Raul Meireles

[Assassin]

Mereiles is a fantastic player, but he is a bottler when it comes to the physical side of the game. Signing Bellamy more than makes up for the goals he would have scored. Bellamy is a better option as he is fearless, unlike Mereiles.

Another thing the recent finger incident with Lucas.....one rotten apple can destroy everything

[SB]

I quite like the guy but if he wants out.... C'est la vie

[Sconniee2]

Another thing the recent finger incident with Lucas.....one rotten apple can destroy everything

I must have missed something, what finger incident?

[Exiled_red]

I'm not too bothered that Meireles has gone, I'm disappointed in the way he behaved: in handing in a transfer request about an hour before the window shut. I'm also disappointed we didn't take the Chavs for more money, I think what we got was a fair price, but at that stage of the window we should be screwing them for a bit extra.

[billy_mac]

Good bit of business selling him. What did we pay for him again?

[Fosterbloke]

I must have missed something, what finger incident?

I think it was against Arsenal when Frimpong gave Lucas the bird and Meireles mocked this by doing it again to Lucas when we scored the 2nd goal.

[Spanishfly]

we paid £12m last year.

[billy_mac]

we paid £12m last year.

Cheers.

[Vermilion]

we paid £12m last year.

We did'nt even re-coup his wages, thought we could have at least managed that seeing as the chavs seemingly really wanted him, even being prepared to buy without him having a medical and while injured.

Oh, and what a ****! transfer request half hour before the window shuts!

[Nick77]

I knew he was gone the second LFC made it public that he'd handed in the transfer request - he would NEVER have been able to stay with the fans' knowledge of that!

[powerpack]

why did we sell, damn it.

Agree he's a good player and contributed a lot last year but with our new signings he would have been a squad player. Don't forget Steve is coming back and Bellemy has return making him even less likely to get in the team. Considering all that £14m for a 28 year old squad player is good business.

BTW Chelski rushed the transfer through, he didn't even have a medical last night!!

[Fredo]

Another ****house joins Liverpool Reserves.

That's really harsh.

[Reece]

Wasn't there some information/gossip floating around recently that suggested he had been promised an improved contract/pay-rise this summer by the previous regime? If the new owners then didn't honour this you can kind of understand he might be a little pissed and if he's then offered a much better contract at Chelsea......

Just saying.

[DeanoUK]

That's really harsh.

Yeah, the reserves are nowhere near that bad.

[Maxiedge]

The above makes alot more sense than anything else. He's not at all guaranteed first team football at Chelsea. Nowhere near.

Edit: referring to Reece's post