11 Aug 2014 18:16:29
How do you all rate Salah? Has he had a good pre season? Personally I've not seen any of the games, but I did feel at the end of last season, that he wasn't ready yet. Would we be better sending him off to another Pl team to get some experience? As he would easily make the starting 11 for a bottom half of the leauge team.

Thoughts guys?

1.) 11 Aug 2014
Haven't seen much of pre-season but he needs to work on his touch majorly. Think he's a year or two out from being the quality we require, but even then I don't see him as being more than a rotational player. Tbh I never really understood why we bought him but I hope he does well for us and proves me wrong.

2.) 11 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 19:38:33
Salah was a panic buy, we shouldn't have rushed into. I don't see how he is better than Thorgan Hazard or Piazon. We panicked, I think you can say Moses could play the role salah would this season, then again question marks on his signing. let's see how he fares in his first full season.

On the other hot topic, In my opinion if we don't get another striker before the window slams shut, we would have shot ourselves on the foot cause believe it or not Torres has gotten worse when it didn't seem like it was possible and if we thought five goals in the league was bad last season, he would give us something new to ponder on.

3.) 11 Aug 2014
Cheers for the info. It's hard to believe Torres could get worse. But I do believe you, he was grap last season. I would like to see us sell Moses, Cech and loan Salah then bring in Cuadrado as he has goals in him. Think if we could do that then we would be in for a good shout. We have some top draw young players waiting in the wings too. A lot of folk saying if Oscar doesn't perform this season then he should be sold, I'm praying he does have a good season and then next term bring Paizon in as he rival for the number 10 jersey.

4.) 11 Aug 2014
Not sure if Cuadrado is worth the £30-40m figures that are being bandied about in the media. We could get Reus for a similar figure. Whilst Oscar is still young and has a lot of potential, I do think this season will make or break him. I'm not expecting him to score and assist every game etc but he needs to show consistency.
Torres, well we can't say much there. I'm forever holding out hope that he'll still move on this window but it's unlikely. As much as I hate to see Drogba injured, if he's out for a long time it could see us go in for another striker. Chicharito, Aubameyang or even Vela, as a HG option, would be my choices.

5.) 11 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 21:04:04
I don't think that salah is better than moyes but neither of those 2 are good enough for our team in my opinion. But anyway we need squad and we can't have biggest names in the football world to be sitting on our bench, so in my eyes one of them as a sub can be usefull just as a fresh energy on last 20 - 30 mins of them match

6.) 11 Aug 2014
Vela is a good shout. The HG factor is interesting in his case.

7.) 11 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 21:30:18
He was a top performer last night. He's got the gift of sprinting and he links well with fabregas. He's got what it takes another season and he will mature. His movement is pretty damn clever aswell. Say compared to Willians stupid positioning and movement. I don't get judging new players without bring up others like Willian. And to compare piazon and salah is completely wrong, thorgan yes put piazon, no. Piazon should be compared with fabregas and maybe Willian. And to be honest salah is what, 4th choice for the wing after hazard, schurrle and Willian. So he ain't a bad back up for that.

8.) 12 Aug 2014
Gimme a fecking break! Ed02, for the love of gawd come back and sort these numpties out. Ed18&Ed08(apologies if I've missed other Eds) you're doing a grand job, but the 02 guy just nails these feckwits

9.) 12 Aug 2014
Why are we numpties brisvegas?