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Simple solution, we sack/demote Eva (sorry guys- its the only way forward if you want Mata to show more energy) and bring back Mr. Blood Spinner, Bryan English as physio/team doctor. We'll never see Mata get tired again.

Paulo is a legend and a great guy to boot. Why is this being done to him?

Word on the street is that Paulo has been AVB'd. Sack the one responsible for this, whoever that may be (surely not Robbie?). You don't fuck with Paulo.

Xavi uses Human Growth Hormone- and he uses them right now. 2012. So, if Messi is given an exemption for using HGH because he was sick, what's Xavi's excuse? You lose 8% of your speed after completing five 2nd half sprints. 8%!

What makes you think he'll accept a pay cut? Because he loves the club? This is John Terry we're talking about here, not Paolo Maldini.

It may be a stereotype but I think it would affect pretty much everyone. When you know you're in a position where you'll be set for life without having to bother with education.. who among us would still care about education?

But to these ghetto residents, they will know around the time they're 13-14 at most that they have huge potential and that they will make it into the big leagues. At that point they can forget about furthering themselves academically, all they have to do is turn up to school every day, avoid getting expelled and hey presto, they've completed high school. It doesn't matter if they completed it with a GPA of 0.1, they'll be accepted by the college on a sports scholarship or if they're supremely talented they'll do a Kobe.

This is entering 'RACIST' territory here (apologies if it's interpreted as such), but surely the NBA's lack of high school completion is because of the vast amount of ghetto Blacks/Latino's in the sport that go straight from the street to college?

He did? I always thought he was a drop-out.

No, but you get cases like that Lin bloke in the NBA who was a Harvard drop-out.

Perhaps going through tertiary education in combination with training would help a lot of footballers. All youth academies have done are create arrogant, moronic wankers. At least they'll gain some perspective while studying in college.

@, why do you call him van Rapist?

Not to worry... soon we'll be playing at the "US Postal Service Stadium Presented by Coca-Cola" or some such.

Come on, be fair, Terry will eventually reach Malouda's level in perhaps 3 or 4 years time when he won't offer much.

It doesn't matter what they pay us. We have diversified sponsorship, many other clubs don't. Man City for example only have deals with a handful of corporations, whereas we are sponsored by/have links to Sauber, Delta, Gazprom as well as Samsung.

How well they performed is irrelevant. At the end of the day they'll still the same when Terry hits Malouda's level, they will be two equally shit, past it players sitting on enormous wages while offering next to nothing to the team.

It's because he's Malouda and not someone else that the majority of you think he's a greedy cunt. Wait until Mr. Chelsea is a useless 35 year old. This forum will probably have a meltdown.

Come on San Marino!

I don't think they have gotten any better. I can't think of a single Moldovan player who was even an average player at an average club in any of the major leagues.

But that can also lead to him renewing his faith in the players that underperformed. If our next game was 3 or 4 days after the Super Cup he would have certainly dropped them, it's not necessarily the case now.

It doesn't matter if it's important or not, it won't be enforced. I'm not saying the principle of stopping clubs from getting in to the point of collapse is wrong. What I am saying is that FFP will not work because of the levels of corruption in top level sport worldwide.

Have it, @CHOULO19!

His statement here is entirely to boost his own ego and further his own credentials. He can't tell the truth of the matter, which is that he inherited a squad containing the best striker since Ronaldo; it'll make him look bad. We didn't lose because of tactics, we lost because we couldn't cope with Falcao and our players turned out some very sloppy performances, which you can't afford against anyone let alone Falcao.

Don't overrate this Argentine shit-kicker turned manager. He's an idiot. We lost because of one R. Falcao who happened to put us to the sword with two world class finishes in the first 20 minutes. Perhaps its fat not muscle...

Wait.. so it was taken without the consent of either of them by some third party? I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the EU, especially as we're talking about pornographic material. In Australia it's illegal to have any type of photo's of people without their permission, though obviously that's pretty much never enforced since no one really cares unless its being used as blackmail.