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Lampard's deal is not settled yet. I hope they'll be a turn-around.

I don't understand why we are even getting Deco. We should have some kind of policy surrounding player acquisition.

We need hunger and determination from players.

Now this is what I want to hear . . .

Lampard Coy On Inter Reports
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has refused to confirm whether reports claiming that he has already signed for Inter are true - though the fact that he did not take the chance to deny the stories either could be seen as being telling.

France Football claimed on Friday that Lampard had signed a four-year contract with Inter, worth €7.3m a year, and that the Nerazzurri would pay Chelsea a transfer fee of €9m.

Lampard, who is currently holidaying in Italy, refused to be drawn out when pressed to comment on the rumours by local journalists.

"Inter? Let's wait and see. For the moment I am here on holiday with my family," said the 30-year-old.

"My future at Chelsea? I don't know anything yet," he added.

"Italy is a beautiful country but I am not due to meet anyone here."

According to the latest reports from London, Chelsea are dead set against the player leaving, and it is even being claimed that they would rather let Lampard rot in the reserves than let him join Inter.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=757638

It's just one sad news after another this season.

Akola
You do well jare,

Ibime will blame the weather on Jose. Strangely even Wormedup seem to support him in this instance.

Someone that started so many high profile games when he first came, got injured for most of the season and came back with shaky performances against Spurs and Arsenal suddenly becomes a great player. What did he do in Sevilla - 6 freaking appearances.

When it comes to Jose, Lampard or Drogba, Ibime suddenly loses rationale.

I got this from your link.

On August 18, 2006, Chelsea agreed a fee with Hamburg to sign Boulahrouz. The fee is thought to be around £8,500,000 (€12,000,000).[5] After Chelsea's opening game of the 2006-07 season, manager José Mourinho confirmed that the club had signed Boulahrouz and the club is only waiting for his international clearance to be finalised,[6] before speaking of the potential roles Boulahrouz will have in the side. Mourinho stated "In a short squad and in a country where you can have only 16 players for a match, it’s important to have cover for many positions. So, for example, now I can have Boulahrouz, Ricardo and John — three options for the centre; I can have Paulo and Boulahrouz — two options for the right side; I can have Boulahrouz and Wayne Bridge — two options for the left side."[6]

On August 21, 2006 Chelsea completed the signing of Boulahrouz. Six days later, he was handed his Premiership debut against Blackburn Rovers. He wore the number 9 shirt, previously occupied by Hernán Crespo - this is an unconventional number for a defender, being traditionally associated with strikers, but was given to him just because it happened to be one of the numbers not currently allocated to a player by Chelsea at the time of signing.

Boulahrouz made a promising start to his Chelsea career, figuring prominently in high-profile games against Liverpool and more notably Barcelona where he dominated Ronaldinho. However, Boulahrouz gradually dropped out of favour. Boulahrouz was out for a lengthy period of time after a knee injury, followed by a shoulder injury while playing in an FA Cup tie against Norwich City.

Boulahrouz eventually dropped out of contention as the season wound down, with John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho as the first-choice defensive pairing. When Carvalho was injured against Spurs, manager Mourinho paired Terry with Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien.

Having done himself no favours with his shaky performances throughout the latter half of the season, Boulahrouz sealed his own fate by committing an avoidable individual error and eventually earning a straight red card, the first of his Chelsea career, against Arsenal by bringing down Julio Baptista in the box, conceding a penalty (that Gilberto Silva converted). The game ended as a 1-1 draw which, coupled with Manchester United's win against Manchester City the day before meant that the Red Devils clinched the Premier League title. However, he featured in Chelsea's final game of the season, against Everton.

Boulahrouz joined Spanish club Sevilla on a year long loan for the 2007-2008 season.[7]

Ibime,
Villa's injury and possibly, as a result of the injury, his failure to play in the finals will bring down his price.

