Congrats Chelsea fans, great result last night. Hopefully we see the unlikely event of two English clubs in the semi's!
Delighted that the plastic French have seen their adopted-club-of-choice-and-convenience knocked out.. they were all suddenly PSG fans round here.. I live in Lyon and it's irritating that you ask people who they support and they say "I used to like Lyon but now they are not so good, so I support Paris and Real Madrid".. so good on Chelsea for shutting them up..
Flights from Shanghai to London return booked for the Final. Now need to sort flights to and from Lisbon!
Nice. Could have had a flight on my air miles back in May, after the Europey League final, but forgot to book. Now Mrs has booked camping trip in New Forest with kids
What's it like for finding the football over in China? I'm going next week for some work, will be there for about a year at least. One of things i'm worried about is missing all the football, particularly because of the time difference!
Apparently Atletico will have to pay 2.5m per game to play Courtois against us. Interesting ploy by Chelsea
I saw that. Wonder if they would pay it? Its a gamble as you'd probably recover it all for getting to the final anyway. Graham Hunter seemed to think they may use the clause in a deal for Costa in the summer. i.e they wont pay it but take it off the Costa fee.
Whilst we need a striker, if I were to choose one player from Atletico it would be Koke! The guy looks amazing.
If were going to take him back then why wouldn't Courtois help us to a couple of goals if we got drawn against them?
He does look great but a number 9 is priority number 1. Hopefully Courtois and Costa with us for next season.
Koke was brilliant, has been all season. Koke - Matic Willian - Oscar - Hazard Costa That is top notch!! If we could do a deal of cash plus Torres for Costa and Koke I would be over the moon.
How much would Koke cost though?!?! Can't see Madrid letting both go plus lose Courtois. That'll be pretty much that side decimated.
According to this: http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2914...is-will-not-play-against-chelsea-say-atletico Its £8m, which I assume is for both legs, and Atheltico's president has said they can't afford to pay it. Good news.
Only if we draw them of course but if we do their back up is a 34 year old whose played once all year.
UEFA have overuled it: http://www1.skysports.com/football/...sist-thibaut-courtois-can-play-in-semi-finals
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