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It's pretty clear that he's the absolute bottom of the barrel pick in midfield. I'd say sell him.

He just hasn't had any urgency in his play for large parts of these first 2 matches. He looks unstoppable when he actually takes his man on, but that's happened little so far.

I actually saw some fucking plank on twitter saying he'd accept Mata + £20m for Rooney. Absolutely insane.Another wants Mata and Lukaku for him.

United could really fuck us here if they really wanted to, and I wouldn't put it past them either. Say we put in a final bid in the days following the match and United don't accept or reject it. What's to stop them from just waiting until the deadline night and then reject it then leaving us with no one? Think we should either move on to someone else now or make that bid something they'd seriously consider like £40m. Only thing that would make me confident in this happening again is if he picked up an "injury" between now and Monday that would keep him out completely.

BBC reporting that Arsenal are trying to sign Benzema and Di Maria. Can't see them selling Benzema as he's the only senior striker there, but Di Maria is possible I'd think. Think he'd be great for them too. Hope this doesn't work out for Le Arse.

Case and point why Lukaku should be first choice. Like last season, I get nervous each time our opponent crosses the ball. Luckily every team doesn't have Benteke. Edit: Agreed with everyone that Lamps was awful. No way he should start @ United

We're gonna get embarrassed at Old Trafford playing like this.

Hazard has been nearly invisible these first two matches. Just doesn't even try to attack. He just goes at walking pace and passes it off. People are tipping him for Player or the Year and you'd expect him to want to take that next step.

So fucking typical. Dominate the game and then have a stupid defensive lapse at the death. How do we let Benteke stand still at the penalty spot? And goddamn it's annoying watching a side pack the box so we can't find a way through. All of this possession and almost nothing to show for it. Get Lampard off! Been horrible.

My thoughts exactly.

Damn, man. Feel bad for Lukaku. He probably figured he'd done enough to be first choice.

Hopefully we see the awful Benteke today and not the unplayable one. I want to see the one who looks like he doesn't know the offside rule like he did quite a bit last season. These games against lower table sides always make me nervous. This one more so since we have United up next and need to go into that one on a high. I wanna see Hazard go crazy this game after a rather timid start against Hull.

So if we were to hypothetically present Dortmund with an offer of say £30m and they agreed, do we really think Lewandowski would turn down a chance to play under Jose and with our awesome squad? Just find it a bit confusing how he's so dead set on going to Bayern. Gomez had a brilliant season for them and then got brushed aside like a scrub and had to transfer within a year. Now if Lewandowski goes there they'll brush Mandzukic aside. If Lewandowski struggles or doesn't score 40 will they go after the next big name? Bayern just seem like the Real Madrid of Germany. Why would any young star player go there at the moment where no matter how good you are, you have so much competition for a place that you won't play as much as you could.

Just don't start Torres. Unleash the fridge!

Yeah, it'd be a pretty bad oversight if we let a lifelong Chelsea fan go to our biggest title rival when we have 32 year old LB who probably only has a couple seasons left here.

Bit anxious about this one. Only thing I'm slightly concerned about is our defense. Putting the right CB partnership out there will be extremely important.

If it comes to Eto'o or stick with who we've got I think we should pass on Eto'o. I just can't see why we're after ONLY a striker though. Wish we were as dead set on getting a CM as we appear to be a striker. If we bought someone like Witsel or De Rossi and no striker before the deadline I'd be elated.

I doubt he ever followed it. He hasn't been active in twitter in ages, so he probably hasn't logged in since the official twitter was created.

Imagine how hyped Lukaku will be going head to head with Benteke trying to show he's better.

We have plenty of other players that can score goals if Ibra was struggling.He's one of those players like Messi or CR7 or Drogba who are in the oppositions head and intimidating them before the match even starts. I think he'd be an absolute beast in the premier league and his game suits it perfectly. He really doesn't seem to be deteriorating with age. I'd bet that he'd score 30 for us in all competitions.

I'd donate both nuts to a testicular cancer patient if we got Zlatan.

Wow. Have to say Spuds will have a very impressive side.

Looks like Willian is close to joining Spuds. Damn. If they can somehow convince Bale to stay then they'll be legit title contenders. Even without him they've bought well enough to be a threat.

100% convinced this won't happen now. With each day that passes it's one less day United will have to spend the money and find a replacement. It would make no sense for them to sell him on deadline day even if we offered an absurd £50m as they wouldn't be able to spend it for months. You know his puppet master Slurgie is telling Moyes not to sell to us and you for sure had the likes of Gary Neville in his ear on international duty. They ain't gonna sell him to us. We may as well use the money we would've spent here on Rooney on our midfield and buy Witsel/Kondogbia and a top class CB. We'd be a massively improved side with those additions and can put our faith in Lukaku.

I've come to realize that Toli is just about he most negative and blunt posters on this forum.