MrBlueGuy

Done his hammie again I think think we are in real trouble now... Remy and Falcao will be playing A LOT this season, whether they will be good enough is another matter.

Shit Costa hamstrung, he is done

Genuinely worried with Costa, it is not like I am obsessed with him but everything is off with him lately

OK I admit he is a bit better than Reus, but he needs to score more to be on Neymar and Robben's level. Atm he is in the 2nd bracket with Reus, Bale, Sanchez and a couple of others great wingers.

Any reason why he is allowed to play for us but not officially a player? Is there any chance of him being included/loaned to a top level European team or is this Traore case all over again?

I am suprised, if we can keep up this intensity in the 2nd half we should be ready for Arsenal this weekend. The team looks to finally getting into shap and form bar a couple of players like Costa and Cuadrado but almost everyone else is getting there.

Because he is the best striker in the world...

Yep but continously though...it is almosts Torres-like with the misses. It is not a fitness problem either we saw him sprint like a horse for that chance. I think it is confident issue and more misses will lower it.

What happened to Costa? He should have got 4 goals already in this preseason. He is our main man and seems to be really off form recently.

Just like City did for the last 2 years in the CL and getting rekt each time. If anything this is a game YOU SHOULD NOT play 2 strikers up top if we are serious about it.

Nothing special but still very useful and helps bring balance to the team. He is basically Ramires with more of a football brain

If this is true think we will get him before the end of the window. Meh 34m is a bit overpriced but guess since we are signing no one else and have lot of money spare for some reason might as well do it on Stones this window.

He was benched for basically the entire 2nd half of last season...his best game for them was like November and since then he basically contributed nothing. It is like Mata during Mourinho spell, big in name but in reality doesn't contribute much anymore. Pedro on the other hand we don't know how he will do, chance of him doing a Fabregas/Sanchez is extremely high.

Ironic since you are complaining about everyone else complaining about different things. But your issue is not with any players, signings or managers but rather the 'fans'. If you want to go by your logic why not go and support Stoke/Crystal Palace? They are continually being listed as having the 'best fans' in the BPL, can give you the link to the articles if you want. Hypocrisy at its very best.

Another ironic thing is he is only starting to come out and saying that now he knows the board won't do 100m freely without selling anymore while 2 years ago we signed loads like Willian without selling anyone so we basically 'bought' the league as well. It is mind game, he knows in reality we got no legs to make these type of claims.

Oh great I didn't know that, nice maybe we will play with a bit more freedom for a change from the start.

Hindsight is wonderful though, best player at WC and all that, also off the back of him scoring something like 15 goals for Fiorentina the season before. One thing you can't check in a medical test is mental strength because we do not employ any zen master yet. Honestly this guys make 35m for Douglas Costa looks like a bargain(who is actually pretty good so far for Bayern). Never judge a book by its cover

Barcelona with Messi, Neymar and all other back. They hit the post 3 times today despite losing to MU and had a goal ruled out. Prediction: Barcelona 3-1 Chelsea, we will have less than 30% possession, less than 4 shots on target and expect more of the same from today for the whole match instead of just until the hour mark. Oh and Messi will finally score against us.

They only won 6-0 today against Lyon, no biggie if we play like we did from the hour mark onward from the start we have every chance but if we play like today not winning it will be the least of the problem.

Did we intentionally parked the bus until the 60th minute to save energy?

Lacks that little bit of pace though, got a feeling he won't be really useful when we play defensive game in closing matches out. He will be useful when we play small teams who park the bus against us but against big teams when we have to do it ourselves he won't be much help, especially toward the end of game where attacks would be hugely reliance on pace.

Fucking boss at penalty, make him our main pen taker

Just not good enough, constantly play the safe option or give the ball away when attempting to dribble. His confidence is also extremely low he is afraid to shot even when potentially facing a 1 on 1. Unless something changes he is gonna be our Colombian Zhukov.

Cuadrado why man...his confident won't be helped if he keeps on doing things like that

Ivanovic thought he was Roberto Carlos for a moment there