Tomo

Right now if we had to keep one of Kalou or Malouda this summer, ill keep Kalou everytime. Kalou tries to make things happen and tries to liven us up and once in a while suceed's in doing just that. Malouda it's just 40 yard shot's, back passes or running into the first defender, very repetitive and boring.

oh FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Yeah forgot about those 2. However with Sturridge's new contract situation he's bound to go up to the 90-100k barrier if he stays at-all

But they still spent that money on championship players

I don't know how the faith in Torres is still going strong with some. I was one of his biggest backers up until about October, i was convinced his barren run was a one off and he would come good for us but since then he has beaten his previous 17 game barren run, time to face facts the lad is finished. We will here the excuses about lack of service from the other players but many times at his peak he use to pick up the ball put defenders on their arse and finish with aplomb, he even chipped in with his fair share of long range goals, those type of goals don't need world class service so why can't he do that here? I don't want to hear the he has made a few assist's here and there strikers are here to score and the only time a forward can get away with a reasonably poor goal record is if he makes up for it in literally every other department, like Dennis Bergkamp for example but even he would not have got away with 5 goals in 46 games. The fact that 4 of his 5 goals came in 4 games and the other came against West Ham makes this even worse.

Worst thing is that apart from this deal we have been clever with transfer's and wages in recent season's. Ramires is on something like 60k a week, Luiz is on something similar and we managed to haggle down the transfer price for him, Romeu is on 20k, Mata is on 55k, Meireles is on something similar also. Cahill is on 80k which isn't that much for our recent standards, So we blow our recent wage (and transfer) reduction's out of the water with this deal. We should pull on Leti's heartstrings and offer £20m plus Torres and an extended Courtious loan for Falcao. As for the £50m, lets pretend we spent £73m on Mata.

Can i request when the new season get's started it's on the 11th March, gives us all a chance to get a good few freindly games under our belt to get form and fitness back up.

Next 5 games are Bolton, West Brom and Stoke in the league plus Birmingham in the FA and Napoli in the CL. Safe to say this is save our season month.

Can't be doing with Malouda any more, his long range shooting and running in the first defender is driving me mad. Would rather Kalou plays atleast he frustrates for 89 minute's then does something half decent in the exception minute. We need the most hungriest and paciest team out there tommorow, which is why Cole, Meireles, Lampard, Torres, Malouda and even Drogba under normal circumstances should be on the bench if not in the stands, but we know it won't happen

All the players causing havoc should be in the stands and playing the rest of the season in the reserves, time to earn your money AVB

Lampard and Drogba do have a few years left if they accept lesser roles but it is becoming increasingly clear they wont so they will be gone in the summer. Luiz got tried in other position's for Benfica, at left back he wasn't very good, at defensive midfield he was average, he started seeing his potential when he was a regular centre back. Our mistake in the summer was focusing too much on Modric, we should have just given up on him and gone for Moutinho.

Oriol hasn't been that bad these past month, certainly not on the level Meireles has been the past month or Lampard has for most of the season. The only problem is because his fantastic first few games he was getting hyped up as superman so he was only ever going to disappoint after that.

What possesed us to pay 180k a week in the first place, he was only on 80k at the Scousers, surely a basic payrise would have been suited or if he really was "ambitious" he would have just accepted the same wage. What on earth possessed us to offer that much?

------------------------Cech------------------------- Ivanovic-------Luiz---------Cahill-------Bertrand -----------------Romeu-------Ramires------------ Sturridge-------------Mata-----------------Kalou ------------------------Drogba---------------------- Drogba will atleast serve to keep the centre half's occupied so the 3 infront get more space to play. Cole, Meireles, Bosingwa, Lampard and Torres should not be near this team right now, Lampard may have a decent record against Bolton but we went to the Emirates last season and lined up on the assumption Drogba would destroy them again, how did that go?

To be fair i haven't even played a premiership game yet

yeah

CHOULO i think im playing your team tuesday

2 out of 3 aint bad.

oh ffs not more of these.

Cech Ivanovic Cole Bertrand Luiz Hummels Essien Romeu Ramires Lampard Moutinho Torres Falcao/Cavani Mata Drogba Hulk Mikel Malouda Hazard Meireles Bosingwa Azperialla (whatever his name is) Feirreira Hutchinson McEachran Kalou De Bruyne Turnbull Hennesy Sturridge Cahill Terry Van Aanholt Kalas Clifford Piazon Hilario Blackman

The point im trying to make amoungst all others is if we somehow in magical land get Torres's best form we will get a world class forward, if Carroll hits top form at Liverpool they will get a decent run of the mill forward.

Maybe they should have banners, after all Torres got one before he even put on a Chelsea shirt.

I would genuinely rather have Sam Allardyce than Rafa.

-------------------------------------Robinson----------------------------------- Richards----Shawcross--------Dann-------Johnson------------Warnock --------------------------Barry------Parker--------Nolan---------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------Carroll---------------------Heskey------------------- Manager: Sam Allardyce

£27m would be an complete bargain for this guy in this current climate.