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Exactly. I was telling my mate today he is utter useless in games when teams press us and give us little time on the ball. Everyone, well not everyone, a lot of Chelsea fans seem to think hes still the player he was 3-4 years ago when he clearly isn't. I've heard 'he should be given a contract because of the fact hes scored 180 odd goals for Chelsea' far too many times this year too (before he scored a lot of his goals this season and ultimately his 200th). Maybe a 20 goal a season central midfielder is irreplaceable but a central midfielder of high quality that fits a philosophy and formation isn't. This team isn't built around the likes of Lampard, Drogba, Makelele, Terry etc anymore. Also the point about him taking a pay cut, even for a player who's going to play against all the smaller teams, 80k a week is a lot. I doubt Mata is even on 80k a week. That money could be reinvested elsewhere.

That goal Bale scored, wow. It seems hes really improved technically, I said on twitter that a year ago I wouldn't have said hes that good technically but hes doing all sorts of things very impressively. I wonder if that's down to Villas-Boas' coaching or just Bale wanting to improve in that aspect. How many people in the PL could score a goal similar to that? 5? Suarez, Bale, RVP, Hazard, Rooney and even possibly Mata or Silva? In fact in Europe there are only a few other players I believe who could score a similar goal including Messi, Ronaldo, Inieista and Zlatan possibly. Incredible really.

I'm just trying to avoid getting banned here

Haha...

Why? Is he not a Baines fan ?

Hopefully we'll get to see Ba vs Rio too, I remember when Newcastle beat United 3-1 last season he absolutely bullied him and Evans and scored a peach.

Hopefully Hazard will play on the left up against Rafael and make an arse of him. Hes the weakness in United's team and he will start no doubt.

Luke Shaw is still vastly unproven. All this transfer talk is premature, especially for what is it, 16.5 million, or something we are willing to pay? Hes looked good but hes not been the stand out LB this year. Leighton Baines has, hes the only LB I'd pay 16.5 million for in the BPL right now.

Maybe someone needs to come in and do what Guardiola did at Barca, sold Deco, Belleti, Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Henry etc or what AVB tried and bleed them out. Some of our senior players could as well go this summer if Roman wants to do it in fact. They have been utter bullshit this season. The amount of times Bran, JT, Cole and Lampard have looked shit this season is ridiculous. Jay Rodriguez destroyed JT and Bran today and hes one of the most average players in the league. Either that or give them a boot up the arse Fergie style.

If we sell De Bruyne we might as well sell Hazard, Mata and everyone else and replace them with average players like Schurrle, Marin and Fellaini........

Courtois, De Bruyne, Lukaku, Piazon, Romeu, Kalas and Omeuro are all good enough for the 25 man squad. Baffled if at least 4 of them aren't in it next year. Even Essien could have been good enough for us this year tbh and even Florent fucking Malouda.......... in fact I will go as far as saying Gael Kakuta could have been useful instead of Marin and Benayoun this year and I don't even rate the kid. Point is we need to get some of these players back (Coutois, Lukaku, De Bruyne, Kalas, Omeuro) I know it may harm some of their development but they would get games. We could then use different systems 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-1-3-2 etc as we would have personnel to try in different systems unlike the 4-2-3-1 which we have to play as we are short on CMs...

He will make a good signing on loan at Vitesse next year.

Heard that Jay Rodriguez was fucking him up all day, sad to say but it seems hes declining.

Also put Pogba in there too who is an incredibly talented player. Its incredible all the talented players the French have but how much of a shite team they are in competitions. Strikingly similar to what we are, have a lot of talented players but can't play as a team and play incredibly shit a lot.

Some of the young players we have would be better just to throw in, the likes of De Bruyne especially considering hes well not an established international but hes getting regular games for Belgium, as Lukaku has done for a few years now too. I'd like to have seen Rafa take a gamble with De Bruyne and recall him, possibly the same with Romelu but I suppose, even if he had suggested it he would probably have been told no haha.

Statistically I seen hes made the most interceptions in the PL right now or is it Europe. Some crazy stat like hes made 100 and something interceptions this season. What I've seen, I've liked. In general I've liked how Southampton have approached games this year under both managers they've had. Could be a gamble though but I'd take him as back up to Mikel right now tbh especially since Romeu doesn't look great in the 4-2-3-1. Hes benefiting from playing next to Jack Cork in some games as it gives him a lot more freedom to get forward and get to the box. He'd be an interesting buy for sure but are the board/scouts at this club really going to look at him? Probably not.

We were pressed, nobody was calm or wanted to be brave/bold today. The fact that Rafa decided to put on Yossi instead of Demba too, just whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the fuck man.

Just play the loanees, rest the guys who have played like 70 games this season.

Meh I wont argue with that, was just going to pots like all 3005300 of Del Pieros goals vs Real Madrid. Few beauties there. Anyway remember this... and this and this and this and this trying to find a video of Didier's freekick against Arsenal but can't

Indeed. I remember he scored one quite recently vs Newcastle Jets (was put on twitter by some goals page). Also one against Real Madrid in 08 that was a peach too. 1:50 something in.Can we not just make this a 'great goals' thread?

Bitch please, where is Nakamura?

He still has time, its just a matter of when does he move? This summer, next year? 3 years time? Hes got to make the jump before its too late or he'll just be known as that kid who ripped up the Dutch division but never had a crack anywhere else.

Hes not that good, hes been overhyped for years. He has certain qualities but he isn't amazing. Hes also a #10 not a #8 so hes a no no basically. Anyway Eriksen should of moved a year ago to a more competitive league, the Dutch league is a good league to develop talent but it can only take players so far in all honestly especially a kid billed with the talent and ability he is meant to have. I mean look at Suarez, he did well in Holland, scored over 100 goals and eventually moved to Liverpool, if he stayed in Holland he'd be able to play really average and probably still score for fun. He needs to play in a more competitive team and league to push himself to the best of his abilities. I don't think hes as great as he was made out to be a few years ago and I hope we don't get him as we have 4 better AM options; Hazard, Mata, Oscar, De Bruyne.

Cant afford to lose, need to get more points on the board and open up a big gap between ourselves and Spurs/Arsenal/Everton to get third place guaranteed. If we beat Soton we go 4 points clear of Spurs which is a start but we still need to build on it and then beat Sunderland the week after.

Probably going to leave Brazil in the summer, according to Internacionals president.