Tomo

Part of me wants to see us rotate but if we rotate and it goes wrong who's arse will be on the chopping line?

Hamsik, Lavceskiwhatitsface and cavanani are the main threats, with any luck one of them will leve them in January.

Apparently Ryan has convinced AVB that he is the long term succesor to Ash. The sources so far aint reliable but great news if true.

Thinking back to my comment a few days ago i think i was too hasty to say we should cash in this January. He has to stop this trend of one step forward two back all the time. Signs for Chelsea (step forward), horrific debut (two back). Decent ish performances in March (step forward), stinker in the CL at Old Trafford (two back). Finally scoring against West Ham (step forward), his IMO 3 biggest stinkers in a Chelsea shirt against Spurs, Newcastle and Everton (two back). Decent display against Stoke (step forward), horrendus displays against Norwich and Sunderland (two back). Goal at Old toliet (step forward), open goal miss (two back). Goal against Swansea (step forward), red card (two back). Double against Genk (step forward), stinker against Le Arse (two back). With Villa injured and Drogba off to the ACON shortly this 2012 (the first half) will be a vital year for Torres.

1. He does not let the media talk shit No offense to Carlo, but last season the media were spouting bolax last season and Carlo was just letting them do it, now AVB is in and telling them in no uncertain terms what he thinks of the bolax they spout and to be quite frank im loving it. 2. He drops players who don't perform Last season we were screaming for this. Lampard, Malouda, Anelka, Torres, Drogba and Mikel amougst others basically had their place in the team by default last season and in turn their performance rate's dipped. This season as we have seen any drop in performance and they are on the bench and in turn when they do get back in the team in general put in better displays (especially Lamps). 3. He has brought back Roberto Di Matteo Enough said. 4. He has sorted out major problems To put it quite blunt last season was dire to watch, no creativity, no pace and players who looked to put it nicely over the hill, the lack of pace, creativity and width in the team was becoming so evident it was starting to hurt. AVB's decision to sign Romeu, Meireles, Mata and decididing to give Sturridge a more prominent role has not completely got rid of the problem but we are looking 100 times better in those departments than last season. 5. He is slowly performing the over-haul we have needed for years Last season more than ever the need for a overhaul was apparent and at times it looked like it was never going to come but the youthfull signing's made in the summer is to be surely joined by more of the same come January aswell as the frustrating/ageing players on the way out. Lets be honest not so long ago we would have bit some one's hand off for this. 6. We haven't been totally outplayed this season Taking the Liverpool carling cup match aside, no team has walked all over us like many times last season and in the Scolari era. All the games we lost bar the CC game we lost on fine margains and on any other given day the luck would have gone in our favour. 7. Un-deniable passion The passion he show's on the touchline is really refreshing, it's clear he takes loses personally and is like a fan when we scores. 8. He has broke 2 hoo doo's that were getting annoying The penalty shootout hoo doo that was becoming beyond and a joke and the Everton hoodoo not once but twice. 9. He is a very talented manager Don't be fooled by people dismissing his achievements at Porto as it being "only the Portuguese league". What they fail to mention in the same time is that Porto were in a mess when he took over, just finished outside the CL places and deviod of confidence. AVB not only brought back the confidence and won the treble, he also did it by playing superb attacking football, breaking numerous record's not even Jose and Sir Bobby could touch and making Porto nearly invincible that season, what's to say given time he could not do a smiliar season with us? Also lets not forget also he took over Academica mid season when they were bottom and winless and guided them to mid table safety. 10. Signing's Leave the best till last. The signing's he has made have been quite frankly brilliant. Thiabut Courtious. Excelling at Leti and making MOTM performances time after time, we do look like we finally have some one who can challenge Cech and eventully suceed him. Oriol Romeu What's to say that hasn't already been said? Class holding midfielder and the closest we are ever likely to see to Claude Makelele again. Romelu Lukaku Not the best start but he was not wanted by the likes of Real Madrid and Arsenal for nothing, be patient with this boy. Juan Mata No words can describe just how good a signing he is, best since Cech and £23m in this market is an absolute bargain. Raul Meireles Like ive said in this market £12m for a player of his calibre is an absolute steal and has always been impressive when played. Ok he is no Modric but he is good enough for us, why Kenny thought Henderson and Adam were better ill never know. There has been a few hitches here and there but all in all im delighted with the work AVB has already done for this club, he has single handedly made the future look 20 times brighter than before.

