A Defender or a Midfielder?

and please dont forget Wallace (right back)...I heard he is coming straight into the first team as he is highly rated...a lot of complex laternatives really...I hope we choose the very best...and we bring in whoever early in the window..no last minute panic buys please..!!

I feel we should sign another versatile midfielder who can also play as a centre half like Luiz in order to increase our options. My fellow countryman Wanyama comes into the picture.

I would still buy Falani now before the other Manc clubs snap him up. He is the longterm replacement for Lamps whenever he leaves. We still need him now as well, romeu out, mikel goes to afcn, with lamps's age you cannot guarantee him being injury free....that only leaves us with Ramieres.

Wallas is going to spend the remainder of the season at fluminese....he is going to join our squad in the summer....as for me luiz should play as a midfder while we signa a right back and a striker so iva can play as a CB

We can't simply overlook the obvious needs of the team bcos we had a good game against mediocre teams, luiz played against monterrey and aston villa, not against man city, man utd or real, there is a difference between a technical player and a player that plays with steel and power, luiz is technical and we can't say he has power or steel to maintain or boss the midfield for now, until we see him play against stiffer oppositions then we can scrap any deal for a world class DM/CDM, or else we'll rue our miss if the window closes, I'll be glad if we can convert him there and he excels along mikel and rammy, but we should be sure he'll cope there when the stakes are high before scrapping the purchase of a player we need, and if he copes there we can bring wallace back and return iva to CB or buy a player like mbiwa or okore

@Desmond...i was already typing before reading your post...i was actually going to say the same thing..Luiz has got talent no doubt but will still need to get him well grounded before we can launch him against top oppsistions..i just hope the board does the right thing by maximizing opportunities in the window...merry xmas @Desmond...plenty goodies ahead for you.

@layorh, I wish u a happy xmas too and lots of blessings and favour from God!! Thank u for ur well wishes, and may God bless all VC members too

I think we should still sign a DM, Fernandinho or Wanyama should be fine, so we can have two reliable DMs (Luiz and the new one). I will also suggest we sell one of Mikel or Romeu in summer (if we can do it in January, fine!). In addition to that, we definitely still need a deep-lying playmaker who will help us control midfield against strong oppositions, someone like Moutinho is my pick not Fellaini.... So, imo, our January reinforcement for midfield should be Fernandinho alone or fernandinho and Moutinho (if we have the finance for both).

Fellaini or diame will do for me in midfield

NO we dont need another CM (thank god) now we dont have to waste 30m on fellaini. next season one of our loanee CBs (BRUMA/KALAS) might return to the 1st team so we dont need to buy one. if we do gett a cheap one like okore whos like 5m

And people saying Fellani is the player for the future,De Bruyne,McEachran,all have a shout.

He is a Defender and that is where he will make the maximum impact in High profile games. Currently he does not have the fitness nor the pace to play the DM role in tough games. If he plays as DM against good teams, they will mark him out of the game, the opposition will allow players like Cahill and Ivan who are not very comfortable or imaginative on the ball and eventually they will thump the ball forward and we will lose possession. Its best to get a deep lying playmaker to run the play when the front 4 are marked tightly.

Desmond again essentially takes the words out of my mouth..Luiz looked good playing in the central mid field yesterday but he looked and played more like a CM rather than a CDM and lets not forget the quality of opposition against who he has played the two times this has been done. Before we start speaking of him as the replacement for Mikel let us remember this was not City, ManU, Spurs, or even West brom, West ham or Liverpool he was facing..perspective is important. Fellaini is a very different player from what David Luiz brings to our midfield..even if we dont get Fellaini i still feel we need someone in that mold as an aggressive mid field enforcer against top notch opposition. As far as RBs, we certainly dont need any more, we have just signed Wallace and we already have Cesar and Iva with Paolo ferraira another option. For CBs i dont want to see us buying anyone else either; in addition to JT, Luiz, Iva and Cahill we have Bruma out there available to recall. Frankly also at LB i would prefer given Ryan and PVA the chance to marshall that slot if we lose Ashley Cole for at least half a season before deciding if we need to go out and buy another LB.

I think the best way to tell how well he can be gd at DM is when we plays a tougher opposition.but so far so good he has done well.merry xmas to you all

@KenCFC...He is not a pivot player,but has the natural ability to play as an ACM pretty well.

@desmond,you talk of big teams,this was the same villa team that won liverpool,some of you talk about speed,mikel and luiz,who is faster,you also talk about strength,luiz and carrick or lucas who is stronger?Mehn!!!You guys just argue because you want to...we won the Ucl with mikel as our DM and some of you are saying he is better than mikel and yet mikel played DM for us in the UCL final....Remember mikel was an attacking midfielder before he came to chelsea,then why can't luiz be our perfect midfieldere....Desmond and his likes should just chill!!!!

I think David Luiz started football as a midfielder. He played dm for Vitoria but reports say he wasn't really good there so he was converted to a cb where he did better. David has dm experience and isn't a novice at the position. He is naturally a very versatile player but as any keen watcher would have noticed, he is prone to mistakes just as he is at cb. Thus, its the coaches responsibility to know which team to play him against. About getting Fellaini, he is a versatile player but does he possess the passing skills that would bring the kind of transition we are crying out for. The problem of our pivot is transition. Steel without transition will still make us look weak as our band of 3 will be starved of the ball or our 9 will be starved. We should get a mid who will both bring steel and transition but won't set the club back in such a way as not to comply with ffp. I asked around and someone said Capoue fits the bill. I don't know much about him tho'.

Hazard 11, I don't have ur time, just drop ur opinion and free me, what's with u people picking agressively on me? I just said luiz should not be branded as a hotshot midfielder without proving himself in a high profile game, so where is the rubbish u are talking about in ur comment?

We need regista!!!

@GabeU ah yes, I second that as well!

@Lamarochs..I think we sill absolutely mad not to integrate at least those two (KDB and Josh) as well as maybe Bruma (depending on need, he may be loaned out to an EPL team) next season....if we integrate those two, it will show that we are moving in the right direction and the other youngsters can have some confidence they can play here if work hard enough...