afrodoc: We saw Ziyech do it on international stage i.e UCL. That Dutch league dey suspicious. See the way Tadic dey give everybody there toros week in week out.
Depay's case is small. Wilfried Bony's case is small. The way Kezman was dealing with them in that league before he came to EPL only to drop 4 goals was shocking.
You forgot a certain Alfonso Alves.
Even the Ajax UCL run look to me as fluke and one season show. Sure there are very good players among them but some are overrated. One of their best players Veltman just signed for Brighton for 900k. De Jong is struggling at Barca, Same thing with Deligt at Juve. Even our own Blind was beasting there. Same with Monaco of 2017. Only Mbappe, Fabinho and B.silva were good. The rest were flops
Although there are exceptions, Suarez, Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Eriksson, Stam and Ibrahimovic
afrodoc: The Dutch league is worse than the English Championship. The best anything there does not mean anything unless he has proved it in international competition.He is 22, playing at home and has no single cap for the Dutch senior team. I smell a Herrera situation.
But Ziyech has been in the Dutch league. Although Tadic of Southampton went to Ajax and became prime Messi
Our club na monitoring FC. Very soon de go tell us say the guy dey plane de come. Na so Bruno enter plane since July last season, when e reach England finally na January
dubylhover: If ogs wants to keep up with this pattern of one defensive midfielder behind pogba and Bruno,another option we should try to look at is benaccer of Milan, from nations cup I've been observing him..and right now in this Milan resurgence,he's a very key part..
hes like a younger version of matic..highly press resistant,can pick up passes in between lines..has good tactical positioning to cut out opposition passes.does his job very well..
The reason I'm not all sold on ndidi is his passing range and play in tight spaces..cos that cdm role is not just about marking and work rate,you need to also have football intelligence to know how to block passing lanes of opposition attack,that to me is matic best quality self.but then my first choice still remains Ruben neves,but benaccer also has those qualities.I think he's being slept on
You nailed it. That's what we fail to understand about Matic. My God, that guy called Matic is a baller, apart from sitting at the DM base, he is able to find defence splitting passes and intercept opposition attack attack without breaking a sweat. That's the kind of CDM we should be looking at not just the running and running and tackling type. Our play needs a DM in the mould of Matic, Busquet and Carrick.
afrodoc: I think you mean 1 more than City and 3 more than Liverpool.
The defence has not been terrible. Our priorities should be a RW, capable deputies for Bruno/Pogba, and then a 1st team CB. When Ighalo goes in Jan we can get another cheap short term CF.
With Sancho, VDB, Partey, and a CB we should be able to put up a good title challenge next season. The current players have to continue to improve and stay fit though.
Lol, my bad yeah, I mean 1 and 3 more than city and Liverpool respectively. My thoughts too, I think we are going overboard with the defence thing. Yes this our defence is no where near Rio/Vidic level, but I can remember from the top of my head matches where Rio had an absolute stinker, eg The manchester derby that Owen scored a Fergie time winner, there are a lot more. Vidic also. But we fans tends to slaughter our current defenders for a simple nutmeg, something even VVD undergo steady.
Like you said. Sancho a RW is a must, I think one of VDB or Partey will do. I prefer VDB, he is more versatile and attack minded. For the CB Bailly needs to stay fit, and we need to send Tuanzebe to loan again. Mengi and TFM and a new CB will all serve as options. For a CF. I dont know why we are not going for Cavani, every team, needs that veteran CF to pop in with important goals at crucial times. Drogba in 2012 did not score up to 10 league goals, look at Giroud this season, look at Llorente at spurs last season. Look at Zlatan this season at milan. We need an experienced CF. We also need to push for the title next season, I have this feeling that both City and Liverpool or anyone else will not exceed 90 points next season.
afrodoc2: It’s tough.......but that is a Chelshit female i guess.
I am telling u. That female shekpite is something else, I like her passion for football. But the way she sounds so dumb and shallow is nauseating. Always offpoint
I read on reddit people talking about our defence. TBH our defence doesn't give me confidence, and it gives me jitters. But to be Frank I think the criticism of Maguire and Lindelof (including me) are a bit harsh. I have rewatched the Liecester game, they are not as bad as people portray. Infact we have conceded 3 less goals than liverpool and one less than city. Even with some kamikaze giveaway of our dear DDG. He still manage to get 13 clean sheets just behind Ederson and Pope.
And for me. I think DDG should continue in goal next season. Apologies to Expert117. Lol
timay: I'm sure pulisic has more minutes than Greenwood. Majority of those 34 appearances were cameos and subs. Greenwood started starting games after resumption when Daniel James drop in form became worse.
Modified; I'm even correct.
Pulisic played 1727 minutes
Mason Greenwood played 1311 minutes.
So using 25 appearances vs 34 appearances is a deceptive ways of bending the stats to suit your agenda why not use a fair stat , which is per 90 minutes. Useless shekpes and stat bending.
That was how one drunk shekpe fan said Fernandes has 84 career goals in which 78 out of it were penalties. dumb shekpe fans everywhere
So low budget shakushaku Hazard, 58m Pussylic was even outscored by our 17 year old baby, even with less minutes played. Person wey we de watch for FA Youth CUP few weeks ago. But they will troll Bruno who won player of the month back to back, and the first player to enter team of the season after just half season. Chai must shekpeteris collect LLLLLLLLLLLLs in every aspect?
In case you dont know. The guy you quoted is known in this sports section as "hen's brain". Nobody takes him serious, so I will advice you keep ignoring him.
We have been here before. Na so una give us YouTube highlights of Bakayoko and Morata, telling us how he won 100 points with his single digits goals tally
timay: It's funny how you conveniently omitted Brandon Williams and Mctominay who also played a key role during the season, while inflating the price tags of our players just to make meaningless point.
let me correct you. Pogba 90m Martial 50m
AwB was 50m Bruno was 49.5m with add ons it will increase latter in future .
Mind you , your so called Chelsea Academy players have gained experience from playing on loan in multiple championship/EPL teams e.g Mount, Tomori, Zouma, Abraham (who has played a full season in the EPL in the past with Swansea). Compared to inexperienced Academy players from man utd who went straight from Academy bto the first team, e.g Greenwood, Williams, Rashford, Mctominay, and fringe players like Chong.
Oga find your square root biko
You forgot. Perriera, Timothy Fosu-mensah and Lingard
But e surprise me say United don cast reach the level wey una go dey celebrate 3rd position (above Chelsea} when we still dey on course to lift a trophy...
Only this one don differenciate our level with una own.
Oga shu.ut up. You dont tell us when to party. I personally will not party because of a blue fan that lost a family. It makes no moral sense. Not this useless shalaye wey you wan bring come here
BlueAngel444: please please we are condoling a blue who lost today. U guys should behave abeg. we both qualified. Trolling is not needed. If Una wan still troll for united thread.
thank God say we no lose
We have all consoled with him. Well I think in respect of donzajet. I will not Party.