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Wenger buys experience at last.
Four players aged 29-28-26-26!
Amazing that Spurs turned down £40m for Luca Modric.
Modric is key to the way they play but turning down £40m for him is bizarre.
Germany captain Per Mertesacker is 26, South Korean captain Chu-young Park is 26, Andre Santos is 28, Mikel Arteta is 29.
Israel’s captain Yossi Benayoun, 31, is on loan for a season from Chelsea.
I had wondered why Raul Meireles was not featuring for Liverpool.
Now we know. He’s signed for Villas-Boas.
Meireles can play the kind of slick, fast, passing football that the new manager wants Chelsea to play.
He is a very smart technical player with terrific shooting ability. He sees a lot and has scored some very good goals for Liverpool, prospering under the Dalglish regime.
So far the Chelsea team has looked stodgy and pedestrian and it’s even being whispered that the players don’t like Villas-Boas or his training.
It could be a bumpy ride at the Bridge and the sarcasm of AVB’s weekend after-match comments suggested that he’s under pressure already.
That’s a shame. In time, I think the former Porto boss could do great things at Chelsea.