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I've never seen the guy so I don't know how good he is but for that money if I cast my mind back to top defenders I'm expecting some in the bracket of a maldini, barasi, prime marcel or terry , even galas at his best. If this guy can't be considered in that bracket there is no way he is worth that amount of money

I'm not sure the price tag had anything to do with Sheva or Torres not working out, them being past there best was the main factor I think

Burnley 0-1Swansea Palace 1-1WBA Everton 2-2 Spurs Boro 0-2 Stoke Southampton 1-0 Watford Newcastle 0-0 Hudder

Hahah ahh, feeling a both thick now, thought it was just a shed end run thing

Ok if i understood correctly Hull 0-3 Leicester Burnley 0-1 Swansea Crystal Palace 1-1 West Brom Everton 2-2 Spurs Middlesbrough 0-2 Stoke Southampton 1-0 Watford Man City 4-0 Sunderland Bournemouth 1-3 Man Utd Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool Chelsea 2-1 West Ham

Jezz , sorry to be pesemistic here but nothing in our history points to him getting a chance however he played at Ajax . He is playing for a transfer . Nothing else List of players in the last 12 years to do excellent out on loan from the to of my head Sturrdige Lukaku Kdb Forsell- out scored all our strikers while out on loan Nathan Ake - despite us having no left back and suspect center backs Bertrand, now England left back replaced by Luis who managed a season, baba , who managed a season and now... At one time or another the Above players could arguably have done a better job then who we paid huge money for. Imagine never buying Torres and putting faith in sturrdige, keep wrong berti saves you about 22 million at least The only success story is TBO and I guess he did win laliga and almost the CL

Zola - I see you are now a mod - so i pick my words carfually... are you bat sh*t crazy mofo!! :) Didn't we start Jose's fist season with Eto and Torres? i'm sure we can find many examples of our bored having complete brain farts.... the whole left back situation needs to be captured in record so that people can learn some lessons

Ill quite happily make a heafty bet that in 3 years he is no longer a chelsea pl,ayer and wont get more then 10 competitive games for us (i think i'm being optimistic)

I'm guessing something must be lined up - or RLC has something in his locker none of us have seen I have the same feeling about this as when we sold Strurridge - big mistake - Huge mistake

If true he's pretty much done with us I'd say, to have a full season last year and then be put out on loan is quite telling

I'm currently very much enjoying the Jose show from afar, i never really minded it here truth be told. I'm sure when he starts on in us i'll change my tune but for now it keeps things boiling nicely. Has the prem era ever had this many ego's at one time - Klop, Conte, Jose, Pep, Wenger - all hot headed and all have had considerable success however you slice it. I personally feel united are going to walk away with the league - the have majorly strenghthend there spine this season, For me Jose it still the best manager in the world and i don't buy in to the short term stuff. It's very telling for me that the players that came in last year have all been booted this season. That said I'm over it and i'm excited to see where this new relationshop with Conte goes, it's clear he shares many of the attributes you see in Jose which I think are very important. The one thing that can be thrown at jose is he could be over pragmatic, i think that could annoy people, it will be interesting to see if Conte is the same

He's rubbish - move on

If I'm Conte I'm going in to the bored and saying simply I need one of two things Either get me a monster center back or bring my christianson back from loans asap. I think we are pretty strong I'm all areas heading in to the season but if we don't get a defender who's Selby date doesn't read yesterday then we won't amount to much this season

Eden in that support role could be amazing. Playing out on the wings it feels like it's easier to put a couple of players up against him and you can kind of force him out wide, playing of the striker it's hard to predict which way he will go and much hard to put multiple players on him. That said looks like we are going to start with the tried and trusted 433

Hmm - with the omission of Kante, how is it different to the team and formation most fans moaned about week in week out last season. I think the only change we will see for west ham is potentially fabregas coming in, i see that position probably being between him and Oscar as opposed to what we previosuly would do by trying to push fab back to accommodate oscar

At a very young age I think he had at least 2 major knee injures. Any which way you slice it that is going to affect him, remember Essien, Joe Cole... I have my doubts that Zouma won't be affected. The prem is fast paced and physical, more so then most leagues. If I was Van Ginkel, id have a look at my career and consider what i want from it. if he stays in Holland or a comparable league, he will get consistent games, probably force his way in to the national team, have a successful career in terms of stats and endeer him self to a top club while probably making a decent amount of money and winning a load of domestic trophy's, while prolonging his career due to less stress on the knee.

Best player in preseason and only didn't travel because he lost his passport don't you know

Ok now your being silly, I don't want to take anything away from fabregas but if you step away from Match of the day highlights and watch the full game with out Matics complete dominance of midfields while playing next to a light weight like fabregas , those assists don't occurred because fab doesn't get the ball on the break the defense would have been pounded...and I think it shows with matic and hazard falling of so hard last season

I think if he played in the current Spanish league in his prime we'd be seeing very similar numbers to messy and Christiano if not better

Sports devil is about dead for me, I find you can get pretty good streams if your happy to listen tonrussian commentary

One does not exclude the other but let's say with the addition of terry those 3 where probably the biggest difference makers

If this is even close to true we need Everton to be as obnoxious as they where last season (I don't mind that they where either) lukaku is not worth the money , I wouldn't pay 50 for him !! These prices are crazy, imagine what a prime Ronaldo would go for in today's market , and I'm talking about this version

I think we largely won the league because of him

Think I'll give this a go when the season starts , normally have to use a vpn with these things

About to watch this apparent horror show for the first time