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He is a box to box midfielder similar to Lampard, they can pass but now well enough to become a passer.

04/05 for sure 11/12 is the luckiest

I completely agree with you, especially in term of integrating the youth. Arsenal,Manu and Barca have a system and It make it so much easier for them to play their youth player to the 1st team. Even though we won UCL and FA cup, I really hate the way we play. 10 men behind the ball + long ball to drogba. It was really ugly. I don't mind playing defensive football but at least try to win the game.

If he can make that shot 5 out of 10 times, we must sign him

I really hope that is not true. Lampard is a legend but we need to move on

I don't think sneijder will fit the way we play. He is more suited to play as no 10 and we already have mata.

He is a more direct mata. He is an attacking mid so I don't think he can play in mid. I watched him play only once (Bayern vs Dortmund), I thought he was outstanding in that game, picking the ball up in midfield and lead the quick counter. IMHO Mata is the better player but I think kagawa is better for us.

I think it's more about the performance rather than the style of football. In term of result. We have been very poor in most games. I am not talking about possesion,shot on goal, etc. If you watched our game against benfica, I tought we are lucky to beat benfica over 2 legs. We were really poor against them. Even against Bayern, ye we won but they missed tons of chances and We did not even create any chance.

That is going one expensive lawn mower

I think Drogba made a good decision to leave. It's good for everybody. He is leaving in high note. And We need to rebuild for next season.

The reason he played better under AVB is because AVB system is about bossing the game and possesion football which is what Mata good at. Under RDM on the other hand, we played a very direct game. Cech -> drogba. So he is not involved in most of our play. Btw he is much better playing in the center because mata is not really fast and it's so much easier for us to find him when he play central.

I don't see RDM will accept one year deal. So it's either long term deal for RDM or we go for another manager. In term of result and throphies, RDM has proven that he can do it but in term of performance, I don't think so.

Definitely top 5 striker in the world right now

What a mean thread

I have defended Torres plenty of times this season and kept saying that we don't utilize him the right way. At the same time, I always think that he does fit with our system and if we can get a good money for him, sell him.

I like inter comparison because we are in similar situation. We really need to reduce some of our older guard role/offload them and buy new first team players.

It's true that Ramires passing is not great and his technique is so so. But he has the ability to turn defense into offense and drive team forward (Like Yaya toure for City but ramires is much faster) The only reason we want to play 2 passer in mid is when we want to really boss the game and It's not chelsea style to boss the game. We are more comfortable in playing direct football. Moreover with mata on our side, I don't think we need to play with 2 passer in midfield. We don't want to be too "barcelona". And btw I think ramires signed a new contract with us a couple months ago.

Actually in 4-3-3, ramires work perfectly. Because in midfield you need one passer, one runner (Ramires), and one defensive mid. In 4-2-3-1, ramires cannot play in midfielder, he is more suited playing on the wing and should be used if we have to face a team like Real madrid/MU who has great winger. I don't think hazard/marin/mata can help our full back to defend against CR and chased down marcelo.

If you are saying that Bayern played better than us, they did but it does not matter. We won and the rest is history :blue scalf: In football, the better team does not always win.

Ramires out ? Wow We need a defensive winger who can defend especially against team who has really good full back/winger.

I think it is the timing that is wrong, other than that if the quote is true, I am not surprised

He has not been consistent for the whole year, there is no way he will win the award

If you are saying that Chelsea win it with old and non British players, It's true and I don't really see any problem with it. How will we benefit ? It is simple => More money + more exposure which mean we can get better players to come to chelsea

An UCL winning coach will say no to assistant manager position. He is a legend now in Chelsea but I don't want him to be our manager next season

It is written in the star :blue scalf: :blue scalf: