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Paulinho on Lampard -

"This comparison is a responsibility that I will take. I will not run away from it.

"Lampard is a great player, not only for Chelsea but in world football.

"I intend to follow in his footsteps as he is a very professional guy. David Luiz always speaks of him on international duty.

"I've always looked at what Lampard does and to me he is a huge phenomenon.

"The way he hits the ball, what positions he takes up, he really is incredible."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8805020/

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Transfer records at EPL clubs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2355694/How-transfer-record-broken-YOUR-Premier-League-club-20-years.html

Chelsea

Robert Fleck (Norwich, £2.1m - August 1992)... Paul Furlong (Watford, £2.3m - May 1994)... Frank Leboeuf (Strasbourg, £2.5m - July 1996)... Roberto Di Matteo (Lazio £4.9m - July 1996)... Graeme Le Saux (Blackburn, £5m - August 1997).... Pierluigi Casiraghi (Lazio, £5.4m - May 1998)... Chris Sutton (Blackburn, £10m - July 1999)... Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Atletico Madrid, £15m - June 2000).... Damien Duff (Blackburn, £17m - July 2003)... Didier Drogba (Marseille, £24m - July 2004)... Michael Essien (Lyon, £24.4m - August 2005)... Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan, £30.8m - May 2006).... Fernando Torres (Liverpool, £50m - January 2011)
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What does everyone think about Watford's exploitation of the loan rules? 8 players from Udinese! Eight players!

They're only shooting themselves in the foot because the year after that none of those players will be with them and they'll have to rebuild their team almost from scratch.

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If players could only ever play for their first pro-club, this is how I think the first team would look like today:

Carlton Cole

Ambrose Gnahore - Josh McEachran - Liam Bridcutt - Billy Clifford

Ruben Loftus Cheek

Dion Conroy - Nathanial Chalobah - Sam Hutchinson - Todd Kane

Jamal Blackman

Subs:
Rhys Evans GK

Kevin Wright

Alex Davey

Jody Morris

John Swift

Alex Kiwomya

That was pretty bloody hard. I really struggled to find out about older youth academy players that were released and had decent careers. I pretty much had a look at the academy and pulled out the names that performed the most admirably. Easily a upper middle tier Championship level team.

No John Terry, no Betrand. They were signed from other clubs.

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