Tonight we saw in both sides what we lack..palace had dogged defensive resilience and pace on the counter...Everton even more impressive, with skilful players like Barkley, stones and deulofeu and the big man up front who is a major threat in Lukaku...with bombing full backs...watching them I was thinking, shouldn't we be playing like this? Truth is we are nowhere near and I never thought I'd say that when comparing cfc and Everton

I wanted deulofeu here when he first was on loan to everton, there was something about him, but people said he was too selfish etc. I believe most players from barca academy are good enough to play in any league and impress. The la masia is no joke.

Edited December 8, 201510 yr by enigma

Don't worry, he may well be back here soon. Remember when he said he was too big for everton and wants a bigger club in future, and even spoke of wanting to play for chelsea again.

I'd take him back in a heartbeat! 1 in 2 for Everton in 100 games. He is pretty much a guaranteed 25 goals per season.

Probably worth nearly double what we sold him for!

I don't think he was ready to be first choice at the time, but he definitely is now.

Can't see him coming back under Jose.

£85m double bid for Stones and Lukaku anyone?

Remember that time when we ripped Everton off for Lukaku. Those were good times.

£85m double bid for Stones and Lukaku anyone?

If Everton are digging their heels with Stones just think how bad they would be with their prize striker.

Ludicrous asking price aside I doubt he'd want to come back here under Jose and I doubt Jose will want him back.

£85m double bid for Stones and Lukaku anyone?

I wouldn't be surprised if they responded that they won't accept any less than £100m for the two.

They don't need to sell either and I'd imagine they wouldn't accept any less than 50m for Lukaku at the minute, considering the dearth of good strikers nowadays.

Ugh... Schürrle should've scored. Shouldn't have attempted a volley.

Strange we never bought Rodriguez instead of Rahman; better player, good with both feet & a fantastic delivery from set pieces

Strange we never bought Rodriguez instead of Rahman; better player, good with both feet & a fantastic delivery from set pieces

He has a release clause that activates in the summer

I miss Schurrle

I don't really know what United are complaining about with the disallowed goal, and i don't know why BT Sport are confused and saying it's a controversial moment. There is nothing controversial about it, Mata was offside.

the english teams in europe are absymal.

Need United to win here.

 

4th spot could be in danger next season

Fellaini would really piss me off if he was a Chelsea player. He is really tall, strong and is good in the air, so why does he always foul players ?

Juventus and Roma are the only Italian teams in the CL and with Roma's position in the last 16 still in doubt.

Thus Man U dropping down into the Europa league shouldn't be too detrimental, especially if we and Arsenal qualify.

Also since Liverpool and Spurs are already through to the EL knockout stages.
Napoli and Lazio have also for Italy and Fiorentina are very likely too.

This leaves us with a worse case scenario of 1 English team in the CL and 5 teams in the EL (more likely that we see 1 or 2 more of those English teams in the champions league but this is worse case)
and Italy at best case scenario 2 in CL and 3 in EL. So I still think we are in a strong position even if Man U lose as there is a decent amount of coefficient points available in the EL.

 

Juventus and Roma are the only Italian teams in the CL and with Roma's position in the last 16 still in doubt.

Thus Man U dropping down into the Europa league shouldn't be too detrimental, especially if we and Arsenal qualify.

Also since Liverpool and Spurs are already through to the EL knockout stages.

Napoli and Lazio have also for Italy and Fiorentina are very likely too.

This leaves us with a worse case scenario of 1 English team in the CL and 5 teams in the EL (more likely that we see 1 or 2 more of those English teams in the champions league but this is worse case)

and Italy at best case scenario 2 in CL and 3 in EL. So I still think we are in a strong position even if Man U lose as there is a decent amount of coefficient points available in the EL.

 

I was worried at the start of the season but Italy lost a team in the Champions League qualifying round. It's made a big difference.

Even though he's at utd now I still don't like watching mata be this sh*t

Both Karim Benzema and Ronaldo have got hattricks. Wonder who'll get the ball.

Both Karim Benzema and Ronaldo have got hattricks. Wonder who'll get the ball.

 

I think Ronaldo has enough

CSKA Moscow bailing Man Utd out of jail.

Jammy manc bar stewards

Psv had one job, one bloody job

And now they've done it :)

Very enjoyable game over at City.