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I rate him but €25m is way too much.

I suppose I could be included among the 'haters' (is there seriously not a better choice of words? ) even though I've defended him a lot recently. I've admitted already that if he indeed does improve sufficiently for next season I'll be the first one to admit I was wrong. Happily waiting to say those words but there's still long way ahead to get to that point. And as for the cheering part, every time he has put on the Chelsea shirt I've cheered for him and when he scored one of those rare goals I was ridiculously happy even though the goals didn't matter much at all to the scoreline. Still I can see no reason why we should all just blindly support him without any critic when he plays like shit.

Good luck to Lille Salomon! Big boots for him to fill after Hazard leaving. Same could be said about Hazard too, taking King Salomon's place in the team is a huge task.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7871285/ I guess this makes sense. I mean, what's the point of having a pre-season tour if your whole team has just announced to be on their way out?

Can't wait for all the rumors to start when he arrives in London for the Olympics. I'm sure he will be 'spotted' around the city with a Chelsea official countless of times during his stay and he'll be on his way to Cobham on a helicopter every day.

Thiago Silva, Marcelo and Hulk the over-aged players in the squad so an unbelievable amount of quality for Mano Menezes to choose from. Was expecting Luiz to take Marcelo's place in the squad because they already have a decent left-back prospect in Alex Sandro. For the sake of our pre-season and the first couple of rounds in the league it's much better now that he's not going but on a personal level I feel for him.

"FIFA have confirmed goal-line technology will be introduced at the Club World Cup" Good to see those cavemen have finally arrived to the 21st century.

What the fuck Liverpool? :lol:

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Most of the people who don't want Maicon would actually prefer the cheaper alternative Debuchy so I fail to see your point. Personally I would be fine either way and I can see the pros and cons of both choices.

Would have thought there'd be interest in him from better leagues than Ukraine after being very impressive in the Euros. Then again I've heard some whispers of him being somewhat inconsistent for Genoa and that he only plays for the money and not really ambitious to win anything major in his career. Nothing wrong with that of course but imo it's a shame to see a talent like that wasted.

He leaves when he wants, he leaves when he waaaants. Robin Van Persie, he leaves when he wants!

From what I've seen him play he has always impressed me. 10 games or so isn't much but I like him. Benfica value him a bit too highly though.

I don't think anyone here is saying Maicon is shit or anything and I'm sure he would do one hell of a job for us but only for a couple years and then he'd just leave with no re-sale value. At first I was quite against this myself but I'm slowly warming up to the idea of having him at Chelsea. For the prices quoted (£6m and £80k wages) we could do a lot worse, but I also believe it could be invested more wisely too. If he comes, I'm okay with that but if we decide to go after another target I wouldn't complain either.

Don't really give fuck about the football and whether he's fit to start the season when there's something this serious, just hope he recovers. The English media seem to be more worried about the fact he may have to withdraw from the Olympics rather than his health. Disgusting cunts the lot of them.

That shit's bad. Hope he'll be okay.

Deco was decent but who can honestly say they wouldn't have rather signed Modric? Those were the options then.

A shame he's gone to Tottenham, I liked the man before today. I wish him all the worst now and may Spurs now get relegated.

Sorry to hear that, I know how highly Napoli fans rate him. Any rumors of Lavezzi's replacement yet?

He played less than 200 minutes in the whole tournament and still managed to get 3 goals and an assist. If he was that prolific in the league for the whole season it would amount to over 50 goals in total. I agree that it's still way too early to claim he's all of a sudden back to his best after scoring a couple goals because we've all been down that road before and have ended up disappointed every single time but ffs, there's not much more he could have done with so little playing time and to win the golden boot despite starting as a substitute in all but one match is somethings exceptional. I'll admit I've recently been one of his biggest criticizers but today I'll be getting my first tiny piece of that humble pie. If he continues that form when the season starts, I'll have a larger slice.

http://desmond.yfrog...e=640&ysize=640 Could't get it to work as a picture in this topic but here's a link. :confused:

Apparently the Spanish newspaper Marca are reporting that a deal is very close to being agreed and the player himself has opted for Chelsea over PSG. Still not warming up for this but let's hope he will prove me wrong if he indeed is coming. The deal reminds me of Belletti and he did very well for a couple of years...

The youngsters don't develop if they're only trusted to play when the team is leading safely by a couple goals or destined to lose and already given up, like it mostly was those few times Lukaku got a sniff of first team football last season. Of course I don't mean they have to be thrown straight into the deep end like Bertrand in the Champions League final but the occasional start every once in a while wouldn't hurt.

That's awful but if that really is the third kit then 2 out of 3 successful designs isn't half bad.

I'll forever be thankful to José for helping us win our first Champions League title and in the future I will rather remember him for that and not for the bad performances in other games.