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It's important for us not to concede early goal, if we have to come out and attack barca, I'm really afraid we can lose by 3 goals in the end.

I don't think they are being arrogant, their game rely on quick ground pass and a bad pitch really hinder their game.If you watched barca vs milan. The pitch was really poor, player kept slipping and the ball moves really slow.

I really want to know who will win sprint race between bale vs ronaldo.

In term of formation diamond is the best formation but it's highly unlikely we can change our formation in the middle of a season so we should play 4-3-3. ------------Drogba------------- Ramires------------Danny-- -----Meireles-Lampard----- -------------Mikel--------------- Cole - Cahil - Terry - Iva-- Attack Use Danny speed to attack puyol and Drogba aerial ability. Lampard is licensed to go forward to pick up drogba lay off Defense Play very narrow and ramires should track back alves. Cole and Iva should stay back (no overlap). Mikel should man mark messi when he is in between our mid and defense

It's the best way to attack barcelona, if you watched milan vs barcelona in both leg, I thought allegri was brilliant. They carved open barca time and time again with only two type of attacks. Long ball to ibra and diagonal pass from left to right by seedrof/aquilani to exploit puyol on the left. We have drogba to do the 1st one, unfortunately we don't have anybody in our team that can make long diagonal pass, so we should just defend and pump long ball to drogba and ask him to hold the ball for our mid.

It's actually pretty simple. Drogba has to play because of his aerial threat

Rest mata and drogba please

Fantastic pass by mata, Tottenham does not try to man mark mata, it's a recipe for disaster for any team

It's not status that I am worried about, it's level of play. If you want to buy player for their potential and develop them, you need to wait a couple years for them to get their potential because most of them will not be at starter level for team like chelsea. The problem is that nobody know what is their potential, you need to play them regularly for them to be better. We will be in the mid table while waiting for them to become good (hopefully they will become good). Take your example, will josh,piazon,danny become world class player ? Nobody know.

For a big club like chelsea whose target is to win epl/ucl, you cannot just buy plenty of cheap player. If you do that, it means you are trying to be a middle tier club. Player like demba ba/papis cisse is a big gamble. If you buy them to be part of your rotation then fine, if you want them to be your main guy then you are actually joking. Arsenal has rvp, mu has rooney, Totehnham has adebayor, city has aguero.All of them are world class player, we need a player to be able to compete against them.

I think I mentioned this couple months ago, Danny will not play as CF. With one striker system, you need a striker who can hold the ball and link up with other player. These are not danny strength, he is a runner so he should stick on playing on the wing.

We can speculate who should we buy but in the end it really depends on who our manager is for next season. Is it going to be rdm who like to play 4-2-3-1, is it somebody else who want to play 4-4-2 (Which mean we need to buy another striker) ? If malouda and kalou leaves this summer, we will definitely need wingers. I don't think kdb,stud and ramires are good enough. Same for midfield if essien and meireles leave we will need new mid, because right now we have plenty of mid even though imo they are not good enough.

I really like modric, but he is really expensive, if we got him instead of meireles, I am sure that AVB will still have his job. I heard MVla is really good mid with passing ability, but I have never watched him play.

I really like mata, he is probably our best player right now but I don't think I want him to be my best player, I want him to be our 3rd best player. (I think when we signed torres, He is supposed to be our no 1 or 2 but It does not look like it's going to happen). Imo we need two more key players in order for us to compete in UCL and PL next season. I agree Cabaye will not come cheap and like I said I really like him, if we can get him , I'll be very happy but I don't think he should be our priority.

Everybody mention cabaye, I like cabaye but he is another box to box. What we need is a passer who can help to create chance from mid. But again it depend who is our manager and what brand of football that he want to play. Btw I can't wait for next season. We have played plenty boring and awful games this season. Tbh if I am not a Chelsea fan, I definitely will not watch our games especially this past few games. I was about to go to sleep before benfica scored their goal.

There is no point comparing two players in two different eras, everything is different so there is absolutely no point. Btw there is not such thing as single handedly winning the league/cup in football. Football is a team game, you need your teammate probably more than any game. Can Maradona score a goal by passing 3-4 players ? yes he can, but can he do that every single game ? Can he stop other team from scoring ? Does he need his teammate to open up space for him and pass him the ball ? In football it's better to have 11 good player rather than 1 great player and 10 crappy players. You can put maradona/messi/CR to wigan, I am pretty sure they are not going to win the league,

We just have no idea how to create chances

Because their system does not require the midfielder to be very special. Since the first time I watched manu their play depend on two very good winger and they have plenty of good wingers. And btw scholes and giggs are still very good player because they are technical player which mean they don't lose their skill like lampard and essien does

Wow, I thought he has been pretty much playing every game this season for Manchester united except early season when saf think nani is better than him.

Just wondering, for all barca haters in this forum don't you guys envy how they build their team ? They have so many home grown players in their squad and they keep bringing youngster from their academy to the 1st team. I really wish we can do the same.

I dont't think messi will ever win a world cup. You need a very good defense to win a knock out competition. I watched Argentina in last copa America, their defense was very poor

You forget about Valencia who is epl best winger this season by far.

I really want to back rdm for full time manager for next season but I just can't. He has done tremendous job getting result for us and getting good result while u are playIng badly is a trait of a good manager but I have never seen us playing well under rdm. More importantly this summer is a very important summer for us and I still don't trust rdm to do the job.

Not many big club is still using 2 strikers. Until we can get one striker who can create for others like Rooney or ibra, it's going to be difficult to Play 2 up top

Tbh no. He gave aimar plenty of time and space. But he has to because we only have one dm