Jonty

Interesting timing, on the morning of a home game against the Gooners. Wonder if there's anything to be read into that, hopefully he'll have a big one today up against Walcott or whoever is playing on the right side. He's not half the player Scotty Canham is

Is this serious? For some reason it actually makes me feel more confident.

United and Arsenal are both interested, I think if we do buy him we'll just end up loaning him out a few times then he'll become another Marin, getting barely any game time, then we'll probably just sell him on.

Best CFC related news in months, delighted!

Tell me more brah, is it like FM but you compete against others?

I agree, I don't understand the hype around Laudrup, he's doing no better than Rodgers did last season and he has the advantage of having Michu in the team. I suppose the same people would have been advocating for Rodgers and Lambert last season, and look how they've ended up. At least the likes of Moyes and Martinez have proved their worth over a longer period of time, but forming an opinion of someone because they've managed to meet expectations at Swansea for half a season seems a bit ridiculous.

Well we've already had the special one, maybe it's time for the slutty one

yeah, meanwhile all the people bitching about the obsession with Torres will then go and bitch about Rafa twice as much on every other topic, although no-one seems to mind that.

In no way are Atletico Madrid a bigger club than us, lol.

Where'd you get that from? Only source I could find is http://www.statbunker.com/football/ktg/index.php?PL=ktgalltime&Code=EPL&statType=apps and off that he's already 3rd, miles behind James and Giggs though.

Mata has been proven to be far less effective on the wing than in the middle.

Well if either of you had bothered to read what I was originally on about, I was talking about the fact that all Chelsea fans want Chelsea to win, it was nothing about the expectation that we win. Sorry if i felt compelled to continue to discuss the actual point of discussion, if i'd realized people were going to be so rude I wouldn't have bothered.

We all thought it was crazy at the time to replace Cudicini, it's always hard to tell with goalkeepers.

You didn't want the team to win? I find that hard to believe.

Only 9/26 of those are EPL teams, and people say we don't invest in youth

Weird to see that Big Phil has the best goal difference of the lot.

RIP

From memory, Pep started off managing the Barca B team and won promotion with them. I also think he's overrated, but to his credit he didn't exactly inherit the team, while the players were there, the likes of Xavi and Iniesta were second fiddle to Ronaldinho and Deco, and he was the one that switched it around. I don't think Fergie is more talented than any other top tier manager, he was just given time and money, and an outrageously good crop of youngsters (and a lions share of generous ref decisions). In his first five seasons United finished 11th, 2nd, 11th, 13th, and 6th, and at one stage was nearly sacked. It took him 7 years to win the League, and that was in large part because of the arrival of Cantona. Once you're at a club for so long you're in such a strong position that your job becomes a lot easier, you operate under less pressure and you have pretty absolute discipline over the dressing room. If we do get Jose back how long would he stay even if it was up to him without any input from Roman. 5 years maybe at most? He doesn't like to stay in one place. If we want a manger as successful as bacon face, we need a young manager who still has something to prove and will fully appreciate the opportunity given to him. AVB came along probably 2 seasons too early, if he had taken over next season after Frank and Ash are gone, and JT is in his final year, things would have turned out a lot differently I feel.

If this happened then surely there would have to be a CFC soap opera? The amount of ridiculous drama with him thrown into the mix would make for thrilling viewing.

If Valdes is leaving Barca like reports suggest, I sadly predict young Thibaut will be leaving us.

lol, haven't seen MoTD for a few years but his impression of Alan was bang on.

Would love Mourinho, Klopp won't come unless his ego is far bigger than I think it is, Hiddink is supposed to be retiring end of the season, don't want Laudrup completely unproven and only doing as well as Rodgers did last season despite having having Michu, Simeone is a gamble but it would be interesting, same as Poyet and Zola. I think if he brings Grant in when he finally gets rid of Rafa the sh*t will really hit the fan, surely he wouldn't be that silly. Moyes and JT seem like long shots. I've already mentioned i'd like Capello, but if Mancini gets fired at the end of the season, don't be surprised to see him here.

Was a good read, made some points I didn't even know and are good to know, now can use them in my regular arguments with my United/Dipper/Arsenal mates.

I think Capello is the best we can realistically hope for, and I think he'd be a success here.

Pretty big accusation to make without proof, I don't think it's cool to start slagging off people's character off the field because they aren't performing well on it. Fair enough, I think it depends on the match, in games where the other team is parked and he's not going to have much room to operate, I don't think he has a good enough touch or ball control in those area's to be effective, if he's on the wing running at players he still has decent pace and can beat a man, and in those instances he may be more useful.