MrBlueGuy

Bartra is overrated himself too. Martinez is good but again will cost 30/40m release clause probably. Best is to just go for Godin, proven for many years and also 30m release clause.

Double? when did I say that? I said months ago that we should be winning either the CL or BPL this season, not winning either or a couple of cups instead will result in Jose being sacked and I still believe that. Check my old expectation thread before this one.

For example I want to see him doing this more often or at least attempt to

Bale is not selfish, actually he is one of the best winger in the world because he is capable of doing what Hazard does, but also banging them in from 30 yards out. Yep it is fine by me too if he just reach 10 goals and have like 20 assists, all I am saying is I want to see over 20 goals/assists combined EVERY SINGLE SEASON from a player of his status. That is not a big ask at all, it is bare minimum for a player of his quality for me. I know but I mentioned a few pages ago, people like Iniesta/Zidane/Xavi don't have great stats but they are known as best in the world in their position because of the sparkle moment they have. Zidane volley CL final or Iniesta last min goal at Bridge in 2009/WC 10 final.

Certainly worked for Liverpool and City last season... Liverpool really threw it away when they lost to us and drew Palace somehow, it won't happen under Jose. The point is sometime all out attack can win the title if the defence is half decent, which we are capable of being despite playing attacking football atm.

Unless it is 2 assists/goals it likely won't be. His only realistic chance now is if both of them are injured or 1 is injured and the other is horribly out of form. The best chance for him now imo is to train well and be a sub, patiently wait for his chance and when it comes take it as a sub and try to change the game for us. For example lets say we were drawing 0-0 with Stoke come the 70th minute and Jose send him on, he should be RUNNING and chasing EVERY SINGLE LOST CAUSE to prove his desire to Jose. Simply playing normally won't be enough to get him in the team because he is not a super star yet.

When you are earning that kind of money yes you need stats to back it up. That is not his role though, he should be banging a few of them in around the pen box every season and provide a few good crosses/passes for team mates to score. Like I said normally it is good enough but with the new contract he is signing soon it won't be. I want him to be a Bale for us, someone who always score a lot every season.

No one is the same though, everyone is different. For example Ibra now over 30 still top 5 strikers in the world. On theory 10 years ago he should have been like Messi now but instead he was just a decent one back then. Also imo people are comparing Hazard because it makes sense on paper, but football doesn't work like that. What we all expect though is for Hazard to be regularly getting 15-20 goals/assists every SINGLE SEASON as minimum requirement now, if he is to sign a new £200k+ deal then that is pretty much a must to justify it in the long term.

The awkward moment when people suggesting Oscar over Willian to play on the wing...

In a 6-0 win which by the time they already gave up.

Yep consisting of playing against the likes of City and Arsenal... Expect his minutes to be near 0

Playing on the counter means you have to actually create chances...at those 3 games like I said NOT A SINGLE clear cut chance at all. That says it all really. Counter is like away at City last season, where we actually attempted to go forward.

Atletico not City. Obviously not 10 men behind the ball but it is as close as you can get to full bus parking. NOT A SINGLE CHANCE against MU or Atletico and at Arsenal apart from Lampard hitting the bar it was more of the same.

Good defender but doesn't seem to be that top top defender(considered top 10 in the world) and also was out for like over a year, just came back. Generally stay away from Dortmund defenders as they all seems to pick up long term injuries/serious injuries quite often even though they are good players. Not good enough for Chelsea especially if he was to become 1st choice.

That is the problem though, no one will obviously complain if we win even if it means putting 11 men in front of goal line. What me and others are afraid of is him scraping any attempting of trying to get 3 points COMPLETELY like at Arsenal, MU and Atletico last season and settle for that 1 point. While that isn't too bad on paper it would be a bit let down considering the team we got now to not even dare to TRY and get 3 points.

He is never leaving anyway, did he make the mandatory speech about staying at Madrid for the rest of his career yet LOL? Hummels will be our next summer, actually on 2nd thought he is injury prone as fuck so just pass him on. Lets raid Atletico for Godin or Miranda,

If we park the bus on Sunday Jose will show that he will never change and we have to accept that. If he attempts to play like last season however it shows he is willing to adapt away from his instinct. If this was in 13/14 we would have parked it hard against City especially after that CL performance. Lets see now if he does the same or actually attempt to play like he did last season in that 1-0 win. With our current players we should be scoring at least a goal or have several effort on targets during a big match like this. But knowing Jose I wouldn't be surprised if he saw what Stoke did and gonna attempt to do the same.

Analyses what about Oscar yesterday? He had a poor game but Fabregas and Drogba arguably had even worse games so obviously the tension is on them more than him. This type of performance is what you call a Mikel, didn't do anything extremely bad or anything good worth noticeable aka Cleverley type performances.

Wenger with his traditional interview about how close he was to signing world 11 players.

Usually after games like this he will set up a lot more cautiously next game. LAst year after Sunderland loss we did it at Arsenal, think it will be the same now. It is OK for him to concede some goals but as long as we score a lot at other end, now it seems that isn't the case it is back to old fashion football. With our squad I really hope we don't do it though because City as you said are there for the taking. However a point at City isn't that bad really.

Bus parking football back for Sunday imo, hope we do the same last season but I think he will just go extremist and all out parking aka Atletico away last season.

Bus parking football back after the shit today for me, boring 0-0/1-1 draw with both teams having shit CL today.

At least he works hard though, Drogba seems like he can't even press anymore. Basically now his job is nothing but to score goals, if he can't do that aka Torres he at least need to compensate in other ways, but he cannot do anything else apart from heading away corners.

Saying that it wouldn't surprise if he plays 'well' again when Jose decides to do bus parking on Sunday against City.

Move Ivan to CB for either and play Dave at RB. Next summer sign Varane while releasing Terry= set for the next God knows how many years.