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5 million, eh? I think if we double that they'll find it hard to resist. The problem I have with right back is that we essentially need to sign a backup, someone who'll be happy with 20 starts and a handful of appearances off the bench. Ivanovic should still be our first choice, IMO. I don't think Debuchy fits that bill. Also it would be nice to have a more attacking right back to serve as a contrast to Ivanovic, someone we can bring on to add some extra attacking movement in our play.

It's amusing, though. That you cannot deny (unless I'm just very easily amused, which I normally am ). We had better stop derailing the thread.

It's twitter, therefore it's rubbish.

Hideous. Post a picture?

Thanks for the translation If there really is no interest, we should be dictating the terms. He isn't that committed to Porto anymore, he does want out, and if no one else is in the running, it seems poor business from Porto to hold out for an inflated fee. Under the circumstances if I was the boss at Porto I'd take 30 million and laugh to the bank knowing I still got the best of the bargain.

I don't think the quality was there for him to get a good job done. By mid April we were too far gone, it would have been monumental to get back in the top 4; and unfortunately the nucleus of the squad that won the two finals were filled with players who sadly have lost the consistency from their game.

It'll be quite an achievement, 200 goals from midfield. He's already got 186, I think he can get there perhaps at the end of the upcoming season or early on in the season following.

Sat Apr 13 Tottenham Hotspur H- could be tough Sat Apr 20 Liverpool A- Easy Sat Apr 27 Swansea City H- Easy Sat May 4 Manchester United A- tough Sun May 12 Aston Villa A- Easy Sun May 19 Everton H- could be tough That's my appraisal of it. Of course, who knows, Spurs could be rubbish by then and Villa could have recovered from 2011/12 to turn out to be a decent team.

30 million? Really? Sell sell sell!

Google translate is rubbish, though. There's a site called badtranslator that puts through English text through 35 google translate languages and gives you a final result; I put in "Salomon Kalou is a cracking footballer" and got back: "Eden Hazard has signed for Chelsea Football Club":

Hi! I can speak a bit of German, what do you think? Tag, ich heisse Eric, ich bin achtzehn jahre alt und ich komme aus Australien. Sein Englisch is sehr gut, wilkommen!

Ha! We have Vanilla Coke in Australia just about everywhere You should just move here.

Can't be worse than Sergio Ramos letting the Copa del Rey get squashed by the team bus.

Here's an interesting and slightly shocking article on football and smoking: http://soccerlens.co...football/86928/ Balotelli is a real surprise, 5 or 6 a day; Ashley Cole has smoked throughout his career, Cruyff smoked 20, and Socrates smoked 2 packs a day! Our own Gianluca Vialli was apparently a big smoker as well, during his playing career

That photo of him smoking is epic.

I can't, the little buggers inside an air conditioner

Check my post in The Pub A mouse, in a home located in the 2nd highest developed country in the world!

Check my post in The Pub A mouse, in a home located in the 2nd highest developed country in the world!

I too, would like some pictures

FUCK OFF YOU STUPID MOUSE!! Squeaking all night, ruined my sleep

I can beat all that. There's a fucking mouse (or mice) in my air conditioner. I know I live in a ghastly neighborhood but this takes the cake.

Cardboard?! You bananabenders sure are weird. For the benefit of non-Australians, a bananabender is not a homosexual slur, it refers to the inhabitants of the state of Queensland.

I don't like that. It makes me look at my life and go "These guys are at the top at the same age as me, what have I done?" . God forbid when I'm 28 and there are kids 10, 15 years younger than me that will achieve far more in a few years than I will all life.

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Pirlo also has a monster free kick on him.