johnnythefirst

Has Rooney even played one match up front this season? Haven't seen a lot of games... Seems like such a waste.

Thank you all for reacting to that subway clip. Why do some knuckle-dragging morons keep using football to push their medieval ideas? It's a game ffs, and it's 2015. You should be able to bring your family to any stadium in the modern world without having to fear they'll have to deal with this shit.

The difference is of course that Courtois knows he's good enough to always become first choice eventually if he keeps working. He has no need to worry at all.

My apologies ;-) But I didn't keep pushing, I just asked you to back up a statement.

Tell me why he is better then? I also mentioned two Bruges players btw. I wanted to mention Standard and Genk players as well but it seems they've sold all their good ones. ;-)

You are talking about VDB when he was younger. He has worked very, VERY hard to return to the level he is now. He started playing at Anderlecht for no fee at all until he proved himself again and they gave him a real contract. You don't get to play in the national team if you don't make an effort these days. And it was not the fact that he thinks Meunier is better than VDB that was ridiculous, but that he said he was BY FAR the best player in the league. So he's better than: Ryan, Vasquez, Thielemans, Praet, Defour, Suarez, Mbemba, etc, etc...? How? Why? My clearest memory of VDB is an qualifier against Spain in 2008 - our darkest year as a national team - where he was the best man on the pitch by far and there were literally no Spanish attacks coming from his side. He was downright impressive. We lost though, but by only one goal.

Apparently Wilmots does.

He's not going to be 40 years old in 2016.

Yeah, that one actually made me laugh out loud. Let him first prove that he's better than Antony VDB - which he's absolutely not if I'm concerned - and then we can talk about being better than players in other positions. This could have only come from a Bruges fan. First in the league for the first time in 10 years and they think they're playing 11 Messis. ;-)

Kind of sad for him though...

Ok, but he's still being productive, for a full month now. At least there's some improvement.

Surely he must be well on his way to win the player of the year award in Germany?

Twice

Holy shit, Real's record against Atletico this season is getting very sad... Torres not playing though.

Just hit the bar as well...

Apparently he earned his first assist after 3 minutes of game time...

Hmm, not starting again.

His stats are beginning to look pretty impressive: 6 goals and 11 assists in the BL, 9 and 14 in all competitions.

Haha, first week at Sampdoria: Mihajlovic calls a double training session after the 5-1 loss to Torino this week and Eto'o just walks out after the first session. "I'm too old for this shit".

Barca and Real just have this magical attraction to players. It's the stadiums, the history, the players who came before. Nearly all of the absolute greatest played there once. Their actual quality right now doesn't even matter for them. Back in the 90s I'd say Milan and Juve almost got the same level of respect, and yet even Juve lost Zidane to Madrid. This said, I think he'll just sign a new contract eventually.

Looking forward at seeing him play CL with Schurrle next year.

I don't think he's leaving.

*Courtois

There's nothing wrong with his work rate (since it was mentioned again above). He's consistently one of the players who covers the most distance during a match. Most of the time he tops the list (in the NT, don't know about his German stats).

The fact that he played the game of his life on the day they were honoring his dead team mate makes it even more beautiful. Actually kind of hard to watch without tearing up.