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What's the point of paying his wages if he is very unlikely to contribute anything to the team? I would much rather give that spot on the bench to one of our talented youngsters.

Reportedly 9.5m

Because, like Terry has been saying all along, Ferdinand said: "you called me a black c**t"

Shame, I really wanted him to stay. Just yesterday I was watching our home game vs city and he was the best player on the pitch.

Wow!

Ashley Cole said he heard Ferdinand say words "bridges", "black" and "cunt" to John Terry. #cfcAshley Cole said he heard Ferdinand say words "bridges", "black" and "cunt" to John Terry. #cfc That is a huge boost for Terry's case.

From journalists who are attending the trail and tweeting.

Not to mention his composure on the ball was....classy!

Mikel (and arguably most of our players) did not fit AVB's tactics not the formation. I agree with the Mata part though.

True, but with almost every team now playing with a single striker, I think it is plausible to say that the next logical transformation in football formations is that teams start to use only three defenders.

Honestly, with the links with Oscar and Schurrle, it looks like they are.

That formation won Juve the Scudetto without a single defeat and got an average Italy side to the final of the Euros....just sayin'

Schurle is only just a bit better on the wing than Danny. He too is naturally a striker; Don't we ever learn from our mistakes?

If you believe the mail, we have also signed about a dozen other players in the last week Won't believe any of this until we are reliably linked with them. Having said that, I wouldn't mind Sapunaru here. But then again, doing business with Porto is always a pain in the ass.

He is being linked with a shock move to Barcelona to day The papers will literally write ANY-thing in the transfer window!

It can only work if you resort to long aerial balls in which case you will need a Drogba.

But Torres sells more shirts

Exactly! The way I see it, playing two strikers is no longer possible nowadays because you will practically be gifting the midfield to the opposition. The only viable formations (with four defenders) imo are 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 and by examining the signings we've made and are looking to make, we are most likely setting our team to play 4-2-3-1.

Someone should make a video of him in Munich. It was the best performance by a DM I've seen in a long time.

^^ I agree that the expectations on Eden are way over the top. Yes he's a top player, but let's not forget that he's one for the future.

We have also signed Maicon, Hulk, Fellaini and Modric in the past week or so if you believe everything on here

Same here mate, same here.

Good point, but the players Carlo used (Malouda, Cole, Kalou) had a natural tendency to go wide. Don't think our current players have that.

Yeah that was predictable since he won't get a look in with Cole and Bertrand here.

Hard to see how that can work, especially against teams who tend to park the bus since that formation provides absolutely no width in the attack