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More importantly though, better hope he doesn't go pay ridiculous money for average players. £21m for Shaun Wright Phillips...£21m!

Terry speaking about Rodgers ahead of the Liverpool game... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-john-terry-reveals-liverpools-1840483

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Cahill Exclusive: "We're not even thinking about failing to qualify for the Champions League" An interview Cahill did with Sky Sports talking about Top 4 finish, the fixture congestion this season and life at the club.

And there is the Madrid derby in the Copa Del Rey final. A lot will be at stake in these two matches alright!

Yup. English media has brainwashed most people to believe that Hazard is on 175k p/w wages here when he's clearly not as the Belgian/French media has said he's only on 110k p/w wages(or somewhere around there). In fact, I even remember the English media going in detail and calculating the price of Hazard's entire contract which was just ridiculously mental! Anyway, between the English and French/Belgian media, I know who I would rather believe more in this situation given the latter knows much more about Hazard and especially the English media has an agenda against us and they don't usually have a clue what's going on with our transfers.

Isn't that a case of differentiation as well if they don't want to have a similar design? Some people may like it if they are similar. Able to mix and match with same colors.

Don't think it's that hard to differentiate between the two especially when you can already see one darker blue area across the middle there.

What's with the white line across the middle there?! Feels so unnecessary!

Preparing for all possibilities Raphael. Preparing for all possibilities...

Express basically took the news from Bild. I will be over the moon if both Mourinho and Lewandowski come to the club in the summer!

I wasn't comparing Pellegrini's record in the Champions League with Moyes' run in the domestic cup competitions here but more so both of their record in the respective domestic cup competitions - Copa Del Rey v FA Cup & League Cup - and they have not been very successful at it. And yes, I'm not taking anything away from Pellegrini's CL achievements with Villarreal and Malaga but he should not be overhyped because of that especially when you consider what he did at Madrid in the Champions League and even Copa Del Rey. About Moyes's playing styles, I don't necessarily think we can say for certain he is a manager that plays a rugged, negative and physical style of football. Unlike Tony Pulis, Moyes is more of a fella who has a mixed approach in the playing style, his Everton side are capable of playing good football and also alter its approach to the long ball one, if you like, when necessary. Furthermore, Moyes has limited resources at Everton and because of this, he has to try and find any decent player that fits the bill and mould them into a team that is competitive and strong. Yes with players like Anichebe, Fellaini etc, Everton does tend to be physical and lump up the ball a bit but with players like Mirallas, Osman, Pienaar, Baines and others, we can also see the other side of playing style implemented by Moyes where they play the 1-2s, short neat passing football etc. If we hire Moyes, think he is more than capable of getting us to play good expansive football with the players that we've got and also add some toughness into the team, who has been rather soft at times this season. Moreover, don't you think Mourinho will do similar things if he returns? I'm sure he will look to get some physical players into the team(which we need anyway) and instill a bit of physicality and aggression(which we also need).

Are you working for Adidas?

