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I wonder if people are still keeping up this BS story about him being a coward for not fighting for his place. Diego Costa was awful on Saturday and majority of games this season, bar WBA, has not been in form. Yet, he is still picked and Falcao who was awful last season is constantly called on to come on as a sub while Remy has not featured in any of our league games, who done a lot for us in his limited chances last season. Shocking the way Remy is treated. If there is any player who has fought for his place, decided to knuckle down and wait for his opportunity, it is Remy but he is totally ignored and it shows Lukaku was right to leave. Merit does not get you minutes, it is your reputation. That is why Falcao is favoured over Remy. So can people put to bed this utterly ridiculous story that he could have stayed and fought for his place instead of leaving. Costa can perform as bad as he has done in the next few games and still will keep his place. But, yeah, Lukaku should be prepared to be content with this

We offer stupid wages to our young players anyway. Those who aren't even in the first team picture ffs!

Because what you said was utterly ludiccrous without trying to be insulting mate. You actually said he was invisible for most parts of the season which is a crazy statement. City at home and City away he provided two quality assists despite us playing very defensive football, yet he still provided the 2 key moments of the game. Arsenal away, we were very defensive again and we got the point. Look at the home fixture when we played Arsenal how good he was when we attacked them... United at home he was our best player in another very defensive performance. Was given the MOTM and was the standout player. United away? What? Seriously he was the best outfield player on the pitch and nearly scored an excellent solo goal but DDG made a fantastic save. Had that gone in, we would be talking about one the best goals of the season. Just skipped through their defence with ease. He caused Rafael problems all game. I can't actually believe what you are writing, really. QPR, away was probably one of his worse performances but he still created the winning goal and that shows what a fantastic player is about. Even on their bad days, they can come up with something magic and he did. You gave examples of why he should not be PFA player of the year then used PSG games as an example. You don't get PFA awards for performances in the UCL. Southampton he had a good game. What are you on? He caused so much problems and constantly went through their players with ease. He was like a one-man machine that game. That is why Clyne said Hazard is the best winger he has ever faced, such was the problems he caused him and co. You basically have stated random games where you think he did not score or assist in and stated he had a bad game. I was at the Burnley game. He was the best player on he pitch by far. Literally. The rest of our team were so average. He was on another level. Did you not see the excellent skill/asisst he done for Ivanovic goal? Skysports gave him a match rating of 9/10 for that game despite the fact we drew. He was quality. Another game where you have assumed but not bothered to watch. Believe me, those games are poor examples because the majority of games you stated he was the best player in which only makes me believe you are assuming and not actually watching the games.

This. The lack of an offensive threat our FB give us is a joke. Azpi has done well in the LB position but really for a top club wanting to compete for the UCL and keep on being a formidable domestic team, we really should be having natural full backs in the RB and LB position. Ivanovic is not a natural RB. Azpi is a right footed RB playing at LB. Everyone goes on about how good of a defensive player he is. Yeah, he is but then what does he give us going forward for majority of season? Not much. I was looking at the Arsenal highlights yesterday and the amount of times Monreal and Bellerin in particular provided natural attacking width was just amazing. They were excellently defensively too. Then you just see what Kolarov and Sagna have been providing City this season. United's game against Liverpool, how many times did Shaw and Darmian get down those flanks as you said. Also, both had excellent defensive games. Having Ivanovic and Azpi as FB should be a short term solution. Not a long term one. When Azpi first started taking over Cole's role there I thought it would be temporary until we get a natural LB. We get Luis and Azpi still keeps playign at LB when Luis is a quality LB. Then we sell him for what? Absolutely ridiculous. Just why did Mourinho buy him to barely play him then get rid off? It is why I was so pissed off to see Bertrand leave. A natural attacking LB who is defensively sound and is from our academy and we let him go. Then to top it off, Shaw who is a fantastic LB when fit and will turn out to be one of the world's best went to United and he is a Chelsea fan. Someone like that should be in our team. Not a right footed player at LB ffs. It worked for us in the league last season but seriously the lack of attacking width from our FB is not only setting us back in the league, it will set us back in the longer stretch in Europe. Teams are figuring us out. They know our offensive play from CB to FB are poor so we give to Hazard to work magic. Literally one-dimensional.

He had a very good game. He caused our defence all sort of problems. He was a key part of their second goal and had fantastic hold up play. He was very unofrtunate not to score. Just look at the player ratings from various sites to see the description about his performance. Constantly got into space and his movement and general play was very good. Just lacked the goal. Had a very good game.

Don't get me wrong, I agree has been out battled in the air a lot this season but I think that is because of his current form. Generally he is quite decent in the air. Last season he scored 2 fantastic headers against Southampton and Aston Villa and also scored a header against Swansea where he used aerial leverage to beat his man. So in general last season he scored a nice range of goals.

Actually useful that we have a game like this. A game where we should win comfortably regardless of our current situation and hopefully that will restore a nice sense of confidence before our big showdown with Arsenal.

A lot of them were penalties tbh. I rate him but he is not in the same league as Costa right now imo. Like Costa, Lacazette has not started the season well too and has not scored a goal so far this season.

Can't believe you had Lacazette up there as a striker who is better than Costa. Are you serious?

Stop looking at stats. Bournemouth, did not watch it but from what I read, he and Benteke were the only ones who stood out in a game where the team was poor.Against Stoke he won that game on his own. Arsenal was the best player on the pitch imo and Cech made a wonder save for him. WHU he had a bad game. He has been good so far. Our players have not been good at all so we should not even go for. Anyway I am done. Don't bring this back up to me please. Doing my head in now.

