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Apparently Arsenal are gonna try and hijack Newcastles bid for him...

Vicente Del Bosque is willing to pick Michu for Spain but not this guy when they are extremely weak at RB? Fucking ridiculous.

Ba must start along with Luiz as DM to rest Lampard/Ramires, rest will take care of itself.

Hes shaved his head, surely hes off to Spain? Why would he shave his head in this cold weather?????

What the fuck? we still won stop crying about Rafa. Honestly what the fuck is wrong with some people, we win but no we must criticize Rafa still......

If Floppes starts the waiter isn't getting a fucking tip. Not even joking Ba has scored more PL goals than Torres and is a better all round player right now. Feed the Ba and he will score...........

Its his best year at Chelsea but still his whole time here has been awful, would happily get rid of him tomorrow if someone offered 5 million.

Were gonna smash the cunts, don't worry. Ba double and Lamps goal 3-0.

Exactly a first opinion doens't mean anything, he could reject us and then go to Barca/Real....

It gets rid of the 'myth' that Mikel isn't able to pass a ball more than 10 yards doesn' it? Or the 'myth' he isn't able to be creative. I've seen people on here complain because he never plays long verticle passes or never has in however many years or how hes never had assists etc. I was arguing with an Irish guy who tried to tell me that Mikel always played backwards and sideways passes in another thread and that stats would prove that.......which they didn't....... this season and even sometimes last season under AVB he started playing more verticle passes, even in 2009-10 he was playing more verticle passes but still people said 'hes shit, not creative enough, always playing it backwards/sideways.' I mean you can measure him up against Makelele but you'd just be stupid. Makelele was probably the finest in that role. I mean it would be hard for anyone to live up to that.

Aye Mikels passing range is shit, watch 23 seconds in to 33 seconds. Fuck all the song bits, guy claims to have made a Mikel vs Song video even though Song is in it for about 8 hours. The bastard. Also hes not capable of being creative? GET THE FUCK OUT Watch that too...

and breaking news that Falcao is coming to Chelsea in return for Torres ... or any striker in return for Torres... or Torres is leaving....

Its a wee joke haha, just because Scottish people drink plenty scotch and well Spike mentions it a lot too. Tbh would hate to be one of those underage guys who gets smashed every week and ends up a junkie (like a lot of young Scots sadly). Would hate myself if I turned into one of those bellends.

Leave me alone, its because of the scotch. Its affecting both my braincells so I'm getting players names wrong.

No Leif no!!!!! Zidane > Lampard. Zidane > Messi. Zidane is in my eyes in the top 3 players that ever lived, behind Maradonna and Pele, Messi is fourth imo. Zidane was just...... words cannot describe..... he was such a genius on the pitch, even in his older years he managed to carry France by himself to the WC 2006 final. If he hadn't been sent off France would have won the World Cup imo. Things like that seperate Maradonna, Pele and Zidane from the likes of Messi and Ronaldo. Even though Brazil had an amazing team when Pele played, he was undoubtably the star player, goal record speaks for itself, won 3 world cups. Maradonna was Argentina's star man, the world cups he helped them win with his incredible talent, the teams he carried to the top, BOTH GOALS VS ENGLAND ( ).. incredible... sure the drugs and life crisis he suffered put a dampner on that but still an incredible player. Then Zidane, France's most technically gifted player when he was in the side by a mile, winner of a WC and European championship where he played a key role in winning both. Won multiple trophies at club level too where he was a key part of the team. Lampard doesn't even get close to Zidane. I mean sure Lampard is a legend here but Zidane is a legend of the game.

Heard we are going to offer Atletico Madrid Fernando Torres plus 50 million smarties for Falcao. Rumors are that Atleti's president is a bit of a fatty. Real Madrid and PSG have only offered 40 million smarties, seems likely both will pull out of negotiations and try to sign Edison Cavani, along with Arsenal who are interested but Wenger has used all his smarties because he has signed at least 50-100 10 year old children with them. [NOTSKYSPORTSOURCES] Getting bored of this saga, more interested in when we sell Torres rather than when we sign Falcao.

Pmsl. You should go back to RAWK. You are an idiot. You smoke too much pot.

Does that mean Barca are pish because all their players pass the ball 8-10 yards horozontially? Honestley just shut up, I watch every game, Mikel doesn't just play backwards 10 yards passes. Are you ready for this? Average pass length = 17 meters. 604 forward passes (65.7%) 314 backward passes (34.3%) 90% passing accuracy. BITCH PLEASE

If Mikel is too slow and isn't as good a passer why has he been a regular since 2007-08. I know what a DM does but you said Mikel isn't a good enough passer, which he is. Before his suspension and injuries he had completed the most passes in our team, with the highest accuracy. Also your argument about Mikel not finding Mata and that, thats either because they are marked or standing still. You can't just assume, oh there not moving or coming for the ball so its Mikels fault honestly. Also if Busquets isn't Barca's DM and is their playmaker, who is their DM? Messi?

Lets be honest, I don't see why Henrique is being attacked by saying Oscar is overrated. Based on a few goals he has been billed up as what he is currently. Tbh I remember one game where he was outstanding. The Juve game for his 2 goals and job defensively on Pirlo. Hes been hot and cold since, I know its his first season and all but recently I've expected more from him, as I did with Hazard a few months ago the only difference being Hazard has stepped it up a bit where as Oscar hasn't. I think playing him as a #10 is best for him right now, he still needs to grow as a player before even talking about moving him back a seat to play as a deeper midfielder. He was much better at the Olympics than what he has been for the last 4-5 months or so. I'm not agreeing with Henrique completey and saying Oscar is going to be a failure, far from it but still he is being billed up slightly as a better player than what he is.

Since when was it a defensive midfielders job to unlock defences?????????????????????????

Because Soton were played a 4-3-3 I think and going 4-4-2 gives them an extra man in midfield, even if they were playing 4-2-3-1 it gives them an extra man if their AM drops. 4-4-2 is also better suited to a more direct approach which we were only trying at like the 89th minute.

Bullshit. Mikel is a class DM, he does everything you'd want, now hes gets a chance to play verticle passes because there is much more movement in the midfield unlike before. Capoue isn't even as good as Mikel.

Instrumental in inventing it? I doubt it, it is just a varied 4-4-1-1, it was about before Rafa was. Anyway, he used it a lot yes. Valencia, Liverpool and Inter during his reigns were all 4-2-3-1 and so is Chelsea. Its his preferred formation obviously. Ideally in the pivot you want a player next to your holding MF who can build and control the game from deep but who can still provide killer passes when chances are there, spray the ball into space in wide areas to move teams about etc. and right now we don't have such a player. If you look at Modric's stats from the season before that summer we wanted him, never really got a lot of assists and goals but was the most important player in that Spurs team because he was dropping deep getting the ball into players in space who then got assists. We need a player similar to him.

We don't have the right players for 4-2-3-1 as we don't have an actual playmaker or DM at the moment (Romeu injured, Mikel ACON). 4-3-3 is a better system for keeping possession and its much more balanced than the 4-2-3-1. A 4-3-3 with an inverted MF 3 might work but still effectively a 4-2-3-1 really. Rami---------Mikel ----------------------- --------Mata--------