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good to see Luiz was officially announced a PSG player today. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27545046 maybe we get the Costa announcement soon.

the absurdity of a community-made web forum being forced to examine every single image that users might post, have posted and (perhaps) in what context the images are used. Is there not a way to have this site designated as strictly non-commercial (as the other fellow suggest, a charity classification or something similar) in legal terms?

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I need a few London Porters from Fuller's. damn blaugrana.

I thought some players would signed before the WC, but maybe everything is on-hold until afterward. We can only hope that agreements will become contracts for now, it seems.

Do the Spanish do anything before 10hrs other than el mercado, breakfast and bowel movements? I suppose we'll be waiting at least 4 more hours.

http://www.marca.com/2014/06/10/en/football/barcelona/1402389787.html

They should spend 66 million and lower their ticket prices.

Rakitic is perfect on FKs and corners. It might be that Rakitic and Baines are the two best going into this World Cup... although Pirlo will likely get plenty of time on the pitch too. Would be nice to have someone to take FKs like a boss. Is Fabregas consistently good for this? I don't remember his balls curling and dipping like the three I mentioned above.

True, but we're hungry and the days are goin' by so slooooooooooow. ;D

waiting on a hamstring

Oscar MIGHT not have everything that Cesc has, but Oscar also arrived into an unbalanced Chelsea squad less than two years ago and Chelsea are still unbalanced and passing too slow as a team. Agree that we need more drive, skill and creation from center midfield though. I think CFC need more than Cesc; someone else who is physically imposing but better in transition and building an attack than what we have.

the Lord Bolton bastard sack of sh--e. happy to see that character get impaled.

Exactly the point that Andy Jacobs just made --which I agree with. Only thing that Fabregas has over Oscar is more success in the PL and a better shot on goal. Ironic that Chelsea would buy Fabregas while not yet having given Oscar enough minutes in centre midfield instead of in an advanced position. -Ironic- as it seems to me that Fabregas was not given enough chances to play in a deeper role at Barca.

didn't really rate him too highly aside for about 18 months at Arsenal.

I will admit that he can prove me wrong. He seems capable and also, it may have been the case of bad squad politics at Barcelona--as in: 'we prefer to play with proven Barca players in centre midfield. this is our established starting center midfield." My problem with this transfer is that a player like Koke is younger, about as equally skilled (dunno on the goalscoring as much), and Koke is a STRONGER, MORE ATHLETIC physical presence than Fabregas in centre midfield. I would prefer the stronger player with more youth and about the same amount of skill. Football demands the strength and speed of Koke more nowadays. I hope Cesc just blows my perception away if he comes to SB.

He had ONE very good season with Arsenal and I don't think he is as dedicated to football in his life as he needs to be. But that's just a feeling I have while watching him and it doesn't surprise me that Barca fans don't care for him. Hard to know what he would do back in England. Maybe he will find a better role at Chelsea and impress us all.

Koke.

get it over with. move on. no more. don't need him next season; CFC need to move on. only reason he gets in England this year is his outlook/experience, leadership, and for someone who can knock a goal in with 10-15 minutes left as a sub. But Paul Scholes is correct on the England squad: none of them can play the Gerrard role if Steven gets hurt, so why was it not Carrick instead of Lampard in there? Guess it would be Henderson.

bunch of nothing going on right now. disappointing to see news/rumours of Moreno or Sevilla negotiating with Liverpool though.

good player in CM at Arsenal, but I would rather have someone different.

Hiya. I wonder how well google translate works for Bengali. ঈশ্বর ইচ্ছুক আমরা আরো ভালো কেন্দ্র midfielders এবং একটি ধর্মঘটী, হয়তো নতুন পাউণ্ড আছে.

yeah, I would say that someone can make a good argument for getting a guy like Ivan Rakitic instead of Tiago (for how much?_) because Rakitic can take killer free kicks like no one.

at this moment, Costa, Pogba, Tiago, and a LB like Moreno or Rodriguez would do it for me in this window. Let a Chalobah replace Jon Obi Mikel, let Frank go too. One can make an argument that it would be better to take Rakitic from Sevilla instead of someone like Tiago on a free just for the sake of having a top-notch FK-taker. good link from bleacherreport. surprised someone on that site wrote a piece good enough to read.

Well, this rumour is probably just more newsroom B.S. but Benatia is one of my favourite players at the moment. Even so, I have mixed feelings at best on buying him from Roma because he has been a little bit sheltered in Serie A and Chelsea have a lot of options at center back. There's no denying that Benatia is one of the best center backs right now and that he has excellent technique, positioning, tackling, timing, physique, etc. If I continue to imagine that Mourinho thinks like I do, it would not be too surprising to see this transfer, but I just don't believe Chelsea need to buy another CB at the moment. This is probably the most confusing transfer prospects for me, personally. I love this player. fact for you: Mehdi used to play striker in his youth. http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/29/mehdi-benatia-i-turned-down-chelsea-transfer-after-living-with-didier-drogba-and-claude-makelele-4712262/