Hutcho

Scott sinclair may be going to city...

I agree, i think DM is still a bit too deep for him, which is why if mikel is solid then it could work though he can't really venture forward much from there as it will leave it open... He definately shouldn't be at RW, and i would rather see someone like marin or hazard there...

http://www.mirror.co...ses-bid-1230595 http://www1.skysport...ore-Moses-talks More speculation of a bid, though as previous of posters have said that there are other sources which say we are further along... But we will see...

Ok mate, your telling me i know nothing about chelsea... Ok whatever, you clearly don't know how to have a reasonable debate. As i said imo, he is extremely important to us in a 4-3-3 in his cm role, however that role does not exist, RW/Ram is not Defensive midfield.... Playing any player there gives us an extra player in midfield, its simple maths as it gives us 5 people there... If you have seen ramires in pre season and last season, he is not his best at RW, now if we are going into this game with a highly defensive strategy then Ramires will probably play, however IMO as i have said we shouldn't do that and if we are playing a 4-2-3-1 we should have Ramires on the bench... Also Lampard should be able to sit in a lot more with better players who can create stuff ahead of him which he hasn't had in pre season as the likes of Lukaku, Meireles and Ramires have not been able to create much in attack causing him to have to play a more advanced role... If we have a team with Hazard, MATA, maybe Marin, and torres, then we will have more creativity and lampard will have less need to move out of his position...

How is putting Ramires at RW gonna be of great help defensively unless he doesn't play his position correctly, yes he has great stamina, but really shouldn't be at RW, and not playing with Ramires at RW isn't acting like a kamikaze, it simply means that we have someone who is more adept to playing there... Unless you mean playing Ramires in the double pivot which is a different debate. Also i don't see your point of "Phasing out Ramires" as we have a long season he will have a role to play, we also have Romeu, who is at least our second best defensive midfielder... Also our defensive style of play which isn't that defensive, except we used that tactic in the champs, wouldn't be different except no Ramires at RW, which is not gonna go from being solid to being ripped a new one... Also there i see little reason to park the bus against man city, we have had a bad pre-season, which they have had aswell, they have got a more settled squad, but as i have sad in earlier posts, for me this is our last pre-season game and i would treat it like that....

Don't know if this one has been posted... A bit vague, but another source... http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-make-very-serious-offer-for-marseille-rightback--cesar-azpilicueta-8009849.html

We have a young RB in Sam Hutchinson... Don't really see the need in having him over ours, i haven't seen much of him tbh, so if he is the next superstar then fair enough but, i would rather Azpi tbh or an established RB as a backup to ivan...

How would it be mad? We have seen him be ineffective at RW, so unless we play a 4-3-3 i think he will be on the bench for this one... Unless we actually are going to be parking the bus which would be the craziest thing...

TBH, i would much rather see a great performance, where we give it a good go, whilst being fairly solid at the back, and let the result be what it will be than us parking the bus, showing nothing and being "extremely lucky" to win... I personally see this as the final pre season game... Yes it is a cup, but as i have said before preparation for the wigan match is 10 times more important than the community shield imo.

Well i am hoping my team will just score thier first goal of the season in my first game of taking charge, got loads of solid old defenders, so shouldn't be as bad...

Worth 8 mil, and can do a job for us, anything more than that then i think he is a bit expensive for someone who is likely to be a useful squad player...

He is a good player imo, one of the best wigan have... I highly doubt would be a starter and would be used more as an impact sub at RW, and a third striker if something happens to torres or sturridge... Can't see him ever starting over Mata, Oscar or Hazard, unless it is like the carling cup or something, but would be a useful player imo, and definately better than ramires at RW....

Congrats typing supremo...

I think we will have Mata left Hazard right oscar middle then Lamps and mikel behind... Lamps won't need to venture forward as much as we have a lot of attacking threat ahead of him so lots of the holes that opened up should hopefully be closed... What could change that is if someone like hulk were to sign then Oscar would get pushed back and Lampard may miss out, with hazard in the middle and Mata on the left...

Yeah i know but i am saying to expect big name signings every time is a bit unrealistic, i know he said we will probably get one or two more players...

But lampard has been better than all our other midfielders that play similar roles... I highly doubt its an either or deal... I personally think both will be regulars and Lampard will probably be able to help oscar adjust to the prem... I too can't wait to see Oscar play for us, he will have a big role to play and i am pretty sure he will be a starter, as his passing and quality on the ball is something we need...

Tbh, i don't think we can blame the board considering we have brought in a lot of great signings full of young talent, we can't keep asking for more big name sigings in every position thats not going great... It would be nice to have that but i think it is an unrealistic expectation...

Torres is widely considered the number 1 because of how high profile he is etc... In actual fact he isn't the undisputed number 1, i would still have him over Sturridge atm, but it doesn't mean he always has it. If Lewandowski or someone of his calibre was to come then he would be a serious contender for it...

Yeah thats what i meant, obviously he would go through a much more precise procedure as you said with Fat %'s and Muscle %'s etc... But anyway, if Hulk comes then he will be a powerful force on that RW...

What i am saying is just the old standard bmi, Height to weight will show him as overweight because muscle weighs more than fat, and he has a lot of muscle and isn't particularly tall at 5ft 11... BMI, is just a general measurement, i am not actually saying he is overwieght, he is a supreme athlete who definately has too much muscle for a footballer in todays sport where physicality gets penalised more than it does previously... FOR EXAMPLE: if you put hulks height and weight... Just average, they are probably not exact but just for example purposes his bmi is 27.96 which is classed as overweight as anything over 25 is classed that way.... Again i am not saying he is but how flawed a standard old bmi test is which would class him as overweight which he is not...

Hulk is probably overwieght if you took his bmi or something but only due to sheer muscle... He will not end up like ronaldo... Ronaldo was never that hench.... I don't think he will have a problem with his weight long into when he is retired...

I agree with most here, would love to see micah richards here, he was my first choice for england, but hodgson went for the shitty liverpool players... Definately a great defender, and being english a back 4 of COLE TERRY CAHILL RICHARDS would be pretty good...

Confidence is something that this team needs, so thats sounds good to me...