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Had to laugh at the jacket Sullivan was wearing for the takeover Don't see how they can hope to spend enough to take them to Champions League football with all that debt and no sign of any real money coming in from anywhere? Too seems to rest on taking over the olympic Stadium which doesn't look very likely.

Currently reading a book called "The Long Walk" by Richard Bachman (Stephen King's pen name for a few books) Very interesting book about a endurance contest to see who can walk the longest out of 100 young men, drop below a certain speed 3 times and they kill you.

No-one will be going anywhere in January that is for sure, maybe a move come the summer but not now..

No good asking a bloody Newcastle player what it is like living England, not exactly going to get a good picture is he? Would be good to sign a young attacking midfielder, although with Kakuta we probably have that covered.

Should be a good game, i would expect Carlo to field a strong team to get the win in the bag, probably Sturridge to start which would be fair. Although i would of course like to see Matic, Borini and Kakuta get a game too. Matic in particular has done very well and follwoing a decent influential reserves outing could well have earned a possible start.

Arsenal have only managed to get where there are because United are not as strong as they were and we had a horrible December!! The fact that Liverpool have had an awful season and still close to 4th spot shows just how the level of consistancy has been this season through the league. Having said that i can't see Arsenal picking up too many points from their next games, Liverpool have everything to fight for, United want to keep in the race and us at the Bridge you will fancy us to beat them of course.

Well at least they have the sense to return him after breaking him.....

Seriously bad news!!! I wonder if this may promt us to dip into the transfer market earlier than we would have liked to?

Well Anelka has played with Drogs in the Christmas tree formation, Anelka seems to really like the free role behind Drogba too, so i don't see it as a problem. Yes agree, it is a nice formation and works well because we don't have any out and out wingers anyway. Malouda, J.Cole and Kalou are all converted to wingers.

Always good to hear reports like this, having a close group is very important. And Ancelotti seems to be able to have the right blend with the players, the perfect blend between boss and friend. Lets hope it continues for a long long time.

Technically it wasn't a 4-3-3. It was a 4-3-2-1 we are led to believe. The difference being the 2 behind the forwards are not out and out wingers and will move around more over the pitch. I take your point though that it certainly has seemed more effective in recent games, but the diamond was equally effective at the start of the season. It is hard, was December just a bad patch we needed to get out of or did we NEED to tweak our formation to get out of it? The most important thing is that we have both available (also the 4-3-3 if ever needed) which means we can mix it up to win a game. I agree Carlo is a clever man, tactically he is usually spot on and i have no concerns about how he is taking us forward. The question with him is, is how he is going to build his own team over the next few seasons with a lot of our top players getting older.

Great to see Frank pick this up, and fully deserved. Frank gets a lot of credit but not as much as he deserves.

Actually just got into these, listened to the last 2 and enjoyed them, will download the latest one tonight. Heard TalkChelsea get a mention at the end which was nice, does anyone have any involvement from here?

It is a very tough question actually. I think i actually prefer the 2004 team. Who would win up against each other. Well with Robben and Duff on the wings and Maka, Lamps and Eidur in midfield i think the 2004 team may well come out on top. I think i prefer the 4-3-3 especially with Wingers like Robben and duff. The question is, where would you replace in the 2004 team with a 2010 player? Definately Ash at left back, probably Bosingwa at right back - The only other would be Essien for Eidur. Although they are probably pretty even in most respects because the other way around i would only replace Maka for Mikel, Robben for Malouda and Duff in for Anelka - but that is debateable Lol, gone around in circles. I think they are pretty even just with different styles.

Yeah i really hope he can be as good as Darren Bent lol Sturridge has a lot of ability to be a top striker. Time will tell and he will need to take his chances.

Thats a bit harsh, especially considering you would give it to either Borini or Kakuta who have done less here.

Fair outcome as it was always bound to be. A fair price for current ability and future fees depending on his progress. Even the end will be well worth it in the end i am sure....

It is not easy for a player like Deco who doesn't deal too well with the physical side of things, and even harder when you are at his age. Can't teach an old dog new tricks and all that

It won't bother JT too much i am sure. But it is funny how whenever we are top of the league and doing well the stories come out of the woodwork to try and sestabalise us.

Hopefully there will not be any risk of this game getting called off because we could really do with getting back into the swing of things. Would like to see us stick with the wingers and i like the idea of Sturridge playing the left side of the front 3.

Deco has been very hit and miss, but if we can get him back in some sort of form he will be very useful to us.

He shouldn't have to make these statements!! How many of the papers that printed the twisted version will print this statement? My guess would be none, so as far as most people are concerned Terry still made those comments.....

Agree, it terms of value for money Cech was a fantastic buy.

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Leading by example doesn't come into it in these circumstances im afraid. These are only footballers, if their is any real threat to their safety then they should come back. Should it really take a player to be killed to do something? These are not soliders, the terrorists winning or not shouldn't come into it, the players saftey should be the only concern.