Tomo

His attacking qualities are under rated and we have reigned them in ever since Cesc has joined to make up for his defensive weakness, it was okay when Cesc was assisting and creating chances at will, but now not so much.Although Mikel Matic isn't the answer, its far too defensive.

Good luck mate hope you get them. If you want my advice go in as soon as the gates open, for me part of the expierence is going in and seeing the ground in all its glory before it fills up, in some ways its as good as the game itself.

The TV deals have made a fully implemented FFP an irrelevance in England, let alone a relaxed FFP.

Fair enough

I hope so.

Aren't we relentlessly chasing Stones and trying to get Pogba in? If those come off our spending will be about £130m, the fact alone were chasing them suggests we can spend that amount.

Players can leave and do well without it being a mistake, how many Barca fans do you reckon even remotely care about Yaya Toure, let alone cause massive uproar about it? He's gone and done very well, fair play, but will I be thinking of De Bruyne when Hazard has one of his touched by God games, or when Pedro slams home his 15th goal of the season? Not a chance.

Are you seriously suggesting Costa isn't a goal scorer ?

Remy and Ba before him make use if their limited time. Costa is number one, that won't be changing this season, so we need the back ups to produce when they get the chance.

Remy isn't anything to do with price tag, its do to with the fact Costa is simply better. I think/hope he will rotate them around one spot while building them up for a long term partnership.

Not nesseserily, when has Jose picked a player on price tag? Furthermore Fergie made Smalling and Jones work at the Same time, don't see why we can't do the same here.

He is a young player, he is going to have good bad games and runs of form. Zouma is exactly the same, he had great games last season but also had horrific games, have you forgotten he played when Bradford wacky four past us?

They do a fair bit of pressing when required. The only player that has a complete free card when the opponents in possession is Ronaldo, and word is Benitez isn't happy and wants that to change, which will be easier said than done with the power Ronaldo has there.

I won't argue with that, as much as I prefer Azpi at LB I'm gettingfed up with Ivan I'll happily go Azpi-Baba and put Zouma or Stones next to Terry, that's three proactive defenders and JTs expierence and leadership should hopefully lead to more all round displays in that regard.

Fair enough, I was more thinking to the standard defensive work, I mean Azpi gets a lot of stick for not being brilliant going forward despite being as good as there is for pure defending yet if the wingers are questioned about their tracking back people scoff and are like why should they need to their attackers.

Are you seriously suggesting its unreasonable to ask a player to work off the ball?

He deserves respect for winning the penalty against Sunderland.

The average age of Mourinho's signings since his return has been 25.8 which includes five 22 or unders brought and put straight in the first team squad, if you count Tibos loan return its six. Could be seven soon with Stones, maybe even eight with Pogba. The average age of Pellegrinis signings is 27.3 with only one 22 or under signed and put straight into the first team squad. If Mourinho is a short term manager who only thinks of the here and now, what on earth does that make Greenie?

Cahill didn't keep Messi quiet, he was out of his depth all game.

Technical skills are something you either have or you don't, Rami probably tries, it probably bugs him a bit aswell that he isn't very good on the ball but no amount of training will improve someone with such a bad touch.

Matic before we got him back was 1000 times worse than any of those. I know he wouldn't have become as good if he stayed but seeing him put such commanding displays while we had horrendous CM trouble was gut wrenching.

Remember that time in the 50th minute against Sunderland he didn't lose the ball and found a player with his pass? I was certain he was back.

It's good that we are rectifying mistakes early, instead of trying to make it work to the detriment of the club like we did with a certain player.

We have a good balance at AM now with Pedro, Hazard, Oscar and Willian, its a long season all 4 are going to be needed. In terms of goals, Willy will probably get 5 at best, but theirs a reason he hasn't been shafted like Cuadrado and Salah.

He didn't boss Sterling, if it weren't for Tibo Liverpool would have been comfortably ahead at half time and he would have been as responsible as anyone. I'm not knocking him, he's young so he's going to have bad games but this notion he tamed Sterling isn't true. Aguero however he did very well against.