BlueLyon

Slight difference imo; ajax produced them while porto is mostly buying cheap from SA and developing them

Well Cuad is probably off as we already got Pedro. Oscar would be directly replaced by Pogba who can play anywhere as CAM or CM or b2b in 4:3:3. But yeah we should get extra midfielder without letting any current midfielder go. However that would almost certainly be the price to sell Oscar if we want Pogba. Juve is on look for #10, Isco no chance, Draxler was alredy denied by Bepe, so they might be interested in Oscar.

More money in pl will only give one thing: players in all europe will be more expensive. There will be some bargains, but you get the point. As for PL, I think smaller teams improved but generaly all teams in europe did, not just PL. And with the money PL teams have, they do awfull bussiness. Great on paper, shit on pitch. Also, PL is already hungry for good football talents from england. Spain germany even france dont have such problems. Money will make this even worse because small teams will instead of developing own players simply buy foreign. Its quicker and more reliable. Take a look at west ham. Once they were good football academy, now all they do is buy buy buy. And still cant get into europa league. Not to mention the big teams from england in europe. We were much better in past, from 2005-2010. Despite all the names we have now, back then we actualy dominated the midfields with sheer power and quick football with great efficiency. Now we try to be fancy, buy fancy players, but still play defensive. No wonder we ultimately failed since 2012. United and liverpool are shadows of what they were, city is absolute shit in europe. Even Monaco managed to have better campaign last season; the first season of cl football for them in long time. City is there for years now and they still play shit. Arsenal is...well arsenal. Anyway about the money deal, Monaco is perfect example. They had shitload but didnt realy get the best of it. Then the money pipe was closed; they focused on younger players and they actualy have plan, good performances and positive results. Something majority of Pl clubs should take as example. Whole PL is about the money now. La liga, Real and Barca are seriously in the money thing, rest of league is still pretty much focused on playing good football with what they can get. But PL, all about buy buy buy and get fast success. In couple years there will be no more good english players or that percentage will be alot lower than it is now. Everton wont be developing next Stones but rather buy Funes Mori or whoever. Liverpool wont develop next sterling (ibe is not counting here) but will rather buy Firmino. West ham wont be developing next lamps or joe but rather buy Poyet etc.

So Porto just had their most successful mercato in history. Got 118m for their sales. Unbelievable money factory.

Completely agree but if there is a chance to sign Pogba, I couldnt say no. He posses long range threat, has good attitude and isnt cocky unlike many many players his age. Not to mention he is strong player and we need some of power in midfield too. He knows he is CM and will have to work on his tactical positioning if he wants to become one of world best. And he is quite awesome with the ball, unique midfielder. But yes Verrati or Koke have alot more tactical ability and work their ass off in every game, warriors. Pogba has head on right place so it might work aswell.

Theoreticaly Pedro is still harder worker than Hazard so its Hazard who need more protection from behind. But I hope Mou finaly goes with normal football style. Play Azpi on right because he is fucking right back. He will get well with Pedro as well. After spending 20m on fullback Baba, play him for god sake. Baba and Hazard will work well eventualy. Sure in begining we might have some problems with defending on that side, but longterm, the two fit eachother great. Baba can go forward, and actualy contribute to attack and at same time elevate Hazard play to next level. The only thing, is Mou brave enough to give Baba and Hazard a real chance or will he stick to his old football with no imagination? I absolutely hate that our fullbacks are so poor in general play. Take a look at Alaba and Lahm, Marcelo and Carvajal, Alba and Alves etc. Some of those can match and even surpass our midfielders and attackers in terms of creativity, ball control and passing. And we are stuck with Iva and Azpi(on wrong side) who dont contribute to our general play at all. Iva scores some key goals indeed, but his play is still poor. Long gone are the days of Ashley terrorizing the flanks of left side but at same time not allowing anyone get past him.