Im sorry but the lad didn't deserve to get thrown off the train quite like that. He may have been a tit but i can't stand men like that who try and make themself's look hard but picking on people half their size or age, in all probability if it was a bloke closer to his age and especially size that bloke would have not even thought about getting involved. If he gets fined/charged with assault i will have no sympathy what so ever.

Unfortunently in any walk of life heart rules heads. If he establishes himself here and makes himself a regular all logic will say he should decline Barca but will his heart let him that's the problem? Its the same in every walk of life, like when their's a lad/girl who worshipes you and will do anything for you but your heart leads you to a troublemaking player/bitch. Strange example i used their but if Barca come back in for him i am worried that his emotinal attachment there would be too much for him to turn down.

Sturridge still doesn't get the credit he deserves from the outside. Even more so when you think that the media waxed lyricals over United's new "golden english generation" in August.

Carvalho was hardly invincible either, the amount of free kicks just outside the 18 yard box he gave away as infuritating.

Can we just close every Torres thread till atleast January because all the Torres talk is starting to royally do my head in.

Dalglish for me is the most over-rated manager on this planet i don't rate him at-all. Spent the best part of £100m and can't get his side above 2 "cirisis clubs" in Arsenal and Chelsea. Suarez aside his transfer deals have been terrible. With Gerrard out Raul Meireles would have been a vital player for them this season bar Gerrard was their best player by a country mile but Kenny drops him to accomodate Henderson and Adam Dalglish is slowly destroying Liverpool beyond repair and the funny thing is their fans don't even realise it He fucked Newcastle up aswell taking a title challenging side and finishing 13th. He might have a good record against us ill give him that but he can't be deemed a great manager on that alone. End of the day while Kenny is at Liverpool more shite English players will be coming in and Liverpool will be firther in the poo so as far as im concerned in Kenny i trust.

Believe it or not one off my best mates is a Wigan fan.

That's like us saying if we had the penalties we should have at Stoke and QPR we would have won both games their. United's 2 goals given for offside and Rami and Torres scoring their sitters we win 3-1 at OT and not United. Malouda not making that horrendus pass against Arsenal we draw 3-3. Reina not making that fantastic save against Luiz we beat Liverpool 2-1. All those things went our way we would be sitting very pretty with only 2 points lost all season.

Meireles is on 4 yellows also. Speaking of Raul you can only laugh at Kenny for selling him to accomodate Henderson and Adam

Just thinking about this i could actually picture AVB walking down the tunnel at The Bridge with Lipton and co there and him just slapping them 1 by 1

Its Wigan so it could litrally be 1-1 or 6-0

Aslong as it's not Liverpool offering £20m id say yes we should go for it. Just imagine if he goes back to Liverpool (assuming he doesn't score again now) and scores a quick 20 minute hat trick in his first game back (equalling his overall PL tally for Chelsea) Id say loan him to spain in January (even pay half his wages if we have to) hope he picks up form and up's his price tag.

Hope not ive just brought his shirt

Mata's run then meg on Kompany Nothing the guy does suprises me any more.

Chelsea players and staff were left stunned when manager Andre Villas Boas was arrested for assault in the Chelsea dressing room 15 minutes after the final whistle went against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge. No one so far knows what is going on but it is believed numerous key figures in the media including chief football Mirror writer Martin Lipton accused him of slapping them in the face so hard they were all in tears.

I would rather have played a makeshift CB and Ivan at right back than that tired and failed back four fucking combo.

I have to agree with HD123 here. While i don't think Cole has been superbad compared to recent season's he aint been great, left back for years was safe as houses with Cole playing infact why did Fergie and Pep/Ryjard always move Ronaldo and Messi to the other side? because of Cole. But would the Cole of 2 years ago have got slautered by Nani and Glen Johnson?

The SECOND he makes a mistake all this will be forgotten and their will be calls to play him further up the field

Right now we are slowly building a great team under AVB, in a couple of years we will be on the verge of completing the jigsaw while Barca will be slowly declining (IMHO they peaked last season) it won't make sense for him to go back then. He will stay until at the very least he has a premierleague and FA Cup winners medal round his neck. If he does decide to go a few years down the line we should then demand £30-40m + Barca's best upcoming DM.

He will have not so good games its natural, but he is still a awesome keeper. Personally he should have 2 years at Leti then one year at a decent English club (Villa if Given retires?) then he will be fully ready to challenge Cech.