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CaptainUnited

Yeah I don't like tactics either.

No tactics Hero, sorry mate.

Fair enough no worries, just wanted to be able to put across how I'd deal with player X etc.

Everyone happy if we bring things forward a little bit, as follows:

Thursday 17th May 2012 - Domestics Open
Tuesday 22nd May 2012 - Foreigns Open
Friday 25th May 2012 - Releases Open
Thursday 31st May 2012 - Injuries announced
Monday 4th June 2012 - Round 1

Depends what time on Tuesday, it's my last exam which finishes at 3...

Although I'm Barca so I'm not too bothered.

Foreigns are all day mate, much slower than on previous leagues.

Ok.

GUV! What a night!

Went round my mates house to watch it. 10 lads. 4 Chelsea supporters. Somone turns the TV off just before the Drogba penalty. The mood turned sour quickly.

Anyway, well done Chelsea!

Had 4 of the lads round celebrated Drogba's pen like a Utd goal. One of the lads a Liverpool supporter didn't even celebrate, wanted Bayern to win.

If Barcelona sign Jordi Alba from Valencia, is it too late for me to add him to my squad?

Yeah, sorry mate.

No worries.

Morning all

It was Drogba's destiny. He was everywhere and immense.

Saying that Gomez was rubbish and my rating of him and Schweinstiger has dropped dramatically now

Well done Chelsea

Couldn't believe how dire Gomez was. I also think Drogba was pants apart from his goal and penalty. He was so lethargic in the first half. Ashley Cole deserved MOTM.

Gomez is very much a striker that can miss sitters but often nets a hatful. Unfortunately he just had a bad day at the office on Saturday night.

There are sitters and there misses. He was terrible and cost Bayern the victory

Drogba was good in set-piece defending and held the ball up when needed.
No theatrics.

Beware of my predictions.

Arsenal still looking for deals

Posted this in trash talk as well but thought you lot might like it too!

Spoiler:

Morning guys.

Brilliant Gregers, just brilliant.

Still in disbelief to be honest.

Can I just say one thing? Well done on winning the CL and all that ( I lost £35), but Di Matteo will have the re-build the squad. And then because Frank, John and Cashley will be mad at being dropped, he'll be fired like AVB who did nothing wrong.

That is the problem TSC although I disagree about AVB. He was given a task and he went about it the wrong way. He should have seen what was happening well before it became the problem it did but he didn't and he ended up isolating himself and losing player loyalty and splitting the dressing room. Poor man management. It is time for the older players to slowly step aside and let younger ones come through but you cannot simply dismiss those payers the way AVB tried.

RDM has done a good job but has done what he needed to do, i.e. get the established players back and playing a system that suits them. He deserves credit for that alone after the confidence has got so low under AVB but also deserves credit for some of his tactical decisions. They have worked well. He saw we could not take Barca or Bayern on in an open game, they are both superior to us on that front. The only way was to be organised and disciplined. The players did it superbly even though it must have been fairly dour to watch for the neutral. I said to Mrs Guv that we had become to the CL what Greece were to the Euros in 2004 but we would not have won it otherwise. What is a club supposed to do in that situation?

But back to RDM. You are right that it is one thing getting a final hurrah out of the old guard but the club needs to slowly replace those players. AVB went about it all the wrong way. He was abrasive and underestimated the loyalty of the squad to each other. I don't think RDM would be the same, at least I hope not.

JT and Cole can play for another couple of years no problem with Bertrand getting more time at LB and the CBs rotated. Lampard needs to have his playing time slowly reduced but he needs to agree with the approach and accept it. As for Drogba, that is our hardest problem. The current team is set up to play around him. It doesn't suit most strikers. I think he should leave now whilst his final moments are good ones. Best way to leave. Then we can build around a new striker. I think that should be Torres .

Torres' statement about how low he felt and the way he got treated certainly affected his time here.
No matter what you do, if you feel that your not treated fairly, then it would have an effect.

Why did JT have his kit on when celebrating? I thought he would be suited and booted.

Platini's face was a picture as he hated congratulating the Chelsea team

Platini was hilarious. His plans up in smoke. Just hope England can beat France in the Euros. Really make him miserable.

Torres' comments don't come as a surprise. What should we expect. I am always a little suspicious of interviews translated into English since the meaning can sometimes be distorted a little. Not being treated fairly? Not sure about that. Did he really mean that or is that how it translates into English but has a slightly different slant in Spanish. He must know he wasn't performing well at the start of the season and thus was on the bench. Stands to reason. But he looked happy enough at the end of the match and on the bus yesterday. He won't want to spend most of next season on the bench and that is totally understandable so yes, he ought to have a word with the Chelsea hierachy to see how they see him playing going forward. If we keep Drogba then I would say Torres should leave for his own sake. If we are not keeping Drogba, as the rumours seem to suggest, then Torres ought to become our main striker and we need to play around him.

Platini just despises the English clubs, a wonderful footballer but just an absolute w***er of a president of UEFA. Worst thing is he'll probably become Blatter's successor at FIFA.

Hero - I think that will be inevitable unfortunately.

France vs England should be a cracker

Anyone see the new Nike advert?
Pretty good.

Fair play to Ronaldo to look like a t*t at the end

It's fantastic isn't it, it's like my wet dream of a team, Neymar, Gotze, M'Vila etc.

Hero

It also had Wellbeck

Arsenal still up for deals.
I need to change up as everyone else has.

Was very pleased Chelsea won. Can understand and agree with Kamran too that Gomez is terrible. Never really got the hype surrounding him. Schweinsteiger was good though I thought until he missed that penalty, that's all he really did wrong - Bayern's midfield dominated the game.

Foreigns should be interesting tomorrow.

I have a hospital appointment at 1pm so will offer mine early and then come back in the evening to respond

I highly doubt I'll have enough money but there's plenty of good players out there.

Continue to leave offers on my page and hope to get back to you in an hour or so.

Cheers

I HAVE NO MONEY!!

Your team's almost sorted anyway mate.

There's 2 players I wish to buy in foreigns so if anyone with cash wishes to head down to the Bernabau I may consider the offer (no on Ronaldo before anyone asks)

How does it feel to have no cash?

What CBs are better than Puyol/Pique? Think really only Vidic is.

Puyol is past it, pique is still very good tho.

Puyol is a legend I think. Who would you say is better?

Puyol is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past it. Not even making the Euros due to injury.

An injury doesn't mean a player is past it...

puyol is finished

finiiiiiiiiiiito

Better than Puyol? Probably most center backs in Europe!

Better than Pique? Gary Cahill, Vidic, Hummels

Vince Kompany

Rightly or wrongly, Kompany, Silva, Vidic, Rio, Terry rated higher than Puyol on here.

And Hummels and Subotic (for me)

Oh and Kompany

Gary Cahill is not better than Carles Puyol. I'd agree Vidic and Thiago Silva probably are, maybe even Kompany. I rate Ferdinand highly but don't know if everyone else does.