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I was expecting much more from Tottenham this season. Most players that were signed are really good (hell, Soldado was playing incredibly well, last season). Most likely, it was too much too fast. So many players with no premier league experience really needed a lot of time to get things right. Changing managers mid-season, with the new manager playing different XI's erratically is not the way to solve the problems...

I hope they don't. http://giant.gfycat.com/ObedientOrneryDanishswedishfarmdog.webm Gaitan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcJAaHykYs

The defender is England under-21s' Eric Dier.

Wait for next patch.

He was sold because Benfica said "you know what would complete this Luiz deal? That Matic fella you've currently got loaned over in Vitesse", and the Chelsea hierarchy went and asked the guy in charge of these things (Frank Arnesen, now at Hamburg) "so what you think of this" and he said "sure whatever, the kid's virtually worthless", because Frank Arnesen is a fucking tool. (With that said, an amusing side story is that when the deal went through Benfica offered the company that had owned 25% of Luiz's rights the opportunity to take 25% of Matic's rights...but they opted for 500,000 euros instead. lol.) Ah well, this is a player who has been able to develop at Benfica in a way he almost certainly wouldn't have been able to if he'd stayed at Chelsea in the interim. We got him for a fee in the region of £21m when last summer they were touting his buyout clause of nearly £15m more. The deal in isolation is an absolute steal, not to mention exactly what we need. Last summer, our president thought we would do great in the champions league and no one would have to be sold. Things didn't pan out that way and now we deeply needed the money. It's a shame we had to sell him like this mid-season. I agree with you when you talk about his progression. As much as I talk badly of Jorge Jesus, the guy did a great job developing Matic after we lost Witsel and Javi Garcia.

His last season was superb and he was starting to get to that same level in the last month. Really bad for us. Really interested in seeing how will Chelsea's style change now.

Benfica confirmed the transfer. 25 million euros, it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=45ulMh-Ihyc

There's a lot of slightly different versions of this floating around this at the moment. I just saw a tweet saying that Matic will be confirmed as a Chelsea player on Tuesday, and in the meantime he won't be a part of the Porto game. In other words, pretty much the same idea only with less of a 'Matic strop' angle. Either way, looking forward to seeing this afternoon's teamsheet. Well, he played the whole match.

There's a rumor, that was actually the first page of one of our sports newspapers, that Matic has come to terms with Chelsea for a comeback, and doesn't want to play this Sunday's big match against Porto, for fear of getting injured.

This sunday there's a Benfica vs. Porto, with both teams tied up with Sporting at the top of the league. It shall be a thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQM_gDvHWg Forever our king.

Probably the same reason that made him stay on the bench with his new manager.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hb2_xDneoA

Carlos Queiroz has said that he would be interested in getting the job.

Meireles and Guarin are not similar players at all in my opinion. I haven't seen much of Guarin since he went to Italy (I don't enjoy Serie A matches), but he had an amazing year with AVB and in the last three months of the previous season.

Also, AVB's reaction to the red card: