I'm not so sure about the first part of this. At Chelsea he bought younger players like Essien and Obi Mikel, you could argue Essien was the finished article, but he was as young as Silva now at least. Obi Mikel was in his teens.
New Thread Title ideas, "It's the most wonderful time of year- The Real Madrid Transfers/Rumors Thread" ^^^If you do this title you must link to a youtube video playing that X-mas song" "The EPIC quest for Cissokho begins- The Real Madrid Transfers/Rumors Thread" I may not be around much today so if someone just wants to use the title thats fine with me
Half an hour and still no thread? Perhaps i accidentally scared people off. I was kidding about the red card guys (it's only gonna be a yellow).