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Its not just the English selectors, germany has one of the best teams in europe and he's still called up playing alongside reus, gotze and ozil. I didn't say sturridge was not good here, I said he wasn't happy playing out wide. He wanted striker role alone and its never good if your players are not happy. But schurrle would be more than happy to play at any position for a big club like ours. I'm sure u must have been frustrated sometimes when it seems like we are trying to walk the ball into the net instead of having some genuine threat from outside the box. With schurrle here, he'll help lampard in that.

Sturridge wanted to play up front as the striker only. But schurrle is more versatile, he can play across the front three and in the striker position too. Schurrle is defensively better than sturridge too and will gladly accept to play out wide or up front or behind striker. Don't underestimate the fact that schurrle is a German international regular while sturridge is part time for england.

No player has given more assists(5) than coutinho since he had his debut on february 11th. @OptaJoe stats

Benitez was given the task which AVB failed at, which is making the new players the core of our team. There was a time we couldn't win a game without lamps and terry playing, now azpi, mata, luiz, hazard are now vital players in our team. Make no mistake about it, It was a massive success to change the core of our team from the mourinho era and still play attractive football (we scored 145 goals this season) without terry and lampard complaining. Its not fair to compare how we were 4 points behind manutd because they have been magnificent in the league this season only chelsea 04/05 were better than this manutd side in the league in recent times, their point total agrees with me. We should compare with mancitty before benitez came and see there wasn't that much of a shift, considering we played 10-15 more games than any other team in the league, with the smallest squad in the top 5. Under benitez we lost the CWC, Carling cup, and FA cup. Here's what really happened: The CWC, torres missed an open goal yes benitez made a stupid sub of bringing on a rightback but if torres put that in, we won't be talking about this. The carling cup, IVANOVIC single handedly sent us out don't even mention benitez in this. The FA cup, we won manutd on the way to a far stronger mancity with an extra week rest and there is no shame in that. So in total its only the CWC I can really blame him for and at that time, the BOO guys were at their full flow. The turning point of Benitez era is when he commented after the middlesborough game that he will leave at the end of the season. That made the boo boys stop and allowed our players (especially the new young ones who are not used to receiving boos from their fans) concentrate on the game plan and we started winning a lot more games. Had we stopped booing earlier I could have imagined our position in the league with fully focused players. So I hope he gets a nice send off tomorow and mourinho comes in.

Benitez was given the task which AVB failed at, which is making the new players the core of our team. There was a time we couldn't win a game without lamps and terry playing, now azpi, mata, luiz, hazard are now vital players in our team. Make no mistake about it, It was a massive success to change the core of our team from the mourinho era and still play attractive football (we scored 145 goals this season) without terry and lampard complaining. Its not fair to compare how we were 4 points behind manutd because they have been magnificent in the league this season only chelsea 04/05 were better than this manutd side in the league in recent times, their point total agrees with me. We should compare with mancitty before benitez came and see there wasn't that much of a shift, considering we played 10-15 more games than any other team in the league, with the smallest squad in the top 5. Under benitez we lost the CWC, Carling cup, and FA cup. Here's what really happened: The CWC, torres missed an open goal yes benitez made a stupid sub of bringing on a rightback but if torres put that in, we won't be talking about this. The carling cup, IVANOVIC single handedly sent us out don't even mention benitez in this. The FA cup, we won manutd on the way to a far stronger mancity with an extra week rest and there is no shame in that. So in total its only the CWC I can really blame him for and at that time, the BOO guys were at their full flow. The turning point of Benitez era is when he commented after the middlesborough game that he will leave at the end of the season. That made the boo boys stop and allowed our players (especially the new young ones who are not used to receiving boos from their fans) concentrate on the game plan and we started winning a lot more games. Had we stopped booing earlier I could have imagined our position in the league with fully focused players. So I hope he gets a nice send off tomorow and mourinho comes in.

Has he ever lost a final

Hazard is close to messi role than mata. Mata is a good passer and normal finisher. Hazard is a good passer(messi level), good dribbler and normal finisher and has speed that messi has. So he is more suited to the false nine in my opinion. Putting mata alone directly beside defenders when he is not strong or fast enough is killing him.

Mata is our best player, make no mistake about that. But to become a real force to be reconed with, I think jose will develop his defensive side massively and force him to do some gym work to develop his strength to hold the ball under pressure. And I think he will develop his workrate under jose, maybe if jose subs him off early in games to keep him fresh like he does with ozil it will make mata less tired and cancel out that 3 vs 2 midfield that always happens to us. I also think benitez makes mata stay high up the pitch and makes the wingers come back more like 4-4-1-1 instead of 4-2-3-1

Congrats mata on winning players POTY and fans POTY :cfc: #futurelegend

Mata is our best player, make no mistake about that. But to become a real force to be reconed with, I think jose will develop his defensive side massively and force him to do some gym work to develop his strength to hold the ball under pressure. And I think he will develop his workrate under jose, maybe if jose subs him off early in games to keep him fresh like he does with ozil it will make mata less tired and cancel out that 3 vs 2 midfield that always happens to us.

No hazard and our attacks are bullshit slow. We've survived in europa so far bcos of his runs and how he speeds up our play

if this deal falls through, i would even dance more than us winning the europa league

I heard whenever he scores, a celebritty dies. Scary stuff

Next season is 3 months from now. Tomorrow is tomorrow I just don't want the most mobile and active player in our attack to miss a huge game like this. When he doesn't play, our build up play is as slow as shit, even our counters are slow as shit too.

I dont think so, but if we have a top 10 goal scoring striker again we can properly challenge for the league.

I was shocked too, but it was really only this season that he didnt peform to his normal 25-30 goal tally though

We won the league the year drogba was top scorer in the league.

Top league goal scorers in the past 4 years 161 - Lionel Messi 145 - Cristiano Ronaldo 102 - Antonio Di Natale 92 - Radamel Falcao 89 - Edinson Cavani 85 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic 82 - Robin van Persie 80 - Luis Suarez 76 - Wayne Rooney 75 - Mario Gomez Falcao is no fluke. Maybe because his price is too much but he really is a top 10 player in the world.

Top league goal scorers in the past 4 years 161 - Lionel Messi 145 - Cristiano Ronaldo 102 - Antonio Di Natale 92 - Radamel Falcao 89 - Edinson Cavani 85 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic 82 - Robin van Persie 80 - Luis Suarez 76 - Wayne Rooney 75 - Mario Gomez We would be automatically a top 5 club in the world if we grab a real goal scorer in our ranks

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2013/05/12/3973459/mancini-set-for-manchester-city-sack?ICID=OP not good news back off manshitty

Dortmund want him, its a no brainer bring him back and give us some serious options on the bench.

Oscar puts in a high defensive contribution that mourinho likes, its a no brainer to me that mourinho will start him a lot

Please dont ban this guy, i really miss bitee current players forums

I hope im not slated for saying this but he kind of has the same gameplay of drogba. The strength and few flicks and link up play with about the same pace.

He's not shit but we already have a player like him in ramires. We should sort out priorities first (Striker, Defensive playmaker, Goal scoring winger) then we can bulk up the other part of the team. 20mil wasted before we sort out priorities is a stupid decision.