strong centreback

Didnt this originate from duncon castles? says everything you need to know as far as im concerned, as you were!

need a left wing back option and another centre back (zouma is back now too remember), assuming conte will use batschyuai if we were to go without costa for a prolonged period then id be happy with just that to be honest, willian could do a job at right wingback if needed as could chalobah do a job in a pair with one of the more senior centre midfielders. this season with no europe and only the fa cup left with the league games, the current squad should suffice with only a couple of players in in january due to the amount of games we are likely to play, our unrotated first team has 19 games left not including the fa cup which you would imagine antonio will probably rotate for anyway, compared to how many game we would usually play in a season we should be alright.

Like covering up an affair or stopping an ex employee going to the press saying how you use brass regularly, gary johnson went to the club after the fa/met palmed him off for compensation for the alledged ordeal, the insurance company/solicitors involved agreed a apparant industry standard non disclosure clause be added i to the settlement/compensation, to me that doesnt sound like hush money but a ill advised clause added to the compensation payout. I believe carneiro also has a gaging clause as part of her payout

compensation is the term I believe, unless your working for one of the many media rabble and want a sensationalist headline that is

Madrid, made him bitter from the perceived lack of respect he got from the players, never been the same since and has become seriously stubborn to the point where it is affecting his performance as a manager.

Out of curiosity do you think he should be getting more compensation due to the club now being a multimillion pound company and owned by a billionaire? as that should have no bearing on his compensation claim and by all accounts he received more than he would of through court, besides the club assisting all investigations I'm not sure what else they should be asked to do? surely the fa and police have some questions to be asked by fobbing him off before he came to the club. If GJ is using this new found public image to bring these terrible incidents to the fore so people are held to account then good for him and its the right thing to be doing, if its just a play for more money then well I'm not sure what to say to that to be honest that doesnt make me sound an insensitive c**t having his cake and eating it is probably the nicest thing to say tbh, I have full sympathy for anyone who has suffered this type of abuse as I know somebody that this has happened to (not football related) and so know how it can affect a persons life.

Has he not had his compensation though? If he didn't think 50 grand was enough for his pain and suffering take cfc through the courts, between him and his solicitors they agreed on 50k and took the money, what has changed since then? other than it's probably all gone and with the fallout of the other victims he thinks he should of got more? sounds proper c**tish saying it but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck.

First thing I noticed that made no sense to me is you have rated miazga on par with Diego? And miazga better than fabregas? I said when we signed him and happy to say it again, he won't make it here

I'd get berbatov if we were going for a free agent to bulk the striker options, although I think conte has settled on 4141 as the dominant formation for the season so with Costa batschuyai and solanke you have it covered

94 fa cup final, traumatised my young self as I thought that was it for us potentially winning a trophy any time soon, little did I know as a 11 year old it was to be the start of the journey of our modern chelsea

Transfer wise it seems we are going for quality which is obviously harder to get, my only gripe is with the club not switching targets sooner, kouliababy was off the agenda as soon as higuain was sold so as soon as that as apparent we should of dropped our interest and been going onto another target instead of wasting time, the koulababy transfer saga seems very stones 2015 to me, as in a waste of time as we wont get him due to selling clubs stance, we missed a trick not getting alderweireld last season when he was available.

Looked woefully out of his depth better off cutting losses early, aweful defensively but could of been converted into a left midfielder maybe

Now thats what I wanted to hear from don conte, the 4231 should be resigned to the history books and he should look to bring in his own ideas formation wise, I believe in the 4231 shape the negative aspects are too well ingrained upon the team, to get a fresh philosophy in place which I believe is what he and the club want to do then we need to start from scratch.

would be very happy if we dont get him, his value is what madrid paid to get him back maybe even upto 30-35m top end, check his goal returns besides a productive season in the spanish second tier he hasnt managed more than 10 in a season and I see know reason why that would change in our league, at 70m euros we have dodged a bullet to be frank.

Indeed has a shade of the great man to his game, playing in a two next year should help him adjust quicker as well.

seems like a big turn around for him to have signed a new contract, lets see what happens over the summer regarding his first team prospects or shunted on loan

Certainly got that le chiffre vibe going on, personally im the most excited about a new manager since mourinho first time round, he actually ticks a lot of boxes for me personally and feels like he is the right man for the job at the right time if that makes sense, if we back him in the market and allow him time to imprint his philosophy on our club im sure he will be a hit, as basic as it sounds saying this but italians and chelsea mix very very well, if he can get us playing like we did in the late 90s then I for one will be very happy as we will have our chelsea back, if he brings in trophies on top of that on a regular basis then build him a statue out the front of the new stadium as far as im concerned as that is the pinnacle of what you could ask for from him.

Personally I dont think we can second guess the formation conte will use with us next year, he has favoured different formations at every club side he has been at and arguably the reason the national team uses the same formation as the one he used at juventus is due to having the same back 3 and keeper available to him who he trusts, if he didnt have that who knows how he would set them up. The only thing im expecting from him is to drop the 4231 formation, and play 2 strikers probably with wingers as that is seemingly one of his footballing preferences playing a strike pair up top, so id envisage a 442 with higher attacking wingers than normal maybe or maybe even an asymmetric type formation with hazard more advanced with less defensive responsibilities on the left with willian on the right side sitting abit deeper? who knows! looking forward to seeing what he can do though.

He will adapt, if it's one thing we can be sure of on going on his career so far is that he is pragmatic and is a round peg for a round hole manager.

hes going two up top next year of that im pretty sure, apparantly we are signing that batschuyai for 40m euros according to latest reports and I think its to compliment diego, unless the dreaded happens and we sell costa

You need a manager who has experience at getting average players playing above their capabilities, for my money its either big sam or tony pulis to get something out of this bunch of sh*te players, f**k rooney off if he isnt good enough to get in as a striker leave him at home, stop picking players on reputation and get them in on form I mean really what type of idiot takes wilshere over noble/drinkwater??

Hallmark of champions grinding out wins when you play badly, with better attacking options im quite looking forward to what he can do with us, and very interested as to what formation he will be using here, as I dont see us with 3 at the back or in a 4231, and with his preference towards wingers with attacking football im hoping we are gonna head back in the direction of the club I grew up with, that being attacking attractive football.

was always gonna be blue as the old man is despite rest of my family all being arsenal/tottenham (mum and dad originally from north london) saw first match live at age 7/8 in the old division one in the 90/91 season and started taking more notice of english football then as prior to that watched alot of one of the great milan sides on channel 4 with my dad.

Indeed most of the best buys since roman bought the club have been the players that were second tier that had the potential to be top tier, drogba robben cech essien carvalho amongst others, in fact its the big name ones that invariably go tits up, ballack being the notable exception.

Id say there is no guarantee he will make united a success, the league is alot stronger now due to midtable clubs being to spend 50m on players, so there is a lot of strength running from top to bottom now, you have spurs, arsenal, liverpool, leciester, west ham, man city who will spend hundreds of millions with guardiola in charge, and depending on how things go us as well who could all put in a credible title charge next season. Personally id be interested to see how he does as a neutral as I wasnt sure he was the right manager for us when he came back and I wasnt too sad to see him go, and while he was here he wasnt the same type of manager as he was back with porto chelsea mk1 or inter, he has become tactically inflexible doesnt seem capable of changing games with his subs anymore.