The Skipper

That, whilst playing the majority of the season out of position too. Pretty impressive.

Now that would be a great transfer deal for both clubs. Lucas + a bit of money would be great but doubt that's on either clubs agenda now.

Yeah because Oscar is extremely selfish and dives all the time...

I would love Lucas. Think he's built for the Premiership.

LOL!

Very true, but if Rooney is going he'll surely be their number 1 striker, or they'll split game time again. Maybe we can throw in a good offer to Real which will allow them to perhaps get a better second choice striker than Morata if they did accept a bid from us. Not saying that it'll happen but I'd be delighted if that was a possibility.

Rumours that Real want him. If so I'd take Benzema off them, whom I think is the ideal striker for our system.

I don't mind him leaving, but just don't want to see him go to United. Surely we have more pride than that as a club. £42m is a lot of cash though.

To be fair, Sterling is having a good season so far, and is justifiably benching Moses.

This thread has become hilarious, must be said.

The blasphemy from you lot is unreal.

Would rather bring back Moses if that's the case.

As I said before, now that we have a proper CM pairing with Matic and whoever, I think that playing Mata at number 10 shouldn't be such a problem anymore for Jose. Jose should utilise Mata's skill sets in the right way, especially against teams that sit deep and pack 11 men behind the ball. Mata would be ideal at number 10 in those situations - especially if he had a solid CM behind him. Hopefully Jose tries this but I doubt it. The thing is we've actually played pretty well over our last couple of games. To me, Mata should be sold so he can save his career. He's too good to be a benchwarmer. I wouldn't want to sell him to United though, unless it was a ridiculous offer.

He's 30 in 21 months lol, closer to 2 years than 1.

£37m is a lot of money, Jesus. Just the fact that it's United is the bit that's putting me off a bit - however, if they could sweeten the deal by perhaps give us something like £25m + Rooney I would 110% do it.

Didn't catch the second half but thought he was okay in the first. Must've been anonymous in the 2nd though based on the comments here.

Assist from Romelu. He's looked very tidy today in possession. Hope he can add a goal to his decent performance.

What, so people who don't want to see Luiz at DM are Mikel fan boys? It has more to do with Matic signing. That's why people are hoping he doesn't play there anymore.

I realise that, and still think that it's because it's been beaten into him that he must clear the ball more often than not.

He's stalled. Solanke looks more promising this season.

It's the result of him being scrutinised for trying to keep possession. Before, him not clearing it was a problem. Now it's the other way around.

Schurrle's there too. I'm sure we'll be okay for a few weeks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/demba-ba-heads-straight-to-the-gym-for-a-midnight-workout-after-jose-mourinho-says-it-is-his-time-to-shine-at-chelsea-9072102.html Demba heads straight to the gym for a midnight workout after Jose says it's his time to shine.

Didn't happen as usual. Ban yourself mate

Another mention that we've got a big signing in the pipeline by the guy on the transfer window thing on SSN. It won't be a striker, I think it's either a LB (Shaw) or a CB (Zouma).