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An we needed to be more ambitious? Was delighted with his debut, hes a top player. Will add so much to this team. His goal was great, ok lucky finish maybe but pass and move pass and move, his movement in the final third is fucking great in comparison to Willian or Oscars. Forgot to mention as well, his crossing, how good is it now we have someone on the right who can fucking cross..

Maybe but he was the guy in charge and he used Ramires there like so many times

What do you mean you sure it's Di Matteo haha? He was in charge at the time and he put him on the left against Napoli and Barcelona at the Bridge, then on the right against Liverpool in the FA cup final too. Even against Juventus the season after before he got sacked I'm sure he played Ramires on the wing at the Bridge and then Azpi on the wing in Turin. So it was probably Di Matteo. It's not like he wasn't picking the team at those times. Plus Steve Holland wasn't even assistant manager at the time was he? Think it was Eddie Newton? I'm sure he was assistant first team coach if that's any different.

Think he blows hot and cold at times but you can't doubt his genuine ability though, he is incredibly gifted technically, links very well with his team mates and obviously he knows how to score goals, if he went to Arsenal and was a hit they'd be up there for the title for sure. I think he's scored like 15-20 goals plus each of the last 4 or 5 seasons at Madrid, which is impressive considering Ronaldo basically plays as a striker too and there's times you think he's just not gonna do anything.

He is really about the only young CB I can think of in the league who is in that mould anyway along with Jason Denayer although he's not a first team regular with City. Don't think it is exactly fair to compare him with a guy who just finished a season on loan with Celtic, where Virgil van Dijk could probably have played as the only CB and kept clean sheets at times. Being a ball playing CB is all good, like Luiz at times but to be a top CB you need to be brilliant defensively, he strikes me as good to a certain point, I don't think he'll turn out half as good as what people think. As I said regard LvG, he's gone for Smalling-Blind at CB mainly because of the balance, a right footer and a left footer, I believe this will be recurring in his defence this season and next. I don't think Rojo is as bad as people make out, he was injured and missed bits of last season and when Shaw was injured played LB but he is a strong and pacey CB, its going to be his second season now so he will probably be better equipped for the PL.

Di Matteo. Although it worked against Liverpool, Napoli and Barcelona.

United... Really? I don't know man. My mate is a United fan and he keeps saying Chris Smalling has probably been the most improved player at Man United since LvG took over, at points last season he looked very good for them to be honest, I doubt he is going to get rid of him for John Stones, maybe he would sell Phil Jones but they wouldn't have given him a new deal if that was the case. He's also very keen on having a right footed CB on the right and a left footed CB on the left so I really don't see him being particularly fussed about that right side as much when they have Jones, Smalling, Evans, McNair all for that side, when they are all under 30 years old. They have Rojo and Blind on the left so maybe that's the side they will look to improve, he said last year at one point he didn't have enough left footed players in his squad... City have just bought Otamendi to compete with Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis.. again 4 good options to have, even if they go for Stones next summer, hes going to probably be 3rd/4th choice behind Kompany-Otamendi depending what happens with Martin Demichelis. I'd say ideally we are probably the only club he would get regular games for out of the three because we are going to need to phase JT out soon. We can't play with a high line against top teams with JT in the back line, it's not going to work too well at all.. like we seen under Villas-Boas but if we can't find another CB who is fast enough with the right characteristics to play that far up in a high line then we really aren't looking hard enough because I'm sure there are other CBs out there.

I honestly doubt it, we are the only club who has bid for him, United and City probably aren't interested considering they've got better CBs at their disposal. If we don't get him this summer I think we should just give up and look else where. He is not a top player so I really couldn't give a shit if we get him or not to be honest. If he wants to play for a top club, there is no better club in the PL to play for as a CB in my eyes, Jose is here and JT is here. If the kid wants to develop into a top CB it would make every bit of sense to come here and learn from JT ... even Cahill as well and eventually replace one of the two in the lineup but he's clearly content at Everton so we should look elsewhere. Its not like there is a shortage of CBs. If he was a top class player like say for instance, when we missed out on Aguero and Silva... when we were linked for ages and apparently had offers rejected, I was genuinely gutted to see them go to City. If Stones were to go to City/United, I really couldn't care. Luke Shaw maybe now by the looks of this season, was someone we shouldn't have missed out on because so far he looks frighteningly good this year, pacey, strong, composed but even then John Stones is a class below him in terms of talent, so it wouldn't put me up or down if he were to stay at Everton.

