OneMoSalah

I did see in the thing I was reading about Prandelli wanting him to play for Italy even though he apparently told the Sampdoria coach he wants to play for Argentina. Maybe more time in Serie A would be good for him but still good to see we are expanding our knowledge of players. more info on him here http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/mauro-icardi-sampdoria-lucky-charm-162616638.html

Just seen his 4 goals vs Pescara, going to throw this out, he looks a bit like Torres when he wasn't actually crippled. Pacey, gets into goal scoring positions, good finisher, makes good runs... gonna watch out for him to see if the hypes justified. Not saying hes the next Torres or whatever but those 4 goals look like goals Torres scored years ago at Liverpool... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4-ZU0lTls

I take it you've seen him play, what sort of player is he like? I read about Messi comparisions but I think its due to the fact hes Argentine, a striker and came through the Barca academy lol similar to Piazon and Kaka.

So according to Tancredi Palmeri (Italian CNN correspondent) who has sources from Sky Italy, we have contacted Sampdoria to try and sign 19 year old 'wonder kid' Mauro Icardi. He's Argentinian and was signed by Sampdoria from Barca's La Masia academy for €400,000 or something. He scored four goals against Pescara (becoming the third player to score four goals in one game for Sampdoria) quite recently. In his first season in Serie A he has 7 goals so far. Never actually heard of him before but was reading an article on him and apparently Barca rated him quite highly but because of the strikeforce they had, he thought it was better to leave Barca so he did.

Big players aren't always the answer. Hungry and talented players looking to prove themselves > big players who only do half a job in easy games (like the Brentford one). Hungry players will fight for your club.

He doesn't have enough leadership skills but he is the captain of Lyon????? That would be like being a professional footballer but having no lower body.....

If we are signing him as a Courtois replacement then the board can go fuck off. Courtois is 1090008 times the keeper he is. Butlands decent, overrated slightly, had a good Olympics but hes fucked up for Birmingham this season. If hes getting 10-15 games a year then yeah maybe he'd be a decent buy for 3 million. Hes better than Turnbull, Hilario and Blackman at least.

Shit got real when Cap spammed everything and yous know it Na I'm joking, had a look through some of the older versions, some interesting stuff like Adriano declining the chance to pull on Chelsea blue even though we hadn't made an official bid, what a dickhead

Good luck big man, just don't score against us in next years CL

It would be weird but then at least he could say 'Chelsea have the same amount of Champions Leagues as Liverpool, FACT." even though I don't know why he'd do such shit he'd probably be like 'I love Fernando and want to have his babies in Liverpool. FACT"

Imagine he got the job full time next season and then won us 4 CL's in a row .....

Torres was a Carlo signing. I think Elemeno was only promoted to this 'technical director' role when AVB took over.

You have to give Emanulo some credit though, some of the players we've signed over the last 2 seasons are more than likely due to him....

What a save, just flings himself at it.

I seen someone post somewhere about resigning Lampard on a lower salary, I personally don't think he'll take a wage cut. Especially when hes nearing the end of his career, surely he'd goto LA Galaxy and take up that $250k p/w or whatever it was Beckham was on AND play every game rather than half what hes on and play 20 games a season next year. Lampard wants to keep playing regularly so letting go of him to use younger/better players wouldn't be that bad a thing. Sure I'd keep him if he'd accept a 100k wage cut and maybe get 25 games maximum a season but will he really accept that. Remember AVB tried, bad man management or not Lampard didn't like it. Anyway in my opinion, you build your team around your best players, Lampard is no longer in my eyes one of our best players so if we want to replace him in the summer to use a better suited player for the 4-2-3-1 formation we've been using, then do it. He can't play as a defensive midfielder because he leaves too much space for the opposition midfield and casually works back half the time. He can't play as an attacking midfielder because hes not that sort of player.

Swansea were linked with him, he played for Liverpools youth academy I think... he was born 30 mins away from where I stay haha. Wee Gary Mackay-Stevens and his skills!

Yep very true haha. Anyway Neymars tricks are overrated. Check this guys amazing skills out and Neymar who?

See if Neymar put a bit of muscle on, I'd have him upfront leading the line.. Moses - Mata - Hazard / Neymar

Neymar is class but overcomplicates everything, see if Roy Keane was still playing and he played against Neymar I have a funny feeling Neymar would never play again.... due to a heavy tackle which would be intended likely.... hahaha imagine Neymar trying to rainbow flick Roy Keane, he'd end up stretchered off

I've not graduated.........

Oh fuck... Ramires is a good player to have due to energy and stamina but can be hopeless in possession and if Lamps does what he did today and played absolute pish then we are fucked. Along with Marko Marin who was pathetic for most of what I seen too...... we could be fucked........

Stats means nothing when your drawing with teams like Brentford in my opinion. They could win 5-0 if we play like we did today

Might I suggest that AVB, Rafa, Harry and Brendan Rodgers are maybe just shit managers? Well tbh I still think AVBs a good manager so remove him....

Start Ba and hopefully Luiz if he is fit in Lampards place. Rest will take care of itself. Well hopefully.

I seen the first half, was absolute bollocks. Marko Marin was absolute bollocks, Frank Lampard was absolute bollocks, Gary Cahill was absolute bollocks and so was Ramires. Torres is always bollocks too. Not even joking how could we play so bad against weak opposition? Don't care how fired up they were for it we should have washed them aside easily. WHY DID BA COME ON IN THE 82ND FUCKING MINUTE AGAIN... ARG FUCK OFF RAFA... We need reinforcements. Torres out, another striker in. 2 more center mids and a replacement for Marin.