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[Hutcho 8,443]

In my eyes, I see it like this

Current team (with the new additions of Hazard, De Bryune, Marin): Top 4, no higher than 3rd.

Addition of a Maicon: Top 3, closer to 2nd than to 4th.

Addition of Hulk & Maicon: Top 2, challenge for the title.

Addition of Hulk, Maicon & Regista: Win the title, final of the UCL/perhaps winning it.

I see it more as top 3 as we are. Put Hulk in there, and we have a pure attacking 4, which if it gels together (Torres remembers where the goal is) could be pretty much the best attacking lineup in the prem (Man city being the one who could possibly better it), and we have always been pretty good defensively, and the fact that our attacking 4 would be that good would make it easier on the two sitting behind making us better defensively. So for me the addition of Hulk would see us in the top 3 and if torres can get us 20 or so goals in the season then we would be very great title contenders. Obviously a Regista would be extremely useful though its not like we have no-one who could work there, Lampard for example.

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

Addition of Hulk, Maicon & a Regista: Favourites to win the title, final of the UCL/perhaps winning it.

Optimism is great, but I think this is a little over the top. Our new first 11, including the signings you've mentioned above, has 4 players new to the EPL (possibly 3 depending on who the midfielder is). We're building a new team - it's going to take time, we shouldn't expect instant results.

I'd be happy with a top 4 finish, winning the FA Cup and a decent run in Europe.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

New players or not with that much Talent we'd be favourites for the title, end of story. I want a Top 3 finish at minimum with our current squad. If we add all those players I mentioned I'll be disappointed and a bit surprised if we don't win the title.

[Rahul Haque 57]

Optimism is great, but I think this is a little over the top. Our new first 11, including the signings you've mentioned above, has 4 players new to the EPL (possibly 3 depending on who the midfielder is). We're building a new team - it's going to take time, we shouldn't expect instant results.

I'd be happy with a top 4 finish, winning the FA Cup and a decent run in Europe.

Optimism is great, but I think this is a little over the top. Our new first 11, including the signings you've mentioned above, has 4 players new to the EPL (possibly 3 depending on who the midfielder is). We're building a new team - it's going to take time, we shouldn't expect instant results.

I'd be happy with a top 4 finish, winning the FA Cup and a decent run in Europe.

on paper, it's a beastly team. it would obviously take time as does anything in life but the team on paper is tremendously strong WITH the additions of hulk and maicon. remains to be seen if it will happen tho. even spuds want hulk now. LOL

[Rahul Haque 57]

In my eyes, I see it like this

Current team (with the new additions of Hazard, De Bryune, Marin): Top 4, no higher than 3rd.

Addition of Maicon: Top 3, closer to 2nd than to 4th.

Addition of Hulk & Maicon: Top 2, challenge/perhaps win the title.

Addition of Hulk, Maicon & a Regista: Favourites to win the title, final of the UCL/perhaps winning it.

In my eyes, I see it like this

Current team (with the new additions of Hazard, De Bryune, Marin): Top 4, no higher than 3rd.

Addition of Maicon: Top 3, closer to 2nd than to 4th.

Addition of Hulk & Maicon: Top 2, challenge/perhaps win the title.

Addition of Hulk, Maicon & a Regista: Favourites to win the title, final of the UCL/perhaps winning it.

registas can be in two forms. deep lying or attacking. we already have three attacking play makers. hazard, de bruyne and juan- all of who love to play as no 10.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Top 4 finish, and 3 trophies (Community Shield, European Super Cup, Club World Cup) would be great. Even better if we win a quintuple of cups (throw in the Carling and FA Cups to those three).

A decent showing in Europe, where we defend our title as well as we can, say quarter finals or semi finals in addition to 3-5 trophies would be excellent. It's surreal to think we're in contention for 7 trophies next season.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Top 4 finish, and 3 trophies (Community Shield, European Super Cup, Club World Cup) would be great. Even better if we win a quintuple of cups (throw in the Carling and FA Cups to those three).

