OneMoSalah

Lol at AVB, losing Bale, not getting Willian, bad times. Similar to him not getting Oscar last year when Modric left.

Willian is an attacking midfielder. Anyway I dont feel WIllian brings anything we already dont have. Sure hes a good player and it gives us more options but still, Moses who had an excellent pre-season wasn't in the squad vs Hull or VIlla so who else comes of the bench for Willian, Demba Ba? Lukaku? Schurrle? De Bruyne? Lampard? We only had 1 defender on the bench vs Hull too so its really really really stupid to get another attacking midfielder for a big price where they will need to be in the match squad every week.

Hmm I think he'd probably be a decent player to build your team around and play him centrally but we couldn't afford him such a role with Mata and Oscar in our ranks.

Sign for Chelsea or I'll skin your cat

who knows, he might do, he might not.

Is he playing centrally?

Terrible? No he wasn't. We went ultra-defensive and played useless 60 yard long passes up to him which he couldn't beat Bonucci or Chielleni or whoever in the air. When he had the ball at his feet he played the role well, its an option if Jose can't get goals from the strikers.

Hazard false 9, Willian on the wing?

I love the gritty games win by 1 goal (well not when I'm watching them tbh, but when your team wins 2-1 or 1-0 its a nice feeling). Typical Mourinho style too, didn't perform very well, sat deep, played on the counter at times looked dangerous. All these 2-1's and 1-0's against the smaller teams where we haven't performed is brilliant, as you say too its the sign of champions. Picking up points without performing well.

No probably about it, the pivot is our weakest part of the team when Lampard is in there against teams who have a lot of energetic players in midfield. Not to forget how much Lamps slows everything down......

I love this new Ramires we are seeing, consistent and better first touch, more consistent passer, seems a bit stronger. Jose has obviously worked with him over the summer. Ramires v Villa: 104 passes, 94% pass accuracy, 1 key pass and 4 tackles won.

Im guessing......... Cech Azpi - Luiz - Terry - Cole Ramires - van Ginkel De Bruyne - Oscar (Mata hopefully rested for Utd clash) - Hazard Ba

Totally agree about their signings, Paulinho and Capoue are both excellent options in the middle of the park to go along with what they already had with Dembele and Sandro, who you could say were the best midfield pairing last season (when both were fit). Chadli is another interesting player which gives them more options on the wing and Soldado is a proven goalscorer, he will get 15-20 goals minimum for Spurs. Can also see the likes of Sigurdsson improving from last year along with Holtby too so even if they lose Bale they will be stronger than last season. If they replace Bale with Willian as well then Levy, AVB and Baldini have done very very well in the transfer market. They could do with a CB though and if Arsenal don't spend then Spurs will probably push them out of the top 4. Still Willian isn't needed here no more, we have enough attacking midfield players for the season. Hes a very good player but still I don't think hes better than Mata and Hazard.

No way would Shaw be first choice........ Cole and even Bertrand have much more experience on him, I mean much much more experience. Bertrand has played nearly 200 championship games and however many PL games here now, few England caps, Champions League winner, Europa League and well Ashley Cole is Ashley Cole, 100+ England caps, PL winner, FA cup winner, CL winner, Europa League winner.......

WOOOOOOOO finally the fist competitive game of the season, 3-0 Chelsea

Hes 29. No way. If we are to sign any older striker than Rooney, I'd prefer it was Eto'o who has valuable experience at top top clubs like Barcelona and Inter Milan.

Barca are still cunts, its about time they realised that you cannot 'tap up' players, let alone Chelsea players, who do they think we fucking are? Arsenal? Pfffffffffft

Same with a lot of national teams. Scotland have had James Morrison, English born, Shaun Maloney,born in Malaysia, and Phil Bardsley, born in England, playing for them. Germany have a few Turks and Poles in their team, Podolski, Ozil, Khedira, Klose... Portugal had Deco (born in Brazil) playing for them for many years, Pepe is also a regular for them, born in Brazil... Higuain born in France, plays for Argentina.... P.S referring to yourself in third person is twatish.

Sami Khedira and Burak Yilmaz

30 yard screamer? Hes not scored for like 4 years, why do you think his hair is like that... wouldn't cut it until he scores... still hasn't happened.

I am surprised Lambert had done so well for Southampton in the PL last year but like Holt its fair to say you have to see how he does next year as well. Remember Holt scored a lot for Norwich before struggling last season and now hes playing for Wigan. I agree hes a different sort of player, good technically, strong, bit different for an English striker as he is very good technically. I don't see a big club going for him though same with Holt last summer.

You have to consider hes coming towards the end of his career now though, hes 33 or something now isn't he, the season Inter won the CL he was immense, people thought it was weird to pay 30m for him a year beforehand but he fully justified that tbh with some big performances (you as an Inter fan will be able to acknowledge that) ! Hes got a solid goalscoring record everywhere hes been. His brother Gabriel though, before injuries ruined him, he was a good defender...

What do you mean do a Diego Militio, Milito was always good. Just never played for a big enough club until 2009.....

Fuck me this thread is kicking off, close it down............

Was sarcasm haha, I've never seen Baines do a goal line clearance...