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And all is better with the world again ...

Thanks, gonna watch this one then

Is Neymar playing tonight?

I'm unsure about that, Carlo was Roman's first choice after Grant's sacking and only when he couldn't be lured did he go for Scolari. But Hiddink as DoF makes sense. Lets him be there for the club in an official capacity, which always good in terms of avoiding hassles with his actual employers (in this case, Turkey). That said, I'm not going to complain if he is revealed as the manager.

I think so. I think Roman will work out some arrangement with Turkey about keeping him as DoF while we get a manager on Hiddink's recommendation.

Haha I was just thinking that I should have put in the part about him going there later on in a match but not starting there when I saw a notification from you XD. No Anelka/Kalou weren't good enough and that sadly shows that we don't have quality options on the bench. I'd say Ramires was good in the 442 though, but when we used 442 it was the left side that went missing because whoever played there (Yuri/Malouda) were kept central to allow Cole all the space he wanted.

I'll be doing one about my thoughts on the new managerial appointment. Just saying.

Malouda often played on the right during this season and last. He just isn't good enough there.

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One of the loyal 'originals' form the previous forum deserves to be a mod this time, imo.

We should expect an announcement by this time tomorrow methinks.

Agree ... the words 'legend' and 'great' get thrown around far too lightly.

Villians of the season = ones who believe such media bullshit.

Celtic and Rangers are big UK clubs, not big European clubs.

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