RhesusReus

Stop condescending. You can make your point without it. And Thibaut Courtois and David De Gea are the #2 and #3 GKs in the world. There are more players better than Sterling, the likes of Ozil and Mata and Terry etc, but I wouldn't swap De Gea and Courtois for them either.

Stop trying to belittle, it's not going to work so long as you are spouting vagueness about players not performing to the best and a limited view of what a modern winger should be. Robben gets 20 goals. Ronaldo gets 20+ every season. Hazard is in their category in terms of ability and should be getting 20+. I never said Hazard goal return was poor. I said he could do far better. I also said that if we sell Hazard, I'd be OK with Sterling to replace him, but having both Hazard and Sterling is a terrible idea. It's like having a Lampard-Gerrard midfield. It's never going to work. I'm not pulling random gifs, I'm showing you, with proof, of Hazard's lack of goal scoring instinct/desire. Ronaldo or Messi or Robben, who are at times accused of being selfish, slot that chance home. Hazard doesn't have it in him. He's the best player in the EPL, but there are times where he lets himself down by failing to convert chances. I don't want to have two of those in the starting lineup, especially since Matic and Cesc are not going to score more than 5 goals combined in a season. We scored 73 goals. The year before 72. City scored 103 the year before and 83 last year, and that was a poor return for them. We lack goal scorers. That should be clear. Sterling isn't that.

Eden Hazard Sergio Kun Aguero David Silva Alexis Sanchez Diego Costa Cesc Fabregas Nemanja Matic Yaya Toure Wayne Rooney Thibaut Courtois/De Gea That's 10. Have a shit and giggle at that why don't you.

What does that even mean? lol. Did you miss the week where 10 men PSG had 1% more possession than us? As soon as Oscar was yellow carded and substituted for Willian, all our control of the game vanished. It's no fun watching Willian and Ramires pass the ball around awfully. Hazard scored 15 goals in the EPL. Not good enough. He should be comfortably cracking 20 goals with the amount of times he gets in front of goal. This is what I'm talking about: http://giant.gfycat.com/MenacingAppropriateAnnelid.gif He just doesn't have the natural goal-scoring instincts or ability. Right there is where the finishers of this world slot it home, but Hazard passes it up. I have serious doubts he's ever going to get half-way to Messi and Ronaldo numbers. Hazard should be proof to anyone wanting Sterling that finishing is the most difficult aspect of the game to master. It's why great strikers are so scarce and each one is worth his weight in gold. Stay far away from Sterling. He has no affinity to scoring and his finishing is miles away from Hazard, who in 3 years since he joined is yet to get significantly better in that department.

He's not. Not even top 10, of whom 9 would be cheaper to buy than him.

wut? Cesc said no to United. Hazard said no to just about everyone. Matic said no to United when Moyes and company went after him 4 months before we got him, telling them straight up that he had his heart set on returning to Chelsea. "Always been my dream to play for Chelsea" will start to happen as the next generation of players, those who grew up watching Lampard and Drogba and Co. play gets older. We can pretty much go after any player we like, with a good chance of getting them if we are ready for the battle. But the club doesn't seem to have that policy, neither does Jose, who appears to have a different model than to just sign the hottest name in the press.

So? Does it excuse him missing sitter after sitter? Even Torres managed to score one or two good goals. Loading up a team with terrible finishers is a bad idea.

Build up? We have plenty of players capable of build-up. What we lack is finishing and ball retention. Sterling doesn't help in any of those two needs. He isn't going to help us retain possession against the big teams, and he isn't going to finish a decent percentage of the near 200 chances Hazard and Cesc create alone. All his pace and dribbling is for nought when we face the lower table teams as they pack it in, something Liverpool found out when teams started parking the bus against them. Sterling is not a need. We either get someone that is deadly on the counter, like Reus, or we get someone that can help retain possession, like Turan. But to pay 50m for Sterling, when he fills none of our needs and only strengthens the already overloaded aspect of our team, speed and dribbling, is silly. I watched enough Liverpool games, as I live with two Liverpool fans, and the amount of chances Sterling fluffs is ridiculous. He also has only scored 1 goal for England in 16 games, and just recently missed this sitter: https://vine.co/v/ee5Pl1qlxeH More sitters missed: https://vine.co/v/h9iKEmgKxLw https://vine.co/v/O60dFTqTjYw Is this what you guys want? Again, we have enough players that can play the build-up game, we need a proven goal-scorer. I'm sick of watching Hazard, Willian, and Cesc fluff chances. I don't want another added to the team, despite what he may offer in pace. Now, if were to sell Hazard, I'd be OK with signing Sterling. But both on the same team is just ghastly.

