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they are only 6 months apart. mata is born on 24th april 1988 (my mum's b-day, talk about things meant to be) and ozil is october 15th 1988. these stats are probably before mata turned 25 because now he has played 124 matches for us. so the stats probably are not wrong.

suit your self. continue with the negativity. meanwhile, i ll keep my blind faith in the best manager in the world and trust him to know what the right thing is. #KTBFFH.

because our strikers are scoring ,,, no no, wait,,, banging in goals for fun right??? tell me exactly how many goals have our strikers scored this season in 6 PL games? try to give credit where credit is due. lukaku is playing GOOD football. he has been brilliant for everton. u would know that, if u had seen the newcastle game. he was phenomenal in the first half. brilliant link up play with with barkley and mirallas. simply killed newcastle with it. was brilliant in his hold-up play. and most importantly scored goals and took chances that came his way. he covered brilliantly for mirallas a couple of times when mirallas left coleman stranded against goufran and cabaye, worked his socks off thru out the match. to top it all off- he dint go on to insult chelsea in any way, did he? so dont get why the "keep his mouth shut" part is even there. dont even get me started on where lukaku is or should be at the moment.

lukaku scored 17 goals with wba - but its just wba, so who cares. lukaku has scored 3 goals in 2 matches, with one assist for everton, but that is useless too since its only everton so tell me , lukaku-hater, what exactly should lukaku do to get into the chelsea team, while constantly being away from chelsea and being on loans? really waiting for your reply.

your points are the same as the previous post. for rooney- there was no other WC striker available. cavani, falcao, lewa,rvp, aguero. only who was, was rooney and i have already given my view point on why it was not a waste of time, and that there was still a lot of point to pursue rooney. next year, we might let go off all the 3 strikers we have right now and still be in search for a WC striker. but who?? i dont see any1 except rooney coming for less than 40mil. but with rooney, with only 1 year left on his contract, and with chelsea being interested for more than a year, we might be able to snatch him. do u actually think jose dint want lukaku. i mean why would a manager send out a 20-year old striker against bayern munich with just 10 men, if he dint have faith in him? or even why would jose let him take the all important last penalty??? that shows faith. but jose knew that lukaku with 3 other strikers would not get one-fourth of the time that he would now get at everton. hence he took the decision. ba is jose's responsibility but i dont think jose personally makes phone-calls to clubs and agents. he had made it clear long before the deadline day that ba was not in his top 3 out of the crop of 4 strikers we had. but the board were unable to get the deals done. what can jose do then? for me, mata's defensive liabilities have decreased exponentially. infact he is doing his job defensively as good as oscar, be it against swindon, tottenham and bucuresti. i mean compare this mata to the mata that played against basel. he gave away the ball which led to the corner, and dint fall back. he gets benched against fulham and then comes back with a vengence and a point to prove. maybe jose dint do anything to him, but if he can keep players motivated, then its good enough for me.

jose pursued rooney, hoping rooney himself will come out and put in a transfer request. (i remember jose saying the exact same thing after united game.) such a big transfer is not so easy to happen. we played all our cards, but simply could not force the issue with rooney. defo, not waste of time. we might still end up getting rooney next year for a cut-price (just one year left on his contract). we had made it very clear that we wanted to unload ba. jose put his trust in a 20 year old boy to lead 10 men against the champions of europe, goes to show how much trust he had in lukaku and what he thought of ba. so u cant complain he dint try. moreover its the board's responsibility to quicken the pace of a transfer. for me jose made his call to the board known very early (remember even west ham wanted ba in mid-august). so there is no way u should blame jose for the ba-scenario. if u want to blame any1, it has to be the board. was etoo needed? i dont think so. but that was jose's call. the jury is still out on it. and for chelsea's sake, lets hope he made the right call. seriously??? when was the last time or for that matter anytime when u have seen mata stop a counter.

loanS??? come on... it was just one loan. and lets give him the benefit of the doubt here. we were not able to find a loan for ba. only one that was, was arsenal, and with ozil already there, ba would have been a decent acquisition. i mean look at them now. giroud is in top form but when he has his lean patch, the next best thing they have got is SIR NICKLAS BENDTNER. giving them ba would have been suicidal. plus keeping 4 strikers for a definite 1 striker play would not be very good too and would have limited lukaku's oppurtunities to bare minimum. now, dont get me wrong. i too feel that lukaku is the best striker of the 4 we have, but it was a decision that had to be made. something had to be sacrificed, and unfortunately it was lukaku. also except for that mou's "dealings" in the transfer market and with the players have been good. look at mata. mou definitely has got inside mata's head, and mata is playing way more solidly than he has in 2 years (by solidly, i mean defensively).

