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I know how good Mata is but I'm just being honest here, Ozil is superb. What a signing for Arsenal. 42.5m pounds or whatever Wengers payed will more than likely be a very good investment. Just look at his performances for Germany in that World Cup and his first 2 seasons at Madrid. Sure last season he seemed a bit disinterested and lazy but things had gone sour there. I have not forgot how good Mata is, I'm just a bit jealous that Arsenal have signed Ozil. Hes incredible.

I can see Podolski and Mertesacker helping him settle in well, which is bad news for the PL because hes a top top player. If Wenger can get the best out of him then Arsenal could be very good. Giroud is picking up goals everywhere at the moment too so with Ozil playing behind him he could score lots more...

Vitesse, what the fuck haha. I thought we could only loan them 3 players, seems there is 6 there now...

No way is Mata better than Ozil. Sorry but I think Ozil is better. Ozil is the best attacking midfield player I have seen emerge in the last 3 or 4 years or so. Mata is very good but Ozil is brilliant. When hes fully fit and up for a game hes immense. Didn't have the greatest season last year but still I think for the last 5 years hes averaged something like 15 assists per year.... which is incredible. When you take into mind that he was playing for Werder Bremen before Madrid who were really an average team when he was as well its an incredible stat. This is literally the best assist I have seen.. he shows so much awareness and technically its immense. I don't actually get why Madrid are selling him when Ozil is much better than Isco imo. I guess this Madrid lacking a lot of Spanish players is a major thing these days.

I thought Michael Emenalo or whatever his face is was doing well with loans, but Moses to Liverpool and Ba to Arsenal, jesus wont be long before we loan Hazard or Mata to Man United........ I hate these sort of loans.

Indeed I would. Bale isn't as technically gifted as Hazard. Hes much more gifted physically but he lacks the technique that Hazard has.

Pmsl Madrid will have to pay at least triple that for Hazard then, because hes better than Bale.

Only way I'd sell Mata was if I knew we were getting someone like Ozil in to replace him... Ozil is an unbelievable talent, excellent technique sometimes looks unorthodox but hes amazing.

If Arsenal get Ozil and we sell Mata I will be annoyed

Ramires - Mikel Mikel - van Ginkel Ramires - van Ginkel seem the best fits based on their playing styles.

Haha hardly. Sturridge was good for us for about until about December from when there was talk of AVB getting sacked and then up until he was sacked. I seen more or less every game he played in that season, several games hes was subpar in, as the whole team was. If he was that good he would of stood out like Mata managed to do for the whole season but he didn't. He would hardly score more for us, supposing the Liverpool side is built around him/Suarez when he returns and Coutinho, as in comparison to the Chelsea side when he was here built around Drogba, Lampard, and Mata. Sturridge is never going to be good enough for us to built a side around him. We have much better players to build our side around.

Your prediction you made about Giroud scoring a lot of goals looks like it could come true... Spurs badly lack a create midfielder. Holtby is capable but AVB didn't play him... Eriksen not registered in time..

Still not good enough for Chelsea imo. Yeah hes smashing goals in for an average Liverpool side but who gives a fuck... hes average and always will be.

Barbara gets my vote this month. Although there are many other members who could win this too. Plus the admin deserve a lot of credit for keeping the forum running!

Stupidest loan ever but what the hell.

Could just sing some Will.I.Am songs, I'm sure he'd get it eventually...

Still dont want to see him in the pivot. Theres a difference from what he does in the #10 role defensively than what we'd expect from him in the pivot.

Comparing his first few games for us to the game tonight, tactically he is so much better. He offers Cole much more protection, this is due to hard work from Benitez and Mourinho who are coaches who specialize on the more defensive side of the game. Hope he can start doing what he does best which is creating and scoring lots of goals. His goal tonight is what I'd like to see him do more often, similar to Ribery's goal, cut in from the left flank and shoot low and hard.

I think we'll see Hazard-Oscar-Schurrle against big teams in away games. As we seen tonight, all 3 work very hard and we have great balance with those 3.

Didier will be able to relate to what he did tonight in a way, he got sent off in the 2008 final in Moscow (obviously not a missed penalty but still effectively the same as one as hes a specialist at penalties and you'd have backed him to score), hopefully Romelu gets second chance in a European final to put things right. He will be the best person to pick Romelu up, hes his idol and he has had such a similar thing happen to him in a way.

ASSASSINS CREED MOVIE!!!!!!!!

On a few more viewings I change my mind a bit and agree with you that Ramires could have done better. Cahill and Ramires positioning isn't great. Ramires gets sucked into the ball too easily. If both of them where slightly further to the left then 1) Ramires could have tackled Ribery or he wouldn't have seen the space to run into an 2) Cahill would be in a better position to come and close him down if he did.

I think hes made slight adaptations to his game, he's obviously not worked with Jose for too long so its still a work in progress. His passing percentage is quite bad, most of his passes were long ones though, aimed towards our wide players so we could hit them on the counter which was the game plan. His partnership with Cahill looks to keep improving, under AVB they were shocking together, Robbie and Benitez used them at times and they looked better (most notably the CL final) and tonight him and Gazza looked good together. I suppose we had everyone behind the ball 9 times out of 10 so they had a lot of protection but I'm not taking anything away from how far they've come as a partnership.

Cahill could have went out to him as well then if we are being picky. I feel Cech could have saved that.

Looks like Mourinho has spoken to him and made slight changes to his game, when to go forward, when to stay, when to play it out, when to clear it etc. Also what a penalty.