BlueLyon

I thought all is included...

Would new stadium realy bring us that more money? I mean, we would have to spend big time on construction first and still, we probably wouldnt have more than 60k seater, which is not THAT much more than we have now... And obvious question where to build new stadium... Wouldn be better if we just sign a realy good sponsor contract or maybe even several new contracts like Manu did with Dhl, aon and chevrolet?

Well Luiz was great presence in midfield, big character too. Some sort of motivational leader. That was one of reasons for last years wins against City and Pool. But hopefuly we can still do the work in middle and not let city to overpower us.

Matic was amazing last season vs City, but didnt start that well this season though...however Yaya is a joke too in city this year. Cant see why Matic couldnt contain Yaya. I think Aguero, Silva and Navas/Nasri will cause more trouble to Matic and our defence than Yaya.

Bartra IMO is bit too weak to be top CB in PL

Inigo is overrated and Bartra would never cut it in PL. If there is good young CB in spain, its Laporte. But he would be realy expensive...

Only thing Hazard is equal is dribbling. And even there, some might question. But in about anything else from vision, passing, shooting, FKs,...Zola was few times better. But Hazard has time and plays in different time, football is much more tactical nowdays.

Last year we got blocked in decisive games, while its just september, this game is actualy first indicator of how serious and well prepared we are this season. If we win I'll be much more confident that we can win league. Not because of bigger point gap, but simply because we will get our shit together when it will be required.

There will be meltdown here if we lose, but hopefuly we win this one.

Im talking about that one more clean sheet he might make. I know he pulled some quality saves, but sometimes a gk just doesnt let anything in, no matter what. Cech saved several shots in certain games and that gave us clean sheet, no matter how difficult and impossible it was. Courtois was usualy half protected by defence, this time he was not and conceded. Cech was also unprotected in defence in certain games, but still saved those games. Im not saying Courtois wasnt good enough, but he will have to get some games when he will keep anything despite a shitty defence. Even if you call them miracle saves. This is what truly world class gks do and Im sure Tibo will do it at one point.

Think he should stop at least one goal he conceded. Those goals werent his fault, and look impossible to keep on the eye, but then again certain keepers still kept impossible, saving their team even if defence was shit.

Wait till arsenal game, thats all Im saying

Porto knows how to find good talents...

oh crap...

Nah just the ninja smiley...I guess you are realy too old to take a joke. But lets keep this thread clean, shall we?

Old brain didnt get the joke?

Amazing player, joy to watch but I kinda get "dissapointed" that after he dribbles past half of pitch and gets one on one with gk, he doesnt finish the action with a bang.

He said he wont score every game...well he didnt score today, meaning he has to get back in form against city

Think we were good, created a lot, but Schalke stopped every fucking attempt somehow. And their defence wasnt even made from starters, not to mention Boateng in midfield. They would eat five goals another day, but tonight it was their day. Schalke had out of the world performance in defence, despite us creating tons of chances, think we were unlucky.

Let the overreaction begin...

Think we were unlucky and Schalke had one of odd great defensive displays where they kept everything somehow, apart from Cesc goal. Only negative was starting Drogba and then playing him after half time. The legend is nowhere near fitness that is required for such games, too old. Oh and defence needs to be sorted out. We are fucking slow, it will hurt us against big teams... We fought hard in the end. but it was realy strong defence by Schalke, and us being unlucky. Need to bounce back vs City. P.S. @Jason, so much for that big win yeah, think I owe you that beer...

I can absolutely see this happening eventualy. RM currently isnt place for youngsters when coach has almost zero control, and president is buying players only to sell shirts. Im sure Varane is big Mou fan and vice versa, the only way this wont happen is if Mou doesnt want him here because we already have Zouma.

Oh wait and see. You'll toast me later. If we dont bust them, Ill buy you a beer if we ever meet...

So it was uncle Joe who advised him to join us ahead of City or United

Man I never say that And Im always like wtf is he thinking when they say we will blow opponent, but this time Im certain. Dunno why, just dat feeling. And they will play without a single starter in defence. Last year it was 3:0, Im sure we can repeat that.