Is it me or is Josie getting progressively mentaller?
"The problem at Chelsea is that we are missing a striker. I have one in [Samuel] Eto'o but he is 32, possibly 35, who knows? I don't have Falcao but Falcao doesn't have a club. Who wants to play in front of 3,000 supporters? If I was one day to go to Monaco it would be the end."
No, he's just having a more subtle dig at Arsene, the former Monaco manager.
Right. And possibly the births, marriages and deaths administrators in Cameroon too.
A fine - if somewhat gullible - body of men and women, r.
He always does this, I thought; sows the seeds of his eventual premature departure
early in his tenure?
Perhaps his players like it.
Not so much gullible as illiterate, I'd say. You know, insisting on speaking French and whatnot.
I think he comes from the wealthier part though, so who knows.
If I Falcao goes to Chelsea and we don't get Draxler I am kicking off.
I especially liked the way he said E't'o'oo was 35
Nobody even batted an eyelid
Apparently Samuel was gutted to discover his own boss also believed the rumour about his age
Laboured but thoroughly deserving of a

He could've kept Lukaku. Coached him well, and turned him into the striker they need
:oh:
Isn't that what managers are supposed to do?
I have a chest infection and am leetle bit lacking in sharpness.
Really? You should have mentioned it....
Not at this level, no. They buy the players they need, they don't "make" them.
If only because they rarely have time.
Plus, as they say, 'black don't crack', which makes questions of age harder to establish.
I rather like the idea of people just not really knowing or caring how old they are, tbh. There's something rather liberating about it.
I'm often mistaken for my father's slightly younger brother, so it must be true.
There is a positive to every story!
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all part of the smokescreen to pretend they don't have any strikers , Torres / Eto'o aint too bad