A decent showing in Europe, where we defend our title as well as we can, say quarter finals or semi finals in addition to 3-5 trophies would be excellent. It's surreal to think we're in contention for 7 trophies next season.

TBH who cares that much about the european super cup and club world cup. Ofc a trophy is a trophy, and ideally we would win everything. But i would swap all those 3 for an fa cup. Or even the carling cup.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

registas can be in two forms. deep lying or attacking. we already have three attacking play makers. hazard, de bruyne and juan- all of who love to play as no 10.

That's wrong. A 'Regista' is a deep lying playmaker. A Number 10 or Attacking Midfielder is a 'Trequartista'.

[Rahul Haque 57]

Top 4 finish, and 3 trophies (Community Shield, European Super Cup, Club World Cup) would be great. Even better if we win a quintuple of cups (throw in the Carling and FA Cups to those three).

A decent showing in Europe, where we defend our title as well as we can, say quarter finals or semi finals in addition to 3-5 trophies would be excellent. It's surreal to think we're in contention for 7 trophies next season.

Top 4 finish, and 3 trophies (Community Shield, European Super Cup, Club World Cup) would be great. Even better if we win a quintuple of cups (throw in the Carling and FA Cups to those three).

A decent showing in Europe, where we defend our title as well as we can, say quarter finals or semi finals in addition to 3-5 trophies would be excellent. It's surreal to think we're in contention for 7 trophies next season.

again with hulk and maicon- not impossible to win five if we reach our full potential (which itself is a huge doubt) but the possibilities of such a talented team would be endless. would be as good a squad as our 09 10 double winning team.

[capriccioso 2,545]

TBH who cares that much about the european super cup and club world cup. Ofc a trophy is a trophy, and ideally we would win everything. But i would swap all those 3 for an fa cup. Or even the carling cup.

It's a prestige thing. If we win the CWC we can actually say we are World Champions. Winning a trophy midseason is a nice little morale booster for the players. There's also a lot of prize money involved and the trophy itself is magnificent. That and the fact that it's something that even the best team of it's generation can only win 3-4 times a decade makes it a top priority for me.

[Strike 7,492]

completely disagree. with maicon, we have enough defensive cover. with hulk, we are a complete team even without a deep lying playmaker.

we have enough players competing for every position if we get those two

cech

ivanovic cahill terry cole

mikel lampard

hulk mata hazard

torres

turnbull

maicon ferreira luiz bertrand

essien mereiles

ramires sturridge marin

lukaku

benayoun, de bruyne, romeu, mceachran not even used

easily good enough to challenge for trophies

do not be under the impression that by adding Hazard, we will play expansive attacking football overnight and start gettin bucketloads of goals. We still need 2-3 more players to reach even top 4 level. let's face it, our build up play was beyond shit last season and all we did was dump it long to Drogba - eg - Spurs semifinal where we couldn't exert pressure and then Lampard dumped long to Drogba for the first goal. Our best football was played on the counter but you can't expect us to set up a counter attacking game against majority of the premier league teams.

it all depends on the pre-season. still optimistic that our ground passing, build up play will improve but to assume that it will improve is irrational

[Hutcho 8,443]

It's a prestige thing. If we win the CWC we can actually say we are World Champions. Winning a trophy midseason is a nice little morale booster for the players. There's also a lot of prize money involved and the trophy itself is magnificent. That and the fact that it's something that even the best team of it's generation can only win 3-4 times a decade makes it a top priority for me.

ok fair enough... your reasoning cannot be faulted.

