Bir_CFC

Love this dude! Gives it his all every time, can't ask for anything more.

You forgot to highlight the best part 'The two years have been unbelievable for me. I think next year will be the same for me and Chelsea. I want to stay here for many years like Terry and Lampard have."

Very very hard game. Against a team without any weakness really. At least with Real or Bayern we could have countered, we can't really do that here. Playing possession isn't going to happen either as their pressing and counters are probably even better than ours. I think set pieces would be our best chance, especially tonight.

Who gives a shit if he was a cunt during some matches. We were rivals, you would expect some of that. Would love him here. Yeah Kroos is also great but Fabregas is 10 times more creative than Kroos. A way better player if used properly, it's not even close imo. Kroos is a much better shooter but that shouldn't be a key requirement for a DLP. I don't think he'll come here though, but I like him a lot as a player.

Like others mentioned. A fine is useless. It would have to be a transfer ban to actually warrant any attention. If they don't dish out just punishment. Then Roman can go back and just dump money like he used to.

David Luiz isn't getting games as a CB and people expect Kalas to get some. I called this in the beginning of the year. It's a waste of time to keep youth CBs as depth at a top top European team. It's just way too risk to experiment with CBs. Not worth it.

Bring back Kalou!!! Finishing was awful haha. Like using manual shooting settings in Fifa.

Love the 3 behind the Ba. Willian the creator with Salah and Schurrle making their devstating runs. I'm expecting them to pull Swansea defenders all over the place. We'll have chances, gotta make sure we finish!

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/laliga/id/1346?cc=5901 If a player in La Liga wants to leave without his employers being able to stop him and his "cláusula de rescisión" is within the realms of acceptability, the only barrier is that it should be him, and not the club he wants to join, who pays it. Not a day goes by without my being asked about the accessibility of Diego Costa or Koke's respective buyout clauses. But here's the rub. Given that it must be the player who pays the (let's say) 50 million euros to the Liga offices, who then devolve it to the club he's leaving, and that most players don't have seven figures in cash just lying around, it's usually the "buying" club that stumps up the money. If they transfer that to the player so he can pay for his freedom, the Spanish authorities will deem that tax should be generated on the movement of that money. Which type of tax, and how much (potentially anywhere from 21 to 45 percent), will be dictated by a number of factors that I, decidedly not an accounting or legal specialist, decline to try to explain. However, let's say that the buyout clause of Herrera is 35 million euros and there's 25 percent tax on it; the real fee will be 43.75 million euros. When a Spanish club deal is taking place and a player determinedly wants to go but the outfit he belongs to doesn't want to sell, then what often happens is a wee "scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" arrangement.

Release clauses in Spain work differently than the rest of the world. The buyout clause is accurate but it's actually not Chelsea who do the buyout, it's actually the player. So in Costa's case he has to pay Athletico 32M to terminate his contract. This means Chelsea has to pay Costa the amount and then he pays Athletico. When we give Costa the money, he has to recognize this as income and pay tax on it. We have to give him the 32M + reimburse him for the income tax he'd owe. We'd have to transfer like 60M to him. Instead it actually makes sense to not bother with the buyout clause at all and just pay Athletico a higher transfer fee, which would be beneficial to all parties. The only reason to activate the buyout is if Athletico don't want to sell, if they are willing to talk I don't expect the buyout clause to be activated at all.

wigan work so hard and now choking hard on pens

We need Liverpool to win, so then even a draw for City vs. Everton, puts the title back in our hands. If City win or even draw then title is most probably gone. They won't drop points other than at Everton possibly but even so their GD would win it for them assuming we still win out.

Ugh, to be honest, I didn't really want Athletico. I would have liked Bayern instead. Athletico right now is a better version of us really, only difference being they don't have a Hazard. It'll be very hard to score against them.

He doesn't get injured but he's been very unfortunate with the timings. Missed the EL final last year and now the epic PSG result yesterday. Of course he was important for both results but it would have been nice to have him on the pitch for really the only two epic European nights so far in his career.

A very good save, but one I would have expected him to make.

How did we get him so cheap? Best 1 on 1 defender in the world for me. Best defensive fullback in the world too. High praise maybe, I don't give a fuck. Defensively, dude is an absolute monster.

You have quotes? I believe you, but some quotes would be nice

Hazard, Azpi, Cahill

Eden looked at him after he stole the free kick, so probably joking around haha.

It's clear his lack of goals is cause he doesn't get in enough dangerous positions because whenever he's had a chance he's finished like a boss!

Very impressed by him. Coming from the swiss league, I didn't think he would contribute at all this season but not only has he contributed when given a chance, he hasn't looked out of place at all amongst 30M players. I thought he would turn out to be Moses/Marin type player, but he's already shown he has a lot more in his locker than both combined. Wasn't so excited about him, but he's shown enough now to get me excited about his future. Plus, seems like a top lad too.

PSG didn't really impress me much, they are a good team but are definitely beatable. We played bad and made mistakes that we don't usually make and they made us pay for each one. Would have been very happy with the 2-1 but 3-1 is pretty bad. We can still do it, but everyone would have to put in a heck of a performance.

I'm a little nervous about Luiz and Rami pivot. They both go ball chasing. One of them will have to show the discipline they haven't shown previously to curb their instincts cause I do fear they both will run towards the ball and leave the middle exposed.