Leif

People say that his best moment was at the Nou Camp... er... he didn't even score the winning goal... or an equalizer... Please no "Well it was a safety net" sort of rubbish. His goal didn't change the outcome of the game. Ramires deserves the praise.

... i really don't understand why people like or think we'll end up with Jovetic. I highly doubt the club want a support-striker (winger if needed; even attacking midfield) player with a history of terrible injuries and can rarely put away headers to lead our front-line. He's not exactly prolific, doesn't have a great work-rate, is inconsistent and blah blah blah. I want Drogba

Borini

I will honestly and truly treat his eventual departure as-if we signed Messi. Not an exaggeration at all.

If Romeu doesn't start this game we may as well remove his profile from the site.

Benzema had a crap start to his Real Madrid career and hasn't exactly lit up the stage when playing for France. He's quite a lazy player and is rumoured to have attitude problems. He's also quite static. It's no coincidence that he had the best season of his career the same season C.Ronaldo also had the same. If he came here, he'd have the same problems as Torres really. Of course he'd probably finish more of the few chances he'd get in front of goal, but we simply must fix other areas of the team too. If we sort out the other parts of the team, then I'm sure I could welcome him with open arms though.

No idea if this was his decision or if he was advised to do this, but I'm glad he's retire from internationals. The fans (of other clubs) don't deserve him in their national team.

His beard/stubble/whatever it was, was epic. Hope it stays.

DAVID LUIZ SIGNS NEW 5-YEAR DEAL [sky Sports]

And people said Stoke City would be too tough for Oscar. L.to the O.to the.L.

@CFCrusader, I shouldn't be getting involved, but this is a genuine question - are you taking the piss with your posts? Like genuinely. Are you a fan of another club who's just having fun on this forum by trying to be funny or something? If not and you are being genuine with your posts, I fear for you.

Ah. I remember getting the piss taken out of me when one of my first posts on this forum was that we should sign him. *sigh*

Of course it was a shit half. Like most of you blabbered on about when we beat Barcelona; possession doesn't win you games, goals do. We haven't scored, and they've come closer to scoring than we have by hitting the crossbar. Just because we're finally putting passes together doesn't make it a good half, and just because we haven't conceded doesn't make it a good half. We're European Champions... against Stoke City. What have they won trophy-wise? Exactly. They're not exactly showing brute force today either. We should be winning; no excuses. I'm sorry but people need to raise their standards on here.

Dean Sturridge on commentary will be laughing and thinking to himself about how Sturridge woulda likely put that miss-kick from Torres into the back of the net.

How many free-kicks has Luiz actually ever scored..?

Please not Luiz,

...he literally missed the ball...

ffs. can't stand Luiz. he makes awful decisions, especially with his passes.

Assuming the ref isn't a cock, I'm expecting a penalty to us today. Won by Hazard, of course.

Every Everton game so far this season has been really exciting, including this one vs. Swansea City. Possible top 6 team maybe?

Lukaku starts vs. Reading

Lovely looking team. I'm not too sure it'll work as we have no leaders in midfield now, but I'm very glad we're trying something different. What do we think - Is it a double pivot of Rami and Mikel? Or a mid 3 of those 2 plus Oscar?

I feel as if people just go along with this "you can't use light players vs. Stoke, they're too rough and play rugby" because it's easy. Yes, they're aggressive, but they're not supernatural freaks with extreme strength. There should be no problem, in theory, if Oscar was to start this game.

Er, can someone even confirm that the reason for him closing his Twitter account was due to fan critisisms? Until that point, no one should be accused of being the reason for him closing his Twitter even if they did send him this so-called 'abuse'.