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There is rare potential in that front-line, and it could be 100% better if Mata and Cole connected as well as Sturridge and Bosingwa - and if Bosingwa learnt how to cross. I am pleased to see Nando being unselfish, and the celebrations with Luiz, Anelka and Mata with bth goals show that team spirit is high -- which could boost his confidence. He was sharper today, but was a little to hesitent in front of goal, but i have to admit, that young keeper was exceptional! Sturridge Man of the Match, or even Nando. A brilliant team performance! And nice to see Anelka making a BIG difference with the change, maybe he could be our super sub this season?

He really did need a break. He looked sharper today since Stoke, just needs that little confidence boost. Hopefully the assists will be the final paragraph needed in the article to help him publish the goods!

Nando double assists, he does something which others can't

We should have scored more when the momentum was with us, but a really good performance overall!

Such a quality young keeper

DAVID LUIZ!!! TORRES ASSIST!!!! :D:D:D

Link gone down. Anymore Veetle links available?

There's a plyer called Bender :giggle:

Any veetle links

Down already

Any chance of a Veetle?

And why not Ballack's? Oh.... Wait....

Didn't know he was starting :thinking:

Tottally unexpected But thanks you guys!

Who gives a fuck when Mata is playing :eyebrows:

Sturridge starting with Torres and Mata? And NO KALOU! Pinch me, i MUST BE FUCKING DREAMING!!!! :dance: :dude: :dude: :dude: :dance:

I think Guus will come back, like what many has said, in a more higher tiered role. I think AVB could be our 'Fergie', as we funally have someone who is a great manager with a technical prowess, but also with the potential to improve evn more in the future. We clearly have given him something during his time with the 'Special' era, but i don't think AVB has that much Jose-esque to him. I think Jose did a really good job in building the team but with a large financial gain, and i think AVB will be the person who will recycle the old bones and bring in the new parts. Jose might one day come back to England, and if he did, it would be most likely a Manchester based club. But, it won't matter, because we have the 'The Group One' and he will mae his own 'Special' team. Lukaku, Romeu, McEarhan and Sturridge are only the basis we can see now, and as much as i love Hiddink, or Jose, i think i would trust AVB with introducing the younger players then Jose!

Next on the campaign wheel - Steve for Leg-end!

TX FOR LEG-END!

Well at least Wneger's signings would be 'foreign' signings anymore

He hasn't even played 90 minutes this season! He has been playing well, but AVB has been idiotic in terms that he hasn't given him the chance with a full game! He seems to not like playing strikers for full games, and the fact it's only been a few game sinto the season should be another factor. We have more options - which he hasn't played with yet - which we should have lowered, We have SIX strikers! We need to let go the likes of Anelka, Kalou and maybe even Drogba in the summer. Torres for me, has only 'just' signed for me. This is a new season, a new manager and a new way of playing - not even the team has bounded to AVB's style of play yet! Granted -- the reported words he has supposedly said were a little 'betrayal' to his team mates -- but hopefully it was a mistranslation. The problem for me is that without Lampard's finally attacking prowess, he doesn't really have any positive support from the midfeild that previous forwards have had. Look at Miereles's pass to Sturridge, superb! Now, if he can do that for Torres with both Mata and Sturridge on the left and right flank (which i think won't happen as AVB sees Danny as a full-on striker), we could have a deadly attack. But, unless we can fully work as a unit in the same universal language, then we won't be getting 100% from everyone!

Hope AVB uses him as a right-winger that cuts in, with Mata being the support and Torres in the middle. Unlike most pessimisitc members, i believe, if that frontline plays a WHOLE match, all three could have a defining factor with one another!

Not that it means much for him. He ebelieves the world is going to end in 2012, so this is the final ever season in football. Here's hoping Torres can at least score five goals before Judgement day

I'll wait till he has actually spent more then half a season here before considering him a flop

If we can succeed in winning the FA Cup, and/or the League Cup and mounting a serious challenge for the title - i would be content. We are seriously going through a transitional peroid, which started so long ago and hasn't really been added till AVB came. I am 100% AVB could be the perfect leader for our future young squad, he is the brightest managerial prospect out there, and i think he is more technically sound then Carlo and can see problems when they are emerged - after all that was his job for a very long time, when he was here! He has already shown he is ready to face the bull in order to get the best of the team - subbing Kalou only on 31 minutes, and playing Anelka before Torres. Even though MotD would rather blab for 15 minutes of analysis of how 'great' Mancini and SAF are, they don't highlight the impact AVB has already - with even Terry saying he is better then Jose! If the words of him being a long term manager despite the factor of success in his tenure is true, then maybe we have finally hit the nail in the head, and found the true person to be the image of the club in a managerial aspect instead of players. The next stage of the transition will start in the summer, with some members leaving and some maybe coming in. Although, in my opionion we should have started a lot earlier to bring in the new faces, i am pleased that finally maybe we have found someone for longer then the six month span previous managers have had!