The Skipper

Luiz is a horrendous footballer? Lol.

Yeah, Ramires is really rated by our opposition fans but our own usually overlook him, call him average etc. which is quite sad.

Even Thiago Silva goes forward more than Luiz for Brazil. To call him an embarrassment or to say that he frequently makes crazy errors means you obviously haven't watched Brazil play frequently. Luiz is a lot more strict in his play and usually clears it first rather than taking the ball forward for Brazil, he's a lot more no nonsense on the international stage. They've got a very solid defensive partnership in Luiz and T. Silva, definitely one of the best in the world.

A half dig at Frank Arnesen.

Cringe to the maximum.

Let's sell Hazard too. While we're at it let's sell our whole bloody team. Jose needs the extra cash after all.

You're making things up, recently no one is insulting anyone that wants Mikel to leave. It's just that certain people are acting like it's a done deal, like Galatasaray and the board have agreed a fee etc. when it's far from that. You're saying this is a player thread where people are discussing their opinions and this is exactly all I see here. Once again, no one's actually insulting anyone here, that's just in your imagination.

Hazard's fine on the right, he's still effective. He's been moved to the right in game plenty of times and still produces.

He's more Ramires than DM. Nothing special, plenty of better options out there.

The deal is far from being done, so I don't know why you're pretending an offer has been accepted and that because there hasn't. Mikel isn't a major problem. Who brought Mikel to the club? It was Jose. Mikel was always a Jose project and chances are that Jose will actually keep him around. What will you say about JM then?

Schurrle is a good finisher, those stats are misleading. That's why I put the Cristiano Ronaldo stat up, just because he's missed the target the most doesn't mean he's a poor finisher. Those stats are skewed because he takes a lot of long shots and shots from awkward angles, just like Ronaldo does.

Most misleading stat ever. Schurrle is a good finisher. Cristiano Ronaldo: Missed the target with more shots (76) than any other player in Europe's top 5 leagues this season Doesn't mean Ronaldo is a bad finisher now does it?

Why are people ignoring this? It's nowhere near done.

You're mad if you think Real would sell Varane for 20m euros!

. Next joke!

Nope. Still wouldn't take it tbh. Silva - Luiz would be an immense CB partnership for PSG though.

The Cavani 'fiasco' is far from over.

It's equally as warped to practically blame Mikel solely for all bad performances when he wasn't the only culprit in those losses you've mentioned. The way you're depicting it is as if everyone but Mikel had decent games and that it was his bad performance that caused the majority of errors when that simply isn't the case.

There are plenty of decent number 2s out there, you just have to look across the PL and you'll see that. United have Lindegaard, City have Pantillimon, Spurs have Friedel, Arsenal have Fabianski, Stoke have Sorensen, QPR had Rob Green... That's just from the top of my head as well. There is no reason we shouldn't be able to find a competent 2nd choice goalkeeper, especially one that's better than Turnbull.

So you're telling me if Cech was injured for 2 months you'd be comfortable with Blackman deputising for him? I certainly wouldn't. We definitely need a decent 2nd choice GK.

Shure-luh. Easy.

Why are you getting so aggressive? If we don't need that sort of player then why did Luiz play more than a handful of games in midfield? It's clear that when you're playing someone out of position for quite a few games that you need a type of player in your squad, which is why I believe we do need a midfielder (I believe that Oscar can actually be developed into that role with time) that can link up the team instead of the likes of Mata or Hazard or Oscar when he does play in the '3' dropping deep causing our team to lose shape and causing our forward line and channels to be skewed.

What he means is a deep lying playmaker for the pivot - one that can connect the defence and attack together - something we sorely missed last season, and is the reason why Luiz was pushed up to midfield.