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Yeah but what he said was that they are unlucky at SB not in OT

your nation is weird

wtf, for real?

hardly a surprise, it will go into a bidding war which obviously gives City the edge

It snowed today and it's been snowing past few weeks... getting tired of this white shit now.

British police wear ridiculous hats lol

Yeah, it's very interesting. Especially this KEO thing, that will launch in 2014 to orbit and come back in 50,000 years with messages from today... we all can contribute a message for the future generations Who's interested, google KEO

You got ALL 14 answers correct... that proves my knowledge is very in-depth

yeah well, all other managers were expected success straight away (prime example being Mourinho, who played his first team in every competition including CC)... maybe if AVB gets reassurance that he's safe, we might see change in that. We already saw change in our CC policy, that's a step forward. Oh, and AVB said it was a request made by Roman himself, so our emperor himself wants to change our youth policy to be more positive.

That's my point.. not a good sign for Ryan

When AVB commented about Pereira, he said that it's not big disaster not getting him, because Bertrand is a good backup. So he intended signing him as a LB. And Zhirkov would've been preferred over Bertrand nevertheless, as would Pereira.

Speaking about Bertrand, he has reasons to worry... not only is he constantly overlooked, but we tried to sign a replacement (Pereira). There are signs that AVB isn't confident enough in him.

Simple really. Things haven't gone according to plan, so he plays it safe with experience rather than inexperience. If we were in a better position, no doubt we'd see more risky choices by him.

And they thought all sun is shining behind Mubarak's back.... reality is hitting them hard now.

And also his work has been made somewhat more difficult with all those issues that he inherited, like the Torres situation and the Terry situation. Whether we like it or not, those things do affect the team.

I don't think AVB will be sacked. He's the most expensive manager we've had and if we are going to splash in summer, then we can't afford to lose anymore money firing and hiring managers. He has probably long time ago handed in his targets and the club is working towards signing them as we speak (not negotiating, but scouting and evaluating etc.), a new manager would scratch all that progress. Looking at last year's financial report, signing of Torres, Luiz and firing Carlo and hiring AVB make up a big chunk of our losses.. we simply can't afford to do these kind of deals anymore. I believe AVB has been brought in with not very high expectations this season, and I believe he will be allowed to go through with his project (this is the first time we hear the club admitting it needs changes). Of course, I don't know how the board really feels, maybe they are deluded and think we should be winning something this year.

You got 26 out of 35 answers correct

Missed 6.. But I actually missed 5 because I spelt one of their names wrong And when I wrote 'Bogarde' it said "Don't Be Stupid..." :D

That's exactly why we can't get rid of AVB. This all will start from scratch with another manager and he will struggle, his head will be called yet again. What AVB needs is a full season behind him, that is the real assessment, not the pre-season when they had low-pressure games against nobody sides. Sure, he had real assessment for 6 months, but January isn't the right window to start doing radical changes... Our transfer targets were all spot on, we just couldn't get their signatures (hardly AVB's fault, he isn't the negotiator). If you look at the January window in general, hardly any teams made big marquee signings.. January is inflated and because of FFP teams are more cautious in spending above someone's value. Of course, it could have gone better, but for one reason or another it didn't... I realize AVB is talking all this he's happy with his squad bullshit, but you can see from his face when he's on the sideline that he isn't satisfied not one bit. He's mentioned the word "project" for next season, that means we can expect big changes in summer and the summer after. This season has been bollocks up to this point and I don't think even AVB realized that it can get so bad in terms of creative and defensive issues. Despite all we're hanging on to 4th place and it all depends whether we can grind out a top 4 place or not. If yes, then this season will have been a success nevertheless, it will provide a good platform to move forward and never look back.. If not, then it will be interesting to see how this situation will be dealt with (taking into consideration that CL money is important in terms of FFP as Gourlay said).

Let's paraphrase is to "pick your 5 favourite goals of your Chelsea career"

Malouda and high workrate? naah.. And mobile? He's rather static imo

73 confirmed dead. This has nothing to do with football just as hooligan firms have nothing to do with football.. it's all about finding excuse for violence.

Snow sucks what are you so excited about?

SeB, what does volume of play mean?

I'm not giving up hope on Bertrand to play this game, it's only natural if he was selected.. If not, then I seriously hope he puts in a transfer request at the end of this season.