Rubber bullets

Well according to several sources and wiki, it says that we have departed. I know for the last three years he has been denied a work permit and apparently was denied one when offered to go to Fulham

Well that is a bit flawed as Rajkovic is no longer under contract - he is a free agent.

Every season there seems to be an underlining theme from fans that has a huge effect on how fans view the season. Whether it was when Avram Grant was getting the sack of the 2007/08 season to the 'Will Carlo bottle it' of the 2009/2010 season. Even if we retain our premier league crown this season, it seems this season will be judged on how much so called 'youth' we play in every match. This was indicated in the first game of the PL when many were shocked that Carlo had the audacity to not put Kakuta on the bench and were frothing at the mouth in anger when Kalou came on instead of Sturridge. It seems that throughout the season there will be a barrage of angry fans complaining that we did not use Kakuta or Bruma in a match when 3-0 up or why Matic or Sturridge did play a part in a match against a so called 'mid table' club. It going to be extremely annoying that there will always be a question from someone every day about 'When is Kakuta going to start every game for every match'. Yet ironically some of these fans that in some ways want us to do an Arsenal and put a majority of the team on the field as youth; were complaining that we letting go of 'too much experience' in players like Ballack, Riccy and Joe Cole - even thought that means it gives more youth a chance. Hypocrites.

This has to be the most tense and tedious saga since the Essien fiasco.

To be honest this is the only chance I think we will have to sign him. If we don't then either in a couple of years time he would start attracting attention from all the top clubs including Madrid and Citeh, which means we won't try to compete in the bid battle. Or he will have that so called contract upgrade which would rise his buy out cause to about £40 million, and as we know the board would simply not go up there. Especially as we have not even been in £20 million+ deals for years after Shevchenko.

I was never convinced that he would come anyway... since there has been a huge campaign from day one harassing him to not go to Europe. Plus all the reports are conflicting with each other.

Ultimatelyits his decision.

I think he has a bit of a thigh strain

I think it will be 6 or 16

Well if they defend like they did against Blackpool, we should not have any problems.

Well having competition is never a bad thing, unless your at Manchester City.

You are Mystic Meg and I claim my five pounds!

Pele to talk to Neymar on staying at Santos

The problem is that people are fingering themselves 24/7 over him when he acutally has not yet performed a 'OHMYGODTHATWAZAMAZING!!!!1!!1!' game. He is still young and anything could happen, he could be like Sinama - Pongolle and after a while fade in to the distance, he could find the ELP difficult or in a worse case scenario suffer a horrible injure like Ramsey or Eduardo and have it put a huge damper on his careeer. He still has heaps left to prove himself... give it time.

Goal for Lampard!

Mikel has been solid in the middle, some people are really nitpicking on his performances.

Get in!

Hopefully when Hell freezes over.

Considering he can't speak a word of English, I guess Alex will help him learn the language, unless Alex is also not good at English.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1302853/Decos-parting-gift--Chelsea-secure-refusal-Brazil-stars-future-Fluminense.html Well we got something out of the transfer

And the longest time a player takes before he joins a club is... Ramires! Oh well, but glad that it is done.

Hooray!!! Finally

If we do win the Champions league this year, I hope Yossi scores the winning goal. It may make TX's heavily stoned brain explode in flames!

I don't think Santos own all the rights to Neymar, I think a sports company and his father also have some of his stakes as representatives - so if Buck was talking to them surly that would make it legal?