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He suits Inter well with the tattoos. Great positions and runs for his age. I don't think he is anywhere near ready to satisfy a Chelsea team after what we had this season. Thohir is pretty very over ambitious about this team so honestly doing business with Inter is to be avoided. He thinks Inter can be the best team...

Problem is Mou is going to want to have his squad ready by September, and then go quiet in the transfer windows. By next summer we might not have a use for Gundogan, we either take the risk and sign him now or move on and find someone else.

I'm expecting pics ASAP...

Lavezzi can very comfortably play as a striker. Not one with a hulking figure but a very fast one that can punish you in an instant. Cavani - Lavezzi - Lukaku would be marvelous.

It doesn't matter what kind of mathematics this is true. Had a brilliant Russian stats professor once and she was the sharpest math mind I ever met in my life.

Crosses as well. It's basic shit that for corners and crosses you have keep then as low as possible, our players are sending in the ball in too high and defenders are given to much time to win it. It might be fractions of second but when the corss/corner comes in as low as possible the defense is left scrambling. Basic crap our team needs to get fixed. If you look at every single cross/corner PSG sent in against us they were better than cross/corner our team has send in all season.

If Azpi scored goals this thread would be at 500 pages of straight wanking, I wouldn't even be mad. I'm already trying to decide whether to get a Hazard or Azpi kit (NOBODY ELSE WILL HAVE AN AZPI KIT SO MANY LETTERS).

It's not like we loaned Lukaku out on the cheap, he cost Everton 5m and we only pay him 2.5m in wages. His loan plus Courtois' earned us 3.5m. We still lend these players out at a premium a big one for young players like themselves. The thing is if we sign Costa and Keep Lukaku and Eto'o leaves who will be out little forward who actually knows how to dribble in tight space?

Witsel we could EASILY get, offer that racist club the right amount of money and they'll get rid of their colored players in an instant.

Just start naming off all the cool Belguim players will you? Didn't Roma just sign Nainggolan?

It's not like we don't have anything to fight for too. Those relegation team are fighting for pride for sure, but I think the title contenders especially us have more pride to play for. They paid so much more money and they have to prove themselves. If its a battle of wills in Relegation vs Title, I think the title should give you drive to glory while the relegation fight is a drive based on fear. From what I find in my life fear clouds the mind.

He may not be the epitome of multidimensional DMs like Yaya but Matic is damn multifunctional. To be fair Schweini and Yaya take on a box-to-box roles mostly, Fernandinho is the one that has really unleashed Yaya this year allowing him to attack. Did you even notice how quick Matic acted to get the cross into Salah during the Stoke game, go take a second look because it was graceful as fuck?

He's also a smart guy, learned Portuguese faster and better than some of the South Americans at Benfica who have been in the country much longer (significantly better the Argentines). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8841LpnOOOo At 14:30 he starts talking about his new born daughter (I don't know if she's been born yet but soon) and the host said 'get ready she's going to be problems for daddy' to which Matic responds 'I'm going to buy a gun'. funny guy

I was once snowboarding down a track which is meant for mountain biking but in the winter it ices over and becomes this steep winging mini-bobsledding track (people are strictly forbidden from skiing or snowboarding in this area BTW). I went into this sharp turn too fast and it shot me out about 2.5m into the air and my shin smashed directly into a tree. I thought I broke my tibia but I was fine, hurt like a bitch didn't get on the snowboard again that day. Id say It was at least 20x as bad as what happened to Costa, but you never know when a bone will break.

The work Hendo puts in game changing though, there a reason he's started to so much on that team. Hendo has a been a great engine for them, rather have him out the Gerrard to be honest. Gerrard is sloppy we could use the fouls he gives away, it will be away but the refs are always watching him.

I honestly think he put on three 3 strikers to cover his ass and expose his 3 useless strikers, he won't do that very often. Way I'm seeing it is 4231, 4321 and our desperation move is 424. Nothing new, just your classic mourning formations that he is very loyal to. The way Mourinho demands we cover the opponents most teams force our 4231 into a 4321 anyways, here is an example from real Madrid where asking Ozil to do defensive work clearly morphs the formation into something that resembles a 4321. 4321 - Mourinho will never lose faith in the formation that beat Barca with 10 men in the UCL semi final. 424 (If you watch the Mourinho documentary he is teaching his 424 'S formation' with our old Chelsea squad) The formation he is teaching those people is the his formation with two strikers.

I don't think it's broken, from the above angle showed on TV it looks like he could have came in with worse angles on the post. Small proximal tibial fracture is possible but it could also have been his knee injury made worse the energy from the hit. The way he holds his knee leads me to think its the knee problem coming back his whole leg down to his feet would be swollen and painful if it was a bad fracture. Diego Costa memes incoming...

Relax we can do it!

Purist football end up in heartache, I prefer out total football approach. It's the most seriously competitive approach, had we employed a purist manager WITH THIS SQUAD we would be were Newcastle is in the table.

Amazing run and fake by Salah! A least someone knows how to fake when Hazard is gone. EDIT: Love the Willian chant!!!

Ba, thank you buddy!!!!! Needs to work on his fitness and reaction time though......

If you compare the west ham we faced to the west ham that City and Liverpool faced you will understand exactly what I mean.

No other team gets this treatment week after week.

Mourinho doesn't really employ a classic 433 its only 433ish, in reality its 4321 and 4312 if he makes a trivote in the midfield. Willian isn't that central (especially after the sending off) at the moment we are playing 4231.

No man!!!! If City drew today they would need TWO MORE draws to 1 point under us (given we go 100%), now that city lost if they draw once they drop those 5 points we need. Including today you think City were going to draw 3 games (because lord knows today was the only game they were going to lose)? We shouldn't expect anyone but ourselves to take care of Liverpool.