I agree he will not be able to play alone, but Drogba still remains a Chelsea player and we have Scolari, who may change our formation.

Ibime,
Abramovich should send his mafia to remind Arshavin of his responsibilities to Russia and hence to Chelsea
See person wey we dey pay him manager sef. Hell he is only this famous because of RA's money.

Uneasy lies the head . . .

50 is way better.

Kayne raps like a girl.

. . .

We're at it again, aint we?

Ibime, Nateevs,
The circumstances under which JM worked in further enforces the fact that he is truly a Special one. Imagine being so successful in light of the insurmountable boardroom obstacles. We can now understand why he did not win the Champions League or EPL two seasons back. Imagine if we had Eto'o, Gallas and Richards in our injury savaged team.

I hear Liverpool wants David Villa, If we do not buy him, I will reconsider my support for the team. I don't know what Scolari and management is doing. That guy must not go to any other English team. Arshavin too should be considered.

Meanwhile why is no one talking about palyviochencko?

Nasri has finally been signed by Arsenal or so he says . . . another one eats the dust, I see.

Ibime:
We don't even need to be hiring ex-Chelsea players. We just need to allow the manager (Scolari) to appoint the staff he wants and staff who are loyal to him, not backbiting backstabbers. If you remember, Vialli also stabbed Ruud Gullit in the back and Gullit has not forgiven him till today.

Backbittting can be forgiven by fans if it is for the greater good

Arnesen has not been impressive but that singular decision is unforgivable. Richards for 5m would have been a great deal, plus age is on his side.

I sure hope Scolari would be given ample time and space to perform. I don't think he will be in the mould of Mourhino, in terms of winning a lot in his first or so season. His acquisition links too, have been mainly aged players - Deco and Ronaldihno. I wonder if he is playing just for the Champions League or he actually wants to build a club.

We'll see how it goes

hhmm . . . interesting.

Grant, Kenyon and Shevshenko were actually the backstabbing snitches I thought they were, while Terry was the proud loud mouthed Fred Flinstone of the team.

The sacking of JM showed howsignificantly inept our management team truly was. Roman Abramovich's autocratic and somewhat indiscretive style of control only shows how far behind we are when it comes to the organisational standard of top European Clubs. The menace of Kenyon and Arnesen does nothing to help the situation.

It's time we have a management that includes true Chelsea fans or past players. I don't see why Zola or Vialli can not help our structure. We need a change in our management style. Kenyon should have been sacked long before today.

What did bhoularouz play now? You and your anti-JM sentiments.

Anyway I agree that Hiddink was probably better than Scolari in the tournament, but the deal has been done already. I'm sure Clarke will come in handy and he'd be ok. Anyone instead of backstabbing Grant will do and Scolari has the world cup to his name.

Arshavin may be a good buy but I don't think we have space for his role. Playing with Chelsea is way different from Russia, remember we had another Russian captain sometime back. He has been great in the 2 or so games he's played in. But except something happens to most of our players he's not coming. He can only take one person's position and you know how I feel about that.

Let's wait till July shall we.

JM was right to criticise Scolari on his zone marking system. I hope he does not use it here. Jose left us with the best defence in the world, I hope Scolari builds on that unlike AG.

Did you guys notice phenominal Ballack. Dude still has it in him. Wonder is he can take on the role of playmaking or holding midfielder here.

JM is at it again, using mind games to unsettle our players. Not surprising.

I think we just have to agree to disagree,

By common accepted rule,(intentionally did not use "logic", hope it makes you happy ) it may be deemed strange or even autocratic to make such drastic laws that seems to purnish non-offenders who were merely witnesses to an offense. If this law targets the car owners (your big men) when they are present IN the car at the time of offense, then it should state so emphatically.

This is Nigeria where we don't have a choice, you want the passengers from a private vehicle or a public one to stage a mass protest by exiting the vehilce when a driver attempts to break a traffic law under in hot sun in a dead-locked traffic? Come on bro, look at it from two angles. You can fine the drivers, that is fine, but why fine passengers?

