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Exotic Vardy is official :pimp: Just need Mustafi to be announced, and we'll fight for that first place spot until the new year again :pimp:
 
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Naw Hart will still be #1 he has not been moved on because he is no good he's been moved on cause he can't do what Pep wants effectively.
[rule]I can't wait to see Hart's crazy yelling in the tunnel I hope he learns a couple phrases in Italian to scream in the tunnel.
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I going to miss this. I was waiting for the Derby for him to casually drop f bombs like a madman. Pep screwed him badly though, Hart could of gone to Pool or Everton in the summer instead of stringing him along. The disrespect to a club legend though :smh:
 
Feel like Hart gets beat from distance far too often. Haven't rated him since the season that shall not be spoken.
 
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An Armada said:
Naw Hart will still be #1 he has not been moved on because he is no good he's been moved on cause he can't do what Pep wants effectively.
I can't wait to see Hart's crazy yelling in the tunnel I hope he learns a couple phrases in Italian to scream in the tunnel.
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I going to miss this. I was waiting for the Derby for him to casually drop f bombs like a madman. Pep screwed him badly though, Hart could of gone to Pool or Everton in the summer instead of stringing him along. The disrespect to a club legend though
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I believe it was said He didn't want to go to Everton but the Pool thing could have been an option. Pep and the club said they wanted it to be his decision on where he wants to go and he choose Torino why we don't know yet.
 
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BREAKING: Sky Sources: Marcos Alonso travelling to West London and could start medical at @ChelseaFC this evening: http://skysports.tv/xVHd9l

I'm just glad we are about to get Alonso so we can move Azpil to RB
 
If Basti got 3 games for a slight elbow against the same dude,Kun's getting banned for sure :lol:

Dude isn't slice though,we all know he didn't want to face Bailly :lol: :smokin
 
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Hart gone so is Bravo gonna be the starter?
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100% starting. No way Willy gets the starting job.

Harts situation was just out of his control. Been one of the most consistent GK's in the BPL for years so idk how this overrated talk came about. Have won 4 Golden Gloves. Made 301 appearances with 119 clean sheets, 9 less games played than Peter Schmeichel and 10 less clean sheets.

The best defense we ever had in front of him was Kompany and Lescott in his prime and maybe Kolo Toure at best.
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That's exactly why I didn't understand this move. But I guess it what it is...
 
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NomadicSole21 said:
 
Jking0821 said:
Hart gone so is Bravo gonna be the starter?
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100% starting. No way Willy gets the starting job.

Harts situation was just out of his control. Been one of the most consistent GK's in the BPL for years so idk how this overrated talk came about. Have won 4 Golden Gloves. Made 301 appearances with 119 clean sheets, 9 less games played than Peter Schmeichel and 10 less clean sheets.

The best defense we ever had in front of him was Kompany and Lescott in his prime and maybe Kolo Toure at best.
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That's exactly why I didn't understand this move. But I guess it what it is...
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The move was made because even though Hart is a great keeper he cannot do what Pep wants a keeper to be able to do outside of being a great shot stopper.
 
Arsenal

2013/14 - 4th place

2014/15 - 3rd place

2015/16 - 2nd place

2016/17 - ???

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If Lucas can give us 13-15 goals with a few assists, i think that would be enough and a successful first season for him. We don't need him to be a world beater off the bat, he'll take a lot of pressure off Alexis and Theo who will find more space to work with thus hopefully scoring more goals from the flanks, I think Alexis will get his, Theo is the one to benefit more from this. If ozil can bag around 10 goals this campaign, we'll definitely have a strong attack and surely feel we'll be fighting for the title especially with our defensive reinforcements. What I love from what I read about Perez is that he is excellent in helping build the attack and creates chances, which perfectly fits our style and I think Alexis will go off with his help. I'm excited to see how he turns out because he's a bit of a wild card acquisition. He scored against the big la liga clubs last season so the guy ain't shooked, that technique up front is very welcomed
 
New Avy. Had to retire Don Carlo.

It was one thing last season when he didn't have a team, but now that he's BM's coach it's only right.

Dude was the epitome of a boss. Read this cool article about him just the other day. Although fans and media seem to put him below the Mou/Pep tier, his former players all hold him in the highest regard. And unsurprisingly dude takes notes from The Godfather Don Corleone.

Carlo Ancelotti: Football's 'Diva Whisperer' learns from 'The Godfather'
Six months later, Ancelotti was in charge of French side Paris Saint-Germain. The Italian believed he was going to be involved for a long period with a club built on Qatari wealth but claimed in his autobiography that he was let down by former Brazil international Leonardo, then PSG's sporting director, prompting Ancelotti to walk away from the club in May 2013.
(CNN)You have to be careful of the quiet ones.

If that old adage fits anyone, it's surely Carlo Ancelotti.

He has one of the most impressive CVs in football -- one of just seven men to have won the Champions League as both player and coach, the Italian is also one of only two coaches to have won the European crown on three separate occasions.

The 57-year-old has not achieved this by bawling and screaming, fostering a siege mentality or through mendacious mind games, but with a calm, hands-in-pockets cool.

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A quiet word here or there when necessary, resulting in a haul of trophies to really shout about.

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"Quiet is my style of management -- quiet because that's my style, my character, my personality," Ancelotti told CNN ahead of his first Bundesliga match in charge of German champion Bayern Munich, Friday's thumping 6-0 victory against Werder Bremen.
Some have tried to change him, such as Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, but Ancelotti wasn't for turning.

