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So is it 5 or 10 yellows now then?

Ehh?! Talent cannot be quantified by figures. Just because he has better statistics when you get all fiddley with playing time ratios doesn't mean he's 'more talented'. No but he's 21 and he's scoring as many as a 29 year old. I mean, otherwise Zlatan is more talented than Romario was since he is more involved in the allround play. Right?

What have I done? I was pretty sure you had a massive, unreasonable, Inter bias. However, on reflection, I might be blaming you for the sins of djmattis. No, its surely Sewelly

I would never call you that, however, I have never argued that Zlatan shouldn't be playing, but to call him more talented than Pato who is 21 and is scoring at a higher rate than Ibra is ridiculous. Then again I'm not Robinhos biggest fan that was just adding a bit of spice to the conversation. Loved him 3-4 years ago but he's not the same player as he was. He's lost the excitement.

They're all behind Zlatan for two reasons if you want to be totally honest, one is his big name and two is the fact that he's the teams only targetman like player. Pato might not be more involved in the game, but his smart running and speed creates havoc and a lot of space too for his teammates. At the end it doesn't matter, Pato will most probably leave in the summer with Chelsea and Real Madrid wanting to pursue him and with a real manager he will develop into a great striker.

Bias rubbish as usual? Pato is having his absolutely worst season for Milan and still scores more goals than Zlatan if you look at their playingtime/goal ration. Not saying Zlatan is a bad player, I'm just questioning why Pato is on the bench. Last season Milan finished 3rd, and they had plenty of injuries and they had no new players such as Robinho, van Bommel, Cassano, Zlatan and so on. Robinho scores again, but that was a handball. haha.

How good is this Ajax striker El Hamdaoui? Been scoring quite many goals in the dutch league for 3 straight season and he's 26. Any good?

Also reacted to that. If they want to find bargains as backups than fine, but they have to find quality player to show ambition.

Ask what Milan fans? The real Milan fans in Italy have said that it's weird Pato doesn't get playing time. He was their best performer behind probably Nesta and Silva when he played last season. Ever since Zlatan got to Milan he has become a worse player purely based on the fact that he doesn't look interested, Pato that is. This is from the Gazzeta dello Sportiva : 'Con Ibra in panca e Pato in campo il Milan avrebbe vinto la partita. Il doppio palo colto dallo svedese é in realtà un errore di Ibra. Il Papero l' avrebbe messa dentro.' Talking about a match two weeks ago I think. Btw, Zlatan looking useless today once again

Carlton Cole??? Christ...

Just found interesting and useless stats: Pato has played 943 minutes this season scoring 9 goals all in open play. Zlatan has played 2014 minutes while scoring 13, 2 as penalties. That means that Pato scores every 105 minutes while Zlatan scores every 155 minutes. You take away his two penalty goals and he scores every 184 minutes. Robinho has played 1517 minutes scoring 9 goals, meaning he scores a goal every 169 minutes. With that said, both Robinho and Pato are better goalscorer than Zlatan. And Brazilians rule the world. (useless stats, I know) but just shows how overrated Zlatan is as a goalscorer.

punk77 you surely can't have played football in your life. Are you seriously telling me that the goals he has scored are quality??? Are you for real? Of all of them only the goal against Birmingham where he showed great power and leap to beat the defender is really a good goal. I mean against WH the first one is nothing special, a bouncy ball is generally very easy to score on and the angle wasn't that hard. Also he would've been fucked if Green had not stayed on the line. The 2nd goal was shoot it and hope it goes in, the 3rd goal was well taken but nothing exceptional. Against Arsenal the same as the 2nd goal against WH shoot it and hope it goes in although he did well to get there. But to tell me that he is quality footballer but lacks concentration as his biggest problem is ridiculous. He can't move with the ball at his feet when under pressure. He has no technical abilities at all as he can't beat a man. He's good with his head but will lose out against many defenders and his shot is weak for most part. Another thing is that you give him credit for scoring with his wrong foot to seconds later calling him two-footed. Come on.

How is it possible to shoot a spotkick over the goal. Never understood that. Its fucking useless. Cashley Cole has done it, great.

Anelka

TITS or GTFO!

Spot on.

I was actually wondering....if Enrique does leave how much would you guys pay for Baines? £10 million less for what Enrique goes for

100% of Ramires missing a decisive penalty.

Enriques replacement if he leaves

Essien & Lamps have credit in the bank as we have saw them play many great games, score many goals & have great seasons most of us not seen Ramires do anything. Pound for pound Chelsea got more mileage out of Mineiro Most shit I have ever read. That doesn't justify his the non-existant criticism of Essien and Lampard. I mean you are not criticized based on past merits, come on ffs. Ramires came to this league and has been written off even before adapting. Look at Colo and so on. It takes time to adapt but of late he has been playing very well and gets stick for nothing. Had people been saying this pre-new years time than sure, but he's been playing well every since the new year shift in a Chelsea team playing below par. And why is Anelka still on the bench?

Started watching the 2nd half well at around the 50 mark, and by the looks of your comment Ramires must have really stepped up his game in the 2nd half. Been very good the last 25 minutes or so. I've been very critical of Ramires but he has been better for every game and Chelsea fans I talk to agree that he has been very average until lately but that players like Essien and Lampard skip criticism due to their names.

Agree with the two last statements. Williamson is an average defender.

First of all two strikers are priorities. Then we need cover for both well at least left-back position. And then a cb. We will survive with Jonas, Nolan, Gosling, Guthrie, Tiote, Barton, Ben Arfa and Routledge as well if he's not sold. So midfield should not be the first priority. Two strikers for the starting eleven is the first priority and then a cb and a cover lb. But we'll probably sign no one.