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Miraculously, it ended in a 2-2 draw! Your U21 team is not very good. They conceded a goal from a striker who is a free agent, he can't even find a team in Lebanon!

I really doubt that. Didn't we just this year start the new contract with Samsung that we signed last year or the year before?

Not at all, I can't stop laughing either! But not very good news for us (Chelsea). Wallace is getting absolutely battered defensively by Hasan f***ing Maatouk! Can't even begin to explain how bad that is...

Lebanese senior NT playing friendly against Brasil U21. Already 1-0 down and Brasil have missed a couple of absolute sitters, and it's only the third minute of the match!

Mate, you can change it to whatever the heck you want from your profile. Believe it or not, "Pink Vader" is not a rank

Don't think so. I think regardless he will most likely be leaving next summer, the new contract will most likely only affect the price tag.

He has two years left now, but he's expected to sign a renewal before Jan.

So......Swansea...reckon they'll win the league?

What a complete non-story!

Link? Because that sounds very made-up.

What?

Why? Why would you even say that? I swear, it's like the Grinch is your happy optimistic brother!

Luke is 19. He was just 7 when Adams retired from football and just 5 when he retired from England. Yeah, Adams has been retired for over 12 years. Let that sink in...

This made me LOL: "I knew I had to retire from the national team when I found out that Luke Shaw had not heard of Tony Adams" http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/frank-lampard-reveals-luke-shaws-unfamiliarity-with-who-tony-adams-was-helped-him-decide-it-was-time-to-retire-from-england-duty-9716155.html Now even I feel old!

Welcome I think Fabregas will always be the type of player that is adored by the fans of the team he is playing for and hated by everyone else. He just has that charisma and leadership about him like JT. I am sure that if he sticks around he's bound to become a fan favorite. Speaking of which, hope you stick around and keep on posting

^^ I'd like to elaborate on the above before the 'usual suspects' come up with their conspiracy theories. This is the exact text I sent to him explaining the ban:

Name: The only place to be Reason: Aggressive/provocative behaviour Punishment: Content moderated permanentlyAbility to create content removed permanently.Suspended permanently Also move to Banned

When was the last time you got "it"? :eyebrows:

He should not have been allowed to go with the NT after he had an injury last week. He should have used the break to rest. Hopefully this is just a precaution.

This is the first of 6 matches in 15 days if I'm not mistaken. Practically everyone in the squad will get a game.

It's several issues. It's the academies themselves that are mostly not on the same level as those in Spain or Germany or even France and Netherlands. Not talking about the facilities, but more the coaching methods. Then you have the whole youth system that doesn't suite teams in the EPL and never prepares the players for the jump into such a league. Then you have the extremely competitive nature of the league and the billions going into it. Even if you're fighting to prevent relegation, you can barely afford to play youngsters because the team's around you will have excellent players.

Don't think it works that way, mate If you think he's limited, then it's up to you to say in what area he is limited. You can't expect @The Skipper to cover every single area of his game!

This thread explodes in 3,2.... Great finish :blue scalf:

I'm curious, in what areas do you think Chalobah is better than MVG? On any account, in the current formation we are playing, they play different positions. Chalobah would be Matic's backup while Marco would be Oscar's/Ramires'. Marco isn't hurting Chalobah's chances. Having bad loans to Forrest and (to a lesser extent) Boro is what hurt Chalobah's chances.

Chelsea new young center back, Kurt Zouma, expressed today in an interview with French paper, L'Equipe, his desire to do at Chelsea what his countryman, Rafael Varane, managed at Real Madrid. Varane made the breakthrough in Madrid under current Chelsea manger, Jose Mourinho, despite having some top class players ahead of him, and Kurt 'Happy' Zouma is hoping the same would happen to him: “Jose Mourinho told me: ‘Rafael Varane, I made him start against Manchester City. You have to be ready to play at any moment'." Said Zouma. “Now there are senior players, stars in my position, and they are doing a great job. I take my time. I am learning besides those defenders. I know my time will come. " Varane is now a regular with France who will be hosting the 2016 Euros, and that seems to be one of the main career objectives of Zouma's. “I am using Varane and (Eliaquim) Mangala as role models. Nowadays they are in the French team and I hope to join them. Euro 2016 is an objective I set to myself. Even if it will be very difficult to get a position, the door is not so far away.” The young Frenchman also discussed in the interview the great spirit inside the Chelsea dressing, revealing that he is often at the end of his teammates jokes because of his immense size: “Diego Costa is very, very crazy. Ivanovic makes a lot of jokes too. Afterwards the group laugh a little about my age because, well, I'm a big man for 19-years-old. Even the coach when we were going for the blood test jokingly said, 'Here, now we'll see if you lied about your age'. But really they're cool, easy.” Hopefully, Kurt gets the chance he deserves this season to prove his worth to the Portuguese manager. Click here to view the article