Chelseas difficult season has been well documented, with the defending Premier League champions currently languishing in mid-table.After bowing out of the Champions League on Wednesday, Guus Hiddinks side are left with the FA Cup as their final chance to salvage silverware.The interim boss described the Blues as a team in transition after the defeat by Paris Saint-Germain, and with a change in manager expected at Stamford Bridge this summer, theres likely to be plenty of transfer activity t. So we asked Sky Sports Paul Merson which Chelsea players he would keep at the end of the season, and which he would move on ahead of next term... Guus Hiddink said Chelsea were a team with an uncertain future after their PSG defeat Who should stay and who should go? Paul Merson says... Stay Let go Wait and see Thibaut Courtois Eden Hazard Branislav Ivanovic Cesar Azpilicueta Oscar Gary Cahill Kenedy Pedro Kurt Zouma Loic Remy Cesc Fabregas John Obi Mikel Nemanja Matic Baba Rahman Willian Diego Costa Bertrand Traore I wouldnt necessarily say Chelsea are in transition, but they need to buy a lot of players. You lk at McDonalds - they sell more cheeseburgers, more fries, and more soft drinks than any other fast-fd chain in the world, but they still do adverts.Chelsea won the league last season, but they didnt invest to keep them on top, and we saw the same problem a couple of years ago with Man City. You have to keep kicking on, and sometimes you have to upset players by bringing in others who are better.Goalkeeper and defenceLking at their squad, youd keep the goalkeeper no question. Thibaut Courtois is the undisputed number one.But I watched Baba Rahman the other week against Southampton and he was all over the place so Im not sure hes at the right level. I like Kenedy, hes a gd young player and Id keep him at the club. Cesar Azpilicueta would be in-demand if Chelsea let him go, says Merson The way to lk at it with Cesar Azpilicueta is, if Chelsea were to sell him, would top teams be in for him? They would be, so he should stay.Moving onto central defence, John Terry leaving still shocks me because hes the main defender at the club.Branislav Ivanovic has been pr this season and hes very fortunate to still be playing in the team. He was the best defender in the country last year but his confidence has dropped, and you see that happen to the best players.With him, Id wait and see how he plays over the first three or four games of next season and then make a decision very quickly. If he comes back and hes playing at his top level again, theres still a place for him. But if not, hed have to go straight away for them to win trophies. Branislav Ivanovic has struggled to live up to his performances from last season Im not the biggest fan of Kurt Zouma in the world. Hes quick across the ground but hes a bit rash. Hes still learning the game but Chelsea dont have time for that, they need to win things. Youd still keep him, though.If theyre getting rid of Terry they have to buy a replacement in the summer, but whos about? You only have to lk at Manchester Citys signing of Eliaquim Mangala. He was the best part of £30m and youre not getting a lot for your money.That is what worries me with Terry, because they can spend £20m or £30m but theyre not necessarily going to improve. With Gary Cahill and Zouma at the back, for me theyre not winning the Premier League next season.MidfieldIn midfield, Cesc Fabregas would get a club tomorrow morning. On his day hes brilliant, and since Jose Mourinho has gone hes decided to play. Against Southampton he was absolutely outstanding, and hes got that in his locker so keep him. Merse believes Fabregas is one that Chelsea should definitely lk to keep But would John Obi Mikel get a ftball match if Hiddink wasnt the manager? And how many top teams would put him in their side? I know hes done well since hes come in, but if youre lking to win the league I dont think you do it with Mikel playing 35 or 36 games.Nemanja Matic is a strange one. He was one of the best holding midfielders in the world last season, but hes dipped, along with everybody else in the squad apart from Willian. Id keep him because of what he showed the previous year, but I think Mikel could be on his way. John Obi Mikel has come back into the starting XI on a regular basis under Guus Hiddink Then you get to Pedro, and it just shows you how gd playing for Barcelona can make you lk. Hes had one or two decent games since he joined Chelsea but if I could get money back for him I would.Willian has been the best player at the club by a million miles this season. Hes been very gd and all day long he should stay. Hazard in a rut? Eden Hazard struggles while Diego Costa thrives under Hiddink But Id drop Eden Hazard off if I could get £60m for him. Hes had one gd year and this season hes been bordering on atrocious. If you can get the money, youd take it all day long. You dont know if he will turn out to be a one-season wonder and you cant take that chance. Eden Hazard should be sold if Chelsea can get big money, says Merse It just shows you why Ryan Giggs is held in such high regard, because he was so gd for so long. His whole career he was eight out of 10. It wasnt nine out of 10 one year and then down to five out of 10 the next. Willian has been one of Chelseas best players this campaign Oscar is in and out. One minute hes in the team and lks great, and then hes out of his depth and lightweight. Id get rid of him if you can get gd money.Strikers Diego Costa has found his top form under Guus Hiddink Diego Costa has started to perform now and he lks a proper player. For 60 minutes against PSG he had them in his pocket. He lked the player we thought he would be, and he wasnt worried about beating people up. Strikers like that dont come around t often and you have to keep hold of them.Loic Remy should be gone, and youd keep Bertrand Traore because hes one for the future, but they would need to buy another forward in the summer because it cant just be Costa.Also See:Chelsea face transitionHazard stuck in a rut?Where would Zlatan fit in?Weekend ftball questionsCheap Flames Jerseys .com) - Christian Ponder will get another chance to prove himself for the Minnesota Vikings, with head coach Leslie Frazier announcing Wednesday that the struggling quarterback will start this weekends game against the Green Bay Packers. Custom Flames T-shirts . 