didierforever

i think, the dance should be on this song. with similar steps.

teams?

Amount spent by TOP CL teams for the current squad. Real Madrid - 565m euros Man City - 430m euros PSG - 410.m euros Chelsea - 375m euros Barcelona - 350m euros Liverpool - 296m euros Arsenal - 288m euros Bayern Munich - 264m euros Juventus - 209m euros Atletico Madrid - 153m euros Borussia Dortmund - 143m euros Roma - 130m euros

cavani!!!

Yup.Gomez was pathetic. Reus was poor. Draxler and him were pretty good but after podolski came in, zabaleta kind of owned podolski there.

Definitely has the potential to be as great as DD for us.

fair enough. but against big teams and specially against teams like everton who are quick in their passin and against whom we will have to do our share of defending, ramb-matic will be much better option. also, while cesc's strength would be playing deep, he would be a great no.10 too. while oscar gives us workrate, cesc would give us clinicality in that role.

cool finish. germany fetting trounced 4-1 though.

has been poor in the friendly so far. very unlike reus-performance.

we were playing lampard as a DM. ofcourse rambo's role was going to be more defensive than attacking. and i think belgianutt confirmed what i thought he wanted to say (in the last post he made). and i think thats a fair assessment. as for rambo's runs, i think those will be a different story this season because last season, rambo had a very conservative role to play most of the times which makes sense with lamps. secondly cesc is on a level of his own when we talk about making passes for runners. oscar is a player who likes to be on the ball, rambo is someone who can make those runs which cesc can feed to.

maybe and honestly, i dont care about that. just wanted to point out that you were overly-critisizing rambo. rambo had a stellar first half of the season.

i dont remember every game but just out of curiosity, i went on whoscored and checked the stats of our first matches. against hull - 7.7 (3rd highest - only lamps and oscar higher (both goal scorers)) against villa - 7.5 (2nd only to iva (goal scorer)) against united - 6.6 against everton - 7.4 (highest rating) against fulham - 8.0 (joint 2nd with mikel, oscar was 1st (both goalscorers)) against spurs - 6.7 (used on the RW in the 1st half if i remember correctly) norwich - 7.7 (2nd only to oscar-7.9 who was a goal scorer) cardiff - 7.1 city - 7.5 (2nd only to torres (goal scorer) and i think this rating is massively under-rating how brilliant rambo was on that day, had yaya in his pocket all night long) newcastle - 6.1 whu - 8.0 soton - 8.2 (joint first with JT (goal scorer)) sunderland - 7.8 (joint 2nd with lamps. EH got a 10 rating) stoke - 6.5 palace - 8.0 (2nd only to willian-8.1) arsenal - 6.6 (2nd only to lamps in our front 6. since it was a 0-0, only fair that defence get high ratings) swansea -7.4 pool - dint play soton - 7.7 hull -6.7 united - 6.9 well this confirms what i always thought about rambo last season. he was our best or second best (to oscar) until the change of the year. infact both he and oscar who were our best players really lost form during jan and never regained it, which really hurt our PL chances. add to that rambo lack of discipline, people tend to OVER-EXAGERATE about how "poor" he was all thru the season whereas the truth is far far far from it. he had a bad 2nd half. thats it.

just like barb and lechels doing it with rambo?

i would say that would be the exact thinking of playing RAMBO-MATIC. freeing fabregas. this match was a one-off. everton were 2-0 down in 3 minutes and played exactly like they should, "a nothing to lose mentality". we are not going to have many matches where our mid gets dominated this way and almost all of our 3 mids have an off-day defensively.

Ramires has a handful of good matches, i read... yet people are arguing that OSCAR of all people is better.

the point is he is not HG. so i dont see jose using him as the 6th AM here. which makes his options lesser. can he replace any of our currently 5 AMs or most importanly and realistically salah.

i think BAKER would be the player who gets some playtime and takes that position vacated by MVG.

2004-05 : outgoing = 94.45 incoming= 2.2 net = 92.25 2005/06 Incomings: £58.4m Outgoings: £22.6m Net spend: +£35.8m 2006-07: outgoing = 68.5mil incoming = 31 net = 37.5mil 2007/08 Incomings: £18.5m (Summer window only) Outgoings: £29.14m (Summer window only) Net spend: -£10.64m 2013-14 Incomings : 108.4m Outgoing: 56.1 Net spend: 52.3mil 2014/15 Incomings: £85.3m Outgoings: £85.2m Net spend: +£0.1m Total Net spend = 207.31m United: Incomings: 152 (including Falcao loan) Outgoing : 30.3 Net spend = 123.3 84mil is a LOT of money if you spend it WISELY. look at us, we had a total spending of 85mil this season and our squad has to be one of the BEST on the world right now. This is taking nothing away from the business our board has done since that fateful deadline day in 2011 where we bought torres and luiz. they have been brilliant. but that stat is definitely misleading.

The move to the iva goal was started by a good cross field ball by rambo to costa if I am not mistaken. So what if iva was off? Has the score changed to 5-3? I am not saying that we would not have won without oscar or that he won't play this season. Just saying that oscar is not as unique or as wanted defensively as they are making him out to be.

You do realize that rambo scored one and assisted 2 right. As for the current theme of thw topic, the match was a one-off. Matic was as much tp be blamed as rambo and cesc for giving poor cover in the center and even hazard for giving NO cover to azpi. We have been defensively set up without oscar starting in 3 matches- man city away, liverpool away and ATM away. In defensive organization, nothing beats those matches. All of them without oscar. I have no doubt that cesc and rambo would have got an earful from jose about their defensive contribution.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/10768827/Manchester-Citys-wage-bill-is-highest-in-world-sport.html seriously think that they are going to go from 8 to somewhere equivalent to barca and RM. also could not agree more about everything else.

its not just about bony playing only when costa is injured or has to be rested. its also about giving costa a fight for his space. any and every striker in the world will go thru a rough patch. even messi did last season. in such a scenario, bony would have be a great inclusion. also, bony is technically superior than remy. has a higher ceiling and would have been more than just a stop gap and probably even a good long term 2nd striker solution. 25mil is a LOT. no doubt. but with bony it would probably have been worth the risk.

i read in the last page that lloris is better than cech!!! lloris? seriously? the keeper who makes a mistake every other game. his distribution is downright pathetic. about 4-5 goals the spurs conceded last season were cos his distribution. his shot stopping is no where near as good as cech. he is a brilliant sweeper though but barely changes the fact that he is so error prone.

agree with everything you have said. he was a good buy and would be a good back up option. buying welbeck (who i dont think is a goal-scorer and barely any better than remy) for 16mil (or more) would have been poor. same i think goes for chicha. except for that, there were not many options available, specially for the amount of 10mil, and as good as remy. the only name i can come up with is bony. admitted that he would have been 20+mil. but feel with the luiz and lukaku deals, we could have afforded to go bigger. nonetheless, remy will make do perfectly.

58mil pounds in a year. 58 fucking million pounds... just insane!!!!!!!1