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Nothing happened to Chamakh, he has always been shit and it's not his problem if the stupid Le Arse fans thought he was something else.

One of Livermore / Sandro will get sent off if Spurs keep playing like that.

That club is embarrassing, every year they go backwards. This summer they have got some interesting new players in Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud and for a while I thought Wenger and / or the Arsenal board had finally opened their eyes but then they sold two of their best players from last season and were back at square one, or possibly even declined a bit. At least they're making a little profit, although I wouldn't be too sure if that even is the case this year because surely Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud's wages combined add up to more than what Song and Van Persie were earning and they also had to give those three new players some hefty signing bonuses and large fees to their agents. They also seem to be one midfielder short now, or is Wenger really deluded enough to put his utmost faith in Diaby who hasn't played in ages because of his constant injuries? Vermaelen next year.

Looked really threatening after coming on, got a goal and should have had an assist or two if his teammates had done even a little better. Very promising debut for Romelu and I'm sure Clarke was impressed too.

Arsenal Liverpool :lol: QPR :lol: :lol: Perfect way to start a new season.

Michu already proving to be well worth the 6.5m price tag.

Yep, agreed. If we were to rest Mata on Sunday we would then have to start with either Malouda or Meireles and that's something I'd rather not see. IMO Oscar isn't yet ready to start the game but maybe by Wednesday he is even a little bit more settled and could start the match and we could easily give Mata a chance to get some deserved rest. Surely we are capable of beating Reading at Stamford Bridge even without Mata and even if Oscar wasn't yet at his best?

Okay. Still doesn't change the fact he's a bitter cunt though.

Don't you mean Manchester United, now that Arsenal moved there earlier today?

Just made some money on the Van Persie transfer. When he released that statement on his official website telling the world that he wouldn't be signing a new contract at Le Arse, I instantly placed a cheeky €150 bet at 67/100 odds that he would leave before the end of the transfer window. Basically I made a profit of 100 euros on a nearly 100% sure thing (although for a while Van Persie doing a rooneyesque u-turn to stay at Arsenal seemed the most likely scenario).

Stupid cunt just can't seem to let it go. He acted unprofessionally and got fined for it, nothing wrong with that. In fact, he should be happy he got away with just that and not get a lengthy ban in addition to that ridiculous fine. Sure, £45k is a lot of money when we fans think about it but to him it's next to nothing and he makes that amount in what, a day or maybe two?

His injury record isn't the best (one of the reasons we got him so cheap) and he has had a couple of difficult seasons already at Bremen, so why shouldn't we get worried when he's announced to be out for a month before even kickking a ball for Chelsea in a competitive match?

Wenger has now appointed Vermaelen as their new captain. I take it he's leaving next season then?

Didn't they get like £15m from Arsenal last year when they sold Chamberlain? Maybe they saved that money? Cracking player, God knows why he chose Southampton over the likes of Liverpool and Inter Milan. (ok, snubbing Liverpool I understand but surely there were a lot of other clubs interested too)

How can we ever be sure of anything? That's right, we can't, but in hindsight I can say I would've loved to have a player like Berbatov for last season. Of course we all thought that Drogba, Torres, Sturridge and Lukaku was already more than enough but wouldn't you say that it didn't quite work out the way we planned when our two first choice strikers scored less than 15 goals in the league combined?Anyway, this discussion is now getting a bit pointless because despite me thinking he would have been of some use to us last season, none of us really wanted Berbatov last year and I already agreed with you that I wouldn't want him now and if we are going to buy another striker it's going to have to be someone better than Dimitar.

What I meant was that Berbatov could have won us points all by himself by scoring a bucketload of goald against those shit teams like Wigan, Norwich, Fulham who we struggled against last season. Drogba was a beast, but only against the big teams and Torres was the same old Nando we've got to know in the last year and a half and didn't score against anyone. But like I said, I'm not sure if a player like Berbatov is what we need anymore. All depends on how Torres does but right now that's a wild card and anything can happen. If we're buying a new striker, then maybe he should be another top class striker who is capable to be the main man in case Torres fails us and Berbatov isn't that.

Fuck me, I would have been happy with anything but QPR, hate those cunts.

You just described something we were definitely lacking last season. We had Drogba who only turned up when it really mattered and Torres who didn't even turn up at all. A player like Berbatov would have been perfect for us then and he would have done the job when no one else bothered and Didier would have have been there to take care of the big occasions like he did. With Drogba now gone, I'm not sure if that's what we need anymore.

Happens in iPad's Chrome as well, so I guess it's more of a problem with the site or the iPad itself and not just Safari.

He has played 82 times for Chelsea in all competitions, or at least according to Wikipedia. In his first two seasons he played mostly as a substitute and last season was his first as a regular starter so I wouldn't read too much into his statistics.

Yep, they seem to be about as thick as them Liverpool "fans" who burned Torres' shirts live on SSN when Torres joined Chelsea. I could never do that to a Chelsea shirt, no matter the circumstances.

Following in JT's footsteps, I see. Anyone know Nottingham Forest's defence better than me, can Sam be a starter for them? Hopefully he can enjoy an injury-free season with lots of playing time and come back to Chelsea next year as a better player.

I have no idea, but can't see any reason for delaying it anymore now that Brazil's games are over.

Apparently he's going to be living together with Luiz, that should be fun!

You don't agree that AVB was one hell of a manager for Porto? He did win them a treble in his one and only season and went the whole season unbeaten. I'm sure most Porto fans would rather have kept him than give him to us.