to whoever requested the bergcamp goal:

goal: http://www2.raisport.rai.it/eventi/fran ... da2906.mpg

replay: http://www2.raisport.rai.it/eventi/fran ... 2906rp.mpg


anymore requests???

Don't forget he's still only 22.

Essien is officially a Chelsea player - £26million. What a waste of money.
Freddi Kanoute has joined Sevilla from Spurs - £4.4million

Hadn´t heard of him before... is he really good? How would you rate him?

French turned Mali international. Striker, Scored 22goals out of 71 appearances for Spurs. Excellent player, holds up the play well, first touch is usually perfect, very skillful, on his day . . . . . he's as good as Henry. But the problem he had at Spurs was he was very inconsistant. Also the managment wasn't very happy when he went to play in the Africans nations cup, when we were struggling. BUT a top-class player nevertheless.

Essien is a very good player.

Yeah he is a good player, but £26 million? No way.
If Chelsea were not interested in him, I think Arsenal would have got him for around £14-15 million.
What was Lyon's justification of the price? "If you were willing to pay £33million for Gerrard, then why can't you coff up for Essien?" Gerrard imo is far better, for all we know Essien could crash and burn in the premiership.

Essien had many offers from many teams like real madrid, and lyon were refusing to let him go, chelsea are very lucky to get such a price.

and they payed almost as much for shite drogba.


Any video request???

Drogba i wouldn't say is shite, but then again he is totally unworthy of his valuation. As with Shaun Wright-Phillips = £21million. What a joke. You know Arsenal who were also after him, had him valued at £6million, they bidded that much and were rejected and thus did not raise their price. Chelsea valued him at £8million, then £11m, then £19m then purchased at £21m.

Look at Chelsea's Essien bid history. I think it was 11, 14, 20, 22.5, 24, purchase at 26. Bullshit Lyon refused to let him go, they didn't give a damn and fair play to them, they stalled Chelsea long enough to get the best price.

Guti, who would you rate higher? Ronaldinho or Shevchenko?

According to a spanish newspaper, Newcastle are just about to sign Luque, from Deportivo... quite a good striker, I think It´d be a great signing.

Thanks a lot guti for the goal, another favourite of mine, Bergcamp is a genius.

But unlike you, I think Drogba is a good striker. I believe he's the reason why Egypt was kicked out of the next world cup, he scored 1 goal in the away game, and 2 goals in the home game

BTW guti, how is the Jordanian national team doing at the moment? I watched the majority of the Asian cup last year, and your team was AWESOME. You deserved at least the semi-final, but what can we say? Stupid penalties.

Is El-Gohari still coaching?

bad atm, after the asian cup their level o play went down, we deserved to win that match vs japan but the fuckers missed 4 penaltys in a row, and scoring one of them would make us win, i think johari is still the coach.



Ronaldinho is well......Ronaldinho he is very good and over-rated a bit, and shevchenco is one of the best strikers in the last decade, but atm his form isnt good, so right now i would go with ronaldinho but overall shevchenko.

what do you think???

Saturday, 20 August 2005

Liverpool 2-0 Sunderland
Man Utd 3-0 Aston Villa
Tottenham 1-1 Middlesbrough

Sunday, 21 August 2005

Chelsea 1-2 Arsenal

Are we predicting four of five Premiership matches this weekend?

Saturday, 20 August 2005

Liverpool 3-0 Sunderland
Man Utd 2-1 Aston Villa
Tottenham 1-2 Middlesbrough

Sunday, 21 August 2005

Chelsea 0-0 Arsenal

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4 this week, chelsea v arsenal eliminates the need of 5 matches really.

Saturday, 20 August 2005

Liverpool 1-1 Sunderland
Man Utd 2-0 Aston Villa
Tottenham 2-1 Middlesbrough

Sunday, 21 August 2005

Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal

Saturday, 20 August 2005

Liverpool 3-0 Sunderland
Man Utd 4-0 Aston Villa
Tottenham 2-0 Middlesbrough

Sunday, 21 August 2005

Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal

Saturday, 20 August 2005

Liverpool 3-0 Sunderland
Man Utd 3-1 Aston Villa
Tottenham 1-0 Middlesbrough

Sunday, 21 August 2005

Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal

Scores for saturday:

Manchester United 1-0 Aston Villa
Tottenham 2-0 Middlesbrough
Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland

Another goal for Mido, looking really good for him this season.

I REALLY want a draw between Chelsea and Arsenal, but I'm predicting 2-1 for Chlesea

Yes, I remember that match quite well, I was watching it with 3 friends, and we almost smashed the tv after the last penalty missed. I wonder what you did in Jordan. Those were hands down, the weirdest penalties I've seen. But I never blame players for missing penalties, I have yet to find a player who hasn't missed a penalty.

Chelsea 1 Arsenal 0

I told you guys, Chelsea is invincible, even when he's crap like yesterday, he wins by luck.

Sporting Clube de Portugal -2 Belenenses -1

Academica -0 Benfica-0

Porto-1 Amadora-0

places after the first wekeend

1. Naval 3
2. Rio Ave 3
3. Sporting 3
4. Sp. Braga 3
5. Nacional 3
6. FC Porto 3
7. Gil Vicente 3
8. Académica 1
9. Benfica 1
10. Boavista 1
11. V. Setúbal 1
12. Belenenses 0
13. E. Amadora 0
14. Marítimo 0
15. P. Ferreira 0
16. U. Leiria 0
17. V. Guimarães 0
18. Penafiel 0


Next Big Matches:

Marítimo - Sporting (0-2)

Benfica - Gil Vicente (1-1)

Naval - F.C. Porto (0-1)

Champion League Group Stage Draw:

Group A
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Club Brugge
Rapid Vienna

Group B
Arsenal
Ajax
Sparta Prague
FC Thun

Group C
Barcelona
Panathinaikos
Werder Bremen
Udinese

Group D
Manchester United
Villarreal
Lille
Benfica

Group E
Milan
PSV Eindhoven
Schalke
Fenerbahce

Group F
Real Madrid
Lyon
Olympiakos
Rosenborg

Group G
Liverpool
Chelsea
Anderlecht
Real Betis

Group H
Internazionale
Porto
Rangers
Artmedia Bratislava

Liverpool get drwan in Chelseas group. The champs won't last long.

Also from last seasons CL : Individual player awards went to :

Best Goalkeeper - Petr Cech (Chelsea)
Best Defender - John Terry - (Chelsea)
Best Midfielder - Kaka - (AC Milan)
Best Striker - Ronaldinho - (Barcelona)

MVP - Steven Gerrard - (Liverpool)