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Coleman and Shaw on the bench. Also from the beginning all the way until Thursday I always had either Giroud or Lambert in my team but now it looks like the tinkering didn't pay off because for some bizarre reason I ended up eith Dzeko.

Fuck this, the season hasn't even kicked off and my players start getting injured. Edit: @physioroom: looks like I got the #Coleman situation massively wrong **apologies** opening day jitters ...luckily it was after the 11.30am deadline Good news.

Like I said, Lukaku is only for the first gameweek because we have two home games against low-end clubs and then I'm going to replace him with a more permanent striker. For GW1 only I'd say Lukaku for a minimum of 120 minutes against Hull and Aston Villa combined is a much better option than any other striker out there, even Van Persie because he has a tough away game against Swansea.

Not going to happen, though it would be some transfer window if it did. Stranger things have happened and moving two times in the same transfer window is not completely unheard of, just look at Anzhi and their transfer activities this summer. They bought Denisov and Kokorin but due to their unexpected money problems they sold both of them as well as our old Yuri Zhirkov to Dinamo Moscow. Who would've thought we have a new Falcao thread so soon after Alex finally got to close the old one? Maybe we could re-open it now, just for old times sake.

Here's mine at the moment. Been mixing things up way too much today, a while ago I still had Lambert, De Bruyne (DGW gamble) and Kolo Toure but now I've replaced them with Dzeko, Walcott and Terry. My strikers give me a headache. As of now only Anelka is untouchable and maybe Lukaku for the DGW too but other than that I have no idea who to go with. Lambert, Giroud, Soldado and Dzeko have all been in my plans at some point but for the first gameweek I can pick only one of them and maybe get one to replace Lukaku from the GW2 onwards. At the moment I've got Lukaku and Dzeko who may both be good choices early on but a more permanent plan is needed. Anelka - Giroud - Lambert, maybe?

Ligue 1 actually kicked off last week and Falcao scored in his debut.

Spanish newspaper Marca are saying Monaco have already transferlisted Falcao because they can't afford to keep him. Personally I don't believe it but maybe it's time to re-open the old Falcao thread we all loved?

Someone on Twitter started a rumour that we've submitted a bid of £40m + Lukaku for Rooney and the Manchester United fans who saw it got all excited. To believe that is almost as deluded as believing that our first bid was £20m + Mata.

'Page Missing Mystery!' Looks like that story was taken down immediately after being published and that's never a good sign.

Holy shit Choo Choo, that looks serious. Good to hear you or your family weren't affected, too bad others weren't as lucky.

Not sure if you just insulted my country for it's usually shit weather (not that I'd give a flying fuck if you did, I hate it myself) or if you really know that August is usually the most pleasant month around here. Anyway, being an adult and all there's plenty of stuff to do even when the weather is bad, you'll learn that in a few years.

Sure, I may have called them that once or twice in the heat of a moment on this forum but never directly to a Barcelona fan because that's just trying to provoke a reaction and in order to have a proper discussion that's not the way to go. For example, if we're drawn against Barcelona at some point and one of their fans comes here to discuss the tie with us, I see no reason to start calling them Uefalona or anything but if he comes here just to wind us up I see no problem with calling him and his club names. What you and bushman have done is abuse @JayC from the very beginning just because of the club he supports and that's just being childish. Anyway, now I'm really out of here. I don't have all day to argue with you guys, there's much better ways to spend a lovely Thursday evening.

What facts? To me your babbling is just as deluded as any other conspiracy theorist nutjob saying the American government was behind the WTC attacks and whatnot. We don't have to be unbiased but we don't have to be utterly disrespectful either, there's a difference.

Again with the fucking manures. What are you, 12 years old? And I agree that at the end of the day it's up to the admins to deal with this stuff, but I for one like having a couple of sensible opposition supporters around here to mix things up a little. That won't happen if people like you and NishC300 keep driving them away with your insults. I have a feeling the admins are with me on this, it's bad for the general image of this forum if a lot people get the feeling this board is full of uncivlized cunts. But don't take my word for it, let's wait for one of the admins to speak out on the matter. In the meantime, I'm out. No point arguing with you any further because it's clear you've made up your minds and can't be reasoned with.

@NishC300, it's funny you should ignore the main point of my post... You call @JayC's club corrupt cheaters who can't win titles fairly and you expect him to just suck it up and move on without insulting yourself or the club you support in return? And when he replies by saying something witty you start whining like a little bitch because he won't agree with you that Manchester United are corrupt. For example, if he insulted Chelsea by saying the usual opposition fan insults about the club not being anything without the corrupt oil money stolen from the people of Russia and that our fans are nothing but gloryhunting cunts, would you be calm about it or respond in a similarly distasteful manner? Don't bother responding because I already know your answer and there's nothing wrong with defending your club when some biased idiot starts to insult it. That's exactly what JayC has done and he has every right to do that. I despise that club and would love it if they fell into mediocrity now that Ferguson's retired but that doesn't mean we should insult one of their fans when he comes here to discuss football in a civilized manner.