Sterling can't finish! I don't want him anywhere near this team. We already have two terrible finishers in Cesc and Willian, and two barely average ones in Hazard and Oscar. Add another terrible finisher in Sterling and say hello to 90 mins of frustration. Do you guys miss Torres of something. Is this what you want: No to Sterling. He's not what we need, like Greizman who plays as striker and LW and rarely plays RW, which Turan mostly plays. We have enough "all-foreplay-no-sex" type of players.

First of all, Willian is not a better player than Oscar. Putting in a defensive shift and the odd goal doesn't make him better. If we are to compare them as #10's, which is the main point, Willian is far inferior. If you watched Sky Sports broadcasts you would have picked up on Gary Neville's analysis in game against Liescter and Crystal Palace about how Willian is ineffective inside, in tight areas, and is only really effective when he can make runs from deep midfield down the channels. In this system, Oscar is the superior #10. As for work rate. Willian puts in a shift, but it's not comparable to the pressing Oscar provides. Just watch the Arsenal game at home and you will see time and time again Oscar clearing the ball on the edge of our penalty box. Running up and down, like Willian, is different from pressing in the center of the field, where you have to continuously change direction. Lateral movement and changing direction wears you down like no one's business.

Josep Maria Bartomeu ✔ jmbartomeu "The hiring @ ArdaTuran10line pending the Management Board to sign. It is a request for incorporation @ LUISENRIQUE21 " # Bartholomew Seems he's Barca bound. Bartomeu is saying he's put a bid in. Turan may get the last word if we've put a bid in, but I doubt he'd want to leave Spain, or choose us over Barca.

The Great DD had Cesc and Hazard playing behind him, who combined created 190 in the EPL alone. While Falcao played with Fellaini, Young, Mata, and Rooney, who combined didn't come close to those numbers. Falcao, even if incomptent, is going to score goals. Have you guys forgotten the amount of goals Costa scored by simply have to put his foot through the ball? It's a little easier when you have Hazard beating three defenders in the penalty box and laying a perfect ball to your feet vs. Ashley Young putting in a cross that EPL defenders have been trained since birth to defend. I think Falcao will score 8-10 goals. Remy will get 10-15, and Diego 25-30. That's a good tally from stikers in a team that scores about 110-120 goals in total.

First of all, comparing JT with Oscar when it comes to minutes spent on the pitch is erroneous. Oscar has the second most demanding job on the pitch beside Matic. Oscar is the one who presses primarily, tracks back, and is part of the attack, be it counter or build-up. Meanwhile, JT is the most protected player on the pitch. He has Azpi tucked in beside him at all time to ensure that he is never isolated, he has Matic in front of him, and Courtois behind him, a keeper that covers an immense amount of ground. For more than 70% of those minuts, JT is just idling by, watching the game. While Oscar is busting his ass. The only player to compare with Oscar in terms of output is Matic, but we all know Matic is a beast, a one of a kind DM with a massive engine, but even he, a monster, was drained and on dead legs as the season came to a close. What chance does Oscar have? We play a system that demands so much of outfield players. There is a reason JT is still out there, and he himself admitted that it wouldn't be so if it weren't for the amount of work the midfielders put into the game. We need a viable backup to Oscar. Cesc and Willian are not it. Jose pretty much ran the team into the ground in trying to win the EPL as early as possible. Some players like Oscar fell first, then Cesc, and then lastly Matic. But they all fell. It's unsustainable the demands, and we need viable backups. Turan is one for Oscar, and I hope we get one for Matic and Cesc, someone that can partner either when the other is rested.