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Actually the opposite is te case. Khedira is a classic DM. He is built like Mikel and has the exact same athletic characteristics. He is the defensive part of a dp mostly. Has a wider range of movement and tackles and is a bit more adventurous than obi. In short not even worth half of the salary he gets. If we sign him for a good 60 k PW he would be nice and tidy backup to magic.

Lolz.Courtois Azpi zouma jt Luis Matic cesc William Oscar hazard Costa Should do. IMO our best possible lineup

We won't solve our problems by throwing money at them. But replacing players in order to change our approach might be a step in the right direction. Getting players like Willian, Ivanovic, Cahill out of the starting lineup and replacing them with people like Cuadrado who really fit our team and give us something extra without losing balance might just be worth those huge sums.

yup defo was. Zola moment. Was clearly at fault for the 4th goal but did not really matter. Also Christensen was just ball-watching. The other were collective mistakes, everyone of our team completely out of position and missing the 2nd goal. Zouma , surprisingly, was not the saviour himslef as

had a promising first half for milan vs lazio today. Very combative. Switched off for tactical reasons after they conceded 2 goals in 4 mins.

Natural born goalscorer. Has some pace and decent height. But also Borini is a natural born goalscorer and never was good enough. We will see. This Bamford lad scores a goal every 150 minutes (10 in 24) playing half the time on the wing. Definitely deserves a place in the squad, can't be worse than the Drog,really, does not shy away to take on big name defenders. Absolutely sniffed that goal , anticipated the situation and made Fernando look like a fool. Probably will not make it here, we know why. Though I am sure he will become a decent premier league striker.

Nothing to do with youth or rotation. Just pathetic tactics, a pathetic performance and a pathetic result. No excuse. We have some quality that papers over the cracks but some of the tactics Mou has applied, the motivation, the attitude of some players just are flawed.

yeah we are back to being shit.

over and out. good luck bradford. deserved their win today.

A first distraction out of the way.

would be of more use if he was here to play against Bradford so we don't have to tire a first teamer.

I have not seen more of him than the odds CL game but it strikes me that those Shaktor players also only work in Donezk. Yes they beat us and dominated us at the bridge but that was a Chelsea side with Victor Moses, Fernando Torres and a Mikel/over the hill Lampard/Ramires pivot. IMO this douglas costa is as overrated and vastly overpriced as Willian whose purchase I considered unnecessary in the first place, too.

Peter Bosz should be a good coach for him. Hopefully Josh impresses there. He only has one year left on his contract in summer. So we should have found a buyer until then.

The new richest club in football list is out http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30896253 we are 7th after both, ManShitty and PSG have overtaken us. As for PSG it is no wonder after the crazy sums they invested and the fact that they are the only commercially competitive French side, but City's marketing value has increased drastically over the years. Apart from sponsorship deals there is not really an area we can further grow because our world wide popularity has already peaked. Finding financial support for a new stadium which inevitably has to come is a must and a great challenge for the board. Also IMO we should expand our loan system even more. Here we can still grow and dominate world football. Our target has to be to get into a situation where we are the first go-to option for every upcoming talent. They should not see us as a developers. Here is where the growing disparity between big clubs and small clubs becomes our advantage. Clubs with excellent youth development like Gladbach, Mainz, Ajax, Lyon could be forced to agree partneships with us and develop our loan players.

Le tissier, Sir Bobby charlton, Mcmanaman, John Barnes, Paul Scholes+ when it comes to crossing/long passing and shooting only David Beckham and Frank Lampard created quite a few moments of pure technical perfection any footballer in the world would have been proud of.

As most people I don't have the time to follow every random player we are linked up and watch all his matches. IMO one can also make an opinion by watching match highlights. Idk if posted before but I found that pretty informative

Lol @ get gerrard to wembley. As if that would be anything desirable. He would most probably bottle it, like he always does when under pressure. But you have to give the scousers credit. At least they have accepted the for Slippy G to eventually reach Wembley, someone has to get him there. If he tried to get there by himself, he would probably slip. So I guess the banner was directed to Chelsea. We should heed that. When we can't get him on loan we should at least donate him a ticket for the league two play off finals at Wembley. Might help him to find his level. But mind the steps when wet...

Mous conviction is that the Team with less mistake wins+ Teams who have more oft The ball make more mistakes. IMO that Philosophy is flawed. For Teams like barca, Bayern and teams containing cahill and brana the opposite is the case.

No idea why Jose went for the "safe" alternative and played Mikel. First thing, playing Mikel is never safe. It means limiting our attcking options whilst giving us one error prone player more. Just next to Ivanovic and Cahill. Secondly it is only Liverpool. Just a midtable team between swansea and West ham which is exactly where they belong and what they are. We pay those lots far too much respect. We made them strong by giving them so much space. They played a 3-6-1 so were always gonna exploit it any space we got them with continuous posession. We gave up our new-born identity of fast, intricate, technical and goal-bound combination play to play some dodgy 19th century farmers football. I am no idealist and i have no problem with parking the bus, but when you do it you should do it right. Our defence porous and our attempts to counter pathetic. We created almost no chances. Tbf Liverpool really worked hard and played their system perfectly. But we simply should not concede playing all defense against such a joke of a team.

One has to appreciate his enormous workrate and stamina. Really can't blame him for his lack of attacking impetus today when all he did was saving Iva's ass and carrying the ball 50m at full pace time and time again every few minutes. Prolly one of our better players today. Would be an awesome wing back

Made him look like a world beater today, when all he did was running a straigh line into our box, Matic missed him completely and Cahill backed off so the goal was free.

Probably won't play the next two or three games. And rightly so. If you can't tackle the player at least block the fuckin shot or foul him. Cahill has missed his vocation. If you like to accompany feisty small guys when they play ball you should become kindergarten warden.

Pathetic display. disappointing but fair result.

Matic fuckin useless today. Overplayed? hope he gets a rest vs bradford. mou must be kidding us today. azpilicueta on NOW? our b team could beat them 2-0 here with a parked bus. how come our a team can barely get a draw?

what does ivanovic even do on the pitch? defending the corner flag?