His traits were instilled, he says, from his childhood growing up in a small village in Emilia-Romagna, in the north of Italy.

"I try to be quiet in my relationships with people," he explains. "I grew up like this because I lived in a very quiet and very calm family.

"I had a father who was very quiet, so I grew my character from the beginning."

Ancelotti has used his lifetime of training to good effect during a managerial career which -- starting in the 1990s -- has taken him to Italian clubs Reggiana, Parma, Juventus and Milan, English team Chelsea, France's Paris Saint-Germain and Spanish heavyweight Real Madrid.

Carlo Ancelotti on future of Real Madrid
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He has delivered league or cup titles in every country he has worked in, sometimes both.

Ancelotti -- assistant coach when Italy lost the 1994 World Cup final -- believes his relationship with his players is central to his success.

"With the players, above all I have to be myself," he says. "I cannot use another personality because I don't have one."

It seems to work, since a host of the world's highest-profile footballers featured in his autobiography -- this year's "Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches" -- almost tripping over themselves to lavish praise on their former boss.
"I say Carlo is the best and I have worked with the best," said Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has worked under modern coaching giants such as Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.

"He's the best," agreed former Italy star Alessandro Nesta. "You have to understand how clever he is with his tactics."


Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Filippo Inzaghi and supposed hard man Gennaro Gattuso were in tears, David Beckham recalled, when Ancelotti left Milan in 2009, after an eight-year spell that had resulted in league, cup, Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup successes.

"He genuinely cares, and he takes the time to care," former England captain John Terry said. "That's what makes him the very best."

The Chelsea stalwart's relationship with Mourinho is widely believed to have been his closest bond with a coach -- but that's apparently not so.

"He is, for me, the ultimate," the veteran defender said of Ancelotti.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo joined in, saying the atmosphere at Real Madrid under Ancelotti was "spectacular." The Portugal star was one of the most vocal protesters when it became apparent Ancelotti was going to be sacked by Real in 2015, a year after delivering the club's long-awaited 10th European title.
These are serious accolades, which the star names didn't have to agree to, so what's his secret?

"I really didn't have problems with players -- in all my career," Ancelotti explains.

"I know what the player is thinking about a lot of the situations -- and know when a player is not happy and why.

"I really enjoy my job. It's not a job, it's a passion. I just love -- day-by-day -- my job."


Occasionally labeled the "Diva Whisperer," Ancelotti insists that working with top stars is easy because of their desire to be the best -- citing three-time world footballer of the year Ronaldo as an example.

"When we got back at 3 in the morning from away trips, instead of going to bed he would go to the ice bath, so this means he is really professional," Ancelotti says of the club's record scorer.

"Managing top talent is easy because most of them are really serious so it's not difficult -- really not."

He puts his emphasis on his squads, he says, because he can't control the president, the fans or the media -- though you will find him online, with 2.2 million followers on his @MrAncelotti Twitter feed -- so why would he even try?
For a supposedly soft man, one of the coach's role models may be a little surprising.

Carlo Ancelotti: Mourinho 'really good' for Man Utd
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He is in thrall to the lead character in mobster movie "The Godfather" (whose keeping-it-in-the-family attitude might explain why Ancelotti appointed son Davide to be Bayern's assistant coach this week).

"When you watch Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather,' do you see a weak, quiet man or do you see a calm, powerful man in charge of his situation?" he asked in his autobiography.

It's a telling comment which explains much of Ancelotti's approach, even if the violence is reassuringly absent.

His main football influence was part of one of the sport's most heralded triumvirates -- Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm -- the Swedish forwards popularly known at Milan as "Gre-No-Li."

Liedholm would later manage Milan three times, but he made his biggest impression on Ancelotti when he coached Roma, where the midfielder played between 1979-1987.

Liedholm, who Ancelotti describes as -- surprise, surprise -- "quiet but strong," was powerful, respected, flexible (like his protégé) and liked to both fine-tune players and give them responsibility.


After Champions League successes with Milan in 2003 and 2007, and Real Madrid (the all-important "decima") in 2014, Bayern -- whose last European triumph came in 2013 -- is hoping to tap into some of the Ancelotti magic.

"Carlo Ancelotti has enjoyed success everywhere as a coach and has won the Champions League three times," Bayern's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told the club website upon the Italian's appointment in December to replace Pep Guardiola, now at Manchester City.

"Carlo is a calm, balanced expert, who knows how to deal with stars and favors a multifaceted style of play -- we were looking for this, and have found it."

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After years working under such challenging owners as Abramovich (who once chastised Ancelotti after a 6-0 win), Florentino Perez and Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italy international is likely to relish working with former top-level players at Bayern, such as Rummenigge and Mathias Sammer.
And Bayern will surely benefit from the extended break Ancelotti recently afforded himself with his Canadian second wife Mariann, who he married in 2014.

"I think it was really good after 20 years to have one year off," he said. "I enjoyed beautiful places like Canada but now I am ready to start."

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He is, he says, looking forward to the "longest period of sustained success" in his career at Bayern, where he has already won the season-opening German Super Cup.

Despite his calm demeanor, it promises to be some ride.
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Thank you Carlo for bringing the Decima, the first CL trophy I got to witness RM win as a supporter.
 
Wilshire to AC with option to buy

Alonso having Chelsea medical today?


Luiz going back to Chelsea :smh:
 
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I couldn't remember the last Englishmen to play in Serie A recently besides Ravel Morrison and Ashley Cole and we've had 2 move there in the span of 2 days :lol:
 
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