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Note: The Calgary Flames announced Tuesday that Sean Monahan would not be made available to Canadas World Junior team.The Bottom 10 Inspirational Thought of the Week:I thought things had changed I thought things lked plain I thought I could see the lightI just could not decide and all my shots went wide Id waited for that light so longBut now, now I know I saw the distant glow I heard a distant whistle blow-- The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train by WhiteyHere at Bottom 10 headquarters, located in the humidor where Rece Davis stores his Andy Griffith Show VHS tapes, weve entered that time of the season where we feel a little bit like Ricky Bobby.We dont know what to do with our hands.As Thanksgiving weekend wraps up and the college ftball regular season nears its close, we arent unlike the support crew at your local Turkey Day 10K road race. The winners crossed the finish line hours ago. But here we still stand, knowing that while thousands may have headed home long ago, there are 10 participants still out there on the course. Sure, we want to start packing things up, but we also dont want to be disrespectful to the people moving along at a crawl, knees swollen and a little bit of snot dripping from their noses. They run, limp and crawl toward the light they see up ahead, hoping it is the end of the tunnel, but knowing its probably the Number 3 train headed in the opposite direction ... or Alabama.As they finally drag themselves across the finish line, what do we do? Clap? Hug them? Call the paramedics? Dig a discarded participation ribbon out of the trash and pin it to their T-shirt? Or do we just yell, Damn, yall, its about time! Youre holding up shopping traffic!With apologies to John Stephen Akhwari and Steve Harvey, heres this weeks Bottom 10.1. Fres-no State (1-11) As Ive std at that 2016 finish line, I have not been alone. This season we have picked up multiple Bottom 10 Section 13 field reporters eager to keep us here at Bottom 10 HQ abreast of the situation at our member schls. This weekend we heard from Twitter bud @SJCsouthpaw, who was in the stands for our Pillow Fight of the Week between the States of San Jose and Fresno.Thankfully, those ominous leaning towers were just stadium lights and not War of the Worlds tripods attacking Bulldog Stadium. By the end, Southpaw went total Jim Cantore, braving the elements to bring us this final report.As of Monday afternn, he hadnt tweeted since. Dang, maybe those were tripods ...2. In a Rut-gers (2-10) Former Big East member Rutgers lost to former ACC member Maryland in the Yes, This Is Actually A Big Ten Conference Game And Not The Belk Bowl Classic.3. Texas State Armadillos (2-9) The hay is in the barn for most of our Bottom 10 teams, but the Arma ... er, Bobcats still have one game remaining. They are riding seven straight losses, including five in which theyve surrendered 40-plus points and three defeats to current or former 20116 Bottom 10 teams.ddddddddddddA convincing defeat at home to Arkansas State might be enough to continue their meteoric fall. Do Bobcats eat hay?4. Buffalo Bills, er Bulls (2-10) All three directional Michigan teams are actually pretty gd. My Hammy of Ohio is bowl eligible. Bowling Green and Northern Illinois are not. But just when I think the MAC has become a place I no longer recognize, I lk at Buffalo, and Im like Linus with his blanket.5. The SEC Least I once attended a rather redneck party where the main activity was to get everyone drunk, grease up a pig and then have us all chase the pr porker through a mud bog until someone finally caught him. The dude who won was named Earl. Ill never forget him standing there smiling with a front tth chipped during the hog chase and his Diamond Rio T-shirt torn and soaked in what I hope was mud. Congratulations, Florida. Youre Earl.6. UMess (2-10) At the start of the season, I started a countdown in this space that would take us to what I believed at the time might be the Pillow Fight of the Millennium: the Minutemens visit to Hawaii. Then Hawaii went and won six games and fouled that up. UMass, however, has held up its end of the deal.7. Kansas Nayhawks (2-10) The Nayhawks lost (won?) the 2015 Bottom 10 championship in a tiebreaker. This year they werent able to make another run (fall?) at the title. Why? According to Chapter 13: Article X: Order 66 of the Bottom 10 rulebk, you only receive Fired Coach Bonus Points for getting your own coach fired, not getting Texas coach fired.8. UV-ugh (2-10)Remember my story about chasing the greased pig? Well, an hour after we were done, we realized there was a guy that who had been mashed into the mud during the scramble and was so covered up we hadnt noticed him. It tk two chains hked up to my pickup truck to get him out. His name was Lonnie. If the winner of the SEC East is Earl then the last-place finisher in the ACC Coastal is Lonnie.9. EC-Yew (3-9) As I was writing this, I was thinking that former ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill, whose firing is still wildly unpopular in Pirate Nation, is sitting somewhere and laughing like Jack Sparrow. Then I realized hes at Virginia.10. Ill-inois (3-9)I keep hearing from Big Ten fans bragging about the possibility of having two teams in the College Ftball Playoff. Oddly, they arent bragging about the possibility of having three teams in the Bottom 10. The Illinis 34-31 loss to Purdue on Oct. 8 is our version of Ohio State losing to Penn State.Waiting list: Pur-dont (3-9), Ucant (3-9), Rice (3-9), FA(not I)U (3-9), Marshall Blundering Herd (3-9), State of Kent (3-9), blaming the officials for ruining your Thanksgiving. ' ' '