BlueLyon

Is Maksimovic good? Heard about him but never watched torino... And please no subotic. The guy was mister dependable, the better part of pair with Hummels. He was reason why Hummels who was always kinda Luiz 2.0 never got stick and subotic rescued Bvb and Hummels many times. But he become realy bad. Now bvb still has Luiz in Hummels while another luiz in subotic. Their defense is shit, their gk is bad too. I wouldnt take anyone from their team atm, not to pair with Zouma atleast. While Hummels is good cb, he needs someone reliable to drag him out of shit many times. Zouma on other hand needs a leader, someone who is reliable. Godin would be my pick, but he isnt exactly brilliant with ball. Varane is not an option IMO and Laporte is too young. We need experienced reliable leader to pair with Zouma and Terry is fine for now, but eventualy it will be very hard to find proper replacement. Though it has to be said, Mou knows how to pick defenders quite well.

I think until he wins CL with us, his career here wont be complete. And Im sure if he will be here long enough, we will win another one with him.

From emotional level there are quite a few, from Ballack, Luiz, Lampard, Carvalho, etc. From pure footballing level its only Robben. He is one of best players last 5 years and we dont have true RW. It has to be biggest loss because he would fit us like a glove. He isnt as injury prone anymore, he has speed, long range threat and hard worker. While we had many other benefits from sales of Luiz,Mata etc (money), Lamps, Ballack, carvalho (age), Robben become too good for just 30m we got. I can only imagine how much more could we win if we had him here. Im sure he is only player we seriously regret selling. It makes it even worse because we still dont have proper RW (Cuadrado hopefuly).

Would rather Thiago Motta if there is a chance. He worked with Mou before and looks solid no nonsense CM.

Alonso is another who i highly respect for his time under Mou. He was always reasonable, admited there were issues and remained classy. Ramos, Pepe, Casillas and Ronaldo were big egoistic cunts althtough I think Ramos-Mou picture was blown up by media, I think they dont hate that much each other.

Robben now saying Mou is great coach and that he is happy he had chance to learn under Mou at young age.

I hope they stay in buli, I just saw that song over the web and it was funny.

Just checked this comparison between Zouma and Varane http://www.squawka.com/comparison-matrix#premier_league/2014/2015/kurt_zouma/126/126/1419/0/p|la_liga/2014/2015/raphael_varane/136/136/1851/0/p#defence_score/successful_passes/tackles_won/tackles_lost/aerial_duels_won/aerial_duels_won_%/fouls_committed/interceptions/blocks/clearances/defensive_errors#90 How can Zouma have better overall defence score if Varane beats him by almost everything (tackles, jumps, blocks, clearances etc). How squawka ratings even work?

too soon

Truly he can become our legend if he stays at least until 2020. What a player. Once our team plays sometime together and Oscar, hazard, azpi, matic, courtois, zouma reach prime, we will be even better. I have serious interest how good will we look if we keep Mou and Hazard, oscar etc when they will be around age 27/28. Hope we dont change team much now on, just long term Terry and Iva replacements when time comes and if Cuadrado doesnt work. Otherway we are pretty much set. Oh and if there is chance to get Pogba.

Wow willian is realy surprising me this month. Ever since Cuadrado rumours showed up he has upped his level quite a bit. Its great to have Cuadrado/Oscar/Willian on the bench or for rotation instead of Schurrle/Salah. Quite a big difference.

If Iva scores another winner, Jose will say he is the best player in the world.

Dont care about city realy. I just want us to do our job and not depend on anyone.

If we will be losing, this thread will have 10 new pages every minute. If we will be winning, it will have a new post every 10 minutes. Cheers

I hope for a good performance this time. Last three were pretty average and we got quite lucky. Cant see us playing bad again and winning. A good performance is needed. Also everton kept clean sheet in last 3 PL games, think its time to score. Who will play, Zouma or Cahill?

I realy wonder where will Kane be by end of next season. Too many false english talents in prem that would make me jump on Kane bandwagon before he completes two very good seasons first.

