Rumoured Marouane Fellaini

[Hutcho 8,443]

Some fella is telling me on twitter he has spoken to Fellaini's brother (apparently they're from the same school in Bruxelles) and Marouane will sign for Chelsea in the next 72 hours.

https://twitter.com/PakoJK

Yeah well my mothers' friends' brothers' cousins' uncles' wifes' step son is maroune fellaini's mum's best friend and she said that is BS!

[Hutcho 8,443]

Agreed - out of likes

That's my biggest problem at present, it's just a collection of names - how can we be working on shape, understanding etc if the personnel / playing style / ethos keeps changing?

The sooner it's all resolved the better - and hope our 'new' manager is considered with these purchases as they might want to change it again!!!

Lol mate, your always out of likes.....You like Whore.

[Pizy 18,877]

The people here who are saying he's not worth the money or not the player we need are the same ones who will be kicking themselves later if he goes to United and shits on the rest of the league.

Potential superstar in my eyes.

[Namika 922]

I have seen the brother of Fellaini a lot of times.He is in the same university that one of my friend.

So, if the guy from twitter lives in Brussels it can be true.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Please, please, please, don't let this be true.

Someone please tell me where he's supposed to fit in our system exactly?!

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Please, please, please, don't let this be true.

Someone please tell me where he's supposed to fit in our system exactly?!

possesion system = Benat

physical system = Fellani

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

Are there any reliable sources for this?

[Corner 456]

Well no one can really know because we're going to change managers again, and maybe that new manager will prefer 4-3-3.

That's a good point. And assuming it will be Guardiola who will be our manager next season, then he will almost certainly play 4-3-3.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Please, please, please, don't let this be true.

Someone please tell me where he's supposed to fit in our system exactly?!

Simple...we'll just play the old 3-6-1 with 6 attacking midfielders. It's like a reverse parking the bus...is that driving the bus?

Cech

Azpilicueta Terry Luiz

Moses/ Mata/Hazard/Fellaini/Oscar/KDB

Ba

[nadavTKL 1,787]

LDN Blue asked a legit question, no reason to act like that.

I would like to know too actually- how many of you see Fellaini as our new CDM, and how many of you think he is the man to play besides the CDM (the CM position)?

[Stingray 9,441]

LDN Blue asked a legit question, no reason to act like that.

I would like to know too actually- how many of you see Fellaini as our new CDM, and how many of you think he is the man to play besides the CDM (the CM position)?

If he question is: is he good enough for us I'd say yes.

If the question is: is he the man, our new cdm/cm: that depends on tactical guidelines and the presence of other players around him (eg. Are they complementary, can they compensate for his particular competencies, etc.) Any other answer would be too one-dimensional.

Good enough?

[The only place to be 11,313]

LDN Blue asked a legit question, no reason to act like that.

I would like to know too actually- how many of you see Fellaini as our new CDM, and how many of you think he is the man to play besides the CDM (the CM position)?

I see him as the new DM. That's what we saw him as when we were first interested (both at Liege and Everton) and that's where we have a need now.

If we're actually looking to use him as an attacking midfielder then the club are exhibiting levels of daftness that I didn't think they were capable of.

He could be our Busquets/Khedira depending on what formation we use going forward.

[Zola kinda blue 89]

How can people seriously doubt if he would improve us?

He has single handly driven Everton to wins with desire and energy, something we have been seriously missing.

We have Mikel, Lamps and Ramires and have had to move Luiz into midfield. (And a bunch of kids out on loan)

We need him and deep lying playmaker

[LDN Blue 7,903]

How can people seriously doubt if he would improve us?

He has single handly driven Everton to wins with desire and energy, something we have been seriously missing.

We have Mikel, Lamps and Ramires and have had to move Luiz into midfield. (And a bunch of kids out on loan)

We need him and deep lying playmaker

That's not our style of play though! We're not a squad that needs the Essien-types that make those surging runs from deep midfield. We have players like Hazard, Mata, Oscar etc to provide attacking flare. We need a proper centre midfield. The only reason Fellani's stock has risen recently is because Moyes deployed him as a faux-no.10. We don't need that, we have actual no10s. We need a player to actually sit in midfield and dictate the pace, a Pirlo-type player.

I don't question the class of Fellani, he's a good player. But why Chelsea are chasing him, is beyond me. He won't offer any kind of stability in midfield.

[Zola kinda blue 89]

That's not our style of play though! We're not a squad that needs the Essien-types that make those surging runs from deep midfield. We have players like Hazard, Mata, Oscar etc to provide attacking flare. We need a proper centre midfield. The only reason Fellani's stock has risen recently is because Moyes deployed him as a faux-no.10. We don't need that, we have actual no10s. We need a player to actually sit in midfield and dictate the pace, a Pirlo-type player.

I don't question the class of Fellani, he's a good player. But why Chelsea are chasing him, is beyond me. He won't offer any kind of stability in midfield.

yes we do need a play maker, but if he is played in his preferred posiiton in midfield, he will be there to defend and win back the ball and then start an attack when one of mata and Co lose the ball (as they frequently do) and then dont track back (which they dont)

Too often our midfield has been easily dominated because the flair players are easily closed down and starved of the ball. Its easy to beat chelsea, close the space and dont give us time on the ball. We were lucky against Everton, because they did that very well and our midfield hardly got a touch