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I could understand Rafa wanting to keep Dudek as cover, but who in their right mind would give us £4m for Carson? Couple of million, max.

Hargreaves has to travel. Who else is Sven gonna bring on with 20 minutes to play, when he's run out of ideas?

That squad is a work of genius from Eriksson. Well in, Sven.

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I'm afraid that can't be discussed until the feast day of St. Balderdash, which I believe is sometime in late July.

And before Horsehead f*cks off to Spain or Italy, we'll get a couple of weeks of mentalists linking us with him.

You reckon we'll sign Bellamy and the fans will be split over it. Can we can lock this thread now?

Is he really, though? Twice the player? Nah, I'm not having that.

Or an incredible swoop for Mick Quinn.

Gotta be Ronaldo. Assuming of course that the shelves have been reinforced. If it's Heskey...

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Fully agree with all that. My point is that it would be dangerous to put all our eggs in one basket. I'll take as many cups as possible between now and us winning the league.

We want to win them all, Andy: the league and the cups. That's what we have to, and will, strive towards.

They were dreadful. Pathetic display, but they've shown themselves to be well capable of those types of performances throughout the season.

Of course. *slaps forehead*

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But Sky already have ads for next season's Prem Plus (50 games), so you'll have to pay for both if you want to see all the games. I don't see any price reductions, save for the usual special offers.

Fully agree, sammyaaarrr. I refuse to get worked up about who they may or may not sign. They can only play 11 players and they CAN be beaten. Throwing obscene amounts of money around is no guarantee of success - look at Inter, Real Madrid, Lazio. Rafa had a similar situation at Valencia and triumphed despite not spending shedloads of cash and buying individually brilliant players. All that said, I really hope Mourinho f*cks off soon, because I can see a lesser coach making a balls of the Chelsea job, regardless of the bottomless pit of money. If they start chopping and changing managers because instant success isn't forthcoming, the whole unsavoury set-up at Stamford Bridge could work to our advantage.

I give him 18 months at an absolute max.

That's a relief. They certainly need it more than we do.

Chelsea wouldn't know what to do with either of them. I honestly couldn't give a flying f*ck who they sign at this stage. Unless it's Sven as manager and then I'll be happy as a pig in sh*te.

I just checked - £550k. So that would mean £50k for Traore and half a million for Willie. Sounds about right.

He probably meant the goals as they go in from our match, the hairy handed c*nt: "and over to Fratton Park", etc.