didierforever

azpi-iva-JT-bert. at this moment, this will probably be our best back 4.

just one of those weekends... even tottenham will probably get a last minute win over everton, i am sure...

i dont see barca doin it cos u dont see them losing. they have 31 points in 11 ganes, what does that tell u. now look at united and city. and see them for an example. defenders like rio totally out of form has been benched for evans (just one example). jose is an exceptional manager and u expect him to know his own trade (and he damn well does). moreover, these are profesional players who can see more than us fans, what is going on. who is in form and who is out of it.

every big team in the world, CHELSEA,BAYERN, BARCA, RM, UNITED, CITY etc etc have a big squad. bayern have an equally bigger squad to us when they have 4 league games less to play and 1 domestic tournament less to play and all this is done not wothout a reason. when u want to win trophies, u have to win majority of the matches. u cant afford to have an out of form CB (luiz), an out-of form LB (cole), a highly constrained and way past his prime CDM (lamps), play against a team like newcastle at st. james' park. there are better options than what these guys can provide us with right now. GC, bert, mikel have already shown they can. schurlle has set the scene on fire and deserves to be selected ahead of our not in top-form yet POTY for the last 2 years, mata. this is the sacrifice we have to make for being the title challengers. we cant provide the players with their own sweet time to get back into top form to clinch top 4, cos we have to win the other matches too to win the league. for eg- against schalke, i see no reason why any of mata, luiz, cole, lamps should start.

what a shit weekend... i dont need to watch the arse-anal vs pool match to know what the result is going to be... just sucks!!!

what is the point of having a big squad with more than able replacements if we dont drop those out of form and replace them with the players who definitely look to be better? as well play with players like marin and benayoun so as not to have any hope of the team ever changing.

^^^doesn't care who plays as a ST, but still has luiz in his team. brilliant

when has luiz done well this season??? oh wait... we should probably give him a lifetime acheivement award for defending well against sir nicklas bendtner.

nned to win to atleast get this CL qualification out of the way. need to re-gain all the lost momentum and prove the point that we wont be having another winter slump. cech azpi CAHILL JT bert mikel rambo willian oscar schurlle torres. schurlle should start ahead of hazard as he has been better this season. willian has been great too, his performance against arsenal and even his 20 odd minutes today were fabulous. mikel deserves a chance over lamps and cole needs to be benched for a bloodu month after the game he had today. cahill over luiz should be a MUST in every must-win game from now on.

we should have been top of the table at the end of the day, but we are going to be 5 points behind arsenal now!!! u heard it here first.

no way... he deserves a ballon d'or.

another brilliant performance. oh wait!!!

oh dear!!! november is here!!! how does this happen every bloody time. what a hopeless performance. newcastle totally deserved it. frustrated us in the 1st half and then simply ran thru us. cech- dint have anything to do in the 1st half. could not have done anything for both the goals. did his best to keep the score 0-0 when cole so mind-numbingly fucked up. 7/10 ivanovic - one of the 2 players who seemed to care about the game. but simply could not do anything to influence it. 7/10 luiz - he should be played against strikers like bendtner only. shambolic in the 2nd half. even ameobi went past him.nothing i can say can be worse. 5/10 terry - MOTM. CAPTAIN. LEADER. LEGEND. would have been 4-0 without him. though i still dont know if it was him who lost the man for the first goal.9/10 cole- another mediocore winger OWNED him. bertrand should get a chance to prove himself. at this moment BERTRAND IS A BETTER LEFT BACK THAN COLE. townsend, naismith, salah and now sissokho. disgraceful performance. 1/10 ramires - felt he was decent. did his bit of running but lamps had a complete shocker today. on a personal level, he was man-marked by tiote everytime we started an attack. 7/10 lamps- this has to be one of the WORST performances i have seen from lamps. absolute shocker. what percentage of his forward passes did he complete. 5/10 hazard- except for the first 5 minutes he was poor. especially against a full-back that played 120 minutes against city in the mid-week. 6/10 oscar- another one that was subdued. simply could not do anything substantial. was still the best of our trios. 7/10 mata- very poor. could not get any purchase against his full-back and hopelessly made us short of any width by coming central. he needs to stick to the game plan. 6/10 torres- i actually cant remember the moment when he touched the ball and we retained possession. he was full of running and closing down but pathetic in every other way. 6/10 subs - etoo- should have scored. should have flicked the ball to hazard instead of shooting. simply ot good enough. 6/10 willian- was very good since he came on. if jose wanted to play any1 from the mid-week game, it should have been him. 8/10 schurlle - another one full of running. and had a good impact. 7/10

if we take 3 points today, we will be top of the table by the end of today itself... no way those gooners are winning against pool.

