Mourinho's behind the reason why he's had to leave Chelsea, why would he specifically thank or mention him?

still feels surreal even though it's been a done deal for a while.

that it happened against jose's will makes it sweeter

Cech will improve us, that is without a doubt. More than that, though, I'm happy that another player, who has won absolutely everything in his career so far at a club level and is at his peak, decided to join us. That could mean only one thing, we are again a club with the highest targets and one others think that could win significant trophies. Wenger would never persuade him to come if it wasn't the case. Wonder who is next. Well done.

lagos wrote:

I wouldn't make a big deal out of not thanking Mourinho, except you are an Arsenal fan and just want to ...just because! There may be something to it, there may be nothing, who knows.

He has played under 5 managers at Chelsea and won silverware under ALL! FA cup under 4 different managers, Mourinho isn't the only manger under whom he won the PL. He didn't win the Europa cup and the biggest one of all, the Champions league under Mourinho. So it would be disrespectful to the other manager to only mention Jose by name.....if you are going to mention all managers then "Managers" covers them all!

Personally I think there's no more to it than that.

Agreed - Mourinho is an irrelevance.

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really loved reading that letter. was well-thought out. doesn't matter if he penned it himself or had his management agency do it. he got the notes just right: thanking his former team for their support without going so overboard that it alienates his new team. if only idiots like Fabregas and van Persie had managed their transfers so professionally from end-to-end.

i hope he brings this maturity to the dressing room and sets an example for our laddish players, mainly Wilshere and Szczesny. very excited to have Cech on our books

Get in! Welcome Petr.

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is that test done by the same guy who gave his girlfriend a quiz on Arsenal?

One hell of a signing.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cech wasn't overly fond of Mourinho - Petr's a gentleman, Mourinho is nasty little prick.

Claudius wrote:

really loved reading that letter. was well-thought out. doesn't matter if he penned it himself or had his management agency do it. he got the notes just right: thanking his former team for their support without going so overboard that it alienates his new team. if only idiots like Fabregas and van Persie had managed their transfers so professionally from end-to-end.

i hope he brings this maturity to the dressing room and sets an example for our laddish players, mainly Wilshere and Szczesny. very excited to have Cech on our books

Well said, exactly how i felt reading it too. Top bloke.

Claudius wrote:

i hope he brings this maturity to the dressing room and sets an example for our laddish players, mainly Wilshere and Szczesny. very excited to have Cech on our books

He's coming from the vilest dressing room in all of football, he'll probably find Jack and Woj refreshingly decent lads.

Anyway this is a good signing and Cech is a top pro and hopefully still a top keeper.

I bet he will love it in our dressing room after all those years over there (bar the titles).

Ricky1985 wrote:

Not as of yet. Hopefully he'll follow.

Wouldn't bank on it, he told l'Equipe that he didn't think Chelsea would favour him moving to us.

Me to Wife: "so, we have officially signed Petr Cech"

Wife to Me: "oh, you got helmet boy after all, good"

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Fantastic Mr.Fox wrote:

Did we sign his coach?

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The only way I will be remotely 'happy' about this signing is if Cech himself, upon arrival, gives a keynote presentation to the whole squad on how it feels and what it takes to actually win the motherfucking CL!