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Meh, still dislike Pep and reckon he won't be anywhere near as successful at any other club. If he proves me wrong I will cut off my left bollock.

So hope RVP leaves and they fall apart. Similar to the Galactico's after they got rid of Maka! Still can't believe they sold Maka to us all them many years ago What idiots they were.

Happy birthday bud

The principles of the current Barcelona team originated from Johan Cryuff when he was coach years ago. People tend to forget that. Without Cryuff you don't have the "tiki taka" or "total football" idea instilled into the team in the first place and you don't have the youth set up that was copied from the Dutch which ultimately has been reaping the rewards for the last 10 years producing fine players who can all fit into a similar model of football. Guardiola wouldn't have been a holding midfielder had it not been for Johan Cryuff switching him to that position in the first place so Cesc, Busquets or Xavi wouldn't have idolized him, trying to be a similar player to him... Cryuff was the best match for Barcelona. You might not think that but basically he was.

Yeah but with a squad of that ability and talent I wasn't surprised. That is why if you put him in charge of good another team he won't replicate anything close to the amount of success he had(nearly 20 trophies in 4 years). Watch and see Tito Vilonova will have a success season largely due to the squad and tactics similar to Guardiola's. Similar to Pereria at Porto using Villas-Boas' tactics from the previous season.

Big word there "expected" until Chelsea FC confirm it how will they know.

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

WHERE THE FUCK WAS MY THREAD 2 MONTHS 2 DAYS AGO!!! YOUS ARE ALL MONSTERS Na happy birthday buddy. Long shall you hate scouse.

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.