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No. Did you ever see him when he was 17/18? He was magnificent, I remember a game at Highbury which we won 3-0 against the then Double winners. He completely dominated the game, was absolutely superb. Even as late as 1974 he played against West Germany, England won 2-0 and the German players could not believe how good he was. I've been going since 1963 and if I had to name a best eleven from all the years I've been going he would be the first name on the team sheet

Don't like retiring shirts, at some point soon Lewis Baker will inherit the No 8 shirt and hopefully have as good a career as Lampard. Alan Hudson is the best player ever to have worn our No 8 shirt.

Think Oscar in particular will suffer a WC hangover, good idea to cash in now

Well I don't think Torres is a Real 9!

What if we signed him and he just run down his contract, not much resale value then

Yes, he really is.

Loftus-Cheek is developing into a similar player, needs the right attitude though

Or got pissed off and left like Pogba did.

Wum?

He's bought some brilliant players, Drogba, Essien, Cavalho etc But he has sold some brilliant ones too, mostly because they don't work hard enough for his liking, and replaced them with utter gash. If we're not careful Hazard will be next.

Selling Luiz is good business, £50m for a defender that can't actually defend is unbelievable. Selling Mata, Robben and KDB most definitely was not.

Selling one of your best players to a main rival? Selling a world class player and replacing him with rubbish? In both cases it was because the players don't work hard enough for his liking, so we end up with headless chickens like Willian and Ramires

Utter rubbish

Mourinho will sell Lukaku, he sold KDB who has scored one made the other, sold Mata, sold Robben and replaced him with Malouda. Anyone still think he's a genius.....

I remember up at Villa when they wouldn't let us take Bovril back to the seats after half time

Give me Wagon Wheels and Bovril every time, people from our era will never know how brilliant it was.

I didn't. Ronaldo is the best/second best player in the world, a man who can and does change huge games with his massive talent, not only that he will have already repaid a chunk of his fee through clever marketing. Luke Shaw is a left back.

Wonder if Scholes refused to play for England because he was sick of the fawning over Gerrard

Don't think anyone has mentioned The Bank Job, brilliant film with a bit of everything. Royal scandal, political cover up, police corruption, all based on a true story. I love Airplane! And watched Blazing Saddles again last week, amazing to watch it now as no way would it ever be allowed today.

Perfect replacement for Frank.

Mourinho didn't sign Lampard, Cole or Robben.