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Looks good enough to me. Ramires rested for the United game? Cech will have the armband.

PvA will debut tonight in the League Cup game against Crystal Palace.

Still, if we had football people running things in the last 3-4 years (even those like Benitez) we would have avoided transfers which had more to do with politics rather than football (Ballack, Benayoun, Zhirkov) and wouldn't have come to need to overhaul our squad as desperately as we did this summer. In a way, replacing Arnesen with a man with less power, Emelano* gives more power to the manager and whoever else is/will be in control of the club's direction. *if anyone thinks he replaced him

There was a theory back when AVB was announced according to which we never really chased Hiddink and the whole thing with him and Turkey was nothing more than a smokescreen with Guus' consent to cover our negotiations with AVB. Even if that theory isn't correct we don't have any idea about the current relationship between the Abramovich and Hiddink and more importantly whether the latter has any say in the matters of the club. As far as I'm concerned since the manager is never going to be in charge of everything I'd rather the man who calls the shots in squad assembling and transfers is someone like Hiddink rather than the Pini Zahavis of this worlds.

Methinks that ship has sailed, besides TX's actual reputation (not the numbers) does more than an awarded shiny badge.

Didn't Mourinho say some time ago that Paris deserves a big football team? He is still young enough to go there but not before winning the Spanish league.

2 Months and 10 threads too late.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Please do post more.

Malouda starting wouldn't be as absurd as it may sound. Rotation can/should be applied throughout the whole season instead of only the later parts, we don't want to repeat the same mistakes that hurt us under Ancelotti.

How could anyone fall for this?

Ditto. This topic's title is annoying.

Editing your own quote? Too much free time.

He faded in and out of the game and had too many periods in which he didn't get the ball but whenever he got it he used it better than Malouda and Kalou could hope to.

I hear we also have a game to play, looking forward to observe whether we're capable of being in absolute control against European opposition or not.

Meireles' haircut is horrible so it's a Mata of principle.

Might as well been watching a different game. And since you've not been here long I assure you that while some may have gone made over a possible equaliser the majority of the regular posters would rather concentrate on the good 70 minutes rather than the unlucky 5.

The troll changed its name

Wages are the issue with those players. Both Kalou and Ferreira earn as much as a first choice player in any of the smaller clubs in the PL and it seems they don't think they're any better.

So AVB said Anelka started because he had more time to train with the team than all our other attackers. Glad that's out of the way.

Who knows maybe I'm possessed?

That Portuguese bastard doesn't do what we'd do in FM if we had a two goal lead. It's sickening.

Is there a way to filter out all the posts about Torres? Seriously the more people talk about him the less I care.

For whatever reason people seem to care more about what Torres does than whether Chelsea are winning or not, strange times.

Precisely, which is what makes his goal all the more unbelievable.