The Skipper

Had a good game yesterday, he'll still be useful as a squad player next season.

You have very low expectations of Matic if you thought he was very good. He was just about average.

His off the ball movement and awareness is awful. God.

Pretty sure the majority of you wanted him sold two or three weeks back haha... Got to love the fickle nature of football!

Ozil applies his talent very well though. An on form Ozil is much more beneficial to a team that an on form Alexis simply because he truly elevates his team mates level of play. Alexis works hard but Ozil hasn't been a liability to his team, he works fairly hard as well.

For me, we need to look at these positions, assuming the players that are already in the XI are in top form: Courtois Azpi - Zouma - (a) - (b) Matic - Fabregas - (c) Willian - Costa - Hazard At (a), I'm looking for a classy ball playing centre back, so someone like Stones would be a good fit. If we bring in Christensen in the future as well who's having some great development at Gladbach then we'd have some excellent young centre backs for the future, with someone like Cahill backing them up. At (b), I really want to see Kenedy have a go there, I believe he has massive potential there if he learns the position well. We also gave Ake out on loan so when he's back, those two can fight for the LB spot. At (c), we have the option to let someone like RLC develop or get in a proper CM. Ramires isn't good enough IMO so I would like to see an improvement on him there. We also need to improve our quality in depth. From now till the end of the season, my starting XI would actually be: Courtois Azpi - Zouma - JT - Kenedy RLC - Cesc - Matic Willian - Costa - Hazard

Ozil is more naturally talented than Sanchez, that's undeniable. People are blinded by goals too much, saying Sanchez is better than Ozil is like saying Sanchez is better than Hazard IMO.

How I see it as well. I would genuinely sell Baba and have him and Ake compete at LB next season.

Yeah, Ivanovic's time as a starter here should've been over a long time ago but have some respect for someone who's given a lot to this club, please.

Let's not take the piss out of someone who isn't as fluent in English as others please. It's easy to understand what he's trying to get at.

Fully agreed. I think he'd be even better in his natural position.

Hopefully he has a great second half of the season.

Torres cost us £50m and had ridiculously high wages, and was also our number 1 striker. Pato would be none of those. We don't need a number 1 striker, Costa is fine. If this deal allows us to get rid of Falcao's wages I'm up for it tbh.

I just tuned in before Diego's goal tbh.

YOU GUYS NEED TO HAVE MORE FAITH.

At the top, you'll see a news icon next to the search one.

Why? The new version is much better. Just a few tweaks here and there and it'll be perfect. People are so scared of change even when it's clearly beneficial. Just try to get used to it and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Sign Mark up!

Is that this season alone?

120m at the very least.

Yup. Baba has not impressed much at all in the limited time he's been given. I can only assume he isn't impressing much in training either. Compare it with someone like RLC who has had just as many limited minutes but has looked far more impressive than Baba. I actually think (unfortunately) that Azpi and Ivan are our best fullbacks by some distance, which is a shame. Never convinced by the signing and he's not doing anything to prove me wrong so far but time will tell. Thought we should've got a more established fullback like Kurzawa or maybe Gaya in the summer.

Baba is not as talented as Busquets is though, you can't say the talent is equivalent. It's a poor comparison.

Was that a penalty on Costa?

The board?