea will want him back as he'll be another year older with another year of Premier League experience and had been performing well for us.

If he doesn't do as well as expected then I can't see us wanting to fork out a big sum of money to land someone who never lit the place up.

Hopefully either I'm wrong or we can challenge for a european spot where bigger fish will be interested in filling our striking void.

The chances are if Lukaku is fit then he'll start as the lone striker. Makes paying the £5m for Kone look even more ridiculous. We should have kept that money and put it together with the leftover cash on Fellaini, that would have been a good kitty to go and get a quality striker with.