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Imagine the two best dribblers and wide players in the league on the same team with Hazard & Mahrez. And then Willian in the middle who's one of the best as well. How would defenses deal with that? Hazard, Willian, and Mahrez feeding Costa. Insane. Plus it would allow us to play both Kante and Matic in a midfield two without having to worry about creativity. -------------------------------Costa------------------------------- Hazard----------------------Willian-----------------------Mahrez --------------------Kante------------Matic---------------------- Azpi---------------Koulibaly-------Zouma---------------Aina ------------------------------Courtois------------------------------

Agreed, he'd be a massive upgrade. I'd sell Cuadrado to Juve since he clearly wants to stay there and they want him back. Oscar and Cuadrado out, Mahrez in would be insanely good business. Those two sales combined would easily find Mahrez.

Think this is a nonstarter anyways. We'd have no place for him even if we sold someone. We have Willian, Pedro, and now Conte confirmed Cuadrado for the right side. Hopefully he stays at Leicester and doesn't go to a big rival.

I would genuinely feel bad for Leicester and their fans if we "stole" Mahrez too. Is he in the last year of his contract? Can't see them even considering selling him if he isn't.

Evra was dire in the end for United. Their fans were begging for him to move on just as we are with Ivanovic.

He needs to go to a good side in a slower league like in Serie A. Like a lot of once great, slightly over the hill PL players he can extend his career there. Like Evra has done at Juventus. His legs are totally gone and he makes brain dead decisions that gift teams goals. He cannot start games for us this season.

Both he and Matic are so slow in thought. They take an absolute age with the ball to decide what to do with it. This is why our play often looks so sluggish and labored.

Notice how even though it was only the first preseason match and Costa was surrounded by our C team how frustrated he got at them for not working as hard as he was? He was isolated and not really given service. Having a striker partner like Bats should help.

Yeah, I'm starting to worry that the nonchalant laziness with Ruben is just something he can't change. He just doesn't know how to assert himself at all. He just strolls around like he's not bothered.

Where other than wingback would he play? If we play 4-4-2 where would that leave Willian? If we persist with the same tired 4-2-3-1 he could play right winger with Willian at #10 but then Kante would have to do the work of two players with Cesc next to him in the "2."

Mate, we said all last season that "Oh, there's no way Ivanovic and Mikel will keep playing. Changes will be made." And yet they continued to play. What I'm saying is, I'll have to see it to believe it.

People can stop saying "Conte is a genius, he'll know what to do to fix things." Yes, we know he is and can. But will the club allow him to sell the likes of Ivanovic, Mikel, Baba, and Oscar? That's where I have my doubts. The club has to allow him to make these decisions or we hamstring ourselves. Terry and Cahill should be our two backup CB's only. We need at least one new, top class one. Maybe two. Ivanovic needs to be sold. Probably Baba too and Aina can take his place.

Aina looked miles better than he did. Not even on his natural side, either.

Don't care about the performance or result, but how many more times will we have to see Ivanovic and Mikel suck cock before we finally rid ourselves of them? How many different CB partnerships do we need to experiment with before we finally buy new ones? Of course the club are obviously working on a new CB, but we may need more than one. Ivanovic and Baba are shocking.

Ivanovic is absolutely fucking awful! He cannot start for us next season. Please, for the love of God.

Yep, we still need an entirely new back 4. Terry and Ivanovic are slow as statues and Baba is simply shite defensively. Papy is woeful. Mikel is useless, really. Doesn't offer anything. Nevermind it being preseason, we've seen these issues with certain players for a while now. If we start the PL season with Ivanovic and Terry as starters we're going nowhere.

Imagine if after all this speculation and hope of finally playing a new formation Conte just sticks with the 4-2-3-1 replacing Matic with Kante.

I know it's preseason and all, but just seeing Ivanovic in there still makes me shudder.

Two great signings in the bag, two or three more to go and we're set!

Official announcement from the club this afternoon apparently! GET IN!!!

Would much rather have Koulibaly. He's got everything - huge physician presence, pace, and can play with the ball at his feet comfortably. Honestly, we should be after both.

If by cut price you mean £50m, yeah! Apparently United are favorites for him judging by what I'm seeing on Twitter. Why on earth they would need him is beyond me. Especially when they're about to spend £105m on Pogba.

I don't think he's going anywhere. Us failing with Nainggolan sealed that I think.

Yeah, this is pretty much the last area of the team we need to reinforce. Especially not not when Mahrez would cost an absolute fortune. If we sold Oscar, maybe, but that certainly doesn't seem likely.