@Barbara, listen I never ever said we should sacrifice the best for our team for one partiuclar player. I never said you have an biased opinion even once, but it seems you defend yourself that hard because in reallity you DO defend him? I don't know its not important for the discussion. Everybody has a cussion for a specific player mine is to Drogba and I will defend him what ever comes around the corner but at the same time I will admit he has had his flaws, still he was just like what Chuck Norris is in his facts a real beast (as a matter of fact Drogba is a beast in REALITY too). I'm not the one saying the team has to be build around Mata, the only thing I'm stating ist the obvious to ME. Mata ist the most gifted player at the ball with Hazard for sure. He has a creativity that even Hazard lacks, Hazard is a brilliant dribbler but he isn't as creative as Mata. Oscar is a hard worker, he is the kind of midfiler I love most in football, he has a bit of Kaka in his play (yes you read it I love midfielders doing the dirty job before doing the ball joggling things, thats why Lamps for me is the 2nd Best midfielder after Zidane retired from football and Ronaldinho came up). But Oscar isn't that flashy number 10 we need, in fact he is more like Özil whom played on the wings in Real often, he shifted out wide left if I remember that fully correct, I didn't watch too much of RM last season. I want Oscar to take more responsebility for the team and doing so as CM, takeing over from Lampard. So I think we should built the team around Oscar in fact, but I think he isn't that well deployed as the focal attacking point, he isn't flashy he mostly hasn't that X-Factor, Mata just is like Zola and I'm sorry if I'm a biases Chelsea fan after watching them from 98 onwards but thats as good as it gets for me as an number 10 can. He is exactly what we're missing next to maybe another world class DM but I think him and Mikel would be a great pairing. I think Oscar is wasted as a number 10 BEHIND the striker a playmaker as CM in the same role as Lampard dis suits him best. He can tackle, he doesn't do nonsense at the ball, he has great stamnia, he has a sublime range of passing, he executes his passes quickly and has that killer instinct you rarely find within a midfilder, plus he has that shot. Back to the Case you brought up, Mata in fact IS a better player then Silva. In his very first season Mata played better then Silva in nearly every aspect of his game as you can see over here in his stats he is compared to the finest of the EPL The best thing. 2011/12 Mata and Silva wher ein theyre own leage and had no competition at all, albeit you have to remember it was Matas very first Season: He has 2 assists less then Silva, but so in less time, so his assists per Minute are far above Silva (nearly 3 Min), after That he has a slight dip in Form or better said he was simply overplayed 2012/13, I agree but still he was better then Silva to me, because he took more responsebility and he carried the team, he never gave up and that was what most of us (hopefully) will never forget from this little midget with that big heart. I think we can all agree on that. He has played an incredible number of games. In 2012/13 he has a dip in Form thats true but like I've said he was absolutly overplayed he played 74 in Total and I think 62 for chelsea alone. Silva played 52 games in TOTAL. Hazard and Oscar created 65 and 47 Chances for the Record. Now despite the fact of him being overplayed there comes another tihng that @didierforever raised in his post. Just look at our Midfield and compare it to the other Teams. Seriously, Mikel is a DM that need support because he doesn't dictate a game in that manner of playing clear through balls (he has the ability but doesn't use it why ever... thats discussed in the Mikel thread), we've had a past prime Lampard and we had a Ramires that sometimes (again I love Ramy because he works his socks off and least gives a shit when he is at the field), despite being brazilian, doesn't know how to kick a ball. That was basically our Midfield. City had Touré, Nasri, Millner, Garcia, Barry whom all worked harder then our Midfielders to help the attack. Other Teams where even better, I hold Kroos and Martinez in very high regret as Midfielders, Schweinsteiger is a bit overhyped but still better then Lamps in these days. We all were outraged because of the big gaps our players produced so what do we need, we have a clearly world class player (whom some fans disgustingly just want to discredit because of some what ever reasons. Mata IS worldclass I have bayern fans, they would cut they're hands off. I know some Real Madrid fans whom would love to see him after Özil. I konw plenty of Manchester United fans whom would love him instead 90% of they're attacking players right now, so this point of discrediting him for some flaws in his main ability is ridiciulous. We can agree that he had a slight dip to his former season but I can't remember anybody saying that days Mata must leave because he as a bad OMF or he should play on the wings. He carried us through all this bad moments and you honestly give him banter for that seriously, you should know better because you have a better knowledge Barbara, at least I think so of you. As you know I'm not a friend of long posts and big words so this should do enough, all further posts will be shortened.Mata hasn't to play because I love him, he has to, because he is our most creative and prolific OMFs we HAVE thats the point and he is as good as you get them and to me better then Silva because in OUR midfield he did what he has done. so think twice before you accuse me of some sort of bullshit try'n to build a team around Mata. I said he could be a captain because of his heart. Remember JT is our cap and we didn't built the team around him either. so Mata for OMF and Oscar as the missing link in the CM thats the only logical outcome for me. But Mata has to raise his defensive workrate.
