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I'm sure that us buying Ramires makes the chances of getting Bastian very slim. I've seen him more than Ramires and have been appreciating his football talent for a while now but unfortunately he won't get to play with Lamps.

Bollocks,he's good far better than some of the players who had more starts than him,I'll be really sad to see him go.

Having read many reports on the games he played this pre-season looks catastrophic for his chances at Chelsea,let's hope we can find a team to loan him to.

http://web3.cmvm.pt/...ocs/FR29650.pdf Looks official enough to me. A good price if you consider that he's young and we're Chelsea. Loving the "do Nascimento" part of his name Wonder what number he'll get.

Blind optimist and knee-jerk reactions are the main characteristics of a football fan.

Exactly,this is actually the only game our first XI lost,3rd loss on row may look bad on paper but that's just bollocks.As much as I'd love to I can't slate Ross for any of the goals,the defence just fucked up.The thing that I'm more worried about is how easily they got the ball on corners.Our set-piece defending looks bad. Kakuta wasn't involved much but who was in those last few minutes?

Yay for over-reacting We looked rusty,not too bad really. I'm happy all those f-ups are happening during pre-season and not in important games. Mikel looked extraordinary.

Penalties?!Who need them?Hamburg have scored ...

Meh,this won't help Zhirkov's confidence.

Essien!!! Lampard has already two in the pre-season

I don't know if this has been mentioned but we will be wearing the new away kit.

Kick-off has been delayed due to problems getting into the ground for many fans, with a sell-out expected

I'm more worried about his (in)ability to handle a ball

If we were to use that I'd prefer seeing someone like Benayoun instead of Anelka,seeing him slowing down on the wing last season was infuriating.Since this is offtopic,shouldn't we have a 'Tactics' thread to discuss formations,tactis et al?

Playing Lamps at the tip of the diamond didn't really work last year.

Patrick mentioned game time on his twitter,maybe he'll rest Ashley today.

Well this is ManCity that we're talking about. Besides they'll be forced to get rid of many players so he will probably not cost them that much.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was true after all Joey didn't manage to establish himself with 6(!) different managers

Here's a nice video I found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlciZMXhiQ&hd=1 He's quite fast.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgloboesporte.globo.com%2Ffutebol%2Ftimes%2Ffluminense%2Fnoticia%2F2010%2F08%2Fde-olho-no-casamento-flu-corteja-deco-em-jantar-no-rio-de-janeiro.html He had a dinner in Brazil with the Flumineze president,the club hasn't released him yet.

Seeing as we don't have any slots for foreigners any new transfer will either be under 21 or a "homegrown" player,that is unless we release/sell someone apart from Deco. Lukaku or Aguero would be a dream come true but I can't see it happening.

That picture is just so wrong

I'd prefer Malouda getting #10. He could have taken 20,the years since his favourite Liverpool last won the league.

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Welcome aboard Ramires,hope you'll prove us doubters wrong.