Should probably shut up all those people that said Deco was a crap buy and he was an overrated player and not needed at all. I'm a gooner and would have liked to have him, truely quality player. Unfortunately I didn't see much of the game, was Kaboul terrible? I couldn't understand so many clubs fighting for him, or Chimbonda together those two were at fault for a ridiculous number of goals against spurs last year. One game they lost 4-5 goals and Chimbonda was at fault for 4 of them i think, and Kaboul rarely had a good game.
Crouch is just utter tripe as a player, the simple fact is anyone, literally anyone, even anyone here can score a goal against a world class team, it happens, it happens quite often when you have a very good team behind you. Crouch, with that pompie midfield will score very few and be useless in most matches. Crouch, Ade, even Torres are absolutely nothing without Gerrard or Fabregas behind them, you can afford to have a "tap in" player when you have a great midfield, but a club like Pompie need a striker that can create their own chances or set others up.
The 15 mins I saw Chelsea really did look very good, and attacking and playing good football. I really liked them under Ranieri because they just played attacking good to watch football. THe only gripe i have, other than the money, is that Mourinho just had them play terrible football, defensive teams who ride their luck shouldn't win titles, but even though I'd prefer it to be Arsenal, I don't begrudge teams winning if they play great football, at the end of the day, I have to watch it.