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Slovenia is a cool country and fans from what I have seen are ok - always a small minority ruin it for the majority - and it's not Eastern Europe - it's right next to Austria - I'm going back there soon, cheap beer and lovely woman, sorry I mean weather If Cole's testimony stands up under cross examination - case over - innocent!

There is a loophole in the UK Judicial system... The written Press (official) cannot report on the case during the trial - only at the close of each day, and the Judge can direct what they can/can not report. However, 'twitter' and 'social' feeds are not covered by this jurisdiction and as such, people in the gallery can 'tweet' away at their leisure. Here is a pretty good tweet feed (kudos to someone else who posted it earlier in the thread); https://twitter.com/tariqpanja

Anybody, even a fukin Martian can tell that he is in a sarcastic pose there - that's exactly the type of pose you pull if someone's talking shite... I had some doubts, but after seeing that video - I'm now 100% convinced this is a hatchet job by those poor, sad loosers, The Ferdinands. Rio might have been a great player, but Anton, all hype and no substance... I had a similar thing, was dating a black girl @ work and some Asian dude got out of his face on coke @ Xmas party, spat in my face as I was chatting to a girl he fancied (he knew I had GF, I was just chatting!) - so I slammed him on the floor and stood on his throat (other people came and pulled me off - bearing in mind this was black tie do @ Stockbrokers). Luckily, lots of people saw the incident, but he tried to use the 'race' card against me - it backfired and he was fired - but it was touch + go for a long while and mentally it caused problems with the then missus and my other black/non-white origin workers. If Terry is found innocent, then Rio+Anton should both be sued for libel. And definitely more Rio - with his pathetic Liar/Liar tweets etc. If the sole case rests on that video, then this has been a massive waste of taxpayers money! I'm sick of the courts wasting money on cases like this, where child-abuse, rape, murder, mugging trials go unsolved - or you watch kids steal a load of cars and get let-off... This country needs a good hard long look at itself. This isn't Great Britain, far from it...

I love this player - coming from midfield deep, great linkup play we've found our new lampard!!! No to fish/rat face - he ain't as good as this boy, and with super frankie to help him settle in, he will be the buy of the decade! All this 'unproven' stuff drives me mad, look at some of the best players in the premiership, everybody took a gamble, least not our legend Zola! We gotta get this boy and watch the Manc clubs cry with envy and moan about us buying everybody! True force to be reckoned with and the even bigger upside - every other world class player is gonna wanna play in our team! Feels like a Barca moment....

Ok it's a gamble, but the kid is promising and will be at the Olympics. We are building a squad for the future with young players a good 7 yr plan. I like this, shows the world Roman is committed and also shows he was serious about rebuilding. You need a BIG squad nowadays, look at City they have almost 3 teams to field. A few key injuries and our team looked light, now we are going for depth and breadth with some amazingly talented and more importantly versatile youngsters. Exciting times ahead (if this story is true of course ;p)

It's about blending youth + experience Youth for flair, experience to calm nerves and build a platform for the youth. Also, never underestimate that experience in helping to bring on our younger potential - you can buy many things in life, but EXPERIENCE can only be earned... If we get Maicon it's a massive PLUS IMHO... Also Drog wanted to carry on his excellent charity work and needed some big money to do that. I still think he will come back to coach at CFC - much like Vierra at City...

We need to give the lad a try, Josh + KDB are also still unproven and potentially looks like Josh might not make it - sad but true, Swansea didn't play him Every CFC player deserves a chance though - but Oscar is a great prospect and is a great addition to our squad. Unlikely we will get Hulk now, but if he does come pretty big Brazil contingent for him I hope Piazon gets some games too - really like him

The day I believe TalkSport... Last year he only wanted to play for Chelsea... Seem's he wants to play for anybody other than the Spuds - and who can blame him!

Er... in the Champs League final he came on, won the corner we scored from! I think you have to see Torres 'live' - I never appreciated how hard he works 'off-camera' as well - you just don't see that on TV, but it was a noticeable effort, when I was at the Allianz-Arena... He'll come good this year, injuries, lack of form, change of management and lack of creative players ALL haven't helped his cause! Look at Sheva, he's still a class player and showed that in the Euro's... We just need to play to our attackers 'strengths' not expect him to change his whole game to suit us - some change is needed, but the way we played, didn't give him the best opportunities - it was too slow and predictable and meant they could double up on him - or he had to come and get the ball instead of being played in behind a'la Spain + Liverpool... - go back and watch some highlights on YouTube - he's one of the best 'on the shoulder' attackers full stop...

