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Indeed, it would be a shame if Napoli's rise to the top from Serie C plateau's or declines as a result of selling off players.

And what is it you do, exactly? Buy a few shirts every year and a season ticket? What's that, about a thousand pounds all up? Overseas fans contribute in the tens of millions every year. Get used to it mate, we're more important than you. Far more important than domestic fans in the current climate. Why do you think the club keep fucking you over with ticket prices, but trip over themselves to make themselves appealing to foreign fans? Why do you think they go on tours to Asia and America? If you don't like it, go support Millwall. Your superiority is laughable, overseas fans are the present and future of this club. Funny you say our whole fanbase, the vast majority of football fans of any top flight club are overseas based. I can say 'fuck you' to all English based Chelsea fans and I'd be insulting about 0.5% of our total fanbase.

Delightfully imperialistic. 'You're not from England therefore your opinion is irrelevant'. 'You don't attend games so you're a wanker'. For the record, it's much harder for us to catch Chelsea games. All you need is a few pounds and a train ticket. This is quite a meltdown for anybody to have, let alone a new member. Have you ever heard of the word globalisation? Or television? Or Web 2.0? Stuck in the '30s are you? Thinking about going out and giving Harry Hun a good old British thrashing, 6 of the best, trousers down?

What is the point of having conscription if you're not going to fight someone?!

Yeah but until he moved to Barcelona he had never scored a goal in a CL knockout match. He still only has 4 goals scored in CL knockout ties, which is a terrible record for a purportedly top class striker.

Points against signing him: He's the Mario Gomez of Italy. Put him under any pressure whatsoever and watch his skull crush itself. He's not good enough for his wage demands. He's old. He has an enormous nose.

When will you be back? Also, why does Finland need to conscript its citizens? It's hardly a warlike country/a target for invasion. I suppose the authorities still think the USSR will reform and re invade Finland

You have quite a record with predictions, so I'm not going to disagree with you. Except my dislike for him has never stopped me cheering for him. I'll still be a hater every moment he's not on the pitch, no matter if he scores 3 or 70.

I guarantee you if David Villa had been fit Torres wouldn't have even been on the plane to Poland, and rightfully so. 12 goals in 65 games. 29 years old. It'll only get worse from here.

But that's the hallmark of an excellent midfielder. Short simple passes that maintain possession.

Ah, Bosingwa, our Monobrow Menace What's the touted price? Could do much worse than Maicon, especially if we can get him in for less than 10 million.

Parker might be a better tackler than Mikel but he's incapable of passing the ball at all. Mikel's standout attribute is the accuracy of his passing. Gerrard isn't as good as Lampard, in any context. I understand you were trying to compare the teams but I think you chose a pretty poor example in England, because they're not very good

Maybe but Ramires is at his best as a right winger. Mikel and Lampard have a good understanding and they're more technically rounded than Ramires so I would prefer them to start as much as possible. Ramires has explosive pace, wonderful stamina and is a good dribbler of the ball, making him more suited as a right midfielder who can get up and down both ends of the pitch rather than an out-and-out, get to the byline and cross style/cut inside and shoot winger.

Torres hasn't improved or even flatlined. He's declined. He's picked ahead of Sturridge because Di Matteo doesn't like him and he's picked ahead of Lukaku because he's not ready yet. Negredo was horrific in the one showing he gave for Spain so obviously Torres gets picked ahead of him, and tiki-takanaccio doesn't like big men up front so Llorente's out. From those four he's only better than Negredo and Lukaku. Both are young and will catch him sooner or later.

What?! They're not at all comparable! Wellbeck-Torres Young-Hazard Rooney-Mata Walcott/Milner-Ramires/Marin Gerrard-Lampard Parker-Mikel Wellbeck is better than Torres and Rooney and Mata are roughly the same talentwise. We're better than England everywhere else.

Fair enough, but don't you think we have decent backups in Meireles and Essien?

So you expect to pay 40 million for a player to sit on the bench? Yes. Mikel's 24, he can take that with ease. He could probably do 70 a season without breaking a sweat. Lampard can probably get through 50 as he's phenomenally fit. If there are injuries, that's where Meireles, Romeu, Essien and McEachran come into play.

That could so easily have been a post about Salomon Kalou. As Kez once said, 'work rate doesn't stop him from being an awful footballer'.

Yes. How can you, with a face like that? More seriously, he's not a classic number 10. Buying him suddenly won't make us much more dangerous. Mikel and Lampard in centre midfield is a pairing that is good enough, they don't need to be broken up by spending 40 million on a guy who's equal/slightly better than them..

He wouldn't have improved us by enough to justify 40 million. 40 million pounds. Just think about what a huge sum that is for a centre midfielder not known for penetration.

Hate(Cap)erz gonna hate.

There will be 'scenes' in France. I think he'll be fantastic over there. Not that he wasn't here

Wenger is a genius. Very few managers in the world can consistently get their team there or thereabouts at the top while losing their best players without fail every season. Vieira, Bergkamp, Cole, Henry, Fabregas, Nasri (lol) all left and he recovered from their losses every time. Arsenal will still be an enormous threat.

I dislike him because he's shit and gets unfair plaudits for doing things you would expect any striker to do. I put away that dislike when he plays, because as a Chelsea player he deserves our support no matter how shit he is. It's a shame that for many that attitude didn't go across from Torres to Anelkalouda/Bosingwa/Mikel.