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Yes, but I'm thinking we shouldn't just throw Alex in at the deep end...

Pre-UCL defence? Ivanovic - Alex - Terry - Cole?

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Luiz and Ramires will be key in us signing him.

Easy to say that in hindsight. No-one knew we would get him for £21 million. The price quoted was closer to £30-40 million.

If Cuntarito scores I'll top myself.... unless we win 6-1.

Saw this on Sky Sports News. A 'come and get me' plea? Big money either way.

Luiz is Terry's replacement. Alex is only 28 (29 in June) and Ivanovic is 27, they both have years ahead of them.

I still stand by what I said. Luiz was a far riskier signing than most people are willing to concede.

Which ones are you on about? 06/08, 08/09 or 09/10?

If we're on at 1.30pm on the Sunday, expect Arsenal-United to be on at four. More pressure on them. There is absolutely no pressure on Chelsea in the Premier League. We won't finish lower than third (City are on the decline with Tevez out of form and short on fitness, and Tottenham are suffering post-European hangovers), and we aren't expected to win the title. Thus, we can take it game by game and finish second,

I reckon his shot at the end may have been creeping wide... if only Petr could have flicked it in for him

Torres will score because I'm going to watch them. Just saying.

If we get anything in the region of £30 million I think we should seriously consider selling him. I am a fan of Mikel and I believe he is underrated, but Ancelotti has made it very clear that Essien and Ramires and an out-of-form and not-yet-fully-fit Lampard are all ahead of him in the pecking order.

We pulled out of this deal the moment we signed Ramires, as far as I'm concerned. (Yes, I'm aware they are a different kind of player.)

Absolutely. Most people have probably never even seen him play.

I think France will have a good chance of winning it, though home advantage will work for the Brazilians. In the mean time, I think Belgium will win the 2022 one.

Two/three years ago I'd have said yes. But we're at a point now where we are past the stage where we should be buying for the future - now we have to. We've seen this through Sturridge, Piazon, Matci (okay, I know he's leaving, but still!), Ramires, Luiz and you can also argue Torres, and us being attributed with Lukaku and Sanchez being linked with us.

McEACHRAN.

I watch the Eredivisie quite often actually. I simply don't rate him.

We couldn't sell out 41871 seats for a Champions League knock-out game earlier this month, so I'm not overly convinced we need a bigger ground just yet. I don't think we should move, ever. Redevelopment is awkward because of health and safety regulations, but we could knock down one of the hotels and add a third tier to the Shed for about 3,000 more seats?

I'm going to be controversial here and say that over his career, Lampard has been at least as good as Zola, if not better.

Same photo as the same one further up the page. Looks fake from the direction of the lines.

Updated for our March games. Mikel is one game from a European suspension, Bane is two off a domestic one.