kellzfresh

I know you have a reputation here for being controversial on TC, but i think you should calm down a little.

"United try to get fabregas and fail, but reject a chance to get mata". Great logic from the papers

We played some games in the europa league with hazard in the middle and the counter attacks were blistering. I liked that too, it just felt like reus playing in the hole for dortmund with that speed.

Mata mostly, but against teams like mancity where we need to be tight in the middle, oscar should play there to mark out opposition playmaker like he did for pirlo, arteta and dembele earlier last season.

That settles it, he is at home here and he starts mata for sure

im seriously beginning to doubt this transfer, has chelsea even submitted a legitimate bid?

I have high hopes for him. Would be nice to have another high workrate player in the attack with his quality

Chelsea FC ✔ @chelseafcJose: 'Until 31 August we will see if someone can improve the squad but my focus is to improve these guys.' #CFCTour 8:34 AM - 16 Jul 2013a big "IF" http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/7/16/4527614/jose-mourinho-transfer

Lmao, is that derossi? Thats a proper stop sign

Lets hope that doesnt happen

Lol

iHere come mr football tweets Blimey! RT @tancredipalmeri "Liverpool should receive an offer from Real Madrid in the next days, for a swap Higuain+small cash for Suarez."

U sure? Rooney is a work horse, even more than tevez in my opinion. If there's one thing im sure of about rooney, its his work rate.

I think Neymar did well in the confederations cup, and has a lot of goals for brazil internationally. In fact i think he scored 45 goals in 54 matches in 2012(i cant really remember but it was almost a goal per game) which is massive. Your seriously underrating him, i think he is already a better finisher than gotze, better freekick taker, better corner kick taker, already a better dribbler and the only thing gotze has over him is vision. But these days the people who win the ballon d or, are not the best players with vision. By vision alone, iniesta, mata and ozil will be contenders for top 3. But sadly its not only vision that makes you a world best, its goals and the wow factor(dribbling skills)

Huge mistake to sell rooney, a player who can spray long passes, score long rangers and give you 110% workrate to a direct rival. I dont see the logic in that for them.

Mourinho will surprise people next season. Im very sure he'll improve the defensive contribution of mata. After all, hazard wasn't good at defending under RDM but under benitez look how he improved defensively. The same thing happened with ozil, he was horrible defensively before mourinho made him incredibly good defensively. So im backing mourinho to make mata even better than he already is

Ok maybe i was a little harsh on him. But i tend to see people with pure natural skills as the players with higher ceiling. Lucas moura has strength and pace and close control, which makes him an excellent player for the future. But what im trying to say is that Neymar and hazard have pace, close control and far more skills. So the others dont have the pure natural skills which neymar and hazard have which makes hazard and neymars ceiling higher in my opinion. But we'll see, no one can predict the future

Exactly. I dont get the idea of people not wanting us to use 4-3-3 because mata will move to the wing. If it helps us win big games, why not? The other 10 players would work perfectly in a 4-3-3 too? In some big games the 4-2-3-1 with mata in the middle, we were dominated in the middle in all mancity matches, juve match and even against benfica, To counter that, sometimes you need a hardworking AM in the 4-2-3-1(bayern use kroos or muller) or a complete change to 4-3-3. That could have been the difference against manchestercity last season.

That's so long Ok just finished, was a nice read. Better way of analysis, nice.

and mancity lose to supersport united 2-0 :lol2:

Im sorry but these days, vision alone will only get you as far as what iniesta and xavi get, 3rd and 4th. What takes you to the top is goal scoring ability and pure dribbling or skills on another level. For example, zidane has the same vision which iniesta and xavi has but his elegance in dribbling skills made him by far better than them.

My opinion is that mourinho knows about lamps and what he can offer, but it will be nice to know first hand what vanginkel and kalas will offer if played alongside the likes of hazard. Ramires and Lamps can come in with more experience in the second half.

Mark Schwarzer Ivanovic - John Terry - Tomas Kalas -Ashley Cole Marco van Ginkel - Nathaniel Chalobah Kevin De Bruyne - Eden Hazard - Andre Schurrle Romelu Lukaku How about this, trying out chalobah and MVG in the pivot