LDN Blue

I still remember Carlo trying to sign Pirlo when he first came. Thank goodness that didn't go through!

You should consider buying CTV online then from the Chelsea website. I really wouldn't recommend it though, they're shit except for showing reserves and youth cup games. Although online they do provide audio commentary if you can't find streams.

I would've thought they would've mentioned this on Blue News last night when they did a report on training. Hopefully that's a sign it wasn't serious.

Lol I love The Sun. Even though Udinese have made it clear he's not leaving till the summer, that doesn't stop them. Ridiculous.

Remember, until we know otherwise, this is all media speculation. For all we know Chelsea might have given up by now, turned their attention to Kjaer (if other rumours are to be believed)

What we he expecting? Carlo is not one to talk anyway - He's all action rather than talk. It's quite disrespectful to Carlo to suggest he met with Pienaar for the sake of it.

No, this is just media hype. The incident was nothing.

Beautiful

Well the reason he used Essien instead of McEachran last time was because he felt Blackburn were a physical side. Bolton are definitely not. I'll be very surprised if he chooses Essien over Ramires (whatever the outcome, at least we'll have a strong-ish bench!) Cech Bosingwa - Ivanovic - Terry - Cole Mikel/McEachran Ramires - Lampard Anelka - Sturridge - Malouda I'd like to see, but it'll probably be; Cech Bosingwa - Ivanovic - Terry - Cole Mikel Essien - Lampard Anelka - Drogba - Malouda :ballack:

Good. There's no way Chelsea will pay £25m

That article was from August though. It's shown that wasn't the case

A Lampard double would be nostalgic

You know it's tomorrow yeah? & I will do

Yep. We're still blamed for Cole's failure to reach his potential - So we'll definitely blamed for Danny's (rightly so.)

The FA may show it on their website if you're lucky. If not there might be a stream (check streams thread in Match category).

He's not that good to be honest. I think we did well to let him go at that time.. But definitely Cole could've had a great future with us!

LOL let's say no more on that Blues News says Mikel's back to full strength, his knee and ankle are fine. Hopefully he'll start on Monday!

Well Carlo said centre back, and then the media got excited.. Slow news day

The plot thickens. ESPN says we're going after Simon Kjaer is Luiz doesn't come

First someone needs to tell Drogba to stay in the box to meet those crosses!

Good to see Benayoun on the treadmill.. Hopefully he'll be back sooner than April.

Exactly. Ivanovic is still 26 and Alex is 28. Terry looks like he can go strong for 2 more seasons at least. It's simply too premature to think about a new centre back when we've got problems in midfield and attack! Before November we'd conceded the least amount of goals. Terry, Ivanovic & Alex are more than capable of handling their duties in the back, there's simply no need for change that. That £20million could be saved, and perhaps saved for the signings of Lukaku & Sanchez in the summer (if the reports are true). The only centre back we could even consider is someone like Samba who's cheap and reliable (in case we do get an injury crisis back there.)

Well, he's already made 15 appearances for them this season. I think he's being given more and more chances to convince him to shun away from us.

Beating City 5-0 then was the highlight for me But you're right we had a quality squad that year - However I was just delighted with the 4th place finish because it meant Champions League Football. I remember we scored a lot of goals that season but we'd been let down by poor defending at times. Plus you've got remember back then Manchester United & Arsenal were the 2 clubs which were going head to head for the title. Us, Newcastle and Liverpool were battling it out for 4th so under Ken Bates that was a good season. Who would've know how amazingly our fortunes would change That being said (about defending) Cudicini was sensational! That's when he really peaked as our #1 keeper, I maintain he's a big reason of why we qualified for the Champions League that year!