Jase

Indeed.

Setting standards high and unrealistically? Am just stating what has happened as it is; both the good and bad side of it. Hardly any exaggeration of the situation. Maybe some people just want or choose to see things differently. I don't know.. I call it realism (or skepticism). Have no problem with people wanting to be optimistic. It's not even wrong at all(!) but in this case, am just basing it on the track record of us bringing youngsters through the ranks.

Will just throw this here (again). Maybe I didn't make it clear or you are taking the words too literally. We have seen the board making good decisions, which is good, but then when you see them make the opposite. The mind boggles. It's like how can they go from one end to other in their decision making. Not saying they are completely useless but they certainly not as great as people seem to make them out to be. It will be a HUGE relief when that happens but on the other hand, isn't what we have complained about our squad problems - the STs, CMs etc - a bad decision making by the board in the past years? They want to take control of transfers? Fine but then they went to completely mess that up buying youngsters, AMs mainly only and neglected the more apparent areas that needed to be fixed. It has taken them years, managers and finally having a manager in charge that is ruthless, single minded that knows what he wants and the board follow it. All this supposed good work they are doing now with the transfers is just them fixing their mistakes in the past. Should we really be giving them credit for that? I'm not sure. If they were as great as people talk of them, maybe we wouldn't have been in the position that we did and complaining about issues within the squad for years. Till we actually see that happens and happens consistently in the upcoming years, there is no certainty that is going to happen at all. Right now, people are almost clutching at straws thinking that is just going to happen.

Moaning for the sake of it? Did you even read Madmax's post that I replied to? It's your view I guess but people must be kidding if they think the board hasn't had a bad record in recent years. They have done some good things but also some bad ones and yet many seem to think they have been great when the overall record is a more balanced. 50-50 kinda thing.

I know English players are often 'messed up' but do people really have to associate every English talent to be a total failure or the next Andy Carroll? All you seem to have done so far is leaning on the negative side and think signing Shaw is going to be a failure. And you must be a personal friend of Shaw to know that he WILL want at least 100k wages p/w... You must be kidding yourself if you think I was referring to that point about Felipe Luis.

It's never Chelsea FC if the board doesn't go f*ck up their good work by making some stupid decisions after that.

If only for the fun of it, would be nice if two of Spain's future No.1 FBs play for us...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w60cw_mourinho-the-power-of-football_sport

I remember that Michael Cox aka Zonal Marking described (somewhere along the lines) Lavezzi as not a great player and not one that is incredibly consistent but when he's given a specific job or strict tactical instruction, he will do so to the letter and put in brilliant performances.

If only (IF ONLY) his performances on the field matches his off the field marketable performance. Seriously, what do people see in Torres that makes him so marketable?!

Maybe he can replace Pogba at Juventus.

Would have loved to see us get Griezmann but since we won't be getting him, better PSG than Arsenal!

Think it's pretty clear that it was a troll account to begin with. Nobody gets on Twitter and tweet things like "I hope to be verified soon".

No wonder Mourinho is referred to as The Special One. Anything and everything will also be about Mourinho, even when it's not to begin with. People are just obsessed.

Maybe. Maybe not. PSG were just stupid enough to pay us 50m for Luiz.

All under 25 but we already have 5 AMs. How many more do we need? How many more times are we gonna spend ridiculously on another AM?!

Clearly we still need AMs. It's not like we don't have Hazard, Schurrle, Willian, Oscar, Salah in our ranks already..Oh wait...!

Don't think anyone has really said what Coop said was racist. Just that what he said could have been worded or phrased better without mentioning the skin colors given how sensitive this topic is these days. You're opening a can of worms if you start mentioning that, one way or another.

Not as bad as with people going on and on about players. It's worse.

Should have just said "big strong defenders" really.

Unfortunately, we live in an era where young players are like gold, the flavor of the moment. There is a tendency for people to overstate and understate (to put it kindly) the things they do, good and bad.

Was just laughing at it as its meant to be on the surface, nothing more. I apologize if I have made it seem like it was otherwise.

I was referring to the part where she made the Bushman reference, not the point.

:lol: That deserves to be the post of the year!

There wasn't anything wrong with Ronaldo celebrating his goal. It was a goal in the final and one in his home country after all but the way he celebrated it was kinda OTT. It wasn't THE decisive goal of the game and was an unimportant one but yet celebrated like it was.