Anyway I respect your opinion, I think we can safely call it a wrap.

deor03:
@ somze

I guess the issues of including the passangers is because most ' big ' men on Lagos roads are passagers in their cars. They are not just ordinary passangers, they are the ones controlling the innocent drivers.

Laws are supposed to have a feel of the context in which it is being applied. How many people have drivers in UK?

The problem is that the law will also affect "non-big men" who are mere passengers in the car they are in and have no say in the matter.

Sky Blue:
@somze if you must UK as an example, UK were drivers respect traffic laws in comparison with Nigeria, UK were people don't drive against traffic as a norm, i could go on, but if you must use UK as an example whereby a system is put in place to "encourage" people to comply with the law, then why not familiarise yourself with fines used to "encourage" people not to smoke in public? Why not familiarise yourself with the hefty fines used to "encourage" people not to drink in public designated 'no alcohol' zones? Why not familiarise yourself with fines used to "encourage" people to abide by railway laws, eg buy tickets? Should i go on? Familiarise yourself with all of that and also use places like Toronto and New York and other places where spitting chewing gum on the floor makes you liable to a fine. So even if such places did not have those laws then you won't see the situation in lagos for what it is? Terrible and hence deserving of drastic measures? I think this arguement is getting futile. However i will only advice you on this, when next you want to drive on lagos roads and your driver on either bus or car or taxi or whatever feels like endangering the lives of everyone to get you to skip traffic that everyone else is enduring also, "encourage" such a driver not to not because we had this arguement and you agreed with me, but because you will if caught get fined!!! Good Day.

All the fines you raised in the UK ONLY affect the offender and NO one else.

I also don't understand how passenger tickets make you abide by railway laws. You may want to explain that one.

In UK, people break Traffic laws like every other place in the world and they are rules to purnish the offender and deter people from engaging in such. These rules are strictly for the offender.

Let's take CCTV for example, if your car is caught breaking a traffic law and points were to be deducted, they would be deducted from you of course. But say you were not the one driving the car at the time and you remember who was driving it, authorities will deduct it from the person not you irrespective of the car ownership.

Lagos new traffic law does not address this case where the passenger has nothing to do with the car or the driver (ownership does not exist). Hence the case of vicarious liability. Why this law even saw the light of day is beyond me. Do we really have lawmakers in Nigeria? What does the house of Assembly, Reps and Senate do?

Seun are you sleeping?

Sky Blue:
The intent of that law is to encourage people who are not driving (the passengers) to also demand that drivers in vehicles they are in desist from the blatant and fatal stupidity that is one way driving.

Seriously, except from the military law, what other laws have you been governed under?

How can an unjust fine be used to encourage?

The problem I see here is we are too used to being ruled by military decrees.

In the UK where points are deducted, whose licenses are the points deducted from? Perhaps they should start deducting it from the passengers also, in a bid to encourage them.

The whole thing is a sham.

Like I said earlier, this is just a means to reach the N15billion a month revenue, the Governor wants each month.

Always learn to read a post and understand it before attempting to click the reply button.

The drunk scenario was an instance to show that passengers can not be held liable for a drivers mistake. It has NOTHING to do with driving against traffic.

I attempt to show that as much as you can not punish passengers in a scenario where their driver has an accident, you can not do the same for passengers in this scenario where the driver is going against traffic. Simple and plain.

Dude the logic is simple - You can not make the passenger liable for the driver's error except of course prosecution can prove Vicarious liability.

Ask a lawyer about the issue.

You assume that the passengers in private cars are most definitely the owners, this assumption is woefully wrong. Let me ask you one thing, have you ever entered someone else's car?

Your "big man" scenario truly does exist, but another scenario exists also like I have shown by that question. If the owner of the car is not the passenger, then the passenger in the car must not be fined. If the owner of the car is the passenger then the State must prove Vicarious Liability. Anything except from this is absurd and wrong.

