BlueLyon

Defeat is one, but by 5:2 with strongest team? Bayern was outclased tonight, CL will be completely different, but still. Difference is we won FA against L'pool, while Bayern lost their cup agains Dortmund by big difference.

This guy is what we need. Small, strong, deep lying b2b playmaker. Plays one touch football, has great vision and intelligence. Good at marking and tackling. For his age, fantastic passing and from video above, he has realy GREAT long balls, he would suit our counter-attack stlye of play. He has some Makelele abilities, better dribbler, maybe eventualy better passer, but not as strong as Claude. Still very balanced and agressive footballer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5miZxF4trvE Young, played 30 games for Feyenord this season, has great stamina. Fast enough. And what is best? He hasnt been capped by Netherlands yet, but he will be definately called up after Euros on friendlies. But right now, his price is around 8-12 mio and that is just cheap. Imagine KDB, Mata and Clasie in one team. What do you say?

Bayern is loosing 4:1 at the moment, with their best squad. BUT: They are certainly more concetrated on CL and they will be more motivated there. Plus home stadium. And usualy they will grow after tonight defeat. Still, 4:1 is not just normal defeat, its quite heavy one. And we surely will have chances with righ tactics.

Well, I heard Mou wants Branislav Ivanovic, while Barca is after David Luiz. And we cant depend on Terry for ever. Since Brana has contract till 2016, I doubt he would leave. But RM and Mou are very interesting indeed. Luiz seems to stay, but what do you think?

Falcao wont be only 35mio. Hazard wont be only 26mio. Cabaye wont be only 15mio. Van der Wiel is shit, I heard Roma wants him for 4 mio, if we offer 13mio board is stupid. Azpi is much, much better for 15mio. And Willian? No comment. Essien could be easily sold for 12mio, nowdays this is almost nothing for such experienced player.

Bale might also not want to play for Barca, because they would use him as LB, he wants to be LW or at least LWB Btw, if we should look after cheaper, but class younger players this is good option: 1. Younes Belhanda, CAM, CM, L/RW Why: Plays on wing, could replace Mata, cheap for his quality, consistant Good abilities: passing, dribbling, speed, vision Style: playmaker at MP. Makes tight dribbles, combined with quick passing. Very good medium range shot (better than Hazard), he might not have much assists, but he does the job in midfield and pulls lot defenders on himself, providing space for other players. Excelent in taking penalties too. Price: 15-20 mio 2. Andre Ayew, L/RW Why: Classic winger, could become very good, reminds on BEST Malouda/Anelka, has all abilities of explosive wing runner Best abilities: Speed, acceleration, stamina, shooting, crossing Style: His quick runs, can play on both sides. Has lot of energy and likes to dribble and then pass/shot Price: around 20 mio 3. Cesar Azpilicueta, RB Why: Obviously, we need RB, he is young, already best young RB in France Abilities: speed, passing, vision, crossing, decent defending, stamina Style: runs a lot up and down, attacks and provides good balls in penalty area Price: 12-15 mio 4. Jordy Clasie, CDM, CM, CAM Why: We need some good, creative CM who passes good and gives ball quickly to team-mates. He is cheap for now and promising. Can defend aswell. Best abilities: passing, vision, decent dribbling, great first touch, standing tackle, agression and stamina Style: He might look more like Xavi type, but he defends better and is positioned deeper. Reminds on Makelele a bit and would be good adition to Mikel. He gives the ball quickly to team mates, dribbles less but has excelent vision for long and short passing. Deep lying playmaker. Price: 8-10 mio 5. Adrian Lopez, FW, supporting ST, winger Why; Supporting striker to add rotation for Torres, spanish player. Cheap for his abilities, young. Best abilities: speed, dribbling and assisting Style: Work rate high in attack, scores and assists a lot. Cant be lone striker I guess, but looks like attacking playmaker. Always tries to give ball to striker. Price: 10-18mio ----- Ideal team: Iva(Azpi)-Terry-Luiz-Cole -------Mikel-Clasie-------- --Ayew-Mata-Belhanda-- ----------Torres------------ Marin, Adrian, Cahill, KDB, Lamps, Bertrand, Romeu Imagine this team after 2 years. Absolutely great. Departures: Kalouda, Meireles, Drogba, Essien, Ferreira, Bosingwa

