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Mancini will openly inform the media that he is looking to sign players. Yet AVB constantly says we have enough quality, even going to the lengths of ruling out a busy month. Mancini's approach is spot on, you tell the press/media you are looking to sign players. Even if that means the current crop feel they are not safe. Therefore ‘stepping up’ their game, so if anything it's the opposite. AVB on the other hand, thinks publicly stating he has enough quality, will turn Bosingwa & Malouda into world class players. Either that or we’re not actually going to sign players. In which case.. we may as well all give up.

http://www1.skysport.../11095/7415221/ I give up.

It usually closes about half way through the season.

Ask the Man-City fans..

Fluke show? .. Napoli are a better side than Chelsea.

The real irony is that the guy he was replying to (hd123), did the same thing when he joined.

You need a straight jacket if you think Napoli are a selling club, never mind a club that would release Cavani for such a small fee. I won't even comment on your addition of Kalou to that deal. You do realise Chelsea target Vargas recently snubbed us in favor of Napoli.

Luka Modric - 45k pw Juan Mata - 50k pw ..... Saloman Kalou - 60k pw

Come summer, Mata will be handing in a transfer request.

Nightmare.

AVB is laughing all the way to the bank.. he is a con-artist.

AVB is a fraud and a con-artist.

Mata FC

Of course, especially when you spend an entire summer chasing after Modric. Leaving it last minute and adopting a small-club mentality, by signing what was merely available. The club should of had other adequate options lined up months in advance.

Christ.. would Meireles even make the Liverpool first team, oh wait..

Meireles belongs at a club with no ambition, oh wait...

I suppose this will go towards appeasing the home grown quota in the long term.

Indeed, I only ever use my own work. Various subtle layers, lighting, and a bit of cross processing. AVB wanted Oriol at Porto, his desire to work with him transcended our clubs stature as a top european club. That would be the only way of rationalising it, regardless of Barca's position in world football.

That's exactly the type of small-club mentality Bolton supporters have.

Oriol sees this club as beneath him.. Clearly his agent found AVB's famous statement regarding his situation as hilarious. I'm sure Oriol and his compadres back in catalonia have a good old joke about that, and the deal itself. It's a crime he shared a press conference upon arrival with Lukaku, an avid Chelsea fan. The Oriol deal represents a turning point, being one of europe's elite clubs a distant memory.

"The option states that Barcelona can only buy back if Chelsea agree to sell" - AVB Clearly AVB was misinformed by the board. The Oriol deal really is humiliating on so many levels, Oriol's agent has made AVB look like a fool.

Bitterly disappointing words from his agent, our board have such a small club mentality now, humiliating deal.

The emergence of Sturridge eradicates the need for this thread.