Duppy Conqueror

@Bloody oh rite..well i guess we can't all be human about these things..

true ,but what`s the *shrugs* for?

..and what is Joey Barton`s problem again? tragic story .i`d normally call someone as young as him a kid but he`s obviously a man now to have overcome that. glad we take in asylum seekers like him. fook the economy and our un-needed luxuries .

yeah Buzz` story is quite tragic tho he seems to have turned his life around now. NASA weren`t that keen on him going first either as they saw Neil as the more level headed and steady personality which he was. i`ve always thought of Mike Collins ...drove them to the Moon and had to hang around whilst they had their fun time. although some experts at the time predicted that when they landed on the moon they would just sink into the moondust and perish. for folks like me who find the whole space race and adventures fascinating,with the fall of the soviet union and previously classified top secret information being released into the public domain there`s so much new stuff coming out at the moment it`s taken the interest to a new level.

R.I.P a fookin superb fighter pilot,test pilot and astronaut. Eternal Legend. as Shaun Ryder once sung with Black Grape "Neil Armstrong ,Astronaut,he had balls bigger than king kong,first big suit on the moon and he`s off to play Golf" a great man. very humble and level headed too.. i`ve studied the whole space race for years. when i was a little boy i used to want to be an astronaut or a Cherokee Indian..there wasn`t much opportunities for such along the Goldhawk road in the late 70`s early 80`s tho...just West indian dudes and Punks and the sound of sirens was my wild west as for Neil someone to have their name known throughout the world and yet he kept such a low profile.. i`d be lording it up like Hugh Heffner in the Playboy mansion.

he could but Oscar is so good at that it wouldn`t really be his main job i would think. his passing is good.there`s a stat sheet from todays game earlier in the thread.yes it`s only one game but it gives you a sample of what he can do or atleast his success rate. i doubt he will come this window now tho. until we offload some Mids to the outside looking in it must seem like they would be buried on the depth chart for the next few years where as in reality i see atleast 2 or 3 mids leaving in the next 12 months. also with Dempsey seemingly on his way out it looks like Dembele is gonna be the main man at Fulham this season atleast, then Fulham can benefit by trying to get teams into a bidding war for him. i would personally try to steal a step on the competition,put in a £20m bid for him now and let Fulham have him on loan for the rest of the season or until January. atleast something worth offering i think. would be ideal to avoid getting tangled up in a bidding war.

Brazilian nuts in a fountain of Belgian chocolate. i`m hungry...

@justin_3d i`m holding out hope Valencia can sort out their finances and grow again to break up the monopoly as i see them as the spanish version of Borussia Dortmund. they consistently produce great players either through good scouting whilst they are at small clubs or producing their own youth talent. they just need to stop having to sell these star players. would love to see them return to how good they were tho and keep Real and Barcelona on their toes even tho you make a very good point there about the EPL still growing wqhilst the Spanish league is declining and it could very well have an effect on the quality of Real and Barcelona are to be on the European stage in the future..even tho it`s always been as far as i can recall like a two tier division the top flight in Spain with a maximum of 5 or 6 quality sides and the rest probably not good enough for the Prem. Barcelona and Real were very ordinary in the 80`s even Dundee United beat them at the nou camp and at tannadice.. Barcelona have played Dundee United 4 times and lost everytime btw..

he was a quality player last year too.don`t think we have room for him at present but yeah i`d be happy with him. not sure why some folks gotta say stuff like everyone is jumping on his bandwagon now after MOTD not sure why phrases like "everyone is ..." doing anything have to be said when it`s clearly not the case. how many people have you guys asked before today what they thought about Dembele?. he is hardly this great star you alone have unearthed. he`s been seen as a great prospect who has been gradually improving for a few years now,he`s been on the radar of many scouts,football fans etc..for atleast 3 years..we were actually linked first for him about 3 years ago,maybe longer. i know there`s plenty of Dembele fans on here who have expressed their feelings about him. my main point is can folks chill out on the generalizations of what people think when it`s a diverse community and each person has their own opinions and that no presumptions of what they are should be made.

good pleasing team performance .Hazard gets his first Chelsea goal and Torres is looking like he may just turn things around and salvage his CFC career afterall. Lukaku has made a good start to his loan spell,gave Spurs nitemares when he came on today. scored against the scousers last week. the boy is doing himself and us proud. AVB booed off in his first home game at Shite Hart Lane and some of them fans have already publicly expressed that they think he`s the wrong man for the job and want leatherface back. haha. Rooney fannied about over that graze and from what i heard so did Charlie Nicholas in the sky goalcenter studio. before i saw it i was expecting to see another "David Busst" the way they were talking on the radio.. pretty close to a perfect day really..

