Nemanja Matic

[The Skipper 20,593]

eh, Luiz, terry and Cahill are close...

Also, TC

Mikel, Ba are pretty close to it too.

Edit: and Lukaku.

[The Skipper 20,593]

So with Ramires - Matic how would that compare to our rivals in Europe? (Without the hype please )

Still a notch behind Real, Barca, Bayern. Possibly City and Dortmund too. But it's a huge improvement.

[Korea 734]

So with Ramires - Matic how would that compare to our rivals in Europe? (Without the hype please )

Europe too far.

WE should compare EPL.

Prior to Matic, I'd say City, Tottenham and than Arsenal were better.

Liverpool is eh.

United is Carrick and ....

Southampton is pretty good.

Swansea good offensively.

With the addition of Matic, hopefully its just under City-Spurs.

[DanishBlue 426]

Alright, those teams do have really strong midfielders so it's not a shame to be behind them

It's great with an upgrade though!

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

The centre midfield doesn't have to be our biggest strength, as long as it's not a bottleneck, which this signing definitely helps.

[ricardosr 38]

Would quite like Kalas to go Benfica on loan, i can't see him getting many games right now, that injury at the start off the season was the worst timing ever.

He would not get many games here.

Luisao and Garay are our centre defenders, even if Garay leaves to Zenit our coach likes Jardel (our 3rd option to CD).

Don't get me wrong, i'm not being arrogant, but none of your young players would play here in Benfica right now, that's why I really don't care if there are 2 chelsea players in this deal or not.

Matic in his 1st season here didn't played a lot, he was Javi Garcia substitute. Only when Javi left to City he started to play here and after 2 or 3 months all the fans started to stay that he was really better than Javi Garcia.

Probably the deal is not done yet because of those 2 players, we don't need players like Kakuta, for his position we have a lot of players, Markovic, Djuricic, Gaitan, Sulejmani, Ola John, Cavaleiro, and a young kid that you will see a lot in the future called Bernardo Silva (i hope there are not any chelsea scouts here or you will buy this one too).

[ricardosr 38]

So with Ramires - Matic how would that compare to our rivals in Europe? (Without the hype please )

2 former benfica players + luiz on the back.

I guess only Tiago (speaking about former benfica players) didn't had a lot of success there.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Europe too far.

WE should compare EPL.

Prior to Matic, I'd say City, Tottenham and than Arsenal were better.

Liverpool is eh.

United is Carrick and ....

Southampton is pretty good.

Swansea good offensively.

With the addition of Matic, hopefully its just under City-Spurs.

I think we will be above Spurs, they had awesome midfield with Modric back then, but nowdays they lack creativity. City has better midfield, and sure all major teams like Madrid, Barca, Bayern, Bvb (when fit),...however we have best attacking midfield trio in PL already.

And its not always about which midfield is better. That is not what wins you games. I think our team (with proper striker) works much better than most teams and that wins you game. We have been tacticaly awesome this year and Matic will only improve that. He can run all day and cover whole field and wont get tired.

[bababoom 4,478]

:clown: :clown: :clown:

Zouma, Matic and Mangala. Luiz and Mata, Kevin out.

[HD3D 1,038]

So with Ramires - Matic how would that compare to our rivals in Europe? (Without the hype please )

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1923073-chelsea-transfer-news-nemanja-matic-will-be-a-formidable-force-for-blues

[Korea 734]

I think we will be above Spurs, they had awesome midfield with Modric back then, but nowdays they lack creativity. City has better midfield, and sure all major teams like Madrid, Barca, Bayern, Bvb (when fit),...however we have best attacking midfield trio in PL already.

And its not always about which midfield is better. That is not what wins you games. I think our team (with proper striker) works much better than most teams and that wins you game. We have been tacticaly awesome this year and Matic will only improve that. He can run all day and cover whole field and wont get tired.

This is reference to the pivot, not our Ams....

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Cant wait to see him in blue shirt

This is taking too long

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Not again.

Please stop...please stop saying Oscar is going to be or play CM. Please god stop. It hasn't happened since I last tried to explain to you months ago that it's never happening, so why now?

Why do you even bring 4-3-3 up? Why would we start playing 4-3-3? Why would we sell KDB in that case? He would've been pretty useful in a 4-3-3 don't you think?! He's pretty creative himself!

Some people need to stop acting like they can apply their FIFA experience to actual football!

Lol, do you know that Oscar oftenly drops very deep in most games, meaning that we change 4:2:3:1 to 4:3:3 on regular basis several times in every game?

Maybe you got confused with CM who plays in double pivot and CM/CAM/AM who plays in 4:3:3. Lamps was AM back in the days when we played 4:3:3. Oscar's movement on pitch is very much similar to what AM in 4:3:3 does. He goes nearly to half of pitch to collect the ball and dictate tempo of team, Oscar does that and he also tracks back very often. He aint typical #10 in 4:2:3:1.

I didnt say Oscar should be CM in double pivot; he never was and never played there at Chelsea either. But he can be the most offensive AM in 4:3:3.

---------Cech---------

Azpi-Terry-Cahill-Cole

--------Matic---------

----Rambo---Oscar-----

-Hazard-Torres-Willian

Now please stop with like you are the only one who knows football BS! Everyone can have opinion.

[teignman 441]

btw Matic is at the Berkeley Hotel in London

If he were going to Spurs, Levy & Co. would probably make him pay for his own bed at dodgy hostel.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Do you think this could possibly mean that we can finally try oscar in the midfield 3 in a 4-3-3?

For Example:

---Mikel---

Matic-Oscar

I guess its possible but I've not yet seen Jose use Oscar in 4-3-3. Logic says he can probably play there though

[Sheva. 5,373]

Don't think we will see a 433 without Ramires or Lampard.

[Waterfall 893]

We are going to be comfortably ahead of Spurs. Ramires and Matic are two best midfielders from the two clubs. Paulinho hasn't settled in as well as everyone thought he would, Sandro's always injured, and Dembele hasn't been great since Tottenham beat United in 2012 (I think)

[YouNameIt 1,511]

If we'd ever see a 4-3-3 it would prolly be something like:

Mikel

Ramires - Matic

Willian - Oscar - Hazard