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2012/02/12/2898420/the-dutch-xavi-jordy-clasie-from-physically-too-weak-to-euro Jordy Clasie, 20yrs, Feyenord playmaker, one of most deserved to finish on 2nd place in Erdevisie. He has great first touch and afterall, he is Dutch. I personaly always liked dutch players more than spanish. What is realy interesting about this kid is his playing position. Usualy you would place such player in CAM position, but he plays on DM position (along Mikel?) I saw only one match, he played and his passing is realy spot on. Maybe for 8mio, as how much he is rated, we should get him, he has potential. His atributes are passing, standing tackle, stamina and vision, and here I mean Xavi potential vision. Because of this guy Guidetti scored 19? goals this season. I would also mention Guidetti (best young striker in world I guess), but he is owned by City and we will never get him...

If we will have money restrictions, here are players it would be good to go after: Adrian Lopez (Atletico Madrid) Isco (Malaga, great talent, saw him against RM, he dribbled past their defence with ease) De Marcos (Atletic Bilbao) Herrera (Atletic Bilbao) Doumbia (Cska) Giroud (Mobtpellier) Ayew (Marseille) Belhanda (Montpellier) Cabella (Montpellier; nominated for young french player of the year, along two others) Azpi (Marseille) Cisse (NU) Dzagoev (Cska) Banega (Valencia) Cabaye (NU) Moses (Wigan) Jovetic (Fiorentina) Schurlle (Bayer) Fellaini (Everton) Dembele (Fulham) A.Johnson (City) Barkley (Everton) Debuchy (Lille) Hoilett (B'burn) v.d.Wiel (Ajax) Jordy Clasie (feyenoord, promising dutch 'Xavi') Diego (Wolfsburg, Atletico Madrid) maybe I forgot few to add, but If we get some of these players, it would be good and no one should cost more than 20mio (lot of them are much bellow this mark)

Cavani, Falcao, Dzeko, Adrian, Doumbia, Benzema are workers, they would somehow fit system. But Higuain, Gomez etc are poachers and we would need realy good midfield and specialy good wingers with good crosses to actualy make poachers usefull. Since we dont have that, working ST needs to come IF we will get him anyway

It sounds like Moutinho and Cabaye are miles apart, but actualy if you look realisticaly, Moutinho is worth 25mio and Cabaye 20mio, but I take Moutinho anytime. He is almost equal to Modric, year younger and also better in deffense (like Meireles).

Also If we look after cheap striker, why not Adrian Lopez from Atleti Madrid? He is EL winner, 24yrs and scored 19 goals this season, 11 of them in EL. Could be good backup for Torres (or co-striker). For 15mio, he would be ours I guess. And Diego isnt bad either, he reminds me of Ballack a bit.

Well it was denied by Redknapp. But acording to press, barca has 100mio too spend, targets are rvp, bale, thiago silva, luiz, alaba, alba, llorente, martinez, adrian lopez. But if you ask me only Rvp, llorente, martinez and alba are possible. luiz, alaba, thiago have confirmed they wont go anywhere, while adrian plays for Madrid Atletico

Ayew/Hulk - 20/35 mio Azpi - 15 mio Moutinho 25 mio Belhanda - 18 mio --- Essien 15 mio (he is still highly rated) Meireles 12 mio Malouda 8 mio --- 78-93 mio spended 35 mio earned --- 43-58 mio minus ^ That is not much, compare we would then have Hulk/Ayew, Azpi, Belhanda and Moutinho. But it is just rough mark, how much would it realy be, it is hard to predict.

If not that than this: Belhanda (creative midielder, capable to play regulary on lw or replace Mata in CAM) Azpi (reasons are obvious) Moutinho or Cabaye (I would go for Moutinho, but only for about 25mio) Hulk (we need winger and also one realy top player) If there is any money than also buy Giroud, who would cost us no more than 15mio. Maybe in pair with Belhanda for 35. Dzagoev (just because he WILL be free, fan of Chelsea and also because we will need back up in midfield. Plus he is very young and could be good pair with Mata) But absolutely most possible wish is Belhanda (17), Hulk (35), Azpi (15), and Cabaye (20). And this is already far from cheap. Maybe swap Hulk with Ayew and save 15mio.

