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ryan bertrand instead of meireles on the left wouldn't be bad either. he can sit just in front of cole and go up and down the flank all week by the looks of it. shame he isnt even on the bench

yes he is. he makes up one of the quota's i think

i said IF he is behind the club policy decisions that have been bypassing the manager over the last year. although now that i think abt it, i think u are being sarcastic

how is that clown bosingwa worthy of a place on the bench while bertrand sits out? essien has played RB enough times before so we dont have LB cover in the bench,

i'd like to know, is emenalo in charge of the "club policy" decisions? if he is,

Given their defence last time with 4 players, we can grab an away goal today

is bertrand on the bench? and what abt barca?

By the sweat of our brows, the strength of our backs, the courage of our hearts. Gentlemen, Hoist the Colours! - Pirates of the Caribbean - savvy

Our scout Guy Hillion said that he has scouted Hazard a number of times and has given 100% positive report each time. Looks like he's a target allright but the club is stalling to look at cheaper alternatives i.e Adam Johnson, Willian etc

this should be a night that we look back on 20 years later and say - "Damn, THAT was an awesome night" KTBFFH! Keep it together boys

the scouting system is not useless or anything. scouts like guy hillion and piet de vissier(spell check) are good scouts. its the way the club go about the transfers. look at the kdb transfer, avb did not particularly want to sign kdb but was forced to because of "club policy". that is where we are getting it wrong. the manager should get free control over signing players. he will have the best idea on how to incorporate players in to the team.

If a premier league club, say West Brom, offer a loan deal for Courtois, wouldn't it be better if he got some Premship experience (look at hart,)

yeah but for the record - i did try that. no luck

huh? what icon? anyway i decreased the line height in the code

Here are more pics. Dont expect "Steve" quality

Biggest game in 2 years. Keep your heads boys. KTBFFH!

spare us your "this is not how football shud be played" speech. defending is criminally underrated. football is not just abt attacking. defenders are almost never given enough recognition. when has a defender won the world pplayer of the year award? (except Cannavaro - Who wouldn't win it if Italy hadn't won the WC - there have been NONE) Chelsea executed their gameplan well and given how good barca are sittin back and countering is the only way to play them.

anybody know our record with this kit?

yeah. QPR may not even be in the Premier League to be considered

we are screwed

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1022376/chelsea-goalkeeper-thibaut-courtois-hopes-for-premier-league-loan?cc=4716 and quite frankly i agree with him. in spain, its mainly shot-stopping but here he will get to deal with teams like stoke city, norwich who play a physical game. also he will get the confidence to play no.1 for chelsea. that was missing in de gea's case. another loan to atletico wouldn't be bad but a premship loan would be a gold mine of a learning curve

i gotta admit, camp nou is set in a stunning backdrop

first of all,Tomo-91 - But i donot agree with KDB, Bruma and Courtois. KDB should definitely stay here. his passing and vision is top drawer and he could be the next damien duff. Bruma could provide decent cover to our defence because quite frankly, we have only 3 proper CB's right now. Bruma should be in the squad and maybe Chalobah should get a loan deal for experience. Bruma or Kalas or maybe even both should be retained because our defence is stretched as it is. no need of going out and buyin a CB then. As for Courtois - Cech is good enough for now but Courtois needs to go out on loan in England, not back to Atletico. There were reports that Chelsea were looking to loan him out to an English club (West Brom, Qpr were interested) and I think he could have a season like Hart had at Birmingham that really puts him on the map in england

i would take a prostate exam from wolverine bbt