The Skipper

Maybe Torres, but Lukaku wouldn't get games if Sturridge isn't.

Why are people replying to him lol? He's obviously a troll.

Only if it says so in the loan contract.

Problem is some people expected Lukaku to be as good as Drogba in his prime after maybe a season or two. He's still 19, has plenty of time to mature and define himself as a player. People crave for us to sign young prodigies but when we actually do they almost automatically get written off after one or two bad performances. It's bad.

Exactly this. RDM gives Luiz that freedom whilst Brazil don't. That's the major difference.

I remember I got blasted here by suggesting that the only thing Hazard really needs to improve are his shots/finishing. I haven't been proven wrong yet so far.

We can't play a false 9 when we have three number 10's at the club. As talented as this guy is, he doesn't fit here without dropping one of our maestros.

Something that has been said over and over again on these forums. Realistically, anyone expecting the club to buy someone for £50m again in January will be very disappointed. As I've said before, I don't think we will get anyone significant in January.

Playing him next to Mikel seems quite logical but I'd rather have Rambo in my team. As a B2B player Fellaini isn't much of an upgrade on Ramires at all. People are replacing Mikel with Fellaini in the team though, so people want him at DM basically - having Fellaini there nullifies most of his game and we'd concede a lot more in midfield.

Sneijder would've been an excellent signing 2/3 years ago.

Can anyone truly say that they've seen a game where Fellaini has been excellent whilst he's played at DM?

Good short passing? He scores goals and assists because he's played FURTHER up the field, not because he's playing DM. His technique isn't that great either it's just above average. Mikel has better technique than him. You think Fellaini will perform like he's performing if he's shifted back to DM? Of course he won't.

What are you expecting from Fellaini in the DM role?

You're right mate, I am not defending Torres at all - but like BlueLyon perfectly illustrated above your post, as long as there are better options available out there than Huntelaar then we shouldn't really force the issue. Torres is frustrating yes, but I personally think him and Sturridge can just about do the job for us till the summer. I'm not expecting us to win much this season so I'm not thinking short term to be honest. All I ask for is decent performances in cups and third place this season, minimum expectation which I think we can achieve with this squad. I don't mind sacrificing one season for a further half a decade of success.

The way we play is different to the way United play. We don't fashion enough chances for our CF and our CF needs to be involved in play in order to fashion chances for the team. United play with two strikers, so Hernandez has tons more space than our CF does. Hernandez would not be as good for us as he is with United - at United he plays at a poacher, we can't just have a poacher up front. It wouldn't work. Any striker that we sign for the short term is simply not good enough for me. I prefer a long term investment that can grow with our OHM trio. I repeat... Torres & Sturridge are good enough to get us top 4. Probably top 3 even.

Huntelaar would be such a step backwards simply because outside of the box he is so useless. People want us to sign any striker in good form because of what's happening regarding our strike force but we've got to look on the grand scheme of things. It's okay if we don't win the title this season - there's no reason to panic buy a striker in January. It hinders our chance to build a proper strike force in the summer. At CFC we require more than just a finisher up front. Huntelaar's a poor man's Falcao. We are not poor men. People will always say "anything better than Torres and Sturridge will do" but that view is way too short term in my opinion.

I think Torres and Sturridge are good enough to give us a top four finish.

I'd rather wait till the summer and sign someone long term.

That does not equate to him being off.

What chances? Name me one strong source that suggests he's leaving in January. Or the summer for that matter.

Fair enough, but I think we can do better than Demba Ba, Cisse, Bony and Llorente. Just a personal opinion!

The amount of people that want Lampard out. Quite shocking. Glad you lot aren't running the club.

Why when there are better options available? We're not Newcastle, we're Chelsea.

More people should do this.

Where did you hear this?