Nate

Yeah, none of it is due to him not being very good at football. yea, man.. tell me who plays good under Roeder Tell me when he's played well for us under anyone. Nobody is trying to argue he has played well for us, it's the fact you deny he's ever been a good footballer that is funny.

Yeah, none of it is due to him not being very good at football. You're clueless if you think Luque's performances in a black and white shirt are an accurate reflection of his ability.

...based on what he's done here, under two awful managers, and after suffering a terrible injury just weeks after his transfer. He'll do well for them.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41287000/jpg/_41287092_sou_pa_203.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/images/2006/06/01/roeder_conference_203x152.jpg One step forward... ...two steps backwards.

Yorkie, don't you think it's a bit strange Shepherd hasn't come out and denied these rumours about Allardyce already? It took far less speculation about Sven for him to make a statement on the official site. I doubt the results in our last two games will have any bearing over his decision, by the way.

Unfortunately the masses will base their decision on Saturday's performance and little else.

Nothing to celebrate here, a £9m signing leaving the club for free whilst will continue to pay some of his wages in all probability. Not to mention the fact we're just about to hire a manager who is capable of getting something out of him.

Albert Luque??? [/Karjala]

Great shout, tbh. Not being sarcastic either, he's a good player who'll get better. Worst the carr IMO, my friends who support Arsenal say he is the worst right back in the team, the only reason he played this season was because of all the injurys they had this season in their back line. Is that really your opinion, then? http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=ironing&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Ferguson just isn't good enough in Europe, tactically. The Manchester United sides he's had over the last decade should have made more than one final. Benitez is just beginning to build his team at Liverpool and is already preparing for his second.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/imppix/photos/uncategorized/blue_peter_badge_ebay.JPG

Far from over, even if Milan score again.

I'd have liked to have seen him play up front on his own more, with Robben and J.Cole on either side - shame Drogba has been undroppable.

Kuyt is a better footballer than Oba, has a better work rate, and has scored more goals... The worst signing has to be Shevchenko, despite his undoubted quality. £30m on a 30-year-old who doesn't look particularly suited to the league.

I don't know how Benitez can be criticised. Once again he's taken a somewhat average Liverpool side to a major final and when you consider the individuals both managers have at their disposal, it's Chelsea's style of football that should be lambasted, not theirs.

So, that wasn't just a photoshopped picture before, the logo actually does look like a sticker.

Reina too, over both legs, was very good.

I'm sure Liverpool will think it's absolutely disgusting when they compete for their second European title in three years. The best team won and i'm delighted that nothing club won't be winning the Champions League for another season.

Come on Liverpool, don't make me want Man Utd to win a European final.

If it was us in their position we'd probably love all the 'sentimental tosh' too. Come 10 O'clock tonight i hope to see pictures of John Terry crying again.

I was struggling to think of any attainable ones.

Oh dear.

It's rather worrying, he seems a respected poster over there, i'm not sure why he'd just make it up.

Who is not a striker. We're not going to have Roeder hopefully, so we'll be allowed to play STRIKERS up front, not 0 admottedly very very good - midfielders. The second part of my post was in reply to HTT.