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he is technically better than Soldado. he is working way more for the team, he is phyiscally better and his positioning is way better. He is a goal proacher yes, not a striker who is creating chances by himself, but he has a brilliant technique for a poacher. Costa hasnt scored many goals outside the box too. But I agree, that he would be more fitting for Joses plans. Question is, if we are ready to pay 40 m Euros and if he is ready to move on, as Atletico are really good this season and he has a strong bond with Simeone

Its easier to play against Real than Bayern though. dont get why you think we could beat Bayern eager than Madrid. Madrid are not a team for now (a lot of individualism in the system), while Bayern is a PERFECT team. dont think that the Super Cup result is relevant at all. this was the beginning of the season and Bayern was nowhere as good as they are now. Bayern could also easily smash us, if they have a very good day. Bayern would be really the least opponent I would like to have. Madrid is more vulnerable, especially in defense and on counter-attacks. Futhermore their system isnt worked out yet and has some flaws in it. especially when the opponent is pressing them high on the pitch, they are looking lost at times (Atletico game for example). Bayern is the best team in the world right now and we would struggle with their speed and their pressing. Especially with Matic missing and our pivot being not that good. Best opponent would be Piräus/United though without a doubt. Atletico,Dortmund, Barca would be tough opponents, but beatable. PSG, Real, Bayern would be the least I want.

Özil out for 4 weeks with a groin injury. every year the same with Arsenal...losing players, losing points in the most important phase of the league. Even though I would say Özil in his current form is not a big loss anyway...

I was mainly talking about his league stats. And even though he hasnt scored much in the CL, he was one of the most important players in the cl winning campaign and was playing great. futhermore he scored in the CL final. And I wasnt comparing him to Costa. Was only talking about that everybody can have a bad game and Bayern werent good in general today, especially after the 1-1

oh and by the looks of it, you could also say that ribery is overrated and probably robben too. really logical to judge a player by 1 game. maybe you look up Mandzukics stats? Costa is a good striker. dont think that he is worth 32 m though. but seems to be our only realistic target...

Messi was also playing for the best team in the world at that time, which hepled him a lot. Zlatan was playing for Inter+Juve and Milan neither are teams at the level of Barca. And when he was at Barca, they wasnt at their best this year too and he had problems with Pep. And his CL staistics are good, if you look at them. He was winning for Milan at his own and he was very important for PSG too last season. I wouldnt say he is overrated. he seems that he has matured more and is more focused. just look at his statistics from this year in the Cl. they are amazing. And his Barca time wasnt a fail. his statistics were good, he scored imporant goals against Stutgart for example. but he just didnt get along with Pep, who did not want to have players in the team, who arent faking and pretending to be down-to earth players and coming with shit cars to training while having the Ferrars in the garage.

Firiminio is having an amazing season for Hoffenheim, probably their best player with Volland. But it is also due to Hoffenheims style of play, which is very offensive (one of the worst defenses in the Bundesliga at the moment). His last season wasnt good though, this season he is amazing so far.

Zlatan would have no problems in the EPL. dont get why people even discuss about it. of course he hasnt proved it, but he has been playing great for every team. he even scored over 20 goals for Barcelona, where he wasnt at his best due to Messi and Co and he still managed to bang his goals in etc. And he also already had a lot of good games against top teams. Messi also sucked against us in nearly every game and often wasnt good in the CL semi-finals and is shit at the World Cup. So is he overrated? and wouldnt he succeed here in the EPL? Champions League also often depends on luck and other factors, not only class. There have been quite some great players without a CL medal. And in terms of WC and EC, well he is plyaing for Sweden, so there aint a big chance to win something with the country.... Zlatan was the best striker in the world probably last season (minus cr+messi). and he isnt worse this season.

we wont get varane, cant get why people dont understand this. madrid are no seller club and they wont sell the biggest centre back prospect. and if courtois wants to join them, they dont even have to give us Varane. They can wait until 2016 when his contract is expired.

he was a starter but he got injured at the end of the season. get your facts right he could form a good pivot with matic though. only problem is his lack of defensive contribution and his speed. he is really, really slow and having matic+kroos would be probably the slowest pivot in the league. Would prefer Gündogan to him, even though Kroos is better than the options we have at the moment. but he aint playing in the class of Modric, Schweinsteiger and Co

PSG and probably Madrid want Pogba. we wont get him, useless to talk about him. beside this, we wont pay that much for him, as we will buy a striker most likely too and Mou wants to play with the FFP rules. and Vidal wont be sold by any means. Juve arent a seller club and he himself just signed a new contract few months ago.