Lol if you dont look at video but just listen he sounds exactly the same like Mata

I realy liked him when he played for our u21. Its incredibly hard for these players to make a step forward, I think our board should make some changes if they want youth player to actualy get into our first team. But its hard to guess whats wrong because our youth team is doing brilliantly in domestic and european competitions. Maybe the players should get the stick instead of carrot more oftenly.

Im pretty sure Mou tactics I completely agree. France is the place we should be targeting players more, but its alot more difficult since Psg rise (and partly Monaco too). Anyway for pure Mou and Chelsea tactics, I think english, french, african players suit him best. Im not sure why he keeps getting these brazilians and spaniards and then parks the bus every big game. Thats not how you play football. Unless he wants to make revolution to play brilliant defensive football but with top players who can change the style of play in second. However that is a huge risk. Either he will suceed greatly or fail greatly.

Too expensive, but was realy good yesterday.

Im sure if we offer Oscar (and maybe even Cuad) plus money, Juve might consider it. But I think Pogba is not going to play with juve fan hearts and move in this fasion. Im sure once he will move, he will make sure everyone knows its the right time.

Its not big game so I think Cesc will actualy do well Besides there is no one to actualy replace him. Another bad game and yes he should be benched.

Think Baba had 17 in augsburg and ghana nt. Must mean something to him.

Start Baba and Pedro and Im happy. Had enough of Ramires and Iva for now.

Either bring another CM next to Cesc and Matic or drop and eventualy sell him. We are painfuly immobile and unatletic in midfield. Cesc is tacticaly terrible. I think for somone with such a key role and playing in vital position, getting all that praise and all, he has done absolutely nothing in key games; pointing at CL here. Not for us not for Barca before. And that is one major problem regardless of how you look at him. Unless you want us to be like arsenal. Because Cesc is a definiton of Arsenal. He isnt warrior or winner. Good player for small games, invisible in big. And yes big games matter. Big games show the difference between best players and good ones.

I hope he surprises us all. Considering Baba cost us 20m and there are fullbacks like Alex Sandro (close to Juve for 25m), Amavi (6m to villa and already doing well), Kurzawa (linked to psg for 7m), I think Mou has alot to prove with this decision and transfer. If he doesnt play now that Iva is so bad and if Mou doesnt plan to give him long term LB spot, Im not sure what should I think of Mou work. You dont buy Baba for 20m just to be backup for Azpi who is actualy RB. I certainly hope Mou actualy has a plan unlike with Luis.

Ivanovic may be bad defender but he is one brilliant big game player. Efficient and does the job when needed. Deserves more credit for that. Cuadrado on other hand was plain shit for us. He simply isnt PL material.

I feel cold in my heart just by thinking of that possibility. I would only keep Ramires as he still offers something extra in big games, either a goal, good engine, pace, whatever. But for Mikel and Cuadrado, there are shitload of better and more useful players out there. Cheaper too.

Indeed spot on on Cesc. Imo he will have Mata fate in the future. Good player, likable and great stats. But he is not the man for the very top. Not for Mou team at least.

But his take ons and chance creation are even worse than Willian. And he plays for barca... Imo we will get good finisher but thats about it. If team will play shit, Pedro will play shit too. He wont be the one dragging us out, saving us or leading the line. At least he is better than Cuadrado.

He was quite invisible till his goal. Got fouled twice after and made some nice passes and moves, certainly promising lad. But Monaco should have done better this game. They obviously tried, but conceded goals too easy.

Not happening unless Mou went completely crazy against the board. I bet Mou was interested in Pogba after the comments he made about eiffel tower comparison but I feel regardless Pogba is gonna be too expensive for us.

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He is now juve #10. I doubt he would leave this summer, juve is short on midfielders and pogba seems to be happy there and doesnt want to dissapoint the fans. He wants to be remembered like Zidane was.

He has good stats indeed. But I will wait till he shows what he can do here, at Chelsea. Under Mourinho.