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All this talk of a phone call from Jose. Can we all get a phone call from Jose?

I thought we were going to ignore reports from this guy.

They aren't selling him, it says he's online for a third consecutive season.

Real Madrid are mug enough to pay that sort of money tbh. They want Bale, Cavani and Suarez. I wonder if they'll aim for Suarez and Cavani. Surely they aren't mad enough to pay 100+ million for the both of them. I would still like to see Suarez at Chelsea, even though he is an absolute nut at times. I know people keep mentioning how Mourinho is the man to transform players, but I really think he is the man to calm Suarez down.

No worries. Saves limiting people to watching only 4 or 5 minutes of the best highlights on Youtube of a potential signing. This way, you get to see them for the full 90. Only issue with the videos is they aren't all in English, but the video quality seems really good for the videos I've watched.

Here is a link below. Just in case any of you are interested in watching a certain player of our's or we are linked to etc. The videos run in qualities of 360p, 480p and 720p (HD). They show every top league as well. http://www.freefullmatchesonline.com/

Have Uruguay played Tahiti yet? If not, then we'll see how many Cavani scores against them.

Is there actually beef between Villa and Torres?

Barcelona must be jizzing in their pants watching Neymar in this tournament. Looks like a good return for them so far.

Dunno, he's in his peak too. Get it? Dante's Peak!

It's Chelsea's own fault for buying all these players when they already have young talent on loan. The club must know that these players are playing regularly on loan and if they don't get playing time at Chelsea, they will want to leave for first team football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd58M_YFVgo

I saw a bit of him on Youtube, he looks strong, powerful and good with his head. He is only 20 and he's 6 ft 3 1/2. A real man mountain in midfield, just what we need. Also, he's young so plenty of time to improve, especially under Mourinho.

Well, during all of Man Utd's successful seasons, they've always had a good batch of English players in the first team. Beckham, Neville brothers, Scholes, Butt, Wes Brown, Cole, Sheringham. During the late 90's early-mid 00's, they had almost a whole first 11 that were English and Irish. If you look back at Spanish, Italian and German teams, they always brought through players and gave them a chance in the first team. I am not saying we should just bring them through and stick them in the first team straight away, but we rarely ever give our youth a chance, apart from the odd couple since Roman's ownership.

I'm mainly thinking about the future too. We want loyal players and I don't think half our team will still be with us in 10, or even 5 years. If we are able to bring through at least 2-3 English players a year into the squad, we could build up a team that consists of mainly English players. If Roman is looking to keep Mourinho here past 4 years, we could definitely build up a good, young first team that consists of a good amount of English talent. I think that would be awesome and it would certainly shut up critics of the club. Maybe I'm just trying to be an idealist, but it's something I think the club should be looking towards.

It's incredible how many good defensive midfielders France produce. Deschamps, Makelele, Viera, Capoue etc.

True, but look at Man Utd over the years. They have always had a decent amount of English players in the first team and they've done incredibly well in all competitions. This year they won the league playing the likes of Welbeck, Rooney, Ferdinand, Carrick, Cleverly, Evans, Young. They have Zaha coming in for next season too. I don't think it can be such a bad thing, can it?

There is too much emphasis put on buying and playing foreign players, whereas we already have some decent young English players. Look at Man Utd, they have always had at least 5 (sometimes less, but this is a estimated number) English players as first choice. I would just like to see more English players in our team. If you look at top sides in Europe like Real, Barca, Bayern, Juve, Milan etc, they all have home grown talent or at least buy players of the same nationality. Also, English players are willing to give more to the team than a foreign player would, in my opinion. There are exceptions to that, such as Juan Mata, Petr Cech, Ferreira and Ivanovic, but overrall, how many foreign players that we have at the moment do you think will be here in 10 years? I don't think many, if any will be. I wish we'd stop giving our English players away to other PL sides and instead give them a chance ahead of some of the foreign players. We usually end up selling them on, only for them to do well with another English club. Anyway, Rant(ish) over. What are your thoughts on this?

Kurt Zouma anyone know much about him? He's meant to be a good player.

Yeah. yeah. We have heard this all before and then his father came out and said that his dream move would be real madrid, so....

hehe "kok"

Paulinho looks good, but I hear Spurs want him.

It's on BBC THREE if you can get it.

Not sure if this has been posted, but seems like he wants to try become good again. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2342146/Fernando-Torres-I-want-Jose-Mourinho-make-worlds-best-striker-Chelsea-again.html

Serie A is slow. Every time I watch it, it's boring! Not saying it's much easier, just that it'll be tougher here than there. Players like Hazard and Mata have said mentioned how surprised they were with the pace of the game, lack of time on ball etc. If you name most other top goal scorers in the league, the majority of them have been playing in England for quite a few years. I just think that the people thinking he will make a big impact in the first season will be disappointed. Lukaku has adjusted well, but he has a lot more pace than Cavani and I feel next season he will do great for us. I don't see the need for spending 50+ million on this guy, it's absurd!