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Not a big loss. I'm happy if we've got decent money.

Isn't he 40 something? EDIT : turns 39 this month.

Let's hope Torres-Sturridge become HG 2.0

I'm not criticising him, merely presenting an alternative view. Notice how I have never said "it was Hiddink's fault that ..."

One of modern time greats no doubt, but in as far as Chelsea is considered, hard to judge conclusively really. Like I said imo his previous work is not a factor in Roman's decision, instead it's his familiarity with the club and the respect and love he has here. Had we been going by past records, Roman would have signed up Guardiola, a man who has a track record of winning the league every season and the CL 2 times in 3 years, the one trophy that is his most sought-after.

I didn't say that. I feel he's already been hired and it's an open secret, we're delaying announcing it to avoid a war of words with Turkey federation. "Best manager available" is the key word. So it's fair to call him great based on 3 months, but unfair to analyze two shocking performances during those 2 months?

That's one way of looking at it. But the other way is ... after winning 3-1 away, why did we end up having that poor first half? Did Hiddink motivate the players enough? Or did he let them become complacent? There's another previous ... we lead Bolton (of all teams) 4-0 at home in the league but they came back to 4-3 in the last 20 mins. Only a Deco goal line block prevented it from being 4-4 ...

Our CL run that year somehow nearly ended prematurely despite winning 3-1 at Anfield. How did we manage to let go that lead and let them make it 4-4? We nearly lost 4-5 remember, Essien (I think it was) saved on the goal line in the dying minutes. I need to stress that I'm not anti-Hiddink, in fact I quite like him, but I just refuse to get over-excited at this stage. Just responding to some of the stuff I come across here.

Wengers' voyeuristic genes have been passed on to his bunch of pussies. This is the second time in the past few months that the twat has attacked Chelsea in the media. Maybe he should take a look at his captain's handiwork.

City give up on Sanchez, hope for a triple raid on Napoli instead (Lavezzi, Hamsik, Cavani) http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/925345/man-city-rule-out-alexis-sanchez,-chase-napoli-trio?cc=4716

You're all missing the point. What he did at previous clubs/NTs doesn't matter to Roman right now. Hiddink is the manager because he knows the club, he knows the owner., he knows the players and most importantly, everyone here loves him. It's a move to restore the 'feel good factor' at the club after a disappointing season and all the bad press we've been getting.

Lies Seriously though, you can count on my vote

He didn't buy Alex. We bought Alex from Santos and loaned him to PSV since he couldn't get a WP at the time.

My brown envelope hasn't arrived yet. Note to self : Must check if Alex has stolen it ....

Yep, Jimmy boy it is. We can't thank him enough for getting this site together and more importantly, to keep it going like he has.

welcome

Umm what?

Not worth 50m £, no. But then, who is? About half that is more understandable. The bid was turned down earlier today, it seems.

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That worries me. Pep isn't coming, ditto AVB. If it isn't Hiddink either, we're left with .... must.not.mention.him.

Has to be Hiddink now, we're being linked with all these moves for players without having put a manager in place officially. But that's not really the case. Hiddink said already that he advises Roman in an unofficial capacity regarding player movement, so surely the list we're going after has passed muster with him. He'll be our manager regardless the Tur-Bel result.

Neymar agent 'schedules meeting' for £28 million switch http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/864840-neymar-nears-chelsea-switch-and-robinho-gives-thumbs-up-to-the-move

This is Chelsea

We didn't bother paying 6m for Sahin or 8m for Ozil. Now it's come to this.