He's deceptively very quick. Closes down players in a flash.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Mourinho knows his stuff, that's why I say to folks who don't want Perisic that he'll be an excellent signing for us. Final piece of the jig-saw.
Why aren't we signing younger players that I've never seen play more than 10 times?
Proven me wrong completely. Outstanding.
Apparently Jose's taking us backwards with signings like this!?!
Long passing has been very good too
I thought the Caf said he was slow as a tank, a Chelsea reject?
He was poor last season I thought but he seems to have found his spark again under Mourinho.
Wow, how good is he? Thought he was just a destroyer with decent distribution but he's so much more.
Bossing it.
If we plays like this consistently he'll be a contender for our player of the season.
If we plays like this consistently he'll be a contender for our player of the season.
Yeah I'm inclined to agree regards to Perisic
As good as Carrick.. Carrick is the better passer, Matic has more mobility and tends to shoot more ...
The world's most boring £40m transfer is already getting interesting...
Indeed, the main reason I wanted him over Dier. One plays like an extra CB, the other plays like a proper midfielder.
Cant believe its so long since we had a midfeilder capable of delivering such influence!
Matic isn't a half bad passer himself. Perhaps Carrick edges it but I'd still list the ability to pick the right pass as a strength for Matic. With Carrick it turned into a weakness when he was under pressure, we'll need to wait and see how Matic deals with it. He seems a more complete midfielder though.
This is the perfect description of him so far. He's playing the role of two players.
Yeah. He was widely considered to be the best centre mid in the league after about a year in it.
Just look at the posts on the first page of this thread in 2014:
Conte will be making a call to his plug doctor tonight.
He has the best attributes of both except for the long silky passes of Carrick (although that ball out wide I think to Valencia was class).
Not claiming great insight or watching Chelsea all game, but always maintain a not off form Matic is vital for Chelsea. I was very few that stated I would take Matic LAST summer. when majority of CAF was laughing off when there was the annual rumor of manager sign his players from his old clubs started.
When Chelsea form started to dip toward the end of last season, I maintained that Matic's form (& Hazard's fitness) suffered was the key. Kante was given credit that he had nothing to have it. For example it's clear like the first half vs City at the Bridge that, without Matic, there was a lot of space in front of Chelsea backline that City kept playmaking from. Despite the lead, Matic was introduced in the second half to plug that hole. In the all 3 games we played against Chelsea, Matic was one of the the top targets for Mourinho's heavy man marking, while Kante . Sure Kante scored majority of his goal in the season with 2 goals against us, but he was not that good in 2 of the 3 games against us which the third game pretty much exposed Kante style of play when purposely he's given much of the ball, and couldn't do much with it with Chelsea other options being heavily marked... Kante was great, but Matic is vital as he was the enabler to let Kante the freedom to do his thing.
He's been sensational
Matic himself said he;d love the fans to sing the Vidic song for him.
I never understood why so many doubted Jose in the first place. He clearly knows what he wants and what he is doing, and he has done it so many times before. I hope more of those posters who were critical of his pursuit of Matic are humble enough to now hold their hands up and give Jose the credit he deserves. Matic has been classy and dominant yet again. He is exactly what we needed in this team.If he puts in performances like this week in week out Carrick doesn't come close to this guy.
Getting to a point where I will stop praising him because you just expect good perfomances.
Mou showing that there is a reason why he s paid the big bucks and we're not. Our arguably least glamorous signing looks to be the most important one.
I've been saying for ages. Add a top quality DM to correct our spine and the magic will return. Lukaku, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Rasford, Mata and co can and will score goals. I guess that those who believed that the DM role can be covered by either a big no 10 or by a snowflake who can pass the ball will now have a rethink.
Feck off to everyone arguing with me about his age and his ability to play.
Messic
Looked very assured and a touch of experience and class throughout.
Been fantastic
Greatly enthused by his display today.
He knows what he's doing
He knows what he's doing
All the people who cried that we should rather sign Fabinho had, and still has, no clue. Matic is a fantastic signing, fantastic player. Exactly what we needed.
He's been absolutely fantastic.
I really believed that last year he was restricted by Conte who favoured Kante at his expense.
Thank Christ that the Dier transfer never material. I'd prefer someone capable of putting in world class performances over someone incapable any day.
I really believed that last year he was restricted by Conte who favoured Kante at his expense.
Thank Christ that the Dier transfer never material. I'd prefer someone capable of putting in world class performances over someone incapable any day.
Class.
Thank you Chelski!!!
Excellent. I'm sold.
Our new midfield general.
No wonder Chelsea walked the league last season. Matic looks absolutely superb.
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