Magic Lamps

Honestly we should give this little man a break. After all the stick he gets from the Liverpool biased media he at least deserves a fair evaluation of his talent. Ok he might be inconsistent and can't finish but he is 20 years old. No one expects a 20 year old to walk into our side instantly. Stil his potential and thus his resale value is immense, so I guess splashing out a good 30m even though it won't yield short term success would be a risky but not a unretracable investment given he is homegrown. He always tries, runs at defenders, has a good eye and pass too. His first touch lets him down at times but his dribbling is decent. In short he is one of the best 20 year old wingers in epl I have seen for years and it is by no means set in stone that he will be another walcott. lets not forget walcott's progress was hampered by injuries and the fact that WEnger never utilized him correctly. Sterling has still ample chance and time to fulfill the promise he is. Should we buy him? Probably not, we got enough players with his kind of skillset potential like Bertrand Traore and Mo Salah. As I always say in those winger threads, the past 2 years and 100m+ gross thrown at the RW have shown this is not the way to go.

it is a joke that no wba player gets a yellow they were at least as bad, pushing all the time.

well that was all unnecessary. what did he think. but the ref overreacted badly.

I fucking hate Yaya Toure, esp in an opponent's team. He is an arrogant cunt with no attitude. But I'd absolutely love him here. He would give us depth, experience, leadership, goal threat from midfield, prowess vs a parked bus - all things we have lacked this season.On a short term contract, he would be here just as long as RLC or whoever will have found his place in our midfield. I am sure Jose will be able to handle him and if not, just give Yaya the boot. A midfield of Yaya-Matic-Fabregas would be immense for big matches as well as for small. Now imagine RLC-Matic-Yaya. The height, power, pace and athleticism of that midfield gives be goosebumps. Sing him up. On a different note, City would not allow him join us.

Sorry mate, but saying Pep had anything to do with our world cup win is utter crap. Whenever Löw tried some pep-style BS like Lahm in midfield or 3 man defence, it got punished like how we almost crashed out to Algeria with Lahm getting completely overrun in midfield or the Ghana debacle. We won the world cup because of a ten year evolution to create a cohesive unit of technically educated players for modern, tactically mature system. If there had bee a world cup in 2013 we'd won it much more dominant, before Pep wore out the Bayern players with his brainfart tactics that are completely knee-jerk in big games. Sure Bayern players were at their peak under Jupp more or less, but also players in their best age were better under Heynckes e.g. Boateng, Müller, Lahm have become worse under the Spaniard. Peps tactics are antiquated and temporarily dwelling on its remants cost Bayern dearly and almost cost us the World Cup.

Utter Bullshit IMO. Bayern have like 120m in reserve so they could just afford a 100m transfer. But they need a major rebuild so they will not spend all that on one player. Also he just signed an extension so it would take more than 100m for us to be convinced to sell him. Chelsea clearly has the leverage here. Bayern should stay with their average bundesliga players to replace their rotten core of stone aged has-beens. Hazard is two or three classes above that shithole.

Actually azpi has those numbers all by himself at times :-P

man that was a chance for juve to finish the tie off. marchisio for all his fancy skills has always been a shitty finisher. even though he usually hits the ball cleanly and technically perfect he always makes it so obvious for the keeper the read his shots. wonder why he never realized that himself.

Nope this is why I always thought Ronaldo was Neymar's mother.

cheating, dives and corrupted refs?

still open. Both teams have been weak and even that soft penalty which gave real and undeserved lead has not really improved the quality of the game.

A midfield of busquets, iniesta, rakitic is hardly average. They owned bayern's stiff old geezer team completely.

