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4-2-3-1 against smaller teams, fluidly converting in a 4-1-4-1 in attack. cech/courtois azpi GC JT luis matic cesc willian oscar hazard costa 4-3-3 against big teams with rambo in for oscar or maybe the same tactics as against city with rambo on the wings, willian thru the center.

never ever thought this would happen. would be interesting to see how jose employs him since he has a lot of deficiencies, but there is absolutely no countering what he brings to us. his vision, passing will be a massive upgrade, would be a proper link between our AMs and the defence. passing range is unquestionable. also he gives us a lot of versatility. playing 4-1-4-1, 4-2-3-1, or 4-3-3 with rambo. good transfer though, cant complain. have to simply forget the past!!!

oh ya, i forgot, my bad!!! but there was a lot of other things written too.. also, we have 2 months to wait and watch and see who we will buy. for me sif we dont sell any of GC, JT, iva, azpi, zouma, we simply wont buy a new CB!!!!

So since he has not played in european competitions it means he is not good enough? Even suarez has not played in CL. Also how was there no one better available. RM has BOUGHT varane and played him despite having the option of literally buying any CB they want. They arr RM, they don't even need to be picky. Varane was a jose buy just like zouma is. With the mata and kdb sales plus the impending sale of DL (everyone knew he was on his way out with the time he was getting in defence and the price that was being quoted, even barca at 30mil £ was a good sale). We could have bought almost anyone but chose zouma, cos the manager trusts him.

oh... so bertrand traore is in a better position to play for chelsea since he is an international starter for burkina faso while zouma is not?? varane was bought from lens. a french team. had not played an international match until then, he turned out to be a jose favourite!!!

IF zouma goes out on loan!!! but he is not going!!! going by zouma's current statements, jose thinks he is ready and will be a part of the squad. salah was bought from the swiss league which is lower than the french league, yet he played a good enough role in our PL campaign towards the end.

i dont think arbeloa is even in the spain squad!!!

i was here along with KOJO. one of the few "good" posters here. hard to find them these days!!!

mikel in la liga is a recipe for disaster IMO. he is much more suited, infact PERFECT for the italian league.

we had CBs - JT, GC, DL, iva RBs - iva, azpi LBs - azpi, cole for the whole of the last season. jose simply does not like to tinker with his back 5 unless absolutely necessary. and the same thing will be done next season. zouma replaces DL, luis/rodriguez replaces coleand we are pretty much done. no need to "beef" up or infact to much with the defence.

not even close to what rambo gives us!!! i expect rambo to be played in a 3 man mid when we play deep against big teams away. or on the right wing to shut off those wings. rambo's versatality wont be covered by paulinho. infact i expect rambo to be a continous 60th minute or a 70th minute substitute, to close off the game, dont think paulinho is very suited for that role too. i mean a 3 man mid of paulnho - matic -cesc is asking for trouble in the last minutes since 2 of those are not really known for their defensive work.

so...... after WC then!!!

we bought him for 12mil for a reason. and definitely not to loan him. and even if zouma goes on loan, we have omerou. CB - JT, GC, iva, zouma RB - azpi, iva LB - RR/FL, azpi. we dont need another CB.

people will believe ANYTHING just for a moment's satisfaction!!!

obviously zouma. i mean we bought him for 12mil pounds, and he should give us good cover. plus u need 6 "good" defenders ATLEAST in the squad over the season. JT, GC, iva, azpi, luis, zouma is the minimum.

The transfer window has not even opened yet!!!! Talk about childish overreactions.

mvg was already in jose's plans for the last season. he was going to be integrated slowly and i expect him to have a good enough role to play next season. romeu will be sold or loaned considering on whatever offer comes our way. he is not homegrown and the 5th DM spot HAS to go to a HG player since we dont have any except for (GC, JT, and now cesc). chalobah will most probably be our 5th DM and will be a good enough option. so realistically i expect matic, cesc, rambo, mvg and chalobah which is very decent and a massive upgrade on last season's rambo, lamps, mikel, mvg, essien.

mvg, chalobah...

the transfer window has not even started. the united board are going to make FAR worse decisions than 160k for shaw!!! trust in them!!!

