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Strike

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  1. yeah..he was pure gold against City wasn't he?but i agree. he was on the wing then and he is just useless on the wing. kept running into City players all game pivot suits him better
  2. about Benat, his contract runs out in 2014 And i think Betis maybe looking to sell him for less. maybe 10-12 mil.. we should take a look at players whose contract runs out in 2014 or 2015. Benat Lewandowski Moutinho Capoue Gundogan...lot of quality options to pursue
  3. loading talkchelsea on mobile leads to Google playstore. what is tapatalk?
  4. A Regista , Attacking mid, a striker Ins :-Benat (£12m) Schurrle (20m) Cavani (£30m) Total:- £62m Loan Returns - Courtois, de Bruyne, chalobah, lukaku, Outs:- Lampard free, Malouda free, Torres £10m Benayoun £4 Essien £5m Total Recovered :- 20m wouldn't be a bad summer would it? we'd have 4 strikers in the squad - Cavani Ba Lukaku Schurrle
  5. whatever nutterhead decided to go into the season with only 1 (Torres) as our senior striker, probably cost us a title challenge.if city/united play poorly, Aguero/Dzeko/RVP would bail them out. when we play poorly, we drop points. now with Ba we are slightly better but then again, playing twice a week since January is not helping. the squad is simply tired
  6. fellaini had a stinker. don't think we'll sign him after this
  7. one stark difference i think between the two teams - United attackers Rooney, Welbeck, Valencia etc. all track back willingly. our boys Hazard Mata don't. atleast not often. leaves us exposed
  8. edit: i believe in this team though. most of the players had barely any Premier League experience. in 2-3 years, we will improve.
  9. optimistic from my side. i don't want to see us park the bus with Ramires and Bertrand on the wing
  10. Cech Azpi Ivan JT Cole --Mikel Ramires Oscar Mata Hazard -------Ba Bench:Turnbull Cahill Luiz Lampard Marin Moses Torres Need big performances from the midfielders to do well
  11. i don't think so. i haven't seen him at Genk but at Werder he has been a defensive liability this season. ofcourse he has been played out of position but he doesn't have 'ball-winning' ability.this is from WAGNH "About De Bruyne's defensive skills. He's a more than willing worker, I've yet to really note him failing to track back. He's also pretty good about identifying where to be, and filling the appropriate spaces. Unfortunately that's where my defensive praise of De Bruyne is going to end. He's a terrible tackler at this point, committing fouls or coming up empty on over 3/4 of his attempts to dispossess an opponent. He does seem to realize that he's just very poor in this regard, and doesn't attempt to tackle very often because of it. He also tends to back off and cover space, but doesn't intercept many balls in the process."
  12. my concern is that then we'll be unbalanced defensively. de Bruyne and Mata are already defensive liabilities. while modric is better at harrying around, his ballwinning ability isnt great. agree that attackingwise he would improve the team massively
  13. not arguing attacking-wise....
  14. attack-wise he'll help but defensively it leaves us exposed especially with Oscar Mata de Bruyne around
  15. attack-wise he'll help but defensively it leaves us exposed especially with Oscar Mata de Bruyne around
  16. Looks Thai to me. Woulda been neater if there was no Red and blue horizontal stripe
  17. This. Exactly this.We caught a glimpse of Verrati in preseason where he made our midfield look bad. Moutinho i think is the more evolved option. there are others like Cabaye or Strootman but i think Moutinho is the best option out there. he rejected Spurs. the fans will surely like him
  18. i think the defensive-duties problem here is worsened by our wingers failing to track back. now when you add Mata to it, we have 3 players who focus on attacking apart from the striker. if the pivot were world class, we'd probably get away with it but its hardly world class is it? its weird when in essence he's our best player - Mata
  19. he can harry around but his ball winning ability isn't great. no doubt he'd walk into our pivot and improve it. just that if we can get someone who operated deeper, we'll get better defensive securitymeanwhile de Bruyne has been dire with his defending at Werder this season.
  20. ball dictator he maybe but his defensive abilities raise question marks. in a team with Mata Oscar Hazard shying away from defensive duties we need strong pivot imo
  21. he's playing nice with United. that's weird even for Jose.
  22. Cech Ferreira Cahill JT Bertrand Ake Ramires Moses Oscar Marin Torres Rest Ivan, Azpi, AC3, Lamps, Mata, Hazard, Ba
  23. http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/3/4/4040610/potential-chelsea-fc-manager-manuel-pellegrini-tactics-formation-substitutions-profile Good read on Manuel Pellegrini. Makes a good case for him but also cites the Real Madrid stint as a possible reason to stay away from him
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