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Looks comfy as fuck. Let's hope the lazy bastards don't get too comfortable sitting on the bench now.

They did get Hazard's transfer right, even though most of us didn't believe it at the time.

Yep, I think he's decent there. When (rather than if) we are to park the bus again sometime in a big game, having Bertrand and Ramires on the wings would be great. However, I don't think he will be playing LW a lot. Plenty of playing time for him at LB because I just can't see Cole playing every game anymore and Ryan is more than capable of stepping up when needed. Also, when we get Marin back from injury we will have more options for LW and then there's also the possibility of adding yet another winger in Moses or Hulk so we wouldn't need Hazard / Mata to play RW ever, allowing them to make that LW position their own and limiting Bertrand's playing time there even further. Nonetheless, Bertrand makes for an interesting alternative if we want to try something else or if there are a lot of injuries. Hopefully Ryan gets the nod ahead of Cole today. Reading are not the strongest of opponents so I think he's capable of handling it just as good as Cole. Playing God knows how many competitive games in a row would do great things to his confidence. Also he should be know Reading well enough, having spent the 09/10 season there on loan.

AVB strikes again! Now he's loaned out Huddlestone to Stoke and they're stuck with Livermore and Jenas in midfield.

I hate Twitter.

That's because he knows fuck all and the signings are done by Emenalo and Roman.

Surprised to see him in the starting lineup tonight against Burnley, having only moved to Middlesbrough yesterday. Good luck Josh!

A photo taken of my desk, most of the stuff I bought is there. That monitor on the right is new, as are the keyboard and the iPad. Also got a new external hard drive and some other little stuff but those are behind the monitors and not visible in the photo. Needless to say, I spent a little more than I perhaps should have.

If it's true that a club from London is after Llorente, I believe it's Tottenham. As much as I'd like it to be Chelsea rather than Spurs, I just can't see it. Reckon he'll go to Juventus though, no reason to choose a shit Europa League club over the best team in Italy who can offer higher wages and also Champions League football to him.

I've always rated him highly but a couple months ago I still thought we'd have no use for him. Seeing our midfield during pre-season and the first two competitive games, I've changed my mind and I think one new midfielder could be needed to complete the whole package. Fellaini is of course one of the possibilities if we were to buy someone, but sadly I can't see Everton selling him anymore, having sold Rodwell only a week ago. Or even if they did want to sell, the fee would have to be something out of this world and I think we'd be better off going after another target. Wouldn't hurt to try though, maybe we could get lucky in the negotiations.

At least we wouldn't have to worry about Cech playing his usual long balls if we had Fellaini in there, he wins 100% of those. Would be one hell of an addition to the team but I couldn't see him making a same kind of impact as he's currently doing against United because his role would be much more limited with us. Would still take him anyday though, that man is pure class.

Sturridge + money for Modric, Meireles + money for Cavani, Hulk for cash and we're good to go. Or at least we would be if real life was Football Manager.

Cech's long balls have been shit throughout the game, he should realize that we don't have Drogba anymore to receive those passes.

Moses now on the left, I predict he's going to give Ivanvoic a hard 45 minutes.

I'm loving how Mata and Hazard keep alternating between CAM and RW, that's exactly what they should be doing to make the opponents shit their pants. Bertrand hasn't been that effective so far on the left wing, but it doesn't really matter because he's definitely not going to be playing there too often and he doesn't need to get too comfortable there. Maybe we should try taking Oscar on for Bertrand sometime in the second half and try the mouthwatering trio of Hazard - Mata - Oscar playing all together at the same time, at least for a while before subbing off Mata.

He haa been lively so far and even got past Cole a bunch of times. His final decisions have still been shit but we knew that already.

Torres has to do better if he wants to continue being the #1 striker.

Bertrand starts, well that's a surprise. Interesting to see how he does again at LW. I think RDM got this right because Cole is going to need help with Moses and Boyce, also Bertrand's rather good going forward and his crossing ability is among the best in our whole team.

A few days ago.

Everything is still possible at this stage (even Liverpool winning the title ) but it's not very likely, is it? Arsenal's final position will depend on how the other teams get their game going. Us and the two Manchester teams are most likely easily in top4 but very tough competition for the final CL-spot. Wenger knows what he's doing and he's shown that every year when he still finishes top4 even though their best players always leave and right now I'd say Arsenal are favourites for the fourth place.

Play without a striker, like a boss.

Maybe we could buy him back from QPR. How much you think they'd be asking for him?

That 007 dude is hilarious. I do follow his account but just for the laughs and I don't actually believe any of it. If we were to believe him, then Moses and Azpilicueta would have signed by now after having their medicals on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. And if his info is bullshit most of the time, why should we believe anything he says? Even I could gather some rumours from the tabloids and post it as the absolute truth on Twitter, and I would be bound to get it right a bunch of times over the transfer window and then I could brag how I have 'insider info' on nearly every transfer out there.

Clearly offside.

I can hardly wait A few days ago he was still the next Heskey,gotta love this forum!