BlueLyon

Mou wants Gerrard on loan lol... But im not even surprised considering he was protecting and praising him for past few weeks... But Gerrard will never come, though it wouldnt be that bad IMO, he is experienced leader afterall.

When you bring player from bench, you expect him to make difference, but Salah is never even involved in play after he comes in. You have players who are realy eager to do sth and Salah doesnt look like one. Its harsh, he was never given fair chance, but he never will either. Not under Mou and with his kind of approach. And for that matter its better if he leaves and plays regular football.

He is quality player, but not potential world class and we would realy need some real quality ala Hazard added in attack. But he is replacing Salah/Schurrle, probably both will be gone, come summer and we will probably go for another winger anyway. Right now, Salah and Schurrle have been both realy poor this season, Cuadrado will be massive improvement over them. But long term, I dunno. I just hope if he arrives, he will be one of those signing that look nothing realy special, but they turn to be brilliant.

Here we go again. Next week when he will have a shit game, there will be page of comments that he is overrated...

I completely understand why we went with this kind of approach, not much energy wasted and still took decent result. It was important game for team, its semifinal and Im sure Mou wants to win it, so it was clear that we will play deep against them. But do we realy have to play this kind of football against low team like Pool to get a point? It was terrible, we didnt even try to attack and Im sure Mou came there to keep clean sheet, well we conceded too so...Im just curious what kind of team we need to finaly play more attacking in such games (and playing against today liverpool isnt that big game afterall). Why do we have Hazard, Cesc, Costa if we dont even plan to use them properly in such games. Why would we need Reus then. For what? Parking bus? I understand why Mou likes Willian so much and doesnt want to improve our attack by signing a winger with more end product; because Willian is perfect to defend on wing. If you look Real vs Liverpool or Chelsea vs Liverpool, there is massive difference in quality. We might beat Real in two legs, but never in open attacking football. I wonder if Mou will ever try to play more attacking against such teams...and its quite sad if we cant win fucking liverpool by trying to play proper football, no we have to defend like we play vs Real or bayern. its just sad. Courtois was brilliant though.

Yeah today he proved me wrong. Lallana stop was unreal.

We are playing shit. Getting outplayed by midtable team and letting them dominate us...why buying cesc and costa and hazard if you play to defend... I get it if its city, barca real etc but not fucking Livepool...

Good. We dont need him.

Good but I dont think he is the long term choice who can improve his allround game furtherly, therefore 35m is hell lot of money. Feels bit like Willian signing, althrough he is better player and more proven. Other than that, what other choices we have now or even in summer? If Reus is going to Real, I doubt we will go for Bale either. Then I dont know who elseis good enough for our Rw and better than what we already have. Koke, Isco, etc aint proper wingers, while I dont think players like Pedro, Muniain, Mertens would cut it here. But I like idea of having Lacazette on right wing. He would add goals, assists and has very good share of technical ability.

When you are winning, style doesnt realy matter. But if you have to defend game after game and remain trophyless, players like Hazard will think of going somewhere else. Thats why its important that we bring some more quality to our team to add quality and efficiency of our football to keep Hazard and others happy here.

I think it was just bs that he would cost this much. He was 29 and had bad WC, Im sure our board could negotiate for fair price. Plus we had Lukaku that was top Martinez wish. But Im glad we went for Luis anyway.

Regret not unless he plays realy big role in title run. But dissapointment over the situation will remain. To see this kind of end for one of our biggest legends is heartbreaking.

1.) Its funny that people are saying why did Mata changed our bench for united one, but in fact he played around 1400mins, more than Oscar. He is quite regular player these days. 2.) 6 goals, 7 assists is not bad for #10 after good half season. It would be nice if people stopped talking about Oscar not delivering enough for #10.

I think its clear how we will play against City. Safe with very strong defending and waiting to counter attack city. Mourinho will go for a point or narrow win, but Im sure he will have priority in keeping clean sheet, rather winning the game. City on other hand will go all out attack and we can seriously harm them on counter. I wont be surprised if we play Matic-Mikel/Ramires in pivot with Cesc #10. Only downside is that we will be much more tired than City and they will have more time to prepare for the game. A win vs pool will probably lift us a bit, but we must not get complacent. Im sure City will go on us heavy and we will have to defend well. Its gonna be very very hard game for us, city needs win and they will play like hurt lions no doubt. But its our pitch and we should lead the game to draw atleast. Plus Yaya and Bony wont play, its realy good for us. No Yaya and City midfield is not that powerful anymore.

Not that I would have anything against Luis signing, quite opposite, but it made me think why didnt we try to sign Baines. He was about same age, same price and english player who had realy good last season. And we gave them Lukaku, so it could be done. Just wondering if Baines was ever an option for Mou as we were linked with him few times. He has been very poor this season in defending, so we probably dodged a bullet. But whole Everton is shit, but it has to be said, Baines certainly has best delivery in PL still.

Whats more funny is that when u have Rooney and Rvp, you dont even need Falcao in first place. What a ridiculous signing that was for United...

If we actualy sell him, I can only expect us to sign someone like Mertens, Mirallas etc who will be better than Salah, but long term, not a solution. So maybe its better to stick with what we have and then sell salah/Schurrle in summer and get proper RW who will fill that spot for many years.

Where are the days when you bought serbian defender from Russia for 10m and got a fucking beast of a player...

Nah, as I have been thinking about it little bit, I dont think he will come. Main reason, why would he extend if he wanted to leave soon in first place? In Pogba case, he extended because that will bring juve more money and Im sure he likes them enough, not to leave on free transfer or some ridiculously low fee. In Varane case, Real doesnt have such money problems like Juve do. And when he signed extention, it was clear that he is in Real hands now. A very big fee will be required to get him (I doubt Mou would pay that much for CB), and in 2 years, when Pepe leaves, he will become regular starter at Real for next 10 years anyway. Think we have to pick other targets, like Godin or Laporte etc...

Yeah we are english club and we have 11 english starters too...last few years we are more international than english to begin with. Besides all rumours, transfers and fees from other parts of europe (unless you are reading english journos) use euros, more or less. And seriously I dont know why you point this as issue, I will keep using euros, not pounds when talking money, as will several other members here...

Rescue that Frankie

City is all over Arsenal now, you can smell goal coming, hopefuly not. And Ox could become quite good player, but not at arsenal...

Well Im used to euro currency more, its more international after all. Not ridiculous at all.

The only under 20 player I would love us to buy. He is gonna be massive in few years, not just because he is talented, but because he looks down to earth guy and this is equaly important to succeed as the talent itself.

His best game in Chelsea shirt IMO. His ball control is actualy very good for full back.