Pizy

Wayne nursing that hammy on the links, eh? Nice.

Yep. Doesn't look like this is going down imminently and we'll have to hope United will eventually relent. Just hope that as the deadline gets closer, Jose and the board are confident that if it appears its a no-go, a fall-back like Suarez can be had. Would hate to have to wait until January with fucking Torres leading the line. Still not convinced that Rooney is our only target. Call me a muppet but I'm still holding out hope for a CM! De Rossi, we love you!

Yeah, I fear so as well.Hope Mata or Luiz score the winner against those cunts and kisses the badge right in front of Moyes and then we buy Rooney the next day.

Touche, touché.

Funny to see the enormous jobs that all of our former bosses have. Madrid Brazil Spuds Barca potentially

I don't know whether to be encouraged or discouraged about Rooney's silence. On one hand, him not immediately squashing a move away on his official site or twitter makes me think he definitely wants out, but on the other hand, he could be keeping quiet and letting the speculation and possibility of him wanting to go to a title rival rampant as a ploy to force them to give him a new deal. Wish he'd just put in a transfer request to speed things up. Really don't want to wait until deadline day where he'll have no preseason to aclimate and settle with his new teammates and manager. Plus he'd miss the United match.

To be honest, I'm not sure Wayne can spell "anymore."

Please let Higuain go to Napoli. PLEASE! He goes there, funds Madrid's bid to buy Suarez, we eventually get Rooney, and Arsenal gets FUCKED in another transfer window!

Pics of the kit today please?

Thought Chalobah was a DM not a CB?

Don't suppose anyone can stream this to YouTube? Hate not being able to watch games as I'm on an iPad and the preseason matches aren't televised until the American part of the tour.

For perfect evidence that Rooney isn't shit, head on over to Redcafe and have a gander at their Rooney threads. They're all shitting themselves saying that they'd be gifting us the title if he's sold here.

He's shit. Wouldn't take him for 20m. He's like a bad Theo Walcott. Über frustrating player.

At this point I don't even give a shit what we pay for him. I would do just about anything to see Rooney score the winner in a blue shirt against United in that second match. If Jose wants him as badly as it seems he does, I wish we'd stop pissing around with bids we know will be rejected. Rooney is a player who'll need a good preseason to get I'm ready. If we're gonna buy him it needs to be soon so he can get started with the team. It's already gonna be hard enough with all of the attention he'd get.

Still think we can finish above United, especially if we take Rooney from them but even without him, but I agree with Fernando a few posts above. City are stacked in the exact two areas we're lacking so I think they'll win the league this year. My predictions if the season were to start tomorrow: 1) City 2) Chelsea 3) United 4) Spurs

Inter are SHIT now. No way he goes back there.

People mentioning a Ramires/MvG partnership really think that's disciplined enough defensively to work against top sides? Both of them are more offensive minded players who want to get forward a lot. De Rossi would be the perfect player to sit back and allow one of Ramires/Lamps/MvG to go forward more. The only player we really have who can do that now is Mikel, but he's so slow and immobile and we've seen how that kills us against the likes of City and other sides who will have a lot of the ball against us.

Just seen a quote stating definitively that we won't buy anyone in midfield. Will we see the dreaded Mikel/Lamps partnership again? Who the hell are we gonna line up in midfield to handle Fernandinho/Yaya?

Don't think my little heart can take seeing a Chelsea midfield getting overrun by bottom half sides for another season. Can't imagine us starting the season without adding someone there. Unless Jose feels MvG is ready immediately or that Essien is back to his best.

You can just tell by the way this guy tweets that he's an asshole. If you didn't know better you'd guess it was some teenager.

Checked this guys twitter and he seems like the ultimate ass wipe, so I'm not really keen to believe a word of what he says.

A certain big name striker, huh? Wonder what would be more exciting news, Rooney on his way in or La Niña in his way out?

Please don't tell me we're on about Hazard's ass again?

If Wilshere stayed healthy and when on form, he's world class. If he'd have stayed fit for the past few seasons we'd probably be hearing near Bale type money for him since he's English and all.If I had to make a wild guess I'd say he's probably worth £30m right now.

That's the type of player they should be bringing in. Think they'll try, but Levy won't sell to them.