Kostas

He's got nothing on JT.

The first training kit actually looks great.

Hope's a bitch. Maybe he's the only one who accepted to wear that kit, or maybe with our other attackers getting older and Fernando having had such a terrible season the club is trying to make an image for Kalou.

Now that's embarrassing..

4m wouldn't hold neither Chelsea nor Roman back.

How often do top clubs make profit from their transfers?

Where did that come from?

Doesn't looks too much like a kit. Not a bad thing in my book though.

Good luck with that! Our plan was painfully similar (ok to be fair 19+5) and I can't say it worked out. Hope whoever is picking your team will actually use 24 players. That.

Out of those 14 subs I'm pretty sure Sturridge must have been used at least 7 times for 5-10 minutes.

PL starts of U21 players speak louder than quotes.

Get out of here You're making too much sense

Cue fat brazilian fart posts..

Zola would be a brilliant PR move. Gotta wonder though if he'll accept going from a PL manager to a simple assistant coach.

It took 3 transfers for people to start discussing why one of the strongest people in Chelsea left.

Good work with the editing. Still a shit kit

Tbh he's hardly an academy product.

Pretty sure the thread said Torres when I clicked on it :mellow: I expected us to get more for him, guess its better than letting him leave on the free.

God I swear we're being reported every 2 months. Ever since that Kakuta shit went down papers have had at least a dozen teams/organizations reporting us.

If it's a Champions League final it'll be definitely Chelsea for me. I'd rather football justice be served than celebrate yet another Greek football fluke.

Interesting topic. From my point of view the main criteria when discussing about clubs of European pedigree should be Prolonged success on the fieldA world wide fan baseA large domestic fan baseConsistently large attendance figuresCriteria like academy success * and the ability to attract players and sponsors aren't as important to me because they are largely dependent on extremely fluctuating factors like a team's wealth, public recognition, pull in the media or even its luck. *Ajax deserves special recognition for what they've been doing in the last decades is IMHO an exception. Now when it comes to small leagues in countries where football has never really developed properly and European success is little more than a dream the only criteria that matter are : Prolonged success on the fieldSize of the domestic fanbaseConsistently large attendance figuresSo in Greece's case the top clubs would be Olympiakos, Panathinaikos and AEK (in that order). All three are based in or near Athens, have never been relegated and have won 69 out of 75 league titles. However the football in this county is as corrupted (if not more) as the society and the top clubs are amongst the worst offenders. It wouldn't be far-fetched to claim that Italy's Calciopoli is a childs lie in comparison to what has been going on here since 1996, the BIG clubs (namely Olympiacos) have gone from controlling the referrery committee and planning who gets the league and who gets relegated to literally owning more than half of the teams in the top division. That usually leads to the small clubs getting bankrupt and the big ones getting bitch-slapped whenever they play a game which they have no power on (ie Europa League/Champions League).

Should be called Arnesen's raid or something.

Just when I was about to bargain my support Best of luck to you mate and I hope the new mod will be as intelligent as you are.

Hit the nail right on the head. As fancy and glorious as cup competitions are they could never compete with a league format in testing the true quality the teams involved.