Kostas

Cheers for that but are the rest of my posts the jabs at Kalou to keep everyone in line ?

Classy.. He's just trying to show that he's wanted so that he'll get better wages in his next club.

The more rested our players are for the new season the better. I can do without seeing them play for teams I don't care about if that means they won't run out of steam like all other players who had similar schedules.

As soon as Drogba announces his departure this should become the starting post in his thread Edit: Merge those 2 posts.

2 is the obvious priority but I'd pick a realistic version of #1 because the new manager can't afford to repeat the risk of building a non Lampard-centric team so early in his tenure.

Mikel has been picked in the top 3 of the midfield pecking order for his last 4 managers but some have the audacity to claim that he's equal to 3-games-per-season Ferreira, bought-to-be-a-squad-player Meireles, can't-beat-fullbacks-in-1v1s-in-this-decade Malouda and ..Kalou. I preferred it when this common amongst daft fans anti-Mikel agenda was concealed in the Romeu topics. At least you could laugh at those claiming Romeu's composure on the ball was superior.

Some of the posts in this thread remind me why there's no downvoting. I sure would abuse the hell out of it on such genuinely crap posts. PS. An opinion does not turn into a argument no matter how many times you repeat it.

Mikel's early season form had more to do with our tactics than his own game. When you have your fullback occupying winger positions and your center backs being so far apart that they're likely to be mistaken for fullbacks you're left with a defensive midfielder who is extremely isolated and has so much ground to cover that even if he wasn't as imobile as he is he would struggle to cover the majority of areas 11 and 14 by his own. Alas once AVB noticed our wingers weren't doing their job (no Sturridge and Mata scoring and assisting is not enough) he switched to a more concervative backline positioning which coincided with Mikel being out of form and Romeu being in.

^ Share your thoughts all you want but once you've been here long enough you'll start recognising the most annoying of paterns.

For all the hate our club's (Football Board's) transfer policy gets our 2 best players were signed in the last 2 summer transfer windows inb4 some genius claims those were CA and AVB transfers

Do we have anything in the Terms of Agreement forcing each and every single new member to share with the rest of us how they think Mikel is shit?

Not sure I get this. Is is because he's Scottish?

Broken link

Boo! We're already turning into a bunch of politically correct bores. This was as entertaining as anything we've had in quite a while.

I wonder.. did you bother to read the post I linked?

Yeah I had thought of posting a derailed pic before my popcorn run out but now we've certainly reached a point when this spat is unworthy of both sides.

Someone who'd most likely be considered a lefty in US politics

To be fair WHS was hardly Joe Cool and it's been aeons since I've seen Shane fuel any feud. Of course I steer clear of many threads nowadays so if I've missed any battlefield I demand the resident historian (Alex) to point me to it.

Sure that's true if you ignore that most of us have a memory that extends well beyond a month and wouldn't vote for you as MotM even if you leaked Carneiro's sextape.

There's a distinct ignorance of TC's 'istoree.

Succeeding in the bid and securing the plans for the underground extension was always going to be a bigger ask than the CPO. I'm afraid misinformation (darned wikipedia articles) made the issue bigger than it ever was.

Yeah how about we also post Zidane's quote on Maka while we're comparing Mikel to him just so we make sure this discussion is stuck in 2009? It's disappointing just how much better the respective discussion is on cfcnet.

TX went mainstream

Interesting screen but wages should not be taken out of the equation.

You're right. I turned off notifications long before the last couple of redesigns and was never aware of a button being there. Having an invisible button which is constantly on the screen does not sound like the best of ideas..