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Eto is such a terrific striker...
Surprise bigger teams, including Chelsea didn't want him on a short term deal.

Hazard is not meant to be a player like rambo, willian or oscar.
His body is meant for short speed bursts and brilliant dribbling ability and hold up play. Jose is asking him to do something that will not last long term with hazard.
Guys like hazard, cr7, messi are not to be stamina guys where they can run the length of the field and play both ways and be effective.
Messi did it short term, but definitely not after the Pep era. I find it difficult to believe hazard will as well long term.

I think Luiz would of done a ton better on this team than Cahill.

Iseah, he was selling them illegally. The store owner called the cops. What were the cops supposed to do ? Tell the store owner "Sorry but it's just cigarettes so we're not gonna do anything."
How can you speak of harassement ? Eric Garner was doing something illegal... When you do something illegal, cops are gonna show up. When you continue to do illegal stuff cops are gonna to continue to show up.
This wasn't murder. The cop held him in a chokehold for 5 seconds until Garner was on the floor. When they had Garner's hands behind his back he let go of the chokehold. It's really clear that the intent of the cop was to subdue him to the ground so they could arrest him, not kill him. Do you really think the cop wanted to kill Garner ? I don't.
What happened to Garner had nothing to do with his skin colour. If he were white, the cop would have done the same thing. I know that that is just my opinion and not a fact but i've seen no proof that the cop would have reacted differently if Garner was white. Have you ?
Main problem with these situations is that there's a lack of trust. The moment a white cop shoots a black person (or does anything that ends up hurting a black person) , black people (not all black people but a lot of them) have made their mind up about it, "The cop was a rascist, hatecrime, he shot him because he was black". There's no more room for "the cop made a mistake (cops are human after all), an unfortunate accident (like what i believe garner's death to be).
Problem is that this is a vicious circle. If a situation happens where a white cop shoots a black person. Black people get more distrustworthy of white cops. Black kids (again not all black kids) see the news and think "white cops are rascist, out to get us so i'm not gonna cooperate with them or else i'm gonna end up dead. They get more rebellious towards cops which results in more situations where accidents and mistakes are more likely to happen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2563445/Georgia-teen-holding-Nintendo-Wii-controller-shot-police-thought-holding-gun.html
This is an article about a female cop shooting a white 17 y old boy holding a Nintendo wii controller.
Kid opened the door with the controller in his hand. The cop thought it was a gun and opened fire.
Now could you imagine what the aftermath would have been if that 17 y old boy was black ?

it was a bit cheeky to be fair

He's not got the best technical ability compared to say Kalas, but in terms of pure defending, he is really really good.
Lukaku went wrong by trying to focus on his weakness too much (technical ability) and with it neglected his strength's a bit. The complete opposite to say Bale who accepted his technical limitations and focused on what he was great at, Lukaku should have done the same from the get go.

Hmm.. We just need to see more of him to be honest. I'd like him to get a run alongside Terry so he can work on positioning, I'd be very nervous if he was paired with Cahill instead.
I kind of feel we will incur a CB crisis. Ivanovic doesn't look like playing CB any time soon, we know about Cahill and Terry could pack up soon enough. Zouma is cover, but we don't know about the future of Kalas (if he's even ready!). We're going to need to sign at least 2 competent, world class, CBs soon enough.

Agreed, I think a two-year extension isn't unreasonable. He seems like he would be respectful of Mourinho if he was to be benched in that time, if he recognised there was better talent ahead of him. Zouma and Cahill aren't ready. Even if Varane came, I'd still want Terry to mentor him..
He doesn't seem like he'd complain a la Lampard under AvB

Eh?
Torres before Liverpool ruined him was about 2 classes above

Hazard is not meant to be a player like rambo, willian or oscar.
His body is meant for short speed bursts and brilliant dribbling ability and hold up play. Jose is asking him to do something that will not last long term with hazard.
Guys like hazard, cr7, messi are not to be stamina guys where they can run the length of the field and play both ways and be effective.
Messi did it short term, but definitely not after the Pep era. I find it difficult to believe hazard will as well long term.

