Pizy

Yeah, was always a long shot. José fibs a lot regarding transfers but I think he's telling the truth here. He keeps saying "I have the squad I want" and stuff like that as well as the club "this is our squad for 14/15." Makes me think that we're completely finished in the transfer market.

He's going to be such an absolute weapon going forward in link up play. Can see him causing smaller teams all sorts of headaches in combination with Hazard.

Good price for Moreno and he's a nice little player but I don't think he suits the PL very well and I'm glad we didn't sign him when we were linked. I'd have all of Luis, Shaw, and Ricardo Rodriguez over Moreno.

I'm so anxious about this.I'd be really sad for Cech if it's not him and I'll be extremely excited for Courtois if it's him in net. Can't really imagine Courtois being brought back to ride the bench.

Wow. What a fantastically promising match. Quick, incisive, free-flowing football that we've been asking for in the opponents half for years now. No standing around like statues. Players pinging balls off of each other and some nice pass and move situations between Hazard, Cesc, and Luis. Our back five players all looked great. Azpi looks much more comfortable and has a bit more courage on the right side and Luis looks great with the ball and made another great play on that recovery tackle. Costa is going to light this league up. Always seems to know exactly where to be. As good as we know we're going to be in the big games against top opponents, if we can manage to replicate this sort of performance against the sides we should be dominating we'll win the league. I can't actually say that anyone had a bad match there. Oscar and Willian looked much better and sharper.

CTV is crystal clear for me, thankfully.

Watch Real Madrid smash Sevilla 4-0 or watch the club I support and get further hyped for the season opener. Tough choice, that.

A player has to WANT to move. Hummels has given no signal that he's unhappy or looking for a move.

Highly doubt Hummels would be cheaper. Just made captain at Dortmund, too, so he's basically not obtainable.

Man, reading around twitter and all over the internet about how good this guy is kind of making me hope there is something to this. Price is certainly steep for a defender but this isn't Luke Shaw we're talking about here who's unproven, he's a mature and fully developed beast by all accounts.

Wouldn't surprise me if we signed Remy on deadline day if this is a serious injury.

Fuck me! Didn't know it was that much. I thought it was the £32m that was rumored. Even that is way overpriced. £43m...Christ.

Took long enough. Lot of people think he's vastly overrated but I think he'll become an excellent player and signing for City.

Don't jinx it.

Hazard is fucking ridiculous. Best player by a mile when he came on. He made those defenders look like I was out there trying to mark him.

Eden was unreal today. Making defenders look like training dummies. When he truly tries like he did today there isn't a better dribbler on the planet. He just effortlessly explodes past players. He and Messi are very similar in that aspect.

So what's that, the second or third time Zouma has been caught ball watching and left his man unmarked? Has all the tools but is still so raw and undisciplined. Schürrle has been the only bright spark for us in attack that half. He's sprinting and trying his heart out but there's zero creativity in this lineup. Like many times last season, we get the ball in the final third and play grinds to a halt and our guys start going at walking pace. Players just standing rand and hoping something happens. It's so easy to defend against that and it's infuriating to watch. This is why we need Hazard and Cesc to hit the ground running next week.

Do we still not know what's wrong with Courtois?

Dreadful, aren't they?Hate skin tight shirts and those candy cane socks look just as bad.

This is essentially Arsenal's best XI minus Özil and Mertesacker vs a City squad who look like they can't be bothered and are playing their second team. Arsenal don't look that impressive, really, and their defense and CM still look iffy and I can see us dominating them in those areas again. I think it'll be a typical Arsenal season once more. They'll shit on all of the poor-good sides but really struggle against the big boys. I think 2nd-3rd is their ceiling. They don't have quite enough yet to win it all. If they can add a proper DM and a new striker then I'd have to put them right there as co-favorites.

With Real Madrid getting rid of Lopez and with Casillas being past it I'm sort of shocked that they didn't hold off on buying Navas and make a hard push for Cech seeing as Carlo knows him well and worked with him here. We could've worked some sort of Cech + cash deal for Di Maria.

When he's in the zone he's a joy to watch. Hopefully he can keep it up. He's got such a weird and awkward style with the ball. It's hard to explain but it always appears as though he's not completely under control of the ball yet he's still effective at beating people in 1 on 1's.

+ Diego Costa is awesome + Matic was great as usual + Fabregas looked much better deeper and should always play there + Hazard steadily getting sharper + Filipe Luis looked great defensively - Ramires still can't go for 30 seconds without fouling - Cahill was all over the place - Filipe Luis isn't quite there yet going forward - Our defending overall is pretty worrying in preseason

LOL some of our subs are coming back on? So weird.

I highly doubt we'd have spent £16-20m on a 29 year old that wasn't going straight into the first XI. It is very strange that he isn't starting here, though.