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@TorontoChelsea, did the calculations a few weeks back, but I honestly don't remember the numbers (and am too lazy to redo it ) but unless we sign English replacements, we are basically screwed.

That is much more reasonable. Although, personally, I'd have Van Persie over Falcao.

Nah, he'd probably get sacked by November.

What is likely to happen: Summer comes, Pep rejects us, we keep Rafa.

Don't shoot the messenger!

Some unreliable sources saying the deal is done. Nothing reliable yet though.

Who everyone voted for: http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond'or/playeroftheyear(men)/01/98/07/84/fboawardmenplayer2012-bycountry.pdf

I like him, but he does seem to be error prone. I would give a shout out to Ranocchia.

Thanks. I can now jump on the band wagon

Because if you're not careful, you could end up signing Downing!

The thing about social media is that someone bored makes up a ridiculous rumor like Wesley Sniejder to QPR and a couple days later the manager has to come out and deny it. Not saying we won't, but personally, I'm not getting on the band wagon until I read it from reliable source.

The thing about the transfer market is that we, as one of the biggest spending powers in it, are deliberately linked, by agents, to almost every available player to raise the price. Not saying this is the case here, but I am yet to see a single reliable source linking us to Taison. On a different note, posting videos in the transfer section should be BANNED

All those years of putting his body on the line were always going to catch up with him. The fact that it has, till now, taken 7 weeks to recover from a 2-week injury may be an indication that it already is. Besides, I think John is a very emotional guy. I am almost sure he would never play for a different club.

I don't think that article is BS. I think Ba would have had a talk with the club about his role at the club before signing. I said this when we were first linked with Ba: he might be 10 ties better, but he is not seen by the club as a threat to Torres's starting spot, imho.

He'd be 34 right? Wouldn't surprise me if he retires tbh.

Although I somewhat agree with this, I don't think anything justifies him still being here after 2 years of utter shit except the owner having a man-crush on him.

But he was not criticizing Hazard, in fact the first post was about Moses and had nothing to do with Hazard. He just said that Moses provided more than Eden in a certain area. Everyone just took it personally as if he had insulted Hazard's honor. It's ridiculous how you get attacked here when you make a point about Hazard even if that point is completely valid.

Agree that Ba should start against Stoke, but I honestly that he would. Frenando is still seen by the management as our number 1 striker, imo.

I honestly think that there should be retrospective punishment for scoring with your hand like in Italy. A 3 match ban should teach that cunt.

Weekly blog: http://blogs.grada360.com/juanmata/en/2013/01/07/nuevo-ano-nuevos-retos-nuevas-ilusiones/

This just says it all really.

Well Jt is getting old and needs someone to pass his "legacy" onto Seriously though, I've watched him a couple of times so I won't pretend I know his abilities, but my first impressions was that he was rather average. He did score the goal of the season though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIJ1gemMCk

No, the reason we switched from 4-3-3 is first to accommodate Mata who is clearly at his best centrally. The other, and main, reason is because our main wingers don't have the pace to play 4-3-3

Fully expect blondie to start on Wednseday. If he is benched 2 games in a row, half the staff would be sacked

The twitter screenshots are of course fake. Why would RVP ask Demba to follow him?