Let's not make this personal - everybody entitled to an opinion - no 'racist' comments needed. Chelsea need money from home + abroad - everybody is a CFC fan here - so chill out! AND Milwall are a good team, my old man is a Millwall boy and I've been to a few matches with him and even had hospitality for his 60th Birthday - don't knock the Saaath Laandahn Lions... They have passionate fans and have a bit of history, but they are a good bunch Anyway, hopefully we'll loan some players to them this year - that would cheer my old man up

WELL SAID - come on guys - stop dragging this off-topic WE ARE ALL CFC FANS - regardless of nationality, race, geographic location - let's just ALL agree to disagree and keep this thread on Modric. It's good that we have such passion from Season Ticket holders and DEDICATED overseas people - who judging by some of the time-zones - are massively inconvenienced by watching Chelsea matches on TV. Both Domestic + International TV Rights help fill the CFC coffers and allow us to have a great team with great supporters. Yes, some of the comments have been insensitive and stupid - NONE OF YOU need to prove you are a bigger fan - WE ARE ALL FANS - otherwise we wouldn't be here Excepting the odd troll of course... Anyway, back to boring ole' work now - but please - let this be the end of the personal attacks - and I don't mind either way if we got Modric, if he comes I will, like all other CFC players, support him 100% - because he's one of us then! M...

Agreed, they are still so jealous He worked out better than Nasri or Fabregas - poor old Arse fans, 5k week lol

Guys CHILL out - everybody.... Text on forums, like email is 'subjective' how one person reads it, Is different to how other people read it! We're all CFC fans and not everybody can agree. Scoring cheap points off each other IS NOT a good way to be, we need a blend of opinions on here and some you may / may not agree with - but lets keep the flame wars down please! I'm not offended by the post and I have zero chance this year of attending SB. It doesn't make me any less of a fan, or an 'forum expert' - I'm certainly no Ray Wilkins. So let's all learn to live together, it would be a pretty poor form if we all agreed with each other - like the Prawn Sandwich Brigade So deep breath, relax and back on topic :)

I also don't get why everybody says he AVB is a tactical genius? Some of his decisions at Chelsea seemed bizarre and instead of using all of the tools at his disposal he sulked like a little kid (immature) and only played those he liked! That's not professional or tactically adept? I think plenty of Spurs boys will be leaving and we should look at Modric and definitely Walker - maybe in VDV as a squad player and loan them Lukaku as man city deal for Adebeyaor looks like falling through...

Lol cheers for the replies indeed Gruss Got or Servus Yeah Austria is cold in Winter but 34+ in summer it's madness! I live right next to the Untersburg mountain and sitting on the top of that with a beer is awesome There is an English shop in town, but like you said papers a day old and way overpriced This place is better than any paper though Can't wait to wear my new Chelsea shirt with the little gold star to work - just have to wait for a dress down day

Man u tabled a 20 million bid for him according to The Times... We should get in there for 25mil - I prefer him to Modric even tho unproven in Prem... I also think Modric is full of shite, if he had wanted to join us lat year, why didn't he this year, especially as we are now European champs!!!

Ouch - at least another 2 week wait according to that article... In Thunderbirds a lot happens in 5 minutes - God knows what will happen in 2 weeks!!!

Hallo, servus! Berlin a bit far, but if you ever in Salzburg give us a shout can grab a beer and match Unfortunatey I only speak dialect (Bavarian/Austrian) but your English looks great

Hey everybody! Great forum - been lurking a while then thought why not join! Getting English papers here impossible so use this place as my daily Chelsea digest! Some great convo's I was lucky to get a corporate ticket to Munich well 2 actually and flew my younger bro over to watch! What a night! I have aged 10 years, got drunk on non-alcoholic beer and kept the misses waiting for hours - told her it would only be 90 min match, she went to a restaurant - oops!!!

Yup, injuries and loss of form are a nightmare for any player! He is class though and will definitely improve - still think he will turn out the bargain of the xfer window

+1 Happy for Chelsea sad for him, can't wait for Pre-season

Agree - a modern Tony Daly is how I see Theo... Just no consistent end product.... Unless, he has very bad coaching at Arsenal? If he was my player he would be sprinting and then crossing 90% of his training, building memory muscle and learning to hit a sixpence in the box If he could do that, he would be awesome

+1 For a good squad player his arrogance is astounding... I actually feel a little sorry for Arsene, he is a good manager but the club lack ambition and he is scared of making big purchases... I'm also glad though as like the spuds, I'm hoping Arsenal become a diminishing force... I bet the goners (typo? ) rue the day Dein left.... I would have RVP though, more depth and breadth to the squad and experience and ex-players always score against old clubs (Glen J) so he's worth at least 2 games a year

Hmm I for one will be sad if we don't sign him. Fact: he has been one of the most consistent players over the past years. Ok he had a wobbler against Bale - but he probably thought who's Bale? And didn't take it seriously, best thing to happen to a defender, now he knows to research his opposition and make sure the doesn't happen again. Who can also forget JT being skinned alive against Liverpool? JT made Carroll look world class that day, does that mean JT is a bad player - No!!! I worked with SI Games the guys who make Football Manager, and currently the guys making FIFA, whilst stats are one thing in games - everybody knows experience is crucial... Maicon would be great for a few seasons and really help blood the youngsters it's a win win for everybody - and do a Man City, keep him as a coach afterwards, kinda hoping Drogba comes back after China too, to do the same thing

Hmm I work with some Croations and they are saying this is rubbish? They said reports were linking him to everybody last week and it's more likely his Agent trying to push the price (and his fee) north of 40mill euros... If the price is in euros we should definitely wait on making signings as the euro is going to tank soon - general consensus here in Austria where rumours are they are redesigning the Shilling and Germany the 'mark....