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Both Nedved and Marotta confirming that Vidal is going nowhere. Btw, Vidal said this a couple of days ago: "Manchester? No, no!"

Poor you! I was afraid you had taken up arms and joined Hamas!

Speaking of the difference between Zionism and Judiasm, just a few thousand Jews and Rabbis in New York protesting against the terror of Israel:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2237p2_morinho-press-conference-22nd-july-2014-hd_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22346v_training-ground-report-thursday-24-july_sport

Tom! Where have you been this past week? I've missed you

Yeah, Jose is not too big on rotation. Some players will face this season the same issues that Essien and KDB faced last season. That's why I don't want us to hold on to both Romeu and MVG, because they certainly won't get many games.

Yeah, all the squads are published on the EPL website including the players status and all the U21 players as well.

I would have bet on Romue to be the one on his way out, but he seems to be doing very well in preseason and Marco is still just back from a long term injury. It'll probably still be Romeu, though.

For those who want to check the FA rules: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RULESSEASON 2013/14Definition 2.2:"the age group into which each Academy Player shall be placed shall be determined by his age on 31 August in the year in question, save in the case of players in the Under 21 age group, who must be under the age of 21 as at 1 January in the year in which the Season concerned commences (ie for Season 2013/14 born on or after 1 January 1992)." http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/other/youth-development-rules-2013-2014.pdf Yeah, Marco is definitely not U21.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? He turned 21 in December 2013, how was he "under 21" in Jan 2014?!

No, I'm pretty sure that players for next season are counted as U21 if they are born after January 1993. That has always been the case for the U21s as far as I know. For example for the 12-13 season it was players who are born after Jan 1991: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2012-13/sep/premier-league-squad-lists-201213.html Here's another source: "Clubs will be able to supplement their squads with unlimited additional players under the age of 21 on 1st January in the year in which the season commences." http://www.epfl-europeanleagues.com/quota_for_Premier_League.htm

Still much better than what Costa said: "He(Jose) can use me anyway he wants"!

Marco is not U21. He's born in December. Had he been born in Jan, he would have still been counted as U21.

Whatever you say, father

Maybe, but I still think, just from looking at the situation logically, that Torres and one of MVG, Romeu and Mikel are much more likely to be the ones leaving.

Yes, father... (Sorry, you just sounded a lot like someone preaching religion )

Didn't Jose say both are staying yesterday? I think it will be one of Torres and Lukaku, and one of MVG and Romeu loaned out or Mikel sold.

Honestly it makes no sense to have both Lukaku and Torres in the team, and even less sense to have strikers as you said. I hope it's Torres but fear it's Lukaku who'll leave.

So, his return is as good as confirmed. If I'm not mistake, that means that we now have to let at least two players go to comply with the squads rules for the PL.

I feel that point 1) kinda contradicts with point 2)

Can I blame the west for arming and funding them and giving the power to enable them to terrorize those people in Syria and Iraq?

No I was just complying with your request I think Cesc got the most hype simply because we get to rub it in Arsenal's face. But among the three signings, for me, Costa is no doubt the most important. Yes, Luis and Cesc will offer a lot but we just weren't as desperate for them as we were for a striker.

That desperate for a psychological victory? Those are the 150 remaining male civilians in the Khaza'a area. After the IOF entered the area, they were made to strip and half of them were detained. First of all, Hamas never have that many fighters in one area. They operate in groups of 5-6 or 10 at most. Then, why in the world would a Hamas fighter surrender? They DREAM of dying fighting because they think they will go to heaven and get 72 virgins if they do. Seriously, how can you believe that 150 armed fighters decided to just give up their weapons, and that you let over half of them go!

What does ISIS have to do with Iraq? You SERIOUSLY need to look at the background of the things you are saying. It started in Libya when the 'revolution' against Gaddafi was catching speed. The US, along with the Gulf countries decided to arm and fund some extremists groups to take the tyrant down. The fighters were mostly from the north of Africa. It worked and they won and gained considerable power. So the same countries decided to use the same tactic in Syria. In came the fighters from north Africa and they had used their power to get more fighters from Asian countries like Chichani, Afganistan and even the KSA. The US and the gulf countries continued arming and funding them even after the whole Ben Gazi debacle (same group, btw). They called themselves "Jabhat Al Nosra". This continued until a part of Jabhat Al Nosra refused to play by the US rules anymore. They took advantage of a political problem between KSA and Qatar and started ISIS. The KSA and US are still funding Jabhat Al Nosra and Qatar are still funding ISIS. The more racdial ISIS fought both the Syrian army and the other militias fighting it. They won control over a lot of areas because they seem to have more numbers than the other groups. They kept on winning until Hezboullah and some Iraqi militias jumped to save Al Asad. They lost a few important battles in Syria so they decided to take advantage of Al Maliki not sharing the power with the Sunnis in Iraq and implemented a typical "withdrawing to the front" tactic into Iraq after convincing some of the most power tribe leaders there to aid them. They took control over most of the north or Iraq and are terrorizing the minorities and trying to implement their crazy views of Islam. Yes, they wouldn't have been able to occupy north Iraq if Saddam was never overthrown, but other than that, they have very little to do with Iraq.

You're not really getting what I'm saying. Hamas are bad, but they are very new to the struggle. Irrelevant of Hamas's existence or anything they fire at Israel, the Palestinians aren't allowed to exists since the inception of Israel and they are headed to being wiped off the map. They were slaughtered long before Hamas and they will continue to be slaughtered even if Hamas disappears into thin air. You can't possibly compare them to Germany and Japan. No one wanted to erase Japan and Germany off the map.