Not that I'm championing for David Moyes to be appointed(and he's not without his own flaws either) but it's funny that some seem to have completely hype up Pellegrini's success(if you can call it that) at Villarreal, Madrid and Malaga and downplay Moyes's when on the grand scale of things, their record is almost identical in terms of winning trophies at the highest level. Yes, Pellegrini may have done well in guiding both Villarreal and Malaga to the latter stages of the Champions League in their debut season but can that really be considered as a success or a true measure what Pellegrini is about? It is only one season after all and not saying those teams got lucky to get there(or maybe they do) but sometimes, teams in debut competitions like that can go far because of the surprise and freshness factor about them that other teams do not know about. Ivan Jovanovic guided APOEL to the Champions League quarter finals last season on an even smaller budget scale. Maybe we should go hire him... When you look beyond that fact, he didn't exactly did too well with Madrid in the same competition, did he? Got out of the group stage but failed to beat Milan twice in it and couldn't break Madrid's Last 16 jinx by losing out to Lyon. I know the previous coaches have all failed to do it but when you look at the talent he had at his disposal, he really should be doing much better. Furthermore, it's also worth remembering that his Madrid side lost embarrassingly 4-0 to Alcorcon in the Copa Del Rey in that same season. For all the supposed greatness that has been talked about Pellegrini, his record in the Copa Del Rey isn't all that impressive. Villarreal 2004/05: LOST in Round of 64 - Girona 2005/06: LOST in Last 16 - Valencia 2006/07: LOST in Last 16 - Vallodolid 2007/08: LOST in QF - Barcelona 2008/09: LOST in Last 32 - Poli Ejido Real Madrid 2009/10: LOST in Last 32 - Alcorcon Malaga 2010/11: LOST in Last 16 - Sevilla 2011/12: LOST in Last 16 - Real Madrid 2012/13: LOST in QF - Barcelona Isn't that record a tad similar to Moyes's in the League Cup and FA Cup, always losing out early and not being able to get over the finishing line? As for the playing style, Pellegrini has his team play good football and being organized but isn't that also identical to Moyes's Everton? It's one thing playing good football and getting the results and another doing those by getting over the finishing line and win the trophies. Both Pellegrini and Moyes's style of play have brought the best out of their respective teams (Malaga & Villarreal for Pellegrini) in achieving the results but neither have won any trophies with them despite this apparent success. In Pellegrini's case, he didn't achieve any of it either with much more talented players at Madrid and when you see what Mourinho achieved after him, it does kinda put out the question whether Pellegrini actually has the capability of succeeding at the very top level by bringing out the best in the players like Mourinho has done with Madrid. Pellegrini looks like one of those managers who over-achieves with smaller clubs and under-achieves with the bigger ones.

Just something about David Moyes. I would not necessarily be against his appointment simply because he knows the league very well and one thing you are likely to be guaranteed from his team is that the players will give a 100%(or close to it at least) in performances every game. However, the issue does come when you look at his track record in terms of winning trophies. Yes, he has done extremely very well at Everton to make them competitive as possible on a shoe string budget but even then, he has managed quite a few good Everton sides that should be winning or have won at least 2-3 trophies in the past 10 years and hasn't. And when you see Swansea won the League Cup this season, in Laudrup's first season, it kinda makes one wonder if Moyes has ability to drag his players over the finishing line in really big crunch matches. Also, when you look at his record agains the big teams in the league, he has yet to win at Emirates(or Highbury), Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford and Anfield in his years at Everton. I know it's not easy to win at those grounds but it's rather staggering that he has yet to win at any of those grounds. Furthermore, Moyes's tactics can be a bit of a suspect. Sometimes, he a bit too rigid in it and seem rather unwilling to take the risk to change things around. And not to mention, he can be a bit negative with it as we have seen in the past. Despite not being able to play in the Champions League so far, Everton have played a fair bit of games in Europe in the UEFA Cup previously and they have not exactly done all too well in it especially when playing against decent sides such as Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. They even lost 5-1 to Dinamo Bucharest at one point!

That's because they want to make us look like we're spending big bucks on players. The higher the price, regardless of currency, the better it is for them to say we're buying sucess and all that. Part of their agenda against us.

Just because they're playing 5 at the back, doesn't necessarily mean we should be pushing a bit more though. Would have been difficult to break them down. The plan was to invite them onto us, press them somewhere between 30-40 yards out from our goal and hit them on the break, similar to what we did against Arsenal at SB. The approach was working a treat for long periods of the game but we just couldn't finish our chances and ran out of steam. Had Mata converted that chance just before HT and go on to win the game, we wouldn't be talking about this right now.

Was that conservative though as you previously mentioned? Our intensity/urgency dropped then simply because we couldn't keep it up with the pressing as we have played quite a fair bit of games before that.

Conservative? No, we weren't. We completely stifled them for large parts of the game by pressing and forcing them into mistakes, created tons of chances but just didn't take enough of them. We ended up running out of steam and conceding the goal that obviously led to a draw.

Even after dropping those players, it seems that they still play quite a fair bit of games for their respective clubs. And being bold to drop players is only one part of the matter. As for Hiddink, didn't he sort of back track with his retirement comments in February or something? Said something about if he can still continue managing, then he will do so.

That! It looks nice but if anything, would take Steve's design over this!

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/8646574/Brazilian-international-is-joining-Cruzeiro-from-Vasco-da-Gama He's now heading to Cruzeiro..

A bunch of them? Ooh Mata..

I don't know but Pellegrini just seem too nice of a manager for me. Doesn't seem to have that ruthless nature/streak about him to really change things or make decisive changes etc.