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Lost in translation perhaps?

It always brings me back to Scolari though. He talked about how players' conflict stopped his team from progressing, he wanted Drogba gone because Drogba was uncontrollable, even for a disciplined man like Big Phil. Perhaps if Abramovich had listened to him, Scolari could've nabbed the player power before it begin to grow after his dismissal. André's looked at how Carlo handled it, and Carlo didn't handle it well at all. He realised what happened with Scolari, so he tried to be the nice guy and they walked all over him. The manager has to be authoritarian, like Ferguson and even Wenger, like Mourinho. If he'd have been the nice guy they would've seen weakness in the 33-year old.

Carlo tried the 'soft approach' and they took advantage of him. I think André's iron-fist was the right way to go in all honesty.

His words about British media are proven true by themselves, lol.

I'd be more alarmed about the Barcelona talk.

Omg LOL.

From the bit about Cole, seems like he's settled on being a winger in the England set-up.

Group A from Europe will be tight.

That's because he seems to think he can accurately shoot from outside the box

"A lot of the controversies are created by the British media" Indeed.

Impressed with the Dutch kit last night, very nice and elegant.

Long live the King!

Read the rumours about Loftus-Cheek yesterday. Knowing our club, we'll sell him

The Germany-France game sounds appealing. Well done to the French.

xD indeed! But how boring would that be, if our board actually knew about football!

Soldado got a hat trick for Spain tonight. Currently leading Venezuela 5-0.

Way to go through a contrast of emotions in the space of like 2minutes

To be fair, he only signed Mata, Meireles, Romeu & Cahill. If you catch my drift

F'ck, f'ck, f'ck. Welcome back Malouda.

Hattrick tonight for Argentina. Looks like he's coming to age internationally and we can stop this ridiculous 'not the best ever if he doesn't do it internationally' notion.

Ugh. I guess it was expect, but ugh regardless. Sturridge should've started in the middle..

Whatever we feel about his performance and such it's incredibly harsh to suggest he's unphased by any of it simply because of the amount of money he makes. He obviously recognises he's having a torrid time of it doing the job that he's being paid for, like Zolayes said, he's still human and money doesn't necessarily mean every footballer doesn't have a right to be unhappy. Or that we should lack empathy.

Why do people hate Iniesta?!

Good point. I really do want to see him outside of Barca, Chelsea would be interesting for him. The state we're in, we could really elevate his career further if he was to fine-tune this club.

I share your view about 'what if' he left after 2-3 seasons. But like TX said, if he is ready to leave a legacy then we cannot afford to miss out.