OneMoSalah

Baffled. What is this window.

Michael Hector... fuck me what a load of shite, hes championship level and 23.. what the fuck

If Anzhi didn't decide to sell all their team then he'd still be in Russia.

Won't matter if he fulfills his potential. Hugely talented, pacey, strong, composed, technically good... for 19 years old 9 goals last season where he hardly started and played left wing more often than not is respectable. Sure it looks a lot at first but he is one of those high level talents.

Fall from grace. Celtic nurtured his talent and gave him a free pass away from being deported and a home etc but he traded it for money and now look at him. He must be what 20 now? He'd have been a regular for Celtic for the last 2 or 3 years at least if he stayed. Sometimes as talented as these guys are it doesn't work out no matter what, because they make the wrong choice, its like that Norwegian kid who went to Real too in my opinion, he was a first teamer in Norway and I'd imagine he'd have grown out the league but he chose Real Madrid over teams with a better youth record like Ajax, Arsenal, Bayern, even Liverpool... they deserve everything they get for fucking their careers up and shouldn't get any sympathy.

To be fair we can compare everyone who played in our first 4 games last year and compare them against the first 4 games this year. Everyone's would be worse this year.... but yeah that's why I hate Opta, where was their stats on Ivanovic's first 4 games last year where he had set up 2 or 3 goals and scored the few he got as well?

To be fair its not just Ivanovic who has been shit. Hazard, Cesc, Matic, Costa, Terry, Azpi, Cahill... we can keep naming names so its not just Ivanovic's fault we've started shite this year. I've actually been more shocked by the lack of anything from Hazard than Ivanovic or Cahill or Terry's performances. Ivanovic struggled at times last year too and has continued to do so but at least last year when he struggled Cahill backed him up or we could get away with it because we were able to go up the pitch and score. The fact we had pretty much the same starting 11 from the game against Burnley last year except for Schurrle, with everyone basically a year older and no new signings other than squad players and a piss poor pre-season doesn't help either. Everyone of our direct rivals have gone out and added at least one or two new players to their starting 11. Have we? No. We were predictable for the second part of last season and we've continued to do so this year.

He blew his chances of moving to a bigger team when he went to Zenit... as did Hulk. Idiots.

Why didn't we try go for the Brazilian guy? He is meant to be their best CB.... Castan or whatever hes called?

Reportedly a stop gap.. but before us he was linked to Celtic and Southampton... unsure until I see him play for us or Nantes but yeah.

Apparently we are giving up on him and have also tried to negotiate with PSG for Marquinhos. Why did we go for John Stones first considering Marquinhos is a better defender??? I don't understand why we are doing things like this sometimes... probably won't get a CB or a CM now.

The one thing that impressed me was that he played out of position, against tough wide players, while not really displaying any sort of fear. I don't quite know if he or Traore are first team quality players yet but they are in the squad now so we will see how they do but I think another more established AM if one went on loan wouldn't be too bad considering City and United have got 4 or 5 players for those roles.

Aww would you fuck off with your stupid Kevin De Bruyne shit nobody gives a fuck, he wasn't good enough here hence why hes not fucking here, jesus christ people think its like we had Messi and sold him for peanuts or something.

Kenedy at LB is just madness but yeah, plenty games to go yet, calm your fucking beans.

Think he's a good CB but would be a better fit if he was 4 or 5 years younger, pretty sure he's at least the same age as Cahill. Still though hes not a bad option.

Lets be honest, Everton have missed a trick 30M+ plus for a pretty average English CB with a bit of potential, idiots.. I bet they don't get an offer like that next summer. Its not like Southampton who could have easily kept Shaw for another year and still got 32M. Really don't see why Martinez has been so stubborn, he could easily invest 30-40M in his squad and quite frankly they need it.

I thought there was games last season where Cesc was better than Matic and so far this season I'd say the same. Its easy to say Cesc has let Matic down but I really think Matic has let Matic down, his positioning and reactions at times are like mind blowingly awful. He hasn't quite been the same since Christian Eriksen gave him the run about in December or January whenever it was. He just looks disinterested in some games.

Ridiculous. City might as well tell their owner to hand over his personal fortune to Wolfsburg.

