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Especially as January is a very very tough time to sign players. Would it really be a big deal to bring him over on a free and see if he can work with us?

Well Jose said that Sheva and Ballack were NOT forced on him, and in reality which manager in the world at that time would not have taken them? Again i am sure that all owners and board memebers recommend players all of the time also. I really wouldn't read to much into these stupid stories as they have no basis in fact at all. If we sign any players i am sure it will be a case of everyone sitting down and working out what type of players we need and then what players fit that bill, and then are they good enough.

Oh for christs sake!! As if Frank is the only player to score deflected shots...... Utter twats

ONLY a Liverpoo player and especially ONLY against Chelsea would you get a player who did a tackle like that lanky f**ker did and all of a sudden become the hard done by party, you couldn't show anywhere leading up to that foul where Mikel did anything wrong.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, what a load of s**t, what manager in the world doesn't have to get their transfers agreed by the owner or the board first....

Shocking that the press would make up more stuff isn't it!!! Probably just rehased their old stories which were lies at the time they printed them as well.

It is a fantastic achievment for Frank to reach and i am sure he will do it very very soon. Like Ollie said Frank won't get the same treatment Giggs got for his but Franks is far better. For a midfielder to score so many goals is just incredible.

Lol, what an absolute wonker that lanky streak of piss is!!!! First he says there is no excuses for his tackle and then goes on to list countless excuses Mikel did nothing wrong. And for the fat spanish waiter to excuse Crouch's foul is a discrace.

His shooting was better last night than it had been recently, he has had a couple of stinkers recently. But the way he was running at their defence second half was incredible. I can't see Sheva's injury being too much of a problem. I remember us playing Blackburn last season in the cup with a forward 3 of Kalou, SWP and J.Cole... We could do the same if our strikers are all out.

Thought Kalou was excellant last night..... Pizarro had the sniffles, off with a note from his mummy aparently.

It is very important that we have wingers who run at players, and why Sinclair should get more games as it will only improve him, young players need time to become the great players they can be - Ronaldo at Man you was very hit and miss for a few seasons but he got regular games to improve. Sinclair did some fantastic things last night that you just couldn't beleive he got through. Saw on SSN this morning someone from the press discussing the papers and he couldn't believe Rafa was defending Crouch, can't understand what he was thinking, Mikel did nothing could have been a real leg breaker had he connected properly. And as for Liverpools second string? Theres was no more second string than ours, they had 1 young player and so did we, the rest were all first team players.

I don't know, i think most people would agree, even if we qualified or not that there is a problem with the set up of English football. Young players are not allowed to enjoy football and are taught to win at all costs which does not encourage the breeding of creative and skillful players. If we had qualified it would just have given the FA an excuse to put off making the changes that are needed to sort out the mess we have at the moment.

Lol, yep Essien had a good game, though to be fair to him he did have 2 shots go very very close which is pretty good for him really. I agree on Kalou, much better on the left, and Sinclair looked more comfortable on the right too.

Thats the side of Kalou we need to be seeing more of, he had a very good game last night overall and was unlucky not to score.

Fantastic result, and even more so because we was by far the better team than them. Was good to see Sinclair get a run out, he brings something completely different to the wings in that he just runs at people which scares the life out of defenders and creates chances, obviously it didn't come off everytime but he is a great option for us. Mikel was just awesome last night and my man of the match, the boy is just so good and getting better every game. Kalou was fantastic in the second half once he decided to have a real go at their defence and in one run took on half their team, and got through. Good to see Sheva scoring because he had a pretty decent game overall.

Well there is no doubt a striker will come in January. If we have to play Sahar then we will, we could do a lot worse. But it would be more likely that Kalou will play the forward role is Sheva and Pizarro were missing.

Hopefully Sheva only came off as a precaution and will be ready for the next game. Pizarro as well seems to be unwell so we are really down to the bare bones of the squad now just at the wrong time....

Lol, Mikel still looks like a very large child too......

Well he is 18 so if he does come in the January transfer window then i see no problem having him in the first team already if he is as good as they say. And at over 6ft he is not exactly a small lad...

Chelsea have won the race to sign Argentine hot-shot Franco Di Santo. The Blues have agreed a deal worth $7million (£3.4million) with his club - Chilean outfit Audax Italiano. Di Santo started his career in the youth side of Godoy Cruz de Mendoza - but he then opted to switch to Chile and he has since flourished with Audax. From 35 starts he has bagged 13 goals in less than two seasons, and has also shone for Argentina's youth sides after he opted to play for the country of his birth rather than Chile - who also wanted him. Now Chelsea have beaten a host of clubs from around Europe - to seal a deal for Di Santo - who is free to move to England as he holds an Italian passport. Indeed Chelsea are understood to have held off competition from nine rival Premier League clubs - including Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal - who all expressed an interest. "Everything is nearly agreed, there are only a few details to be resolved but there will not be any problems," Audax president Valentin Cantergiani confirmed. "We only have to agree the fee that Audax will receive if Di Santo is transferred again in the future and that's all. All the rest has been arranged. "We are exchanging the last documents." Cantergiani admitted that Chelsea have been very good to deal with. "Chelsea has been more than a year following Franco and all the negotiations have been all the time very polite. "They want to add him their squad when the transfer window opens in January. As Franco holds an Italian passport he can be at once part of their team." Source: Sky Sports

Absolutely. As a top 4 club you HAVE to win your home games against the other big 4, that goes for the Arse too, a draw would have been a fantastic result for us. We still have to play all of them at the Bridge still this season and can quite easily claw those points back. A couple of new players and our key returning to fitness and we will be in fantastic shape.

Are you saying that the players were instructed to hit high balls to SWP?? SWP was struggling to get out of Clichys pocket the whole game and should have come off earlier. Tactically had we not conceeded somewhat of a freak goal we would have contained the Arse for at least a 0 - 0 draw, until we went all out they never came close.

What is being talked about is so basic and tried and tested in most of all the other major countries. Yet the FA are dragging their asses having this meeting and that meeting and it is all their politics that is holding it back. Kids should be allowed to enjoy the game at a young age and not have the "win at all costs" mentality. The Futsal idea is a very clever one and should be used by all academies in parnership with their normal schedules. It encourages a young player to play the tight passing game that is important in developing the kinds of players we are looking for in this country. It's no rocket science to have a look at what is a success in other countries and try and impliment that here.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, i think we threatened enough and had some very good chances before Pizarro came on. Playing away from home against Arsenal it was never going to be a game of lots of chances and at every stage of the game our number of chances was greater than theirs. The more chances came once we opened the game wide open to force the issue, which we would never have done from the start because it leaves you wide open at the back, which did happen. Sheva isn't ideal as the lone striker, but i don't totally agree that you need to be a Drogba type player to play with 1 striker, it depends how you utilise your wingers and what style of play your team is using. If we want to lump it up to a striker to hold up and bring others in then you are not going to get that from a Sheva type player, but if you are going to play through the middle then it doesn't really matter as long as the player is good.

Of course it's a handicap, at that age the physical development is huge. Like Clement said, you imagine us putting Hutchinson, Bertrand and Cork in that team now, over other teams it would be a massive advantage.....