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Sampaoli would be ideal, but seeing this is not possible, then Pellegrini is a no brainer for me.

A certain Frank Lampard is probably the best box to box midfielder this league has ever had, let alone Chelsea...........

Fair play to City for having the ambition to go for the #1 manager in world football and have him accept the offer. No doubts he'll bring new ideas to this league & have immediate impact. City will back him with loads of money and establish themselves as a Champions League contender from now on, head to head with Barcelona, Madrid, Bayern et al. Although for me they are not even in the top 10 biggest brands in world football, all those dodgy sponsorships they've pulled off in the last years helped & will help them go on profit year after year, although they have never been on profit on the transfer market since the Arabs took over, nor seen anyone on the streets wearing a City shirt. Plus the empty seats at the Etihad - not the sign of that big brand they keep talking about. Meanwhile we are being linked with the likes of Mark Hughes and Ranieri. I think I'll go nuts if next season the board appoints some puppet that has no word on in & outs and keeps playing the same dull football and outdated tactics. City are on the big stage for five years and an absolute joke in Europe, never got a sniff to a quarter final in Champions League at least. Still they are able to attract the best manager out there, while Chelsea FC a renowned brand in world football, a lot bigger than City, fucks around and can't get him to at least start the negociations because we can't grow a pair and at least once let a manager come in and to the things his way.

Arsenal with yet another easy draw at home. Who would have thought...

Finally EDEN <3

My bad then. That's what I read though.

CHOULO19 could shed some light on both Conte & Allegri. I know he keeps tabs on Juve. For me, I don't know, Conte looked suspect in Europe. Ok, his record in the Italian league was superb (something like 7 defeats out of 114 matches), but in Europe his team did not look that good. Could not get out of a group consisting of Galatasaray and Copenhagen having the same set of players that one year later was playing the Champions League Final. Plus he pretty much left Juventus the same way Mourinho left Chelsea - split the fan base in two - some of them still love him & appreciate him for what he did, some, that at some point used to adore him, hate his guts now.

KDB 12m pounds as well. 20% out of the 58m pounds City have payed for him.

Are they quoting English sources or actually coming with their own Italian insight?

Had Butterfield taken that chance FFS... But I guess it's for the best United are going through. They are still dog shite and Van Gaal gets to stay in charge. Any decent team would have knocked them out tonight. Unfortunately Derby are awful. Schneiderlin what a donkey. Makes Mikel look like Pirlo in his prime.

They've got an abundance of attacking midfielders, still they look to bring in another one. Yep, sounds like Arsenal. The Ox in no man's land now. I say we throw a cheeky bid, see where it leads. Not going to happen, though.

I think he is at least a couple of weeks from being 100% fit. He last featured in a official game in November.

Yep, some insight would be useful. MLS is one of my favourite leagues for sports betting. I always go for goals, "over 3.5 goals" or "both to score and over 2.5 goals combined" just because defences are atrocious there. He's a defender, so..... you know what I mean

Thanks for the memories Rami, God bless you.

Liverpool are diabolically shite, they will run out of luck at some point. Arsenal, Norwich, now this. I can see West Ham & Leicester thumping them. At least I hope so. Can't stand this miserable knobbits. And Jon Flanagan. He is so fucking ugly.

Looks set to join Wolfsburg for £20m. I know they can guarantee him first team football now that Bas Dost is out for a good chunk of time, but Chelsea should be all over this to be honest. Buy with a view to let him on loan at Basel until summer. Maybe add extra incentives to raise the transfer to something like £25-26m. This is De Bruyne all over again. Embolo will flourish in that league and in Wolfsburg's attacking minded setup. Going to triple his value in two or three years.

Watched Gladbach vs Dortmund the other day. Gundogan ran the show from deep - hit the upright with a superb shot in the 1st half, then assisted Reus for Dortmund's first, set up the counter for the 2nd goal and then scored the 3rd one. He might be a greedy motherfucker, but he is worth every penny as long he stays fit. For me he is Xavi's heir, best midfielder with the ball at his feet in European football IMHO.

https://esportes.yahoo.com/blogs/jorge-nicola/corinthians-aceita-e-pato-define-%C3%BAltimos-detalhes-121216054.html He is off to Chelsea on a 6 month loan deal with an option to buy. Deal to be announced soon.

25m according to Sky Sports.

Deal seems pretty much done and dusted. Ramires will join Gervinho in Malaga where Jiangsu have set up their training camp. BTW, Jiangsu's manager is Dan Petrescu 25m is a good deal, but I'd rather have RLC as the 1st option on the bench than spend this money on a new player.

MOTD.... so refreshing

Backed Bolton yesterday at 3/2 against this lot. MK Dons had something like 6 or 7 players unavailable. Don't know how many of those going to be fit for this game, but still, we should have no problems thumping them. They are pretty awful to be fair.

Tony Pulis with money aka Jose Mourinho should go into retirement if we somehow go on a legendary run and miraculously snatch a Champions League place.

Hate this rednecks with a passion, this win is an absolute joy. Our season is a train wreck and we still do the double over them without conceding a single goal. Three years since they've last scored a goal against us. January 2013. Three fucking years. Fuck off you inbred cunts