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I don't think he should play against Liverpool. ESPECIALLY at Anfield. He'll get extraordinary abuse every time he even touches the ball. And we know how fragile his confidence is.

Ahhhh that's fantastic then! :D Didn't know it would be on free-to-air TV there.

Thanks guys! Yeah, thought so. I'll be staying on Surfers Paradise. I've already emailed a few of the pubs there and they replied saying they won't be showing the match. Thanks for all of that. Will definitely check some of those places/activities out. Oh! It's on free-to-air TV? So would I get to watch it in the hotel room itself then? Yeah I read that about the weather :/ hope it doesn't rain too much especially since all activities require us to be outdoors.

I wouldn't mind keeping him for one more year, since we need to get quite a lot of players in during this summer window, so it wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. But if some team offers 7+ million, need to definitely take it.

Have a great time all of you All the best getting tickets

Yep that's exactly what he was doing

I've checked that site out a few times and it's bonkers!!! Not very accurate at all I don't think he's that well known though. I mean obviously they'll know who he is but I doubt there'll be that much revenue made from kit sales etc. Would Lyon be interested? Perhaps we could get 10-15m from a French club. Seriously though he's had 3 awful injuries, he's already in his "prime" and is an average, probably mid-table PL standard player at the moment. I think he's lost a lot of passion for the game as well. Can't blame him. It's such a shame. If not for the injuries he could/would have been the best in the world for that position. He needs to go imo. Too high wages, too "big" a name to keep around when the return we get is not good enough.

Rated at 35m? LOL are you even serious. No way would we get more than 10m for him.

Don't know about that. QPR were godawful yesterday yet he was still really poor and lost out many times. Hes probably on 80-90k wages and I think we could get about 5m at least for him if we sell him to a French club. He's already 29 if I remember correctly. Honestly cant afford to keep a past-it Essien earning 90k a week at this club for a long time. If its just for next season then I wouldn't mind though.

I take it you mean Carlo's first season and not the second

Hmm, I guess. Really not looking forward to seeing both Kalou & Malouda play though

Perhaps Torres instead of Kalou? Do you think he can be trusted with doing the tracking back? He's certainly more competent than Kalou going forward (but then again, who isn't?)

Personally I'd rather play Malouda than Essien. Don't want to see Essien anywhere near the starting XI. He's absolutely finished. Would be a complete disaster to play him.

I know we have plenty of Australian members here so I thought I'd ask for some advice. I'll be heading to Australia for a short holiday in a couple of weeks. Will be in Gold Coast for about 6/7 days and Brisbane for 1/2 days. I'll be in Gold Coast for the Champions League final so can anyone recommend a pub or something where I can watch the match? It'll be at around 5am there so most pubs probably won't even be open (?). Is there a special football pub that anyone knows about? I'm sure there'll be plenty of places in the bigger cities like Brisbane, Perth etc that will show the match but really not sure about Gold Coast... Apart from football.... Basically we're going to visit Dreamworld & Seaworld (and check out Movie World if we have the time) and also visit some of the wildlife parks (Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary etc). I'm also interested in doing some adventure stuff like jet skiing, sky diving etc. Any recommendations/tips? I've already done some research and found companies who do those adventure things but would be great to get some direct recommendations if possible. Thanks!

Sung today at the Bridge: "Song for Ramires, we need a song for Ramires"

He's English! What do you expect the media will hype anyone up as long as they're English.

Yeah would be fabulous if Blackburn and QPR go down. Pathetic clubs.

Hahaha no worries

He's not done well for Spain though. I don't think he suits them at all. He prefers fast, counter attacking style balls like his 1st and 3rd goals today

Ah okay. But they have to officially give the assist to a player of the same team right? What's usually done for such situations? Or is there simply no 'assist'?

Ahh okay! Who made the pass over the top for Torres's second?

Thanks. Excellent, so another 3 assists for Juan if I'm not wrong He's playing well tho! Nothing to moan about. Still unhappy with his behavior earlier n the season.

Did he take the corner for JT's goal? Or was that Mata?

I think he meant it in reference to the CL final

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!