johnnythefirst

Oh so because one guy failed to deliver somewhere in the past, this automatically means Lukaku will do so as well. Last year was arguably his worst since the one he wasted warming the Chelsea bench and he still scored 20 goals in all competitions and became the EL top scorer. What a loser. Give me 10 strikers playing in the premier league now that are consistently better. Aguero, Costa (although when was the last time he was actually good?), we'll see about Kane in the season to come, maybe Benteke (not consistently though). Rooney hasn't been a real striker in years... Who else? 5 more names. Go for it. ;-)

Dude, him not being a starter at bayern doesn't change the fact that he was one of the absolute stars at Dortmund... Please.

Called it two days ago didn't I?

Are you being difficult on purpose? Mata was sold because he was rotting away on the bench under Mourinho. He was not sold because of his outstanding performances. Luis was bought away for a ridiculous sum. he was often a liability that season and they practically carried him to France themselves. ;-)

Oh come on, everyone who thought Lukaku would have gotten a decent chance at Chelsea needs to take a look at Remy. That poor guy has never disappointed and now he's third in line after Falcao. The guy is a French international and he's wasting the best years of his career on the bench for a name that doesn't seem to deliver anymore (does it ring a bell?). Cheap strikers are doomed here. Remy is an idiot for staying actually. How is he bang average btw? He's 22 and he's one of the top ten strikers (top 5 in his best form) in the biggest league in the world. No one thought he'd be another Pele.

Come on man, you know what I mean. Bayern bought away Dortmund's best players. Lewandowski, Gotze... That would be the same as Chelsea winning the league last year and Man Utd snatching Hazard and Costa. The situations can't be compared.

Chelsea never had to sell their best player because of a bigger club, with the possible exception of Robben. You might not sign everyone you want, but at least you can keep a stable squad here.

It's so strange that apparently only Mourinho is a "guarantee for trophies". It's not that Klopp didn't play European finals and stuff. ;-) He just had the bad luck his team wasn't very rich so they lost their best players nearly every season. This would not be the case at Chelsea.

Wenger, of course.

Did they though? I seem to remember it differently.

I'm a ginger. Come say that to my unearthly, soulless, ginger face bro.

Well, maybe Messi should move to Sunderland then, so he'll have a bit of a challenge on his hands.

A lack of ambition moving to Bayern? It's 10 times the club city is...

I'm actually starting to think he's not going to leave after all.

Technically he will not get much better anymore probably, but he'll get smarter in how he plays. Playing to his strengths... Also 4 goals in 22 matches? Weird. He became the Europa Cup top scorer in March, were there 22 matches after that? Let's not forget Everton's whole team had a dismal year last season...

Oh come on, José has been shitting on him for about 10 years now, let him have it.

Did he really word it like that? Seems kind of immature. There was room enough on the bench last week wasn't there?

Not the point. ;-)

Hmm, have been reading up on this for the last few pages. Shitty business. What baffles me is that apparently an untrained football coach (unless Mourinho is hiding a Master in Medicine somewhere) is going to tell a staff of professionals when a person is or isn't injured, especially after that player asks for treatment himself (correct me if wrong). He should apologize to his staff and that should be that. Obviously he'll never do that, because he thinks the equator runs through his butt crack, but still. ;-) These people are doctors trained to save lives. He (and Hazard btw) are just playing football.

You know what they say about guys with comically large noses ey?

I wasn't talking about the 13/14 season. I'm talking about all their seasons. Go look at Hazard's stats for Lille, where he was the only real star as well. He had 20 goals and 15 assists in 2011/12 in the French league alone + made them win it. His inefficiency for Belgium is mostly because they refuse to give him the fucking ball for some reason. It's like a game they seem to play. He makes runs all the time for nothing.

Dude, I almost never give Belgian players shit on this forum. I'm not giving KDB shit either. He's had a fantastic season last year. He can be a very efficient player. But if I was the guy with the money at Man City, I'd wait and see what he does this year before throwing 65 million euro at him. He had a miracle season, but he's playing for a second tier team that's completely focused on him. If you look at all his previous years, his goal stats are actually way below Hazard's. Hazard scored more goals than Kevin even last season (with penalties, ok, but you still have to score them). I can't find any career assists stats for Eden. But I would never call him inefficient. He won Chelsea the title last year. No Hazard, probably no title. Give it a rest btw? Have I been whining about Kevin for the last two months or something? :-s

Even as a Belgian, I think that's a ridiculous amount of money to spend on him. Two Belgian players would maybe be worth that sum: Hazard and a younger Vincent Kompany. Also, it's a dumb move for KDB. He'd better stay at Wolfsburg and then go to an actual top team next year or the year after.

I have no doubts for Mbemba making it in the PL - the guy is a rock. Mitrovic will most likely need some time.

He's going to make a massive leap forward this season. Suddenly turned into a scoring midfielder and a game winner. Let's see if he can keep it up.