Cuadrado's arrival has really improved him. If he is a 30m player now idk. But he is so well rounded technically. If he had end product he would easily be a top 15-20 winger in the world. But if his movement,passing and crossing maintains that high level the assists will come for sure. One moment in the lpool game when he stopped the ball in the attacking third on the right wing facing the lb. The William of last year would have simply passed it back or shifted right and stopped again but he really surprised me and ran past two players and sent in a brilliant sharp and dangerous cross. If Costa had played he would have scored from that one for sure

I like the way he plays, too. But apart from his stature and athleticism I don't really see anything similar to young lamps more to old lamps. Mvg plays composed and from the deep, marshalling players in defence. Lamps in his westham days and early Chelsea days always drove the ball forward by himself and looked to get into scoring positions. Mvg is much more horizontal in his movements and passing. Nonetheless with his work ethic I could defo see him in the Ramirez role, a more well rounded Ramirez ofc. Not gonna happen tho

Tbf he looked crazy fast at the wc. Not getting any faster with him becoming 27 in fortnight tho.

LOLZ. Those two aging have-beens would have made not much of a difference today. Bayern's over-reliance on Neuer and these two just shows what a mediocre team they are now.

That article is a gift that keeps on giving. After reitarating how great value kagawa was, he goes just LOLZ. Fergie must have been absolute nuts if he'd really believe that

Btw how does his pace compare to our current AMs'? Is he as quick as Willian and Hazard or even lightning as Salah and Cuadrado?

This might be why he would fit us better than Wilian. Both, Willian and Hazard want the ball at their feet instead of making runs into space, which is why we often look narrow and static in transition and in attack. But other than that I don't really see what he offers. He gets most goals from the second striker position which does not exist in our system. I could only imagine him replacing Oscar. Willian or Hazard could move to the middle, too with griezmann either occupying a advanced no10 position or RW. On the other hand we would lose some defensive shield that way. So in short he is just like a left-footed Schürrle with better finishing. Could be a hit. At least he plays comes from the RIGHT side to not interfer with Hazard, which probably was Schürrle's downfall.

3-2 would have been a horrible result, even if this would have been the first leg. And Bayern only won because BArca switched off and went 2 gears down. Even with Ribery, Robben, Alaba et al this Barca would have easily thrown them out of the competiiton. MOst impressive about them besides their passing is their forward movement in a quick break. When they win the ball in midfield, the 3 currently most forward players always start great runs into space. Must be fun for Rakitic and Iniesta to pick them up with those diagonals.

what I also enjoyed about the guard of honour was that not only the Pool players lined up but also the refs. Just so much in the FA's face. Inspite their best efforts to make the title run in closer, we clinched the title on matchday 35.

Without disregarding the player's ability, IMO he is not the way to go. We have tried out Mata, KDB, Schürrle, Salah, Willian, Cuadrado on the right wing. all in all we have spent well over 100m brutto on that position alone. Obviously the problem will not be solved by throwing money at it, except we find someone with the quality, Chelsea's right wing should posess. that is not Pedro. The top teams all have two star wingers, Messi and Neymar, Bale and Ronaldo, Robben and Ribery. I don't see anyone of their quality on the market, so I guess we should work with what we have. We still got tons of wingers with tons of talent under contract, I refuse to believe all of those are considerably worse than Pedro or Griezmann, when given enough trust to fulfill their potential.

Well I guess it was time to give Stevie something back ( his 2nd goal in 40 matches against us - both unimportant, compared with 3 assists and 2 goals - most pretty much title deciding- FOR us in his time for Liverpool) for all he has done for us so no stick for the player who left him unmarked at that freekick. But Iva really should have done better vs lallana. Hazard and Remy not up to their usual standards. Sincerely hope everything is fine with Zouma. Willian and FAbregas put in some awesome performances. Either would have deserved a goal. Luis was fine too. I wish he would get his chance on the left with Azpi switching to the right. Iva will not play such a season again, I fear. And whilst Zouma and RLC (great he got his full debut) did not really shine and were subbed off, one has to note the amazing support our young players get from the fans. This is one thing I really like about this club and the fans. Most fans of other teams(Real, ManU, Bayern) always demand more and more big money signings. We on the other hand would always prefer a guy from out youth teams to make it. Keep it up! Maybe with our support, one lucky lad will make it through. I am sure he will be forever in our hearts. KTBFFH

meh would have preferred a win here. but we can still get to 90 points

how tf are we going to spot the difference between willian and cuadrado now? both small, afro and 20something number. oh right, the one does not produce a turnover with every ball contact.