Oscar

Big 3 in 2016 will be Germany, France and Spain fighting for the title... However, with germany, it all goes down to if lahm returns from retirement, if not, I can see France winning it (granted ribery is still playing)

KDB reminds me of an unathletic Gerrard.... Both love to do hollywood passes, however, i do agree that pass percentage can be skewed from reality Also, United never bidded for KDB. this is the same team that can't get mata and herrara to start...

Busquets has been terrible this season under Enrique. Xavi is no longer xavi of old and iniesta is just managing. Barcelona will have a lot of openings in their midfield soon. it's crazy, but atletico have the best young crop now of saul, koke and torres in Spain

i think the world cup got to his head....

When did United bid for kdb when united fans never even heard of it ..

Press their midfield. They are sloppy with possession and easily dispossessed. Besic, Barry, McCarthy Barkley. Just need strong cover on the left side for Coleman and lennon/mirales

He's really good going forward, but leaks a ton of goals. Sunderland fans are mixed with him, but at least he is getting significant minutes now.

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For belgium, hazard is not consistent and was invisible every game in the world cup besides 2 mins of glory... You can blame the manager, but , the same can be same with Jose and Oscar and tactics...

Laughable. His performances doesn't warrant a place on Chelsea, with that I guess Hazard should be dropped from belgium for playing like shit on the national team.

Thibo's fine. Fantastic player and maybe future captain.

Cristiano is still nike.

I watch everton games to see how lukaku progresses and as a team, I think everton sucks. Howard is overrated and you guys should of sold him when he was high after the world cup. I expect ramires to foul the shit out of all your players and lukaku to be neutralized all game. Never understood why you guys let Eto go...

Some people on this forum don't watch games....

Free kicks, crossing, tackling, workrate. I think his passing has gotten worse since his move to chelsea. His goal scoring ability is the same, since he was always a good goal scorer.

Everton dropped 4 points in the first two games.

You just said every big game......... Now, its City and a shit everton team.

Oscar played vs city, arsenal, united and liverpool and spurs....

Maybe you don't know what you wrote.

Lampard also played cm in a 4-2-3-1 in the latter stages of his career. Oscar is far superior to cesc defensively and presses a lot better as well. There is no argument in that.

Actually, your point was that Jose drops a veteran for kids... You brought up Harry Kane. As I said before, Kane does not play for Jose and Chelsea, his situation is completely different than Bamford. You don't go from Demba ba to remy to bamford. Might as well bring back Piazon to play 3rd striker.

Being creative is irrelevant for Jose, just like for LVG. He sacrificed those aspects for balanced, which is what Oscar provides. I think after the loss to southampton, mata has been dropped for 3 consecutive league games... the way I see it, Chelsea need to have 2 of the willian/oscar/ramires starting games...

Or just put cesc as n10 with ramires behind him. However, in the beginning of the season it was oscar that always helped the cms retain possession and keep possession. Willian is a better dribbler and a more pacey player, but can he do the same thing as Oscar? ANd as of right now, Cuadrado is question mark... People always complain about either willian or oscar every other game, but, chelsea without the brazilians are not the team jose envision. No brazilians, no first place. These brazilians, willian, ramires, oscar and costa are the best pressers on the squad and the reason why chelsea can sacrifice for its lack of athleticism in the back. However, with that being said, I'm sure Oscar won't start every game as cam and eventually either cesc or willian will play a game or 2 there, so we can see again how they play and go on from that.

Pogba should be the number 1 target imo. His phsyical presence just fits perfectly with the team and his technical ability is fantastic. But, Pogba won't come to Chelsea, just like marco reus. These guys want to play for the big dogs aka madrid or barcelona. With the decline of xavi and iniesta, barca are going to have a few openings soon.

Cesc is not good at pressing, workrate and defensively. He is easily outpaced on the counter and invisibile in many situations. Put Cesc as the n10, and diego essentially is a one man dog pressing everyone by himself. If you really think that cesc offense won't be affected due to his defensive responsibilities, you are in dreamland. Cesc, is like Hazard. Both at least give effort in the press and defensively, however, neither are really effective in that part of the game.