Rumoured Marouane Fellaini

[mickaaa7 10]

United !! United !!! Thanks Marouane felleini

[Atholy 1,293]

I will say nothing otherwise it's back: the belgian fans are overhyping their players

But fuck yes he's amazing and dominates the midfield... oops ... that one slipped out

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Think 1 afro is enough in this team.

[mickaaa7 10]

brilliant, brilliant display from him, very exceptional a one in 100 game for many footballers, his finest display I've ever seen.

if he was play'n like that every game he would be a world beater, a very decent player but doesn't play THAT well very often imho... but he played no DM this time around he played more as an CAM... but he did well his areal threat was very good against an ageing scholes and an reduced Utd defense...

Oscar All right

[edetarod 2,155]

[termninja 5,290]

Hello, I'm Marouane Fellaini. Hey! I'm gonna do a lot of stuff on the pitch regardless of what is my role on the paper. If I run a lot, people won't see my weaknesses.

People, please open your eyes. Not just tonight against Michael Carildini...

Slow, mediocre on the ball, unable to manage rythm, very limited passing game. Tough tackles, kicks opponents a lot, wins challenges and used as a target man. Yeah, arguably the guy's PL's very best.

Football fans's ability to extrapolate everything really amazes me

His role on paper was to go up the pitch, hold up the play and trap long balls. I believe he did that very well. In fact, he did that and tracked back to help out defense. That's a lot of running for a massive guy like him, yet he done it well.

You say slow on the ball and unable to dictate the play? Well yeah, he is not a bloody playmaker, but a massive guy with massive hair who tackles around and sends the ball to someone more creative when under pressure. Yet, he is reliable and solid with the ball at his feet since he can keep it under pressure so it compensates for the lack of technical ability. His stamina is also very exceptional and whenever I've watched him play he was always very active on the pitch putting pressure around the opposition midfield.

On top of that all, his best performances have come when it really mattered. Whenever Everton played against big opponents, he was among the best players.

Yes, you can argue that we don't need players like that and I won't be dragged into discussion whether he is suitable for our formation since we can go on and on about the double pivot role, but you just can't deny that he is a very good player.

I would take Fellaini with his simple passing and kick ass defending over slowpoke relaxed Mikel in an instant. He is even younger then Mikel

I don't, is something wrong with me doc ?

Perhaps, but I'm not doing medicals for free

*regular attacking lineup

When we want to attack the opposition, put them under pressure and try going for counter attacks. Like on a regular PL game against Sunderland/Wigan...

[bababoom 4,478]

Hello, I'm Marouane Fellaini. Hey! I'm gonna do a lot of stuff on the pitch regardless of what is my role on the paper. If I run a lot, people won't see my weaknesses.

People, please open your eyes. Not just tonight against Michael Carildini...

Slow, mediocre on the ball, unable to manage rythm, very limited passing game. Tough tackles, kicks opponents a lot, wins challenges and used as a target man. Yeah, arguably the guy's PL's very best.

Football fans's ability to extrapolate everything really amazes me

Yet you seem to rate Steven Fletcher and James Morrison, so much so you think we should buy them.

[Ramires7 32]

Think 1 afro is enough in this team.

you can never have too many afros in a team

[blue_swaggin_96 96]

is a bit late for this lad to come here! ffs we barely got rid of anyone why are this players still here ?

essien

banyoun

kakuta

turnball

[LukakutoStamford 779]

He's always been class. He plays a very physical style of play at times quite edgy. People don't rate him because he does the dirty work most of the time and because the ball doesn't stick to his foot like like the 5 foot 6 inch to 5 foot 8 inch guys. I think he'd be a vast improvement of the current double pivot because he's young and has such a high workrate, not to mention he's very physical. Chelsea is really missing those types of attributes especially in the midfield area.

Fan favorite because of his work rate, nastiness, and physicality.

[termninja 5,290]

@Sh0n3x, I don't deny the quality he has, he's very agile for his size. And you're spot on about his awareness to leave to others what he cannot do by himself

He would be a good squad player for Chelsea, a rotation player... for the amount of money we paid for Meireles. When I hear things such as 25m, 30m, my only words are bitch please...

Our beloved Villas Boas can deserve credit for one thing, during the interesting pre-season (from a tactical point of view), he asked Mikel to be available higher on the pitch. Against Kitchee he was a target on every set pieces.

