Danelka

You're the most butthurt person I've ever seen on this forum. Chill the fuck out.

De Bruyne has played 4 games this season and has one good half against Hull. (Pre-season is worthless) He's been the worst player on the pitch in pretty much every other performance. It's hard to build momentum when you don't play regularly, but at this level, you have to learn how to make an impact and build your playing time. You can't come on and be useless every game and move up the depth chart. You don't rate Schurrle, but he's been better than De Bruyne in every aspect of the game. His passing is better, his workrate is better, his impact is greater, his defensive work is vastly better, his positioning is better, he fits Mourinho's system better. Who is De Bruyne supposed to start ahead of? He's #6 on our depth chart and that's where he deserves to be until he can play his way out of it. I like his potential, but his obsessed fans drive me crazy with how much they act like he should be handed opportunities just because, opportunities he hasn't earned.

That is one of the most narrow minded, self-absorbed opinions I've ever read a profession coach say!

He was substituted for Terry.

Slightly off topic, but would love to see the forum invasion wars between Fenerbahce and Steaua Bucharest fans if they played each other...

This is a player we spent £100m pounds on (contract and transfer) and he has repayed us with 2 and half years off shit performances and worse a poor attitude.
We were heading through on away goals before he scored and even then he lost the ball in the final 3rd before that and it nearly cost us, Bosingwa off all people made a vital interception that stopped two Barca players going one on one against Cech, yet no one praises Bosingwa for that moment, Bosingwa was a nightmare for us, but saved us in that moment.
He has got stellar treatment at Chelsea, he practically got a free pass into the team because of his price tag and name, where-as forwards before had to work hard to get in the team then work twice as hard to stay in the team (Hasselbaink, Drogba), Torres got a free pass and still done sod all.
Torres always knew if he ever left Liverpool he would command a huge fee, other players have dealt with the pressure of it and don't be me that quiet thing, he sulked after Munich for not starting ahead of Didier fucking Drogba and had a strop when we didnt' give him a penalty in the shootout.
If he knew he was bad and did everything in his power to change that (like Shevchenco) then he would leave admired by me either way, but i found it hard enough when Drogba was sulking, so im not going to take kindly to Torres doing the same, am i?
May i ask, where were you when Kalou was getting stick?

Wait, Samsung is one of our main sponsors, but they still use iPads?

Amazing after the good mood around the Bridge yesterday, the return of the Special One, a great goal for our greatest ever goalscorer and an easy win to kick off the season that some people can still find the bile and vitriol needed to have a pop at one of our players. Fucking pathetic.
Was it a vintage performance? No. But it was the first game of the season, he worked hard and did some good things. The fact that some people are bringing Sturridge up in this thread is fucking pathetic - are you guys not getting enough attention in the 'Oh look, Danny Sturridge scored so let's bring up the same old shit over and over and over again' thread?
Seriously.

No Snodgrass. Not even on bench. #fpltrauma

OptaJoke ‏@OptaJoke6m
98 - Percentage of Liverpool fans who now think they can win the league this season. Lead.

IM TYPING IN ALL CAPS TO PROVE MY COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL POINT

Its hardly struggling.
He's young, he has came back from a long injury, so common sense should be able to tell you that Wenger isn't going to burn him out like he did two seasons ago.

"Why would you post your own quote?" - Leif

Judging by that photo KDB has 1 finger pointed. Lukaku is making a 0 with his hand. That indicates, his new number will be 10, which also indicates Mata will be sold.

Red nosed Alex? Have you been asleep the last 6 weeks?

I think Xavi is past it, his performances are becoming worse and worse. Some years ago he was the best midfielder in the world, now he is just an arrogant, bitter mug who can't handle defeats.

I think Xavi is past it, his performances are becoming worse and worse. Some years ago he was the best midfielder in the world, now he is just an arrogant, bitter mug who can't handle defeats.

Xavi is so finished.

All right, maybe the word "worship" wasn't the best, but I just wanted to point out the difference between the evaluation of the 2 of them.
You are absolutely right that performance should be the only criteria, but we are talking about club and national team, which are a bit different.
Torres contributed more to the WC and Euro wins than Mata in my opinion, but I haven't seen anyone questioning the level of Mata's contribution towards them, whereas from time to time, you can see bitter remarks about Torres's. This is actually understandable, because Mata is playing exceptionally on club level, while Torres is utter shit most of the time, so people base their opinion on that.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, I just wanted to say that I find this phenomenon interesting. Again, sorry if that wasn't clear for the first time.

Sign him or don't sign him. But make a decision on it and move on.

Yeah, I think we could easily pay that 63M, we just don't want to.

Even if we did buy him for €70m in one payment (lol), all Chelsea have to do when they reflect it in their accounts is amortise it over the period of his contract, which would be €14m + wages if over 5 years, like you said. Same with Real or City. They could easily afford it if they really wanted to.

Actually, I don't think that FFP is that big of a problem, because if we were to sign Cavani for 63M on a say, 5 year contract, the transfer fee could be amortised over the 5 years, so the expense for this year would be only around 12.6M, which is not that much for a club like us.

Actually, I don't think that FFP is that big of a problem, because if we were to sign Cavani for 63M on a say, 5 year contract, the transfer fee could be amortised over the 5 years, so the expense for this year would be only around 12.6M, which is not that much for a club like us.