Magic Lamps

Well that is obviously a legit shot of a legal document every one with a Microsoft word can type themselves. I think i have even used that template myself before.

Why? Same food, same weather, same kind of hillbillies with questionable (part)human ancestery speaking an incomprehensible dialect

Which de jong do you mean?

I wonder what tgere is no thread for Luke Jovic, 20y.o. Bundesliga top scorer only half a year on his contract..even if he flops here his resale value would be immense

Wut? The group is as good as won. We only have to beat fucking Vidi to be 100% sure of 1st place. Should not risk Hazard, azpi, kante or jorginho at all in the el now

I don't think that is accurate. Azpi does overlap and whoever played right winger has profitted from that more than they have last season with Moses overlapping. Pedro and Willian both have been very decent so far in interplay with Azpi. I remember him sprinting to the touchline at least 3 times vs Crystal Palace and he is always putting in quality crosses. He might not be the most adventurous dribbler but he is fast, direct and most importantly always tracking back, never out of position. It is his primary duty to defend and he does that very well. It is not that in Sarris system the fullbacks are overly offensively influential. Look at Hysaj at Napli hardly more offensive output. Rather have it that way than Alonso constantly roaming around the edge of the box. This squad has many problems but Azpi is not one of them.

I wonder how you came from this to Jorhinho ‘surplus to goods’ in an Ancelotti system like you state in every other comment. Surely Carlo would not have minded a player of this quality he also used Ballack and Deco at a similar role here before

Like it or not but he won us a game we did not get play well in. That is what strikers are meant to do. Dont care if he missed that 1 on 1. Look at Lewandowskinor Aubameyang they also miss most of their 1 on 1s. It is about a decision and when the keeper makes the same move its bad luck. But other than last season Morata where he would fall over or roll the ball to the keeper in all his missed ones this season made a decent confident decision and was kept out by some great goalkeeping. No shame in that IMO. Should keep on the good work and we will have a good price for him

Obviously a perfectly legit goal disallowed. Anyway, morata is actually playing really good .even apart from his usual opener very good link up play

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interesting, given their time at the top hardly overleapt and Iniesta had Busquets behind him who was not too shabby at what he did either. Anyway I think the problem with Kante is that while obviously not as good as a box-to-box player than as a DM IMO the tacitcs are the problem. Defensively he is not making as much of an impact also becasue of his positioning. When we get behind the ball it is still Jorginho central which imo is a waste bc Kante belongs in the middle when we dont have the ball. In the middle is where the most tackles and interceptions happen and that is where he is good at. 1on1 situation or doubling down on stationary player, stealing the ball. On the wing play is usually more vertical and thus he is not often enough near the ball to make a tackle. Obviously any of our other in-form mids would be better as a box-to-box player but you dont sit the best dm in the world on the bench or even sell him. We made this mistake before, selling a player just because he does not fit in the coach's system. But players often last longer than coaches. Did not sell Drogs and Lamps under Scolari or AVB either and they still had enough in them to win us some titles.

Makes you wonder what it is... his attitute from the looks of it stinks. Forced his move to Barcelona from Dortmund by going on strike, injured himself in his first few games at Barca took months to get back to full fitness after his injury had healed and now obviously again had a drop in attitude despite a good start to the season. He has always blown hot and cold performance-wise and I wish we would get in someone more reliable when that applies for almost every winger we have had for ages.

Reminds me of Mata with a bit more power. So quite good in most games but his lack off pace always made him useless in big games where he had to play against wingbacks who were stronger, faster and more agile.

I wonder if it is like in Germany where for an underage person to work i.e. to play football at senior level on Sundays or after 10pm he has to be granted a special permission every single time by some federal youth protection office so I could understand if a club would not want to put up with that bureaucratic struggle every time we have a cup/EL match or play on sunday which is probably 50% of our games just to have him in the matchday squad when we have tons of overage players in his position that maybe could explain his lack of action in some cases but less in other cases like last week vs Bate. I think it is too early to judge both situations i.e. Jadon sancho's and CHOs so far. Obviously I would love to have us only play world class talents and make them the next Messi but I have not really seen enough of either of them to be dead cert they will make it in the long run.

