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Ha conveniently ignoring the part where I mentioned he's been good today. Read the post again, genius.

To say we won't see the best of him at Chelsea because of what happened today is a bit fantastical, to say the least. These guys are professionals, they know how to deal with these ups and downs. What is a big deal for those of us on the outside is pretty much par for the course for these guys who live the game every single day. It doesn't faze them. Of course it will hurt him and the others but that's no more or no less than what a professional player goes through ona routine basis. He's not going to turn into some mumbling zombie who fails to recover from the blow of losing in an under-age tournament, in which he was quite excellent up until the final day, incidentally.

Lucas wasn't even good enough to feature prominenetly in an under-age tournament. But of course, he's shit because he went to France. Just like Hazard is shit because he moved to London. Rafael though .. class player.

That Menezes would play an imbalanced team in the run-in to the final instead of letting Hulk out on the pitch says something. Don't forget, he's sacked if he doesn't get gold. Yes Hulk's been a bright spark in an otherwise poor performance today, but he's not worth the silly money Porto have been trying to exhort out of us and we've done well to not cave in.

LAD POINTS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lev5JAHgOKk&feature=player_embedded Extended highlights from that friendly game.

Seems more like a planted story to keep Azpilicueta and his agent in check.

The Oly final it is, then. Oscar

What, Marchisio vs a giant, tattooed emu?!

FFS I thought this was today. My Saturday's wasted now.

@TurdFemale, surely.

The Premiership. You don't spend upwards of £70m to finish any lower.

Samsung Galaxy Y

That made me laugh

It's all Bosingwa's fault.

This kit is fucking ugly. Our players look like giant uninterested wasps meandering about the field on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

I think Oscar should be seen as more of a central midfielder than an attacking one. Everything i've seen of him so far tells me he is built for playing alongside a more conservative partner in the middle of the park ( lampard or mikel). He drops deep to collect the ball and uses his poise and intellihence to dictate the play. He 's thinking two passes ahead all the time...let him develop the game while unleashing the flashier Hazard/Marin types to wreak havoc in the final third. To my mind we couldn't have made a better, more appropriate signing. He goes a long way in addressing the balance issues the OP expresses. With him in the side there's space for the legs of Ramires, the guile of Mata and the flair of Hazard. I sincerely think we've hit the bullseye with this guy.

AVB needs to move on, we already have.

Damn, posted my thoughts in the wrong thread. Anyway, copy-paste : A backup forward strikes me as a near necessity. Lukaku still looks a little too sluggish and probably needs an extended run of games to shake off that rustiness, something which neither our reserves nor first team can provide him with. Sturridge is probably ahead of him in the pecking order but he himself is yet to show he can cut it there at Chelsea. Torres is a flat track bully at this point, hopefully he comes good this year. We should get Moses.

A backup forward strikes me as a near necessity. Lukaku still looks a little too sluggish and probably needs an extended run of games to shake off that rustiness, something which neither our reserves nor first team can provide him with. Sturridge is probably ahead of him in the pecking order but he himself is yet to show he can cut it there at Chelsea. Torres is a flat track bully at this point, hopefully he comes good this year. We should get Moses.

Jesus wept. We lost a friendly, cry me a river. Boo fucking hoo.

This thead is disturbingly hilarious.

Be honest, who laughed when that looped in? I did.

That is how it's pronounced.

Let's see some of Torres now.