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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.

Don't give me any shit about him not being given a chance when he was here. He was given enough to stake his claim at the start of the season. He was utterly abysmal against fucking Swindon Town in the League Cup and that, justifiably, saw him lose his place full-time to Willian, who hit the ground running.
I have no regrets in us selling him. There's no way we could have known he was going to develop into the player he has, but he certainly wouldn't have at Chelsea. It's like the Matic situation - he went to a smaller club and got the necessary game time to develop. If he arrives in England and is absolutely outstanding, then fair play to the boy, but he was nothing special when he was at Chelsea and whilst he has clearly improved, he simply isn't a £60m player. If he's given the game time and the chance to develop, he could turn into an excellent acquisition in the long-term, but I think anyone expecting him to tear the league to pieces immediately will be left disappointed.
But when you're competing with Hazard and Willian, you're not going to get into the team unless you're an outstanding talent. At the minute, as much as I have been impressed with KdB in the Bundesliga, I'd rather have Pedro, without any question, based on his compatibility with our team's system and Mourinho's philosophy. No way is this kid, who is totally unproven in the PL, worth the amount of money City are investing. He's a massive risk, and right now, I'd say Sterling is better value for money.

I never said you broke any rules mate, and neither did I by quoting you and responding to your post.
If I cause attention from members for what I wrote then I acomplished my goal, and my goal is always to try and add to the quality of this forum no matter how I do it. If it means getting you angry for 5 seconds but reducing the amount of idiotic posts I've seen in the last couple of weeks, then by all means I'll piss you off because you will cool off fast and the quality of forum will still remain higher. If the roles were reversed and you did the same, I would approve it and have no problems with it.
By simply writing here what I've tried to point out without quoting anybody, my post would quickly be suffocated by the other ones and wouldn't be really aimed toward Eden. Nothing personal bud

So the legend that is Cech lost his place to a keeper that is not that great. Stick to your twitter feeds smh, this is getting worse every season.

That is going to happen a lot, isn't it?

Jezus fucking Christ, what has this forum come to. Let's sell Hazard and Fabregas because they are out of form, let's fire Mourinho and Courtois cause they have bad bodylanguage and/or are cocky. Hell, fire the lot of them and let's buy Barcelona! Hurray!
Fickle lot being a bunch of reddit virginfaggots sometimes. Get a grip, neckbeards!

Erm, did you actually read what he said?

Judging players based on pre-season? Oh dear.

I agree with your point. But Eden himself has stressed his desire to score more on more than a couple of occasions. He definitely has the talent and vision to combine that thirst for scoring goals without sacrificing his natural game. He can work on his shooting for example to improve in this area. He seems to have trouble combining accuracy with real power. When he goes for accuracy, aiming for the corners, his shots tend to lack power. It's weird how he's hit some screamers out of reach for the GK with his left foot though.
I don't expect him to hit Messi numbers but 25 goals and +/-15 assists is something he can aim for and achieve I think.

Lol you are giving a lot of what-if scenarios mate.
I can only speak on what I know, and I know Remy is good enough to run the show for a few weeks. I also know our defense and midfield is what our titles are won on, and I don't see that out if Costa is out or have a slight dip in form.

I don't see any reason to be concerned. I think it's more possible he just put his hand there because he knew he had a bad match (finishing wise) and was trying to save some face rather than being really injured. Chill people

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KDB > Mourinho for some people lol. Pathetic!

if he did not want to fight for his place and just wanted to be an automatic starter then good riddance.

A lot of people - me included - have been saying that the reason he asked to leave is because he needs to be THE guy in a team. He needs to have free reign, be assured of his importance. I'd love to see him in a team filled with stars. His problem isn't even about only being a titular in the starting XI, it's entirely about having a team around him. As Mourinho said, it doesn't make him a bad guy or player, it's the way he is, but don't try to pretend many people weren't saying that was what was going on mostly based on what Kevin had said himself (as Mourinho hasn't said much about it). He had made it crystal clear he needs to be star #1 in a team, or at most #2, otherwise, he gets frustrated and it affects his play, simple as that.
It doesn't mean though Mourinho shouldn't have given him what he wanted, maybe he was worth the exception, but when I look to Belgium NT where he is the star and not Hazard and when I look to Chelsea where Mourinho chose to make Hazard the team's star, I don't have many doubts about what the right decision in this situation was given the scenario Kevin needs to perform his best.
Yep.

I hate the obsession with 'big game player's'.
In reality no one plays to their full potential very often for long periods in big games, not even Messi, the high quality on display makes it almost impossible.

Do you seriously believe Chelsea signed Falcao just because JT/Cahill told Mourinho to do so?

Wow some crazy overreaction on here
If we had been a bit sharper in the first half we could have gone in with a 3 to 4 goal lead.
1st half was pretty decent football IMHO
The second half predictably had changes and then the rhythm of the team died and the opposition rode their luck well.
I care more about the first 45 minutes - it was a decent performance by some of the 'fringe' players and has given me plenty of optimism for the forthcoming games.
No need to slate players and every keeper has a debut like that in them - better it happens now - than at a crucial point in the season ahead
We all know the team responds better to defeat than victory - so a nice wake up call ahead of PSG.
But don't fool yourselves - the season will only begin when the EPL starts - I'm not sure we'll bother too much for the Charity Shield either.

See? Even Jose is pointing out how fat he's gotten!
PS: This place seems to have painfully lost its sense of humor...

It's all about working towards fitness, people should know better than this and stop the ready to commit suicide posts.

Game means absolutely nothing it's a ducking preseason game everyone relax

What the fuck am I reading :lol:

Are you fucking serious?! Half a preseason game and it's all doom? Get a life!

Even though our current squad does need improvement in certain area, Mourinho isn't going to panic over one defeat in pre-season, especially with the NY Red Bulls game being our first. We did lose 3-0 to Werder Bremen last year after all.
But if we also lose to PSG, Barcelona, Arsenal and even Fiorentina...