Madmax

Even if he is as good as Tore, he has quality and potential

^That's Sturridge in the purple tee and cap

Because he's got a wife? Behave.

He was in France this past week for his re-marriage. I read somewhere that he'll be holidaying in monaco after that.

That's a bitch of a kit. Fucking hell, what were we thinking? The design is one you'd find on one of those wooly sweaters garndmas love knitting. This makes the fluorescent 06-07 shirt look class. Also, when will we have an away shirt that is not black in colour?

Wow 10 pages in a day ... oh it's just talk about Mikel, the one we've been having since umm ... 2006? My two cents : Fucking go for it already! My feelings about Malouda are well known, no explanations needed there. Essien, as much as I love him, has been reduced to someone who's neither here nor there ... not an effective box-to-box midfielder anymore (understandable, his knees have given way) and he was never a DM. Ramires is our Essien replacement, plus he actually has some technical ability. Mikel is our pure DM, and no-one does a better job than him in that position in our squad. Essien's the odd one out and I'd jump at the chance to still cash in on him while we can, considering he'd be making a major part of Sneijder's valuation.

No. We showed that when we let Borini go for a 20 million Drogba lookalike. Entertainment and general amusement.

When you look at it, before 31st Jan this year, we had paid 20 million + for only 5 players. The huge disparity in the ins and outs is down to our sales (bar Robben) not fetching much value. And the fact that we keep our best players and refrain from selling the core of the team. Mourinho's penchant for a big squad was well known so a lot has been spent on getting the bits-and-parts players as well.

Anything by Jeff Archer, Michael Connelly, Lee Child or Fredrick Forsyth.

Can understand the logic behind a CB. Terry is only going to get worse. Luiz is still a child in this league. Alex has frequent injury problems and his future is uncertain. Ivan is being looked upon solely as a RB. But shouldn't we just give Bruma that squad place instead of spunking another 15 million on this guy? Esp with his compatriot all set to take charge.

Drogba is in Monaco as well. Cannot be a coincidence. Definitely something going on there.

Elen Rives was better ...

Nah mate it only means that if his next move from Hamburg is at a profit over the price they paid us for him (1.30 mil euros I believe) then we will get a percentage of that profit, the percentage figure is the one that has been specified in the contract. No idea about that figure though, guess it could be anything up to 20 percent may be. There's no buy back clause that I'm aware of.

Sell on.

Yes. If you really want a good England team in the future (none of this 'golden generation' nonsense), the youth and reserve teams of each club need to be playing a season's competitive football in a lower league a la Spain and Germany. No coincidence those two nations have the best youth around atm.

Twitter talk suggests we have a sell on clause in Tore's contract with HSV.

Luiz and Ramires have been included in Brazil's Copa America squad. Surprised there's no place for Alex there. Admittedly he wouldn't be able to break their Lucio-Silva partnership but he's better than Luisao. Looking forward to this, should be a good tournament.

The Lukaku thing isn't confirmed. And he has no divine right to walk into the team straightaway, he'll have to earn his stripes, the way Studge did at Bolton and when given his chances in blue. Plus if rumours are to be believed Drogba's going out so there's a window there. We're going off topic

Welcome.

I want quality at the club, whether that's English or otherwise. A club of our stature aims for potentially worlds class players while 'lesser' clubs who hold no such hope take the homegrown route because it keeps the fans happy. Henderson is good, Carroll is decent. But not ones we should be looking at. Of course, an English club needs English representation *cough* Arsenal *cough* but I'd rather have that representation coming from the academy.

Post of the (pre) season.

We're inept at virtually everything when it comes to transfers, vision for the future, managerial appointments, so on and so forth.

Yes he's had a very average season.

Who wouldn't?

I've given up trying to tell people that Sturridge isn't a winger and shouldn't be played there.