Zinedine Iniesco

Madrid fan here, a bunch of shit has been thrown at Hazard for his first season but bottom line... he got a freaky injury against PSG in December and that's the ultimate catalyst for the season not going as well as it could have. With him healthy, Madrid would probably be well ahead in the league and who knows in the CL. Madrid needs two extra elite world class forwards to be back in the running for CL imo, Hazard prob has 2.5-3 elite years left.

There's no option to buy, Florentino Perez isn't stupid. I don't like what deals like these says about the club tbh. In regards to Kovacic, he seems like a good player who could possibly become great if he had any above average passing ability, which he doesn't really. 

God dam god dam god dam.
This is why i want to see him in the middle.
Hes been tracking back to defend, has been good in the counters, and provided a good assist.

Replying to Stingray from the page behind, i have seen documentaries about spain where the NT's physio team helped iniesta GREATLY for example when it comes to the mental aspect during the 2010 world cup.
About Mata, the lack of the 4-2-3-1 that del bosque has used all these years had its effect, along with fatigue. The brazilians came in with alot of energy and momentum, and i really think del bosque did a mistake not playing martinez @ midfield. Its been shown throughout the tournament, the problem at midfield.
According to toni grande, which is the 2nd coach to spain, they replaced fabregas with mata because they needed more directness and pace, and that almost worked out for them today.

God dam god dam god dam.
This is why i want to see him in the middle.
Hes been tracking back to defend, has been good in the counters, and provided a good assist.

God dam god dam god dam.
This is why i want to see him in the middle.
Hes been tracking back to defend, has been good in the counters, and provided a good assist.

God dam god dam god dam.
This is why i want to see him in the middle.
Hes been tracking back to defend, has been good in the counters, and provided a good assist.

 
That same midfield that absolute destroyed the Bundesliga? That same defense that completely shut out Barca over two legs? That same slow attack that scored 7 (each one better than the last) goals against Barcelona? A team that now has a manager that has started a dynasty at Barca and contains potentially one of the greatest german talents of all time in Goetze
My friend, I'm very happy the likes of yourself does not manage a club as your close minded underestimation of a club that practically dominated last season, is very irrational.

I havent back tracked at all so i dont know if anyone else has mentioned this but...
I find to be the chelsea training jersey to be superior to any of these other kits, dear mother of god is it exquisite IMO. i think ill get it, its actually half the price of the home kit which i have to say i dont particularly like.
Also i dont want to sound like im sponsoring them on purpose, but if you can see the watermark of soccerpro on the bottom right of the picture, thats actually the best place to buy a jersey from if u live in the US ( maybe somewhere else as well) as u are given free shipping in the us on orders above 65 and REAL low prices, they are authentic as i have bought gifts for others there, but instead of costing 90 dollars, they have the home kit for 80 dollars.
Im not gonna get free shipping on the training jersey lol.

Those lines that run across the chest/arms are probably ment to differentiate between training and jersey, but i like those lines considering they remind me of the Adidas style back in the mid 2000's. Actually my favorite national jersey ever ( im wearing it right now actually) has these factors.

Got the home kit for my birthday recently, The only football shirt ive bought with long sleeves and with this british weather i can wear it more often!!

Dam these blue moon people have lost their screws.... Some are putting rocky videos for motivation, ffs.
Disgusting.

Dam these blue moon people have lost their screws.... Some are putting rocky videos for motivation, ffs.
Disgusting.

^ Hi im Rafa Benitez
Its nothing personal son of a bitch.
Since Chelsea has not much more momentum strikers to lead the line (if any other) in their sight, Cavani imo will be a matter of days.
Here are some stats.
Some stats on Cavani.
In Serie A Cavani had 33 Apps and scored 29 goals, 4 assists, and received EIGHT yellow cards.
In all competitions hes had 41 Apps and 36 goals with 6 assists and Thirteen yellow cards.
His passing rate is 79 Percent which is good for a forward. Normally it is the players who play the more safe passes in the center back positions who get the highest percentage in this area.
In that respect he has a better overall stats sheet than lewandoski, falcao, for example for the 12/13 season, this is considering though that Falcao started like a rocket and decreased a little bit, lewandowski was as concurrent as cavani as far as im concerned.
He gets a healthy average of below 1 offsides per game. Only lewandowski has less with 0.8 in the quick search comparison ive made.
He also has a good a very healthy dispossession stat. Falcao and Lewandowski receieved practically 2 more per game. And is also better in the turnovers.
Also has atleast 1 long ball per game.
Cavani is the most inform striker in europe, has great passing and can score with the head, long shots, tap in, etc, and can really hold his own with the ball not getting dispossed. He is good against offside traps, and he also has good work ethic.
He also has two good feet and great positional awareness being able to move around the box.
Hes a healthy striker this man. Many other clubs would go after him if they really needed him, and im surprised i havent heard about them going for him as strongly.
Despite the price, chelsea is going to acquire ( if he does arrive) the world's top striker of 12/13.

