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I swear to god I'm watching a different game to half the people on here.

This is exactly how I feel. What do people really expect? It's pre-season friendly for a start, so it's never going to be a display of the best football we are capable of. You have a squad which isn't really put together with much thought, other than to give everybody 45 minutes. The whole team is swapped at half-time, and we have players missing, in our Brazilians and Cech for example. I personally thought we we looked like a team who were trying to develop a better passing game, but one that just hasn't clicked yet. It will need time. The pace was actually pretty good. And no, not every pass and run came off, but again, we weren't playing with a finely tuned squad, just a mixture of everybody available. And perhaps I'm just delusional, but I didn't think Bosingwa looked to bad yesterday.

On fist viewing the collar kills it for me, a round neck and I would be absolutely loving it. Hate kits with collars to be honest. That said, my opinion is subject to change, I didn't like the away when I first saw it and now I think it's grand. Slightly off topic, but this is a tidy effort from Adidas.

It's good to have him on board.

I think he has custom basketball Nike's with the Barca crest on them. Edit:

I've just finished reading a book called "Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained / Soccernomics". If that book taught me anything, it's that stats can be cherry picked and unreliable. Numbers are good, but they don't paint the whole picture. Kalou, whilst a good player and somebody who can score goals, also misses sitters that my granny could score. He can be incredibly frustrating to watch and at times acts like a spoilt brat. If he stays, good. But I won't shed a tear if he goes either.

I don't get why people worry about Torres. It's not as if the entire team was playing brilliantly and he was a week link. Torres was unfortunate to come in to the team during a heavy slump, with a seemingly uninspired coach. Then we can throw the fact we lacked the quality a player like him needs to thrive and getting to know new team mates in to the mix, and it's hardly surprising he wasn't firing on all cylinders. Looking at his performances objectively, he really didn't play all that bad. Sure he lacked goals, but he was a decent team player. The only reason he looks particularly bad is because of all the press surrounding him. I think he'll be back and scoring this season.

Full interview for those who haven't seen it.

So what do we think the chances are of this getting sorted and officially confirmed today?

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It would be nice to get this sorted so that all the speculation can get put to bed.

Do you want this to say Fuck Me I'm Dela or F**k Me I'm Dela? I'll give it a go if you let me know which it is you want.

Knocked this up for a guy on another forum. I think it looks far better without the needless stripes and the Adidas logo off centre. Though I like our away I think it would of looked better plain black rather than having blue squares.

Obviously I have no idea how Luiz would fair as a RB because he is untried. But he does like to get up the pitch, we've seen him want to attack, and he seems keen. No doubt a proven RB would be preferable, but maybe it would be worth trying him. When Ivanovic plays there he brings nothing to the role in my opinion. If David Luiz worked in such a role I'd like to see, Luiz --- Alex --- Terry --- Cole I know it's speculation and jaw flapping on my part, but it's just food for thought. I think Ivan is great, but I'd rather have Alex and JT as preference.

Fair enough, lets put it down to misunderstanding. I was just thinking this today. I wonder how he'd be in a RB position.

Sh0n3x, I'm not quite sure what you don't understand here mate. Let me break it down... Me: Bah! Hope not. Can't see it happening though. You: Why. To answer the 1st bit of "Bah! Hope not" - I rate him, me personally. Nothing more. To answer the 2nd bit of "Can't see it happening though" - because I think the club will see him as a good option. You've just highlighted certain bits of text and left other bits out which takes what I said out of context.

I'm not saying it wont happen because I rate him. I'm saying I don't want it to. The reason I don't think it will happen is because I think the club will see him as too much of an asset to get rid of. As I said, he's a great option to have and I see no reason why we should ship him out. In my opinion, for what it's worth (not much) and you're not going to like this... I think he's a better player than Ivan centrally. And if Ivan doesn't play in the centre, he plays RB where I think he's rubbish to be honest. I'd see David Luiz and Alex as my main options. I concur (the bolded bit anyway).

Well mainly because I rate him, but also because all we've done this transfer window is get rid of people. He's always a good option to have .

Bah! Hope not. Can't see it happening though.

This Neymar talk is snooze worthy, the sooner it ends the better. I'm sick hearing about it.

New training gear looks well.

Must confess, when I saw the leaked picture I thought it looked grim. I think it looks pretty good now.

Think I'd rather have the leaked shirt than last years orange. Can't say I thought it was great either.

This looks the part.