OneMoSalah

Na I still feel the most ridiculous post made was one of yours saying Tiote was better than Mikel.

I think he chose Bayern because they basically have the same set up as Barca, they are very well run upstairs and well... you said it yourself they are a top side in a 2 sided league. I think he can take Bayern to another level though, the last 2 years they have been undermined in a way by Klopp and his brilliant Dortmund team similar to what Madrid had sort of done to Barca for a while before Guardiola took over. He will walk into the job with a quality squad but its not as good as the Barca squad Pep assembled. There will be a lot of quality players who could be sold in that team I'd imagine. He did the same at Barca.

I wouldn't say the Barca job was a guaranteed trophy laden job (well not 16 trophies in 4 years anyway) as they required work tbh but I agree about Bayern especially with Dortmund constantly losing their better players each year it seems (Kagawa and now Lewa).

I think its fair to say there's been one stand out member this month and hes already been nominated. Full English Breakfast.

Highlighted in pre-season he looked awful, has been more exposed recently but hes not been great this season at all.

He had a bad game today but so did the whole team. The way he played against United coming on and dominating the game showed how good he really is. Just an off day today. When we lose the amount of abuse Mikel gets is ridiculous. Some of it I think ok maybe he didn't do this that and this but there's some of it that isn't even his fault. Hes obviously the scapegoat of the team.

Dear Chelsea FC Scouts, Next time you decide to raid the Bundesliga, please get one of Draxler, Bittencourt, Leitner or Gotze instead... not some washed up midget called Marko Marin who hasn't been anywhere near as good as he was in 2010. Yours, Ryan.

Ivanovic = bullshit this year. Terry = falling to pieces, surprised hes in one piece still. Luiz = crazy, can play good for 89 minutes then shoot himself in the foot in the 90th minute. His random long passes to nobody are very annoying too. Cahill = average CB, gives his all at least, dependable but not a top quality defender. Best partnership probably is Luiz and Terry. Need to get a quality center back in soon though. Either this summer or next.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT 9-2 BAYERN VS HAMBURG....... Speaks volumes about Bayerns quality by the time Claudio Pizzaro is somehow scoring 4 goals hahaha wow, did he even score 4 goals for us?

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.