Your reason might also be my reason to play the youngsters. Seniors are struggling to create goals, why stick to them? Give youngster a chance.

I never watch Alan Dzagoev before. But I have him in my FM team. He's superior highly rated in FM.
Sometimes I wonder, does FM really influence the market so much?
There are reports saying Hamsik is open to us too, he will cost a lot for sure, but worth or not?

My wish list(according to the order),
a)Gary Cahill
b)Mountinho
c)Right back
d)Hazard? Who knows.But we need a left wing too.

I still think that AVB midfield is missing the Moutinho puzzle, hope AVB himself can understand what to do with the outshaped midfield.

Watched the highlights, all goals were superb. I like Ramires's goals, he anticipate the ball, then he got his first goal.His second goal was a fantastic counter attack work. Thanks to Torres who sent the ball well into Ramires feet before Ramires beautifully chipped it over the goalkeeper.
Torres is still a goalscorer, but with Chelsea, no players really suit his playstyle, he can't score as he was in Liverpool, so, he might be a better midfielder in our team? Might be, but I don't see any possibility AVB will play Torres in midfield.Might create chaos.

We always have difficulties breaking parkbus team, why not we play counter attack football instead possesion football? We don't have those players who can send amazing pass/through ball forward that can break a 10 men defense, but we have a lot players that are capable to play counter attack. Torres,Mata, Sturridge,Ramires, they are more than enough for a counter attack.
I seriously hope we can settle down our defense and so that we can play counter attack football.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 9 2012, 05:44 AM

3m is just too low. I don't think Arsenal can pay the wages that we are paying to Kalou too. Kalou and Malouda are good as backup, but when they play regularly, they become terrible.
But we shouldn't stick with them too, I really want AVB to buy some players to improve the team.

We have no seen AVB for many days, perhaps off to do some secret transfers talk?

Torres supposed to be an extremely fast striker. His speed decreased a lot in recent years, I think he should work out more?
I am glad that Torres is showing some good signs, he need to turn more and find more space for himself. The midfield have to send the ball early to Torres too. I am sure the goals will come.

Oh my god, this kid is fantastic.

Strong left leg, plays on left wing, this is what we need! Imagine, De Bryune on left, mata behind the striker, Sturridge on the right.Ramires as box to box & Romeu holding the midfield in two pivot. Tasty.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 10 2012, 02:27 PM

The problem with De Bryune is he might be too young to play first team. He doesn't look any special when we play against Genk, perhaps we overpowered his team or he's just lack of experience.

I am tired with Cahill deal already too. Have been expecting good news on the website but always it's disappointment. There are reports saying that the deal might broken down too.
I don't know, we need to wrap the transfers faster, January windows are always tough to do business.

Extremely hard game ahead, against Sunderland. EXTREMELY. Mark Oneil team are really organized in defense. They defended deep against City, and they won the game. They counter attack, they finish the chances.
We're going to experience some tough time to create some space in their 10men defense and not to mention scoring goals. We have been poor in breaking 'parkbus' type of defense, I personally don't expect much from this game, unless we improved magically under AVB.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 13 2012, 01:39 PM

Well, looks like Cahill deal is finally wrapped up. Many newspaper reports the personal terms has been agreed and he's expected to join us by this weekend.
Josh is also confirm will be moving to Swansea on next Monday for a loan. Wish you good luck Josh
Let's move on, a right back?

Finally. Cahill should fit in our team very very soon. He should be quite close with Cole and Terry
Cole Terry Cahill Luiz(?)

7m is definitely a great signing. I think our January windows' job is done here?

Terry should be A LOT comfortable to pair with Cahill in the central defense. I bet AVB surely talked with Terry about this and terry should agree with this. That's why we signed Cahill.

Bosingwa can't cross, he can never cross, why stick with him?! Try Luiz on right back or Ivanovic should be alright too.

goal.com is just idiot. We buy Cahill because we're lack of depth in defense department. It makes perfect sense that we need another centre back with Alex leaving.
Pfftt. Oh well, nice comic drawing though.

I am not really sure Cahill will replace Luiz in a short time. Luiz is playing alright actually, but maybe AVB's idea is play cahill in central and luiz in fullbacks? I would hope so.

Our scouting team and AVB must have done their homework.
Always wonder, WHY ARE WE BUYING CAHILL?!
Read this, and you can. understand.
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/01/20/gar...lsea-high-line/

Gary Cahill=High line perfectionist.
p/s: the only thing I worry is Bosingwa might wreck everything up.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 21 2012, 12:03 PM

Not sure if Essien is fit, but Essien definitely suit AVB system. He's extremely good in AVB system. A player who can press, can attack, can pass and can defend. If Essien is on the peak(maybe in good form),
Essien-Romeu-Ramires.
Oh, this is soooo good.

Gosh, the tempo is sooo slow. Is it only Meireles and Torres are the the players who can detect other teammates run/movement? Mata is nothing special so far.
Our play is so slow, lack of movements, not creating chance, blah. poor first half.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 21 2012, 09:38 PM

First, i will start off with MOTM. Luiz easily. Honestly , I was surprised to hear you saying Bosingwa is good today. Every players were below par except Luiz and Cech.

The team build up looks clueless. We're lack of movement, players are not passing the ball to those players who were making runs. If we have a good right back, we should've dominate the right side. Norwich left a huge space for us to exploit there. But none of our attackers managed to utilized that.

Torres's miss's effect might be worse than United miss. AVB made the miss worse than we ever thought. Subbing Torres out for Lukaku while we're needing a goal. Is it. the end. of. torres. in. avb era? I am afraid seriously.

Lack of movements,passing is so dead. schoolboy passing, no vision at all.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 21 2012, 11:34 PM

Look at our passing in the final third. So damn retard.

Bosingwa stat: 8 crosses. 0 successful. Stats don't lie.

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 21 2012, 11:50 PM

Oh yeah. our Josh came on for Swansea yesterday! Glad that swansea play him Josh suit swansea slick passing system perfectly.
Came on 66th min, made 25 passes, only 1 unsuccessful. 4
Hope he can start for Swansea one day!

This post has been edited by ericling: Jan 22 2012, 12:33 PM

Drogba just scored for Ivory Coast! African cup is just too easy for him