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but the article says that fifa will make a decision before the transfer window about the appeal. "CAS says it will give a fast-track verdict before the transfer window opens in January." so, i think, as of now the ban stands.

also, i simply dont get the fascination of reus in the WINTER. he is NOT making us stronger. we are more than capable of winning the PL without reus as we are showing. by jan, we will be (hopefully) out of sight of the chasing pack. so its basically reus for FA cups and PL dead rubbers? instead, if we buy him in summer, he gets time to acclimitize (something which is always a problem with most of the winter signings). plus we strengthen our squad without sacrificing anything.

again? i dont think so dude. http://news.yahoo.com/barcelona-gets-date-fifa-transfer-ban-appeal-133428245.html

tell me what salah has done playing FOR us rather than against us. ultimately, we are down to makeshift RW in rambo and remy with absolutely no bench strength against teams like RM and bayern (oh wait, u think salah is the egyptian messi, ). also, schurrle started in the super cup match against bayern and played wonderfully. schurrle played a massive role against PSG, so ya, i definitely see schurrle being used against the like of madrid and barca. also, in all those cases, our bench options are remy and salah, against the likes of madrid, bayern etc etc... very ideal. i would love the scenario of us needing a goal at stamford bridge, and bringing in salah, would fill me with so much confidence. also in all these scenarios, we have 4 constant players (costa, rambo, matic, cesc) with no leeway whatsoever in that. last season during the QFs and SFs, we had etoo injured, hazard injured, oscar in a rut. yet we are willing to sacrifice schurrle and go into the main phase of CL.

a genuine question are not barca banned from transfer activities for a year? or is it that they can not buy players but sell them!!!

are u having some problem understanding english? its very simple? first of all, schurrle is a very good player. the only reason people are jumping on his back are cos he has been in a rut. the schurrle which played for germany in world cup is a quality player. something which you obviously dont think so,, so that tells me something about u. and the fact that u would use salah before schurrle. :lol: thats just hilarious. also, us buying matic had nothing to do with our CL campaign. matic was a player who was brought to strengthen the overall team and be the spine of the team in coming years, which is proving to be the difference. who did we sell to buy an matic, essien? u think essien would have made ANY difference to our CL campaign last year. the fact that you equated the matic acquisition to the reus-schurrle situation tells me that u r absolutely clueless and have next to no clue of what i am even saying. lastly "btw, I would rather have Ramires play as a RW against quality teams in CL than Schurrle, Schurrle is medicore in attack and horrible in defense. and also at this form, I would use salah before schurrle too, also Remy can play as a RW." sure dude. i mean ya... great.

have not heard that interview. could not find it either. can you post a link.

We plau 3 at the front away from home. At home, we play with 4 in the front. Also my assumption is not that willian will get injured but that any of the 3 (willian/hazard/oscqr) might get injured. So tell me what exactly had happened against PSG last year? That's right, hazard got injured, we were chasing a 3-1 deficit and needed quality upfront which schurrle and his goal provided. So u see, its really not that unrealistic. Infact, the scenario has already happened. Also, rambo is used as a RW when we need to be conservative. He is not used as an out an out attacking midfielder. He is not an opt option in the case we are chasing a gane.

i dint. thats why i capitalized "GOOD". sorry if it disappoints you, but i dont want salah starting against RM/ATM/barca/bayern in a CL semi final cos one of hazard/oscar/willian were injured.

oh really? so me caring about our Champions league campaign this season is a terrible statement!!! i see!!! well unfortunately, we can get reus in the summer too, but a chance to do a quadruple or a chance to win the league and champions league double does not come every year and that is exactly what we could be aiming for. i expect the league to be a formality by feb/march which will give us the time to rest our key players for CL matches, something to definitely dont expect every year, do you. so as i see it, CL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>reus!! as for schurrle scoring an important goal, he did that against city at etihad,

reus will be CUP tied. unavailable for CL if we get him. so we literally will have only oscar, hazard and willian with no backups. or atleast no GOOD backups.

Ban the others?

Dude, I am saying the same thing. Its the defenders main job to act as the last line of defence.

You know exactly how poor a player is when someone brings in torres into the argument.

Defenders shouldn't do that with long shots imo. Bar the rare blazing shots they can't save, long shots are for the GK to deal with. Instead, anticipate any balls parried back into play. In the post I quoted from DYC. Also a couple of posts from cholo and rob.

10-15mil and he is yours.

I don't think so. Majority of the people on here dint want him.Even the link u have supplied, its pretty evident.

Just watch minute 75 to minute 80. We had 4 blocks in 5 minutes. Once henderson plays it to gerrard who shoots, JT blocks it brilliantly and the ball goes to halfway line to skrtel who plays quickly again and half a minute later JT blocka balo's Defenders HAVE to try and block the shots. They have to consider themselves as the last line of defence and think about the worst case scenario.

I don't want any additions in the winter window unless we are getting one of messi, CR, vidal, bastian. This will be specially tru if we are 10+ points ahead of the chasing pack ans the way things have gone, I think we ll be 10+ points ahead easily. Buying a cup tied player like reus would compromise our CL ambitions (considering its a swap). So hopefully we do that transfer in the summer. Summer outs - cech, mark, mikel, salah, Dd, schurrle, bertrand, kakuta. Summer ins - good 2nd GK (guzan), reus, bamford(loan return), moses (loan return). Squad Courtois, 2nd GK, beeney/blackman (Hg) JT (HG), GC (HG), zouma (u21), azpi, iva, luis, ake (HG), ? Matic, cesc(Hg), rambo, romeu/mvg, ? Oscar, hazard, willian, reus, moses(Hg), ? Costa, remy, banford (Hg)

I disagree. Schurlle is a brilliant cover for hazard oscar and willian. Most importantly, he has a knack of scoring important and vital goals. Goals which can totally change the match. Now, if we buy reus and give schurlle and any one of hazard, oscar or willian get injured, we are straight down to salah or rambo on the wings. Thats a massive step down, in my opinion.

so when are we looking to buy him? this winter? cos that would mean sacrificing our CL ambitions.

moses played one season for us (2012-13) and was our best player in europa league. admitedly, we dont ever want to be in that competition again, but he played his part to perfection, the part of a squad player. any squad player would kind of frustrate fans. they want to show that they have the quality to make it in the first 11, additional pressure of knowing that they have no margin of error and lack of match fitness sometimes, expecting a player to bring his A game after sitting on the bench for a month. still, he showed he had what it takes to be in the chelsea squad, whats more, he was one of our best players in the 2013-14 pre-season and yet he was loaned out. and then we sell two of the players for whom he was loaned and buy an 11 million player who is in no world as good as him. after wigan, this is the only time he has got an extended run in a team, and he is showing what he is capable of. (also, i dont blame moses for his failure at pool. if u play a right winger as a CAM in a 3-4-1-2 system and play henderson on the RW, i hardly think its moses who is the main culprit).

gundogan?????? When was the last time he took field!!! In what world is gundogan or alcantara better than iniesta???

ramires will like to have a word with u in that case.

agreed. my mistake for calling it a "luxury" buy, but even in bayern's case, it is hardly a luxury buy. ribery has not set the pitch on fire for a year now and is definitely on a decline. bernat is playing the wings (i think) and reus would seem a perfect replacement. to call them pigs for it is uncalled for.