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You bastard! I'll be crushed if he leaves along with Drogba.

He had better get a new deal or else

This was his best goal at the club: http://video.google....162429500771072 Made an utter mug out of Puyol and the other Barca defender that night.

That's the one. Give him a wig and try to hide his face as much as possible and no one will know the difference

Someone massive to play Drogba. That big guy, ex-NFL player from Everybody Hate's Chris. Can't remember his name, though.

And thus ends one of my life dreams. To see Drogba live in the flesh at Stamford Bridge. Ah well, I'll settle for Kalou.

I don't think he would ever go there. He's leaving for first team football, he won't get it at Barcelona. We can also rule out Russia as a vocal minority of its football fans are batshit racist and he has a young family that he wouldn't want to expose to an environment so foreign to England. A swansong season or two at his beloved Marseille, and then a testimonial with us and Marseille, followed by Brazil 2014. What a career it has been, I wish him well in his future endeavours even if he chooses Barcelona.

Where to, Didier? I hope he doesn't finish in a graveyard like Qatar, UAE or China. One last bang somewhere in Europe. Perhaps France. And what does this mean for our future? Who can fill Drogba's stadium sized boots? Lukaku, Torres or Sturridge? Or a new signing? So many questions...

Drogba 10-1 Arsenal. Drogba 10-1 Spurs Drogba 10-1 Liverpool It'll take those clubs years to equal what Drogba did in 8 years.

I still can't believe it. The tears have dried up a bit as I understand he had to have left at some point. I will miss that sense of excitement whenever he got on the ball. I will miss that hope when we desperately need a goal. I will miss his arrogant swagger on the pitch. His amazing record in finals and against Arsenal. His ability to score from anywhere on the pitch, and his ability to destroy any defender in the world. Goodbye, Didier. I hope you return one day. Raised a weak smile

The greatest foreigner to play in England. Forget Bergkamp, Henry, Cantona, etc. This is a titan of a man who's sheer force of will carried Chelsea Football Club. He will be missed. 157 goals and 71 assists for 24 million pounds, what a brilliant signing he was.

8 years of wonderful memories. Thank you Didier.

I'm crying Fucking hell. What a player. What a man. Our best since Osgood. I can't imagine us without him.

Fucking hell Goodbye Didier. Thanks for everything. Legend.

His agent denied that.

Man United aren't done. Their squad which is a ragtag mix of teenagers and veterans still hasn't reached its potential. Sir Alex Ferguson is for a good reason the greatest manger in the history of this sport. I'm not going to write them off. The only difference is that Ferguson must take a more Harry Redknapp style scrambling around Eastern Europe looking for free agents, in terms of his transfer policy.

Interesting. Why might that be, that working class White's aren't as likely to become criminals as working class Black's? I will take a guess and say the upbringing of them as children, particularly parenting style has a large influence.

Surely music has nothing to do with crime. It may be glamourised in modern music but it's not so long ago that Mafia culture was glamourised by films like Godfather and Goodfellas. Did that really influence a generation of Italian's/Italian-American's to join the Mafia?

I'd wager probably half to two thirds of Black criminals are from the working classes. Not that that's an excuse, it points to long term structural problems within the social stratification of British society that can't be sorted 'sharpish'.

Sorry

I meant that they think that we have ruined him entirely as a player- which we haven't, we've just given him a new role and he has grown into it very well.

Well said. I think a lot of the indecisiveness from some members here stems from the fact that we have been very lucky in his tenure. While that is a valid point, that he got the players to perform somewhere near their best should be enough to convince everybody.

Not in the Premiership, TV rights are shared. He's been given 16 months now to come out of his slump but still hasn't managed to do it. At best we'll end up with a 15-20 goal a season player. He's not the guy for us to depend on, he is more like what Anelka was when he played here- get a few goals here and there, score some important goals, but a foil for a more prolific player.

No, it's not. They dominate because the system permits and encourages big clubs to continue perpetuating their imperialism over everyone else. How much money can Barcelona's army of fans make? Their stadium only holds 99,000. A very small fraction of those 'customers' actually give their money to the club. Buying shirts, merchandise etc. don't count. How many Messi shirts will one fan buy? Not that many, but how many games will those 99,000 attend? Probably all of them.

Spot on, Ron, Barcelona are one of the biggest in the world and they officially call their supporters 'customers' I hope that rampant commercialism never affects Chelsea.