Machine. Amazing assist so super smooth movement made it look easy and if the goal means we are now a threat from range it gives oppositions quite a bit more to think of. Hope he can keep it up. Definite starter next week but in the cup I wanna see Kovacic and RLC together.

I think he can play all 3 and he is also able to play on the wing if necessary. But IMO Barkley and RLC both can play there too (apart from DLP) so that really should not be it. Kovacic came in with great form and immediately looked undisputed starter, esp with Barkley struggling for form initially. But now both, Barkley and RLC have delivered in impressive fashion and I can see why they are playing with the form they are in, no midfielder in this squad can rest on his laurels with the competition we have there. I still think Kovacic is the most talented naturally. But RLC and BArkley have quite decent technique plus are physical monsters with height, strength and pace. Now they are also scroing goals. You can see why they are playing.

The problem Morata has is not to find the right path but to stay on it or at least put in a shfit when he is off form. He is instantly disheartened by misses and at the same time his confidence does not really improve when he scored resulting in more misses. Martial on the other hand is still only 22 and has scored from whatever position he's played and already has dragged himself through rough patches. Twice the striker Lukaku is, just not Jose's pipe dream of a big strong strikerr like Lukaku. Mourinho often forgets that size is not everything. Even for Drogba it was not his size that made him great but how clever he used it and mostly what awesome technique he had. Martial also has great technique and is such a slick finisher with his right. Would love to see him with the midfield we have behind him but never gonna happen.

Exellent game. cant believe how on form all of our midfielders are. Even Kante had a better game given his new position IMO. I wish we were able to recreate such an all-round attacking display against the big sides too. Kepa was struggling a bit but he was getting no protection from the ref and Burnely were expectedly rough. Really hard to pick our best midfield rn. But with all the games we have now surely no problem to keep them all happy when rotated enough.

Attitude problema cost him thi season..his agent and stepfather forcing him to force a call up of hia stepbrother as condition for playing for jamaica. No wonder no one is currently interested

Barkley was asked to do more, score more and has delivered. RLC also asked to contribute more and has delivered. Love the attitude of our young english midfielders. Got to find a formation where we can play all 5 of our sexy midfielder at once. Defence- Kante-Jorginho-Kovacic Barkley-RLC-Hazard 4-6-0 we would have 90% posession and every game would end 0-0 or 1-0 haha but it would fix our lack of quality in the ST and RW position and at the same time take a lot of strain from the defence with all those combative beasts in front of them.

There are a few literally few players who are worth whatever they demand and clubs know they have tonpay up. but players lik Shaw - there are tons of his quality out there who would play for a fraction of this. Utd are dumb to give in to this and I dont envy them. We are guilty of deals like this too but not quite in this scale

bas dost has a release clause of 60m and as i said is bang average and has only scored tons i minow leagues like. Cavan is unobtainable I guess. Modeste has always been a nice option. I was really sick we did not buy aubameyang back when we had the chance and modeste would have been my second choice from those former bundesliga strikers who shined consistently. Ibrahimovic would surely be fun bu ti am nt sure he can still do it in a top league. Would be a great treble tho having all 3 great strikers of their era, Drogba, Etoo and Ibra under contract at some point even tho only one in his prime.

at least its at home. I would say start the kids but we all know its not gonna happen even though we could well afford it in this group.

I think we are not even that far away and that is actually the most frustrating. We are those 4 players away. And the best is we got decent replacement for all of them already in the squad. I think we are one world class striker away from a team capable of winning the league and maybe 1 world class cb, 1 world class striker, 1 good winger and 1 good left back. away from being a world class team. We just need to splash some cash but then again when we splash some cash we usually fuck it up it 50% of cases. And in normal clubs you pay shitloads of money to be sure you get a world class player.

Agüero still only fucking 30. It is now almost 8 years ago we signed Floppes instead of Kun and he is still banging em in despite a shitload of injuries. Absolute cunt of person as it appears but never gives in, always drags himself up after the most comical of misses even his guilty of. That is what makes the difference. If we had bought agüero back then instead of Torres I think we would have won like 5 out of 8 titles. How many seasons a reliable goal getter up front was the missing peace of the jigsaw to win the league? Then again we probably would never have won the champions league with him as our main striker...