OneMoSalah

Wtf, see in your picture, is that you smoking weed or something because how can you have possibly mistaken Richards for Balotelli at all??

Richards is still Englands best right back though. Imagine Richards - Cahill - JT - Cole in the same team. Could be an amazing defense if they sort things out.

We weren't in negotiations according to him, nobody has been lol!

Really? Jesus whats wrong with Pinto Da Costa?!?!

Hulk for 32 million, we are dealing with Porto mate!!

OoOooh YOU TOTALLY BURNED WHS!!

Apparently Fulham want him on loan with an option to buy him at the end of next season... fuck off Martin Jol ya baldy cunt.

Exactly, remember when Bosingwa man marked fuck out of Messi and stopped him running the show in 2009...... at LEFT BACK. Does that make Messi a bad player? No.

Said on twitter he denied claims he asked for 200k p/w plus hes about to start contract talks.

Hes actually Austrian but was raised in Switzerland. He has got Turkish and Moroccan roots. Played for Switzerland 19s and 21s then switched his alliance to Turkey. Tricky bastard he is. How many nationalities does he want like?

Micah Richards would be some signing, such a good right back. He makes Bosingwa look like well Bosingwa.

Really wanted Borini back before Liverpool got him, I know its not an obvious choice but still. Lewandowski second choice. Not for more than 30 million though.

He wasn't our best midfielder last season mate, did you watch our games? Ramires was clearly the best player in the midfield.

Haha Fergie paying over the odds for another overrated player. Well done to him, especially after saying Hazard wasn't worth 32 million now their paying at least 10 million more than they should for Lucas. Brilliant.

Typical Drogba eh

Its Mikel vs the world!!

I posted something about formations I think we could use instead of the 4-2-3-1 in the formation and tactics thread... http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/13970-formation-and-tactics-discussion/page__st__18 Cba going and copy and pasting it

4-1-4-1 4-4-1-1, bit more advanced though I'll explain. Effectively Mata is a left winger and Hazard is in the number 10 position. Ramires is more of a wide midfielder, Mikel sitting slightly deeper and Oscar just a CM. Mata and Hazard could interchange positions (similar to what Inter Milan's Ricardo Alvares and Wesley Sneidjer did in this formation under Andrea Stramaccioni in May when Inter beat AC Milan 4-2.) If they both end up in central positions the team can switch to 4-3-2-1 or a 4-3-3 basically with Ramires coming inside as a box to box midfielder. Also if we occupy the build up play more to the left with Hazard and Mata interchanging, we could then spray the ball to right into space catching teams out (hopefully) where our right back could go and deliver the ball in to the box. Kind of links on with the bit I just mentioned, if we had a right back like Dani Alves or Maicon we could play a 4-4-1-1 but with 3 central midfielders in Ramires, Mikel and Oscar, the ball could come inside to either Oscar, Mikel and Ramires and then to the right back who could go further up and provide a cross/shoot for goal as Ramires isn't the greatest crosser in the world. (Similar to what Inter did with Zanetti coming inside more and Maicon having all the right flank to himself.) Also it enables us to get more bodies into the box if we have a third central midfielder spare rather than having a winger and full back both in the flank. Just an idea, read about Stramaccioni's tactic vs Milan and wondered if we could use it but for a start we'd need a more attacking right back with pace, good delivery and stamina being able to go back and fourth easily. http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/05/07/inter-4-2-milan-inter-build-up-play-down-the-left-then-spread-it-to-the-right/

I was watching some Real Madrid highlights of Sahin from last season, he actually makes vital tackles and gets quite a few interceptions as well as playing good long passes from deep. I'd imagine he'd be a good buy for us but I don't think Robbie will go for him, unless Spurs want him then we can pip AVB to him. Also he played in a 4-2-3-1 at Dortmund & Real so its not really a new formation he will have to adapt to.

Hes a proper out and out winger, apparently able to play upfront but I've never seen it. He can play both sides as well as he has done for Wigan. If we sign Moses and get Lukaku playing good, imagine them 2 beasts up top outmuscling everyone

HAHAHAHA ASHLEY COLE, WORLDS BEST LB AND FUNNIEST TWEETER

Also against Arsenal under Robbie he played quite good, completed more or less all his passes a part from a few. If we were to play a fluid 4-3-3, Romeu has to be given the nod ahead of Mikel as he was basically brought up playing in a fluent 4-3-3, where as Mikel clearly struggled in a fluid 4-3-3 for us last season.

Essien and Meireles put themselves about and have plenty of experience compared to Josh. Anyway under AVB Josh played good in those Carling Cup games. AVB's philosophy seemed better suited for Josh, same with Romeu. I just hope he goes on loan this year to a decent club who play decent enough football (maybe Brighton, Blackpool, Wigan or a lower league Spanish club )

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Wouldn't even say hes worth 10 million. Very average.