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Is Oscar playing for brazil tom? Was his injury from ankle or a virus?

Liverpool is a midtable team. they were eliminated early for both domestic cups and didnt play in Europe. Liverpool allowed 50 goals in last season, which will probably be worse now with the loss of Suarez. No one on lIverpool minus Hendo is good at pressing. Liverpool plays an open games and allows the offensive players to shine.... I guess since both willian and Oscar play defensively for Jose, they are purely defensive ams right? Or the fact Jose wants them to play like that? Kind of like how Di maria played for Jose at madrid.... Its obvious. You like Sterling because you share nationalities. Its ok, its rational and reasonable.

LOl, fact. Fact is Liverpool should of lost their first game, got whanked their second game and did well their third game. Fact, Liverpool lost to a chelsea side without oscar, hazard, willian, ramires, JT and Cech... Fact, England won 0 games in brazil this summer. Fact, Oscar is more of a cm than Coutinho is. Fact, Oscar scored double digits every year for the past 3 years... Fact, Sterling is good, but it is he who would not make Chelsea 11.

I kind of wonder if Matic signed up to be a dm or if he envisioned himself as the deep lying playmaker for Chelsea

David Luiz doesnt fit Jose Mourinho. Its really not a difficult concept. LOL. Oscar plays the football that Rodgers wants Coutinho to play. Oscar is exactly what Rodgers wants in Coutinho. The cam that would press to death the opposition and score goals.... So, now hendo, sterling, daniel and joe allen are better options than Oscar for liverpool...TEAM GB OLE!

Will it be a sad day when the United States surpasses england in football?

LOL. Oscar would not get into Liverpool startin 11, but gets on Chelsea 11 and brazil... He would lose out to a team of all brits minus mario for a spot right?

remy going to be a key player... Perfect for the counter. The fastest CF besides the dortmund player.

I hope Costa's fire drives the young ones with that anger/fire...

When oscar doesnt play, its still his fault that chelsea allowed 3 goals....

I remember people wanted coutinho over Oscar, yet its Coutinho thats losing his place on a midtable team.

Well, I always said he was a striker/forward, moreso than a midfielder, however, people on this board that didnt even know Juan mata prior to chelsea seems to have thought otherwise... Spain new gen is going to be Thiago-Isco with koke or 2/3 of them. I can really see busquets, cesc and mata getting phased out of spain.

Well, you never know. In jan and next summer, they might get their targets for other positions... I think Falcao+RVP is better link up than RVP +Rooney. However, Rooney is captain and makes a ton of money so he won't get dropped. Could go do like Falcao RVP Di Maria- Herrarra-Rooney-NEw winger Shaw-Rojo-Jones-Rafael DDG

Point was that costa can play wide and if Chelsea was losing and going to play 2 forwards it could be more like Drogba with Costa and 2 other ams behind him...... Leaving Salah and his appearances to Capital Cup games.

I can see Reus going to either madrid or munich. Cr7 leaving madrid before his contract expries... and Ribery leaving as well.

Busquets is probably the best player for the role he plays at barcelona/spain, however, on other teams/tactics, he would not be. He's very very good at his job and these days its hard to define players by positions..

Kdb. Lukaku. Pvh. Borini. Matic. Scott Sinclair. Stoch

The negative was the contract length for Remy and his medical condition.

Costa already played on the wings for atletico and played there when Drogba was introduced for the second game I believe. Ramires has played defensive style winger for chelsea and brazil numerous times, its not really far fetched to think a defensive minded manager like Jose would want to play ramires... Also, Remy can play on the wings as well. So, essentially you have Remy, costa, oscar, willian, hazard, ramires and schurrle that can all play on the wings. What do you think is going to stop Jose from playing all three of dave, ivan and luis at the same time, with one of them acting as a side midfielder? The fact that Jose loaned him out (wanted to) shows Jose opinion concerning Salah.. When everyone's fit, Salah doesnt have a chance to get on matchday as well.

He knows Eto will take his place....And will demand a move to Tottenham

also world class talent vs world class stats...

top 11....

Well, Salah could of went for Liverpool and won the league....potentially... So, liverpool not winning the league was worth the money..

Chelsea played against the 16th, 17th and 20th place team in the epl....Even against Everton, everton just bombed forward and gamble too much, dont think it was chelsea playing non conservatively. However, in the next few weeks we shall have a better assessment.

GK I agree. However, City play attacking football, which exposes their backline. Chelsea plays a very conservative game, however, not so much last saturday. It wasnt a long time ago that Nastaslic was viewed as the best young CB in the world and the fact they got mangala as well. So, essentially your comparing jt, cahill, zouma and i guess ivan vs kompany, mangala, demichelis and nastaslic. Cesc is not a better playmaker than Silva. Cesc long ball is better and his goal scoring ability, but Silva moves better, has better short passing ability and dribbles/shields the ball a lot better. People underate Nasri these days. Nasri is as good as any am in the epl. Yaya, when he cares is head and shoulder better than any cm. Fernando has played very well for City so far and is really pushing Matic as the best DM in the league, even though one can argue that Fernando is more of a dm than matic is. Aguero, when fit is superior to anyone besides RVP. CIty and Chelsea have the best overall squads, however, I think the breaking points this season will all be on Joe Hart...