didierforever

To be fair, If barca have messi - neymar - suarez If real have CR - james- bale/isco If bayern have gotze-muller-robben-ribery-shaqiri Then we have costa-oscar- hazard-william-schurrle. What's even more baffling is that our options probbaly have the least average age among them, so for us to get reus is actually as much a luxury buy as any of the above. Infact if u think objectively, reus to bayern makes sense. Ribery and robben are both going to be on the wrong aide of 30 and shaqiri is not first team material for bayern.

Well, in that case, cech + schurrle = reus + (5-10) mil pounds.

first thing first, calculation mistake. city have a 88/100 on their first team if i am not wrong and a 133.5 on their squad. also, i feel u have massively under-rated city's bench. Dzeko is atleast an 8. Milner is atleast a 7.5 and nasri 8. Also remy can't possibly be better than dzeko and equal to jovetic. Also caballero is a very decent gk. Fernando deserves a higher rating too. i would say something like this City: Hart (8), Zabaleta (8.5), Kompany (9), Demichelis (6.5), Clichy (6), Fernandinho (7), Yaya Toure (9), Nasri (8), Silva (9), Navas (8), Aguero (9.5) Caballero (7), Kolarov (7), Mangala (6), Fernando (7.5), Milner (7.5), Dzeko (8), Jovetic (8). Overall: 88.5/110 on the pitch and 139.5/180 squad. Chelsea: Courtois (9), Ivanovic (8), JT (8), Cahill (8), Azpilicueta (8), Matic (9), Fabregas (9), Hazard (9), Oscar (8), Willian (7), Costa (9) Cech (8.5), Luis (7), Zouma (5.5), DD (6), Ramires (7.5), Schurrle (7), Remy (7). overall : 140.5/180 for squad and 92/110 on the pitch but agree with what u said overall. the squads are equally good but our manager makes us 10 times better.

does he play as a LB or a LW. i have seen bayern just a couple times or maybe thrice. everytime i saw them, alaba and bernat played together on the left with bernat play higher up.

our part is simple - to make a couple of bucks. why did he accept the contract - i dont know.

disagree. GC was tracking balo but as soon as he sees can shooting he slows down to block the shot. pretty evident in the video in the first 2 seconds itself. agree that JT should have moved up and stood in front of can.

Totally agree.Defensively he has not shown to be anywhere as good as azpi. If attack is the reason he shiuld be selected, then our first xhoice LB just gave a wonderful assist against pool at antsfield. Currently, we are playing our 2 best FBs.

Its shocking how under the radar both he and moses have flown. Both have been absolutely brilliant. I miss TOPTB, the person who used to say that RB was a bottom of the table or at best, mid table LB. Guess what soton is 2nd and RB has looked every bit a top top top dfender. Probably the 2nd best LB in the league after azpi. So gutted that he dint get a proper run in last season. Cole was in disastorous form and yet was played every game in the start of the season. Moreover RB looks like ajose player. Solid defender, brilliant workrate, and gives his 100% for the team every time on the pitch. Think he couls have been given the luis role this season considering luis is our 3rd choice full back, cost 16 mil and is 29 years old already. I think jose missed a step here.

Very true. I read the book "made in portugal". He seems a very dedicated fanily man.

Clearly you have not watched moses play for stoke.

gc was yards off gerrard with willian right beside him (who actually should have put pressure). in this scenario, GC could not possibly have tried to close him down. also when the shot is taken with gerrard, as a defender your main priority HAS to be to block it. that too in the last minute. now, again, i am not saying block it in the way GC did, but the "intent" from GC was absolutely perfect. while long shots might not go in, they can be parried by the GK and scored as a loose ball. or some of the long shots can be defelected in by opposition strikers (most of di maria's assits, ). also, in one of the posts, someone "faulted" GC for the first goal. what was JT's first instinct? he tried to block the shot. the only difference, GC got their but unluckily deflected it in.

No thank u. Dont want salah startibg against bayern or rm or atm or barca in a CL semi final or quater final and that ia exactly what will happen if we sell schurrle and get reus.

dont understand why we should be looking to buy him. 29 years old, will cost 15-20mil, same skill set as cesc, but a level or 2 below. if people want youth to be promoted, these kind of luxury buys are exactly what we dont need. we have cesc - ball playing CM matic - one of the best DMs in the game at this moment rambo - workrate, engine and the perfect squad player to fill in for the above 2 whenever required, also a necessity in big games. and to some extent, even mikel - brilliant in closing out games. also, it would make no sense for cabaye himself to sit on the chelsea bench/reserves from the psg bench. he will only face demotion here.

15 in 15 if you count the galatasaray goals in the emirates cup. 2 goals in the 2005 community shield 1 goal in 2005 PL 2 goals in the league cup final 2 goals in PL 2008 1 goals in PL 20081 goal in FA cup SF 2009 2 goals in PL 2009 2 goals PL feb 2010 1 goal PL october 2010 2 goals in emirates cup 2013. so basically 15 in 15 with all teams in all competitions. still does not change the fact that the arsenal right now is simply LAUGHABLE!!! poor sanchez.

arsenal was the club i used to hate the most, now i just laugh at them!!!!

i love watching arsenal fan TV after arsenal's shit result!!!!

and those are both laughable buys for the said sum. how much did benatia go for? value for money is hard to find in today's market but 20mil for lovren was just stupid.

totally disagree. a defender cant simply let a shot go thru. to say that the first goal was a mistake is blasphemy to me. how many blocks were there in this one match. johnson alone had 3 off hazard. GC could not possibly have known courtois' position. he had to attempt to block. its has to be the primary objective of any defender of trying to block a shot (atleast thats what was taught to us). u have to play the percentages here. deflected shots are one in 10 but the rest are blocked by the defenders. and that is what he was doing. simply cant fault GC for that.

he is a "good" defender. no doubt about it. but during the window, there were a few people who actually thought that 20mil was justified and a couple even said that it was a bargain which was bollocks!!! for 20mil, u should be getting a WC defender or atleast a "potentially" wc defender. lovren is nothing of that sort.

totally agree that he should be going with his feet (said so too). the execution was poor but not the intention (which is what u were questioning in the first post). a defender should always be looking to block a shot unless 100% sure that the GK will get it which GC could not have been sure of.

simple thought process, be the main line of defence and always think of the worst case scenario. GC did exactly that though not very well. i think he had enough time to actually move rather than move just his upper body.

people actually think this might happen? seriously??? LOL a CB who is kept out of the team by a 5 foot10 DM is our replacement for JT? and i read somewhere that JT is over and GC is not that good to begin with, well thats an awesome opinion about one of the best CB partnership in the world right now.

the most over rated keeper in the world. cant believe people actualy say he is a top5 gk.

azpi just gave a wonderful assist against pool at antsfield.

without a doubt iva/azpi as FBs. no doubt about it.