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Mate I'm barely a latté colour You probably know dozens of people darker than me

So unprofessional How have you not been sacked yet #SpikeOut

I'm in a lot of debt

I'd love to see these you beaut airconditioned stadiums. What a fucking pipe dream. Airconditioned stadiums what next, the 2026 tournament will be played on Neptune?

Shutup You liked it at the time because you liked Willian

This was when I was growing an afro

Lukaku is a fantastic player (I never got the sudden insistence that strikers need to be good at anything other than scoring goals) but if I had a chance to sign Pogba I'd give away everything I owned. Mind, if Chelsea sign him, then the list of Chelsea midfielders will read miles long: Pogba, Fabregas, Ramires, Hazard, Mikel, Oscar, van Ginkel, Willian, Matic, Atsu. Not counting those on the fringes of the first team like Chalobah. That's way too many.

Only girls use that many exclamation marks

Anyting test, dead This should be my philosophy in life

Alvaro Recoba is a pretty good shout. Amazing player but so inconsistent.

He wanted to succeed Ferguson, that much was clear. Having to settle for Chelsea was obviously very disappointing for him early doors.

I've been sick for like a month now. The reason for that is simple, I never took the medicine the doctor prescribed to me because I don't know how it will react with weed.

Spike is Antonio Cassano

Bastard

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I would say that Chelsea failed more in the transfer market than on the pitch. There wasn't enough money, or it wasn't being used properly in the years between Mourinho leaving and Villas-Boas being appointed. The squad needed some improvements to compete with that amazing Man United team and instead the only notable additions were Malouda, Anelka, and Bosingwa. The three definitely had their moments but weren't consistently performing. Also some key players left and weren't replaced, such as Makelele.Those four-five years saw a slowly ageing and declining team getting beaten by an insanely strong United team. That was when money was really needed.

I agree with what you're saying but sport isn't business. You can't expect a fixed return on investment, spending £1bn doesn't mean a club needs to win x amount of trophies to justify the expenditure. Looking at money spent and coming to a conclusion from that; that a team has under or overachieved, can be very misleading. Money spent doesn't mean money well spent - I think we can all agree that the likes of Chelsea, Man City, PSG and AS Monaco have at times spent very poorly. A team with fewer resources but a stronger transfer strategy would outperform a team with bottomless pockets being wasted on Fernando Torres or Roque Santa Cruz. Also you have to consider that Chelsea and friends would all have had to pay way over the odds for players as selling clubs know and exploit the well endowed transfer budgets of the noveau rich. For exampe, Man City, if I remember right, were being held to ransom by AC Milan for Kaka but they eventually let him go to Real for a substantially lower fee.

Surefire bet. He's unpopular with the fans already and Villa are certain to be in the drop zone if not bottom by October.

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A striker's job is to score goals. Quibbling over 'all round contribution' is the sort of woolly thinking that justifies Fernando Torres' continued existence as a professional footballer. If they can do other things, then that's brilliant, but the primary attribute, especially in this age of the lone striker, absolutely has to be how well they can put away chances. Especially at a team like Chelsea, which has struggled in that department for a fairly long period now.

Well, you're right there, because nobody knows!

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No one knows my struggle

That's your fault!