Tomo

We managed to break scoring records in 2010 with Essien not playing for the 2nd half (when we scored the most goals), ok he is a great player but we have proved we can do it without him.

Looks like Jim is the winner, by a landslide really, well done Jim mate fully deserved

Liverpool wont be a threat to the title, top 4 maybe but title? give over. We here the same shit every summer, Liverpool end the season well after they blow the title in the first half of the season, all summer its "next year will be our year" then they start off bad again fall out the title race by October have a strong ending and all of a sudden the year after's there year. very repetitive and awfully boring.

Liverpool are facing a mass over crowding issue in their schools up and down the town. Over 20,000 of people in the last 7 days (all believed to be Liverpool fans) have applied for jobs as history teachers but there's only 4 position's in that subject currently vacant. All of them however have very strong references from people and employers in West London and Manchester about their ability to live in the past but at least 19,996 of them are either going to be dis-appointed, settle for another subject where they will have to stop talking about the 80's for 6 hours or will have to look elsewhere where there ain't as many applicants. More applications are expected to come day after day and 80% of the kids in Mersey side schools want to become history teachers, 10% dont like football and the other 10% support Everton. Its good having options but this could become a major problem in years to come.

Chalobah will be massive i think, i may be alone but with the right coaching i reckon B.Clifford, McEachran and Chalabah could be our Busquets, Iniesta and Xavi, none of them properly broke into Barca till they were 20, we just need to have some fucking patience and faith and we could be pissing all over midfield's with these 3.

Dont get me wrong im not saying i don't want us to have English players in the future, but if it came down to a choice Chelsea winning things with few English player or us finishing 4th-6th and winning the odd FA Cup with the majority of the squad English there is only one option ill go for. England national team is a farce at this minute, im not gunna lie Chelsea are the team that choose me and the only team i have consistently had maximun passion for all my life, i grew up supporting England because i thought i should and i was as passionate as any-one in my early years and early teens, but Mclown and Cappello are slowly seeping out the passion and i aint the only person that has said that. I miss England under Sven big time atleast we competed with the best then and narrowly lost, not the humiliations we get these days, i said Capello was the wrong man for the job from the start and got laughed at, no-one's laughing now. Cappello has also thrown the captiancy around from pillar to post its taken the nostalgia of being England captain away. The fact is in abroad its all about development, results don't start to matter until they break into the first team but in this country its win at all cost's from the age of 5, now you would think at the very worse this win at all cost's from the age of 5 would give near enough every English players a strong winning mentality but it don't, very few English players have that killer instinct the likes of Brazil, Argentina, France and now Spain have to win trophies which means there has to be something drastically wrong underneath. The state of England football is pathetic when we go to major tournaments there should be 80-100 genuine candidates for a squad place instead it virtually picks itself, outside our first XL can you honestly say England's bench are good enough to even get into the B squad of top european country's let alone the first squad's? its embarrassing and something needs to change because the England National team are in decline and sinking FAST. That aint Chelsea or any clubs fault, its poor coaching by youth team coaches IMHO.

Chelsea comes first and if we produce players that make the grade for England then great, but im not thrilled at the prospect of working our butt off to help a team that 90% of the fans are pathetic jeerers of their own players. I support England in any other sport but slowly but surely im losing any care for the football national team its becoming more and more of a chore since Sven left and i honestly hope they get turned over in Sofia.

Can you loan players to and from other teams? On another note i also reckon everybody should start doing the xpert pools (only me and sometimes LDN does that) and also commenting on their match in the match report (only me and TX seem to do that these days), will make things much better.

Im all for signing home grown players if there good enough but the harsh reality is most of them aren't. Carroll is about as over-rated as they come, 6 good months at Newcastle and he's suddenly a £35m player? give it a break. Rohan Ricketts had a similar purple patch the season Bolton came up to the PL, ironically scored the same number of goals and the winner away to Arsenal, so why didn't Liverpool pay £35m for him. If we get Neymar for that or less i will laugh so hard as Liverpool. While were on Liverpool there no angels as far as English players is concerned, they had to sign Paul Konchesky and Brad Jones just to fill their homegrown quota last summer. Would i take Jordan Henderson over whats on offer in europe? would i take Carroll over Neymar or Lukaku? Is Joe Hart as good as Cassilas, Cech and Buffon? the answer to all of them are a resounding no. If they are good enough i will happily see them wearing blue but tbh im not up for dropping a few league places just to get a better reputation in England.

Lukaku has to come, not only do we need a new Drogba soon enough, we need a new Arsenal destroyer (if Lalkovic dont make it )

Massive and relieving win against Arton FC, even more so considering i got it wrong against Sinised JK.

Thought you couldn't get sacked in a private league? He was only on a few days ago, im worried now if all it takes is a bad run of form

why?

which one's that? Ive got a team its just out of curiosity

Basically the order you put them in is the order i would prefer.

thoughts?

With Ron Gourlay in sole charge expect Benitez appointed next week with Aquallani and David N Gog arriving on long term deals.

Mancienne and Sala i was not too disappointed by considering i never thought they would make the grade, Tore on the other hand I doubt it otherwise Tore would still be here.

If Ashely Cole's injury picked up for England is as bad as some fear then maybe Hiddink (if appointed) will give him a crack early on?

No doubt he is quality but £25 million when we have our own homegrown starlet who will be better than him in Josh. Plus yes he is captain material but we have some-one in that mould who is a similar age has Chelsea in his heart and scored the winner which got us the youth cup, he's called Conor Clifford remember him?

If we let him go we deserve everything that gets thrown at us. But im sure it wont come to that.

Got enough threads there mate?

The fact that Bruma is only set to go out on loan must show the club have some sort of future planned for him, watch this space Hamburg will attempt to get Conor Clifford next

We might aswell close this thread and re open it on August 31st

I really do not understand this one. Tore was given his break internationally by Hiddink and with Guus odds on to come back for us would it not make sense for him to bide his time because Guus obviously likes the look of him and would have given him chances to prove himself, right? Hopefully we dont end up losing Lalkovic because that would really take the piss.