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André Villas-Boas isn't respected at Chelsea

He didn't demand Ray, he hasn't started Kalou yet and to add insult to injury he talks of winning trophies as if the 2nd place isn't good enough.

I thought of that risk too but I suspect some completed transfers (Lukaku?) wouldn't be announced straight away and I'm fairly confident Bosingwa will be released in a few days.

Easily worth something around 15-20m. I can only see such BS threads being opened to boost postcounts.

We will be able to sign players but then some won't be registered in our Premier League squad. Who knows, we might give Paulo Ferreira a full time job as a translator.

Not sure about that anymore. Renewing Hilario's contract makes even less sense from a HG point of view. I've been confident of only Bosingwa and maybe Didier leaving but if we are planning to sign anyone we may be in for a few surprises.

Got this one off another forum from a Benfica fan who keeps an eye out for both Mourinho and André Villas-Boas. Highlighted my favourite parts.

He's too young to be absolutely sure.

So you ruled out a chance of a slow day for the Portuguese journalists? Andre Villas Boas joins and suddenly 3 threads pop up with Portugues players and everyone suddenly wants Moutinho, Hulk Falcao etc. Has anyone actually stopped to consider if any of those moves makes any sense? Because for me only Hulk does and there are more wingers out there who could do the job.

So basically a report similar to Marca's on Neymar made this one explode? I think I'll stay out of this

When did this hit 18 pages? I'm not going to read the previous 17 as this looked like lazy journalism to me from the very beginning but could anyone sum up for me what's been said?

Exactly. Should be bumpled around the 25th of August when the squad will be more or less finalized.

Ditto. Page 154 must have the most reasonable posts about Emelano in the forum, it's a shame they were 7 months late.

We have a winner!

duh!

Be our live feed.

I concur.

Vialli on Andre Villas Boas

That's strange. Wouldn't you want a player who could potentially play for us be a winner?

I'll be watching it. Hope Neymar has a good game.

John Hollins on the appointment of Andre Villas Boas. One of the few who didn't make ignorant remarks or lazy comparisons. Echoes my thoughts and concerns on Hiddink. Best bits from the Nevin interview TomCFC posted:

188BET interview with Petr

Isn't it time to lock this up?

Very harsh. Almost offensive.