DavidEU

"London rivals Chelsea and Arsenal are locked in a £30m scrap for Dinamo Zagreb and Croatia midfielder Luca Modric. (The Sun)"http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport...ticle482866.ece

The papers (The Sun) are saying THIRTY million today, in a battle with Arsenal.Ridiculous.(Trying to find an internet source)

Surely this would reduce the chance of him moving, as he'll be away for alot of the summer and pre-season break.

The Beeb: "McClaren is also likely to be without captain John Terry with a knee problem and fellow centre-back Rio Ferdinand, who is suspended. Terry was with the England squad at their base in Hertfordshire on Sunday but was not involved in Monday's training session. The Chelsea captain will take a place on the England bench on Wednesday in a supporting capacity." Phew. ---------- Bugger, he's trained today, so it's a possibilty... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/i...als/7103110.stm ---------- No its not! Hes not playing http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12016_2893066,00.html

My understanding was that all nations were entitled to have their players for up to THREE weeks before the tournament, just like the World Cup, Copa America, European Championships etc etc.

Ahhh OK. Didnt realise.

Spain? Why Spain?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12016_2891196,00.html Worrying. Why cant the guy just take his time coming back for once? Its nearly a year now that hes been constantly getting small injuries. Bloody annoying. Interestingly just read a topic on Football365, with loads of fans saying JT 'isnt good enough' for England, and Campbell should be first choice. Just got to laugh haven't you.

Are you sure? Theres someone from CFCnet who always goes down? Don't know if Toby got him in due to his 'connections' with the club or something.

Yeah, thats fine... Just do it when your bored and have some spare time. Also I 'talk' to Rhys Taylor (reserve keeper) on MSN, so maybe we could get him to do something like a small interview for the site, or a monthly review or something? Ideas? I doubt anyone could do a similar thing for youth team? Does anyone go to any of their games?

As an Englishman, I was confused with this game, because when Scotland equalised, I cheered, but when Italy won it I laughed at Scotland and celebrated. Just want to say though that your team and your support were a credit to your country though. The noise on the TV was amazing, so can't imagine what it would have been like at the game. You shouldn't be sad, just proud of your boys for coming so far in 2 years, and actually threatening three big sides, including the Ukraine. I think I read you've rose 60 odd places in the World Rankings, which is remarkable. You should get a kinder draw for the WC2010, and I dont think any one will be surprised to see your boys qualify. Credit to McCleish, Walter Smith/Ally McCoist, the players and fans.

Ahhh cool. Cheers mate.

Once the main site gets up and running again, is there anyone who watches the reserve team that would be willing to write a short (200-300 word) report on each game? Also a short profile for each of the Reserve team players would be good if possible. Reply or PM back. Cheers.

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Expect Thursday's headlines to be : "Terry out for a further month" then. Ridiculous if he does play.

Arsenal Away is already sold out. All went within 5 minutes. Gutted.

HAHA! Cheers for that. First time i've laughed today. God.

2 of those 4 weeks are basically up though. He should be back around early December I think. (Cech)

Right... firstly... big apology on my behalf. Things have got out of hand tonight, with myself and CM2000, with some missunderstandings. Been a long day, which is no excuse, apologies. So sorry to him, and to anyone else that could have been offended. Sorry guys and gals. Edit: Posting rights for CM are back now...

What the hell is that video about!? Jim - Your strange.

I don't really think we could get a better FOURTH choice centre-back to be honest, so I hope this doesnt happen.

Hey mate. Welcome to the site.

More here. Actually think this is a stepback for Bruce to be honest.

Hi mate. Everyone's got to be nice to this guy. Legend. And, no, you cant :unsure: