The Skipper

Man, you'd think James never had that great season under Ancelotti according to some of these posts. He was easily one of the best 10s in the world that season.

Thanks. Got there before I did.

Fake. Bild were just reporting English press rumours.

This one seems like it could happen tbh.

Hope people aren't still blaming Cesc for Nemanja's awful form...

Why is this Emenalo's fault? Why does he get blamed for everything? Is he the one that decides and buys players? I genuinely don't get why he's blamed for this.

What? Christensen was nowhere near ready for first team football when he was loaned out. No one knew he'd develop this well at BMG.

You think Romagnoli is in the same league as Papy?

Because Zidane said so? Even AS who were claiming before that he wasn't on the move are now buying into the rumours.

That's certainly true. Even Ronaldo wept when Mesut left. Wasn't disputing otherwise!

60m euros is about £52m. Only £10m more than Ozil who went in a much more stable market. Madrid's cast offs include players like Mesut, Di Maria, Robben, Makelele as mentioned before. I'd gladly take any of them (at the age they left) in my team.

Almost forgot about Mesut. Edited the above post to reflect that. Then you also have Di Maria. It's ridiculous. Please make it happen CFC.

United and City are quite embarrassing tbh. For that amount of money you'd expect them to be amongst Real, Bayern and Barcelona quality wise but they're still just a level below. Also, consider that before this summer our net spent was closer to around €100m. Pretty impressive tbh.

Real Madrid always have great players they're willing to let go. Think Ozil, Di Maria, Robben, Sneijder, Higuain, Makelele... the list is endless. Could James be part of that list?

I don't know, it depends. If Conte brings in James, I don't think he'd play in a midfield 3 over Fabregas. What I do know about Conte is that he always tries to accommodate his best players. Cesc will force his way into the 11. Cesc's strengths lie in playing deep, in and around the centre circle spraying about the ball and dictating the game. James is a lot more effective closer to goal. James would either play behind the striker or as a second striker, or out wide IMO. Against stubborn sides, why shouldn't we play James, Cesc and Eden? Imagine the creativity and attacking potential between the three. Flank them with work horses like Costa, Willian and Kante and suddenly you have a great team. I really don't want to get excited but the potential of James possibly coming to CFC is becoming more mouth watering. There aren't any concrete links yet though. At about £60m in today's market it's a fair price. It would truly show we are still an ambitious club. Couple that with two good defenders and we suddenly have an outstanding window. Batshuayi, Kante, James, a LB, a CB. Can the club pull it off?

Fair enough. Didn't see that. Well, Cahill is at fault then for asking for help when he didn't need it at all. If Cahill doesn't ask for that Ivanovic would've probably been in the right zone and would've made it extremely harder for Capoue to get a shot off.

Please tell me of a striker available that'll be an improvement over Costa or Batshuayi?

Do like the look of Walace. Good player. Brazil have some nice young players coming through tbh, and they don't seem to really be under the spot light globally either. Good for their development.

Would be a great signing IMO. Maybe see if we can nab him for under £20m though. Or maybe just a direct swap for Cuadrado?

We thank God.

He was injured I think.

He challenges for it, quite simple... Anyway! In this scenario, Ivanovic doesn't help at all even if he is the 3rd defender near goal. He is completely irrelevant if the ball is crossed near post. That'll be for Terry to deal with, and he usually does very well in this scenario.

A defender should always be goal side of a striker. If he is, he minimising the chance for the shot on goal quite significantly. You don't need another player in there to negate the threat. Coaches teach full backs to patrol the area around the far post, and Ivanovic failed in that aspect. Was ball watching. Nothing more to it. Apart from that mistake he had a solid game (defensively anyway). He was definitely at fault for the goal.

Regardless, the signing would give us some great options. Doubt it would happen though, refusing to get excited.

Can we fit James, Cesc and Hazard in one team? That would be one team full of creativity and attacking prowess. He's going to have to play out wide though. Not sure how effective he is there. Something like: That would be an exciting team going forward. If we need more defensive prowess we drop Michy for a midfielder?