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The only thing I'm impressed with by Barca is their youth system. I hate them apart from the fact they are incredible at blooding good youth players in to their team.

He will be loaned back to Lens if he agrees a deal here I heard.

Ok. I'm going to be completely honest here, why do you care about Barca? Remember what they did to us in 2008

absolute class from Luiz haha!

Anyone could win with Barca because they have a philosophy and model nobody else can compete with. You could appoint Boris Johnston as the manager of Barcelona and he would win the treble.

Thread should be closed

Exciting times ahead for Chelsea. Reckoned that Maicon would of been better until Todd Kane was ready but you know what fuck it Azpilicueta is more than able.

Meh fuck Pep and fuck Barca. RDM is god.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7912493/Chelsea-close-on-Oscar

That ITK agent got the Hazard deal correct and called it like 5 days before it was confirmed along with the Kagawa one so you never know!

Agent007ITK ‏@Agent007ITK For those who didn't know - Oscar passed his medical yesterday. Should be officially announced within a week. #CFC

Exactly, I'm not completely sure who is better out of the two. I think Lewandowski wouldn't mind being second fiddle if he was guaranteed to get at least 30 games a season through sub appearances/starting games due to injuries/suspensions. He seems more like a player who is willing to wait, he had to two seasons ago when Barrios was scoring goals for fun in Germany so why not with Torres? Signings highly unlikely unless Lukaku goes on loan and Sturridge leaves though.

Oscar and Hulk are better than Mata my arse. Not even sure if Hazard is better than Mata.

"This (the Premier League) is a league that I would like to play in, and I hope it happens sometime. Although I am happy at Dortmund I always like to aspire to greater heights," said Lewandowski to Polish television station TVP. Hmmm hinting that he would leave Dortmund if the opportunity to play in the PL arose, if we lose Sturridge surely we should look to go for him? Great striker, remember the thread for him last year people were saying he wasn't ready yet, he is now.

FFP has been bullshit ever since it formed, UEFA are a bunch of fucking idiots.

I'd rather we bought someone who is decent enough and like 25, 26 for our second choice keeper. Maybe like ermmmmmmmmm in fact I don't know but anyone except Ross Turnbull could be second choice

Lol had to post this Looking forward to see the game, hopefully see our young players play!

and potentially stop Blackmans development as he wont be playing regular games.

Is Blackman really good enough be 3rd choice for us right now thought? Plus hes better playing reserve football or being loaned out than playing once every blue moon for the first team.

If we're getting another RB in Azpilicueta(who we have apparently bid for), someone will have to leave for him to get in as he isn't eligible for a under 21 place.

Yeah but he had been working on body work before he arrived at Chelsea, he even said that himself in an interview and he had kept working on it last season. I didn't exactly mean put on 50 lbs and turn himself into an utter beast, just a little bit extra so he is a wee bitty stronger. Especially if he is going to be playing in the double pivot where he will need to come in and try to get the ball of bigger/stronger players.

Yes but they could do with an extra 5 or 10 lbs or something. I feel Oscar will need it for sure anyway as this will be his first season in Europe, going straight from Brazil to England will be very difficult and I'm sure he will realize the physicality in both leagues are totally different.

Kakuta will be sold. Watch and see.

I hope Oscar bulks up a bit, looking at that screensaver he looks thin, really thin.

The nicest thing I can say about Spurs is that they have an ex manager of ours, who they don't deserve because they are fucking pricks.