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They develop some good young players but there are some who totally slip out their fingers and turn out into good players. It is a bit of mix and match. I would agree it would be a good move to go to United if they had not bought Fellaini but they did and there is still Cleverley so no point of Barkley needing to move. That Januzaj kid looks a good player though who is at United but with Barkley he surely understand the right thing is to stay.

Staying at Everton is the best choice for him now. Getting regular football at a good team who can challenge for European football and would do no harm to his England chances by playing there. Going to us or United will limit his opportunities and the best option for him really would be best to stay there for the next few years.

Maybe move him into the player thread now and just to add he scored on his debut for NAC Breda in a 5-1 win today against Roda JC.

Mourinho obviously bought Willian for a reason. There are many games left. Jose will know when he plans to use him.

You just don't like him. What did he do, steal your girlfriend? He could be he the last person in the penalty shootout to take the penalty and you would want him to miss so you could sprout out all your hatred for him. Your hate for him is that bad that you would rather him play crap for us than good for us despite being a Chelsea fan

I am not denying he was good. he was rash sometimes but he did produce moments of quality as well. His ability with the ball at time was very exciting to see. Mikel saved him from getting a red though.

Funny thing is Kalou always got around double figures for us and he does for his new team now as well so there

United failed in their attempt to get Baines. I would do anything to have him next season. Cole will be 33 and in Baines we have someone who will help our attacking duties and also have a good defender as well.

HAHA, what a hypocrite. Same thing you do about Lukaku etc. His reaction was a bit OTT but you don't need to defend every single Brazilian players all the time.

I don't get how you have managed to say Mata done well because of Mikel not helping him. I do not see any logic in that post you previously made. I see others like Kojo and TOPTB admitting Mikel played well even though they might not be his biggest fan but you are just slating Mikel for the sake of it which I cannot understand.

I am surprised you are even paying any attention to him. It did not take me long to realise he came here to contribute BS to the forum.

So you criticized/mocked Mikel for his performance and compliment Mata for today. You really are ludicrous sometimes

Everton is never easy. It is not a devastating loss. Big teams have gone there and lost. Many more I am sure. Just annoyed because we were not poor and had we converted our chances we would have won. As one of the previous posters mentioned, Arsenal lost their first game at home 3-1 to Villa who are inferior to Everton and they were poorer than us and now find themselves top. I am sure we will work harder in training to correct the things we got wrong and hopefully in our next CL game and Prem game against Fulham we will get our shooting boots back on.

Redknapp having quite a bit of a knee-jerk reaction claiming that Mourinho does not rate Mata as a footballer. He took him of early but he did look slow etc, it happens. Quite a strong statement to make. I am sure we will see Mata producing brilliance for the team as the season goes on.

Maybe you should understand the game more and stop posting your usual sarcastic bullshit and realise others around him should have contributed more.

Wrong. No they did not and Cole was useless. Had we maybe had someone alongside Mikel who would of help more going forward then we might of got a goal. Please stop looking to blame him when he was good today. The others just did not have their shooting boots on. Look at Carrick, had a similar role to Mikel today and was voted by BT Sport as MOTM but what helped is he did his role while the others fortunately took their chances and they won the game.

He could score a hattrick and you would still look for negatives. It is one thing disliking a player for the team but then keep criticizing him just for the sake of it gets ridiculous.

He won us the ball back numerous amount of times. That alone helps us with counter attacks and prevented them from scoring more but we were wasteful with our opportunities.

Stop the sarcastic trolling. You just made a post before and consistently posted in the match thread of how shit he is etc and you are still posting shit now. Leave it out!

No, stop the Mikel crap. He was actually good today. I was very impressed. We were wasteful. Mikel done his job, kept possession, won the ball back a few times and Falcao and Cavani's first choice was never Chelsea.

Where is Lukaku when you need him? Karma touched us today and also how I would take Baines over Cole any day of the week.

I think Mourinho has seen how bad Cole has been today. Totally against the races, although that sub did surprise me.

Same thing with Cole. I point this out all the time. He is really fucking vulnerable at times. So easy to push off the ball and does nothing going forward.

Cole is getting ripped apart sometimes. Toughen up ffs! Anyway I will not panic yet. Last season we won after falling 1-0 behind.

Scored 2 mins into his full debut for Anderlecht. Going to be a striker to look out for sure! Edit: Now got his second.