BlueLyon

That hair thing went out of control hh, but I remember people were saying how great Psg will be with Lucas and Marquinhos and all, Im sure the story will be the same with Luiz because Blanc isnt the man to push Psg that far. They paid 60m for Cavani just to play him on wing. Yet that duo didnt destroy opponents as predicted. And Luiz wont make their defence much stronger either. Oh and money buys quality? Yes we got superb quality in Torres for 50m. I completely agree on that. The scouts did realy well on that one. Torres was though to be world class, but he wasnt. Same is with Luiz. Since Leonardo and Carlo left, hey are buying without real plan. Cahill isnt better player, but a better defender who is more reliable. Nothing else to say.

Why are you brazilians that blind? I never said Garry is best in world, not even close. But he is still better than Luiz as defender and thats the whole point. No one is saying cahill is best, just that he is better than Luiz. And I hope you will undertand that part with awesome hair was more of a joke than anything else... And yes Gary was linked with barca few years ago, i dont mind if you dont believe it... Price is all about marketing, Luiz is extremely marketable CB and thats why the price was high. The whole thing made Luiz look like a world CB, but he simply isnt that. Anyway Im sure we will find that out soon next year when we see Luiz play weekin week out for Psg. CL stages will be interesting.

Look I like Luiz too, he is funny guy and great person, but Psg paid 50m for Luiz awesome hair, not because he would be great defender. Pastore went for 40m too. Does that make him a 40m player? Did he pay the price invested? Hazard went for less. Is Pastore a better player than? Was Illara ever worth 40m and therefore better player than Alonso, a player that RM bought "only" 35m? Money spent on certain player means shit all. It depends on who is the seller, how marketable is player and how stupid the buyer is. It doesnt tell how good certain player is. I can say that Luiz could be hit in Psg, but he wont justify the 50m, unless he makes 10 goal clearances and scores winning header in CL final for psg. And with Cahill in defence, we managed to stop Messi, and this year with Cahill in defence we stopped Cavani, Suarez, Chicarito,..players that scored against us when Luiz was playing as CB in previous years.

There was time Cahill was rumoured to be target of barcelona too. Check if you dont belive... But does that make any difference who is better player? No, Cahill is one who is more reliable at the back through all season, Luiz made few outstanding performances every season mostly in CL and in big PL games, but as much he was awesome, he was also bad in certain other games. To conclude, he played as DM this season here, sure there was reason why Cahill was chosen ahead of him by Mou. Defensive tactics helped and made Cahill look beter than he is, but with Luiz in our defence who constantly charges up the field, our team would concede more goals than with Cahill, despite defensive tactics. And there is difference. Cahill as CB is more reliable, while Luiz has more awesome hair. Luiz is exotic type of CB who charges forward all the time. He could be world class DM, but as CB he just isnt consistent enough. He has more passion than Cahill, but in every other part of defending, Cahill gets ahead. Cahill-Terry parthership got worldwide recognition, we conceded least goals in PL, 10 less than City. I dont recall Terry-Luiz partnership being called world class on the other hand. Bottom line is, Luiz is way too mistake prone when not playing for Brazil, he doesnt suit us and for 50mio, we can always splash cash on Mangala, Varane, Benatia who will be/is definately better in every aspect of defending than Luiz. And the fact he got sold for 50 mio doesnt make him better than he is. If 50m for Luiz means anything its that Psg owner is idiot. If he wanted strong defence; he would buy Benatia for example.

Im happy we wont get him...not needed now with Cesc and Oscar in team, while I would prefer more dynamic and mobile CM.

Nah I just think its going to be interesting which team will make best transfers, hopefully its us

Its going to be very interesting summer with Barca, ManU completely rebuilding their teams, City (defence), Arsenal (top striker) and us looking to complete our teams, Real to make their unnecesary signature big buy like every year, and then PSG, Bayern who could get a big signing aswell. Juve will probably look for more attacking players and Im curious who will Atletico and BVB buy after few players leaving.

If I was defender or midfielder who does lot of defending, Chelsea would be my favourite destination and perhaps Vidal would think the same...he would be very expensive, but him choosing us over real, barca and staying in juve will be the hardest part. If i went for another CM, I would choose Vidal type over Kroos type cm now that we have Cesc and if we keep Oscar. We still need defensive stability and Vidal-Matic-Fabregas would be very strong.

To be fair, are there any real world class defenders out there ala Canavaro, Maldini, Helguera, Blanc, Terry, Puyol,..? I dont think so. Ramos, Pique; Luiz,...are good players, but they are better in other things, not defending. When comes to defending, Cahill is better there. Thiago Silva, Chielini are better, but defenders in general are very poor in recent years and Cahill among those is actualy very good. But he wouldnt come close to Terry, Cannavaro etc in their prime. Also, Baines was terrible in wc, johnson was never amazing, jagielka was poor aswell. And there is gerrard who gives ball to opponent strikers...you donr see that in other top teams in general. England was exposed many times, they have no DM and the result is there. Cahill only mistake was that balo goal, but if there was no Cahill, england would concede at least two more goals. I agree, its easier to defend when whole team defends (even kalas looked world class vs liverpol), but Cahill was good whole season. @henrique Luiz will never be better defender than Cahill, maybe better player and will go further in WC, but his defending is worse than Cahill.