I think he did very well in the 2nd half until being subbed off. also pressured verthonghen for that slip. in the 1st half our whole team wasnt good, hazard also and our midfield was lacking control so its obviousluy hard for a winger to get in to the game. He will be very important in the next weeks

he aint much better technically than rambo. he is slower than him though and has less dynamism in his game. would make no sense to buy Bender and replace him with Ramires. his passing is maybe slightly better than Ramires, but his defensive game is obviously his main attribute not his offensive one. Lars-Matic would be defensive as hell and would offer literally nothing going forward. we need someone who is at least a little bit creative and can pass the ball well under pressure and dirigate our game from deeper positions. Lars cant do anything of this sort of things.

our assists today: verthonghen, kaboul, sandro, walker

sherwood looked like he was going to cry in this interview. literally destroyed. seems to be a nice guy tbh. about the penalty: it was really a soft one. some refs would not have given that...

won due to tottenham. thanks for gifting us 3 goals and a red card lol. unbelievable how such a piss poor team could look so well against us. with oscar we looked more lively. still, won thanks to tottenham and not to our production. we have some things to fix in the summer window.

Löw isnt using him as a CF.

what an awful half. at times dominated by fucking spurs at our own ground is embarassing. maybe beside not talking at halftime anymore, mou should stop picking up the line-up?

salah now on the bench

dont get why we go defensive against spurs. they are nothing to be afraid of at all. should go for the win and smash them already in the beginning. sometimes Mou is just to pragmatic with his approach. reminds me of the United Game in OT. hopefully we'll win this match. a draw is not enough if we want to continue fighting for the title.

funny how things changed...look at this thread round november/december people were calling him shit and wanted to sell him...now he is a worldclass CB or part of the best CB partnership in the PL

1st half was awful, second half was really good. but god damn, fulham are so freaking awful, its not even funny anymore. very happy for schürrle and eden what a performance in the 2nd! cahill unbelievable rock-solid. matic great too. ramires ok. oscar shit. azpi,terry,ivan also solid. torres was ok

well, if you want us to be compared with a dog shit team like united are at the moment, than so be it. result is decent as I said, even though we could have easily won this 2-0. second half was just really really poor and disgusting. it seemed like we wasnt even trying to play football and just kicked every ball in to nirvana

which other CL games?! do you mean arsenal and city? arsenal was playing against the best team in the world with 10 men basically the whole 2nd half. city was playing against barcelona. you dont compare galatasaray to barca/bayern, do you?! mous approach to this game at times is so so annoying. why getting andre out? why brining freaking mikel on and again playing Ramires RW? we werent playing madrid or bayern or barca, it was freaking galatasaray (with all due respect). we lost this game on our own. could have gone out and scored the 2nd one, instead we let them control the game, did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, not even counter-attacking them and than we wonder if they score one goal. way too complacent and arrogant in the 2nd half.

the 2nd half was really, really dissapointing. disgusting football. only chance was the one from torres, which resulted after a HORRIBLE mistake by the turkish defender. so we could not create ONE SINGLE chance in the 2nd half on our own. and thats against a shit defense as Galatasaray has. thats mind-blowing. bringing mikel for andre was just another typical mou substitutions. sometimes at this games he has too much respect for opponents and tries rather to get more stability and hold onto the lead rather than going for the second one (failed miserably). etoo for torres was also a no-brainer, as etoo was awful today and torres looked half decent today. We are OVERLY dependent on Hazard. as soon as he is not firing like against Newcastle etc, we look like a midtable club with the ball who cant string 3 or 4 passes together. today Gala wasnt even good or special, we was just god damn awful in the 2nd half and way too complacent and passive, also due to Mous tactical approach. Mancini probably not even knowing by himself how he could grind out a draw and nearly getting a 2nd one in we have been playing bad since the City game. our teams seems to be out of steam, out of power and sometimes out of creativity and ability. we dont have a clue how to do things or get out of situations at times, like for today. after the 1-1 we completely lost the game and could not find a way to get into it. just due to the fact that Gala is shit, we was lucky to escape a 2nd goal from them. at times we are attacking with only 3,4 players up there. thats not enough. playing with 3-4 against 7-8, you will only get something out by individualism. and I dont like this approach. we should play more team-based and not just hope taht Eden or Willian will get past 2,3 players on their own and than create something. If we dont get better as soon as possible, we wont stand any chance in the quarter finals, besides piräus/united. every team will be head and shoulders above us. Hopefully Mou can fix this and god damn give Eden a rest. he has not been great for 3 games now.