^ Hi im Rafa Benitez
Its nothing personal son of a bitch.
Since Chelsea has not much more momentum strikers to lead the line (if any other) in their sight, Cavani imo will be a matter of days.
Here are some stats.
Some stats on Cavani.
In Serie A Cavani had 33 Apps and scored 29 goals, 4 assists, and received EIGHT yellow cards.
In all competitions hes had 41 Apps and 36 goals with 6 assists and Thirteen yellow cards.
His passing rate is 79 Percent which is good for a forward. Normally it is the players who play the more safe passes in the center back positions who get the highest percentage in this area.
In that respect he has a better overall stats sheet than lewandoski, falcao, for example for the 12/13 season, this is considering though that Falcao started like a rocket and decreased a little bit, lewandowski was as concurrent as cavani as far as im concerned.
He gets a healthy average of below 1 offsides per game. Only lewandowski has less with 0.8 in the quick search comparison ive made.
He also has a good a very healthy dispossession stat. Falcao and Lewandowski receieved practically 2 more per game. And is also better in the turnovers.
Also has atleast 1 long ball per game.
Cavani is the most inform striker in europe, has great passing and can score with the head, long shots, tap in, etc, and can really hold his own with the ball not getting dispossed. He is good against offside traps, and he also has good work ethic.
He also has two good feet and great positional awareness being able to move around the box.
Hes a healthy striker this man. Many other clubs would go after him if they really needed him, and im surprised i havent heard about them going for him as strongly.
Despite the price, chelsea is going to acquire ( if he does arrive) the world's top striker of 12/13.

Wrong, if you face a big fish like Bayern or Juventus, youd probably get R@PED with a line up like that.
Specially if you face A
Martinez-Schweinsteiger
Kroos
Or Dortmund's pressing....
People shouldnt just jump to conclusions that De Bruyne at the moment has any where near the mastery to be able to play in such a position with enough class to be relevant, and him and david luiz would probably get pressed and submitted into oblivion specially with the doubtful maneuverability and passing of luiz at midfield which is not good when pressed by such midfields.
The team would fall under a great threat to be disjointed and put into submission just like madrid was against dortmund in the 4-1.
In any case, chelsea wouldnt be favorites to win, far less capable of burying any big fish at that.
Plus with bayern you face people like dante, lahm and alaba in the backline, and the most fearsome midfield in the world imo.
Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal...
Chelsea needs a real midfield not auxillary luiz, or untested, de bruyne.

^ Hi im Rafa Benitez
Its nothing personal son of a bitch.
Since Chelsea has not much more momentum strikers to lead the line (if any other) in their sight, Cavani imo will be a matter of days.
Here are some stats.
Some stats on Cavani.
In Serie A Cavani had 33 Apps and scored 29 goals, 4 assists, and received EIGHT yellow cards.
In all competitions hes had 41 Apps and 36 goals with 6 assists and Thirteen yellow cards.
His passing rate is 79 Percent which is good for a forward. Normally it is the players who play the more safe passes in the center back positions who get the highest percentage in this area.
In that respect he has a better overall stats sheet than lewandoski, falcao, for example for the 12/13 season, this is considering though that Falcao started like a rocket and decreased a little bit, lewandowski was as concurrent as cavani as far as im concerned.
He gets a healthy average of below 1 offsides per game. Only lewandowski has less with 0.8 in the quick search comparison ive made.
He also has a good a very healthy dispossession stat. Falcao and Lewandowski receieved practically 2 more per game. And is also better in the turnovers.
Also has atleast 1 long ball per game.
Cavani is the most inform striker in europe, has great passing and can score with the head, long shots, tap in, etc, and can really hold his own with the ball not getting dispossed. He is good against offside traps, and he also has good work ethic.
He also has two good feet and great positional awareness being able to move around the box.
Hes a healthy striker this man. Many other clubs would go after him if they really needed him, and im surprised i havent heard about them going for him as strongly.
Despite the price, chelsea is going to acquire ( if he does arrive) the world's top striker of 12/13.