ah,i`m happy to hate alone.. you may never get to hate the likes of Sunderland and Newcastle. some of it is long seated and doesn`t only apply to football..i`ve enjoyed watching Newcastle play quite a lot of times over the last 30odd years,not so much Sunderland..it`s more the fans tho,they still publicise themselves as massive clubs,when they aren`t really atall..it`s atleast 60 years since either of them had a truly golden era. in the last 25 years Luton Town have won more domestic trophies than the whole of the North East. nobody calls Luton Town massive and if it`s just because they have big followings then there`s about 30 "massive" clubs in England. i did go abit too sweeping when i said i hate NorthWest/NorthEast in general..it`s generally "just" Liverpool,Leeds,Newcastle,Sunderland,Manchester...i don`t class midlands as "oop north" even tho there are plenty of Londoners and/or Cockneys who believe anywhere north of Watford is up north. and places like Carlisle and Doncaster have some classy fans.

he didn`t seem to be on our radar which i was fine with.. not that impressed with the Sunderland team i`ve seen better teams than them on paper go down and as they haven`t played together yet that`s all we can go on. *wonders if he`s the only Chelsea fan on here who hates Sunderland (and North East/West in general) *

i don`t care where he ends up either. i`ll just be glad he`s not joining us.not that he ain`t a good player it`s just too many red flags for me..too high transfer fee,too high wages,too old,26 aint old but when you consider he`ll need time to adjust to an upgrade in competition and that the vast majority of Brazilian footballers best days are behind them at 29,he is. also i think he`s maxed out in both his body and performance. all our signings so far have been for rising stars who are good to great already.i think Hulk is good-great but his star has risen as far as it`s going to..he will probably become a bigger worldwide name if he played in the Prem or in Spain but i don`t see him becoming a better player. add that to also just having that bad vibe about him and us ,just feel he would flop with us or atleast not be half as good as he has been playing for Porto.

i only just noticed the standings when i went to set my team for this weekend.forgot to check until now..woo hoo..good ol` Bran,Eden and Fernando, Top of the League in 3 leagues..woo hoo. and i`ve still made sweeping changes this weekend too.. haha. Up the Hatchets! :blue scalf:

good signing. good price.half the price he would have gone for if he had chosen to represent England instead of Nigeria. and our homegrown quota is back up to 8 and more importantly we have 2 proper wingers now. moving to London won`t be a problem either as he has already lived here for 9 years before he moved to Wigan and probably still has family living in town.

well he certainly has experience....of sitting in the dugout..and it would mean we could get something more in return for his wages than him being a sort of holiday rep for foreign players.

glad to see him signed and already in training.. the last time we signed a CA ,we won the double in his first season...

that`s a lot of stolen DVD players to raise that kind of money in Liverpool..

they are being looked at as evidenced by us signing Davila ,whose now out on loan at a club i`ve never heard of. so yes they are worth a look at but no greater than they already are. that Jimenez kid impressed me today but we have so many young defenders now,maybe better to let someone else develop him then buy him if we need him later on. which we probably won`t as Chalobah and Kalas look very promising to me and Bruma should be good with some more seasoning in Germany.

he`s joining up with a team that can defend now. that`s gotta lift his spirits. he`ll be down for a bit no doubt but that`ll soon change once he`s played a few games for us.

hope the brazilian press don`t use him too much as the scapegoat now.yes he should have put that header away but it`s down on the whole team . or how they played today,a group of individuals. they seemed to think that todays game was already won before it kicked off . Mexico deserved to win the game and the gold medal. Oscar has been great throughout the tournament,can`t wait to see him in a Chelsea shirt.

Neymar down when there`s actual contact..kinda poetic justice.

@Shak Moses started out as a CF. but i added that as another side to his game rather than being the main factor in us attempting to buy him. i`ve already stated my views on Ramires playing RW in this thread,that you can find by scrolling back. if Ramires can`t play effectively in a 4-2-3-1 he just won`t play. although like i`ve said several times lately. i believe we will play more games using a 4-3-3 in the upcoming season. what has the need for a CM/DM got to do with Moses?

so two for the left but just one for the right? Moses can play CF and both RW and LW. i like Whelan ..even tho he`s modern footballs version of an apple woman only leatherface Redknapp can top...but Wigan does not deserve him or a premiership football club. nobody wanted to give us anything to keep us up in the past,nor save us when we have been on the brink of going into extinction. fook em all.

i just saw a picture of Robert Fleck i`m gonna have to wait till my eyes stop bleeding ...