Ramires

[Sovieticus 743]

Matuidi is more composed on the ball but you're telling me they both aren't box to box, ball winning midfielders first and foremost?

I think he just added more about Matuidi

[Barbara 15,149]

I think Jose knows what he wants. People say he's a Mourinho type of player, but Mourinho's Madrid team didn't have a Ramires. Mourinho has proven that he can win with different types of players. If he doesn't have a Drogba, he can work with a Higuain. If he doesn't have a Makalele, he can work with a Xabi Alonso. He has his systems and ideas, but you don't win what he has won by buying clones.

Don't forget about van Ginkel. The kid was our best player in pre-season. I was surprised by how quick and strong he was, and how many interceptions he was making, how many plays he broke up. His passing range is also impressive, and he scores goals too (ok, he didn't show that in pre-season, but his goal-scoring record is impressive). He is that 8 we were talking about the other day. I know Mourinho rates him highly, as evidenced by the way he talks about him. I have very high hopes for Marco and his style of play supplements Matic's perfectly. The kid is a "crack". Either that or splash the cash on a world-class CM, but that cash needs to be spent on a CF.

I didn't like the way we played against Galatasaray. I didn't like it because that's not how big teams play against teams like that. It angered me far more than the City FA cup result and I don't believe for a second that Jose sent us out to play that way for 90 mins. We just didn't have the quality in the midfield to retain possession and have any sort of tempo. Iman (who?) and a washed up Melo dominated us. Only God knows what will happen against {Modric/Xabi/Di Maria} or {Fabregas, Iniesta, Busquets} or {Kroos, Thiago, Lahm/Martinez}. Cech probably also didn't trust that pivot, because he kept on thumping it, and thumping it to oblivion.

Oscar as a CM, I don't like the idea, tbh. Oscar is a 10 and Mourinho has already declared him to be HIS 10. He also said 4-2-3-1 is his favourite formation, and that formation suits a high pressing game the best. It's difficult to press the opposition high up the pitch with a 4-3-3. Plus see what happened to Anderson at Man United when Ferguson changed him from an AM to a CM. Oscar's playmaking will develop, I'm confident about that. He just struggles to create his own space, but has no problems playing with space. He looks so much better when he has space on the wing. But these things come with experience. It's not easy to be a number 10 in this league because those are the players that suffer most from teams that park the bus/plane.

I agree with everything, I'm just cautious about Marco because the boy is 20 and had an ACL injury, so I think his future only God knows.

I think Oscar isn't sacrificed in Brazil NT playing as the most advanced midfielder in the 4-3-3 we have. I don't want him in the pivot, I cringe every time someone suggests him to move there in the 4-2-3-1 because he knows how to tackle. He tackles well for an AM, but he isn't strong enough or defensive enough to do it well as a pivot player, even if a B2B that normally is less defensive and allowed more space in the attack. He isn't a #8, he doesn't even have the physic for that... so I guess we agree on that too.

[The Chels 2,502]

I'm getting bored of slating him but honestly... Awful once again; he just loves giving the ball away and falling over at the slightest bit of contact!

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea midfielder Ramires wants a spot in Brazil's squad for 2014

[vergil_sparda 26]

We've already got a Matuidi in Ramires.

Marco Veratti?

[Yeboii 1,844]

Chelsea midfielder Ramires wants a spot in Brazil's squad for 2014

It would be weird if he didn't

[yuvala 2,167]

Rami: "Our stadium looked beautiful again! Thanks for your support! You're our 12 player! The title run continues!!"

But.. I thought it wasn't our objective.

Jose is about to get angry

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Rami: "Our stadium looked beautiful again! Thanks for your support! You're our 12 player! The title run continues!!"

But.. I thought it wasn't our objective.

Jose is about to get angry

Rami "the mole" ))))

[yuvala 2,167]

My new sig

[zyzz 711]

I know it's the heat of the moment and all that but he hasn't learned anything from his brainfarts. Football IQ=0

[Milan 17,955]

Dirty player with more than awful passing and more than often without brain. I will not miss him in the following games and I would definitely not miss him if he left in the summer. I would send him in one package with Torres.

[duo11bluecl 207]

25m for this guy and we would be robbing whoever offers that. Where the fuck is the warrior that scored against Barca, now we have this diving, dirty useless skinny fucking player. Does he excel at anything?

[The only place to be 11,313]

I would say that was a disgraceful 'tackle' for a footballer to make but I'm not entirely sure he's a footballer. He's an athlete, a runner who can occasionally kick a ball in a straight line.

Not good enough for us. Thanks for Barcelona, but time to go.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

He didn't play a bad game today. He was good, so I don't get the silly comments. His performance if anything shows that he was willing to die on the pitch today.The tackle was reckless, but was it any worse than what that cunt Rafael did to Cahill? No.

If you want to slag off average players, then slag of Torres and Willian.

[duo11bluecl 207]

He didn't play a bad game today. He was good, so I don't get the silly comments. His performance if anything shows that he was willing to die on the pitch today.The tackle was reckless, but was it any worse than what that cunt Rafael did to Cahill? No.

If you want to slag off average players, then slag of Torres and Willian.

All 3 are shit end of. Willian £30m for a fucking winger that can't produce end products. Torres stealing a living, Ramires fucking running his way to Chelsea 1st team,