Slam Dunk

They said in the press conference that he is available to play. Ancelotti also mentioned resting some players, but with the CC game on Wednesday, i'm not too sure as to who he means.

Decent performance. Not a great fan of Zhirkov at LB, think he should definitely get a chance further up the field, had a couple of good runs in the closing stages. Malouda seemed to go missing for large parts, i'm putting it down to lack of a recent match though. Great to see 4 of our youngsters playing, Sturridge looked very composed to take his goal. Thought the refereeing was poor for the majority of the game, couple of offsides given wrongly etc.

Bloody media. He doesn't actually say he is the new Drogba, he says he models his game on his idol. Nothing wrong with aiming to emulate your idol.

I'd much rather see Sturridge or Kalou in Drogba's position, Anelka should stick to the right.

Mikel's injury is not serious. Source

^^ "I'm having a Robinho tattoo next."...

...Touch it.

Drogba should be.

Yep: http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10429~2140922,00.html

Having a medical at Wigan right now. Good luck to him.

Crazy decision to let him go, Pardew could easily be managing a team in the Prem imo.

Bruma had surgery on the 20th, so he should be back soon, although I couldn't give a date.

Looks unlikely: http://www.skysports...6348786,00.html So thats: JT - 2/3 weeks Lampard - 1/2 weeks Ivanovic - 2/6 weeks Bosingwa - 1/2 weeks?

Having both Ivan and Bos out at the same time is pretty worrying. Say Paulo has to leave the pitch, who plays RB then (Essien?). Good news is that Sturridge is back and we can (hopefully) expect to see Ramires for the first time. Edit: Just had a look on the official site, 52% say they would be disappointed with a 1-0 win...Absolutely ridiculous - 3 points is 3 points.

"Kalou has scored more goals so far than the entire Liverpool team put together" -

£13m isn't too bad imo, considering he is the captain of the Croatian national team. We paid £18m for Zhirkov to do a very similar job to what Srna would be asked to do. I think i also read he asks for the number 11 or 33 shirt...If he does come he might have to sacrifice that one.

It's actually 16 million EUROS = around £13 million.

Away/Third kits look good as well:

New CL printing is out, love the retro look:

Stoke chairman has had his say: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6335083,00.html Also read Fulham are very interested in signing him.

Thanks for that, pretty disappointing to be honest. Liked what I saw from Matic in preseason. Hopefully the deal for Delac is just a loan, he seems to be very highly rated.

Is there a link to that story mate?

The manager of the club says it, but you still believe "sources" and wikipedia over him?

So Carlo doesn't know which players are at the club, but you do?