OTF

He's been called up for Nigeria! Pretty sure that was the point.

Pretty sure it's game over and you have to start from the beginning. Or - you can keep going as is but the moment you make a transfer you'll have to ship out one of your Chelsea players.

...Come on Mr Cort.. there's hope for my shirt still....

Shola, Ranger, Best, Lovenkrands and Steven Taylor might be happy about this.

I bet that N'Zogbia would have said yes to the deal as long as it increased his wages.

Can someone send an ambulance round leazesMags, I think he's on his way to dying from smugness.

Yeah now that we've been once again fucked over lets turn on each other. Brilliant.

We're in talks with Depor about taking their Spanish striker Xisco on a season long loan for 1-2m up front.

.. where he will get his deserved chance to shine.

They're readying a bid for Folan as we speak.

Don't think for one second that we'll see Ashley splash the cash in the summer.

Wonder how many other fake deals they will pretend to be making before they claim at the end that they narrowly missed out on several of their targets?

Softening the blow had fuck all to do with it, show me one example in the past two years where those slimey fucks showed that they gave a shit about what we think. They've sent their mate out every other day for the past month to say "Andy Carroll is not for sale at any price". They had to do something to save face there if nowt else. And they came out and rubbished Hughton in the press as soon as they'd got shot of him. They play the game, they're just shit at it. They're not too shit at it if they've managed to garner up to 40m for Andy Carroll. Particularly with his off-field behavioural issues. They don't care about their face, they've contradicted themselves so many times it's now not even worth digging up up the examples. They blatantly know that there's enough supporters out there who are addicted who will keep coming back for their hit no matter how many times they get burnt by the dealer.

The ol' wheeler dealer has seen it all before.

wasnt carroll `going nowhere` ? He was like, but that was coming from Mike and Derek who unfortunately lose out in the credibility stakes to rumour mongering online 'news' sites.

Can't really blame Carroll he'll be more than doubling his wage easily. Have to wonder how he'll react to the pressure and sudden increased 'fame'. All signs indicate not well.

Is better than no Elmander. Absolutely carved us up.

Truth be told this window has been mental for the prices of strikers. The money would be best used in summer to sign a replacement, though someone in on loan now would work out. As always the issue is that it's unlike;y at best that Ashley will reinvest the money back into the team. All this does is bump him further along his five year plan .

No.

Let's see how long it takes him to return from injury. Carroll's head will have been turned in a big way by the wages. I'd assume he'll be on something upwards of 80k now. Torres to be on 200+ at Chelsea. The circle of life. Biggest problem we're faced with now is that Ashley is not going to reinvest the money. If he does try to reinvest some of it we're going to get poor players cause he's not willing to stump for competitive wages. Plus everyone will know we've just got a fat lump of cash so will try to get as much of it as they can, in the same way that Ashley did from Liverpool. Here's hoping plenty more allegations come out of the woods once the deal is officially inked. I hear Steven Taylor is preparing his case as we speak.

Signing someone as cover for a singular position is tough work as your average player would only move if they're going to be first choice or could at least be convinced that they are. Easier to bring someone young through the ranks as cover.

30m won't buy a local player with a love for the club. ... And it won't buy me a new shirt either... So shut it the lot of you.