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Wow! If that's true, that Bamford would be our third choice striker I'd be very impressed. Sure he's not an academy product per se, but he's young, English and we'd have brought him through.

You can't say Shaw will turn out to be like Bertrand and then say Barkley will solve our problems

In football, a player is only as loyal as his pay..

But he's making assumptions and demands before he even knows what's going on. He's preparing for the CL final and he's talking about he's not gonna be happy if he goes back and Cech is there. He has to earn his stripes at Chelsea and it's disrespectful to make assumptions. Maybe agree to disagree for us.. Like I said, he may have had a point but I just think he must realise that he can't speak out like this. To almost demand things.

Much like we are lol. Source?

He doesn't have to leave the league.. Just swap sky blue for royal

He may be right but that's not his call to make and he shouldn't be saying that. He's ultimately been giving the club an ultimatum of 'play me or sell me' every time he discusses how he won't be put on the bench etc. He answers to Mourinho, not the other way around.

He's doing my head in. Who is he to say what best for the team having him and Cech. Courtois needs to stop running his mouth now, he'll end up annoying Mourinho.. Lukaku is the same, he should stop too.

All footballers are mercenaries..

What we saved in value for buying/trading for Ashley Cole we should invest in his heir to Chelsea's LB role. Shaw does justice to replacing Cole in the long term.

Has he not? He's been consistent over 2 seasons and he doesn't look like he's slowing down. Agree Rio was prominent longer before United moved on but Rooney wasn't.. I'd say in terms of impact Shaw and Rooney are on par with exposure and consistency.

Albrighton did really well around 2007 I think it was. Really showed promise with pace and particularly his crossing ability.. Don't really know how they've managed to mess him up at Aston Villa, but we'd be doing more damage to him.

Fuck sake Adidas... They're having a mare

Great, we share the same away kit as Liverpool. Bleugh not a fan of yellow generally to be honest... What's wrong with black as an away kit?!

Indeed I agree with TX. United have spent this some of money on English talent twice, once on Rio an once on 18 yo Rooney.. It's very hard to argue that over the span of their United careers that wasn't a worthwhile investment.

YES PLEASE. Mourinho please go send him a cake personally with balloons and strippers and god knows what else!

LMAO JAI YOU LEGEND :lol:

Please don't go to another PL club Ash

I'm sure it comes down to where the player is registered. When you're on loan you're registered with that club for that period.. and that club will be registered to the foreign FA. So officially, Courtois is registered with Atletico Madrid and thus the Spanish FA until he comes back where we register him to Chelsea and thus the FA

That's a good question sir. IIRC it's 3 years from that bracket, hence the discussion about about Piazon's loan move. That'll need clarification however**

Do we know that for sure? He said he was weighing up options after all. Anyway I guess now isn't the time for such speculation.

Lampard would definitely not like that

In a team of 25, the team need at least 8 home grown players. A homegrown player is, irrespective of nationality, someone who has trained in England for at least 3 years between ages of 16-21.

Is this one of those.. place the ball in the image competitions?

We could be fine too with the u21's who count as HG because we can just register them and it'll fill the quota. To be fair we're not as fucked as City. They've only got Hart. Barry & Lescott are out of contract, Milner and Richards have already said they're off. Sinclair will be off too. They might make Rodwell & Milner see out their final year.