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Ronaldo is not as good as Hazard in dribbling or creating against parked buses, so if he's available we shouldn't try for him. Bale can shoot from distance, is better than everyone in our team in scoring freekicks, better than everyone in our team bar Costa in finishing, better than all our attackers in heading, and has the strength to power through defenses combined with his speed. Defenses will have to double mark both hazard and Bale, leaving so much space for teammates. He will improve us against parked buses, it's beginning to look naive that you think he won't.

All I say is if he's available for 50mil, it's good value and he's better than anything on our right and on par with hazard imo.And he's actually a pretty good dribbler, you are massively underestimating him here.

The long shots are meant to catch teams off guard who sit deep. He did this for tottenham so many times. People shouldn't underestimate someone who won player of the year in England, he's good.

We don't have anyone in our team who knows how to take a long shot. He also makes runs behind the defence and has an aerial threat from setpieces. His pace on the counter is as fast as ronaldo, and he is a better finisher than all our Am's combined. And he is just 25.If he was available for 50mil, are you sure you won't take him?

What we need is a direct AM. Schurrle is, but he can't dribble past one man, his passing/ball control is average and on top of that his finishing which is usually good has been off this season.Any available AM that has dribbling, good passing and good finisher will be perfect for our right wing.

Hazard is not ronaldo, he will never be. All he can improve is his shot power and finishing in front of the keeper. Hazard is more like robben and ribery, especially Ribery and that was enough to land him on the podium in the ballon'd'or awards. Hazard will get there earlier, but he won't score 30-40goals.

That is the only thing about him that annoys me. He has the natural ability to be a very good dribbler, but he dribbles like valencia of manutd. Go outside and cross, frustrating that he used to be a superb dribbler at Shakhtar Donetsk.

Some other Reasons for lack of English players. 1. There used to be players like Ferdinand, Rooney, lamps, Gerrard, Cole, j.Cole, Beckham, Owen, but now the quality of English players is a far cry from before. I'll say this is one of the reason why arsenal dropped from title challengers to 4th place team, too many average English players when they used to have more french players during the invincibles era. Liverpool is another victim. 2. Ffp is another reason why. Manutd could spend 25mil on Ferdinand those times but now there practically the only team in England that can afford to throw away money on English players and hope they come good. But the rest of us are working under tight ffp tightrope so the available money has to be spent on quality. 3. English youth trainers don't let their youth develop their ball technique, vision and passing. All they care about is speed and strength, so English players have too many lennons, chamberlains, Townsends, adamjohnsons, without any xavi, silva, fabregas, ozil. This is why English players lack creativity, no focus in developing those areas when they are young, just gym, run and run.

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Hopefully we don't miss him the way mancity are missing silva

Unbelievable how those scousers are looking for any sympathy they can get

I wouldn't be surprised to see him play in midfield besides Matic like luiz did for us. He's a very good passer of the ball too

Liverpool had one shot on target throughout the entire second half. They huffed and puffed but were kept at arms length, John Terry in particular repelling attacks with calm efficiency. The Chelsea captain won 100% of his aerial duels, 100% of his tackles, completed 95% of his passes, made three blocks and six clearances.

He also scored a screamer against stoke in the Benitez time. The problem is he shots are weak almost all the time. His dribbling this season though is absolutely phenomenal. Robben levels

Pirlo in his younger days could dribble through pressure, fabregas just can't. He doesn't have the upper body strength to hold off pressure too, so his only option is to pass the ball quickly like Mata used to do. Modric, Iniesta and thiago are just more mobile / agile which makes them dribble away from man-marking.

His shots are just too weak. If he can't power the shot, he should try to curve it in the top corner.

Essien is a faster Matic. Matic is so intelligent, it's unreal.

Needs rest. Wish he was more mobile/agile like modric to escape pressure from the big teams.

Essien is a faster Matic. That's it, I can't see any other advantage.

He wasn't dribbled once today, absolute rock. Created the goal to cap off a MOTM performance together with Matic.

Matic is on par with Essien in his prime, there I said it.

He gives us a huge lift catching almost all opponents crosses

We all knew he isn't a goal scorer but he should learn to curve the ball to the angle like messi/Neymar, or put your foot through the ball with power like Ronaldo or costa

This is why he's our most important player. He puts the ball in the net!!!