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Mata was like 25m euros and Hulk was what, 60m€ according to his agent? Also Mata's wages were around 60k when he signed but Hulk would have demanded close to 150k immediately. That makes Hulk easily over twice as expensive as Mata. And if I'm reading your signals right, you're saying Mata is shit and Hulk is like the second coming of Pelé or something? GTFO.

Classy Fenerbahce fans are now acting like their club is all of a sudden some huge step up from Chelsea (a.k.a. the Champions of Europe) and like we were forced to sell him because a bigger club came calling.

The window is still open in Turkey and it doesn't matter if it has already closed in England.

Di Matteo hasn't even once tried playing Ramires in the double pivot role and Romeu has played two insignificant games so he clearly doesn't trust either of them to do the job there. With Essien also gone, that leaves us with only Lampard and Mikel as serious candidates to start games and that is ridiculously light for a club still competing on five fronts, at least when considering that many of us have serious doubts over Lampard's ability to still be a key player for the team, let alone play +60 games a season. I honestly don't know what is going through the minds of the people in charge at Chelsea if we let Meireles and Essien both leave without buying anyone.

Transfer rumours for January only two days after the summer window shut, are you kidding me? Can't we at least enjoy a couple of months without all these ridiculous rumours?

BBC now reporting that Meireles is currently having a medical in Istanbul. Seriously, what the fuck is going on? Am I the only one who doesn't understand the point here?

Yeah, Di Matteo was there watching the game and taking notes. I'm hearing Lichtsteiner had an excellent game? If so, then be prepared to see him marked out of the game with Chelsea playing both Cole & Bertrand on the left.

Ron also said we'd have two strikers scoring 30 goals a season. He sure talks a lot. Can't really see Essien coming back to Chelsea after this. Either he gets a permanent move to Real Madrid if he succeeds there or we'll try shipping him out next summer. We wouldn't have loaned him out if we were planning to keep him for the future.

I believe he was trying to be sarcastic. Not funny though, I give you that.

Oh come on, you and I both know that apart from the 'fans' who only support the club because Torres is here, we'd all literally jump at the chance to get a player as good as Van Persie. To have a striker like him, capable of changing the game anytime he wants is pretty much the difference between a comfortable top4 finish and seriously challenging for the title. And who the fuck cares if a player is a cunt, as long as he plays for our team? Say what you want, but clubs who don't have at least a couple of arrogant wankers in their team rarely win anything. Barcelona is the exception to this rule because of the way their club is built from ground up but in general it applies.

Not too bothered about the break to be honest, at least Mata will now finally gets his deserved two weeks rest and Di Matteo can think long and hard about what the fuck went wrong against Atlético. Also, on a personal level I now get to focus on my studies (and more importantly the parties that go along with it) at least for a while without having to worry too much about football.

If he wins them two or three titles in that time, it truly is a bargain.

And that is why I didn't bother getting excited about Southampton leading. Fucking United, why do they always have to do that?

Most of those questions depend much on whether I'm intoxicated or not. When I'm either drunk or high, I'm one of the loudest individuals in any group of people and able to make new friends easily etc. but when I'm sober I usually like to do things all by myself or with someone I already know very well.

Van Rapist is annoyingly good.

Keep up the good work, Agent Brendan!

@Jusek, nice to see you here too. How's the military service going?

It always sucks to lose a game, but if I was given the choice of either winning the Super Cup or being gifted a win over a PL rival in a tough match, I would choose the league points any day. Maybe the points amount to fuck all come end of the season, but at this early stage every point matters more than the Super Cup.

Welcome, it's always nice to have a little female perspective to football.

He only started revealing his true colours after he got sacked. Before that I was behind him and even when he left I thought I'd wish him the best, but as it turns out he's nothing but a bitter cunt and one of the worst managers I have ever seen in my life. He is still young and may yet prove me wrong, but so far he hasn't learned from his mistakes and I'm fully enjoying his miserable tenure at Tottenham.

According to reports, Bertrand has been handed a new five year deal with wages doubled. Fully deserved imo, even though he still had four years left on the contract he signed only last year. This year just couldn't get any better for Ryan, could it?

Agreed, we'll certainly know better in a few months. Usually the Bad Moment begins around November and lasts for a few months but if we can avoid that this year, then we will definitely challenge for the title. At the moment it's still way too early to predict anything because if the last few years have taught us anything, it's that United always start badly but improve all the time whereas we usually start well but then something happens a few months into the season.

http://www.thenation...o-transfer-bid? Could not have happened to a nicer guy. Fuck you, Daniel Levy. He did the same thing himself with Lloris' transfer by telling Lyon in the last minute that they're not willing to pay the agreed price but instead a few million less. At least Levy has now found his match in transfer negotiations with Pinto da Costa.

Isn't Xavi 34 as well? Is playing him a joke too? Are Barcelona not capable of attacking brand football with Xavi playing? Age means nothing if a player is good enough. I have my doubts over Lampard but at the moment we don't really have better options so might as well play him. We bought so many new players for other positions this summer that getting a player like Modric as well simply wasn't possible anymore. Maybe we'll come back to this next year when we at least don't have to improve other areas so much.

No, he was injured and wasn't even on the bench. He was called up for Belgium's WC qualifiers next week so I guess his injury is not that serious. edit: Fuck, @ beat me to it. There goes my streak.