Mohamed Salah

[LAM09 7,043]

Ha!

I was just gonna say, you perfectly described Walcott.

He has just described Walcott and not Salah. LOL!

[Pharaoh 12]

Alright lets clear up a few things right now lol

I know that he's your countryman and you obviously are biased towards him. But better than Hazard?

!إنت بجد ولا فوتوشوب؟

I never said he is currently better than hazard. If you look at my post history, I joined after Hazard signed for Chelsea to just lurk and see what people were saying, and I must say I was impressed by the amount of knowledge people had of him. Nothing major but they knew his skills and characteristics. This time around it seems that people know much less about him, which is strange since he beat you guys twice.

What i said is that Salah right now is better than Hazard was two years ago. Two years ago in UCL with Lille Hazrd couldn't touch Inter's defense and looked like he was completely lost. However Salah was able to break down chelsea's defense in a home and away series. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

In the second leg Salah was lined up against Azpilicueta for the entire match and as soon as he drifted towards Ivanovic's side and found someone he could outrun, he scores the game winner minutes after. Regardless of that being a manger change or if he noticed it himself, the fact that he was able to adapt on the fly is a very rare commodity at his age.

I feel sorry for Salah on two levels.

1) Going from Mata to Salah is underwhelming to say the very least. A lot of fans with direct their anger towards this guy, but he really isn't the problem.

2) He simply won't develop properly with Hazard/Willian ahead of him. He needs constant game time and, bar a massive injury plague, he won't get that here.

How is going from Mata to Salah underwhelming? Salah's natural position is a Winger not a CAM like Mata is. So basically chelsea unloaded a CAM that they weren't using out of the 4 they have on staff, and replaced him with a Winger and gained a 26 mil pound profit......seems like good business to me.

Also, considering Jose's favorite formation that he used at Inter & Real (4-2-3-1) and all three player's versatility, I could see any of them line up as a Winger/CAM so this gives Jose millions of opportunites to rotate. but ideally I'd play them as

Hazard - Oscar - Salah

or

Willian - Hazard - Salah

Its stupid because he can't even lace Mata's boots. Mata isn't the profile Mourinho wants but hes still better than every other player we have except for Hazard possibly, we are selling Mata so we should replace him with someone just as good so we would still have a very good squad. Salah is good but hes hardly a touch on Mata.

Lol..............different position, Mata has already been replaced hence why he isn't being used since he is exclusively a CAM.

Don't get me wrong i love Mata but it's been pretty obvious he isn't fitting with what Jose wants to do so why keep him around? Instead reinforce a position that is crucial to his favorite formation?

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

He's a winger too.

I know, but in a 4-2-3-1 we got 3 AMs, one left one right, one central.

Anyway. I hope mou knows what he is doing exchanging Juan fuckin Mata with some random Egyptian speed merchan, who only impressed in those 4 games vs us.

[The Skipper 20,609]

LOL! Salah was better than Hazard was two years ago? This is ridiculous.

Let's completely forget that Hazard was player of the year in France. Salah hasn't even achieved that in Switzerland.

[Polo7 3,496]

I know, but in a 4-2-3-1 we got 3 AMs, one left one right, one central.

Anyway. I hope mou knows what he is doing exchanging Juan fuckin Mata with some random Egyptian speed merchan, who only impressed in those 4 games vs us.

How many games of salah have you actually watched?

[LAM09 7,043]

I know, but in a 4-2-3-1 we got 3 AMs, one left one right, one central.

Anyway. I hope mou knows what he is doing exchanging Juan fuckin Mata with some random Egyptian speed merchan, who only impressed in those 4 games vs us.

Only impressed against Chelsea... Wake up please. Just look at this international record of starters. He HAS proven himself on the World stage.

[LAM09 7,043]

LOL! Salah was better than Hazard was two years ago? This is ridiculous.

Let's completely forget that Hazard was player of the year in France. Salah hasn't even achieved that in Switzerland.

He did, so not sure what you are talking about. LOL!

[manco 38]

Can we take it easy with this anti-semite stuff? First of all, Salah is a semite himself (Arab), I doubt he's self-hating. Secondly, I highly doubt the rumor is true to begin with.

You are right about that, I was confused. But lets say he has the wrong opinion about the world's politics.

[Yeboii 1,844]

HE ALSO HAS AN AFRO!?

This afro thing can't be a coincidense!

As for the transfer itself. I'm going to be dead neutral about him. Let's just see what happens and how he performs. Can't see him going ahead of Willian, Oscar or Hazard though.

[Pharaoh 12]

You rate Aboutrika above Hossam Hassan?

By a mile

Hossam Hassan was a great footballer and fantastic striker, but Aboutrika could control the entire game from his feet. Think of him as to France's Zidane, while Hossam is more like Theiry Henry

[Pharaoh 12]

LOL! Salah was better than Hazard was two years ago? This is ridiculous.

Let's completely forget that Hazard was player of the year in France. Salah hasn't even achieved that in Switzerland.

You're also overrating the French league 2 years ago.....this was before PSG & Monaco got new owners

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

How many games of salah have you actually watched?

Only impressed against Chelsea... Wake up please. Just look at this international record of starters. He HAS proven himself on the World stage.

He has proven himself vs some village teams from Switzerland+some average African countries. The only decent teams he has performed against are us and Spurs, both teams have not exactly been impressive in the RB department in these games. He is just like Marin, maybe a tad faster and younger, but just as one-dimensional and only signed based on a couple of decent games against quality oppositons, in which they accidentally performed well. After German Messi Marin we now got Egyptian Messi salah. i'd much rather keep the only juan. We also got atsu, who is exactly the same fuckin player as Salah, just not as hyped.

[kobematabryant 400]

Why cant we respect our new signings?

[manco 38]

BTW you have to agree that if these were Benitez's signings last season he would have been shot

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Why cant we respect our new signings?

Because we are Spoiled Brats FC