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Isn't he basically locked in for Monaco? Unsurpsingly, we've gone full retard (again) and will end up with no one.

So we won't sign Falcao and might miss out on Cavani. That's not the end of the world. A front line of Lukaku, Ba, Schurrle and Torres is capable of winning the league if we actually sort out the midfield.

Is that going full retard?

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So we won't sign Falcao and might miss out on Cavani. That's not the end of the world. A front line of Lukaku, Ba, Schurrle and Torres is capable of winning the league if we actually sort out the midfield.

Is that going full retard?

You think Schurrle (Mediocre), Lukaku (20 year old no where near his prime), Torres (Ha) and Ba (slightly above average) can win us the league? Enjoy having your expectations and hope shattered. It will quite literally be the end of the season before it starts.

Goals win you games and titles. That's that. Van Persie ALONE won United the title. Why don't you get how important it is to have a top class striker?

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You think Schurrle (Mediocre), Lukaku (20 year old no where near his prime), Torres (Ha) and Ba (slightly above average) can win us the league? Enjoy having your expectations and hope shattered. It will quite literally be the end of the season before it starts.

Goals win you games and titles. That's that. Van Persie ALONE won United the title. Why don't you get how important it is to have a too class striker?

Is our striker the only person who can score goals for us then?

I'd point you in the direction of our 2005 and 2006 title winning teams. We didn't have a single striker who scored more than the 17 goals that Lukaku scored last season. In fact Drogba scored 10 and 12 goals in those seasons whilst other strikers like Crespo barely reached double figures.

We were a team that relied on goals from around the team. With players like Mata (12 goals) and Hazard (9 goals) we seem to be building that again, and if you want to look at reasons for us dropping points then I'd suggest the midfield is of greater concern than our strikers.

Not every team has to do the same thing and be built the same way. Personally I'd still like us to add a striker and for me that would be Rooney because I think he fits the squad better, but if we go into the season with the four striking options I mentioned but improve the midfield then I'd back us to win the league.

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Yeah that's just not happening. Sorry. The ST position alone will dictate how our season goes. If we don't get anyone I'd back Citeh to win the title.

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Yeah that's just not happening. Sorry. The ST position alone will dictate how our season goes. If we don't get anyone I'd back Citeh to win the title.

I don't even know why you support Chelsea. If it is because of all the transfers , then you are really an interesting man. You are pushing to sign a 60-million poacher , but don't want a kid that has banged half his goals in a lesser team in a better league for free.

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First of all nothing is preventing United and City from adding goals from midfield. They will both get new midfielders and keep on improving. Also I'd rather have Cavani or Falcao here scoring 25 goals than 10 goals from Torres and 15 more goals from Mata/Hazard etc since they'll do it more efficiently.

Remember even Suarez has scored many goals despite being a terrible finisher because he just keeps on shooting till he scores. Remember all those drawn games this season, and the horrible perofrmances of Torres. If we had Cavani or Falcao those would have been wins.

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I don't even know why you support Chelsea. If it is because of all the transfers , then you are really an interesting man. You are pushing to sign a 60-million poacher , but don't want a kid that has banged half his goals in a lesser team in a better league for free.

People like you are just completely impossible and would probably relegate Chelsea.

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So we won't sign Falcao and might miss out on Cavani. That's not the end of the world. A front line of Lukaku, Ba, Schurrle and Torres is capable of winning the league if we actually sort out the midfield.

Is that going full retard?

A proven striker will hide a lot of the team's problems. Chelsea score their fair share of goals from midfield but against highly organised opposition, who are difficult to break down - a good striker makes a big difference.

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Yeah that's just not happening. Sorry. The ST position alone will dictate how our season goes. If we don't get anyone I'd back Citeh to win the title.

What a fucking amazing response. If you think the striking position will dictate next season for us then I'm envious of you, because you clearly haven't watched this club at all last season and had to put up with the amount of shit the supporters have.

Just skip to the end of the Season Review DVD and watch the Europa League final. I won't spoil it for you, but don't switch off at the end. :eyebrows:

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What a fucking amazing response. If you think the striking position will dictate next season for us then I'm envious of you, because you clearly haven't watched this club at all last season and had to put up with the amount of shit the supporters have.

Just skip to the end of the Season Review DVD and watch the Europa League final. I won't spoil it for you, but don't switch off at the end. :eyebrows:

Did we win the league? Exactly. Blame it on the midfield all you want, it won't make it true.

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People like you are just completely impossible and would probably relegate Chelsea.

Great comeback, Sherlock. You look at every big name and already want him at Chelsea. Shows just how spoiled most of our fans are. It's not about buying every big name, it's about rethinking, because I can assure you that there is not just Cavani or Falcao at the damn market.

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Great comeback, Sherlock. You look at every big name and already want him at Chelsea. Shows just how spoiled most of our fans are. It's not about buying every big name, it's about rethinking, because I can assure you that there is not just Cavani or Falcao at the damn market.

And you deduce this from the fact I want ONE striker. Well done, Sherlock.

