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Sorry but he cant do that. Dont know how you got the impression that he can do that in the top levels of football, you dont have evidence fot it. WIth that central midfield, we'll have no central midfield when we're not in position. This fuzz about Fellaini here is wierd, because what he's doing so good this season is being a AM/SS, and suddenly is on top of our wishlist.

It realy depends on the football you want to see from the team or basically on the manager we'll have. With someone like Pep in charge, i can see us going for a midfield of CDM- Cabaye/Moutinho- Oscar, which is kind a simillar for what he had in Barcelona. I still didnt understand what kind of midfielder do you want.. youre talking about Fellaini and than talk about "playmaking abilities" which is somthing Fellaini doesnt have at all. strenght and height is something you want to add, not sure if thats what the new manager will want. The question is where are we going? right now we have a very "tiki taka-ish" attacking midfield, but our double pivot is Mikel and Ramires- a due that do have advantages in Ramires's speed, dynamics and energy and Mikel's height and power, but lacks things like creativity, smart attacking game, good passes to get the team forword, and off course cant organize the game good enough- this work always going to "Mazascar" and then we're stock becuase they need to organize the game alone and create too. I cant see how Fellaini will improve any of those issues, and with our midfield it will be imposible to get to the level of Bayren ,Real, Barcelona. The first question that need to be ask is who stays in the first 11? Mikel? Ramires? any of them? right now im under the impression non of them need to be a regular starter in our future "World class team", and im saying that when im thinking Ramires is one of our best players, just not sure he'll have a place. If we could get our hands on someone like Xabi Alonso or De Rossi i think Ramires could play next to them, but i dont know an available midfielder in the market that can do their job. So, my solution is play with Oscar and Moutinho, next to a DM like Capoue. If Pep realy going to be the new boss, i can see something like that happens.

Demba Ba seems like the best option for january- good price, PL experience which is important especially when the player comes in the middle of a season, and he's a wonerfull striker- very good finisher, good technics on the ball, and he could combine with our attacking midfielders pretty well i think. Plus he can help the club for years, not just this season. great option for 2nd striker when we'll get Cavani or Falcao. There is actually one minor problem- he's playing with Senegal in the ACON, we'll have him only in Fab, but we should still get him. Again i dont understand this Fellaini thing, havent got how exactly it will work with him in our team. the CM we need imo is someone like Moutinho or Cabay. If you also want a strong CDM the answer is someone like Capoue, not Fellaini.

1. Fellaini is far from what we need in midfield, i dont see where the talk about him is coming from. he's a good attacker for a team like Everton, he isnt a top class midfielder. he's defense is very poor compare to good DM's, and he cant pass that good. In my eyes we need someone who can pass the ball better and get the team going forword, dont know if this player need to come instead of Ramires or Mikel. 2. There is a reason why Dzeko isnt playing well when he's starting for City. Dzeko cant combine too good with technical players like City have in their attack and he isnt too comfortable with City's kind of football. Now why is he scoring so many goals when he's a sub? he plays in the end of games, when city got to score a goal and they are in presure, Mancini throws everything he has in the bench and they are starting to play other football- labs, alot of through balls, ball is wander around the box because of the amount of strikers in the field, and Dzeko is a very good finisher with great heading abillity so he's their ultimate weapon in those situations that heppend alot so far this season. To sum up, not our first striker at all.

My only hope for this season now is actually the chance of us staying in the CL somehow after wednesday, get some players in, and do something in that competition. other than that its only getting top 4 spot and win CWC, League cup and whatever... exciting stuff.

honestly? i cant think of a reason not to sack him. its not like he did something bad, its just that he's not needed for Chelsea in this situation. my point is, who gives a fuck...

Diame isnt playing also, which is good, a very decent CM.

attainable? in january? why would you be sure about that? If we cant get either of Cavani and Falcao, Huntelaar is a good option. In the summer we could go for one of the two.

No miracles in building a top team. We finished 6th last season, we were 25 points behind 1st and 2nd. I was very optimistic about this season and i thought we are gonna win the league, i kind a do, but the facts are we didnt improve anything but our attacking midfield. I do think it was necessary to spend that kind of money on those positions, but you probably need to spend more on other positions to get such an improvement like we wanted. Our game isnt progressing because the improvement of the team since last season was only in the AM positions. We still have a very very(!) awful striker, and our central midfield is not good enough when we're in position. We realy need those two important players, a CM and a striker, than we could realy develop to the team we wanted. Good thing about those two games- defense got alot better, thats the 3rd thing we need.

