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You gave a good analysis but left something out. What are the positives mikel brings into the team except his height? Does he make sliding tackles on counters like ramires to prevent goals? Can he pass more than 10meters? Does he shoot from range? Essien vs barca, arsenal anyone remember? Is he even a threat that oponents are woried that he can do somthing on the ball? Are we satisfied with mikels role of siting in front of the defence and passing to the side? Im not. If you watched realmadrid vs ajax, they played modric and khedira, and if you saw the first two goals, it was a modric long pass from deep that opened it up. Khedira is a box to box like ramires but mikel is not a passer like modric and thats what we need to speed up our play from defence to attack in a pivot. Mikel is more suited for 4-3-3 in the same role as busquets, but in a pivot he is not creative enough in attack. Pivot = box 2 box + defensive long passer 4-3-3 = pure DM + b2b + passer i thought mikel will develop his game and become a better passer, but im dissapointed.

If only he made more sliding tackles or gives spreading passes to the flanks.

Anyone who watched the realmadrid vs ajax game and saw the first two goals will see how a deep playmaker like modric which chelsea never had will help our team in attack with long passes. We need that in our team with the sturridge money + extra. We also need some strength in our midfield(fellani), we are all of a sudden bullied in physical games. We can then swoop for cavani as a proper striker upfront. CM - fernadinho, moutinho Fellani for strength ST - Cavani or falcao

Come over and put the torres nightmare to bed

This post made me

Last season champs lge was written in the stars. Shaktar please give us a fairy tale story!

He is just like young messi at 2004-2006, obvious talent and dribling but afraid to take charge. I hope he matures like messi did and tries to use his dribling talent to win games soon.

Very underrated player. We lost after he was taken off

very true. After the westham game i saw how bad things can get if our amigos have a bad game, they were bullied of the ball easily. If there was more strength in our team, we will still be able to win difficult games.

i always wanted him for chelsea. Beast. Height, work rate, big target man, defends setpieces, links up, makes so many runs, and good finisher. Big targets are easy to pass to and hold up play well. Its hard to find someone big dat has all that, Drogba?

honestly we need more players that love chelsea and put in 100% effort in our matches(terry, lamps, cole, drogba, mata) sometimes hardwork can be better than skill

I still want falcao, but I have to admit, this was a very good post. The only reason I think we shouldn't buy falcao is because some of the money can be used elsewhere in our team. Like a regista(benat, moutinho) or two strikers instead of only falcao.

Anyone to save us from torres

Oh my goodness another chelsea match

Its a discussion, just pointing out things and trying to find some answers.

We have not won a game under him, the fans don't like him, some of our players don't like him, and we are not playing the supposed attacking football. We don't promote sackings, but let's not pretend like we don't know Abrahimovic, a couple more games without a win and benitez will be sacked. Who is available if this happens??

thats what i mean. Thats why a westham CM can come on and boss a game bcos he has a goal threat far better than mikel but we are satisfied with Mikels job to sit in front of the defence and pass to the back four.

He doesn't boss the midfield at all, see the difference with diame. Mikel was not challenging balls in the air all day. He is just an average player, we need to admit this. He was poor today. Torres was terrible too. Mata was poor except the goal. Rafa benitez is a cunt for removing our best payer moses. We have a loosing mentality without terry, lampard. Fuck

Chelsea players- "Let's score and then allow the opponents to pressure us till they score" Fucking bullshit mentallity!!!...

My name is mikel and my job is to sit in front of the defence and pass to any of the back four.. Fucking see how diame bossed the midfield

mikel is just a terrible foward passer. God!

my name is mikel, my job is to sit in front of the defence and pass to any of the back four

FFS mata pass well

God torres why :sobber:

Gooaaall!!!! Mata!!torres makes a run, receives the ball, doesnt lose the ball, mata scores.