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You must be joking right? The best leagues in the world must be from Ukrain, Portugal, Russia...those leagues are so strong that the teams can't even reach UCL semi-finals. You do know one thing or two about null and void argument.

To be honest thats far from obvious. Actually for me its more trying to repare the damage than a strategy. KDB was sold for good money, but he was never a player coming from the academy. Actually the amount of money the club is getting for selling those young players is very, very small compared with the amount of money invested in the academy. Theres is no big club in the world that has an academy to produce players only with the perspective of selling them, while hoping that one or two will break through...and to be honest in last 10 years, not a single player coming from the academy made any kind of impact in the first team. So, even from a "purely business perspective" the Abramovich's academy is far from a success.

9 goals, all of them in FA Cup, plus one own goal in League Cup.

His mouth is way too big, and it seems he believes he is better he really is, I'm afraid if he is not getting too many chances, he will start to act like a cunt and will ask for a move. At his age, the best thing for his career is stay at Chelsea until he get the opportunity. If he is not getting enough chances he can leave in 2 or 3 years. He still would be 24.

I can't believe the board still have faith in this kind of thing. We all know the future of Piazon: he will go on loan again, again, and the he will be sold before starting more than 5 official matches for Chelsea...Curtois was the only success the club have in that aspect. Chelsea is club like Real, at the end of the day, just buying players that made it in different clubs, even Curtois returned after he became successful playing for another club.

lol This team is set to be a disaster. It reminds me of Chelsea in 06. Everybody though the team would be world beaters with Ballack and Shevchenko, it took 4 years untill that team won a big trophy again. Real is buying those players to increase the club marketing value. How all those guys will play? His Chelsea experience proves Ancelotti is more concerned about putting the stars on the pitch at the same time than in what will make the team stronger. Bale, Ronaldo, Kroos and James have their place secured in the starting team. Then Ancelotti has to decide if he keeps using Benzema a typical CF, or if he uses 2 men in the mid with more defensive duties. If he keeps using one main CF, that will leave only one man to hold the midfield. That will be a big problem, since Kroos, James, Ronaldo and Bale are players with few defensive instincts. For me the best formation would be using a system without CF, with Modric and Alsondo + those 4 players up front. But that will leave at least two great players unsettled. I can see at least two players leaving Real before the end of the transfer window. It won't be a surprise if Modric and Di Maria are both sold.

I don't think Mourinho will use the 4-3-3 again, as I said in another topic, since 2008 Mourinho's new system is 4-2-3-1.

PL does no sign, but if the clubs can't sign the best players they are not playing in the league, you got what I mean, pointless argument. About being the best, that an opinion, you can't measure which league is the best, for me PL is also the best, but definitely not the strongest. About the greatest concentration of quality players, just check the top 30 players in the world at this moment and you will find few of them playing in PL.