He already was good vs algeria. I dont know what people understand from term good though... That he will score a hattrick and few assists? Dribble 10 players? Neymar and Robben have different roles in their teams than Hazard. But even they, apart from goals didnt have that big influence. Its world cup and one man wont simply drive team to victory, its team work and Hazard is bigger team player than Neymar or Robben will ever be. I agree Hazard lacks that hunger to score, but its his first world cup, he is young and that will change.

He will go to arsenal?

Even if he scored 10 goals in tournament, it would mean shit all to Chelsea.. His form and how good he is will be only judged by his performance in chelsea kit. Nothing else.

No proper wingers, too many defensive players. Their speed of game is bit slow too. And lack of quality of italian football makes it dificult to match one in CL. Also Conte is too conservative, he isnt open to more attacking football. If they buy quality LB and RW, maybe LW, they could play 4:3:3 Lich-Barzagli-Chielini-LB ---Vidal-Pirlo-Pogba----- ------RW-Tevez-LW-------- Sanchez was linked, if they get him and keep main players (althrough both Vidal and Pogba will be hard), it will be some team. Maybe push Tevez or Berardi on Lw, dunno how it would work.

And I hope Mou isnt looking for another creative CM, because high pressing, speed and decent imagination is what makes you win in football today. Midfield of Matic, Fab and Kroos would get destroyed on high pressing.

He is quality and consistent. He will deliver in small and big games. Something you cant say for Shaw or Rodriguez. Im sure there will be full backs available in 3 years time, once Luis wont be good enough anymore. We need experience more than youth atm and I would only get Shaw now if i also had good experienced LB too (but it looks Cole wont be staying). Im all for english players to come and Shaw is more wanted because he is english, not because he would be what we need behind Hazard, neither is he that good yet. Cecs is 27 too, yet no one complains why did we buy him, instead of going after Barkley. Mou knows whats he doing and he will get proper LB. Money right now is not the issue.

It isnt important who we face and when, whats important is our form and their form when we play. I guess we will look more into rotation this time, also we should beat more small teams, main reason we lost title last year. This season should be fun

My only dislike on him is lack of desire and passion. He should be more hungry of success and try to get on ball more often, however I think in Belgium team, his role is not as big as is in chelsea. In our club, he is player #1, in Belgium, the players are more equal and less dependant on Eden. To conclude, he will need to have more influence and impact in games, he needs to show more, maybe he is still not completely ready after hard season and injury. I dunno. If you look Neymar, Gotze,...they want to get on ball all the time, they want to take on players, be in center of play. However Hazard doesnt realy care, just waiting someone to pass to him and look waaay too much "relaxed"...

People have seen Origi for first time who had decent game, now suddenly saying we should sell Lukaku and buy Origi...thats just one big LOL I saw Origi few times in Lille and he is raw, has great speed and very nice dribbling, but his finishing and decision making is still raw. Anyway my point is how people can imagine Origi will fit in our team? He is waaay too young and raw to be our second striker or whatever people think he is. First he is more winger than pure striker and no way he could make it here next season. The proper Lukaku replacement for example would be Benteke or sbd, but I would still keep Lukaku for at least another year and see what happens. On his game, his first touch is terrible, awfull and he gets dispossesed way too easy. But he can improve that, think of Lewandowski.

He has Raiola for his agent, when will you understand he orders him to say those things to get more attraction..

Why we signed Salah when we could just recall Atsu? He looks very good with ball, good runner and looked most creative player on pitch...similar to Salah, thing is we could save those 14mio...

I want us to remain strong in midfield, if we are about to add another midfielder, get Pogb/Vidal type. Now with Fabregas here, I prefer Oscar ahead of Kroos. Oscar runs more, works harder and can be realy dangerous as he did vs Croatia.

I dont think this will happen and I dont want this to happen. Way too offensive and Kroos and cesc both dont defend much. Unless jose will go full attack, I dont see this happening. And our CBs arent realy world class either, they need support from midfield too...

Doesnt matter who we get realy Ricardo, Luis,...whoever of their quality will massively upgrade our left flank. Someone who can defend and put good crosses, all I want.

Obviously because he will go to Arsenal

Why would we want Kroos now that we got Cesc? Are we going to play Kroos-Cesc-Oscar or what? If Mou is looking for Oscar replacement (based that cesc will play deeper), he should target Barkley as he is english and quite good...