I realy cant Imagine Chelsea without Drogba. This would be nice gesture at SB if he actualy leaves. But that would mean we go after another striker, I guess. We cannot depend on Torres whole season alone.

You dont get it that once we will have better attack, there will be more space in midfield for Mikel to play. And he will become better with better players. He has been along Mata, Iva, Ramires, Drogba last 2 months our best player. You say he is bad, then you would sell Mata, Drogba, Ramires and Iva too? Because as you say, they are all bad, since they all performed equaly good. Just like Mata, Mikel will be better with better players around. And I can easily say he is better than Tiote or Mvila.

phaha Where did you find Hulk has 2 assists only? Stats: 21 goals and 14 assists this season And also Studge did well first half, check him now...

I dont see Hulk to go for more than 35mio, but with today prices you never know. And porto are good in that. The only thing worries me is fact that Porto rates Hulk much higher than Falcao, but yet Falcao already went for 40mio...I hope that was becuse he is striker and clubs are normal to spend more on strikers.

Mikel is doing great, he cant be sub. Other way playing with Mikel and Tiote at same time is Idiotic, there is no need to buy Tiote then.

We also speak about CM, not just CAM or CDM. If you leave C in CM, you simply dont know what someone meant. M could mean midfielder, but even winger can be marked with M-idfielder Besides I guess people use CAM as actualy central attacking mid, behind two strikers or in system 4:2:3:1. CM would then mean b2 midfielder, and could be either described as CDM, CAM or just CM. Depends on his position. But yes there are also RWB, LWB, who are basicaly similar to wingers, LW or RW, but are also able to defend like Bale. LAM, RAM, FW, ST, RDM, LDM, RCM, LCM,... I never understood difference between ST or FW. To much to handle, Capri?

If we win, I buy Mata long sleeve new kit, dont realy care what we wear in final. Just win it

Our weekest part is midield?! If our attackers would be at leas decent, they would try to attack. Instead they just lose ball everytime and pressure is on defence. Most of time, opponent attacks us, because we have shit wingers and strikers. Apart from Mata. And then what do you expect from Mikel? To defend all 90 minutes because our attackers cant do shit in attack? Imagine Busquets instead of Mikel. He would get ripped apart every time. You are blind man. Take example: Mikel gets ball, passes to Kalou/Malouda/Torres/Danny who loses it right away, because he is shit. And then Mikel has to run back and try to stop counter attack because our great wingers and strikers cant keep ball. And that repeats 100 times in one game against better opponent. Sure Mikel will eventualy make mistake, he would be under pressure whole game. Better players around you make you better you know? Just look at Cahill, he evolved much since he joined better squad from Bolton. If we get proper attack, Mikel will be world class! Besides, you know that Mikel played huge role in 2009/10 season, when we won double? Essien was injured lot that time and Mikel played fantasticaly. Better than Tiote, Mvila, Song nowdays. Ramires, Cech, Mata, Mikel, Cole, Terry, Iva, Cahill, Luiz should not be sold. They are great players to build around. Two months ago, I wanted Mikel to go, but after his great performances, I eat my words. I guess some of you missed last two months...

If Mikel would play for Newcastle right now, I bet everyone would want him to be here, like you want Tiote. Since RDM came, Mikel started play and results got better. And to add that Danny lost his form. But yet we made better results. Weird isnt it? And you want to sell him or criticise? If he would play more regulary, he would be now fantastic. One of top DMs in world. Yes, he is still young, at 25, he has long career. Tiote was mostly unknown until age of 25, when Nufc came back to PL (last year). And now he is great. Why dont you see potential in Mikel, but want anyone else, I dont get it. Be happy we actualy have him. It always that, whatever you dont have, will always be better and you will want it. Essien can also return, if he at least gets his fitness back and power/agression.

Depends on money offer realy.

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