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DavidEU
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http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3622226/title/matic-signs  

Namika
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"I had other offers but Mourinho is Mourinho"

zolayes
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DISGUSTING POST ,,only a Hammer or Scouser would call Lampard that ...... I would get banned for using the term that would accurately describe you

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He's not Rambo-esque because he doesn't have his pace IMO, which is a big part of his game.

true that. What I had essentially meant was workrate cos that I feel is rambo's USP. Anyways like shan0x put it, a very complete player.
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Kind of player we have lacked since Ballack. Great to have him back, and can't wait to see him in the starting 11

Just wrote a whole scout based exactly on that, the player we've lacked since Ballack. It feels like that imo

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A bunch of thoughts on this.

1) Overall-good signing. About the right price. Addresses a real need, gives balance to the team.

2) 21M is not a an incredible bargain, it is about the right price. He's 25, a central midfielder (who are cheaper), and coming from a significantly worse league with one excellent season under his belt. At the same time, it's not too expensive for someone who could be a real difference maker.

3) I worry that Ramires/Matic is not a particularly balanced central midfield. Excellent defensively but neither player is a distributor or the type of player who is going to dictate tempo.

4) I think Ramires is going to play a lot more attacking than people think. It's not just going to be Ramires/Matic (although that will happen a lot) I also think we might play more 4-3-3 now which I think will suit our team better. Matic, Ramires, and Oscar with Hazard and Willian/Schurrle/Mata seems more balanced than going 4-2-3-1 now.

5) Don't really care that we sold him and bought him back although it makes the Luiz transfer awful in retrospect.

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Hi guys,

I'm new around here, and just want to let you know that YOUR TEAM STOLE US! :mad: As a Benfica fan i'm felling raped after this deal! xD

Matic arrived at Benfica as an offensive midfielder, that could play as a box-to-box or even at the left of the midfield. During almost all the season he was just training, sometimes playing 5/10 minutes to replace Javi Garcia (our defensive midfielder) or add some extra strength to the midfield if needed.

He always had nice technical skills, but he was too passive and very weak tactically. One year later when Javi left to city he was the replacement and everybody was skeptical about it, he was not strong enough to command the defensive process alone, "they said!" (and i remember that we also lost Witsel exactly in the same day to Zenit).

After a couple of games he was our best player, adding something to our game that we hadn't in the past, great technical skills in the 1st phase of construction which makes your offensive process so much easier for a team that needs to win every game and essentially, a very good pressure over the opponents even on attacking areas. I'd say that his main skill his the tackling, that's why a lot of people call him "the Serbian spider", long legs, strength, and extremely effective when pressing the opponent.

He was one of the keys on our campaign last season, considered the best player in the league and in my opinion we need to go back at least 10 years to find someone like him playing in Portugal (maybe until 2003 when Deco was playing in Porto). I used to say last season that i wouldn't change Matic for any defensive midfielder in the world.

At least now you know how we feel, losing our best player for 21M£, in January, 2 days after we reach the 1st place in the Portuguese league and without anyone to replace him! Not your fault, you did a great job. Probably not Matic's fault, even if he pushed the situation to a limit. It's our fault, to keep voting on someone as a president who's increasing our huge debt and then needs to do 50% off, at January Sales. :)

All the best guys!

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Hi guys,

I'm new around here, and just want to let you know that YOUR TEAM STOLE US! :mad: As a Benfica fan i'm felling raped after this deal! xD

Matic arrived at Benfica as an offensive midfielder, that could play as a box-to-box or even at the left of the midfield. During almost all the season he was just training, sometimes playing 5/10 minutes to replace Javi Garcia (our defensive midfielder) or add some extra strength to the midfield if needed.

He always had nice technical skills, but he was too passive and very weak tactically. One year later when Javi left to city he was the replacement and everybody was skeptical about it, he was not strong enough to command the defensive process alone, "they said!" (and i remember that we also lost Witsel exactly in the same day to Zenit).

After a couple of games he was our best player, adding something to our game that we hadn't in the past, great technical skills in the 1st phase of construction which makes your offensive process so much easier for a team that needs to win every game and essentially, a very good pressure over the opponents even on attacking areas. I'd say that his main skill his the tackling, that's why a lot of people call him "the Serbian spider", long legs, strength, and extremely effective when pressing the opponent.

He was one of the keys on our campaign last season, considered the best player in the league and in my opinion we need to go back at least 10 years to find someone like him playing in Portugal (maybe until 2003 when Deco was playing in Porto). I used to say last season that i wouldn't change Matic for any defensive midfielder in the world.

At least now you know how we feel, losing our best player for 21M£, in January, 2 days after we reach the 1st place in the Portuguese league and without anyone to replace him! Not your fault, you did a great job. Probably not Matic's fault, even if he pushed the situation to a limit. It's our fault, to keep voting on someone as a president who's increasing our huge debt and then needs to do 50% off, at January Sales. :)

All the best guys!

Good read but nice to read a grounded post.

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Thats what i especially like to read:

"great technical skills in the 1st phase of construction which makes your offensive process so much easier for a team that needs to win every game and essentially"

Hope he could show that quickly, thats the biggest problem in our central midfield imo.

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