Pride of London

Previous Post intended for the racism in football thread... editor won't allow me save changes to post. Question I meant to ask here was whether stadia are covered in the FFP, do you think Roman will focus his attention on a bigger home for the football club in the near to medium future?

Those stories are quite shocking really, when did things start to change? Are there still racist chants coming from our support? What do most fans think about the likes of the Ultras and the Headhunters? It's strange to be honest, my earliest memories of football, we had Ruud Gullit as manager, and we seemed to be up there with Arsenal as having an international ethos. Would foreign supporters need to think twice about coming to the Bridge these days or is it all in the past?

1. Your predicted top 6 at the end of the year and Chelsea's position within it (or outside it if u think we are going to be that poor). Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs. (Chelsea Top by the end of the season thou) 2. Premier league top scorer? Sergio Aguero 3. Premier league player of the season? Wayne Rooney 4. Who you feel will win Chelsea player of the season Didier Drogba 5. Who you think will be the biggest improver (player wise) Fernando Torres 6. Who you think will be the biggest decliner (as in they played comparitively much better last season) Frank Lampard 7. Chelsea top scorer? Didier Drogba 8. Chelsea player your most excited about seeing in the coming season? Piazon 9. Player you predict is most likely to disappoint (compared to their abilty)? Frank Lampard

Have to admit I'm going slightly batty with seemingly no real movement towards new signings, hopes were raised, then dashed... Wake me up when the football starts!

I thought the female orgasm was just a myth, like love? Anyway, if anything it belongs in the rumours section...

Drat... the logic, it disheartens!

Well then it's questionable that Romeu has been given a squad number while Lukaku hasn't and the fact that Romeu can't be unveiled in Colombia so why delay Lukaku's unveiling when the return date of Romeu is unknown. Also if it was a signing we knew about and it was only Romeu why would he say multiple players instead of just saying it was with Romeu? I doubt AVB would be such a tease.

Surely as he has a squad number already Romeu has already been announced though?

Multiple players eh? Well going on the fact Courtois is on loan and Romeu is still in Colombia I reckon there's got to be at least one surprise... of course we might just get a sh*tty weblink to the U20 world cup to see our lad from Barca lol Also Romeu already has a squad number which suggests to me that it won't be him.

It's the colours of the Romanov flag, Russia's flag before the white red and blue one they had pre soviet union.

We've been linked to Ghana defender Samuel Inkoom, the most worrying thing about this video is that he doesn't seem to be able to cross the ball...

Hope you're right, we'll see over the coming months anyway!

He just doesn't have the lightning pace anymore and we saw last season what he was like without that extra half a yard, hopefully he can prove me wrong though.

Third Kit looks like Tottenham inspired number... just the thing to lure Modric perhaps

Maybe good for Rajkovic hearing... all our healthy players bar him are sh*te might go down well?

So what if his dream is to play for Barca... they can only have 25 in their squad have an absolutely brilliant academy and a first team he'll get nowhere near for years if he's lucky. He'd be mad to turn down any major football team offering him Champions league football in the meantime.

What would actually happen if we didn't release our internationals? They couldn't fine us surely...

Hope the concussion isn't too bad, that he suddenly went deaf is quite worrying imo but i'm just a lay man, is that normal from a minor head injury ?

Hopefully it's just a bump and he took that as an opportunity to get out of a pointless friendly, if not I'm quite worried

Accidentally started thread on this too but don't know how to delete it... if one of the Moderators would be so kind as to! Ehm, this is bad, bad news, I think we definitely need new signings now, one of the main reasons I was previously unconcerned about new blood was that I felt he was finally getting back to the top of his game... if this is serious I'm quite worried for next season

Subbed after 14 minutes with calf? injury in the friendly against Italy, substituted for Llorente. Bad, bad news, just when he was regaining form too. How will this affect Villas-Boas build up to the new season, and our transfers?

I dunno who that lad plays for but if AVB doesn't get him I'm calling for a manu-esque boycott, we'll all get pink and purple scarves and act like dickheads about the running of our club...

Well Mickey being a slang word here for penis, his name certainly reminds one of a certain scene from "There's something about Mary", still we had Zhirkov and Ballack, so we have a history for signings with unfortunate names pre-dating the Abramovich era, good to know!!!

Yep, let's see where we are in January, If the doom merchants are wrong then we won't need to splurge, and if they're right Roman won't risk us dropping out of the CL places. That is assuming the Gaffer doesn't have ambitious plans before the closing of this transfer window!

Well according to the crowd which started the rumours we'd undermine the Sneijder bid we're offering 20 million for Hazard... going to get my jersey printed with his name now!!!! http://www.fanatix.com/news/chelsea-ready-20m-bid-for-ligue-1-sensation-879/