Yes, I don't think Terry believed Coutinho was POTY. He thought it was Hazard then Sanchez or Kane probably but he did not just say Coutinho for the sake of it. Why not just say Ozil, Henderson, Lukaku ffs. He said a player that would not draw too much controversy if he said it because most people would respect the fact that Coutinho had a good season which is why there was not much people who called id ludicrous. Had he said a player like Henderson, everyone would have ridiculed it. Oscar, you really are having a laugh if you think I am one of the only ones to think he had a very good season. Like I said earlier, I don't know why people keep brining this up. This is Oscar's thread and we are going to have to agree to disagree and nothing you lot say will change my view. Sorely missed by Liverpool today.

You said I am the only one. I disproved you and now you are changing the subject. Don't make bullshit claims and when I prove you wrong you change the subject. Point is I am not the only one who thought Coutinho had a good season like you first said.

Yet actual paid pundits and our OWN CAPTAIN voted Coutinho POTY. So, no I am not the only one.The irony. Think before you speak. LOL.

Just stop LOL. Swansea aren't going to bring in Bamford on loan as an AM even if Bamford was to return here. And regardless of Siggs not performing to his usual standards, he is not going there to compete with him, LOL. Stop this imaginative dreaming and hypothesis you are coming up with.

What do you mean? Bamford is a CF, not an AM? Where does Pardew have him as an AM? If he does that is further reason why his loan should just be terminated. Was never fond of this move when I saw all the strikers he was up against.

He is a CF. Not an AM.

Ivanovic was bad today again but let's not hide the fact that the whole defence were beyond poor. IMO Azpi was as bad as Ivan. Terry and Kompany have switched again. 2 seasons ago Kompany had the role of best CB in the league. Last season he faltered and Terry played his best ever season.This time round now, Kompany is back to his best and Terry looks a shadow of the CB we saw last season.

Another pointless loan. Seriously, do we just chuck out players on loan for the sake of it? Watford bought probably around 15 players this season and already have players who are more experienced than Ake in their squad yet we sent him out loan to them. He played in one COC game which they were knocked out in and has not appeared in any of their PL matchday squads. It is because they have too many players in every position. Why did we loan him there? Pointless and just another wasted loan it will be.

There phsyical but they can't dominate the game physically in the way the likes of Toure do. Terry and Zouma were poor against Lukaku, Kone and Naismith. Did not match them up physically at all. Zouma has a lot to learn really. People overrate him. If he was good technically and improved his positioning he would be good but right now he lacks that. The thing that helps him with his poor positioning sometimes is his pace but right now I would have Cahill over him for sure.

Where do I start? Just awful. So many people got their wish of seeing a Zouma and Terry pairing and both were shocking. Terry could not deal with Lukaku's hold up play. Zouma's positioning was poor and technically is a joke. A couple times in the first half, a more composed defender like Cahill or Stones would have kept possession. What did he do? Boot it in the stands. He has a good leap but he really needs to learn to position himself as a CB. Where was he for the first goal? No where. was absolutely poor. Second half, when Kone tried to play in Lukaku I think it was but then we got away with it, his positioning was poor as picked up on the commentators. He showed nothing to convince me that he should take Cahill's place in the team. Azpi was poor as well. Kone constantly bullied him in the first half and second half he was done time and time out again with pace and battled out physically. He got forward once in the game where he shot and was deflected and that is about it. The lack of offensive play from our FB is just poor and it sets us back. Terry had no dominance in the game at all. We were second best to every ball. Stones and Jagielka had a field day up against Costa who was awful again and preferred to get into petty fights and squabbles once again. He lost every ball in the air and every one on one he tried he failed. Fabregas was invisible once again. Hazard just is not himself. Pedro did a few nice turns and tricks but not enough cutting edge. We were outplayed. Barkley just ran through our team and dominated the game. We lack someone who has the physical presence that he does and that is why we are bullied throughout the game. It is like we are emulating Arsenal. No real physical players. Can't believe we have 4 points from 5 games. If I was Wenger I would literall play Sanchez, Ozil, Chamberlain and Walcott lining up against us. Our defence just cannot handle movement and pace and boy I am worried. I feel like a lot of the players, Mourinho is losing his passion as well. Probably will be 11 points behind City and what are fighting for? Top 4. Too much shame for Mourinho. Matic was the only one who comes in for credit. Not for the goal but he was the only one who got stuck in, won some tackles and showed a physical presence. Everyone else was awful. Oh and for Stones, what a top defender. Can see what the hype is about and why Everton were so resistent to sell. Totally dominant in the air and on the ball. Brilliant defender.

Azpi has been worse than Ivanovic today but no one will pick up on it. He has been awful. Physically poor and so many players got past him with ease.

Zouma's positioning at times is so awful.

Not even in the squad today plus Palace aren't even playing with a natural CF.....

The lack of phsyical presence over the pitch is so worrying. Kone has caused Azpi few problems too. The only commanding figure in the team is Matic. It is a reason why so many teams are walking through us easily. 5 games gone and we have conceded the most PL goals. Reall worrying. That goal might just be a turning point but I worry every time Everton attack.

No way we are title contenders. Even if somehow turn this miracly around, just too vulnerable. Compare City's dominance here few weeks ago compared to how open we are. Joke. Really worried.