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Fabregas takes SO LONG before making a pass. It's as if he wants to spend as much time on the ball as he can to show off.

Luiz is hurt, Hazard is hurt, Costa is tired. These are our best players and they've already been ran into the ground, despite no European football this season. We need more depth in January. It is imperative. We've been far too passive and impulsive in past windows.

Assisted suicide is illegal here, are you sure you want to encourage me

WilliamHill have a decent bet going for this game. If we win 1-0, 2-0, or 2-1, and Diego Costa scores, the odds are 5/1. Can't decide if my balls are big enough to place a decent sized bet.

Mahrez will be a top player for around 7 more years I'm guessing, while I'm guessing Sanchez has 4 seasons in him. We wouldn't be able to make any money back on Sanchez, but we could with Mahrez should we ever want to. The former is more of a creator I think, while the latter is a goalscorer more than anything, so it's apples and oranges. I personally see Mahrez as a more consistently devastating player. It's like Ribery vs. Robben.

We take talented prospects, and in their most important young years, we essentially ensure they get 0 time on the pitch, whether that's here (RLC) or with a mediocre club abroad. That is ruining a player. If he'd been at Arsenal, United, or City, he'd already be worth 40m+, warranted or not.

Everton are like Oscar - consistently showing everyone how much potential they have, yet not fully realising it. It's exciting to see them get good players like this, but it never leads to much, unfortunately. Good for him though that he'll be reunited with the manager who brought his name to our world.

Start the party early, I say. When Arsenal do it it's laughable, they will never win the PL again. It's up to us to be the ego-carriers of the league. In the way United used to expect every single trophy from the competitions they competed in, I believe to my core and wish you all shared the same belief, that we are by far the best team in the league, leagues beyond City too, and it's only a matter of time before our next CL final.

I'd say that out of the top teams, we've got the least 'loud' users on Twitter, and the least in population too. And yet....

I agree with Manpe. Plus, he's actually a pretty lazy player. Too nonchalant for my liking. All the ability in the world, but he'll never apply himself to the standard he could've reached if he ended up at Juventus like everyone seemed to think, including himself.

Thank you, I was just relaying the message that he's apparently been wrong before about us before. Your post gives me much more hope.

Matt, the man reporting this story, vehemently repeated that Luiz would not rejoin us.

If calling a manager and player shambolic makes you a twat you better @ every member on here Ash.

I'll send you a mint condition Mew card if you stop slandering me

Manpe, going against popular opinion doesn't make one a troll. I think only people who reside in the lower levels of their mind even use that 'troll' word seriously. Baaahh. Baaahhhh. *munches grass*

I SAID this guy was soft, with his movie-like jawline and childish hair. He's the equivalent of one of Neymar's toenail clippings

@ anyone who doubts me, I was backing Moses in 0'12, I was on his DICK, I said he was a prophet, everyone did, that was the joke, but i meant it, i felt it, and look now.

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No offence intended (well, a little), but do realise deeply that some clowns on here wanted Stones & Simeone to lead us this season. The same clowns aren't posting anything about Simeone, because they only wanted him due to where Atletico ended up in the table, and the media reports. Who's watching Atletico consistently this season besides the couple of (admittedly not clowns) Griezmann fans? Shambolic manager in a shambolic league. Their players are incredible. They have some of the most talented players in world football. But they were as talented before his arrival. I'm so satisfied that things ended up how they did. Ranieri won the league last season, should we go for him next?

Even Conte says here that Costa can improve. No whiff or sniff of him being the best striker around, yet. I'm glad. (It's so satisfying to get a long post-match interview that's just enjoyable. I've never experienced this before.)

1:06 made me choke

All this talk of the Premier League being more competitive these days, but the top 4 looks the same as it has for over a decade.

Some players simply don't recover from the loss of a parent, and more often than not, it's specifically Brazilians who hurt most. I think he's done at this level for a few years until his mind is more settled.

/end sarcasm moments don't make players, consistency every game makes players, and Suarez + Lewandowski are still an entire calibre above. I hope we go for the latter if we lose Costa.

Costa is the best striker in the world!