Rubber bullets

I wonder if Carlo will give Turnbull another chance, or will decide Hilario will always be second choice considering he played the full 90 minutes last time (despite being shit).

Hopefully he will comfort the Ballack fans who thought his departue would hurt the team performance wise.

Oh god is it true or not, the tension is getting a bit too much.

I'm just being hypothetical on your point about Kakuta getting most of the match time regardless on how well he does out there.

So according to you, even if those two were to give 10/10 performances for the first 10 matches of the season, being instrumental in getting us 3 points in every match, you would still want them to be dropped.

Wow, that will certainly be a boost for the club

Lets hope Mancienne gets a good chance to prove himself, as well as Sinclair

Good news is that Cech will be fit for the first game of the new season

It would be brilliant if we do sign both players, especially as Ramires has publicly stated he wants to join chelses and Neymar's agent claims he also wants to go to chelsea.

What a confidence boost.

Anybody has got to be better then the shit staff we have as fitness coaches.

I'm 99% sure the transfer won't take place, it was a very bloated and long-winded transfer saga that was built mainly on rumors and speculation, with a bit of teasing from the player.

At the moment it only seems to be Ramires that is the most likely to be coming, but I don't expect anyone else - or at least big money signings.

We better be careful with this if the transfer goes through. Kia Joorabchian was the man responsible for the Tevez and Mascherano transfers to West Ham which resulted in them paying £25 million in fines and compensation. Don't want to tarnish our image even more after the Kakuta saga.

Sounds interesting, could be the man that helps us get the beast deals out of a very inflated transfer market.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/8853856.stm Seriously, hasn't Man City got enough strikers as it is? I thought they were trying to lower their squad number to 25.

To e honest I generally don't know why people are crying over Aguero not coming to Chelsea. Him asking for £200,000 weeks wages after not having a master class season is not worth bothering. In the end its Roman's money and Roman wants us to become a self-sufficient club that does not have to be held to ransom for players like Aguero asking for huge wages and transfer prices who may flop in the ELP. So frankly Aguero is no big loss and we certainly don't need to go emo all over this.

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.