Chelsea in for Gerrard

[janaage]

It's a disgrace really, clubs going down the pan for money equivalent to Steven Gerrard's monthly wage

[Piemonte]

It is in a way, but the laws of supply and demand dictate that those who can perform to a level that few others on earth can manage will be paid the most.

[DMR]

I really hope he goes to Chelsea 'cos it is good for England that he goes to the best club possible and Chelsea are the best in the world.

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No.

[Ben Wah Balls]

No to what?

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Gerrard's a prick, like most footballers.

The amount of money floating around in the top tier of the game is sickening.  To read what Gerrard has turned down and what Chelsea have offered particularly in the week of Live8, is obscene.

I don't know about Sir Bob and Bono canvassing the G8 leaders, they should take their collecting tins round the Premiership clubs.  Those tossers could wipe out Third World debt without any help whatsoever from the world's leaders.

It is disgusting and immoral.

Cunts.

[fatbury]

just heard hes NOW STAYING!! .. i wonder if it was the money??

[janaage]

This is starting to bore now, I'm staying, now I'm going, now I'm staying.....  Just fuck off.

[DMR]

No to what?

Chelsea are not the best in the world.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Yes they are Dave.

They finished with the record ever points total in the premiership which is undoubtably the best league in the world. They made the champions league semi final and deserved to be in the final only losing to the eventual winners who only finished 5th.

So name a better team then.

Shame Gerrard seems to be staying with Liverpool now. :evil:

[DMR]

Barcelona.

[Kinky Tom]

I hate Barcelona - one of my mates has a Barca shirt aswell as a couple of Real Madrid ones, I give him grief for it.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Barcelona! Come off it! Didn't you see Chelsea put 4 past them in the champions league, Chelsea were the better team that night no question and Chelsea got further in the champions league and were champions of a stronger league, so how are Barcelona better?

[DMR]

Barcelona! Come off it! Didn't you see Chelsea put 4 past them in the champions league, Chelsea were the better team that night no question and Chelsea got further in the champions league and were champions of a stronger league, so how are Barcelona better?

Liverpool went further than Chelsea, you've contradicted your own argument.

La Liga is genreally regarded as the best league in the world.

Therefore I win be default.

[Kinky Tom]

I have a conspiracy theory on the Stevie G subject.

Perhaps the Liverpool media team dreamt all this up in order to make Chelsea concentrate on the possibility of signing him, meaning that they would be behind in the transfer market.  I reckon Gerrard was staying all along, but was told to make it look like he wanted to go.

Far fetched I know.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Barcelona! Come off it! Didn't you see Chelsea put 4 past them in the champions league, Chelsea were the better team that night no question and Chelsea got further in the champions league and were champions of a stronger league, so how are Barcelona better?

Liverpool went further than Chelsea, you've contradicted your own argument.

La Liga is genreally regarded as the best league in the world.

Therefore I win be default.

No I haven't Dave as Chelsea finished 37 points above Liverpool showing they're better. I don't think there's any doubt there and in the games between them Chelsea had the upper hand with wins in the league and carling cup final where they completely dominated.

Barcelona did absolutely nothing to show they were better than Chelsea - and in the two games between them Chelsea looked the better team and won.

The fact that the team in 5th in the premiership won the champions league shows just how strong the premiership now is and yet Chelsea got a records points total and only lost once whilst Barcelona lost four times in la liga which is a weaker league.

La liga is regarded as a stronger league by who? It just isn't any more, 4 teams past the group stages in the champions league from the premiership, 2 in the semi finals and both would probably been in the final if they hadn't played each other in the semi final. I don't think any of teams from la liga even got past the quarters - it is not a stronger league. Aside from Barcelona and Real Madrid none of the teams have the quality to win the champions league. In the premiership, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man United are all good enough to win it.

All the evidence suggests Chelsea are the better team, no evidence suggests Barcelona are the better team.