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Queen’s Park Rangers Vs Chelsea F.C FA Cup 4th Round – LINE UPS

This is set to be a highly contested derby. With matters of alleged racist abuse gaining all the attention, the focus will be fully on John Terry and Anton Ferdinand.

Chelsea lost on their last visit to Loftus Road, with the Blues having two men sent off in the first half; by a ref who has came under question all season.

Both chairmen have issued statements warning fans not to engage in behaviour that will be deemed as unacceptable. The fans will be hyped up all throughout the match and both clubs are hoping to avoid any confrontation outside the stadium.

Chelsea will be touted as favourites for this match, but this does not mean QPR will not threaten throughout. Joey Barton will look to dominate the midfield and possibly try to wind up our players. It is our players job not to react to his mind games.

Gary Cahill looks likely to make his début in this game and with Salomon Kalou and Didier Drogba still on Africa Cup of Nations duty, it again leaves Romelu Lukaku and Fernando Torres in a battle for the centre forward position with Juan Mata and Daniel Sturridge set to provide support on the wings.

Confirmed Chelsea XI-

Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Meireles, Malouda, Sturridge, Torres, Mata.

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Why Chelsea Fans Should Keep Faith In Ramires After Tough Start!

When Ramires joined the club, Chelsea fans with an eye for continental and Brazilian football were elated with his capture following a prolonged chase. The midfielder however has not had a great start to his Chelsea career; he is not quick enough on or off the ball and this robs him of time and leads to him being dispossessed far too frequently and in dangerous positions.

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Ramires owned by Joorabchian but Chelsea will have no problems landing the Brazilian.

Chelsea fans will have seen the name Kia Joorabchian is involved with the Ramires transfer and groaned, and understandably so. West Ham United fans will assure you that getting involved with the Iranian is not an ideal move.

The chase of Ramires may seem painful, but hopefully it will be smiles all round by the start of the season

The club was fined £5.5 million for breaching FA transfer rules when they fielded Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano (both then owned by Joorabchian’s Media Sports Investments) in the 2006-2007 campaign.

If West Ham was owned by a Russian billionaire who had had dealings with the Joorabchian team before, there would have been no such problems. Luckily for Chelsea, that is exactly the scenario here.

The rules in place in the Premier League mean that Chelsea must pay the whole transfer fee for Ramires to his club, Benfica. This is hindered only by virtue of the fact that he is owned 50% by Joorabchian and a further 30% by football agent Pini Zahavi. Any potential deal which goes through would have to be done by Chelsea and Benfica first, and then Benfica and other parties second.

For other clubs this may be a problem, with complicated contracts and two football agents involved. However, when Roman Abramovich took over the Blues in 2003, the deal was conducted by a super agent, none other than Pini Zahavi.

This will mean that the Russian’s people will no doubt have common ground with Zahavi and Joorabchian, which should mean that the transfer goes ahead as planned.

Ramires is said to be joining Chelsea for £20 million, with an eventual 80% of that fee going to the third and fourth parties. Benfica will see just £4 million for the Brazilian.

Joorabchian is set to more than triple the money he paid for the 23 year old back in April. Having paid just £3 million four months ago, he will land £10 million when Chelsea unveil their new signing next week.

Don’t believe the hype which will gather around this story, Ramires will be lining up next to Lampard and co in a few weeks time. Chelsea are too cautious after the tapping up incident with Ashley Cole and the Gael Kakuta affair to let this become another West Ham story.

It will be refreshing when web pages and newspaper columns once again feature reports of what happens on the pitch, this legal stuff gets very boring.

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Ramires in Video

Amid rumours that the deal for a player tipped up by Richard French earlier this week is on the verge of joining the club,  here is a video of the Brazilian in action.

The Players Chelsea FC Should Consider Buying This Summer

Ramires

Position: Central Midfield

Club: Benfica

Nationality: Brazilian

Age: 23

Price Tag: €30 million

The young Brazilian midfielder impressed in Benfica’s title winning side in Portugal last season. Having moved to Lisbon from Cruzeiro last summer, the ‘Blue Kenyan’ (as he was nicknamed in his homeland) has become hot property on the European transfer market.