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First of all nothing is preventing United and City from adding goals from midfield. They will both get new midfielders and keep on improving. Also I'd rather have Cavani or Falcao here scoring 25 goals than 10 goals from Torres and 15 more goals from Mata/Hazard etc since they'll do it more efficiently

More efficiently? What the fuck does that mean? Do they take less touches to score, ergo reducing the wear and tear on their boots? Do they cover less ground this reducing the strain on the pitch - great thinking. With less ground staff needed we can easily afford to spunk money up the wall on these players, because as everyone knows the ground staff at our club are the really big earners.

We won two league titles without a 20 goal a season striker. We have players like Hazard and Mata who contribute goals from midfield....oh and we have a young striker who actually scored 17 goals in reduced minutes in his first season, but all those goals were deflected in off his arse so they don't count. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Liverpool had the second top scorer in the league last season, and they finished 7th. The relationship between a striker who scores goals consistently and the league champions isn't as definite as some people are making it out to be.

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Did we win the league? Exactly. Blame it on the midfield all you want, it won't make it true.

Wow....don't even bother buying the dvd.

Just stick to licking the tv screen rather than watching football on it.

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More efficiently? What the fuck does that mean? Do they take less touches to score, ergo reducing the wear and tear on their boots? Do they cover less ground this reducing the strain on the pitch - great thinking. With less ground staff needed we can easily afford to spunk money up the wall on these players, because as everyone knows the ground staff at our club are the really big earners.

We won two league titles without a 20 goal a season striker. We have players like Hazard and Mata who contribute goals from midfield....oh and we have a young striker who actually scored 17 goals in reduced minutes in his first season, but all those goals were deflected in off his arse so they don't count. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Liverpool had the second top scorer in the league last season, and they finished 7th. The relationship between a striker who scores goals consistently and the league champions isn't as definite as some people are making it out to be.

The thing is, although Livershite finished 7th, without Suarez they would probably have been fighting relegation. So, it's actually yet another example of a Striker vastly bettering a team. Also, like someone said earlier, it's not like Citeh and ManUre won't improve their midfields, yet they'd have something we don't, a great CF.

Wow....don't even bother buying the dvd.

Just stick to licking the tv screen rather than watching football on it.

That's real mature from the member of the month. Guess they just hand that out to anyone these days, eh? Anyways...

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And you deduce this from the fact I want ONE striker. Well done, Sherlock.

I too want one striker, more than Torres, but with him staying , won't it be better keeping Lukaku, than adding another 200 k waged bloke? I like Falcao, love Cavani. Would appreciate them both here, but come on? You gotta be keeping tabs on the wage bill and the bigger it gets, the more money people would want from us and our board will "be going retarded", while actually just trying to make them take a little cut of the top. I would much rather we focus on the talent we have stacked up. Having people like De Bruyne , Essien and Lukaku on loan, while Torres, Yossi and Obi Mikel are still in the team, now that is retarded!

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Is our striker the only person who can score goals for us then?

I'd point you in the direction of our 2005 and 2006 title winning teams. We didn't have a single striker who scored more than the 17 goals that Lukaku scored last season. In fact Drogba scored 10 and 12 goals in those seasons whilst other strikers like Crespo barely reached double figures.

We were a team that relied on goals from around the team. With players like Mata (12 goals) and Hazard (9 goals) we seem to be building that again, and if you want to look at reasons for us dropping points then I'd suggest the midfield is of greater concern than our strikers.

Not every team has to do the same thing and be built the same way. Personally I'd still like us to add a striker and for me that would be Rooney because I think he fits the squad better, but if we go into the season with the four striking options I mentioned but improve the midfield then I'd back us to win the league.

Agree with his 100% chelsea were never reliant on strikers, never was since our title winning season, and still havent been recently. Of course its nice to have a striker that can finish those chances that torres and ba misses. I think Lukaku might surprise some people, and if we fix our midfield problem which gets totally run over by teams with a strong midfield, we will start winning. Drogba was the perfect striker really, he never really scored that much goals other than 2009-2010. But his hold up play and link up play is brilliant for players like lampard, essien, ballack, etc.

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More efficiently? What the fuck does that mean? Do they take less touches to score, ergo reducing the wear and tear on their boots? Do they cover less ground this reducing the strain on the pitch - great thinking. With less ground staff needed we can easily afford to spunk money up the wall on these players, because as everyone knows the ground staff at our club are the really big earners.

We won two league titles without a 20 goal a season striker. We have players like Hazard and Mata who contribute goals from midfield....oh and we have a young striker who actually scored 17 goals in reduced minutes in his first season, but all those goals were deflected in off his arse so they don't count. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Liverpool had the second top scorer in the league last season, and they finished 7th. The relationship between a striker who scores goals consistently and the league champions isn't as definite as some people are making it out to be.

You seem to be an obvious fool. Why do you keep on drawing parallels to the 2005/2006 season ? Do you know we had the best defense in the league that season ? We conceded only 22 goals ! Torres is worse than Drogba was that season since he can't provide any of Drogba's build up play (Drogba was the assist leader). John Terry was actually in the PFA shortlist for Player of the Year. Nothing is similar to that season here. We are worse and our competitors are much better.

Any person with an ounce of sense would understand that efficiency is related to chances wasted. But you somehow thought of the groundkeepers, no doubt because you have a job somewhere cleaning poo off of grounds.