TomCFC

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3648267/Chelsea-and-Arsenal-target-Adel-Taarabt-according-to-the-player-himself.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Fascinating.

Full BBC article now up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13841169.stm

I'd much rather still have a multiple Champions League winner and the man who led us to the Double still in charge, but oh well. AVB is good enough.

BBC have updated their story slightly after Porto's statement:

I'm sure Roman can stump up the extra cash.

Meh, I wanted Benitez.

BBC JUST CONFIRMED IT! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13841169.stm

Ian McGarry: "For those who missed tweets 2 weeks ago. Van Basten was Hiddink's choice, Abramovich vetoed it after negative reports about MvB. #CFC" http://twitter.com/#...751355785183232

Interesting post from the other thread:

An article on why AVB is worth £15 million... http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/andre-villas-boas-is-worth-15m-and-will-get-chelsea-swinging-again/

A £13m release clause and £4.5m a year. Let's hope he does a good job!

Though this thread would be invevitable! Hope we get him, but we'd be even more overloaded with strikers. Drogba, Kalou, Malouda and Anelka would probably all go.

Incredibly exciting - he's young, fresh, relatively experienced and knows the squad quite well. I thought we'd go for Hiddink, but hopefully he will be the DOF. I'm not sure what fans of other clubs think - he's never managed in the Champions League or Britain before.

Hiddink as assistant or DOF please!

YESSSS!!! Younger and fresher than Guus, even if he doesn't know the players and club as well. The new Jose, anyone?!

Grow up.

Congrats and good luck. Well deserved!

What absolute scum Liverpool "fans" are.

Anderlecht Pres. Roger Vanden Stock tells Lavenir that keeping Lukaku would be like major signing & that bids have not reached 20mill. #cfc http://twitter.com/#...991860301729792

I want Hiddink, Modric, Sanchez, Pastore, De Bruyne and Lukaku. Think we'll get all of them except Pastore and Sanchez.

Yeah, the interview was with Le10Sport. Many newspapers are attributing the quotes from a Sun interview (which has caused a massive fuss with Liverpool fans), but The Sun just took the quotes. They're having a go at him on Twitter for it, despite the fact he didn't speak to them or say anything against Liverpool.

I swear a couple of days ago they were reporting that Mourinho didn't want him?

Sorry to hear about your loss. Welcome back though and well done/good luck with your exams!

Guus wouldn't/won't sell him.