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He wont cost as much as Martial, mainly because Anderlecht are easier to deal with and tend to normally move their better players on for the sake of their development if they get a good offer, they don't have the same sort of finances teams like Monaco do so they can't really afford to ask for a crazy crazy fee.

Ih? Are you mad haha. Austin having a 15M price tag is so strange its unbelievable. Hes one dimensional, other than the one goal he scored against Southampton he has never displayed a good level of technique. When Danny Murphy (well I think it was Danny Murphy) said he was surprised no teams had moved for him for 15M I generally laughed. Leicester would suit him well, but someone like Everton, Southampton, Liverpool, Spurs... even then he would look out of his depth. He is like Rickie Lambert, a good player for smaller clubs but in the real world he is not even as good as Rickie Lambert. although to be fair for a big English number 9 Lambert has actually got some pretty good technical ability which he displayed at Southampton. Jamie Vardy is just a headless chicken. Rooney is by far the best option England have upfront and he should play either in a 4-2-3-1 behind Sturridge or 4-4-2 in tandem with him.

So we go after Stones for most of the summer, then fail and like 2 days before the window closes then make a move for a CB who had already agreed a deal to Valencia and then for Marquinhos. Why was John Stones our #1 target when those two are better as well? My mind is frazzled.

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.