Jase

Hardly an achievement.

Agree with that. Can understand what SHM is saying in that 1st post but also think it has been slightly exaggerated. Yes, his form may have been dodgy in the last few games of the season but remember, he has to play every game with 2 broken ribs because of the Cahill & Luiz's injury and that may have well caught up with him.

No point if you can't defend first.

Dzeko has City's No. 10 shirt but in terms of the No.10 role, Silva/Aguero/Tevez is playing in there.

You're back! Just only a couple hours ago I was asking where are you!

Here.

Geez, everybody is reading so much into the situation because of one word. ONE word!

Don't you people ever get tired of this debate?

You are right. Just checked her Twitter and she is on a holiday right now. Think she might be back only next week or the week after.

And put Mata out wide?

Erm, nope. Go read Guillem Balague's Twitter timeline. He said "months" NOT "month"!

Even then, her exams should have ended by now, no? It's been weeks already! Holidaying or having exams??

Worst of all is you get some parts of the media and ex-managers/players coming out to slate us for our defensive tactics. Feels like they are just being hypocrites as who on earth will be such an idiot to play Barcelona at their own game!! Really, the only time we parked the bus in the CL this season was against Barcelona and maybe Valencia at home. Otherwise,we usually have tried to play and attack the opposition. Against Bayern in the final, the accusations on us being on the defensive have been OTT. The reason why we looked to be doing that was because of our poor ball retention and misplacing passes too easily, which in return, invited constant pressure from Bayern and ended up having to defend most of the time. No. Not at all. Even Barcelona needed some luck to win the CL under Guardiola but almost everyone have been hypnotized by their tiki-taka football that they have overlooked other factors. In 2009, the referee turned down 4-5 LEGITIMATE penalties in favor of them and they were also lucky that we did not put away those chances from open play that we got. Then last year, Van Persie was harshly sent off for just kicking the ball away in the 2nd Last 16 tie at the Camp Nou. Arsenal were still pretty much in that tie then but once they went down to 10 men, they had no chance whatsoever. Moving on to the semis. Pepe was sent off for a supposed tackle on Alves when he didn't even touch him! Was still 0-0 that time but Madrid then lost 2-0 and pretty much the tie.

The club offered him a new contract back then but the wages wasn't what he wanted. He asked/demanded 90K+ p/w but the club refused it and he was allowed to leave. He then went to Liverpool and they paid him 90K p/w.

+1 By the way, where is francozola??

Nah. Look at it this way. We are already a club hated by the media, pundits and other fans. With Hazard already pissing people off with his attitude in this transfer saga, it would only make sense for him to come here as both are already being hated.

Think we really have to be careful here with the squad overhauling this summer. As much as we all want to get rid of the dead woods, it's imperative that we do not toss them out all at once. While they may not exactly be useful and effective as before, they still have the experience and can be used as a squad player for next season at least AND given that we're gonna have tons of games in the 2012/13 campaign, we could do with having players like that to come in for certain games and do a job for us. Furthermore, we do not want to toss all of them out in one go leaving the squad short of experience and a massive hole where we have to get in most of the replacements this summer. With the FFP rules coming in, we can't go spending like crazy in the upcoming transfer window. So, it's majorly important that we manage who's going out in the upcoming transfer window well as our primary aim is to make sure we get in the right players to fix those positions that we have been having problem with first and not squad players. Sell/release the dead woods step by step, not kick them all out in one shot.

Hating the fact that many are completely over exaggerating that we parked the bus to win the Champions League!

Just saw this. Congrats to the winners!

Regardless, he still pretty much occupy that role behind the striker and I can't imagine Rooney will be happy if he's being pushed further upfront into the ST/CF role. Furthermore, Fergie has always favored 4-4-2 with two strikers. Can't suddenly see him moving away from that to a 4-4-1-1 because of a one player.

Rooney...

Either way, both are not wanted here!

Thought it is Fabio, his brother??

http://blogs.thescore.com/footyblog/2012/05/24/lyttleton-five-memorable-games-from-didier-drogbas-stellar-chelsea-career/ A very good piece on Drogba. Well worth a read.