Inter Milan have expressed interest in the player as they look to lower the average age of their midfield. A €30 million release clause in his contract means that one of his many admirers in Europe may well come up with the cash to secure his signature.

Chelsea’s midfield has lost Michael Ballack this summer and with Michael Essien picking up more and more injuries; it might be time to invest in a midfield which has carried itself without major investment for practically five seasons.

Moreover, Frank Lampard is now the wrong side of 30, meaning that he will surely begin to miss more games as the strain of Premier League, Champions League and International fixtures keep racking up on his body. Not to mention the fact that Joe Cole has swapped Chelsea blue for Liverpool red.

Ramires has a knack of scoring goals with runs from deep, as well as an eye for a killer pass.  The fact that he is just 23 means that the future of the midfield at Stamford Bridge could be secured for several years, as he would join the relatively youthful pairing of John Obi Mikel and Essien as well as the highly rated youngster Nemanja Matic.

This would be a fantastic signing under the noses of Chelsea’s European rivals, but don’t hold your breath, my reckoning is he is heading to Italy.

Neymar

Position: Striker

Club: Santos

Nationality: Brazilian

Age: 18

Price Tag: €30 million

Bringing two Brazilians to the Premier League would be an unlikely move by Carlo Ancelotti, but Neymar has attracted so much attention from European royalty such as Real Madrid and A.C Milano, it would be foolish to ignore him as an option for bolstering the Chelsea attack.

The Santos player has a price tag of €30 million, just as Ramires does, but with the ridiculous prices of potential signings being reported by the British press, the deal doesn’t seem bad. After all, this player is so highly rated in his homeland that a petition was started in order to get him into the Brazil National Squad for the World Cup in South Africa.

At just 18 years of age Neymar has scored 40 goals in 70 games for Santos, and by playing with experienced campaigners Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka, his game can only improve. This player will inevitably come to Europe and once again it seems that a Spanish or Italian club will snap one of the biggest talents in world football.

English clubs all too often ignore South America as a young Diego Forlan’s ‘flop’ at Manchester United still lingers here. Kaka was signed by A.C Milan and Messi by Barcelona. In five years time we could be saying ‘Neymar by Chelsea’.

Mesut Ozil

Position: Attacking Midfield

Club: Werder Bremen

Nationality: German

Age: 21

Price Tag: €20 million

Most English fans will have heard of Mesut Ozil, the third generation Turkish immigrant who pledged his future to the German national team and helping to dump out Fabio Capello’s England side in the World Cup last month.

Ozil is a playmaker who likes to roam all areas of the pitch but has been most devastating just behind the striker. He is someone who can unlock the opposition with a pass or a moment of magic, leading to him being named ‘the German Messi’.

A plethora of clubs have shown interest in the 21 year old, with Barcelona pushing for his signature as a potential long term replacement for Xavi when he retires. That’s if Cesc Fabregas remains in London. The Chelsea side has lost some creativity with the departure of Joe Cole and Deco soon to follow; leaving too much reliance on Florent Malouda which may be detrimental to the Frenchman’s game.

Ozil was signed by Werder Bremen in 2007 after two seasons with Schalke 04, but it was when the inspirational Diego left Bremen for Juventus in 2009 when the youngster stepped up to the plate, scoring the winning goal in the German cup final in the same year.

He has been widely recognized as the future of German football for sometime now and is seemingly a perfect replacement for a Joe Cole-shaped gap in the Chelsea squad. Whilst he is not a prolific goalscorer, he would feed passes Drogba and Anelka which would be turned into goals more often than not. So it seems a match made in heaven. Chelsea need a playmaker, Werder Bremen need to sell their star before his contract runs out in a year from now.

The sticking points are that the player has stated that he would rather go to Barcelona and any potential deal would be subject to Cesc Fabregas heading to the Nou Camp. The Catalans are desperate to lure the Spaniard away from England and should he complete the move, Ozil will be in either Chelsea blue or Arsenal red next season. If Fabregas remains, Ozil will get his dream move to Spain.