Kostas

I (may simply want to) believe that Kakuta's natural talent was so big that even two bad seasons aren't enough to completely ruin his potential. Moreover the contract he signed last winter will keep him with us for quite a while and possibly more than he will deserve so even if he doesn't live up to the expectations this season he will get another chance. Besides the fans will always find a way to blame the CFC board

That would be a damn crime.

I looked around a couple of Bolton forums, granted they don't know much about Kakuta but they're more excited about getting N'Gog than Gael :mellow:

I now think I've been hard on people who have criticized Mikel in the past.

Afaik you are tested in 3 subjects.

I'm not sure how strong the impact of the increasing number of Spanish on our football and our club's philosophy will be but having 2 people who are able to communicate with the 2 most sought-after football markets is certainly an improvement over our former continental duo.

Doubt it, don't think he should either.

And suddenly it all makes sense.

I feel this is much more true about McEachran than Sturridge. Sturridge actually looked lively and promising in City and in the few games he got under Ancelotti thus the calls for him to be played. McEachran's hype on the other hand, took off way before he had a game for the first team where he was "promising". This is a fairly popular image on imageboards and I found it by typing the actor's name and keywords like "new", "must" etc.

Won't that change with all the recent changes in the tuition fees? I've got a relative who is interested in studying in Sweden, I take it Linda is Swedish and wouldn't know much about English courses?

Speaking about that, since I once again haven't done my homework by missing the transfer thread and skipping pages in the player thread, do we know how much he's on?

From what little material I've been exposed to they're not quite there yet. If they're the group representing the mainstream racists I'd say you're much better than what I've seen here or in other Eastern European countries.

Pretty much. As far as I'm concerned there should be a website similar to the famous www.howlonguntilbushisgone.com with a few tweaks and the target date being June 30 2012.

Sounds like an anomaly. Kalou in 10/11 was certainly not as bad as he was in 09/10, his worst season at Chelsea equal only to his truly horrific first season. I expect the current feeling won't last and that once a new thread opens to assess his ability it will once again be TX and a few others against all those striving to "defend" a Chelsea player.

I can't say I'm familiar with the A Levels but around here people have the impression that aside from world known universities like Oxford, Cambridge and the med schools Greek universities are stricter about accepting students than most Unis in the UK. Would you think that's possible?

Anyone predicting Kalou to start over Sturridge either has an agenda or is blindly retarded to the fact that Sturridge was suspended.

Just because Lukaku and Courtois are highly rated as teenagers doesn't mean that they are going to start games in 6 years for one of the top clubs in Europe, if that's what we believe we'll be. Luiz has already made enough mistakes to gain some critics and create some doubt while Mata has so far started a grand total of 0 games for Chelsea thus we don't have the slightest idea what his Chelsea future holds. It is as simple as comparing other top clubs in the biggest leagues in Europe to their squads in 2005-2006, need I mention how many different Barcelonas and Manchester Uniteds we've seen in those years? As Beast pointed out we don't even know our line-up for this season and frankly I've not had confidence in my knowledge of the ability of all our players since last summer. Until I figure the answer to that question, and that's going to take more than a couple of games since I'm not that eager to cast out and conceder any player who joined us before 09/10 (bar Cech and Ivanovic) washed-up, finished, done etc despite the highly annoying current fad I can't seriously talk about the future of players who are mostly of unknown quality.

I'm curious, what are the criteria people in the UK use to pick their Universities? Reputation, price or something like success in the field you're interested?

I'll be shocked if more than two of the players you have there will be starting games for Chelsea in six (!) years. Then again at the moment I prefer such topics to those giving the impression that we're likely to get relegated in the coming season.

Am I the only one finding the .gif slightly inappropriate or at least tasteless?

Ditto. Although I wouldn't celebrate until his 5th league start.

You're in for a surprise

I can confirm that. He did. The fact he was trolling is completely irrelevant .