The Fabregas and Ode option would be absolutely devastating going forward.

You overspent and still ended up with a worse midfield than you could have had for 10m

More than ever, in my ears.

Sarraayy, is all that you can say, years gone by and still…

I think they should both go. Partey is too unreliable with his fitness and I can already see Jorginhos age catching up on him, thats not something that will get better over the next 18 months. We need to be able to see problems like that coming and act before they are upon us.

Bit more context, he had the 2nd worst pass completion % in the team at 67% (Jesus being below him on 65%). This along with that stat above goes to show that he played a lot of long balls and while some were very good, a lot were not.

Ultimately this is a stat that can tell you more about how we played against City than anything interesting about Rayas ability.

We need to get Musiala. Him, Ode and Rice in midfield would be filthy.

Senderos was ok but got absolutely monstered by Drogba a few times and lost all his confidence and the faith of the crowd.

Fun Fact - Philipe Senderos was part of the team that got us to the CL conceding one goal on the way

That was a crazy back line. Flamini played LB for a lot of it and Djourou played a lot too. Eboue at RB. It was incredible what we got away with.