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He missed about 100 sitters thats why. There is no comparison between Torres and Morata, Torres took about 6 months to get his first Chelsea goal, Morata took about 10 minutes. Moratas finishing shadows a match where he did everything else to a decent standard. Ultimately you judge strikers on goals so that won't be talked about and after the chances he had rightly so but hes not even on the same page as Torres.

About every performance Torres put in bar maybe 10 games under Rafa. Not even a competition. Torres is the worst striker I've ever seen play for us in recent times. Maybe Falcao actually could compete too...

Terrible. Thought first one he was trying to be too clever but he had 3 one on ones, just shat himself basically as soon as he got clean through. Dont think hes needing to be sold or that but just needs a bit of practice with finishing. I think under another coach we wouldnt have even got any points though, I know this aint the Conte thread but...

Fucking hell. Morata should of at least scored 2, you can put one bad miss down to bad luck but three? No way. Draw probably about fair.

What do you expect? It was always going to be Pedro or Willian on for Hazard...

Would be soft if we conceded one like that but yeah thats true saying he doesn't get many for big fouls but was pretty soft. Although still a pen. Yeah it was but just saying was soft!

Good penalty. Pretty much bought that though, minimal contact, pretty soft. Game on though cmonnnnnn

Lucky ball makes it through to Wilshere, Kante poor there following runner, which is uncharacteristically poor by him.

He did score tonight for Atletico.

Playing poorly but only one in our MF whos making 3rd man runs into the box to support Morata and Hazard/be another option for players crossing. Could have scored one too.

Fucking hell didnt think it was that bad that we need to replace him. Think hes made his mind up far too early, everything in run up to that chance was good, didn't take ball too wide, was always in control against defenders coming back to him, got it onto his best foot but like I said I think hes just over thought it and put it too far wide... trying to be too clever. Costa would probably have just fucking rammed it into the net haha.

Great prospect, think staying in Italy best thing for him though, although he'd be a good player to come off the bench for us and make an impact.

Cesc has given ball away fair amount too though. Not exactly Bakayoko's fault that.

Nobody playing well except Courtois. Pity you cant sub 10 players.

Bayern signing Leon Goretzka on a free and the rumours is that Vidal most likely to be sold due to his age but more probable to happen in the summer. Regardless we should sign him. He is a top player, he’d he like another Ballackesque signing, older guy but still at a very good level and undoubtley he can continue for a few years yet. A real leader too. Anything between 20-30 would be great despite his age because he has proven himself in Germany, Italy and also on the international stage. Kante, Vidal, Cesc...

Good player. Genuinely surprised he’s not been talked about that much although there was talk of Barcelona wanting him in the summer. £31M is a good fee in the market now a days and especially in January. Got a bit more in legs than Cesc does and wouldn’t be as exposed in a 2 man MF I think.

Ideal player to bring in come the summer, obviously it makes sense to loan him back to Fulham or heck even look at a lower premier league side to give him a different sort of test as he needs to still play football regularly to gain experience. I genuinely think he could be an excellent long term wingback/full back for the club and for England over the next 10-15 years. £10m+ upfront plus add ons, instalments, loan him back and heck throw in Lucas Piazon too (assuming he’s still on the books) would be an excellent move for both clubs I think.

Cant believe I'm seeing people in here and on twitter saying shite like 'Conte out' and 'Morata is the new Torres'. How ungrateful are these fucking morons? I put a post up a few weeks back I think where I said Conte is best manager we've had in years and that opinion wont change regardless of if we finish 20+ points behind Man City. Hes took a side that despite winning the title under Jose, although they ran out of steam after February/March, that eventually would go on and struggle the whole of the next season and made them champions when a top 6 finish was arguably considered a challenge before a ball was kicked that year. We are now second after a poor transfer window, where he has constantly talked about a lack of numbers. Whats the problem? I feel the whole of England and the world have become overly obsessed with Pep Guardiola and Manchester City but lets not forget that the difference of quality in their squad in comparison to ours after the summer. For instance we replaced Nemanja Matic with Bakayoko... City replaced Zabaleta with Kyle Walker, Kolarov with Benjamin Mendy, Jesus Navas with Bernardo Silva... if we signed those players we'd have a better first 11/squad and would have undoubtedly have more points. What hes done with what hes got is very impressive.

I think if anybody expects us to get 100m + Isco and anyone else from Madrid including the likes of Bale, Kovacic or Asensio... they need to wake up.... more chance in hell freezing over. The question is with or without Hazard next season will Conte still be here? Because if he is and continues with 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 then we can go yeah sure Hazard wants to go to Madrid so take the 100-125m+ or whatever go to Juventus and buy Dybala because he is an extremely high level player and can play that second striker sort of position and probably shoehorn into one of the two off the frontman in a 3. I'd have no doubts that he is the right player to replace Hazard if he does go even if Madrid give us an Isco, Asesnio or a Kovacic. If we lose Conte and Hazard then we have a different problem in my eyes because who do you sign to replace Hazard as a left winger? I can't see us changing coach and continuing with the same formation, particularly if we end up with somebody like Carlo or as Craig Bellamy said, Brendan Rodgers (lol), so who do you play there? Or will the club not sign a direct replacement and try trust in Musonda or somebody else?

I’m sure Real’s interest is more Zidane driven than Perez. Real would more than likely rather Neymar as he is better and much more marketable, like Ronaldo but if they can’t and think Hazard is a attainable alternative they’d go for him, even if Zidanes not there.

End of the day if he goes, he goes. Top class player but we’ve lost big players before. Fortunately there are always going to be very good attacking players, it’s just about signing them.

Actually I’d say both look very a similar level or from Feruz’s time at Celtic, I’d say they are about the same. Feruz started okay here with the youth team but just wasted himself after that and killed his career even more than he had done moving here. I doubt he will turn out half as good as Kieran Tierney for instance who is the best talent any Scottish team has produced in god knows no how long and he wasn’t even particularly highly sought after at youth level. Not saying he won’t be a good player but for a 15 y/o he is already getting Celtic, Scotland and many other fans overly excited, more than they should be.

Been there done that, remember Islam Feruz? Looking good in Scottish youth football is not exactly hard, even then sure he’s a talented kid to a degree but genius level ability is a stretch too far for me and I think for any 15 y/o bar maybe the odd rare cases. There are lots of guys in PL u23 and u18s who are a lot more talented. Mentioning Feruz, I’m actually surprised because he’s turned out a huge disappointment, he’d of played at Celtic and made the grade there and go on to bigger things but coming here along with changing his agent killed his career. Hopefully Karamoko Dembele isn’t stupid enough to leave to play 2 or 3 seasons with the u23s and never be heard of again like Feruz was. The big fuss with Dembele is he is playing with u18s or u19s when he is 15 but honestly in all probability in Scotland, Celtic have the best youth teams, the best coaches, the most financial resources yet they have really only produced two players in the last 7 years in Forrest and Tierney, who have gone on to play regularly which shows Youth football means absolutely nothing because the level is nowhere near top flight in Britain.

Surely this is a fucking wind up. He is so so so average it’s unbeleivable. Yes Burnley are flying but my god he wouldn’t even get near the bench for us.

I think they will be replacing Aguero with him in all honesty. Which means he will be playing as a striker and not as a winger. I’m sure there was an interview from last season where Pep says he would of used him as a striker at Barca if he didn’t have Messi as a false 9 or some sort of variation along those lines.