well, what can 2 weeks do to u. from being on the "fringes" to coming back to the team with a BANG. and to think that some people were even doubting mata's creditibilty. with "term X" (i think) asking if mata even brought anything to the team cos "he does not have pace, cant dribble, so what is he good for".... others were asking questions of "how long will mata's past year acheievements, get him a place in the team", like somehow the previous season suddently became pre-historic times, also at that point mata had a total of 2 starts since his "past year achievements" and then their were people who were so blind with oscar-love and oscar getting into the first team, that i felt that they simply dint even want mata to come back to his best and actually succeed. anyways, never ever doubted him. specially since jose said that he simply wants mata to adapt. always knew mata would put in the extra efforts and show us his class. hope he continues his recent climb to good form. we play the best football when mata is on the pitch and it is essential that mata regains his top form, that is when we are the most dangerous.

i will trust him with my last breath too dude. but here i was stating my opinion about otamendi about what i have seen of him. what and how jose intends to do and use him is an utterly different case. for eg- schurlle. we spent 18mil on him but was he the best winger available with the likes of di maria being unsettled at RM. but it is not always so linear. its how a manager wants to use the player.

why not mangala? atleast he is a good defender. or just buy-back bruma if we want a 4th CB. otamendi is a poor buy.

yup. totally agree. what would be worse is that he ll come here, give the weirdest possible explanation for united's poor run and god forbid if any1 calls him out on that, then he ll abuse that person. and he ll end all of it with "u chelsea fans are so hopeless"...

any1 know where the great JAYC is??? it is my solemn appeal to any1 here, the mods and the admin included, to please call JAYC back for one last time. i mean i want to discuss matters with the guy who thought united had the best squad ever and that ramires was a squad player and barely better than cleverly and that de gea was better than cech... please some1 call that jackass back.

brady, hazard, benteke -injured ben arfa and dzeko are not going to start are not going to start, and i have just 1 sub. LIFE SUCKS...

very true. but so far he has been good at psv. saw his 2 matches vs ac milan in UCL qualifiers and he was more than decent. a couple of league game too, and he has been dominating at the back and even yesterday, he seemed solid.

cole has been an absolute shambles this season. except for the bayern game he has been poor, not even average but downright poor. in attack he has hardly supported hazard, and has constantly struggled to track back and match the pace of the opposition wingers. against everton, naismith had to score, against basel salah had to score. townsend owned him in the first half against tottenham. he has without a doubt been our worst defender this season.

a lot of 3-0s and easy win predictions going on here. dont think that would be the case. its a tough place to go to. last season these were there results against top4 norwich 1-0 arsenal norwich 1-0 united norwich 0-1 chelsea norwich 3- 4 city.

hope he gets a hat-trick against those city wankers!!! double bounus!!!

precisely. i was actually shocked with city's team sheet itself. RICHARDS!!! seriously!!! i mean first match of the season against the bloody champions of europe and selceted ahead of zabaleta. nasri, navas defensively are pathetic, and add to it aguero and dzeko as strikers... it seemed like a joke!!!!.

i miss the DROGBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

to think, people actually wanted us to play our attacking style of football against bayern... oooooh the massacre!!! city were outclassed and as was said a couple of times today, given a lesson in football.

cech iva cahill JT bertrand ramires mikel mata oscar schurlle etoo van wolsdfdsnfjdnfjd or something is a bit of a threat in the air. also, defensively they are quite solid. wont be an easy game in any manner. will be a well fought match.

i seriously dont think so. also i dont wanna get into an argument cos i am too happy. anyways i felt he was good. should have got a goal. good movement and workrate.

if that happens, this is what will happen to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCzxM42tPM

someone rated him 1/10 in the post match thread. i thought he was even better than just "decent", to be honest.

i was angry that we "wasted" 18mil on him instead of a striker/DM. but he is proving his worth. has impressed against bayern, was good against tottenham and everton and was brilliant today. infact if he had converted those 2 1on1 against everton and tottenham, then he could have changed the complete dynamics. but as i said, he is proving his price-tag and proving why we were after him for 2 consecutive seasons. gallas got into my bad books after that own goal threatning incident. to keep the confessions going, i wanted us to give a contract extension to ballack ( :heart: :heart: :heart: ), than sign rambo.