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Watching the game against Real Madrid. His long rang passing is excellent, Alons-esque. Been really impressed with what I have seen from him so far.

Lol, why is he an idiot? Emenalo is doing a job that Abramovich asks him to do. Insulting him is quite stupid really. Abramovich is the guy responsible for delegating tasks to Emenalo etc and thus we are finding players even without the manager. If you are unhappy, the guy to have a go at is Abramovich.

Sorry but that is bullshit. That has nothing to do with it. Victor Moses was Wigan's best player and was a big reason why they stayed up. He caused many problems when he played us also and his form justified a move here. I think even people who are not Moses biggest fans would totally disagree with your comment. Moses has premiership experience, was clearly too good for Wigan and deservedly got a move here. He may have his up and downs but he is young and IMO has a lot to offer. We needed squad depth and Emelano and co obviously saw a good player at Wigan and thus wanted him here. SImple, no other reason, especially not the one you are suggesting.

While he is scoring a few in the EL and is improving his general performance, his last premiership goal was on the 23rd of December in the 8-0 thrashing of Villa. That is 4 months without a Premiership goal and that seems to not be picked up by many despite him scoring a flurry of goals in the EL. That for a striker here is not good enough and that is full proof to me that we cannot afford to have just Ba and Torres here as our main strikers next season. You are playing well recently Torres, however 4 months without a premiership goal is unacceptable.

Shame

The match is on Sunday anyway...

Well the big teams who I am assuming you are counting as United, City, Arsenal and Spurs... Liverpool have only won one of those games against Spurs which was 3-2. The others have been a couple draws and they have lost the rest.

Love the new kits Cech is going to be in black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow get it?

Amen to this post. I hate them knee-jerk responses who start saying he needs to leave because of one or few bad games. Give him time, he has age on his side and he in no way has been a useless player like some silly people have suggested.

Some nutters on these forums wanted him gone not too long ago and never got behind him

You are right, surely if Terry did score another that would go in the Guiness world records

Has there ever been a CB who scored a hatrick before? Terry done it for me in FM once Get a pen and let Terry take it!

Reading was most heartbreaking though. 2 goals conceded in what? 3-5 mins, crazy.

I can never be confident with a 2-0 lead after what happened with Reading

Glad to see Moses starting over Oscar for this one. Feel he can cause Fulham's defence quite a few problems.

Well if people who argue Gomez should not come here because his game his limited, I hope they are not he ones stating we should buy Falcao. He is still a decent age and I am sure he would bang in goals here. Just look at his record for club and country every season, says it all. Coming on the 77th min and scoring a hatrick says it all really. Poacher and a half!

Was excellent tonight in the CM role against Arsenal tonight. Dominated the game and made his fair share of interceptions.

If there was a biggest time to capitalize on Arsenal's draw with Everton, this is the game. 2 games in hand and we can overlap them tomorrow. Please do not let this chance pass by boys. Fulham have been annoying over the years but we need this game more than them and I hope that transpires into a win.

Yes and regardless of his critics he scored 45 goals for his club I think last season and pretty much every season where he is fully fit he has hit over 30 goals which is fantastic.

It is not just mediocre teams he scores against though is it? He scored a hatrick last season against Napoli, 2 against City and also scored against Real Mdrid. Just wanted to end that notion that he does not score against big teams.

Mandzukic has scored a lot of goals but I don't think that is because they feel Gomez is inferior to him. It is the fact that Madzukic deserves a starting berth on merit and not reputation. If they were to drop Mandzukic, what kind of message would that send out?

Schurrle provides something useful that Moses, Mata, Hazard or Oscar cannot offer. His shooting outside the box is brilliant and we may need that type of game changing player who can hit a shot from distance and blast it into the net. Sometimes we have struggled to score this season because our play is too much passing and there is not that many capable long shooters apart from Lamps. Having another player like that who can cut inside and unleash a shot would be useful. Happy the club is pursuing this transfer for many reasons.

You still have not answered why you decided to call him average player.... no basis for that conclusion I guess

So you claim he is an average player then when asked why you think that you use sarcasm because you had no evidence to back it up

What kind of confidence is that for someone who has stepped in and done really well in Cole's absence? he has done very well and because he is faster than Cole, I reckon he helps us sometimes with his ability to win the ball and attack. Something we have been lacking with Cole recently.