Shekena

The prosecutor still needs to make the case for Vicarious Liability.

I've seen lots of cases where a junior worker was held liable for his actions, even when common sense will point to the fact that those actions may have been influenced by his superior.

This law leaves no room for such. It is more like a military decree - If you do so and so, then pay fine.

There was no bill on this, no evidence that the House of Assembly deliberated on it too.

How can such a law be put into practice when it fails to even meet the standard set by its institution?

I have reduced the empty logic used in the first page to the rubble it truly is. You may want to see my reply in the first page.

Sky Blue:
Don't break the law.

Perhaps you know so little about the law. Only the driver breaks the law NOT and NEVER the passenger.

You can go through case after case and the results would be the same whether it was driving against traffic, drunk driving or manslaughter charges (knocking down pedestrian). You can check it out for yourself.

To make it elementary enough for you, consider this scenario - A couple of friends are drunk, driving back home from the club. The driver loses control of the vehicle and crashes into another vehicle killing the vehicle's driver instantly. Who will be punished? Or better still how many people will be punished?

Mustay:
with the way the danfo guys park indiscriminately on an expressway to pick passengers, who would be blamed for that?

Why are they no laws agains this?

It is obvious this law was made to increase revenue and nothing else.

Nigerians will never see a situation for what it is.

deor03:
Have you seen where a driver driving on one-way caused accidents, killing innocent people?

Have you seen where an overspeeding driver killed people, senselessly?

Do you have access to the number of people killed by wrong and careless driving?

How much is 250,000 compared to a human life? Laws are meant to be deterrant.

Not taking that one-way because of avoiding 250,000 fine could save someone's life. Funny enough that person could be you.

Try to read before making posts.

I have not issues with fining drivers.

MY ISSUE IS WITH PUNISHING PASSENGERS

What do you have to say about that?

There is no law on earth that makes one person liable for an offense took NO part in.

winnteam:
As for the fine extending to the passengers, I also agree 100%. Why?

Most of the commercial drivers are encouraged by passengers in a "hurry" to drive on the wrong side. Even passengers in a private vehicle will not question the driver of the vehicle when he does such.

Some "big" men sit at the back of their card pretending to be reading while their drivers break laws. It is when the wahala comes that they come down and speak rubbish English when it would only have taken them to just instruct them not to do so.

If I witness a man being murdered how does it make me an accomplice to murder?

If a driver drives against traffic, my opinion as a passenger is irrelevant unless the law can prove that I not only own the car but controlled the driver's decision.

Even if I advised the driver against breaking the law how does this new law protect me if he went against my wish? This law was probably done in a hurry.

Passengers should not be held responsible for a driver's error.

If your driver knocks down a pedestrian should you be held legally responsible for that too?

President Yar'Adua will formally declare a state of emergency in the Power Sector Next month. Under the Emergency programme, the Federal and State governments would set aside a total amount of $5billion (about N600b) for the rehabilitation and expansion of Nigeria's power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.

The emergency period will be in force for three years.

The amount will be taken from the Excess Crude Account.

Nigeria's generation and distribution infrastructure would be privatized while its transmission infrastructure will remain under the control of a state-owned company.

Nigeria would seek additional financing from International Finance Institutions.

Curled from The Guardian Newspaper for Saturday, 14th of June, 2008.

Chelsea please go get Villa,

Why are we buying only Portuguese players? Who next? Ronaldo?

You're right Mustay,

Robben is injury prone, I think he started in less than 15 games for Real.

My point exactly,

Malouda, Kalou, SWP and even Joe Cole seem to be shadows of the player Robben was.

I think Robben was tired of the injuries. The English game is one of contact and he was always at the receiving end of it. However I think he should have been forced to stay like Jose wanted instead of sold off.

Did you guys catch Robben's display and his goal?

I think Kenyon should be sacked for selling that guy.