didierforever

u actually thought might work himself in the team despite having options like DD, anelka, sturridge, torres? those were some high hopes dude.

that would not be the worst thing to happen but to be honest i have my reservations about costa. 32 mil for a 25 year old striker who has had 1 good season in his career and that too in a league where soldado scored 30 goals in all competitions in the last season. knowing our luck with strikers, it might as well end up screwing us up once more. another thing that bothers me is having 3 strikers for a pre-dominantly 1 striker system. for a striker to be succesful in PL, one of the main things is consistency which goes out of the window. the 3rd and probably the most worrying thing would be LUKAKU. among our recent crop of 4 strikers, he would probably be our best goal scoring options, still somehow he ended up on loan. i have no doubt that in this scenario, lukaku would end up being our 3rd option and would waste a whole year of his development.

problem?

thats true. but i would prefer him and lukaku as our strikers next season rather than buying some1 like costa.

Ok dude. And u know all about football. Probably jose asks u before taking any decision. There is one thing to give an opinion which I do, and another to toot your own horn. But yes, keep living with your delusions of granduer.

Do u mean to say essien has not been at the top of his game only this season. Last season he was loaned out to RM, 2011-12, 2010-11, 2009-10 He was either injured or coming back from his injury, barelt playing a part. Please don't compare the essien situation to the rooney situation. Also essien is our 6th choice DM ( if u take into account that luiz played over him against pool), whereas rooney will be our main striker. Big difference.Also its about needs and wants. Right now there are probably 3 strikers better than rooney ( lewa, falcao, cavani). [u can argue ibra too but since he is 33, there is no point]. Out of 3 of those one has signed a 5 year contract with bayern, and the rest 2 would cost double the amount of rooney while taking about 200k. Over the course of 5 years if u add the transfer and wages, it almost is equal. Also add to that that rooney is PL proven while the other 2 have no experience of english football. All in all rooney looks to be our best option for me

And how do u define messi/cr money??? What is ridiculous is essien getting 100k. Rooney getting 300k is not ridiculous if he can make us into a Pl and CL winning team, which he will

Nice. Keep dangling kdb in front of then until the last monent of the window and then don't sell him.

why not. if we can get rid of all 3 of ba (80k), etoo (150k) and torres (210k) [overall 440k] and replace them with rooney (300k) and lukaku definitely less than 140k, then i dont see any problem with it.

seriously dont mean to sound cocky or dont mean to start another luiz/cahill debate but at this moment, cahill/luiz picks itself too and it is cahill without a doubt.

very true dude. i mean in all my life i have never seen a CF who has scored against a team that has played a low block. oh wait!!!!!! what an argument. and etoo played as a false 9? etoo was supposed to be our ST, we dint play a false 9. where did u get that idea. if he was loitering on the wings, it was cos he could get no purchase against the CBs not cos he was employed as a false 9. also etoo was marked by 3 men, still our mids could not get any space between the derby defence, exagerration much!!! as for his "first time decent balls", are u talking about his simply passes?cos i dont remember any of etoo's passes leaving us in a scoring oppurtunity or even close to that. as for the chance, his touch was poor but if he had the pace of THE ETOO in his prime (2007, i would say), he would have made up for it, if u think the etoo of today has the same pace, then u have not watched him, AT ALL. all u have done here is give reasons of why he could not be of any use yesterday (just like a lot of torres fanboys do), and exaggerate the role of defences (marked by 3 men, LOL, i doubt if any team would even mark MESSI with 3 men forget about etoo), and then exponentially increasing the importance of etoo's passes (first time decent passes). all in all, he played 65 minutes, and could not score. if he was playing as a false 9, he could score and created zilch and had absolutely no imapct on the game.

its strange that we dont have a "WE LOVE MOYES" thread on here.

Father, I just dint think it necessary to bring my A-game for u.As for etoo, he had a dreadful game. Could not hold the ball, has lost tons of pace (pretty evident from the chance he got in the first half where despite being in about 20meters of space he could not get a shot off). His movement was pedestrian ans hence oscar had to settle for long range shots or a simple wide pass to rambo/azpi most of the times. He had no impact on the game whatsoever, atleast no positive impact. But do agree with your last statement thiugh

Did I hit some nerve!!! But as u know its a forum and I have all the right to take as much space on a page or rather the whole of the page if I want. If it makes u want to cry and whine like a little bitch then stop reading them or does all this whining make u feel good??? But as I had said a few matchea before, keep barking puppy.

What happened puppy??? Can't face the bitter truth about your fav player etoo... perhaps u should watch yesyerday's first half again to see how pathetic he really is.Also for someone who is not asking for my opinion and does not care about, u do still keep replying to it regularly. LOL

Oh david!!!!

How did I miss THAT!!! Was mikel really the captain when he scored??? Mikel now becomes CLL.

The point now is who to buy??? Even if we want to buy

A very difficult away game. They gave us a hard time even at the bridge if u take out the first fifteen minutes. Games like these ultimately prove to be the difference between PL winners and 2/3rd place. With our players atlast getting a weeks rest, I expect the full fledged team to play plus a really good performance. Cech Azpi-GC-JT-COLE MIKEL-RAMBO WILLIAN-OSCAR-HAZARD TORRES. for the firat time I would be very surprised if there is even one differenxe between the expexted line up and jose's line up.

He scores when he wants, he scores when he wants. JON OBI MIKEL, he scores when he wants.

absolutely. how do u rate nothing??

poor first half. poor team selection from the gaffer, but job done in the end. schwarzer - comfortable performance and another clean sheet for the aussie. 7/10 cole - good performance by the veteran. brilliant interception in the first half. seemed very tired towards the end and let them run a couple of times but a deserved week's rest. 8/10 luiz - a hot and cold performance. gave the ball away once, got nut megged before mikel tackled the attacker. not a performance that would see him displacing GC. 6/10 GC - another good and solid performance. brilliant from the CB. 8/10 azpi - endless running. should be our first choice RB without a doubt. 8/10 essien - another poor performance. cant wait for the day he leaves now. slow, pedestrian and simply does not give us anything. 5/10 mikel - brilliant performance. his long passing today was phenomenol. couple of change of plays and that long ball to willian was simply perfect. broke the play too and crowned it all with a goal. a brilliant tackle when luiz and cole lost their man. MOTM. 9/10 ramires - very poor performance on the wings. cant understand the logic to play rambo on the wings with players like mata, kdb, schurrle available. 6/10 oscar - only one who was creating in the first half. always looked like scoring and did so in the end. good performance. 8/10 willian - brilliant workrate but some of his decision making in the last third is SHOCKING. nonetheless, he and oscar seem to have some brilliant understanding. 7/10 etoo - oh please. do i really need to. hopeless, useless, pathetic. subs - hazard - influenced the game like u would expect him to. a couple of times he should have taken a shot but just passed but a good super-sub performance. 8/10 torres - could not get as much purchase as i had expected against a side looking to score a goal and when we were countering. lost the ball a couple fo time. 6/10 baker -n/a jose- very poor team selection. no bertrand, and kalas while continuing azpi. rambo on the wings. and i dont give him the credit for the sub cos it was too obvious. 5/10

oh thank the mother of god!!! hazard atlast !!! and never did i think i would say this, i would be glad if torres came on.

what a ball from milkel and what a fuck up by rambo.

just have feeling, if we concede the 1st one today, we are out of fa cup.