LDN Blue

Because we've seen many one-season-wonders emerge before & fail to replicate that form with a big move. He's still 20, plenty of time to make a move once he's allowed to progress with more football. He'll get a bigger taste of Europe with Everton in Europa too than he will with us.

The problem is you're then continuing to build around short-term players. That's a mistake of this season choosing to use Eto'o & Torres, but it was justified because we were limited in what we could do in this window and Mourinho had to adopt himself within this squad. Ibra will be 33 in October so we'll get at best 2-seasons of prime Zlatan.

He'll probably be more respectful in this one, I don't expect to see much said against Chelsea.

I hope when he retires Jose's autobiography will be a massive "tell all exposé", even about what happened at Chelsea!!

Well surely PSG would elect to part with Zlatan before Cavani? The Swede might be on better form but he's older and they can build around Cavani more they can around Zlatan.

I do want to see statistics for chances created. We've always blamed lack of decent strike force for lack of goals (which, don't get me wrong, is totally valid), but is there also a problem with the guys behind the strikers?

Because Arbeloa is the only one who stayed on Jose's side

I'd actually say you do option c - We know how reckless public votes get on here..

Unnecessary surgery pre-World Cup 2010, instead of letting his injury heal with time. Didn't want to miss the World Cup so he rushed it.

It's probably because he knows he's assured a place in the Brazil squad. World Cup year can make a player play as well as anything if he knows he's up for selection but no guaranteed.. But when the opposite is true, you're more concerned about staying fit to get on the plane. Let's hope after the WC he'll go back to first half-season form!

Marks another end of a legendary chapter in Chelsea's history. Drogba 2012 and now Cole 2014, can't have a bad word said about him over the last 7 years! I hope one day we see him back at the club in some kind of coaching role & I certainly hope he pops in generally! I can understand why he wouldn't want to announce his departure before the game, he's never been one to want the headlines. Even when he entered the England 100 club. He'll forever be one of the best of a generation and no-one will ever take that away. Hope he gets selected for the World Cup because England won't go far anyway and it would be a perfect swansong for him.

I don't think so. It was never a case of biding his time, it was just a difference of ideology almost. Such differences can't be resolved, it was good for both parties.. Even Jose realised you can't have someone like Mata on the bench for the sake of it.

To be fair, seems isolated.. Most comments are telling OP he's being ridiculous & we've done it with with all our players at one point or another too.

"If we have them, no-one else can :D"?

Yeah, but like with any campaign it'll fizz out. The only thing they can really start doing to send a message is penalize the clubs, point docks as well as monetary incentives..

Yeah. Well thankfully (..well you know what i mean) Hull didn't beat Villa so I would've lost out anyway

God damn Pellgrini annoys me. Aguero goes off on 30th minute injured, he's got Negredo & Jovetic and he bring on Fernando. We do that sort of thing because we don't have such options! Now it could bite them on the ass because Pony's leading their attack

Whatever happened to Shonex anyway? Lmao, it'd be like "Keane-Viera: Best of Enemie" mk II.

New-manager-syndrome - I've seen it work for us lol!!

What would be effective is UEFA/FA/FIFA taking a page out the NBA's book and imposing life-bans on it.

So apparently this was a marketing PR student.. Guerrilla marketing at its finest. http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/30/anti-racism-banana-campaign-was-planned-by-neymar-dani-alves-and-marketing-firm-4713797/

I still don't Mourinho being a 4-4-2 guy with Chelsea..

Because I bet on them to win. Villa are awful at home so I expected Hull to beat them. In the end, Sunderland & Aston Villa fucked it up for me

Well my accumulator's fucked up. Backed Hull to win, they're 2-1 down at Villa. Backed United to win they're 1-0 down. The only teams that are going my way are Newcastle, 1-0 up, and Stoke, who are also 1-0 up.

Tim Sherwood seems like such a pub guy, how did he turn into a football manager? Poor guy probably just wants a pint of Fosters on the touchline..