^ Hi im Rafa Benitez
Its nothing personal son of a bitch.
Since Chelsea has not much more momentum strikers to lead the line (if any other) in their sight, Cavani imo will be a matter of days.
Here are some stats.
Some stats on Cavani.
In Serie A Cavani had 33 Apps and scored 29 goals, 4 assists, and received EIGHT yellow cards.
In all competitions hes had 41 Apps and 36 goals with 6 assists and Thirteen yellow cards.
His passing rate is 79 Percent which is good for a forward. Normally it is the players who play the more safe passes in the center back positions who get the highest percentage in this area.
In that respect he has a better overall stats sheet than lewandoski, falcao, for example for the 12/13 season, this is considering though that Falcao started like a rocket and decreased a little bit, lewandowski was as concurrent as cavani as far as im concerned.
He gets a healthy average of below 1 offsides per game. Only lewandowski has less with 0.8 in the quick search comparison ive made.
He also has a good a very healthy dispossession stat. Falcao and Lewandowski receieved practically 2 more per game. And is also better in the turnovers.
Also has atleast 1 long ball per game.
Cavani is the most inform striker in europe, has great passing and can score with the head, long shots, tap in, etc, and can really hold his own with the ball not getting dispossed. He is good against offside traps, and he also has good work ethic.
He also has two good feet and great positional awareness being able to move around the box.
Hes a healthy striker this man. Many other clubs would go after him if they really needed him, and im surprised i havent heard about them going for him as strongly.
Despite the price, chelsea is going to acquire ( if he does arrive) the world's top striker of 12/13.

Wrong, if you face a big fish like Bayern or Juventus, youd probably get R@PED with a line up like that.
Specially if you face A
Martinez-Schweinsteiger
Kroos
Or Dortmund's pressing....
People shouldnt just jump to conclusions that De Bruyne at the moment has any where near the mastery to be able to play in such a position with enough class to be relevant, and him and david luiz would probably get pressed and submitted into oblivion specially with the doubtful maneuverability and passing of luiz at midfield which is not good when pressed by such midfields.
The team would fall under a great threat to be disjointed and put into submission just like madrid was against dortmund in the 4-1.
In any case, chelsea wouldnt be favorites to win, far less capable of burying any big fish at that.
Plus with bayern you face people like dante, lahm and alaba in the backline, and the most fearsome midfield in the world imo.
Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal...
Chelsea needs a real midfield not auxillary luiz, or untested, de bruyne.

So Schurlle offers work rate, acceleration, and long shots.
He has average passing, and crossing.
He can play on the left and drips toward the middle to work behind the forward as a bit of a SS.
Despite his work rate he has average stamina, poor defending, and got subbed out 19 times in 36 fixtures for Leverkusen.
Had a passing success rate of 78 percent in the bundesliga compared to Hazard's 86 percent in the EPL.
Schurrle hold almost twice as much shots per game.
18 Million pounds for him.
This equivilates to 21 million euros, about 5 or 6 too much imo.
Could be a very good aquisition, and considering his work rate and speed, i could see him star in champions league games where defending and countering will be pivotal for a mourinho system.

One: Higuain isnt garbage.
Two: Dont Generalize or else you cant be taken seriously
Three: If you mean benzema ( Perez and Zidane have made it clear Benzema and Morata will be our 2 strikers, any rumors of suarez or cavani are false, no one else is joining) He did well in 11/12 but he still has stuff to prove, and has to do even better, if he does badly this season, he is out imo, maybe for suarez despite his attitude and image problems.
If you want to generalize, if u made a poll, benzema would win over higuain anyways in the eyes of madrid fans.
My point is that if you give higuain a chance im sure he could do very well. If cavani is better, hes not nearly 40 millions better lol.
A good team around him, and higuain can flourish well imo.
Thats all im saying here, if u want to talk more about higuain reply to me in the higuain thread.

