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any concrete news on aguero injury?

city had a terrible start to the season cos yaya was playing poorly. whats worse is that city got outplayed and totally dominated by a 10 men bayern which dint have lahm, tiger, muller etc. the level of difference is not much that different. i honestly cant blame mikel for yesterday. he is a squad player and has his limitations. infact matic is currently one of the best or maybe even the best DM in the world. any DM we bring in will have some shortcomings. add to his abscence the rambo injury, means we lost our backbone and our engine. any team in the world will struggle with that. our problem yesterday was not mikel, it was cesc, costa and GC. i cant remember a single time where cesc took less than 3 touches to play a simple pass. i cant remember a single effective thing done from costa (and these 2 were the reason that we were flying so high). and lets not speak about GC's performance yesterday, the lesser spoken the better. the difference is there, and that is why we have a squad of different players with different characterisitcs. matic- proper DM, shield. cesc - DLP rambo - workhorse/engine mikel - stabiliser and a very good option to close out last minutes.

Yep. But they have different strengths. Lukaku needs service while etoo can create something on his own.I watched the last minutes (10-15) of everton and hull game. It was the same story. Everton wete happy to pass the ball among themselves rather than try and cross it to lukaku in the box. In the end, there best efforts cane from a 25 yard lukaku shot and a lukaku header from a corner which hit a defender's hand and would probably havw been a goal. And this is what is suprising. If yiu have bought a 28nil striker, you should be playing to his strengths.

to be honest. lukaku was good. that volley was tremendous!!!!

fair enough. i agree that baker/boga/any attacking youth player wont start cos we have plenty of options in that department. but i do expect a couple of youngsters in defence. we are very short of options in defence and playing this amount of football is asking for injuries. wont be suprised if one of ake/christensen starts. we will line up something like this cech azpi zouma christensen/ake luis mikel rambo salah cesc schurrle remy.

i just read his posts to get a chuckle. never fails to disappoint.

cup games are important. we need a silverware. i think the desperation around here and in general with chelsea fans comes from the fact that we went trophyless last season. a league cup win will help reduce the pressure off everyone. also, matic, cesc, rambo, moutinho and mikel for 2 positions is a massive overkill. moutinho is pretty good as a DM. has a brilliant range of passing. and most importantly is pretty solid defensively.

oscar, willian, GC, JT, iva, azpi? hazard might have played every minute but players like iva, oscar, willian,azpi are the ones who put the most yards in the match. those guys deserve a rest too. and who cares about uefa? let them "punish" us. i mean, i am pretty sure we can pay a whatever fine in thrown our way. fair point about schalke, but to be honest, our players NEED the rest. also playing players like schurrle and salah, who will be trying to prove something will be better than playing a tired, ragged, uninspired hazard and willian.

city's BOOM has been since those 2 goals in the dying minutes against munich. it gave their CL campaign a lift as well as looked like a "turning point" in their season. i honestly cant see city winning or even getting a draw at roma without aguero. i think if city go out of CL, it takes out all the gathered momentum.

if this is true!!!!! then this is probably the best weekend so far!!!

i think we pretty much played a 3 man mid today. cesc-mikel-oscar oscar was way toooo deep to be counted as a no.10 today. think rambo is still "unfit" otherwise he defo would have started.

moutinho has played and does play as a DM. cant sell/loan salah and get a CM/DM as his replacement. FA cup and other cup games will give him some important playtime for sure. i remember salah starting almost all matches towards the end of the last as we were resting people for the CL games.

moutinho is an awesome player. if we can get him for 20mil, we SHOULD get him. probably sell mikel to make space in the squad.

GC should not be on the pitch. he definitely needs a rest!!!

who here has even brought up matic and mikel in the same breath???

soton vs united is in no way a given result.

no need to mince words there. he was not "one of our better players". he was the 2nd best player on the pitch after DD.

THANK YOU ARSENAL!!!! THANK YOU!!!

he can play one more year and still be IMMENSELY important!!!! what a player!!! unbelievable!!!

so GC and JT are suddenly not good enough? the pair that just had 400 minutes of football without conceding? zouma with an year's experience, kalas/omerou back from loans!!! mvg/romeu back from loans? for ST, u think remy should start ahead of a 10 goal costa and a DD who is scoring almost everytime he starts, yet we need one. RW - i agree, if we can get reus. so LOL at almost everything you have said. "real fans" - dont think we need an "OVERHAUL" after there team has gone 23 matches unbeaten in all competitions, are still TOP OF THE TABLE, in quarter finals of leage cup and have already topped their group with a game in hand!!!!

its cesc's MO. starts a season brilliantly and then tailors off. doing kind of the same thing here. probably needs a rest!!!

horrible performance today!!! probably needs a bit of rest!!!

LOLOLOL... we had not conceded a goal for over 400 minutes and yet one of our CBs was "piss" poor for a month... some people!!!

sure dude. lets drop a striker who has scored 10 goals already in PL cos he had one bad game. and replace him with a striker who was not fit for the past one month. also, we should have an OVERHAUL in the summer. ST, DM, CB, RW, as well add a new GK and a coach!!!

so we should drop costa? or play an unfit remy who was out for 1 month?