Thats an opinion. In terms of entertainment value, nothing comes close to Brazilian league when title was decided in knockout stages...entertainment value is different from the strongest. 1- This is not about Breitner vs Mourinho. Mourinho is a very good coach but he say a lot of nonsensical stuff, so if you are comparing Breitner to Rodman, you really don't what you are talking about. You are one of those guys if Mourinho comes up saying Hazard is better than Messi you would agree, because he is Mourinho. 2-Mourinho wasn't talking about the competitiveness, he was saying PL still is the strongest because he believes its the more competitive. 3- Villa, WBA, West Ham, years ago those teams would lose 90% of the matches against the likes of Chelsea and United. I don't know you were watching PL in 2005, but before the match we knew Chelsea would beat Everton, Villa, City...some people are saying those teams are getting stronger, while that might be true in some aspect, no one can deny the big boys are not as strong as they used to be, you just need to see how those teams are doing in Europe in last 5 years, its not a coincidence that the rest of PL started to look stronger in that period... 4- Well, in PL we have 4 teams fighting for the trophy before the season starts, it means they fight for the trophy in theory. This season would be again a 2 horse race. Perhaps Arsenal will "fight" for the trophy untill january, but again, last season was an anomaly, and we had 3, all the previous seasons the title was decided between two team,. Lets compare PL since 2004 with other leagues you mentioned: 04-14: PL had 4 differente winners: Arsenal, Chelsea, City and United. 04-14: La Liga had 4 different winners: Barcelona, Atletico, Real and Valencia. 04-14: Bundesliga had 5 different winners: Bayern, Borussia, Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Weder Bremen. Yes, I'm using the english clubs record in Europe because its the best way to compare the strongest teams in Europe. PL does not have the strongest teams anymore, don't even have the best players anymore, in last 5 years, the PL clubs are spending big money for the likes of Lallana, Paulinho, Fellaini...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698150/Exodus-40-000-civilians-forced-leave-homes-300-dead-Israel-vows-significantly-widen-ground-offensive-Gaza.html#comments Mass murder in Palestine, and those news are in the bottom of the home page, while the main news are about the airplane, and article from stupid "right minded" people blaming Obama for not taking actions...against Russia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2698182/Jose-Mourinho-believes-Premier-League-strongest-world-football.html Mourinho is wrong about this one. I watched a Paul Braitner interview, where he said that PL, just like brazilian football, stop its development. He believes PL was the best league until 2009, but the teams stopped looking elsewhere. PL is not the strongest in the world anymore, it still is my favorite league, but not the strongest. We just need to look at english clubs record in Europe in past seasons. Since 2009, when United were favorites, but lost to Barcelona, we only had english teams involved in 2 finals out of 5, in both finals those teams were underdogs: United got smashed by Barcelona in 2011, and Chelsea win in 2012 was a result of the heroic efforts from the players, and not a result of dominant football. We just need to compare english top teams from past season with those ones from 2005 and 2009. Liverpool had some miserable seasons, and is only returning to UCL this season, but right now without their big star, we can't see them emulating Benitez team success. United is in decline since they let Ronaldo leave. They got weaker season after season. Even in 2013, their last successful season, their european campaign was embarrassing. City won 2 of the last 3 domestic league, but in Europe they are non-existent. Chelsea never managed to be as strongest as in the old days, 2 season ago the team was ou in the group stage. PL can't attract the best players anymore, since 2009 PL lost the likes of Modric, Fabregas, Ronaldo, Tevez, Suarez, Bale. Fabregas is back, but he is back because his return to Barcelona never went according to the plan. Cavani, Falcao, Kroos, James Rodriguez, Guardiola, all those guys decided to go to another league (even Mourinho returned because his life in Spain was not exactly what he expected). Well, do we have more competition in PL? Last season was an anomaly, PL usually is a two horse race, its Chelsea/United, Liverpool/Manchester, City/United, and in some season we know who is going to win in the half of it, like Manchester in 12/13, or Chelsea in 05/06, and even if that was the case, its the same argument some crazy people use to say brazilian league is the best in the world: in the start of the season we have up to 6 teams fighting for the trophy, while is Spain its always Real vs Barcelona...

Huge deal. I thought Mourinho made a mistake letting him going on loan last season, but at the end of the day he is not even better than Origi...

An an honorary mention goes to the following, who very nearly made it onto the shortlist: The only place to belol

lol Who is Ainsley Harriott? He gets my vote.

Mohammed.

Luiz is the brazilian Higuita, if you know what I mean.

Poldi is one of his nicknames, and you will check Oezil is not wrong.

Sanchez is worth every penny. He is really an underrated player, but without the marketing associated with the likes of Neymar.

For people who gets impressed about having WC winners in their squads, Arsenal is looking world beaters next season: Meter, Oezil, Poldi and Kedhira. 4 germans!!!

So, Shurle is the second Chelsea player in history to win the tournament, I guess.

Is Xurli the first Chelsea player to ever win a WC?

People taking about Pogba, we will probably end up with a 19 years old guy that will go on loan for 4 seasons in a row...

To be honest I hate this kind of topic every pre-season. Probably the starting line-up in the beginning of the season will be way different from what we will see at the end of it. I bet in the winter market Mourinho will buy another buy to fix a weak point in the squad...

Those rumors are bullshit.

He was at fault in the first goal, when he let Muller free to score. He was at fault in the 4th and 5th goal he wasn't even inside the box, only Dante was there. He was at fault in Schurle last goal, when he was running in the midfield, someone else lost the ball, and then there was no CB at all inside the box to cover the GK. During most part of the game he was playing like a maniac midfield. Also, he was the captain, and he failed to keep the team under control. Scolari is the responsible for what happened last night, but Luiz was a disaster.