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Rangers, as long as it's a friendly!

I for one don't understand all the Sturridge hate that's around, Torres is probably a lot of people's poster boy for Chelsea and I can understand people may feel somewhat loyal towards him but Danny is definitely to good for us to ship out. He's 22, it can be expected he's rough around the edges. That's what training is for, along with match experience. Play him upfront, then if he's a failure I'll admit I'm wrong and eat my hat. By the way people judging him based on his performance in the Olympics as a precursor to what he'll be like this season, he's just recovered from viral meningitis, and hasn't played any competitive football for about 6 weeks, I reckon by September he'll be more than a match for Torres upfront.

Agree with people who don't want Cavani, as good of a player as he is I don't see him fitting in the squad at the moment. Depending on where RDM uses Sturridge we have 3 different types of forwards, Torres who's more about intelligent runs and clinical finishing (ahem), Lukaku who's more about brute power and speed, and Studge who's game revolves on pace and trickery. I think there are enough goalscorers in our midfield at the moment to not warrant a need for another starting striker, perhaps a younger player who won't expect to be playing game in game out (like Cavani would) might be a better option.

Just as an update: Terry's defence have said that Ferdinand is not a reliable witness, and there isn't enough palpable evidence to continue the case, have therefore applied for no case to answer on Terry's behalf.

Make's me sick to see how JT is getting crucified for something that should have been dealt with months ago by the FA. Suarez admits to racially abusing Evra, 8 game ban and it's all done and dusted by Easter. The media's favourite whipping boy JT, dragged out for almost a year with every newspaper in the country declaring JT a racist and rolling his name through the mud again. Am I correct in saying that the person who originally reported the incident to the police was a journalist? Remember reading that months ago somewhere. Just want Friday to hurry up so a line can be drawn underneath it all and we can move on with pre-season.

I wouldn't want to see us go and give Newcastle anymore money, especially with their scouting team recently.

Hulk > Muller. Which is probably why we're paying shy of £40 million for him. It's been mentioned before, and I can't remember who by, sorry, but he does remind me of a Kuyt kind of player, someone who would be good to have in your squad, but not necessarily someone you want to see starting game in game out. The lack of a standout attribute of his game is probably dictating why he's valued a fair amount lower than Hulk, good at everything, amazing at nothing.

If those three develop as well as everybody hopes, we're going to have the most technically able midfield 3 in the Premiership.

I'd like to think that our scouting network in Portugal is pretty solid, with most of the acquisitions since Abramovich took over from that area actually turning out pretty good for us. Ferreira, Carvalho, Tiago, Ramires, Luiz either are of have all turned out to be pretty decent players for us, Bosingwa probably the main target for the opposite happening. As long as this isn't a luxury purchase I can't see the issue with the fee, if we've got the money to do so, and the board have set aside £30-odd million to sign him, I think we should just sit back and happily accept that the board is trying to attract players in the mould of Hulks, Hazards and who knows who else.

I think the Brazillian mentality might be something to do with settling in period, culturally the Brazillian social and professional world is a lot more laid back and casual than here in England. Maybe it'll take a few months for them to learn from role models like Frank before they start feeling settled in.

Question: Would you guys rather see players coming out to the media with stuff like this? Or would it be better for them to keep it to themselves, and get their head down in training?

Every few days I get really excited, and then my hopes and dreams are swept from under my feet. Bit like being an England fan really.

Matt Jarvis (Wolves) Shane Long (WBA) Victor Moses (Wigan) Grant Hanley (Blackburn)

Sigurdsson was a ridiculously good player for Reading in the Championship.

We do have world class players at the club, it's just we don't have the eye-catching players, like Ronaldo and Messi. I'd argue that Drogba, Lampard, Terry, Cech and Cole could all be classed as world class either currently or at some point in the recent past.... although you could also say that about Torres.