I'm not doing any comparison with Fellaini there but the Mikel detractors should remind that Mikel as the anchor is one of the Mikels available in Mikel lol

Due to his formation as an attacking midfielder, that's clear that he could hold another roles. Being a target could be one, his ball retention is excellent and he wins aerial challenges as well. His use of the ball is always wise (crap, I though he only passed backwards) and I think it could be the same in the last tier of the pitch

You went in the Mikel comparison so I will respond

Yes, Mikel is a big lad and could be used as anchor man but when I watch him play he just doesn't impose himself physically like Fellaini, Tiote or Yaya Toure do for example. Instead, he looks to me like he is guarding some space around and waiting for someone else to go and do the dirty work. I don't rate his jumping that much also, with his strength and height I would expect more. It's not a big surprise that he still hasn't scored for us minus 2 goals in FA Cup quite some time ago. I am not impressed with his forward thinking and play also, while as you've seen Fellaini just tortured Manchester United playing basically as a striker

Marouane is obviously not worth 25,30 mills and I never mentioned any massive money figures. In fact, here, a part of one of my posts here

If we do sign Fellaini for something reasonable - 12m max then it would be a good transfer in my eyes...

Besides, I'm pretty sure that if he came here, somebody would leave so we would get a part of the money back.

[Henrique 9,133]

We were sort of linked him in July, but the answer to your question would be the second one.

He is not better player than Mikel definitely, I'm not sure about Oriol and his condition at the moment but I think when he is at his best he is also better than Fellaini.

Yes, he is.

[termninja 5,290]

We're OK

Mikel's defensive abilies are still underrated in my eyes. Fans love a player who'll make dirty tackles etc... but from a technical point of view, you don't rate a defending player by the amount of times he goes on ground for the simple reason that he becomes then a man down. A good defender (everywhere on the pitch) defends standing because the more he's intelligent, the more he reads the play. The less he is (footballistically), the more he waits for the player to challenge him body vs body

One of my griefs on Fellaini actually. If offensively he reads the trajectories to manage to be where the ball falls (like Drogba, Dempsey etc...) ; defensively he over relies on man on man challenges. He's not explosive, rather slow ; that explains it. He's a good defender on the man, not a good defender overally

36 tackles and 83% success. Yes that's just figures but it illustrates the "Mikel doesn' go on ground very often but when he does it's successful"

http://www.eplindex....-obi-mikel.html

I was reading a great ITW of Xabi Alonso the other day, he said he didn't consider tackling as an attribute but rather as the last opportunity when you cannot manage to regain the ball standing.

Well now, it's down to our personal taste on what kind of defensive midfielder we prefer, but if you want to put stats in, Fellaini won the most tackles after Cabaye in the previous season and had most successful passes in the Everton squad. He also consistently covers more ground then his teammates and he is just an ideal player to torture someone in the opposition team like Kagawa and Silva and like Yaya Toure did to Mata when we played City.

On the other hand, I've seen quite a bit of situations in the last couple of seasons where Mikel should have been running like crazy to tackle and stop a dangerous opposition attack but instead he chose to cover.

[DYC. 7,542]

We're OK

Mikel's defensive abilies are still underrated in my eyes. Fans love a player who'll make dirty tackles etc... but from a technical point of view, you don't rate a defending player by the amount of times he goes on ground for the simple reason that he becomes then a man down. A good defender (everywhere on the pitch) defends standing because the more he's intelligent, the more he reads the play. The less he is (footballistically), the more he waits for the player to challenge him body vs body

One of my griefs on Fellaini actually. If offensively he reads the trajectories to manage to be where the ball falls (like Drogba, Dempsey etc...) ; defensively he over relies on man on man challenges. He's not explosive, rather slow ; that explains it. He's a good defender on the man, not a good defender overally

36 tackles and 83% success. Yes that's just figures but it illustrates the "Mikel doesn' go on ground very often but when he does it's successful"

http://www.eplindex.com/16829/chelsea-forget-john-obi-mikel.html

I was reading a great ITW of Xabi Alonso the other day, he said he didn't consider tackling as an attribute but rather as the last opportunity when you cannot manage to regain the ball standing.

When you say goes to ground, you mean sliding tackles right? But tackle succes rates are about both standing tackles and sliding tackles. Mikel is a awful sliding tackler tbh. His timing is just all wrong. But he hardly does sliding tackles so his tackle succes rate almost solely include standing tackles.

Mikel does get too much stick most of time imo but he does need to improve his defensive play. When watching Carrick last season at Utd or Lucas at Liverpool in '10/11 for example, you can't help but wish you had a DM like that in your team.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Right so after one good game Fellaini seems to be the answer to all of our problems.