The Skipper

Fuck, if Arsenal get Cavani...

Excellent signing. Was one of the best players in France.

Just go back to his thread from the start of last season and you'll see that yourself.

Yeah I will as soon as I get to a laptop. Actually, might just keep it now to piss off certain individuals.

It's incredible how Schurrle is getting next to no recognition for his massive part in the goal.

Cheers for clearing that up.

Hmm... I don't know. At Real, what made Di Maria so effective as that 3rd midfielder was his ability to push the ball forward at pace. It was vital to their counter attacking system. Kroos doesn't have the capabilities to do that. Sure, he'll add a threat if Real are attempting a more possession based system but that Real Madrid front four of Bale, Ronaldo, Benzema and Di Maria was truly outstanding, a joy to watch on the break.

He was awful today IMO.

Just saw this photo floating around on twitter, not too sure how true it is though. https://twitter.com/samueljayc/status/488454866315280384

Ramires was one of our best player for the first few months of last season, so I wouldn't say he was shit since 2013.

Luiz made team of the tournament. Lol.

My guy

Was watching the game with 5 other guys and I was the only Chelsea fan - and they all were saying that Oscar was Brazil's best player.

Guessing you haven't seen Hulk play?

This is really old news pal, before we signed Fabregas even. Koke's now signed a new 5 year contract.

Benatia is better than Cahill, and eventually JTs career at the top will end so it wouldn't be paying £30m for a back up.

Real are jackasses tbh, Di Maria was their best player for many games. At least he isn't going United.

That's not his problem though. That's the manager's problem. If he's seriously worried about competing with two supposed sub par strikers then again, that's laughable.And PS: I reiterate, we definitely won't have 4 strikers here. Even at the end of the last transfer window - Ba was meant to go out on loan so the notion that he wants to go because he has three other strikers to compete with (two supposedly inferior) as the reason why he thinks he's being disregarded or not being given a fair chance is simply misguided.

He's never actually said it but with the things he has said, with the way he is trying to angle a move out of the club, with the way he says he's now a complete striker, with the way he was complaining about Chelsea always signing strikers when the D. Costa rumours were very strong... Just put two and two together and you'll see that that is probably one of the main reasons as to why he wants to go (in my honest opinion anyway - not saying that this is factual). Thing is, I actually want him to stay and have said on numerous occasions he'd be a great second option here but it looks like he doesn't want to accept a role like that. So in that sense, yes, selling him is the best option.

. They would make the perfect player.

Sincerely doubt that we'd keep four strikers around and even then - if he's scared of Torres and Ba then that's laughable.

It's a flat out lie. United have officially won the most trophies in England. Sad lot, these are.

That's all well and good, I don't think people would mind him staying on here as an option up front... Problem is, does he? He seems to think that he deserves to be the undisputed number 1 striking option and obviously that's not the case wth Diego Costa coming in, so he obviously wants to go. He doesn't want to stay himself. That's the problem here.

Wenger is a really intelligent man but he's just too stubborn with his coaching philosophies.

He was pretty good today, glad to see a positive response from him after that 7-1 drubbing. Him and Willian were the only positive Brazil forwards tonight.