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Maverick, or more than likely we will be talking about Man City again!?
City aren’t going to get weaker given their resources and everyone bar perhaps United will struggle to match their spending power.
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Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane says Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah “is a player I rate a lot” following the Egyptian’s national team coach, Hector Cuper, saying the Spanish club were going to make a move for the 25-year-old.
Hopefully if the above has any truth in it that might stem their interest in Eden Hazard.???
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Conte on City, the title race and looking forwards.
“Where do Manchester City rank for you in terms of best ever Premier League team?”
“It is not a surprise for me, also maybe for you. At the start of the season, all the people said the league was between two contenders in Manchester. They are a great team. They were last season and during the transfer market they reached their first targets and have created an important team.
Man City is building a strong team to lead in Europe. They are a really good team, to have this 15 wins in a row you must say they’ve been lucky.
They won games in the final minutes. When you have this type of run, for sure, you must also be a bit lucky but they are deserving this, but at the same time we must find the right solution to contend the title. Not only us but Manchester United, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Title race
Time is moving on, they continue to win.
In the last nine games we won seven games, drew one and lost one and the distance, the gap still improved for Manchester City. It is possible to draw away to Liverpool and lose one but now we are 14 points behind.
How hard is it to keep going?
We must go game by game and to look at ourselves because as i said before, tomorrow it won’t be easy to win the game and Manchester City know very well because they played (against Southampton) two games ago and solved the situation only in the 96th minute.”
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CMan, given what happened that’s probably the best path my friend. Cheers 999
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CMan, not opposed to that team at all mate. It just seems that the talk suggests Bakayoko will play. I guess we’ll have to wait until 2pm tomorrow.
By the way have you been in contact with James? Cheers 999
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CMan, good team but suggestion is that Bakayoko is likely to start which suggests 3/5/2 if true. I’m not sure about Cesc protected by just Kante.
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goat, better get some anti giddy pills from the Doc’s then mate.?
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banjo, who knows mate but Mourinho plus United’s resources which are as great possibly even greater that City’s with another significant transfer spend in the Summer could well be City’s major challenger next Summer and Mourinho has won the title at every club he’s ever managed.
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Maverick, not a bad forward line.?
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Maverick, even a Spurs win at the Etihad which I think is unlikely would still leave everyone trailing in their wake without psychologically it has some sort of significant impact on them which I think is unlikely too.
It’s all over bar the shouting imo although I get why the City fans don’t want to agree with that and say what if we get injuries to key players. But they’ve had injuries to key players in Stones and Mendy and it’s not impacted on them at all because their squad is so strong.
City currently 13 points better off than they were this time last season and Chelsea are 8 points worse off.
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City have not only bought in an incredibly smart Manager to manage what was already a very strong squad of players but some smart business brains too and the keys to success in football now is having significant funds to continue investing in what was an already quality laden squad without impacting on the FFP rules and City seemingly have found a way to do that.
Commercial success nowdays is arguably just as important to a club as playing success certainly in the medium to long term which is why the top clubs are investing so much time and investment into trying to achieve it.
Gone are the days of the biggest attendances in home Stadiums driving a club’s revenues forwards to the levels that they need to be going forwards to compete with both the Manchester club’s.
I’m not sure how long FiFA will allow multiple club ownerships as it could all get out of hand should the other commercialy aware club’s follow a similar strategy which ultimately they will if it is so successful.
Good luck to City though with what they’re currently doing which is all within the rules.
Catching City going forwards with their current squad , their financial resources driven out of their commercial acumen and the Manager they have is going to be very difficult for all even a commercially aware United under such a demanding Manager as Mourinho.
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Maverick, I heard it was a toss up mate and Real don’t know who to go for first Fellaini or Hazard!?
But to be fair they are both very different players and at the job he does Fellaini is more than a half decent player imo. Cheers 999
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Jim, kind response mate and appreciated but you seeing Hazard regularly or not you’re still entitled to your opinion and over the years you’re a poster whose opinions I have come to deeply respect and I’m always pleased to hear them. Cheers 999
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Jim, Hazard had a poor season after the last Mourinho title win but there were lots of problems that season and he carried an injury for a large part of it once he was injury free he came back strongly.
Hazard hovers between 7 to 10 imo mostly around 8 sometimes 9 or 10. I agree Hazard didn’t have a great game v West Ham but that day the whole team were really poor.
I’ve watched Chelsea now for more years than I care to remember and Hazard is one of the very best I’ve seen in a blue shirt and I suspect most Chelsea fans would say the same. Cheers 999
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Quite incredible to think that should City beat Spurs on Saturday City will have a 21 point advantage in the PL over Spurs before Christmas is out.
You would have got very very long odds on that being the case prior to the season starting. It’s a measure of just how good this City team have been to date.
Should be a humdinger of a game I’m going for a 2-2 draw.
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Maverick, true enough mate but Hazard has frequently said he is very happy and settled living where he does and very happy playing for Chelsea he’s also the star man at Chelsea.
He will have a decision to make in the Summer perhaps even before the Summer as to whether he goes to Real or stays at Chelsea as will the club because without he signs a new extended contract it probably makes more sense to sell him to Real this summer for an enormous fee than let him run down his contract.
Whatever happens should Hazard go to Real Chelsea fans have been privileged to have him at the club for 6 seasons and those of us who have been privileged to see him up close and in the flesh have seen that he’s even better than he looks on TV and imo he’s in a small group of the best ever players to grace the Stamford Bridge turf.
But if Hazard goes to Real in the Summer as well he might although I will be sad to lose him he will go with my best wishes and thanks for his wonderful contribution to the club and I think that is probably the view of most Chelsea fans certainly the ones I know anyway. Cheers 999
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Maverick, Roman will know very well that the fans would revolt if he sold Hazard to a PL rival.
I really can’t see it happening and there’s still a good chance that Hazard will sign a new Contract at Chelsea if not I’m pretty sure he will go to Real.
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maverick, imo the only club’s Chelsea would be prepared to sell Hazard to would be Real and Barca and perhaps PSG.
Hazard himself will want to go Real they were the club he has supported from a kid and Zidane was his boyhood hero.
But he will cost an awful lot of money getting on for the Neymar fee imo with a current contract until 2020.
Both the club and Conte want Hazard to sign a new contract and that’s what all Chelsea fans want but if Hazard wants to go to Real the fans will understand and would wish him well.
Personally if Hazard is to go I think Chelsea should insist on Asensio and a massive fee.
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Me too Jim. It’s my guilty pleasure.?
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Maverick, yes I could see that one especially with the Messi link. I don’t think Dybla will go in January and I think that both Barca and Real will be busy but more so in the Summer transfer window.
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