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The current president of Bordeaux Jean-Louis Triaud denied any interest in Kakuta, they'd rather a striker.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Bruma will start according to the official site.

Drogba's goal against Bolton (?), the one that followed a combination of Anelka,Deco and Lampard. Edit: The one cfc-meleady posted ^. Edit 2: Good spot. Then it has to be Drogba's 1st goal against Arsenal in October.

I was arguing the need for a mobile, pacy and agile top class central defender back in April. Since then I've grown to be more confident of the Alex-Terry partnership(at least for the PL) and bigger issues have arisen. The time that we stacked world class players is gone and we look more likely to sing a new Ben Haim than the new Carvalho. And even if Luiz turns out to be the new Riccy, at the moment and for the next couple of years we need an attacking threat (whether that is a new striker, a right winger or an attacking midfielder) and someone to cover for our regular CBs more than we need him.

What a comeback! PFA's teams of the year proves how important the opinion of "fellow professionals" is. Lampard's last inclusion was 4 years ago (!). But a random award is always more important than actual performances when it comes to Salomon Kalou.

That Barcelona kit won't look as good with short sleeves. Here's a mock-up with the Qatar Foundation Their away kit will be black.

Cahill only because I don't have enough time to watch the other two. Better suited for the Transfer Talk ?

As did most teams we faced during November and December, Newcastle and Tottenham just to name two.

I thought we could at least establish the bloody obvious.

Could be but I doubt it'll significantly affect his future at the club. Ancelotti's opinion ≠ Club's view. On the other hand now that Arnesen has farked off one might think our plans for all those young players will change, from the "forgotten" Cork, Mancienne, Bertrand and Rajkovic to Bruma, Kakuta, Kalas, Delac et al.

It has nothing to do with being one of the best or even being "Chelsea quality". Ferreira is far from one of the best but he rarely gets the hate Kalou gets. Our "super-sub" is Championship quality at best . Even if that was true, which imo isn't, he is still completely rubish.

There was a similar rumor back when he signed for Tottenham so there are no surprises there. His spell at R.Madrid was appalling, his injury record was pretty bad as-well therefore getting him would be a risk, a cheap one, but still a risk. In hindsight we might look like idiots due to his instant success and our record of overpaying only being highlighted by the Ramires transfer but I'd argue the jury is still out for him, I don't buy all the hype.

City have no interest in him, this is just Benfica trying to drive his price up with their pathetic games, IMO anyway.

But if you look closer at those stats they aren't impressive even for a player of Kalou's quality.He scored 10 of his 12 goals in games we won by 4 or more. 5 of those 10 came in PL games which we won by 6(!) or more. All that in a season which we scored 2.58 goals on average and ended up with 142 goals.

This thread is going to haunt us when he scores his next tap-in

Don't see how that has anything to do with Ramires.Quote a post where I have unfairly criticized Ramires' performances/abilities before you make a fool out of yourself.

Rejected bids for Begovic, Luiz, Neymar and probably Lukaku. And that's just in 2010. No wonder we can get players only by overpaying for them. Anyone responsible for our transfer deals should be shot, in the head.

£10m for a 17 year-old winger?! He better be the second coming of Garrincha.

That Barcelona kit can't be real, where's the sponsor from Qatar? Arsenal's kit looks ridiculous.

A ground share will could massively cut the building cost and if QPR's owner is as rich as they say it has the possibility to cut the cost in half. However if QPR get promotion and manage to build a top 10 side it will be a pain in the ass for everyone. Seaching wiki I found that there was a rumour of QPR wanting a ground share with Fulham, if they are really desperate we might get the upper hand in the design and development of the ground thus making it less lifeless it typically would be.

True, but during the WC I had a chance to witness the decline everyone was talking about. He was as atrocious as Ronaldinho in Germany 2006 and we all know how his career went after that point.. And I probably have a different view of football money than the rest of you. I wouldn't pay 10m for a finished player based on his reputation just like (in hindsight) we shouldn't have wasted even 10m on Sheva.

Kalou isn't even a footballer. Most of the critisism he's gotten is fair,valid and perfectly justifiable after 4 seasons of shit. However knowing his abilities you can hardly blame him cause he rarely underperforms. Think Badboy was drunk in that thread though.

Malouda.

They were never members of our squad, they just wasted 4 months of their development on the bench.