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  • in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17289
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      If the likes of Mbappe, Coutinho and Dembele went for over 120m, then Hazard is worth more than them. Hazard may not be consistent at times, but even on a poor day, he can still do something out of nothing. That is what world class players do. The difference between Chelsea winning the league title in 2015 and 2017 was Hazard. If Spurs or any other side in the top 6 had Hazard during that season, they would have gone on to win the league title.

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      in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17285
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        Fair comment 442.

        IMO United spending was no different to a fair few sides in the PL during the 90s with the exception of the summer of 98. At times they were the 4th,5th,6th biggest spenders during the season.

        After losing key players such as Hughes, Ince and Kanchelskis in 95, Ferguson promoted 5 youth players in the Neville brothers, Scholes, Butt and Beckham. He also did not spend in the summer of 99.

        What changed for United was the popularity of the PL across the globe, they exploited this in order to generate more revenue and funds. The thing about Ferguson was he will use his whole budget on 1 quality player, whilst others would spend a bit more on several players. For example in 94, Ferguson bought Keane at 3.5m the only player he bought that season, whilst City bought several players for a combined total of 6m, Blackburn spent 13m on several players etc.

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        in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17278
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          It’s exactly what united did through the 90’s with saf

          That is far from correct. Newcastle, City(1st 5 years of the PL era) and Liverpool outspent United. There was also Blackburn in the early to mid 90s.

          http://www.transferleague.co.uk/manchester-united/english-football-teams/manchester-united-transfers

          http://www.transferleague.co.uk/manchester-city/english-football-teams/manchester-city-transfers

          http://www.transferleague.co.uk/newcastle-united/english-football-teams/newcastle-united-transfers

          http://www.transferleague.co.uk/liverpool/english-football-teams/liverpool-transfers

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            IMO Sanchez is finding his feet at the club like Miki. Probably will see glimpses this season, but need a pre season with their new sides. Very difficult to hit the ground running mid season as a new club. Same thing is happening to Coutinho at Barcelona.

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              what on earth has Mouriniho done to Sanchez he was truly awful tonight?

              He has been Wengered.

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              in reply to: Man Utd V Liverpool – March 10th @ 12:30 #17227
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                Liverpool win for me. United have been inconsistent lately and Liverpool have picked up a bit of form. If Jose goes with Smalling and Jones as a centre back pairing, then Firminho, Mane and Salah will cause all sorts of problems. United will also have 1 eye on the CL too. Liverpools 2nd leg is a dead rubber days prior, so Klopp can afford to rest a few players.

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                in reply to: Jordan Henderson #17221
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                  Jim-

                  I missed yesterdays game, but still stand by what I have said. Fernandinho has played 800 more minutes than Henderson, yet on average they both intercept the round about same according to Squawka. I am not saying Henderson is on par with Fernandinho, reason why I said Henderson is slightly inferior. But De Bruyne is one of the best all round midfielders the PL has seen, when he has not started or played, City have only won 1 game out of 6 in 90 minutes. Fernandinho I believe played in 3 of those. The difference between the 2 is Henderson has not had the luxury of playing alongside 2 of the current most creative players in the league in Silva and De Bruyne.

                  Liverpools most recent games against Swansea and West Brom, they lost them both without Henderson, yet they still had the likes of Salah. As soon as Henderson returns against Hudderfield, they are back to winning ways. Henderson is that link between defence and attack for Liverpool. Problem is, he is not flamboyant, so people do not notice what he offers.

                  People who believe Keita is the answer have not seen him play. He is box to box, covers a lot of ground, a bit like Dembele. If he replaces Henderson, then there will be a fair bit of gaps left for opposition teams to attack. Kampl and Demme have been Red Stars defensive midfield/deep lying players.

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                  in reply to: Jordan Henderson #17209
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                    No Jim, Henderson has proven what he can do when you have brilliant attacking talent ahead of him i.e. 2014 and most recently under Klopp. They missed him against West Brom and Swansea recently. Funny enough Liverpools results picked up when Henderson came back in to the side against Huddersfield.

                    City have shown they do not really need Fernandinho considering their recent results without him. I can add the record of how many games City have won without De Bruyne has not started or played in this season in 90 minutes worth of football, but obviously do not want to come across as a wind up. ?