Yeah, you just said his team is shit and they only keep winning titles because there's a conspiracy. Every chance you get you bring up this conspiracy, like in the Hull match thread for example where you just out of the blue brought up Manchester United by saying they have appointed John Moss as the referee for the match. To me that's more of an obsession than a healthy rivalry between two great clubs. You do all this and you honestly expect him not to have a go at you? On top of all that you and bushman keep calling his team "Manure". How fucking childish is that?

You do know there's a massive difference between kissing their ass and acknowledging the fact they're one of the biggest and most successful clubs in the world? Even if some of the people on here firmly believe their time at the top has come to an end now that Ferguson's gone it doesn't mean they're suddenly shit or anything. People love to joke about it but does anyone honestly believe there's some sort of FA conspiracy to help United succeed? A lot of their favourable refereeing decisions and whatnot was up to Ferguson and his brilliant ability of manipulating people through the media but it's not like they paid the refs or anything and no matter how many people with Manchester United backgrounds they have in the FA board won't change that. @JayC has come here in a relatively peaceful manner to discuss football so why do you and bushman have to be so fucking hostile towards him? Being a United fan, he's hardly going to agree with us on many things regarding Chelsea and/or Manchester United but he is entitled to his opinion and we have to respect that. You are only trying to provoke a reaction out of him by slating his opinions and calling his favorite club with some childish nicknames and then you take the role of a victim when he calls you a cunt or something.

Looks like Moyes is already feeling the pressure that comes with such a big job, time will tell whether he can handle it or not.

All four Chelsea players start for Belgium, nice.

So he's going to make a statement about his future after the internationals? As much as I'd like this transfer to happen, I bet he's just going to say he's happy to stay at Roma and that he never even considered leaving and all the usual stuff.

They may have let a couple of players go below their release clauses every now and again but in the last decade or so the vast majority of their star players have gone for insane amounts, even if they had initially signed said players for peanuts. In this window alone Porto have already made a massive amount of money by selling Moutinho and Rodriguez to Monaco so they are in a position where they don't have to sell anyone unless someone decides to pay over the odds. That, and the fact their president Pinto da Costa already hates Chelsea after the club appointed AVB against his will means they will sell us fuck all if we don't splash the cash and pay the full clause. But yeah, this discussion is not exactly concerning David Luiz anymore so it might be better suited for the general transfer talk thread if you still have something to say.

Who said anything about Ajax? Read my post again and this time with a little more concentration. I was talking about the 31-year-old Brazilian central defender Alex who used to play for Chelsea before being dumped to PSG by Villas-Boas and replaced by Gary Cahill. Alex has constantly been ahead of Mamadou Sakho in the PSG pecking order but he couldn't get a game at Chelsea, says it all really. Eliaquim Mangala and Jan Vertonghen, you serious? There's absolutely no way Spurs would ever sell their best defender to a rival club whatever the price, especially after already letting go of Steven Caulker in this transfer window. One of the best centrebacks in the Premier League, if not the whole world, but definitely not a realistic replacement for Luiz considering the club he plays for. And then there's Mangala who is also a great player and could even be within our grasp but knowing Porto he'd cost the full €40m release clause and at this point in the window it's just not worth it. Even if Barcelona paid over the odds (over €50m) for Luiz, we'd still end up overpaying for the replacement and no matter who he'd be our team wouldn't be as good as it is now and we would hardly have any money left from selling Luiz. The replacement would come in to a new club with the season already under way and it could potentially take a long time for him to fully adapt so even if we considered him to be as good a player as Luiz is our season would still be hurt by the sale of one of our finest players. In my opinion the club shouldn't even consider selling Luiz unless he acted a cunt and submitted an official transfer request, which I really can't see him doing.

Sakho is also behind the Chelsea reject Alex, what's his excuse for that? And the reason they splashed out €35m for Marquinhos in the first place was because Sakho, who was once their club captain, had fallen out of favour due to the cuntish attitude and bad performances on the pitch. Not even half the player David Luiz is so if Sakho's the only one available to replace him should the transfer to Barcelona happen we're fucked, simple as that.

Heat of the moment and all that. He also criticized Jose there but their relationship couldn't be better after their time together at Inter so who are we to think otherwise? Less than three months down the road and not a single official match yet and some people have already forgotten all the 'In Jose we trust' talk.

There's a reason for that...