BlueLyon

Valverde plays very restricted football for barca standards. IMO Coutinho would fit our CM role much better. He was very good in Pool in same role.

January 28th: Chelsea is still negotiating with Juve.

Triple H Hazard Higuain Hudson

They are interested in Willian, so we can do business Coutinho for Willian.

As if it would matter. Lukaku would never go to Mou United if you believed the media. These player-manager stories are made up 90% because they sell papers. Stuff that happens on pitch is business and they probably dont give two shits about it after, but media blows it out of proportion. The only clashes happen when both have massive ego: like Ibra and Pep. Eden isnt one of those and if Real comes knocking, I guess he would play for Mou, Conte or whoever else will be there.

Imagine both playing here though. Hazard on wing and Cout instead of Kovacic. If barca wants to offload, we could pull "a Fabregas" but I think the chances are realy realy small. If it comes to Isco or Coutinho, Coutinho any day.

There is more chance we win CL this season than Spuds selling us their star player.

The rules have changed, so yes he can.

I stopped reading when they mentioned Coutinho and Savic as better alternatives to Paredes. How lazy can the journos get?

So if Real makes a good bid (which shouldnt be a problem since Eden is running out of contract), he is off.

We need to give our strikers some of this

Er bleibt.

If we dont plan to use him then sell him. Buy Chilwell. But dont be surprised if he soon blows out in juve or wherever he goes. He is nowhere near as bad as our management pictures him tob be.

I like him alot, has that pace, dribbling and some power in him which makes him unpredictable. But for now he is a very selfish and generaly loses a ball way too much from tactical perspective to play in big club. He made big improvement since leaving united though.

Im not fan of Higuain, but still 6 month loan could be very good for us. We dont lose anything, but we get experienced striker and improve our attack. I dont think we can get Cavani, Jovic, Maxi, Werner or Icardi in january, so Higuain is the best bet. Certainly much better than forking 50m on Wilson or Arnautovic. Then in summer, we can get proper striker. As for speed, Higuain is quite slow indeed and he would be useless in counter football, but the way we play with possesion, all we need is someone with good link up, hold up and positioning, all that Higuain has. He will probably miss some sitters, but still nowhere near as many as Morata. Fact is we need striker in january and Higuain might be best solution. He will score a couple goals to win us some games which should help us to top 4 finish. Thats all that matters now. We can focus on searching for 20+ goals a season striker in summer.

IMO he wont be that bad here. He wont be great but not a disaster either. I feel he will have similar impact like Etoo had. Nothing great, but positive still. That said if its more than 6 months, It wont be good for us. Higuain can guide us for rest of the season, but shouldnt be brought for longer. If he realy makes an impression we can negotiate in summer to buy him, but I doubt that.

So he is the guy to save our season eh? No idea what to expect here, but he cant be worse than Morata or Giroud.

Alonso trying to win a bet that he can play worse than Bakayoko last season.

Alonso will be starter until his contract runs up in 2023 at age 32. He will be on wheelchair then, but still ahead of Emerson.

Probably first time I have sweet sour feeling when we scored. This means Willian wont be benched for another 3 months.

Once more if the club doesnt see we need new striker...there is no danger, no presence in penalty area ffs.

How did you figure Willian one? He was playing ahead of Pedro except for first few games when we were actualy good. Willian is like first player on Sarri list to play if fit for whatever reason. Zouma was quality prior to his injury and then never got a chance to get back in first 11. Would be better to test him out compared to aging Cahill who had no future here. Just a short sighted management. Azpi and Alonso arent ideal for Sarri either, but they still play. Zouma isnt world class on the ball, but he isnt that bad that couldnt adopt to Conte tactics of defending for 70min and counter attack. Its just that the manager didnt have any faith, simple. Yeah Mendy was backed by Pep because he was his guy, but if Zouma was highly regarded by the club, he would get minutes even after Mou left. As for Christensen, I said he wasnt immediately benched, but still too soon. Young players need sometimes 6 months, sometimes more or less to get back to their best. We had ideal chance to play him because we didnt exactly chase the title did we. Yet again short sighted management went for aging Cahill and we still missed on CL.

We are playing without 3 players. Alonso and Willian are absolute dogshit. Alonso gets caught in defence over and over and his crosses never reach anyone. Willian is on the ball alot but does absolutely fuck all. 1v1 against the keeper and he misses entire target. Then Kovacic. What the hell is his role again? We have like 70% possession and he is completly invisible. Doesnt dribble, doesnt create, slow as fuck and no end product. Some fancy trick here and there, but otherwise just a body to make side passes. Get rid of those three asap.

Zouma was at least for me the most talented old school style CB in 2016 before he injured himself. He was simply a beast; fast, agile and had massive leap. His tackling was superb, went so hard in challenges but timed it perfectly. He reminded me of Vidic alot. He had potential to be absolutely world class with no exaggeration. I will never forget how he caught Aguero and broke him down without faul. He did that stuff on regular basis. But thing is he was someone not to be fucked with and Im sure opponent attackers shat themselves abit when facing him, a thing you dont find with CBs like Stones, Laporte, Christensen,... Yeah he was rather poor techicaly indeed, but we didnt need two techical CBs until Sarri came. He might lose a bit of his atheticism, but he still is very much one of fastest and strongest CBs with massive leap in PL. Its a shame he doesnt suit Sarri because I fully believe he will play for top team in PL and perform at top level. He was called up for NT not long ago and did realy well too.

Zouma was fit last year when we still had Conte. But we shipped him out on loan to Stoke where he went to play almost all games and did very well. Christensen deserved to be benched for a few games based on his performances, but he is young and it is expected to be inconsistent at that point. Therefore he should play to improve. I was criticising him alot in that period, but given he is young, he just has to play. We ended up 5th anyway, so we might aswell develop a few players along the road. Christensen played very well prior to barca game. But the way we handled situation after put alot of pressure on him. Someone like Klopp would handle it better. TAA had some horrible games down the road, but Klopp didnt put him under even more pressure. And if anyone who plays shit for few games was about to be benched at this club, Willian shouldnt be starter for 2 years and Alonso shouldnt be starter anymore either. Its clear there is some bias towards young players. Experienced ones can play shit and get away, young ones are axed and blamed for every mistake. When it should be the other way around since experienced players are supposed to take responsibility and young ones are only learning. What will happen with Pulisic if he doesnt perform from start? 3 bad games and he will be benched for half a year with Willian back in first 11?