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I'd LOVE it if we signed him! Promising right back.. English.. what more can you ask for??

PSG were stupid enough to spend £50m for David Luiz, a player Mourinho was never a fan of..

I think Ashley Young can easily give Ivanovic a hard time. Ivanovic is solid, but sometimes this season he's had to chase shadows of wingers that can run faster than him... Fellaini is tough to mark in the air, and Rooney can pick out a pass well and can score himself. ... as for Mata? I do not wish to talk about him!

Fair argument. The one thing that pisses me off more than anything about some Arsenal fans though, is that they can't stand the sight of Giroud because they say he doesn't penetrate enough, yet I tend to see him on their scoresheet almost every week! Do you see any Chelsea fan hating on Diego Costa when you see him as a Golden Boot contender? Of course not! Arsenal fans complain about everything.. even when they're title contenders!

This is how I see Juan Mata... I don't know whether to love him or hate him! Just like Marmite!

If Arsenal hadn't have bought Sanchez they wouldn't be second right now.. Sanchez is like van Persie, he carries the entire team on his back!

I could see this working next season (including Hummels in this side because I feel we should sign him since we are severly lacking a gritty centre back, probably a much better option I feel than Varane, who is insanely priced at £40m, and will probably be as much of a donkey as Mangala has been at Man City)... ---COURTOIS--- ---IVANOVIC---HUMMELS---CAHILL/TERRY---AZPILICUETA--- ---MATIC--- ---KOKE---FABREGAS-- ---WILLIAN----------------------------------HAZARD--- ---D. COSTA--- I've made this look like the Barcelona set-up because this is demonstrating what our midfield could look like if we had two creative central mids in Koke and Fabregas operating in the middle, while having a solid DM covering the back four. Koke and Fabregas can operate freely, just like the sort of flow that Iniesta and Xavi had/still have at Barcelona. It looks menacing, yet slick, and we should leave the defensive duties in midfield to Matic, since we already know his strengths in that position. Matic is like an Ox, he can shrug the ball off anyone on his own, effortlessly.. and re-create play (remind you of anyone? .. French and wore number 4? DID play under Mourinho and won us 2 titles? has a position named after him because he was so good at it?). If we have two mids playing deep, it makes it seem like we're playing too defensively, which is fine, but we also need a bit more creativity. Yes we have Hazard and Willian, but I feel our side relies too much on them to make runs and create, and it feels as though our middle isn't doing enough (pointing towards Oscar in this sense). Oscar has to be a profitable casualty this summer, if this ends up being our approach to games next season, because as I have explained numerous times.. A ) he lacks a football brain; and B ) when you consider other clubs who bear gritty midfielders, Oscar is lightweight compared to these, and in a physical league like the BPL, players that are too lightweight struggle to operate. I'm not saying it happens the entire season, but during times when points needs to be gained, and trophies need to be won, the pressure can get to players like him at times, and bigger players can mark him completely out of the game.

Sell Oscar and get this guy.. I think him and Fabregas would work as well as Xavi and Iniesta at Barca! Like Clockwork!

Yup! Sure am!

City fans right now...

United score via a Spanish Turncoat!

I was lying when I said that Fabregas was bloody terrible! I love him really!!

no no, let's not make our situation worse!

This is the typical.. "we're much bigger than the opposition... so let's grind out a win but at the same time, let the opposition play like they look good" approach, which has always been slow and sluggish, which was what that 1st half is all about! The good thing, is that normally we pick it up after the break.. Seriously, watching Chelsea is like having a permanent migrane!!

Well I can only hope Drogba can still cut the mustard, even though he's been lacking game time this season..

Remy is injured?? Marvellous!

Terry will get booed but who the fuck cares, this is a must-win game! With United and Arsenal after this one, there's just no excuse for a fuck-up!

This match is only going one way, and it's only 15 minutes old.. Arsenal just can't be stopped at the moment. If we fuck up, they might even be capable of snatching the title off us! We just HAVE to keep winning. If we do that, I don't give a fuck what the other teams do! Of all the teams in the BPL, I'd find it insanely hard to digest Arsenal winning the league at the expense of us slipping up at the last hurdle... ...I don't even want to think about it!

Answered all of your questions! Good luck with your dissertation.. excellent choice of topic by the way!

He just isn't good enough I'm afraid.. I'm not sure if that's either a seasonal thing, or if his overall form has just dropped over the course of this season.. but if I was Mourinho, I'd cash in on him for at least £40m in the summer. Only a club like PSG could afford a fee such as that. It would count as a profitable move for us, and I reckon we could use the money to bring in someone like Paul Pogba.

Yup, I only realised it before editing my post!

7 points clear of Arsenal (for now), game in hand still in our favour, title still ours to lose... United and Arsenal in next two games... no pressure then? EDIT: Sorry it's QPR away before United and Arsenal

Last three games now, we've scored first and failed to keep a lead at half time! This is getting disgraceful now! And conceding from the half way line?? Fucking embarrassing!! .. Honestly, Stoke have done nothing this entire game, and they pick that out, from out of nowhere!