Magic Lamps

One could argue ManU are bigger than us because they have a higher turnover and a greater global fanbase, but Wilkins acutal argument "best place to win trophies" is bollocks. It might not feel that way, but we have been the most succesful English club in the last 10 years and recently won both European cups in a row. If I were a neutral player and not a Chelsea fan, I'd surely rather play for a young-and-coming side with burgeoning spirit, the best manager at a debt-free London club with one of the richest billionaires as generous owner rather than at a crumbling club with an average manager, ageing key players and massive debts in fucking Manchester.So much for step up.

Strange. wilikins has not been bitter at all and only spoken good about us in the meida after his arrival. Maybe that is his honest opinion...tbh manU are a bigger club than us...yet. The future is ours no club has such an amount of young quality players. If we would not make any signings in the next 5 years we would still improve year for year.

I go with Hazard. He is younger, less injury prone, more gifted. Ronaldo might have improved his goal tally when at Real, but I do not think he has improved. he was at his best in 2008 at Utd. he did not score that much but he was the best player in the world...by far. His new "simple" playing style would never have worked in the EPL. It might do in La Liga, but the majority of the teams there are shit and do not even attempt to defend him, that is why he scores so many. At ManU he won multiple player of the year awards, epl titles, a cl trophy. 3 years Real and he has only won one major trophy. The same will probably apply to Bale. he might score more in La Liga but in the EPL he would become the better player.

BAle is a tad faster and has a better shot, but Hazard is the better creator and dribbler, in general hazard's play has more dimensions to it, he is more skilfull, Bale is rather a brute direct fore. He runs into space and shoots...predictable but no one can stop him. Hazard can do that, too. Not that good but he can. But Hazard can do so much more. That is why I think Hazard has the higher ceiling. +Hazard is 1,5 years younger than Bale. I am sure next season or the season thereafter Hazard will be EPL player of the year himself.

Let alone the player, the mere signing of a ManU star against all odds despite Moyes insisting on not for sale would be a massive psychological victory over Utd.

Bale is indeed better than Hazard right now. But Hazard has the higher ceiling.

Because he is too lazy to move. Rooney is a kid who never had to grow up . He just wants things to fix themselves so he does not have to think about his future. He is the one who wants a move the least. If a bid from PSG or Real with the same sum we offered came in, Utd would bite their hand off.

All those "Rooney prepared to hand in transfer request". How much "preparation" does a 5 column e-mail need?

great to have some big guys back in the team to counter that tendency of only buying midgets - strong second row.

wow...that mus be an impressive 20kg he is curling. What a skinny dude he is. Anyway. 3 digits? I did not know that was allowed...I hope he does not have this number in matches.

It will be at 5 am here... I hope I'll grab some sleep before. Anyway, I am fuckin thrilled to finally play this oppositon again, much more thrilled than playing vs Bayern or Barca just because it is not 15 years since our last encounter. I know this is "not a competition we are obsessed to win" but it is against Real Madrid and for obvious reasons it would be great to win though. Real are a bit ahead us, I feel. Whereas I'd always rather trust Cech than Casillas in a big match and I also believe our defense is better; their incredible quality in the 5 mdifield positions is scary. Don't need to say much about Ronaldo... I hope we play our currently best team in the 1st half ---------Cech-------- Azpi--Iva--Cahill--Cole ------MvG--Ramires--- KDB---Oscar---Hazard -------Lukaku------------ 2nd can be -------Schwarzer--------- Iva--JT----Luiz(?)--Bert ------Ess---Mikel---------- Moses--Mata----Schürrle -----------Torres---------- hopefully Lamps is back and gets a cameo. Against such a big opponent, his experience is vital Anyway the point is unless u play Bayern or Barca u have to take the play to the opponent. This esp applies to Real . Dortmund fucked them all over at their home tie in the CL because they completely dominated them in midfield. That is why we should have MvG and Ramires on the pitch who are so much faster than Xabi Alonso and Khedira to press them as much as possible.

- Cahill was immense. 3 vital blocks. - I think most players had an ok game. Ramires was outstanding should have peaked is performance with a goal after his amazing solo, it is incredible at what pace and with what ease he skips past players. - Surely must be one of the fastest CMs in the world. - Our strikers all seem to be ok esp their link up play is spot on, but we lack the clinical finisher. - MvG seems to be inhibited a bit with the ball, I rather like him defensively. - Mikel indeed slows down the play and stops our counter attacks. - Someone has to tell our lads how to properly finish. - Moses looks more and more the player he has always promised to become - Torres got his pace and confidence back, shame he still is a headless chicken (he ran past 3 defenders FFS, but the 4th and the 5th would have been too much even for messi) - Schürrle is a bit off pace but took his third chance with class - Bertrand is faster than KP Boateng - I think KDB outshone Mata in terms of playmaking

cmon rami

cmon rami

oh fuck schürrle, you really need to score that Btw somehow Torres has regained pace.

Mikel fucks up the transition every time

normally he scores those

in Italy

van Ginkel and Essien's technical deficiencies limit our impact in front of goal but the defensive work has been excellent. Sharaawy and Balo rarely threaten. Milan play it dirty in the middle which - even more than their players shitfaces - make the game ugly.

cech has to catch that one

El sharaawy is one ugly wanker

ref's a bit whistle-happy

The team they started is rather weak compared to ours

True, but saying so being the best Weslh or Scottish player does not sound very impressive. I don't understand why there is not just a BRITISH premier league and a BRITISH national team. England + Gareth Bale would rock and trips to Glasgow would be nice, too. We in Germany also do not like Bavaria or East-Germany. Especially the former give us as much stick as the Scottish give the English. Still be don't say we are West Germans or Badener and the others are Ossies or Bayern or whatever, we are all Germans if we like it or not. Anyway. I don't think Bale is better than Lamps was in 2005, who was THE consistent force for us winning the title by a record margin+ shield +Carling cup + good CL run which would have ened in glory, too if Liverpool had not been gifted a ghost goal. Bale only is the best player in a Euro League team and in a depleted Premier League. Lampard was the best player of the best team in the best league in the world when it was strongest. Bale is 4th or 3rd best player behind Messi, Ronaldo and maybe Ribery. All those three are not at their career-highs themselves. Lamps in 2005 was equal to Ronaldinho, who was at his very peak at which he was better than Messi IMO.

Wel at least u do not know if there is a Virus... Anyway. when I installed first-row software my Avira antivirus found a virus in the downloaded first row data so I deleted the folder. So I googled it and found a host of other users who also encountered a virus via first row. Hence I'd rather warn members to download the software. Better use reliable software like Acestream, sopcast or simply use browser-embedded flash streams.