i specifically said, torres and ba. there was not anything about a loan until etoo came in towards the end of the window (specially with him missing the penalty). again, in no way am i impying that he chose well to go out on loan, infact i hated that move, but i am not going to hang a sword over his head JUST for that ONE THING. and thats what jose's is for!!! IF jose dint trust lukaku to be useful, he would have already sold him. we would not have risked his selling proce (at about 20-25mil) right now on his WC performances. i mean, jose did sell kdb!!! you are faulting lukaku and doubting his "attitude" for asking to go on a loan. fair enough. i am giving him the benfit of doubt and looking at the positive that he had the guts and the right attitude to lead an everton team and be successful in it. i am simply not going to ignore all his other good attributes like the goal scoring, the potential, the talent cos he made one poor judgement call.

he believed that last year cos he WAS without a doubt our best striker ahead of torres and ba. now we are talking with costa in our roster. 2 very different things. also, i hope he gets matured with age and knows his limits. easy for a 20 year old striker scoring 17 goals to think that he would be the alpha man at a club with a major striker issue. he has said that he loves the club and would like to stay and play here for a long time. i dont see u quoting that. infact has he said, he wants out? i dont think so!!! its basically the media twisting his poorly chosen and said words into a big story.

the 10-15 starts were promised thinking we would get falcao/cavani/rooney. not getting a good striker pegged us back MASSIVELY. specially the rooney saga. rooney or some of those strikers would have directly made us into title favourites but not having them made it into a transitional season. that was the difference. jose needed to instill a system in the teamand get a top 4 spot (which as he said plenty of times, was our main objective and then we were in a title race). but the instill the system part became the most important part. also, the cup competitions (where u would have thought kalas to get his major oppurtunities) became massively important cos he knew that our best shot at silverware was those competitions. also, how do u INTEGRATE youth into a system that is non existent. to integrate youth u need to have a team that is well balanced, well oiled. a team like barca cos they have that system. this was NOT a season for "youth" integration. it was a season of finding our own feet, getting our own identity. also, if i remember correctly, we had a HUGE squad to start with. 3 strikers, 6 AMs (that was always going to be overkill), 5 CMs/DMs, 3 well established CBs and 4 fullbacks, where were the youth supposed to get a chance. the first half of the season was to test those existing playerss. u cant expect him to give players like baker or rlc starts ahead of essien and mikel or give swift a start ahead of kdb. as for kalas, jose likes a consistent and solid defence. he does not like to tinker much with his back 4 since his whole system is depended upon defensive solidity. hence, i simply dont get the need to imply that our manager has no balls like zolayes did. ??? i dont get the hypocritical part, infact i really dont get that part.!!! as for spellings and grammar, i try to do my best. what comes off it is well....

see, its literally like u r holding a grudge against him. i just hope our manager is not for the sake of the club. again, even if lukaku had asked for a transfer, our managr decided to keep him, probably setting him a challenge of leading the everton team and he successfully did that (i believe anyone asking for a transfer from jose will get a transfer and a mighty big, kick on the backside along with it). even if lukaku had asked for the transfer, as of this moment he is still a chelsea player. a player who gave a statement that he loves the club and wants to stay there and 3 days later he said, there are some good strikers at chelsea, plus they are some coming thru so that would mean i am going out. and then he also said that the club knows where i stand. the guy has a big mouth and that we can all agree. but why would he say he the first thing if he had already made up his mind to get a transfer. lukaku cant be so naive to believe that he CURRENTLY can be a starter ahead of costa. he cant be naive enough to think that he SHOULD be getting that 1st striker role. IF he does, then good bye and no cribbing. but as of right now, there is nothing of that. yet, u have already made up your mind on this thing.

dint.

wasted? playing, learning and training with the likes of JT, i would not call it wasted!!!! if kalas was deemed good enough by jose to start games ahead of a MASSIVELY successful partnership between JT_GC (which even DL could not get thru), i am sure he would have started. its not like a 21 year old salah dint start, or a 21 year old oscar was not made the pinnacle of our system, or he dint trust a 20 year old lukaku with taking the final penalty kick in the super cup. but ya, keep on bashing for the smallest of the reasons available. i mean it was not like we had a striker problem and our most important strength was our defensive solidity. who am i debating with!!! these same people going on about "youth" would have been the first people on jose's throat if that had backfired (just like they are at the moment).