Gallas Close To Arsenal Return

I take it Gallas has finally found a house he likes in North London then!! His injury, otherwise known as the M25 has cleared up!!

It would be a great disappointment to not reach at least the semis in my view.

I hate to say it, but there isn't much precedent for a loosing finalist to return the next season & win.......didn't Valencia get done in consecutive finals? Would be fantastic if we managed to get to Athens again though, just think about the future with youth on our side

I don't disagree It is a tough ask We seem to piling up the fixtures....Villa game moved due to CC final....replay @ Reebok.....injuries rife I have my ticket for Holland though, so will be willing the boys on

Toure needs a breather. As soon as Billy is back, king Kolo should be rested.

Hahahah , each time i look at that picture i laugh so hard, never gets old.He looks like a 'special' player, mentally challenged that is.Perhaps this is why his nickname is silly billy.

k_chelski, given your defensive shortcomings, looks you have special needs. and isn't your manager 'the special one'??? Speshul indeed...»»Arsene Knows««

bootoo, give it a seaso or two, and we'll have a strongest 22!!! »»Arsene Knows««

We have defensive problems, yet we are still winning games.Blood money?Prove me it's blood money.You said it, now i want proof.Give me the list of how many people Abramovich killed in order to buy chelsea.Or to become a billionaire.You do this and i will shut up about this matter.

Ask the peasantry of Siberia. What was it, the loans for shares programme? Look it up and you'll see what an amoral crook you have running your club. But if your happy that children in that part of the world can't go to school so JT can have another £50k a week, so be it.

Since Terry's been out, you have drawn so many games, conceded so many goals, so winning your recent 2 games against lower league opposition is hardly something to boast about is it?

K_Chelski you are in the minority because the chelsea site had a poll on which former player they would like back and Billy boy won it by quite a stretch!

K_chelski is right Abramovich made his money at flea markets and by selling freshly squeezed lemonade outside the Chelsea flower show every summertime.

Haha! Seriously tho I think he made it playing penny up the wall behind the bike sheds!

Let's not jynx it

That is another 2 weeks, I cant wait for him to return

Iceman i never said he wasn't a good player.What i did say is that he's an idiot.No Cesc Pirlo, but a 3-0 against blackburn is!

k_chelski, that is the kind of garbage I've rarely heard. Arrogant? try Fat Frank., Ignorant? try Ca$hley. *****t? Try Jose, Terry, Fat Frank, Joe Cole, and of course Peter Kenyon.

I said arrogant, because i felt maybe saying racism , was too much.Perhaps i was wrong.

henry racist? you are a deluded man.

Thierry Henry a racist? The captain of the most multicultural team in world football is a racist, I wonder how Gilberto, Baptista and Denilson feel about him being their leader? I know you being a Brazilian you are still a bit sore about him knocking you out of the world cup but be sensible. By the way isnt being a Brazilian Chelsea fan a bit like a nun being a fan of satanic death metal music?

Not at all iceman.Zidane wooped are arses in the world cup, not a problem at all.They probably don't know.Many players that met him during the 98 world cup said he and david trezeguet , were arrogants.I have much respect for Zidane, he is one of my favorite players.I don't know if they knew about his comments iceman, i too don't know if his comments were taken out of context, or if it was a misfortunate comment, what i do know, is that he should apologize.I don't understand your point against chelsea, are you referring to Combat 18 links in the 1980's and the chelsea headhunters?

what the hell is wrong with my typos today. our not are

No im saying Brazilians are known for the beautiful game and Chelsea and Mourinho are as far from the Brazilian style of play as you could possibly get. Why on earth would a Brazilian support Chelsea there way of play is so anti-Brazilian.

The Brazilian national team has played a bit like chelsea as well.If you recall the 1994 World cup, Brazil style of play was worse then chelsea's style now.We always won 1-0 or in penalties.I love chelsea.That said, i don't think, chelsea's style is so bad.

Parriera was heavily criticised for the Brazilian style of play at that world cup as you well know. As a side issue maybe you could explain why Brazilians are so technically gifted in relation to many other nationalities?

They lie, but they don't usually create comments like that do they?Another source for ya - http://goal.kapook.com/enus/articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=85742 "Thierry Henry, apparently unconcerned by almost global disapproval of his springboard acrobatics and soap opera acting in the Australia clash, weighed in by lobbing a small compliment wrapped inside a large insult by implying that Brazilians only play well because they don’t go to school."

I havent got a clue thats why im asking you a Brazilian. you can see from the context of that quote you have given the writer is anti-Henry so he would put his own spin on words that we as Arsenal fans know Thierry would never say maliciously. Parriera was critsicised when Brazil won the world cup in 1994 for not playing the Brazilian way.

so Espn is anti henry as well? He may have been criticised by others, but here, we loved him for bringing the world cup after many years. Now look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzW-KiDt6DA , when Baggio misses the penalty, does Pelé seem sad?

Here's the exact quote k_chelski was referring to - "We don't have the [soccer] identity. It's different. Brazil is Brazil," Henry said on Thursday, adding that Brazil are "ahead of us in terms of this. On the beach, they play football; on the street, they play football; in shopping malls, they play football; on the motorway, they stop to play football," Henry said. "They play football since the day they are born. "We go to school from 8am to 5pm. They are playing soccer from 8am to 6pm, so the technique comes easily," Henry said. "When I used to ask my mother if I could go outside and play [soccer], she would say no." - Now how someone could see that as some sort of slam or dig on Brazil is beyond me...if anything he's deriding his own nation for not being passionate enough about the sport (something he's always talked about when comparing English fans to French fans, though it's funny how no one calls him racist for that). Anyway, it's pretty clear he's complimentary about Brazil's passion for football, rather than making some jibe about Brazilians being uneducated.

Shinobi.Even with the exact quote, if you read it, with the intention of removing racial comments from what he said, it could be easily done.Playing all day isn't why we are good at it.

We go to school from 8am to 5pm. They are playing soccer from 8am to 6pm," You don't need to twist it much.Just removing a bit out of context does the trick.Oh come on, i know you lads love my comments. : - ).

Funny how k_chelski tries to avoid replying to the many good points G4L and Iceman made about your own players. You have no answer to that, do ya?

Cesc_Pirlo , i honestly didn't see what happened to the john terry case.So i can't comment about it.I prefer not to comment on the things i am not sure.I never said henry was a racist.Read my comments again, i said he was arrogant.And if you read my other comments, you'll see where i stand.

It may have been his intention to say that.However, he didn't care enough , or was naive (something i doubt he is) not to think his comment through, if he said they had to go to school all day, and that brazilians play all day, when would brazilians go to school? 8pm to 5am?He knows english press, he knows how they can twist things.For me that's why he's arrogant.He didn't care enough to think of the consequences.He lost some fans around here.But that doesn't change what a great player he is.