Azpi is best 1 on 1 defender in legue. No way is Iva better than him. Offensively yes, but not defensively. Iva makes some decisive stuff here and there, but should not be forgotten that he is also at fault for few goals and made some serious mistakes in dangerous areas.

Massive respect to Marco. Even if he leaves, at least bvb will get plenty of cash for him. Lewa on the other hand...

Coutinho is nice little flair player. And thats it. First i would seriously consider if its good for team to replace hard working Oscar with more creative player. Secondly, if the answer was yes, I wouldnt replace him with Coutinho in million years. Had one good month this year and two top performances against us and is suddenly so highly rated. Salah had dribbling magic against us too, we know how it ended.

Sure signing Messi would give us economical boost and more worldwide support, but I dont think having reputation like Rm (history, fans, popularity, money, fame) is equal to get success. Liverpool is one team who handled money and coach wrong. And look where they are. Same with united. Now they spent crazy as hell but it doesnt bring you to success. To have balanced team with good coach can win you more trophies than having world class player and fame. For example, Real won only one CL trophy since 2001? They spend billions on the players and their success was extremely poor for the investment given. On other hand, Bayern who was quite a wreck around 2008, brough proper coaches, worked on balanced hardworking team and they enjoyed great success and following their good style of football, trophies won; their "power" and "fame" spread around world quickly. And sure as hell I dont want Chelsea to become international celebrity brand like Real. Prefer to keep it simple as we always were. Sigings of Torres, Sheva and considering we had not a single player who was realy considered as superstar, but still managed to win all these trophies in last years point out that we should think twice before signing messi. It would be great commercial success, but not sure about football success.

He was good in CL winning run too. Was voted in uefa team of the year last season too (however Im not so sure if deserved).

Though it has to be said, its very hard to play once you feel severe pain in your foot. Not impossible but very uncomfortable and painful. I played football since I was little and damaged finger on my left foot (im leftie too). It wasnt broken, more like disjointed after I took heavy hit, but I felt serious pain every time i touched the ball after that. I only recovered in about week, but every match same story...I didnt play for about month then and once I returned, first game was ok, but pain came back after few games. So I had to stop playing football on "pro" level...now I play for hobby once in a while, its ok but could return any time. I had back injury and broken arm, but nothing was as painful as leg. It just makes you dislike playing football because it starts hurting as fuck every time you kick the ball. If you have pain in foot and still play, like Iva, its something to give an applause.

He is a beast and scores some realy crucial goals, was also world class defender, but this year he made some stupid mistakes again and again. Leaving position, defending crosses, wrong pass in dangerous areas... I love his spirit and will, but Mou should be careful with overpraising Iva. Iva NEEDS to improve his defending, but with all these praises from Mou and knowing he has guaranteed place, I doubt much if anything will be improved.

If adidas is willing to pay at least half then yes, if they arent, I wouldnt want us to pay 200m on single player ever. Was Ronaldo or Bale realy realy worth 200m combined? Ronaldo had mare in CL final, he won only one la liga in 4 seasons. Not worth imo. Bayern on other side, a much much more balanced team (under heynckes). I wouldnt want world best player, we should push Hazard to do what Sneijder/Ribery/Robben did for their clubs. Best in world doesnt mean best and most useful/valuable for club. What those three did for their teams when they won domestic and international trophies was more than Ronaldo did for his. Messi is level above and brought barca to several titles, but still big question how can he do in england and for how long, the price of 200m would be only be reasonable if we win two CLs in 3 years and PL title every year but there is no guarantee that Messi can give us that. Cl win depends on many factors like hard work and luck, while PL could be obtainable even without messi for next few years. Not to mention Messi would force either Costa or Hazard out of squad, and I dont want that. Good player, but should stay in barca. We can make a more balanced, equal team with OUR OWN stars.

Ill give you a like because thats very good news...stoke at home could actualy give city a run.