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I did, but up until that post you had not. Anyway, even in the posts after, no one has yet named a realistic and available English talent that could be in our squad. Chamberlain could be a replacement for Salah, but he is not available at the time and when he was, were not looking for Salah-type signing. Wilshere has been pretty crap for a long while now and on any account he has never been a realistic target and would not join us. Rooney could be in our squad and we tried to get him last season but he declined and got ridiculous wages at united. Barry could be a decent option on the bench and I wanted us to go for him when he was leaving City but he was leaving City because he wasn't getting enough playing time; makes little sense for him to come here. Shaw went for a ridiculous fee and we're not Liverpool to make a signing like Lambert. Sterling is the complete opposite of what Jose looks in his attacking midfielders, he would never be a Chelsea player under him. Lallana is a decent option but we're already overloaded in his position. We're not trying to avoid signing English players, there just hasn't been English players that suite what we want. Will he? They have plenty of options to play there; he will need to play consistently at his best to keep the spot which is very hard for a 19 year old. Plus, rumors are that he's completely unfit at the moment and has put on weight in the summer; could be a while before he gets into the united XI.

No, he really hasn't. I'm not even sure how he'll get into the united team. You can't blame him for that. If you want to prove your point then name the available English talents that would be good buys for us. The burden of the proof in this argument lies on you not him.

This kind of thing is why FFP won't ever achieve it's purpose:

Constructive? He hasn't even played for us for over 10 days and yet he's all we can talk about. Half the threads in the "Current Squad" section are right now dedicated to this "constructive criticism" (I'm sorry, but comparing Oscar to Coutinho and Joe f***ing Allen, is not criticism, it's just embarrassing). So, I'd personally call it a mild obsession. But excuse my rant, it wasn't aimed at you in particular. Yes, we should definitely get back to Cesc.

Why don't we just rename all the threads into "Oscar"? Please, get back on topic or take the discussion into the appropriate thread.

Well this a Chelsea forum and he is a Chelsea paler so the odds of finding "love" for him and any of our other players are high. At least that's what you'd expect, but reading through the threads I reckon half the posts are bashing and over bashing of our players. You'd think half our members were Liverpool fans in disguise. The love and support are always good to see, for any member of the team. It's the bashing and agendas against players that I never get.

Last player to do that with us is Adrian Mutu

He was creating all of their chances in the first half. Too bad he has Mario Gomez up top.

Gatusso makes a terrible coach. But he makes an excellent mob leader

I those in particular we don't get fees for because their wages are relatively high. I remember last season we paid about half of Nathanial's wages for his loan to Forrest. Burnely are of course can pay more, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to pay the full 30k/wk for a 20 year old.

Gave you a like just for the avatar!

Well this came out of no where: My word! Best of luck to him.

David has A LOT of heart. A lot of 'Grinta'. But if the issue is positional errors in midfield, then I can't imagine he'd be the solution because that was one of his biggest weaknesses there.

Impossible. That's his middle name!

As long as it counts for the right team, I honestly don't care who the goals goes down for.

Thibaut MUST be the priority now.

Thank you, sir. I was only kidding of course about reading the article I think, judging by his post-match interview, Jose will be working a lot on with the players it in training.

Not talking about numbers, but about performances and he was brilliant last season in so many matches. You're talking about the only two Juve matches you've probably watched last season i.e. against Real, but those two mistakes are literally the only two he made all season. He was amazing in the league pulling off incredible saves at critical times very often in matches.

Buffon was BY FAR the best keeper in Italy last season. I've said this before, but it was one of the best seasons in his career. The two seasons before that he was often injured and out of form. PS: Handanovic's footwork is rather poor. And it takes him about half an hour to get down to a low shot.

Why do I feel that no one apart from Barbara actually ready the whole article? My fault, I guess, for making it so long

FML....

No Cavani?! Unacceptable!

Hey @petre.ispirescu, remember when you said that there is absolutely no way that both Pogba and Vidal stay at Juve and that I should come back on September second? Well, it's September second... And, yes, I am being that classless smug cunt and calling you up for it! :D

So...who are we signing in Jan?

Don't think Eto'o header was "perfect". I mean it was beautifully placed, but it barely had any power behind it. The step to the right (his left) that Courtois makes just as Eto'o is about to head the ball makes all the difference in the end. Had he stayed in his starting position he would have save that fairly comfortably.