S-Clarke

Mattia Destro.

The big boys enter the game

Another Chelsea player will ruin. - if that's the case.

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Was this the same philosophy that lead to him splurging upwards of £40m on Gaston, Osvaldo, Forren and Mayuka?

.....MLG?

If i'm honest, I've never in my life followed the third round draw online. I didn't even have the internet in 2003 (go me).

I don't think these early rounds do. The groups and knock outs do though.

Serious...? If he leaves Real it will be for another Champions League club. Totally out of our league.

He was highly rated at Torino, but the move to Juve didn't work out. He's looked very leggy/cumbersome for them. He's very powerful and athletic, but seemingly prone to some very big lapses. He's not a bad player by any means, he could probably do ok in the right environment - but I wouldn't say we've missed out on the signing of the decade.

Our first choice last year seemed to be Vlaar. Toby did seem to come out of no where on deadline day, or the day before. Nothing to suggest we cannot do similar (although earlier please, saints!)

I thought Gardos was pretty good against Arsenal as well, in the cup game. Although they didn't exactly have a full strength attack, he defended the area pretty well.

And that's why I prefer the way we do things.

That game was depressing defensively. Lambo put us in front iirc, or equalized - one of the 2. If I remember right, that was Rasiak's last game for us too? But it should have been so more than 3-1. Kind of felt sorry for Lambo after that game, I bet he was wondering what shower he'd joined. We've come a long way though!

Yeah, we're run like a b&b. For what it's worth, he's not much of a loss.

I think he's being forced to train with the u16's now.

If they're paying 65k for Scott Dann, what the hell are they paying Cabaye???

I'm going to take my Dia shirt down there. Oh, and my Toby one which arrived yesterday.

They're a decent sized club, with pretty nice backing - and taken advantage of some strong commercial oppertunities. It'll be interesting to see what happens if they have a sticky start this season. I don't think Spurs fans were too taken in by MP last season, I think they were all open to ''giving him time'' - but next season will be interesting. The knives will be out if there isn't notable progress, in my opinion. It'll be interesting to see how they feel when they're travelling to Milton Keynes for their home games.

He's a good player, thought he was wanted back at Milan. That awful injury he had came at such a crap time though, totally ruined his Chelsea opportunities. Will be interesting to see what he can do with some game time. And secondly, what a waste of a quality goal keeper.

I know some people will disagree, but I think our attack is quality tbh. One of the most all round attacking units we've had since we've been back in the PL. Mane, Long, Jay, Pelle, Juanmi, Tadic, Hesketh, Isgrove, Gallagher (And then you've got Gaston as well, who I don't know if he will stay around) There's a bit of everything there. Pace, strength, height, mobility, technique, work-rate.

Maybe he was let go because he wasn't happy with the ticketing strategy?

TBF he would be what I'd call a luxury signing, not really needed. (similar to any kind of attacking signing) Let's focus on centre back and midfield, get the top, top, top quality we need in those positions. The attack is ok as it is.

TBF I don't think anyone is saying rubbish. He's a good lad and I think he learnt from last summer, he obviously had his own meltdown last summer as well - as he was seeing everyone leave. I think he knows the clubs place and I think he accepts that. We're happy to sell if A) someone pays enough and B) they're a CL club. If none of those occurs, he's not going to strop I wouldn't have thought. The only position it will weaken is our own, as I can't see him signing a new deal...so his value will drop. From the clubs POV, if he's not going to sign, they're probably keen to get the best fee they can for him right now.