[Rahul Haque 57]

do not be under the impression that by adding Hazard, we will play expansive attacking football overnight and start gettin bucketloads of goals. We still need 2-3 more players to reach even top 4 level. let's face it, our build up play was beyond shit last season and all we did was dump it long to Drogba - eg - Spurs semifinal where we couldn't exert pressure and then Lampard dumped long to Drogba for the first goal. Our best football was played on the counter but you can't expect us to set up a counter attacking game against majority of the premier league teams.

it all depends on the pre-season. still optimistic that our ground passing, build up play will improve but to assume that it will improve is irrational

do not be under the impression that by adding Hazard, we will play expansive attacking football overnight and start gettin bucketloads of goals. We still need 2-3 more players to reach even top 4 level. let's face it, our build up play was beyond shit last season and all we did was dump it long to Drogba - eg - Spurs semifinal where we couldn't exert pressure and then Lampard dumped long to Drogba for the first goal. Our best football was played on the counter but you can't expect us to set up a counter attacking game against majority of the premier league teams.

it all depends on the pre-season. still optimistic that our ground passing, build up play will improve but to assume that it will improve is irrational

firstly, if you have read my line up it includes the two transfers of hulk and maicon..that's two world class players

and if you still disagree then i have to disagree with you because the first team has the trio of 'hulk mata hazard' supplying torres. it would be ridiculous to expect anything but expansive football from such an attacking trio. none of them like to defend.

[capriccioso 2,545]

If we win all 7, we can claim we're better than Barcelona 2008/09, as they only won 6

We'll just brush under the carpet that both of us had 100% success rates.

[Strike 7,492]

In my eyes, I see it like this

Current team (with the new additions of Hazard, De Bryune, Marin): Top 4, no higher than 3rd.

Addition of Maicon: Top 3, closer to 2nd than to 4th.

Addition of Hulk & Maicon: Top 2, challenge/perhaps win the title.

Addition of Hulk, Maicon & a Regista: Favourites to win the title, final of the UCL/perhaps winning it.

final of UCL is not an expectation for any team. Real Madrid and Barca even. Look at what happened last season. Real Madrid had a perfectly good team and did little wrong but were dumped out in a shootout. any team needs a huge slice of luck to reach the CL final and u can't just expect luck to go your way

[Hutcho 8,443]

do not be under the impression that by adding Hazard, we will play expansive attacking football overnight and start gettin bucketloads of goals. We still need 2-3 more players to reach even top 4 level. let's face it, our build up play was beyond shit last season and all we did was dump it long to Drogba - eg - Spurs semifinal where we couldn't exert pressure and then Lampard dumped long to Drogba for the first goal. Our best football was played on the counter but you can't expect us to set up a counter attacking game against majority of the premier league teams.

it all depends on the pre-season. still optimistic that our ground passing, build up play will improve but to assume that it will improve is irrational

i completely disagree. We dont need 2-3 players to reach top 4 level. We are top 4 level. We were pretty bad in the early part of the season and we were still only 5 points behind.

[Kojo 4,676]

TBH who cares that much about the european super cup and club world cup. Ofc a trophy is a trophy, and ideally we would win everything. But i would swap all those 3 for an fa cup. Or even the carling cup.

Stop right there.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

final of UCL is not an expectation for any team. Real Madrid and Barca even. Look at what happened last season. Real Madrid had a perfectly good team and did little wrong but were dumped out in a shootout. any team needs a huge slice of luck to reach the CL final and u can't just expect luck to go your way

Fair enough, but assuming we're not on the end of some badluck I'd expect us to go very deep into it.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Stop right there.

Would you rather have the club world cup or FA cup?

For me i would rather have FA cup as in its not even close.

[Rahul Haque 57]

i completely disagree. We dont need 2-3 players to reach top 4 level. We are top 4 level. We were pretty bad in the early part of the season and we were still only 5 points behind.

we need 2 players to be title challengers as i've said so many times imo. maicon and hulk. the central midfield will be of less effect as all our central midfield players are intelligent enough to play a certain role and lampard is still world class just not consistent enough. the attacking responsibilities will move on to hulk, hazard, mata, torres etc..sturridge off the bench.

it's a wicked looking team if hulk and maicon does join. sexy team.