sure. as u say.

i think he himself made it clear what we are doing with him. this is his 3rd year in CFC, so as to make him classify him as homegrown (cl-wise). also he has been doing great in the reserves and the CL-youth league. honestly i feel playing in youth-CL in 100 times better than playing in a championship side.

i have no idea of what is going on at valencia. but i ll like to comment on what i have actually seen. and what i have seen is the fact that he is a decent player and will get better with age (unless he is totally hampered by injuries). also avb was not the only one who trusted him. rdm went into a season with just 2 cdms out of which one was romeu. RAFA on the other hand chose him ahead of mikel in the short time that romeu was fit before he had his injury. so that 3 out of 3 managers in chelsea that he had a chance to play for.

no argument to this or the other thing i posted to you. the only thing u r able to write is "u have no idea"... just goes on to show u actually has an idea and who does not.

matic too was considered to be "no where near our required quality". but when given a chance, he has become "should be bought at 40mil" quality player now. josh is 20 right now. his career has barely started and u call it bust already. romeu already has proven that he is there-thereabouts. if u r telling me that romeu cant play a squad role alongside the likes of rambo, mikel, alonso/witsel, mvg... i ll have to say there is something wrong with u cos just a season ago he was deemed to be good enough to be one of our main cdms when we had only rambo, mikel, lamps and romeu as our options. moral of the story - we dont need to buy a squad player for 20-40mil. our players are good enough to do the job. jose has said that chalobah could already have made the squad.

as i said earlier IBRA would be a definite choice (the only one i would consider if things were upto me). no other. ps - i was wondering over your point about DD not playing in african cup of nations. and i remembered why. he had not played any football for a couple of months in china. his physical fitness was very poor and he was rightfully dropped. (just wanted to clear things).

reus, mandzukic should have made that list for me!!!

so??? what has that got to do with ballon d'or 2013!!! ribery was the best player in 2013 and deserves ballon d'or. otherwise lets give the ballon d'or to maradonna or pele cos they are considered to be the best players ever.

the last match i saw of ivory coast was the last match ivory coast actually played and DD dint just start but scored in the 5th minute from the penalty. as for the matches he was left out, those were the matches where ivory coast had topped the group and were simply dead rubbers. DD is definitely not what he was but he is still more than formidable. strikers like manzukic, rvp, aguero etc etc, give u more over a season of 60 matches, DD wont.he dint even care in our league matches in 2011-12. u wont get a 100% performance from him people away at norwich trying to break them down. but when talking about one match, just ONE BIG MATCH, he will STILL be right at the top.he is STILL that immense. over a period of 90 minutes, DD will have a major influence and impact on the game. and i am not letting my fanatism coming in the way. i am saying what i actually believe.

ben arfa can do things mata cant or schweini cant or yaya cant. but that does not mean u put him in a ballon d'or list. the ballon d'or list gives u the players who have PERFORMED best in the last year. not the ones who have the most potential or cant go give a defender night mares in one match while being shit in 10 others. consistency of performances, level of performances, everything is taken into consideration. let me try this another way (and for the last time) by your argument. if say, MESSI, played absolute CRAP in a year scoring 5 goals, assisting 5 goals(just as an example dont start getting edgy cos i said, every1 precious messi scores just 5 in a year), so he should still be in the list!!!!???? why because he is still a better player than all the others in the world, right?? so irrespective of his performance in the year, only the best 23 players in the world should make the list, not the best 23 PERFORMANCE-based players??? your argument makes absolutely no sense. hazard is better than dribbling in mata, and has better speed than mata and has better this or that, but what has THAT got to do with football. MATA put in the performances that were better. he was our best player of the year, in a team that had hazard, still he was our POTY for a reason. the reason being as simple as MATA played better.

3rd striker? when did that happen? u mean DD dint play those done and dusted group stage matches, thats why he became 3rd choice? watch the ivory coast-senegal match play off match, DD started when needed. also bony plays for swansea and kone played for wigan(relegated team) and now everton meanwhile DD is still terrorizing one of the best defence in the world (JUVENTUS) in champions league football. but u r right, he cant take no more!!!! LOL...