didierforever

he is playing consistently. yes, modric is injured and khedira is out of favor and illara sucks, so he gets a place in the team and at the start of the season, bale was injured so he replaced bale, but he has been playing a lot this season. he has already had 1700 minutes of play time.

realistically, it can only be a CB right now. if reus was not injured, then maybe him but that seems to be out of the window. so hopefully varane!!!

it would be a decent buy. cover for RB and CB. but with zouma/kalas/omerou, it would do nothing but take any small amount of time available to them.

we cant afford him to drop off like last season. cesc is notoriously known to drop off the pace too towards the end of the season. really needs to up his game.

courtois azpi zouma JT luis matic cesc willian oscar hazard costa.

I love DD more than life itself, but saying that lamps was selfish and DD was right is pure bullshit. The team comes first and if lamps was truly selfish then he would have taken the second pen too. I know everyone is pissed at lamps but let's not say bs like this one .

totally agree with you on the CB concern. need a WC one. but the point is who? we were linked with pique who himself sucks. otamendi has been brilliant this season. so lets see. jose has set us up to play in a certain way and i doubt he would change the whole formation and our style of play. also, jose has insisted many times that oscar is a no.10. doubt he will shift him on the wings. i personally would love a pogba/vidal and revert back to 4-3-3. but simply dont think thats a reality. so with the current formation and happenings, we really need a RW and since reus is a possiblity, we should be looking to get him.

precisely. martinez has not played consistent football for sometime and even last season, he played more as a CB than a DM. mascherano played only the WC as a DM so its just not fair to judge on a tournament. so currently matic is the best DM in the world.

this is the january transfer window thread. when you dont specify, people are going to take for the aid window. and even next window, strikers should be the least of our concerns. costa, remy and bamford are more than good enough. AM is still an area of concern. we drew against sunderland, and soton cos of lack of chances created. schurrle got owned by a 19 year old left back who was making his debut. willian's end product is generally shambolic. oscar provides balance to the team but not a lot of creativity which is required to break a proper defence. a RW is as necessary as a CB at the moment. the CM situation is pretty much under control and good with the current options of matic, cesc, rambo and mikel that we have. also, we have to consider the fee pogba would cost. a 40/50mil signing compared to say, a 20mil signing of reus if possible, is a no brainer.

and do it begins. the false hope, the general upheaval around him but on the pitch he is going to be crap as always.

my name is didierforever (i hope that is not an issue with you). and i ask the same question. who is the best DM in the world currently or who is a better DM that matic at the moment.

what has happened to him is just weird. simply seems to have lost all confidence.

why do we need a back up striker? remy has shown in whatever amount of time he has got that he is more than good enough. what we need is a proper RW to take off the load from hazard. pogba-matic in the pivot would be just out of this world and would mean cesc shifted to no.10 with oscar out of the team. but on the other hand, a hazard-oscar/willian-RW, with a pivot of cesc and matic is a world beater team too. our priority should be a proper RW.

did people even see soton vs arsenal? koscielny and world class, 2 things i never thought i would read together. grass is greener effect at its best.

good strong line up!!! hope schurrle kick starts his chelsea career. a goal atleast.

line ups? when is the match? i thought it started in an hour but the TC timer says its in 2 hours.

have you seen any football programs? take any edition of MOTD, for instance, and watch it to know what people think of him outside chelsea.

just shift ake back as a CB and zouma out wide at RB and rambo in the mid and i will be happy.

oh.. that ways. then i totally agree. infact i was glad he dint play. i mean i saw a couple of posts saying that the soton draw was his fault, i can only imagine what would have happened to him if he was on the pitch against spurs.

WHAT? i can guarantee you that with mikel starting alongside matic we would not have conceded more than 2 goals if that.

whats with all the negativity. i know the defeat to spurs is hard to take but did not expect all these comments from you dude. ps- i expect jose to give our players a rest. more mentally than physically. no need to go into this match with a "we-got-a-point-to-prove" mentality. we know how good we are, and just need to relax. also this month is another massive month with big fixtures. newcastle, swans, poolx2, city. so need to preserve players.

rambo and mikel have that effect on people. i am actually suprised that no one so far has said that mikel is to blame for yesterday's debacle.

dint deserve to be on the side that got destroyed in the way we got last night!!!

bingo!!! its actually like "fans" were just waiting for our players to slip and are now on a rampage to destroy each one of them. disgusting behaviour.