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                    in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17201
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                      Apologies 9. I know the language was poor, but the content of the video took me by surprise. Did not watch the game, considering the effort Chelsea put against United last weekend, I did not expect that, especially when a win was needed in order to keep pace with the 3 teams above.

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                      in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17196
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                        in reply to: Chelsea at Home #17195
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                          Coming from someone who has seen his side win numerous league titles. If the trophy is won well in advance and if there is a home game remaining, it is usually presented after the final home game. It allows majority of the people in attendance to enjoy the moment rather than a couple of 1000.

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                            Henrikh Mkhitaryan has already lost four Premier League games with Arsenal.

                            He lost five in his entire spell at Manchester United.

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                            in reply to: Jordan Henderson #17165
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                              Am I the only one who rates him? Henderson is not the most flamboyant, but he is a hard working player. Look at Liverpools record wothout him in the side recently and their results are not the same. I would have him at United. He is like Fernandinho just a slightly inferior version, sits in front of the back 4 and dictates play. Swap Henderson with Fernandinho and not much will change imo.

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                              in reply to: Pepe and his yellow ribbon… #17104
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                                Fair enough Mak.

                                IMO he was going to be asked why is he wearing a yellow ribbon and he response would bound get some form of reaction considering his current employees and his past links to Qatar.

                                This practically sums it up for me-

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                                in reply to: Pepe and his yellow ribbon… #17073
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                                  Mak-

                                  Disagreeing with a policy is different to inhuman behavior.

                                  Lets use your example here mak. If you was a high profile person and passionately was against zero hour contracts, yet was getting paid well by some company in the UAE. What would happen if you protested over zero-hour contracts here in the UK and what would happen if you protested over zero-hour contracts in the UAE?

                                  It is more to it than just disagreeing with something. I honestly do not understand what Pep has gained from this too, people were aware in regards to his stance on Catalan long before he wore a ribbon and what was happening Catalan. So to use football as a reason to show how passionate he is about what is happening in Catalan has just had an adverse effect.

                                  All this has done is made him look like a hypocrite and put the people who pay his wages in a bad light by exposing their inhuman behavior, there is nothing paying a massive PR team in order to keep it hidden could have done to stop that.

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                                  in reply to: Pepe and his yellow ribbon… #17054
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                                    Fair dos Jim. I guess this is why you should keep politics and football far apart.

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                                    in reply to: Rom vs Drogba #17053
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                                      Chelsea man-

                                      I am only comparing Roms and Drogba’s goal per game ratio. I said that if Rom ends up developing in to a player any where near to the quality of what Drogba was, then that is a good news for United. At present Rom is miles away to the player Drogba was. Drogba was a beast, he was more than about goals, he was about bringing others in the game, a big game player etc. Rom is no where near his level yet and only time will tell if he ever will be.

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                                      in reply to: Rom vs Drogba #17008
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                                        If Kane played for United and the way Jose sets up against top sides, do you believe his goal scoring record against top sides would be good?

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                                        in reply to: Rom vs Drogba #17006
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                                          In fairness to Rom Banjo, comparing him to players who have played for top 6 sides for all of their PL career is a bit unfair on Rom. Aguero and Kane have had more chances to deal with in order to put the ball in the back of the net in comparison, if the same chances fell to Rom, then I am sure we would see an improvement on his goals against top 6 sides too.

                                          Do you think Kane and Aguero would have a similar record against the top 6 if they played for Everton or West Brom. Kane’s record for Leyton was 1 goal every 4 games, 1 goal in 3 for Millwall, 0 in 3 games for Norwich and 1 in 6 gamesfor Leicester.

                                          At United you would have expected an improvement for Rom, but Uniteds record against the top 6 under Jose has been poor too.

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                                          in reply to: Rom vs Drogba #16983
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                                            Just another very expensive Emile Heskey….

                                            Rom currently is on 13 league goals. Scoring 15+ goals 4 out of 5 times in his previous seasons. Heskey failed to score more than 14 goals and only hit double figures 4 times in his career. Brilliant comparison redblood. ?

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