Duppy Conqueror

i hope we learn a useful lesson from this....that whilst loan moves can be beneficial...picking the wrong club to loan any particular player to, can totally derail a promising career. think this move would be best for all concerned...good luck to the lad,i hope he gets his career back on track..even if it means in 3 or 4 years time "experts" who only make comments after the event, saying that we should never have sold him.

anyway...i went for Mikel. great idea Manuf..thanks for introducing it...be interesting to see who wins the most monthly awards over the course of the season..

every one of them are worthy candidates..but the vote is just for one player..if it was who has played great ,with multiple options, then i`m sure Essien would had many votes,including one off myself,but thats not the case.

who has said Kalou is out of this world? If people "praise" Kalou more it`s due to the fact that people call him useless or "Kalouless" when he clearly isn`t. a frustrating at times player who could sometimes do better,but far from useless Duff is more of a winger in a 4-4-2 than a "winger" in a 4-3-3, tho both him and Robben weren`t sold because Kalou is better than them,but because they were/are injury prone and we had acceptable offers for...Joe Cole was better "in his day" ..so was Pat Nevin but it`s only the present and future that matters now. Kalou is indeed a good impact player and good squad player to have who can play any position in the front 3 and doesn`t sulk when he doesn`t start like a possibly more skilled player would do..there are lots of ingredients that go into a cake..you can`t just use cherries,you need eggs and flour to bind it all together and that is where the likes of Kalou,Mikel,Zhirkov etc...come in.

disappointed by the draw..as wanted a team we could play 4 or 5 youngsters in and still progress..

I guess we could recall some of our loan outs if needs must...wouldn`t be surprised to see Billy Clifford get some first team action before xmas.

am wondering what Andy Gray has been sniffing if he thinks Rangers will fancy going through in their group..would be cool to see them do it..but Man U ,Valencia & Bursaspor...i think they got no chance,with all due respect to them. feckin` Man U having the scottish opponent again. would have been awesome if we got them instead..and a true "battle of britain" with both of us being league champions.

Slovakia it is then Zilina.. easy enough for the players..travelling for fans and the experience in general,not so easy...will have to google Zilina to see where exactly they are in Slovakia..what their ground is like etc...

Marseille and Moscow..oh dear...all we need now is Partizan ,i thought group of death was supposed to be for the team,not the fans..

Marseille with a Gas mask it is then..

there goes Real..they`re in Milan`s group.

lol at the Mic man saying...Milan of Italy..as if anyone wouldn`t know that.... oh great..we in the last group..so we gotta watch the whole show. Edit: is Arsenal in the last group (group H) we in group F

oh well,i just gotta stay awake for the draw haven`t i..of all days to have it. lol ah,will have to google that one later...i only like crazy golf..well until i get to the bastard windwill... :unsure:

yeah same here....can`t wait to find out where i`m gonna be going in the next couple of months...love going to the bridge but is Chelsea away days that stir the blood most for me.

Chelsea Real Madrid (tho anyone other than Marseille would be sweet..don`t fancy being gassed by their police again when i havent done anything to warrant it..) Ajax or Rangers (either one would be awesome for different reasons..either a battle of britain..or will be so stoned even if Chelsea lose i`d be grinnin` or failing that can always get Filthy McNasty on some scantilly clad exotic girl in a lil red room,to get the defeat out of my system ..) the last pot is a tricky one..if we get Rangers in pot 3..then i`ll go for Twente..if we get Ajax..then i hope for Auxerre or Bursaspor...surely they can`t be as hostile as Galatasary..

ah come on guys..they can`t be footballers AND Mother Theresa.....they are only mere mortals not immortal saints on earth to save the worlds children. Drogba can be a sulky stereotypical french twunt on times...arguably cost us a CL title and shamed a fair few Chelsea fans with his tantrum in the globally watched title winning game last season...but i`m sure there`s not one Chelsea fan who would say we don`t want him because of it.

knew you weren`t English but thought you were Spanish....is there no Costa Rica flag on here? if not i`d support the campaign to get it on here.... used to love Paolo Wanchope when he played for Derby ...would have his best games against Man U..then have a nitemare against us...thats the kind of opponents player i can get behind..

it was his younger brother Brian unfortunately....tho is easy to get them mixed up i know...just Brian was a good player who was a huge disappointment for me when with us,with all that delayed by 9 years homesickness bullshit...where as Micheal was one of the best players on the planet, who proved it on the biggest stages in the `80`s.

wasn`t replying to you in particular Zola..would have quoted you if i was(just so you and others know) i`ve been awake for over 30 hours,so tried to keep it short by using a sweeping generalization to try and cover a few comments made over a few posts in this thread, along with ones in others by various people. basically surrounding the lack of trust in Carlo...if Roman came on a CFC fan site to find out who to buy....Kakuta would never have been discovered by Chelsea,Essien and Drogba wouldn`t have been bought because they weren`t proven in a big league so their prices would have been too much,Aguero would be bought for £40M and on £160,000 a week and balls to the financial future..Ashley Cole wouldn`t have been bought because we didn`t need him as we already had Bridge,Robben wouldn`t have been bought because we had Duff, Ivanovic wouldn`t have been bought because he`s always played in a weak league,Cech wouldn`t have been bought because we already had Cudicini,Anelka would never have been bought because he has a reputation as a sulker etc... if you hire Michelangelo to paint a masterpiece on your ceiling and you have no experience of painting masterpieces on ceilings, you don`t tell him what he does or does not need to do it...you trust him and let him get on with it and although i`m not saying we should just sit back and make no comments of disagreement on anything Carlo does..just a little more faith and realization that he is far more equipped to tell what we do and do not need than anyone of us, from time to time...would make a refreshing change. if i was our manager and felt we needed an extra defender i would go for Serdar Tasci (a CB/RB like Ivanovic) rather than Srna..but it`s Carlo`s call and if Srna is his man,then so be it and i hope he`s successful in buying him...because if he don`t get the tools he believes he needs,it`s his head on the block if it goes tits up, not us. again..that last comment back in the other post wasn`t aimed at anyone in particular..just speaking in general. right off to bed now for me methinks....

in my eyes we don`t "need" a defender...but in my eyes, we also don`t have to win atleast one of the 3 major trophies we play in every season. i have a feeling somehow tho that plenty of the people who don`t want him, would still throw a "wendy" if we don`t win PL,CL etc...without him.

i don`t think playing all our youngsters is the way to go... we want to use the League Cup for them to gain some 1st team experience...playing with the same inexperienced players they play with week in, week out...will not help them get blooded into the 1st team. i`d say play Bruma, 2nd choice keeper (whoever that will be at the time),Kakuta,McEachran,Sturridge and Van Aanholt at the very most with some experienced first teamers like Bran,Zhirkov,Ramires.. (can always have some other youngsters on the bench to bring on if we a few goals ahead) also although it`s not a trophy i care too much about winning..(tho if we got to the final i would hope we do..) if we combine experience with youth,we are less likely to get knocked out in our first game in the tournament, so our youth would get more experience by playing more games in it. how many youngsters playing should depend on who we are playing against..if it`s a premiership team then 3-5 maximum..but if it`s someone like Orient..we could play more..but not an entire team of under 21`s.

i`d welcome us to play Real in the group stages..time to exorcise the ghost of Jose.

i usually read 2 or 3 books at a time. my current ones are: Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years by Micheal Palin

Millwall play nice these days,other teams fans are more naughty.

not only that but he could be one injury away from playing in games like the European Cup final etc...at Stoke he will not.