didierforever

lets hope he comes then.

makes sense but only if the CM we get is vidal/pogba and maybe even witsel. but i feel it is extremely improbable to get them. 40-50mil for a CM would not be in our budget. moreover dont think vidal/pogba would want to make a move here when they basically are walking the seriea. the CM i think we could get would be someone like rakitic or even kroos. while they would be immense against teams that will defend deep against us, rambo would be important when needed to do the dirty work. mikel does not provide us with that aspect though u r spot on in saying that mikel as a squad player would be a wonderful sub to bring on and shore up the mid.

i thought shaw was done. moreover dont see how we can top a 30mil, 100kpw and first team offer.

IVA.

why would u sell rambo but keep mikel?

i did take that into consideration. the stat said 16,7 mil. hazard's transfer fee =32mil for 5 years = 6.4 mil per year. so salary = 16.7-6.4 = 10.3mil which is close to 198kpw.

jose's to blame? for what? for setting us up perfectly?

nothiing... absolutely NOTHING that jose has said is wrong. it was the same EXACT THING that most of us were saying yesterday. the importance of being a team player cant be lost even if u r eden hazard. simple as that.

that "truly" is depressing... how the fuck did that happen.

this seems better than what the poster above u wrote.... "no tactical wins" so lets just play stupid football.

the more i think about it, the more i feel that, lets just go out their and play carefree. schwarzer azpi GC kalas cole matic salah oscar schurrle ba etoo.

ummm.... nope... not possible... this stat means that hazard is earning 198kpw. which even dailymail would say is high.

ttttttttoooooooooooooooooo early to say this. end of transfer window or atleast start of the season will be the best time to say the expectations. but one thing is for sure. our MAIN priority should be the league. dont care about CL, we should be winning the PL.

i am sorry to say this then, that hazard does not "deserve" to start at this big a stage for a team that basically oozes defence out of its every pour. we play in a system that has been set out by our coach and every player of this squad has a role in that "system" and no one, NO ONE is exempt from that. we sold our twice POTY cos he could not adjust to our philosophy. defence is the hardest thing to do in football. 90 minutes of PERFECT play and all right calls and decision making can be hopelessly spoiled by a moment's laziness. that is what happened yesterday. for the 1st goal, hazard saw the runner, but thought that the ball was going out and simply dint track him, it had NOTHING to do with 1. his injury, 2. his match fitness, 3, his defensive prowess. even if hazard had tracked him back and only tried to shield the ball from him, it would definitely have gone from a goalkick. as in the attacking half on the match, he was decent. as i told stingray, i may have gone over-board cos of "haranr's" persistence, but that simply does not and will never give exclude him for doing the dirty side of the work for us too. Was this truly a good game for him? No. But considering the context he did rather well and was far from one of our worse players. Nor was he the only one making defensive errors. And if there's one guy that doesn't need to be criticised to harshly for a defensive error, it's the team's attacking talisman. Who made it possible for us to be at these stages of competitions. Does that mean he shouldn't get any blame. No. But let's not get crazy either. Or are we letting ourselves get mad because he said we are better at counter attacking and compared us to a CL finalist and favourite? Cause that'd just be plain silly. how did he do well when he has made the most basic mistake which renders our whole system incompetent. "do not let an opposition player get behind the defence". twice. also, no one is going crazy here. but if u keep saying, hazard is awesome and should have no blame whatsoever, people are going to get over u. he can say what he wants, i ll prefer to judge him on what he does on the field.

Too ideal.

I know. But how do u talk to a person whose only reply to whatever argument u give is "hazard is awesome, he played well!!!!"

he was able to force what exactky? 2 goals for ATM? he had the biggest positive impact only for ATM. he dint need to do everything alone. just play for the team. do your job. he dint.

those might very well be our midfield options for the next season. would not mind it.

and a player of his ability was unable to force anything on the game. fact. fact, he failed to track his man for 1st and 3rd goal. fact. he barely had a positive impact on the match despite being double/triple or quadrupled marked. fact. hence your statement that he was our best attacking player is simply WRONG.fact.

he is currently playing and THULPING as a box to box. have not seen much but saw sevilla's win over RM and a couple of their europa matches. he would seem to be perfect alongside matic.

willian was given space???? so tell me how many inches or centimetres of space was willian given when he was fighting for the ball surrounded by 3 (i think) atm players.

paulinho is an upgrade on rambo but no where near the ball playing player we want to accompany matic for next season. since he is a spurs cunt, his price anyways goes up, so i will say for the same amount of money, rakitic is a 10 times better option.

no he was not . willian was. as shown by the goal.

there are not many times i say this but thank u TOPTB.

jose was not at all wrong to go with this squad. we had an objective which jose continously shouted over the roof tops. it was to achieve top 4, and then top 3. he, our board knew the squad's strengths. with players like willian and schurrle everyone said that they were luxury signings. that could not have been any further from the truth. wilian and schurrle were jose players, not kdb and mata. like u said, jose wanted to set up a philosophy. we have a system to play in NOW. getting a good striker would have helped us definitely but in the end we would have had to sacrifice the players that jose had wanted. as for CM, we got matic for a bargain simply cos benfica got knocked out of CL and needed money. if we had tried to get him at the start of the season, it would have cost us a fortune.