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Excellent analysis, I like the way city player occupy space, when the stroker move wide, the midfield occupy the space in the middle. It just looks extremely fluid

Totti is another one

Playing Gerrard, Carrick and Barry together are just overkill. I probably will drop either Carrick or Barry and play either lamp/Wilshere. Playing sturidge on the wing is just suicide because he does not want to track back, losing Walcott is a big loss imo

I think it is more because of injury more than Gotze, at one time they lost their whole back line, it is just crazy. The also lost kuba and gundogan. If you have thin squad like dortmund losing that many players will weaken your team. Imagine if we lose iva,terry,cahiil.azpi and we have to play bertrand luiz mikel cole

I don't see any reason to put Hazard in the middle,right now he is still predominantly a dribbler and left wing I believe is his best position.

The thing is he is not your typical no 10 who like to play between the lines, he is more of a attacking midfielder or I heard central winger as the new term. IMO he suit what mou want from his no 10 especially because Mou want to build our team around Hazard, Oscar is willing to work hard to cover space and his off the ball movement is terrific.

To be honest, for this game I am just excited more than anything, my expectation for this season is to be in top 3 and more importantly to build some kind of identity which is what Mourinho is doing, so I have no problem if we lose. For this game, I think mou will play a 4-3-3 lineup, a DM is a must against city to deny Silva space in the midfield and both of our winger must trackback especially our right winger because Kolarov is extremely dangerous.

Good signing, I love our transfer strategy

Not that easy against city who has dzeko and Negredo

Agree, This guy will make united become scary good but I don't see him going anywhere.

Lol I have never heard manager as honest as Tim sherwood in interview

Liverpool games showed biggest problem for team like everton, they just don't have enough squad depth. They lose Distin and Coleman and their back line looked really awful

I think it is more about size we are a short team right now basically our front four are just small (other than ba n toress). btw I am talking about defending set pieces

Andres Townsend should not be allowed to do any draw It is Chelsea v. City and Arsenal v. Liverpool

Agree, even under Juup Bayern was actually a possession based team and Kroos is just the perfect player for that style whereas muller is more of a runner

I am not sure I want us to sign him after watching this

To be fair, kroos is juup prefered no 10 before he get injured

How many really good player want to be just bench player where he can be starter in another big team. - Rooney last year wanted to leave - Thiago move to bayern - even Lampard complained when he did not play under AVB. he probably will be somewhere else by now, if AVB is still here.

Lol who said mata did not try, he tried to adapt but it was difficult for him to be good in mourinho system. Imagine if we start playing like Barcelona with short passing and no crosses, I am sure drogba will struggle to adapt.

Can't wait to see him playing for 90 minutes, Manu game exposed our lack of composed passer from midfield. Hopefully he can fill that role

I agree that CR deserve balon d'or but last year he was one of the main problem for RM. I haven't watched Real at all this season so I don't know about this season, but last year one of RM main problems was their left side, every team knows that you want to attack CR side because he does not really want to defend ( I remember Jurgen Klopp even mentioned it in his interview). Against poorer side, it is not a problem but against good team like BVB it was a problem

One think I will say about Mourinho regarding mata is that I wish he can find a way to make it work but because we are Chelsea and we can buy almost anybody, he can replace him with player that fit his system better. If he is managing teams like Milan or Arsenal, I am not sure it is going to be the same.

His playmaking skill is ok at best. Other than his physical gift, I really like his movement but definitely not his playmaking skill.

In term of that pure play-making ability, it is not even close but with the way Mourinho want us to play Oscar is the perfect player. I think sneijder will face similar fate to mata if he is in our team

There are two reasons why I hate this transfer 1. Manu - no comment 2. Now we only have 4 am for 3 position,I don't think it is enough for half a season Other than that I think this deal is great for everybody, - we got 37 mill pounds which is a lot of money that we can invest in the summer. - Manu got a very2 good player (for those who think otherwise need to watch mata closely last year, imo last year he was EPL player of the year) although I am not sure he is a MU type of player but maybe Moyes want to do something different and Kagawa probably will move back to Dortmund after this. - Mata got to showcase his talent in WC year which I think is one of the main factor in his decision.