No chance, I reckon he'd probably struggle to play for some of the teams in the bottom half of that league yet alone Valencia. He should go on loan to the championship, we missed a trick when Stoke wanted him when we negotiated for Begovic because it looked like Mark Hughes might of actually used him. I don't think he should be in the squad BUT he does have a bit of potential, he should of gone on loan to Stoke if there was assurances he would play though because technically he's still not great but physically he's at a level where maybe he could cope with the PL. Courtois' development is a good way to go but you look at how he developed: he was clearly a top talent in the beginnings and two he was playing every week for Genk for about 2 seasons where he was heavily relied on at times. Then he went to Atletico and kept on improving before making it back here as our undisputed number 1. Ruben is a top player in the u21s division but that means little outside of the u21s, I don't regard him anywhere near as good as Tibo in regards of talent or even guys like Boga/Charly Musonda. but yeah Courtois Regular at Genk -> signed by Chelsea, loaned to Atletico for 3 years, was a regular -> back to Chelsea, plays regularly. Ruben has played well for the u21s but the jump from u21s to Valencia would be too much. I think not loaning him to Stoke was really a mistake in all fairness.

Marko fucking shite Marin is more appropriate.

Bet you he has a good year in Italy. Like Salah. Just so much slower over there and there's more time for attacking players, hence why Gervinho has also looked decent for for Roma in spells.

Probably gonna leave after a pretty unproductive and frustrating spell in Germany, read that he struggled with the intensity and pace of the Bundesliga and wants out of Chelsea.

Zouma needs a partner in the future though, he can't play CB by himself. I'm not as big a fan of Stones as others, hes not a 30M CB or a 40M CB but we need another one cause of JTs age and the fact Cahill is also 29. Ivanovic will always play RB unless we are desperate. Kalas has never been top 4 quality though, he played against Suarez in a B team against a Liverpool team who were their biggest downfall, they didn't know how to play against a team who sat like that, didn't know how to manage the game, they always tried to force it, without a plan b and were more intent on criticising us as anti football than looking at the game in another way as to how they could improve against teams who were intent on frustrating them. It was a one off performance by him at that sort of level unfortunately because if he was at that level he would be here but there's a reason why he's in the championship again on loan. KDB and Mata didn't play as number 10s under Mourinho other than Kevin in pre-season but for reasons known/unknown he didn't make it here and Mata ended up going to United, can't help that. Mata hasn't played as a number 10 at United yet either, so it looks like Jose's decision to not use him as that is justified despite Oscar's inconsistencies he looked more at home there under Jose than Mata did under Jose. Ake is a weird one, midfielder, left back, center back? Too lightweight for center back, good option for a LB or a DM possibly but he needed games to develop, he has been wasted in the u21s or reserves here for too long and other than the loan to Reading hes needed more loan deals to play and we needed another LB so Baba was bought, can't pass judgement on someone who I've never seen but he could be a good option for us. Well Lukaku asked to leave after the super cup penalty shoot out. I'm guessing he would of learned a great deal more off Eto'o and still got regular minutes considering it was Eto'o, Torres and Ba as the other options and Ba was denied a loan deal to Arsenal due to the fact we would of only had 2 strikers. Lukaku isn't right, he would of been second choice behind Diego Costa, which means he would of played about 35 games last year considering Drogba was the most regular striker in terms of appearances. He had the chance to be number 2, play regularly but decided not to stay, which is weird and why I questioned his ambition.. so hes not exactly spot on, if you're wanted in the squad by the manager aged 21 but you want assurances about being number 1, you have to consider yourself a pretty special player if you think you should be playing ahead of Diego Costa, fresh of the back of a 30+ goals in that season, vital to Atletico's title win. If he was going to get as many games as he got under AVB/Di Matteo in 11-12 I'd see the point but he would of figured in more than 30 games last season if he stayed here. But yeah, if Manchester United get Neymar I'll eat my shoe.

Scored big goals for us last year when he was needed but he has been dropped for a has been. I suppose we should of seen it coming though, Drogba going was always going to require us signing another striker... getting Falcao and using him more than Remy though, hmm.

Is it just me who feels like watching Falcao play now a days, is like watching an injured animal try and run? Is Mourinho perhaps trying too hard to prove he's a top manager by trying to revive Falcao's career when he could have gone for another player whilst trying to retain the PL title? Sure he's 3 games into his Chelsea career but we seen at United last year too nothing was right for him either.