Sheva.

But if you look around at other teams who play with a player behind the striker - from James to Ozil to Mata to Silva to Iniesta to Coutinho to Eriksen to Sneijder - these are all creative players. All with different qualities of course, but they create, simple. This is not something i can say about Oscar, he's like a CM playing out of position further up the pitch. So i definitely do not agree about him being our "best #10" You're probably right about Willian, but he's a bit more dynamic in his play. I just have a problem when he's RW and always stays in the middle.

He's gonna be destroyed there against any good team, but that's why we have Ramires and co for those games. Against the lesser sides though, i don't see why he can't play there the same way Lampard did.

I always thought #10 was meant to be a playmaker? And Willian played his best football for us in the middle imo. He doesn't stay out wide when he plays RW.

Yeah i agree. I thought Van Gaal would use 4-3-3 and he'd be screwed, but with 3-5-2 not only will he play a lot, he'll have the type of freedom he needs to shine. Herrera also being there helps him; with his quick, incisive passes.

As long as Torres keeps running around like a donkey, Mou won't have a big problem with him. But if he walks on the pitch plus the fact he can't score, he'll never play again lol.

This is like his 7th loan lol, poor guy needs to be sold and have some stability.

Lol Everton, 'home' he was there for 1 season.

Costa just raced away lol

Lol Cech

Lovely.

Yeah i know, but he looked really promising at Benfica, and now has better chance to showcase himself in la liga. Only a matter of time before Liverpool - they like their fast skillful players - get him.

We need a young 'different' striker imo. Someone like Muriel would have been good if he didn't have too many injuries last season. Rodrigo another good option, but has gone to Valencia. We do have Schurrle though who can at least play as a 2nd striker.

Lol that is so not true. If not Hazard would have joined PSG. Chelsea are selling players Mou doesn't want.

Buuuut we have Costa and Drogba who according to Mou is still one of the best strikers in Europe. We're buying no one lol.

There's a game tomorrow so he'll probably just be on the bench like Drogba was.

Mikel returned to training today, no sign of Moses.

45 mins against 2 teams. Then another game 2 days later smh. Hazard and Mata combination was sexy af. I'm happy he'll be back soon so he and Cesc + Costa can form an understanding before the season starts.

Good sharp goal. The type of sharpness he didn't have after coming back from injury.

Lol thanks to WC, we don't and won't have many options till season starts.

This is not a good game to judge, in fact you can say this is not a good preseason to judge because we will be without Oscar and Willian. But we'll see what Mou does.

I expect Fabregas to play as #10 this preseason. We have a lot of DM's in the squad and no first team AM.

Belgians return from WC holiday on Wednesday, hopefully something concrete is known by then instead of all these speculations.

We do have Fabregas to play as false 9

Griezmann and Mandzukic, good for them.

FFS. This is why I don't even care about Drogba coming back - I would rather go into the season with Costa, Lukaku and Torres. But with Drogba returning and Torres unsellable, the odd man out is Lukaku. Costa, Drogba, Torres is really shit. Unless Costa can be available for every single PL and CL game.