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We should retire the #23 shirt! Besides, Danny won't "pass" it on to another player

What are you talking? Rocchi is the kind of player you build your team around! He definitely has the "potential" to become world class; possibly even a future Ballon D'ore winner!

A testimonial match in the summer, at the very least.

Hasn't been confirmed by the club yet.

I like to read his name as "Golazo" Higuain. Just thought, I'd share that. Carry on..

Retiring the number 8 shirt is not an option, you don't retire squad numbers. Plenty of other ways to honor Lamps' time here.

LOL wtf did I just read? I honestly cannot relate in any way to what these people are saying

Quite a few deals being done so early in the window. Some confirmed deals so far: -Debuchy to Newcastle -Cole to WHU -Peluso to Juve -Rocchi to Inter -Kirchhoff to Bayern

Our home game in the league with Southampton has been rescheduled to Jan 16th: http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8379455/

Turns 28 today. Happy birthday, Ross.

Good read, thanks!

Welcome back How was it?

Probably. Keep an eye out on the official twitter account. They are likely to announce it first.

Got to have both in life!

Heard rumors that he is training at Cobham today, expect an announcement anytime soon.

@The only place to be, for me. He has been active, starting debates and contributing a lot to the forum.

Daily start need to shut the fuck up. Making up these stories just to play on fans' emotions. Disgusting journalism.

Point is, he can still put in a very decent shift in at RB in case we need him to. If we're going to have him as a coach and pay him, why not take full advantage of his abilities and one of them is to cover at RB. I really don't see how his presence is in any way annoying or hurts the club.

I believe the quotes from Frank's agent came from the Metro..

This has to be the best tweet in history: :lol:

The thing is mate, and it's hard to explain it unless you live here, the people (most of them) have some sort of loyalty to the people in charge for various reasons. Here it's because the people in charge are the sect leaders. In other places it's just because they are in charge and they are taught to admire their leaders regardless. It's like they are happy to be the peasants and serve the kings. Btw, that is a brilliant quote!

I would understand if it were a youngster we were talking about. But it's a top professional who should understand that the manager gets to pick the team not him. Are you saying that all Frank needed was someone to lie to him and tell him he is still important to the team while he is being benched? Frank is too smart for that. Anyway, I don't want to criticize Frank now, let's just say that was his lowest point in a Chelsea shirt.

What I understood is that his knee could "potentially" be problematic, but till now he hasn't suffered from it. He is certainly not injury prone, only missed 17 games the last 7 years.

Oh come on Jason, that's more sentimental than logical. Lamps is a smart guy and a professional, he shouldn't need someone to message his ego in order for him to do what's best for the team. I don't want to get into what happened back then, but that's hardly something to blame AVB over, he was hired to make such calls and he did.

Just put it on google translate and it gave me: "News that the price money today, it becomes free tomorrow" Note: Never use google to translate from or to Arabic!