Rubber bullets

Meh... his a bit overrated anyway, it looks as though we are more interested in Neymar.

Good to see young players getting some experience, hopefully next match most of the first team is back and we get to see Yossi.

Robben is in the same category as Joe Cole - a big mouth idiot.

Obvously now we have to consider who will replace Cech as the goalkeeper in our first two fixtures with some importance, the community shield and the first game of the season. Hilario could be chosen due to experience and has been used as a backup goalkeeper before and given good performances in matches like the 2-0 win against Liverpool. But at the same time has had disasters like the 4-2 defeat against Man City and has shone significant weaknesses such as kicking the ball out into play and containing high balls (against Stoke City). Turnbull has given good all-round performances with good saves such as against Inter Milan, Bolton and West Ham, but has a problem with many people having little faith in him which can cause nervousness and a tendency to be used as a scapegoat. I personally would pick Ross

Yippee!!!

Looks like we are going to have another injury plagued season.

Its goin g to be very difficult if they are requesting £30m, as it is obvious we won't go to that price.

He said something like that last year.

That means Hilarious will be in goal, although I do prefer Turnbull

It must be tempting for some people!

It could officially be a youth and/or reserve game, since the first team should be back by then/

Meh... They can enjoy using an injury prone under performing player.

You can't just play youth for the sake of it, its hard to fit all of your academy player into the first team as then your squad would be fill with 30-40 players and its natural to put the more experiance players on it. A team's acedmey usually only has about 5-10% of its players that become first team regulars while the rest get sold on so they can play regular first team football in whatever league. Also some players don't have any patience , look at Stoch. He wanted first team football every week and always on the starting line up, we could not do this and had to sell him because when his contract ran out he would refuse any new deals - so it was better to get some money off him.

Players that impressed me - Bertrand, Bruma, Matic, Essien and Sturridge (to an extent) Players that did not impress me - Di Santo and van Aanholt

Any links?

It's last chance saloon for Franc at Crystal Palace

Will this be available on p2p or streaming sites?

So basically 70% of the squad tomorrow will never have had played first team football, considering that none of the team that went to the world cup will be playing, some of the youngsters like Kakuta and Borini who have had 1st team experience will be away others like Zhirkov and Yossi are injured.

Legend!!!

Thank god for that, if he didn't I fear Capello would have called him back in to the team... although I wonder if Capello will beg him to come out of retirement during Euro 2012

ApparentlyEssien and Mikel will be fit for the first PL match against WBA

Oh no Ray Wilkins quoted a comparison of training methods with one the player's, absolutely disgusting

Neil Sullivan, was suppose to be second choice behind behind Carlo Cudicini during the 2003/2004 season but most will only remember Marco Ambrosio who was in goal when Cudicini was injured.

I like how Pepe Reina acts like he played any minute in the world cup.

I hope he never comes to the PL, he would be voted most arrogent player in the league