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"We don't need another CB." Fuck off. Stones better be signed by the next game.

Oh, you mean like a side in which he won player of the year in last season?

We currently look like a side that will struggle to finish in the top 4.

We get around their box and it's like hitting a stone wall. Everything just screeches to a halt. No movement, no interplay, just nothing. Compare us to City and Arsenal. Night and day.

And this is a side who will probably add another £50m player. A side who's destroying the reigning champions.

Our defense is embarrassingly poor. What has happened!? We also have no ideas in attack. Depressing.

Our defense is just getting pulled apart SO easily. Worrying.

Our defense. My word... Begovic. MY WORD!

Just like last week, our CB's split open and destroyed by a single pass.

Hope he makes me eat my word too. Judging by his last appearance for us, though, I find it unlikely.

Like I mentioned in my post above, we could buy Witsel with ease if we wanted him.

He can't pass, can't score, gives away loads of fouls, and is normally terrible in his decision making when he has the ball. Any of the midfielders we were linked with (Witsel, Aranguiz, etc) would've been huge signings for matches like this.

This exactly. And this is our biggest problem. We either have no depth in some positions or the quality of the depth is subpar. Instead of having Ramires come in in these big games we should have someone far better.

If Cesc and Hazard don't have huge games we may get slaughtered. May not be reflected in the score board but rather in general play.

Fabregas at #10 again. Ramires starting again. *sigh* Not optimistic at all.

LOL! Books the Palace player for an identical challenge that he didn't give Coquelin a second yellow for seconds earlier. Unreal!

Arsenal look like they could score with nearly every attack. Suicidal defending from Palace. They have no control of the midfield either. Getting dominated there. Don't think there's any way they prevent them from scoring again unless they change things.

I find it hard to believe that if a club went to Dortmund and plopped a £50m check on the owners desk that they'd say no. Reus himself may take more convincing than the club. They aren't exactly a powerhouse, ultra rich club.

Saw something about them asking for a seasons loan if we refuse to sell. Honestly, IF we land Stones then a loan for him wouldn't be a terrible idea. He'd get loads more games IN HIS ACTUAL POSITION than he will here. Roma are a top team in a good league and the experiment he'd gain would be fantastic for him AND us in the long term. He certainly has a future here.

When both are at their best there isn't much between them. I'd take Hazard hands down, though, because he can effect a match in more ways. People always say that Reus is a better finisher (which he is) but it isn't really as big of a difference as you'd think. Hazard has scored the exact same number of league goals as Reus has. Reus did it in fewer games but Hazard is playing in a much more difficult league. Imagine having both at Chelsea...

These quotes make me a bit more confident that we'll eventually sign Stones before the end of the window. José will make him his marquee, Sterling-like signing and tell Roman and the board that the club have earned the right to splurge after all the good work they've done financially.

That's a laughable statement. Even coming from you who regularly posts ridiculous things.Anyways, how rich are Dortmund? Could they turn down £45-50m for Reus if a foreign club really wanted him?

Shaw and Sterling will lock down their respective positions for their clubs for a decade potentially.As with players like Rooney and Rio Ferdidnand, their prices were thought of as insane initially but after years of world class service they look like bargains.

Times have changed. They'll change even more next summer. There's an unprecedented amount of money being thrown around now. Comparing Stones' potential fee to Costa (who had a release clause or would've otherwise cost £60m) or Hazard who was leaving a tiny club in a shit league. When Shaw costs £30m and Sterling costs £50m then I don't see how £34m for Stones is so outlandish. Just the way it is now. And if we don't pay it one of our rivals will happily pay it and we look like idiots. To your point about clubs raising their asking prices when we become involved, that already happens.

Even if we lose I can't see us getting humiliated. I say this without having seen the starting XI yet.