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I dont know where this season is going.. can we realy keep chasing the Manchester clubs? if not, whats our goal this season when we're realy close to exit the CL? connecting as a team is nice, but we'll probably get another manager in the summer and than whats the point... Realy frustrated at the moment, and the saddest thing is i lack energy to get fully behind the team like i alwyas have. Seems like we need a real miracle to get to somewhere this season. We're just not good enough to compete the strongest teams. A normal striker will be a start in january, wish it will change something.

Another AM, yeah thats what we need.

If Shakhtar draw today, and we lose, a win for us in the last game and we're in the last 16. No metter what will happen in the Juve-Shakhtar game.

Well im not convinced about Benzema what can i say, and im not seeing much of what you see probably. To say Benzema and Van Persie are the same type of strikers is very superficial for me, you even explained it with nice words yourself. RVP does got this game when he goes deeper, but then again he's a striker and he's always there to finish chances, this "balance" you mentioned is a hugh difference between them. And im not even talking about the bigger difference in their finishing abilities. Youre talking about Falcao like he's so limited... Falcao can contribute alot when we're playing bad, he can score goals by making he's own opportiunities. "as we aim to play possession football" - i cant see why people seem to think we aim for that, or can do that. You absolutely cant do that with a midfield of Ramires and Mikel, not against quality teams i mean. You can control the ball nicely, not saying we should be 2nd best in that case all the time, but we wont CONTROL big games with possession football for 90 mins. If you want more possession, imo it should come from a new midfielder who can pass the ball well, i dont think we should play with a false9 or something similar (Benzema) to achive that. Not when you dont have any other scorers in the line up - we dont have a C.Ronaldo of Messi or Ronney near the striker, we have Hazard and Mata who are good infront of goal, but not that good. I think a big time finisher is needed.

i realy cant agree on Benzema, last type of striker i think we need. we have three playmakers, what we need is goals, someone to pass to so he could finish. Both Cavani and Falcao will be great for it. Benzema wouldnt, we all saw how it looked in France in the Euros, he's just not a pure striker. In Real it works because there is Ronaldo who is half a striker. Plus, Benzema is not a world class finisher.

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Legitimate opinion, so my question to you is why? why do we need to settle for 3rd place when City and United arent looking that good in the league and in Europe, and our squad is pretty much in the same level? and lets say in January we'll get Falcao or Cavani or anyone else who can score lots of goals, what would you think about our chances? The team doesnt look good enough at the moment, its mainly about very poor defense and poor finishing, definitely not look like champions... but what im saying is that City and United arent look too impresive to write us off so early.

Dont think its a "Nuff said"... Whats with the fact that he's unproven in Europe and we need a striker to score lots of goals ASAP? and whats with the fact that he's not a pure striker, he's playing false 9/winger. theoretically its an option, and not a bad one because is a wonderful player, but its a very different step from buying Cavani or Falcao, and its a bigger gamble. alot bigger the way i see it. anyway, I dont think we should even talk that much about Neymar, just doesnt seem posibble, dont know how people here stiil have hopes on him.

You're wrong, he would be able to play in the CL, same as Torres in 2010/2011.

I realy wish to see Cavani or Falcao in January, but unfortunately i dont see it happening. I do see us trying to get one of them, but even if we'll meet one of their realeas clause's i think the player will stay, due to an agreement between them and their clubs, or even their wish to end the season and help their teams. Atletico and Napoli are very promising until now, both clubs can do very good this season, and from i know about the players, if Falcao or Cavani will decide to leave in the middle of the season it will be very uncharacteristic for both.

You're all right we need a striker, BUT we didnt draw today because we dont have descent strike force, we lost points because yet again, like the Arsenal game, we are too smug when we lead by just 1 goal, when we can obviously attack the opposition harder. It was just embarrassing today, looked so naive, not mature enough, not ready to win the title, thats what i thought about that performance. Unbelievably disappointed realy... hope we can learn from that. Otherwise the 3rd place will be in the bank too soon.

They weren't very good but they definitely deserved the win. dont think they were shit either..

We havent won 3 games in the league, i realy think its to fast to say we're not good at grinding out results.