Apparently Stones won't hand in a transfer request, well good luck playing with mediocre players at a average club, lets see how many league titles/cups you win in the next few years. Move on already Jose. Fuck John Stones, fuck Everton and obviously fuck Roberto Martinez. Anything over 30M is a joke.

French league would be good but I don't know if Marseille or Monaco are actually that keen on taking him, I know they were linked to him, but I don't think the Dutch league is a bad idea either though. Vitesse is a good club to have a relationship with for these sort of things so perhaps he could have gone there. We should really look to get something with PSV or Ajax though, they really are top developing clubs.

I thought he could have gone to Vitesse on loan to be fair. Probably good enough for it, think he's more talented than those boys we sent there.

30m and Cuadrado, more viable. Don't see why people are saying we should also throw Oscar into any potential deal too along with Cuadrado and like 50M he is not fucking Messi or Ronaldo. Hes another guy who's a good player but again not world class and sooner people realize that the better. 'Oh hes got so much potential' so what potential means nothing if its not fulfilled and I really don't see him becoming the best player in the world EVER. Just overhyped.

Musonda when I've seen him with the u21s looks top drawer but again u21s is u21s, hopefully he gets a loan move, I know he was talked about in the Falcao deal but I don't know whats happening now probably missed his chance.

He's definitely not in the class Hazard is. He might do well but he won't replicate that sort of stats in the PL, I am absolutely sure of it. Wouldn't say that, it is not like we lack right wingers of a certain level like United lacked a CM of the sort of level Pogba was. We have Willian and Pedro for the right wing, really excited to see Pedro play. He has real pace and unlike Willian at times an actual end product and scores goals. I don't think de Bruyne will replicate that sort of stats for City, he might do well but 50M is a lot of cash, an absolute shit load of money, Hazard cost 32M and Pedro cost 21M. City were linked with both. I know money isn't an object for them obviously but still you could argue both are better and more proven players.

He is undoubtedly a good player yes but the way people go on about him in here (not meaning just the Belgian members, some other people think he's god) you'd think he is world class. You won't see Chelsea paying 50M for a player of that level, simply because the value for the money is not there.

17.5M was a good deal for us we bought him for like 6.7M, we got another 10.8M for him, City are severely overpaying for him. If Wolfsburg had to sell he'd be gone for 30M by now. They are only selling him for a record fee because they don't need to sell him to balance the books or that. He really should stay another year prove he can do that sort of season again. One season wonders have happened before. Its obvious he's not a 50M player.

...and along with Mata was our best and most consistent player. He was much better because he wasn't shackled or playing right wing. He has suffered a bit playing a more disciplined role, he doesn't have the passing range to operate as a deep lying midfielder, he has to play box to box in a 3 man MF really to be at his best because he is able to defend and his third man runs provided a lot of trouble for opposition teams in that year.

The only thing is Mourinho's teams in the past have never really had two full backs going forward the whole time like we seen under AVB in that spell where it went wrong. He always had one guy out of the two given more freedom to get forward, Ivanovic, Maicon, Marcelo... so I don't think hes gonna particularly gonna go gun ho and will have one more disciplined but that is no surprise. Would like to try Azpi on the right and Baba on the left, or even just having Baba play LB.

50.4M hahahaha what a rip off.. good player but never worth that money. The pressure is gonna be on him from the start again, something which he never dealt with completely well at Chelsea, despite not being a 50M transfer here. FFP is a fucking joke.

I think he'll make it 4/5. Can see Aguero scoring a few to be fair, Stones-Jagielka is a weaker partnership than Cahill-Terry and if Silva is given as much time and space as he normally is there will be no issues at all for Aguero to get chances. Really feels its just a matter of how many for City as opposed to when.

Really? Fucking hell. I know under Mancini it wasn't the best but under Pellegrini they seemed to beat them every time more or less. Still reckon City will steamroll them still. A match fit Aguero who absolutely terrorized our defence up against Jagielka and Stones? Aguero is crucial to City winning anything this year.

Obviously not but he is just as good as Hazard is on his day in my eyes.

He's had a pretty shitty last 2 years with his injuries but he'd still walk into this team. Injury prone or not.

Oscar, Cuadrado and a shit load of money... not even worth it, would be a horrible deal. Maybe Cuadrado and 30M or something, considering we bought Cuadrado for 24M or whatever.

Yeah man without a doubt, even when he played against us in the last two seasons, he was always a threat even if we didn't lose to them. I can't see Stones and Jagielka having any luck, Everton always seem to lose against City so I'm expecting the same again. Although based on last seasons performances I don't see why we are looking to bid 40M.