18 Jan 2018 22:52:14
Many seem to want number 10, but I am not worried what number of shirt he wears. First thing we need to get back to winning the battle in midfield, opponents often put extra men in centre midfield to win the battle, we need to make sure we are flexible and strong enough to always boss that area.
By controlling centre midfield our players have that little bit of time and room to play the probing ball to players running towards goal. Most centre midfielders can open a defence if they have time and space .
Last night Chelsea started with William and Pedro who should have enough guile to open up Championship Norwich whose midfield worked their socks off to offset the undoubted extra ability of Chelsea who even brought on Hazard and still couldn't really prise open Norwich.
Controlling midfield is the key.

1.) 18 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 23:40:09
Unless we sign some players we go into the second half of the season weaker than the end of the first half of the season. Benyu gone. Henderson gone. Eric gone. Griffiths out. Rogic out. Armstrong out. Hayes out. Paddy out. Comper out. The idea was to come in stronger. We need a couple of quality players and if we don't find them this window we go into CL qualifiers before we can add any new faces not to mention a Europa tie in Feb. Its not easy attracting players but that's what needs to be done. If not we may not get CL qualification and with 4 preliminary rounds now we need a larger and better equipped squad and players who can go into the first team not projects. We have Ntcham and Ajar in from last year but out of the loan players we have got out there i don't think any will walk into our match day 11 so it looks like the same team going into CL qualifiers in July. Christie may get a run but we don't know if he can cut it. We will also lose players to the world cup so where does the cover come from?

2.) 19 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 23:59:44
My prediction for tomorrow's bull transfer story will be CH coming in from Chelsea Loan youth player. Masonda in 18 month loan with DM going to Crystal Palace 15m plus Bentekki.

3.) 19 Jan 2018
19 Jan 2018 10:17:49
I thought the winter break would have been a chance to refresh, recover and regroup for the challenges of the next four months; however we seem to have an even more depleted and injured squad than before and it certainly gives the manager more headaches as he assesses absences and deficiencies that need urgent attention on top of any other transfer business we may have been negotiating.
I also agree with Chris as well that we do need to do more in midfield because we very predictable and should vary our line-up and personnel to drive home our advantage in class and ability.

4.) 19 Jan 2018
19 Jan 2018 10:38:47
Players get injured, that's just a fact of football. The window is still open, we have to believe what needs to be done, will be. If we don't then he board and Rogers will rightly receive a Barrage of criticism, but, we rent there yet and I cannot see how anybody at Celtic can think we can get away with what we have, if we want to qualify for this years CL. Never mid put up a fight against Zenit.

There was some ludicrous talk on sites that we cold progress to even the final. Well, to even give a good account of ourselves against the Russians requires w improve defensively.

I still believe we will. I wish to Eff they would get on with it though as each day the passes is murder without news.

5.) 19 Jan 2018
19 Jan 2018 14:53:55
My goodness MP was that a positive post?
Keep up the good work mate lol.

6.) 20 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 13:30:57
Rayman on page 3 here I explain my position in response to your negative claim. It might be off that page and in older posts now as a lot of posts on masonic stuff could have pushed it down so have a look.