Blue wrote:Kevin de Bruyne VS Borussia M'gladbach

Our number one signing for next summer is already complete.

The ginger maestro

Kevin De Modric

Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

Barrettinator wrote:Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

#boughttoomuch

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Barrettinator wrote:Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

#boughttoomuch

Way too much.

Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Moses, Marin, McEachran, De Bruyne, Piazon, Ramires Mikel, Romeu, Lamps(and maybe even Chalobah). How the bloody fk does one fit those 12 players into a 5-man midfield and the bench? Quite clear some of those players will leave. My first call would be Marin.

Barrettinator wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Barrettinator wrote:Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

#boughttoomuch

Way too much.

Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Moses, Marin, McEachran, De Bruyne, Piazon, Ramires Mikel, Romeu, Lamps(and maybe even Chalobah). How the bloody fk does one fit those 12 players into a 5-man midfield and the bench? Quite clear some of those players will leave. My first call would be Marin.

And I wouldn't put it past these clueless suits to go out for more. All this talk of Paulinho and others??

Get a clue. We have MORE than enough midfielders

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Barrettinator wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Barrettinator wrote:Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

#boughttoomuch

Way too much.

Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Moses, Marin, McEachran, De Bruyne, Piazon, Ramires Mikel, Romeu, Lamps(and maybe even Chalobah). How the bloody fk does one fit those 12 players into a 5-man midfield and the bench? Quite clear some of those players will leave. My first call would be Marin.

And I wouldn't put it past these clueless suits to go out for more. All this talk of Paulinho and others??

Get a clue. We have MORE than enough midfielders

We need to do some offloading. And to think that NONE of the other youth players have a chance ahead of those 12

Barrettinator wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Barrettinator wrote:Sadly, I think it'll be between him and Josh

#boughttoomuch

Way too much.

Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Moses, Marin, McEachran, De Bruyne, Piazon, Ramires Mikel, Romeu, Lamps(and maybe even Chalobah). How the bloody fk does one fit those 12 players into a 5-man midfield and the bench? Quite clear some of those players will leave. My first call would be Marin.

I see Lampard moving to MLS in the summer, wish he would retire as a Chelsea but i can see his motivation.

Personally i think Moses is more likely to want out then Marin, we shall see who gets more frustrated by the end of season.

BTW McEachran will be back in January so he will get a shot before KDB.

Well, they've bankrolled the academy only to have a grand total of zero players get their chance (unless you count Bertrand, who isn't fully from our academy anyway) because they can't stop going on buying sprees every summer, and of course sacking managers left right and backwards, which I really do think has been one of the reasons no youngsters get a look-in.

McEachran and/or maybe even Chalobah getting into the first team in the coming years should be prioritized over buying in any new midfielders, and any business conducted in the near future should be done with an eye on achieving that goal, IMO.

Moses and Marin were really unnecessary.

It would be ok if Chelsea had a team like Arsenal but if you look at the records of Mata,Hazad,Oscar,Ramires and Mikel you will see that they rarely get injured,specially oschazmat

Ganso wrote:Moses and Marin were really unnecessary.

It would be ok if Chelsea had a team like Arsenal but if you look at the records of Mata,Hazad,Oscar,Ramires and Mikel you will see that they rarely get injured,specially oschazmat

I don't think Moses was unnecessary. We need squad rotation. He's a traditional winger(not so much a playmaker like MAZACAR), gives that width and is good defensively as well. Marin on the other hand......poor man's Mata.

You wouldn't expect MAZACAR to play every single game in very competition we're involved in so having Moses & Piazon come in for two of the 3 at least is perfect.

I know that the trio wont play every single game together,but it would be just fine to have sturridge,KDB and josh rotating,not to mention Malouda and Piazon.Buying Marin and Moses was just extravagant imo

You also have to keep in mind that Ramires was a RW for RDM at the start of the season.

I think Marin will be snapped by some EPL club, pretty sure. Or he is going to be our next Kalou definitely.

Kevin

Harsh Marin ain't even played yet!

Think you need to split it somewhat I don't think Moses, Marin, Mata, Hazard, Piazon can be grouped with the rest.

I think Kevin looks like he will be groomed like Oscar to play deeper imo, that passing range is

Something tells me Romeu's days are numbered in the long term run .

Kevin De Bruyne vs Greuther Fürth

Anyone else see a lot of similarity to Steven Gerrard?

Yeah I can see that.

The guy is just very very accurate in all of his distribution, he's actually great to watch play when he's in full flight and if he evolves into that deeper player I will be very happy.

Hazard - Oscar - Mata
Mikel/Romeu - De Bruyne

Drool.

Kevin De Bruyne Vs Mainz

https://twitter.com/BelgoFoot/status/315221173296304129

ShedEnd1905 wrote:https://twitter.com/BelgoFoot/status/315221173296304129

Guy has some serious class. If he can play CDM alongside somebody more defensive like Mikel I might wet my pants.

he is going to be a great player!

lszanto wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:https://twitter.com/BelgoFoot/status/315221173296304129

Guy has some serious class. If he can play CDM alongside somebody more defensive like Mikel I might wet my pants.

This is what I was saying but apparently Kick and Reus think they know better

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

lszanto wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:https://twitter.com/BelgoFoot/status/315221173296304129

Guy has some serious class. If he can play CDM alongside somebody more defensive like Mikel I might wet my pants.

This is what I was saying but apparently Kick and Reus think they know better

Because, naturally, we do.

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

lszanto wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:https://twitter.com/BelgoFoot/status/315221173296304129

Guy has some serious class. If he can play CDM alongside somebody more defensive like Mikel I might wet my pants.

This is what I was saying but apparently Kick and Reus think they know better

He could easily get to the level Modric was and was a fraction of the price.

Passing? Exceptional long and short range
Dribbling? Very good, can get out of tight situations
Long shots? For days

He would literally be amazing there.

Kick wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

lszanto wrote:

Guy has some serious class. If he can play CDM alongside somebody more defensive like Mikel I might wet my pants.

This is what I was saying but apparently Kick and Reus think they know better

Because, naturally, we do.

Heh, and in what made-up fantasy world is this?

I don't see him as a pivot player, i see him similar to Oscar can play in the pivot but they have too much quality in front of the goal and in the final ball to play so deep.

I bet he can get the job done in the right tactics of course.

ShedEnd1905 wrote:

Kick wrote:

ShedEnd1905 wrote:
This is what I was saying but apparently Kick and Reus think they know better

Because, naturally, we do.

Heh, and in what made-up fantasy world is this?

a strange world called reality

Blue wrote:I don't see him as a pivot player, i see him similar to Oscar can play in the pivot but they have too much quality in front of the goal and in the final ball to play so deep.

I bet he can get the job done in the right tactics of course.

To me with 2 CDM's you really want one more of the ball winner/more defensive while the other is the player that keeps the team ticking over and the ball moving and getting it to the players up top. The reason I'd say De Bruyne is better suited to this is his range of passing. On either foot he fires balls around the field like it's nothing usually with pretty much pinpoint accuracy. Having that ability deeper would be awesome if we choose to counter or even change things up/switch up play.