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Where's the pity vote then?! It's only the 3rd time by the way.

The League Cup 3rd Round draw will take place tonight at 9.45pm UK time. It will start after the Northampton v Wolves tie is done, according to the QPR website.

Deserved victory for Madrid though they really should have won by more than just 2-1. The amount of chances Higuain squandered is just .

Being mentioned there but looks like it might be true. Have 1-2 backbones to the story it seems. We shall see.

Best to stop jinxing it!

Edited the 1st post already. All the pots are filled now with the teams lining up based on their UEFA coefficient ranking. Draw will take place tomorrow in Monaco at 4.45pm UK time.

Have higher coefficient than Dynamo Kiev and Olympiacos, which was mainly boosted by their run to the Europa League final a couple of seasons ago.

No. Nothing official whatsoever on it. Just a silly rumour started on Twitter.

Moses's Twitter account -> www.twitter.com/victormoses Has been verified and followed by club's official Twitter account.

Maybe or we would have ended up shipping 5-6 goals back then...

A coincidence I guess.

True but anyone from Pot 2 is gonna be tough for us. Wouldn't be surprised if we get Benfica again and we would then be hearing Jorge Jesus ranting about us, again...

Absolutely agree there. Mandzukic is more of a all rounder type of striker than Gomez will ever be. Offers so much more to Bayern compared to Gomez just like you mentioned there. Mandzukic links up the play way more than Gomez as his one is basically non-existent. If you don't give him chances to score in games, you're practically playing with 10 men.

This might be a reason. http://www.bettingexpert.com/blog/5-tactical-observations-august-2012

Sounds like he's an upgrade on Savic...

Here's a profile of Nastasic if anyone is interesed.

So much for people predicting PSG to walkover Ligue 1 this season. On the other hand, Montpellier haven't made the best of starts to the season too, lost twice and drew the other. Only Marseille have a 100% record still after 3 games and they beat Montpellier at the weekend.

Never believe a manager when they say that. Wouldn't read too much into it really. Essien, Malouda and Benayoun all were there and could still find themselves leaving the club.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4508987/Frank-Lampard-Id-love-John-Terry-to-lift-Champions-League-trophy.html Great read that!

Good read. Regarding Lampard, the problem with him and AVB wasn't about dropping the former to the bench but more because AVB did not communicate with him or any other players for that matter. RDM is currently doing what AVB failed to do, which is talk to the players and explain to them when making a decisions in terms of putting them on the bench or using them in a specific role in the team etc. And besides, Lampard have played 3 games in 1 week prior to the Newcastle game and with him being 34 already, I'm sure he would understand if he is to be rested and rotated once in awhile.

Can't see us selling Sturridge off at this stage of the transfer window and leave us with just Torres. We'll be basically shooting ourselves in the foot if we do that. Teams will then just hike the price of their striker that we want as they know we would be desperate to get one in. We have done extremely well with our transfer purchases so far and I don't see us doing something as silly as that right now. IF we do want to sell Sturridge, then get in a replacement first before selling. That said, want to see us have 3 STs as options rather than just 2.

Cheers for the votes guys. Much appreciated. And gone for xPetrCechx since TorontoChelsea did not make it into the poll.

Looks like Martinez is now officially a Bayern player. Quite surprised that he wants to go there but better than joining City or United I guess.

Brendan Rodgers has said Downing may have to play at left back if he is to save his career at Liverpool.

Maybe because it's a long season ahead in the Championship and the respective managers want to keep them as fresh as possible?