didierforever

burnley are relegated despite the win, right?

fair enough, but i feel it is too much. 3 quality strikers is one too many. signings like benteke would be the exact reason why would not have youth coming through any time soon. 1. IF costa and remy are both injured, i would trust bamford as the 3rd striker. 2. we all know jose does not do much rotation. so mostly we would be having 20mil+ worth striker on the bench or probably in the reserves depending on whether we have 2 strikers on the bench or just one. 3. good point. cant argue with that. 4. if we are going to be playing to win PL and CL next year, i would want square pegs in square holes. no more remy on the wing or costa on the wing or rambo on the wing (unless its a tactical thing). i honestly feel that a squad of courtois, good second choice GK, blackman JT, GC, zouma, iva, azpi, luis, ?,? matic, cesc, pogba/koke,RLC, romeu/mvg hazard, willian, reus, oscar, juan costa, remy, bamford is a very strong squad and big enough to compete in all 4 competitions without hurting the chances in the other competitions.

but do we really need him? he will cost 20 odd mil. we have a perfect second striker in remy who has won us some games this season. just not what we want.

2 seasons in a row now.. now lets hope that the barcodes get relegated. hope that wba can put in a good performance and not give them a respite.

i still want us to play our best team possible. losing to these cunts would be unimaginable. also, i want the players who deserve it to get a guard of honor. courtois iva GC JT azpi matic RLC willian cesc hazard costa (even if it is for 2 seconds, i dont care. should be on the pitch to get the ovation and then sub him off).

why do we need him or lacazette or any second striker. we have remy who has been BRILLIANT whenever given a chance. scored 2 winners in PL and deserves far more credit.

not many. infact to be honest, iva, cesc and hazard are the only one who would make it.

44 mil pounds. sorry but not needed. a LW/CF is someone we already have. square pegs, round holes. if it was something like 20mil (as said before), it would have been different. reus is a much better option for a AM, for almost the same amount.

sorry to say this, but you guys know nothing. NOTHING, i repeat, NOTHING will top getting a guard of honor from slippy G. now thats gonna be FUN!!!

they have a transfer BAN.

sadly, we have to accept that if RM go after him, he is theirs. we dont have the pull that RM has. i dont know about city though. would depend a lot on the player himself. 70mil pounds and 150k+pw wages is a LOT of money even if the player is someone like pogba. honestly speaking, i dont think he is coming here. but i hope we remain in the market and keep driving the price up, specially if city is included.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3067893/Jose-Mourinho-plans-persuade-Roman-Abramovich-spend-big-summer-turn-Chelsea-European-champions.html so a new GK, a new LB, a new CB, a new AM/CM and a new ST. hmmm.. if we do do that, then ins - HG 2nd GK - 5mil LB - well we had a perfect backup LB who we sold for 10mil. are there defensively solid left backs out there? lets say (15mil) CB - varane (30mil) CM - koke (45mil) ST - lacazzete (20mil) total ~ 115mil outs - cech - 10mil luis - 10mil moses - 7mil salah - 10mil atsu - 3mil GC - 10mil mikel - 5mil mvg - 5mil romeu - 3mil piazon - 3mil remy - 8mil other "loanees" (kakuta, josh, kalas) - 6mil total ~ 80mil net spend of 35mil. squad GK - courtois, 2nd GK, blackman(HG) Defenders - JT, Varane, Zouma, Iva, Azpi, LB, ?,? CM - matic, cesc, rambo,RLC AM - hazard, koke, willian, oscar, cuadrado ST - costa, lacazette, bamford addresses our high line problem, squad strength issues.

we got no history's "conservative" estimates are sometimes way off. i think last season they predicted that chelsea would get a profit of 20mil without luiz inclusion. they were way off the estimates. i would take that with a pinch of salt.

transfer ban

hahhahha so after ATM finished 1st in la liga, we took costa and luis and thibo back, which would make them finish 3rd this season then we want to take antoine and koke which would make them go down even more to lets say 6th. and by giving them mikel, we are putting one of the nails in the coffin for them to be relegated.

griezmann and koke. after costa, luis and thibaut. damn, we are destroying ATM.

Courtois - 8 & 8 Ivanovic - 6 & 8 Cahill - 5 & 8 Terry - 8 & 10 Azpilicueta - 8 & 8 Fabregas - 10 & 5 Matic - 10 & 7 Willian - 6 & 8 Oscar - 7 & 4 Hazard - 10 & 10 Costa - 10 & 6 with ivanovic people forget that it was a delibrate tactic to play higher up the field. i wont believe for a moment that jose had asked iva to play deep like azpi but he ended up playing as a RW. people wanted open and beautiful football, and we provided it,sacrificing a wing back who always gave us a lot of width down the right. very harsh to rate him so low. when we played deep against united and arsenal, iva was a BEAST. it was not his defending that was poor but how he was used tacticallly. cahill was horrendous in the first half of the season and oscar was abysmal in the 2nd half - both getting the lowest ratings subsequently. azpi was probably the most consistent player of ours (after eden of course).

oh the sexy and beautiful football bayern played yesterday. such a joy to watch. the first 16 minutes when pep the genius, the football saviour was playing 3-4-3 with boateng-rafinha-benatia against neymar-suarez-messi was just fabulous. i mean such a footbal is such a joy to watch. probably our college manager has more understanding and tactical nuance than pep the saviour. i feel so blessed that pep rejected us, even if it meant three-fourth a season of benitez. thank you god.

if possible, i would like people to post their combined teams of 04-05 and 14-15. would be nice to see who people think would make the cut in the 04-05 team(except hazard of course)

silva, cazorla, mata, kdb. james, isco. muller, gotze etc etc etc.

have not seen much of him in the last 2 years now. so hard to judge. a lot will depend on his value that barca set. but considering that barca have a transfer ban and wont be able to replace him, would they even be willing to sell?

not even a contest. the combined team would look something like this cech ivanovic carvalho jt(old) gallas lampard makelele cesc robben DD hazard

clyne - 20mil varane - 30mil sterling - 50mil begovic - 10mil lacazzete - 20mil 130mil pounds easily!!!!!

i would choose every one of them except for willian (ofcourse, not even a question). essien should be there. cech iva carvalho JT cole lamps makelele essien robben DD hazard.

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