Randall

Tchoyi First goal West Brom 1-0, 260/1.

Is there any suggestion in the media Man Shitty are sniffing about? They can fuck right off if they are.

Arsenal are fucking shit. AND I LOVE IT!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/pase-mata-chelsea-puede-cerrarse/20110820dasdasftb_20/Tes%3Futm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter

I am too pessimistic, I just assume something is going to go wrong. Really hope it doesn't. Fucking transfer windows man.

I am just keeping my expectations low, as always, so I don't end up disappointed.

http://www.as.com/fu...dasdasftb_9/Tes Hmmmm, goal seems to think he is saying that he can continue growing at Valencia, I can't really make it out either way with google translate. Spanish speaker please? EDIT: Ah okay I see, http://www.marca.com/2011/08/20/futbol/equipos/valencia/1313832938.html

Because neither club has confirmed anything.

Ballague said it so I'm pretty confident it's done.

Sky don't report on rumours (only on their transfer clockwatch as they already have) they only report nailed ons.

Yeah on football manager whatever team I play no-one is ever number 25.

We haven't even signed Mata yet!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8712683/Chelsea-manager-Andre-Villas-Boas-closing-in-on-Juan-Mata-deal-and-praises-Jon-Obi-Mikel.html sidlowe Sid Lowe Mata deal to Chelsea very close... 56 minutes ago

Guardian is pretty reputable.

Pretty, pretty please can we keep this thread for transfer news about Mata?

Speculation then I guess.

I think they were saying he was spains number 10 in U21 championships.

To tottenham so we get modric? OH DON'T SPOIL US!

To be fair the article seems very definite, not the usual media hedging.

Yeah I think we should wait for BBC or Skysports to give us some of their reliable goodness.

Seems no-one here has read the Juan Manuel on pun making. I just read that GarbosJ (bbc reporter on twitter) has said that we've not made a bid yet and still interested in Hazard also, and AVB is determined to get an attacking slash creative midfielder before the transfer window ends.

Seems this has turned to a Mata of life or death. Will you give us Juan one more chance? But seriously, can we hurry up and sign this guy pretty please!

Mate Kalou is used as a right/left winger, how many quality right or left wingers do we have? One based on pre-season; Sturridge. Malouda once was but isn't anymore. Kalou is good as an impact substitute and that's it, we need to bring in another quality winger and then Malouda and Kalou are good enough to be on the bench and to back up quality players that would be in our first team.

Yeah? I never said I had an issue with Kalou, my problem has only ever been he is not of a high enough quality, IN MY OPINION, to play in Chelsea's first XI. And I take issue with people saying we're the bad guys because we're not supporting our team because we don't want certain players in the starting XI, well we want the best players to give us the best team to win the best competitions and be the best chelsea fc can be.

I don't think anyone would argue that he is a good substitute to bring on like 65/70 minutes as an impact player my issue is he is starting in our first XI. He is not good enough for a Chelsea first team player.