Also, let me drop something about good old gonzalo higuain in this thread.
I think that 58 million euros for example for someone like cavani is a disgrace.
Im not in total control of the numbers of chelsea and how much the money for cavani would impede the introduction of other players but...
If i had to build a team, i wouldnt take cavani. Too expensive.
Higuain was never given the right spot to shine in madrid considering Benzema and him exchanged, and ronaldo was the focal point.
But his whole game would be more than enough to reach the same numbers as cavani at the very least from what ive seen.
Benzema reached better numbers in 11/12 than cavani did in 12/13.
Stats arent everything, and cavani has alot of great assets, but if i were to build a team and buy a few midfielders and a striker, id maybe take higuain instead.
Too bad higuain doesnt come from a similar season, or else i think hed be under more consideration.
In a well built team, where he has a good leading presense, him and a good enough fernando torres would be more than enough imo.

Wrong, if you face a big fish like Bayern or Juventus, youd probably get R@PED with a line up like that.
Specially if you face A
Martinez-Schweinsteiger
Kroos
Or Dortmund's pressing....
People shouldnt just jump to conclusions that De Bruyne at the moment has any where near the mastery to be able to play in such a position with enough class to be relevant, and him and david luiz would probably get pressed and submitted into oblivion specially with the doubtful maneuverability and passing of luiz at midfield which is not good when pressed by such midfields.
The team would fall under a great threat to be disjointed and put into submission just like madrid was against dortmund in the 4-1.
In any case, chelsea wouldnt be favorites to win, far less capable of burying any big fish at that.
Plus with bayern you face people like dante, lahm and alaba in the backline, and the most fearsome midfield in the world imo.
Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal...
Chelsea needs a real midfield not auxillary luiz, or untested, de bruyne.

One: Higuain isnt garbage.
Two: Dont Generalize or else you cant be taken seriously
Three: If you mean benzema ( Perez and Zidane have made it clear Benzema and Morata will be our 2 strikers, any rumors of suarez or cavani are false, no one else is joining) He did well in 11/12 but he still has stuff to prove, and has to do even better, if he does badly this season, he is out imo, maybe for suarez despite his attitude and image problems.
If you want to generalize, if u made a poll, benzema would win over higuain anyways in the eyes of madrid fans.
My point is that if you give higuain a chance im sure he could do very well. If cavani is better, hes not nearly 40 millions better lol.
A good team around him, and higuain can flourish well imo.
Thats all im saying here, if u want to talk more about higuain reply to me in the higuain thread.

Wrong, if you face a big fish like Bayern or Juventus, youd probably get R@PED with a line up like that.
Specially if you face A
Martinez-Schweinsteiger
Kroos
Or Dortmund's pressing....
People shouldnt just jump to conclusions that De Bruyne at the moment has any where near the mastery to be able to play in such a position with enough class to be relevant, and him and david luiz would probably get pressed and submitted into oblivion specially with the doubtful maneuverability and passing of luiz at midfield which is not good when pressed by such midfields.
The team would fall under a great threat to be disjointed and put into submission just like madrid was against dortmund in the 4-1.
In any case, chelsea wouldnt be favorites to win, far less capable of burying any big fish at that.
Plus with bayern you face people like dante, lahm and alaba in the backline, and the most fearsome midfield in the world imo.
Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal...
Chelsea needs a real midfield not auxillary luiz, or untested, de bruyne.

@ BlueMourinhoKing
You have to respect other opinions to a certain degree.
I have explained my self, more than enough on my reasoning.
Any relevant historic team would be stupid to put Ronaldo in their side.
I cant take you seriously at all with the opinions you give but i still try to interact if its the truth you want to hear.
The space ronaldo leaves open so that open midfields like mourinhos madrid get exploited is uncanny. The diva needs to learn how to track back more. And its not only that, he minimizes what guys like benzema and ozil can do.
If reus was in ronaldo's spot, we would be a better overall team.
Ozil and Benzema would be improved, there would be better team work and cohesion, and less salaries and wages as well.
Fudge Ronaldo for all that i care lmfao.
Lets not even talk about the negative image, and the freekick horror.
I doubt you have tactical astuteness of any degree that is to be considered relevant if you cant really atleast understand what im saying.