Sheva.

He's not with the U-21 squad for tonight's game, so most likely he's with the first team.

Congrats, smart decision to pick 2 very active members.

4 members were banned for posting things about Hillsborough, Cap included.

Anyone know who else was banned? i saw the thread earlier today and saw the Hillsboro chant, but didn't see any post from Cap at that time.

Ramires should be given a couple games in the double pivot. Not in big games though!, but just to assess his ability to play there. He's only played in that position once for Chelsea and that was the hammering we got at Napoli.

Ramires was good last season yes, but we played mostly on the counter. Now it's different, in games where we have a lot of the ball, Ramires is quite frankly useless out wide. He looks very clueless when the ball is passed to him and almost always doesn't do anything positive with it. But it's not entirely his fault really, he's not a winger and RDM should stop using him there. As for Mata, when he played on the left for us last season, he always drifted to the middle to affect play more.

Both of them are not wingers, but they're our 2 best players and have to play. So we need someone more direct on the right and that person is not Ramires because he can't take on defenders, cross, pass or do anything a normal winger is supposed to do.

From BM's thread:

He also said Oscar is not ready to play in the double pivot i think.

Because Oscar and Ramires for example are better suited to a 3 man midfield. Bertrand could also fill in there, and possibly also Luiz like BM/Eddie Newton said.

Exactly, and we have the players to play like that again, but we keep playing Ramires out wide, smh.

Hahah true, but it's just very annoying to see many attacks result to nothing when the ball is played out to the right.

Another option. Bertrand is capable of playing there imo, just like Coentrao for Real Madrid, he can go forward, decent passer and good defensively.

Yeah midfield 3, can't see Malouda making a return to the first team, so Bertrand the only other option atm.

We can cope, the only big miss will be Ramires as we don't have anyone to replace him atm, maybe Bertrand?

RDM just has to tell them to try simple, we don't need Ramires to play there. I've seen Hazard tracking back and helping Cole, Mata occasionally, and i also heard Moses does not neglect his defensive duties.

For the 4-3-3? we can play Ramires-Mikel-Lampard one week, then Ramires-Romeu-Oscar another. Not that bad.

I really want to see Oscar start. Don't think he will against Juve, so this is a good chance to play him.

They're not many wingers that can do that though, and it won't be such a big problem if Ivanovic didn't get skinned every time he comes up one on one with a winger lol.

Yes if we keep playing 4-2-3-1 because we simply don't have enough players to play there (can and should change in January) No if we switch to 4-3-3.

I would choose Marin and Moses over Ramires on the right every day of the week, but RDM insists on playing Ramires for balance*, so there's little we can do about it. Ramires is better centrally where he can make those great runs, but on the wings, he's very ineffective when we aren't on the counter, it's so frustrating. *I really don't know why we need Balance for games against lesser teams though, can't think of many top teams in Europe that do that.

He still has 4 years left on his contract? that only means Everton can demand as high as they want. Don't get why players like Fellaini and Modric sign long term deals then want to leave 1 year later, smh.

Beat Blue Bulls 3-0 at home - thanks to him having a man sent off - play them away next also, another win would be great

Lol Welbeck dive... he's been learning well from Young.

Fucking Gerrard is shit.