The Skipper

Also... Different players but Thiago is definitely better than Pogba atm, not even questionable IMO.

That obviously goes without saying. Still not worth it at all. Pogba is a talent but I wouldn't like it if we spent anywhere the 70-80m fees being banded about. My point basically was that you can't really go about screaming how Koke isn't worth his buyout clause (50m or whatever it is) but then turn a blind eye for the overvaluation Pogba has been getting.

Pogba isn't worth anywhere near his reported fee either.

Willian is definitely a very good number 10 in our system.

I'm not saying we should get Green at all; he's not good enough. Someone like Begovic would be perfect. He's HG. We need to think long term wise as well - we could perhaps need an extra foreign spot in the future. It'd be good if we didn't waste it on our back up goalkeeper.

We need a decent HG GK. Can't be wasting foreign spots on a reserve GK.

I wasn't criticising Mo though, I was criticising the defending. Just relax a bit my friend!

If we sold Luis, I'd be happy with Coentrao as a replacement.

It was incredible. Such a good goal. I was too excited about Oscar's potential from that game and that is still his best CFC performance for me. That was 3 years ago and he hasn't actually reached those heights again. Had Godlo in his pocket and controlled the game completely. If he had that sort of performance in him consistently, you won't ever see me complain about the lad. It's because of that performance that I still have the slightest bit of hope in the guy. I've mostly given up on him though.

LMAO. Mo Salah fan club out in full force. It was a good finish but the defending was absolutely clownish, he's scored goals with a lot more merit during his time in Florence. Just calm down a bit people, bloody hell. Anything that's not praising Mo in here is automatically taken as something offensive.

Not more talent, but I do remember a few saying that his ceiling was higher than Eden's.

I sincerely hope this is the case.

I thought I was the only one.

We really should've just signed him instead of Salah...

Are you saying Salah is better than Sterling or...

Sterling wouldn't be bad here at all, many people forget the kid is only 20 and already one of the best players in the PL. He would grow massively under Jose as well. Hazard - Willian - Sterling is not bad at all.

Me? The defending for the goal was poor.

Very poor defending tbh, but he is scoring.

I doubt it, but if he does, good for us.

I cannot believe Jose is betting on Oscar to have a revolutionary season like Hazard did this year next season...

And people were slated people such as myself, Barbara, Styles etc. when we said this wouldn't be a good signing and that he's not even better than Willian... Smh.

Sigh, Oscar is not in the same talent pool Eden is. I hope Mourinho isn't betting on him.

He played as a 6. Go watch his performance again and you'll notice that even Mikel was ahead of him most of the game. If he was playing as an 8, he would've been given the freedom to make his trademark power runs but he didn't. It was clear Mourinho instructed him to keep it safe and simple. If you watched his 10 mins in the CL you'll see that he plays as an 8 there.

If Pogba plays as a number 6 and his freedom was shackled he wouldn't have much influence going forward either.

He was playing in the number 6 role.