CurlyHairLikeLuiz

Pre Jan 1 Courtois Iva Cahill Terry Azpi Matic Cesc Willian Oscar Hazard Costa Post Jan 1 Courtois Azpi Zouma Terry Luis Matic Cesc Juan Willian Hazard Remy Lol, it carries more truth than I'd otherwise like...

4-0 to MK Dons for the self proclaimed biggest team in Europe must have been more humiliating.

aaaand that is why you don't underestimate Crystal Palace. Had Pardew been their manager since Augut they could easily be looking at the EL places imo. Woo! Only need 5 wins now.

imo I like it. Reminds me a lot of the 1982 home shirt, definite buy, well overdue for my next home shirt anyway - my last one was Gudjohnsen on the last Umbro kit in 04/05!

anyone got the rest of the article? Think it's a season ender if he needs crutches.

See ya later Mikel. More than capable of replacing him in the squad, and imo if Jose didn't believe in him he would have been on loan for all this season, he clearly just wants to observe him more and keep him match fit.

tbh Oscar and Ramires can be replaced in one hit with Koke, with RLC sharing a few duties next season.

Good feeling about this lad, absolutely has to make it here, otherwise we may as well not bother with our academy.

I like the lad, but not sure if he's better than Willian in the 10, or Ramires deep. If he is it'd be nice to see him here but due to Englishness I could see him being a rather high price.

GC has looked solid enough the last few games, Cuadrado needs adaption and if he can survive Stoke he can survived damned near anything, it's all about conditioning. Truth be told I think the only reason he hasn'tt played RLC is because he's not yet sure how it would impact his system, don't forget, breaking into the first team at Ruben's age is an impressive feat. The worst bit is that I had to read your post about 5 times before I actually realised what you were saying, lol.

I think Borussia would have far less of a problem selling to us, I think the main sticking point was the Bayern interest, we could probably get him for £60-80mil.

Home kit looks great, has a retro pin-stripe era kit feel to it too.

In the middle Willian is almost world class. He will be world class there. But on the wing he is wasted, when Cuadrado adapts he will have better aptitude on the wing and Hazard-Willian-Cuadrado will be the starting AM 3.

Channelling his inner Pep In all seriousness, that's not a bad idea. At all. Or play Iva there and Azpi-Luis fullbacks.

I hear Mikel is available

sadly I'm starting to think that will happen..

We can do without Matic, as demonstrated vs Spurs with Zouma, with the right strategy. Same team from then please, although it might be wise to rest Cesc and give him his holiday now. The gamble might pay off in the form of freshness for the season run in. Especially for Arse and MU. Cech Iva Cahill Terry Azpi Zouma Oscar Willian Juan Remy Hazard Or Ramires as either an RW or a CM.

Our win at stoke would have looked very convincing had Adam not scored that 65yd goal. We played lovely football, stayed in possession, played incisive passes. We looked like last years' Chelsea again, and this would have been spotted had he not scored that stunner. Not to mention he shouldn't have had the opportunity because Hazard was hacked down for the pass that lead to the goal.

We should beat Arsenal really, beating Liverpool these days isn't really anything special these days without Suarez and an out of prime Gerrard.

Cech Dave Ricky JT Cole Maka Matic Robben Zola Hazard Drogba It'd be one hell of an XI in their respective primes!

Need a new home shirt and I like the new one - the buttons look class too. Not too fond on the away kit imo. Terry 26 on the back, it'll be a classic.

I think we have little choice but to play them both, all we can do is give Fabregas more physical protection and play Zouma + Matic midfield and he can take main flak and some marking duties.

Haven't seen any news on our proposed expansion for ages... anybody know anything new since Feb?

I think everyone needs to calm down. Stoke are probably the most physical team in the league, and Cuadrado is not used to English football yet. In Italy nearly all the times he went over would have resulted in a free kick and probably a yellow for the opposition. He's probably a little nervous but when he was dribbling down the right and attempting dummies I saw glimpses of why we brought the kid. Tbh, while he was never better than Salah, he has different qualities which I reckon we'll only see from next season.

Looked so in his element today at no 10. Considering how poor our first choice is atm he should be a replacement.