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And Mata was poty for Chelsea, in his prime and had one of the best seasons ever for an am in european history..... Gerrard was everything lampard wasnt. A dynamic, athletic box to box that could run, tackle, etc. Jose isnt stupid. He's not going to make the same mistake england has made for the past few national teams. He knows he can only pick one and would of picked like Gerrard over him... There a reason why Jose wanted gerrard at all 3 teams he managed in. WHen people thought Jose and company was mental for selling Mata, all i did was laugh... Everyone in Spain knew mata wasnt as good as his stats.

Doesnt really matter if he loved lampard, because he always made it public how he wanted Stevie G. At Chelsea, at Inter, and at real madrid. However, your right he could of played the n10, but if he did, than Lampard would of never score all those goals/assists for chelsea and would of been bench eventually if that came about.

Gerrad is not Essien. Mak Gerrard-Essien Would have been the most dynamic, athletic midfield since the arsenal one....No doubt lampard would of been replaced/sold had gerrard came to chelsea in 2005.

You really think Gerrard wouldnt have replace Lampard? Especially under Jose?

Jose wanted to buy Gerrard to replace Lampard..... If Gerrard came to chelsea, frank lampard of today would of never existed.

When Koke gets sold, atletico going to need someone.

Jose' utility man! For now..

Your being sarcastic right? hard working?

Adrian peterson said he had like 2 kids and ever since the scandal broke out with him, all the girls are coming out and its now up to 8 kids......

They just miss the league because they had no champs league and got eliminated early from both domestic cups. In addition, gerrard took like 15 pks.... You should probably put out the stats on Lukaku and shaw as well.... Pirlo and sterling are both under NIKE....

Should of dropped Lampard.... Lampard +Gerrard is unneccessary and one of the prime reasons for english failure...

Sterling is not even England's best young player.... Sterling is tired now.... Time to pop some more kids...

In actuality he does. Hazard playstyle is really a concern..The amount of little hits he takes every game will take its toll in a few years.... However, back to thiago. THiago was munich's best player when he was playing for munich last season. Not bastian, kroos, gotze, muller, it was thiago. Read redcafe or munich boards, and they would all say the same thing. When thiago was on munich, the team clicked extremely well. When they got raped to madrid, thiago got injured the week prior i think.

You mean the brain that backpass to the opposite team and let bamford score the tieing goal?

The fact was that hazard hasnt been really consistent, yet many would already put him above Joe Cole... Obviously, he doesnt have an injury record like thiago has since 2012, but my point was that hazard wasnt consistent, yet you can already tell, hazard at this young age is far greater than Joe cole ever was.

its not really that weird... For example, Hazard is like 23 and I bet everyone on this board would say he is a "better" player than Joe Cole. Joe Cole has more titles, etc, but you dont need to play x amount of games to know who is better.... Less than 10 years ago I thought Cesc was better than anything Arsenal had to offer in the midfield, regardless of his age and his background. Some players, you dont need x amount of games to show you that.

The future of Spain will rise once again....

its funny. Every u21 team thiago was on they won... the team he wasnt on..... 2015 u21 2012 olympics 2009 u17 maybe its just a coincidence...

+captains... I can bet sponsors pick the captains for the national teams these days...

Ake should take mikels spot in the rotation.

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/784995/Live/International-Int-Friendly-2014-Spain-Italy http://www.whoscored.com/Players/74939/History/Thiago-Alcntara http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/523351/Live

portugal vs denmark... 1 step closer for the choker to miss out on euro 2016.

barring injury, he should beat it before the age of 25

I can see Jones being the future captain for England as well.. Its ashame he went to United..

Give him pk duties and dont let schurrle take fks, cesc should be able to surpass it with the amount of games chelsea/cesc will play this season.