Cesc is still Chelsea best player up to this point this season.
You can play him as a n10 and maybe give Matic cesc role and allow rambo to play destroyer, but it seems rambo is hurt to a degree where jose doesnt play him... However, I think cesc would struggle under Jose and the n10 role. But, I guess we have to wait and see.

There is no meltdown as some of us just don't expect wc performances from Cahill.

However, I also remember a few of us warning that cahill would be more exposed if we changed our style of play, which we did with fabregas in cm.

Unsurprisingly tbh, John terry looks less bothered by the additional exposure this season.

Blasphemy. Carvalho is the best defender I've seen at this club, looking purely at defensive abilities. For some weird reason, he doesn't quite get the recognition he deserves. Out of Carvalho, Terry, Gallas, Alex and Cahill, I rate Cahill the least.
Agree with Robguima, these mistakes don't surprise me. I don't rate him highly and that's why I don't blame him. He gives his all but he's simply limited.
So yeah, he made a mistake but he's not to blame for the loss.

Once again people will say correlation does not determine causation. However, at some point one, perhaps the manager, is bound to start asking whether there is causation between our results and whether Mikel plays or not.
Like I wrote on the other thread, he did his things well enough, but I just don't think much of the things he can do. When he plays we lack, tremendously, the stuff Matic can, and mikel cannot do.
Mikel is never tight market because he's not a threat. They will only going to challenge him if they think they can regain possession. He doesn't contribute in the build up play and lacks movement (not enough pace); our AMs will certainly get less service with Mikel on the pitch. And because Mikel is never tight marked, that leaves more defenders to mark them. We already have a CB (Cahill) who cannot hit a long ball to save his life, and with Mikel our attackers will always struggle.
Let me exemplify my point: we were chasing the game down by a goal. Mikel receives a pass from Fabregas in the center of the pitch. He has no opponent near him and instead of turning and making a run to join the attack, which is what Matic would've done, he quickly and needlessly squares it right back to Fabregas (pass completion check! ). Even the announcer was saying, "way too many touches - too slow." He plays like Cahill in possession, but Mikel is a midfielder.
If you cannot see the enormous difference in quality between Mikel and Matic, then I guess we should just agree to disagree.

Sorry guys. I know this isn't gonna be a popular opinion but i've watched the video of Eric Garner's death and the cop only had him in a chokehold for about 5 seconds. Not long enough to actually kill him. Seems to me like he had a heartattack from the commotion.
It just looks like an unfortunate accident to me. Not murder.

I think Luiz would of done a ton better on this team than Cahill.

Kos is argubly the best CB in the EPL and under Jose and in Chelsea, he would sky rocket in status in the world...

That's only because of the reckless system Arsenal play, their CBs are exposed all the time and Koscielny is forced to make these sort of challenges in the box all the time. When he has Mertesacker as a partner as well who practically has no pace, he has to cover that up most times by being the cover defender and that usually means he's the one making last ditch tackles. As said before, due to the volume and amount of times they both get exposed, it's kind of inevitable.
Koscielny would be much better here at CFC under Jose, he's better than Cahill in almost everything for me.

Agüero is close to Messi's level right now. Never mind penaldo with his 80 minute tap-in braces to socre the 7,8 nil against teams called eibar or elche. Agüero just as Suarez last season is carrying a team's title bid all on his own. City are getting better though. Unfortunately they should have done so a few months back to have a sniff at the title.

Aguero has scored 30 goals in his last 33 PL games. Look out Messi and Ronaldo.

wrong, read the marco reus and sterling threads..

EAT IT.
Put some of that sauce you make and eat it.

Salah, stats and 10m.

Absolutely love Moutinho, Such an influential player.

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