BlueLyon

interesting group, f; valencia, lille and bayern

Lol City and Real Im not too happy about Shakhtar. They are not realy hard team, but the travel to Ukraine realy kills players...

I didnt meant you did anything useless, but list itself doesnt realy tell if the striker is injury prone or not. Personaly, for me Pato is, despite he played all those games.

Melanie Winiger

Pato was injured lot for past two seasons, but he still got average of 30 games. This list is helpless if you want to see how injury prone is the player. And sub-appearances are included too?

30 games per season sounds impossible for Pato :? Where are Ronaldo, Iniesta,...?

He was realy unimpressive last season, Feghouli played much better, thats why Pablo wasnt even im first 11. But for 5 mio he is good.

because of this interest Remy's price gone up for 5mio and could go even further. 25mio in the end, thats not cheap anymore at all. Considering the stsrting price was less than 15mio.

For 40mio, I take Falcao any time over Cavani.

Slim

VDV, Lennon, Parker and Jenas from Spurs up for sale. LOL! What is AVB thinking????

Krkic to Milan from Roma. Nice signing, but Milan doesnt need such player, if anyone it should be CB, LB, CM or powerfull striker. Also, Krkic is far from his potential from 2008, when he was realy promising.

With possibility that both Dembele and Dempsey could leave, I dont think so. Depends on what teams will they have on Saturday, 1st Sept.

Im pretty sure this team will suceed, its very young squad who lacks of experience. Only Kompany is 26, others are below that. Maybe you lack of full backs, but Alderweireld could evolve into very good one. While you realy need only one attacking full back, Vermaelen on other side will do his work great. And give Lukaku and Mirallas some time, every striker becomes world class after 25, counting experience is huge factor when they play. Midfield will link up well, wingers are terrific and perfect balance between strong (Fellaini, Witsel, Lukaku) and small, flair (Hazard, Mertens,...) players. They already play well, but lack of end product which will be fixed soon. Sure nothing is certain, but this guys in few years should definately be among top five teams in EU. But it is necessary that Mirallas, Lukaku, Alderweireld, Witsel,...keep evolve and achieve the expectations.

Schalke, Ajax and Montpellier/Malaga. Not so difficult group, but still enough to test our abilities and rotate against ajax and Malaga. But I expect us to face one of Juventus/Psg/Valencia. Just feeling.

I rate Ballack very highly, my fav german player ever, he was truly class in that midfield with Lamps and Essien, what I said, was that he played in several finals (germany 2002, bayer leverkusen in cl, Chelsea in cl final) and sadly won neither of them. But sure he was the only player ever that actualy made number 13 famous for playing with it. But overal number 13 is thought as unlucky, thats why top clubs have GKs with that number, or there is no one to have that number at all. I hope Moses can carry Ballack number for next 10 years

Hm, I would prefer 33 over unlucky 13. Its just a number, but anyway. Ballack had it, but unfortunely won nothing in all those finals.

Wasnt Moses bought to play on wing?

He is not good finisher which ends as being our second striker. Secondly, Hazard has plenty cover in Mata, Marin, Oscar. What we might need is classic striker or CM with defensive skills, lot of energy and good at marking. No more second strikers or attacking midfielders please.

Well Kalou scored over 50 goals for us. Doesnt matter how important they were, its not easy to score that much goals. I think Torres will never score more than Kalou for Chelsea. Even Sheva couldnt. But Anelka and Malouda were both class some time ago. Much underrated realy.

I doubt Mata will get any bigger rest. Roman wants victories from Rdm and he wont risk not to play our key player. Maybe match or two, here and there but he will play, lot.

Dont forget, Drogba wasnt just fantastic striker but also great jumper. Air Drogba will be missed very much in matches vs high teams.

Well we better win it, mostly because Atletico is quite good team, it will be challenge, I wouldnt underestimate them. With Falcao, Adriano, Juanfran and Arda, they made fine team with stability and no fear. They are very experienced too. Question of the day is how will Torres play against his former team. Either could be very pleased and calm or very nervous and play bad. He scored nice goal vs Newcastle, this is it; either he is back or he just got lucky with that shot. I cant stand another blow from Torres and the. he will score another goal after 10 matches. Simply unacceptable anymore. We trust in Torres, but just in case we can still steal Falcao and escape to London

Well, I dont realy care about stats and all, as long we are winning and players play well, thats all. Dont be confused, I like our development in attack too, we made few steps further no doubt. Im also pretty sure, in case we would play vs barca again, Mata and Hazard would be much more on the ball than Mata alone last year, new style we play allows that, in three games three wins, 8 goals and 2 conceded. Impressive, specialy because this is what we call transitional times. Wonder how will look our end product in few months Hm, what about Silva who has plenty competition in City, but he still made similar number of goals and assists last year?

I can only imagine how fantastic we would be with him, title would be ours sure. But then thinking again, we cant just dump Torres and Danny, they are our players and thats all. We should keep the team as it is and then in winter buy Falcao if that will be needed. Im sure he will stay in Madrid for now, and he wont be more than 40mio in winter. But what if there will be sneaky bid on friday when he will play against us? You never know that...