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That therefore is not evidence which can be used on either side of the argument. You may believe that other managers, If choosing from the same squad, would have preferred Luis but you can't know it. All of the actual evidence, even the Mikel/Matic situation, points the same way on this one.

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Stop with this crap. Jose played the players he felt were the best. He won the league. After he lost the players, and lost his job, Guus made the same choices The Special One had done. So far Antonio has also made those same choices. How many clues do you need? You go right on living in your fantasy world, believing that you know better than these three great managers, and I will go on recognising crap when I read it.

I hope this isn't true. The fella looks so completely ordinary.

Hello Skip, Hope you are well. A piece of homework for you please if you don't mind. Before the season began I offered the opinion that, given a fair chance, Michy would make himself the first choice striker. That idea didn't get a lot of support so, okay, let's say Diego starts up top. I would still want to see Michy playing because I think he is simply too good to waste on the bench. If James signs, how can I get to see Diego, Michy, James and Eden in the same starting lineup? Is there a shape that can make that work? Is there even a shape that could make it work with the other three if Michy is benched, given that 4231 is not among Antonio's favoured options?

Ah. Missed that. ?

Surely it would be Juve wouldn't it?

It seems to me that all of your posts drip with selfishness, I want, I want. All you seem to care about is your own gratification, Where is there a hint, any kind of hint, of love for the club? We all support the club in our own way but yours seems very strange to me. As for the part of your post which I have quoted, we are in full agreement there.?

Which one? ?

Me, Droy in disguise? Read my opinions about Mikel. ? Having said that, assuming no further squad changes by the time the window closes, I expect Mikael will work his way back into the lineup. Matic is a problem. A problem made larger by the apparent promises Antonio has made to him. Still promises, or no promises Mikel will see game time. There is no doubt we need to upgrade our defenders but if it is a choice between new defenders and new CMs, I go for new CMs. Better central midfielders will improve our team and our defence. Better defenders will still find themselves exposed and coming under constant pressure because of our front six.of course improving both is the best answer along with new AM thrown in there as well.

Only reason for buying this kid would be if he looked significantly better than the youngsters of similar age we already have at Cobham. To me at least he does not look as if he offers a great deal more than many of them. I have no problem with buying players, no problem with buying young players but they need to offer us a quality that we don't already have. We don't need to buy decent or goodish. We can grow that down in Surrey.

No but I do read it although in fact I haven't done for a while. As you rightly guessed it is DWMH that I was referring to. Is it my imagination or do I also recognise your name from that forum?

This, I'm sad to say, is the truth.

This post has really annoyed me. Not because you see this situation slightly differently to the way I see it, there's nothing wrong with that, and nothing to get remotely angered about, but because once again we read a post where a statement is being made that can't possibly be substantiated. How do you know Conte is not furious? I'm not saying he is furious, I'm not saying that he isn't. I am saying that I don't know, and you don't either. I don't know why stuff like this gets my goat so much, but it really does. Sorry - ?

Not so simple. Given that he had a release clause anyone could have signed him. They didn't - we did. Last summer Everton did not want to sell stones so they didn't. This summer they accepted that they must sell him. Even so, it took until the eve of the season for a deal to be completed. Thinking there is anything simple about this process is an error. In fact it reminds me of the famous quote about quantum physics which we've all heard; if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics.

I know it's desperately unfair when a player performing absolutely uselessly gets dropped. This nonsense with Matic has been going on for 18 months. In fact it is possible that we were all blind to the truth and that it has been going on for much longer. There is a long-standing supporter who was a big fan of Mickey Droy back in the day. He argued all along that Matic was being overrated by all of us. I was one of many who did not, or would not, see his point. What's more, I have no excuse having myself been unimpressed with Matic before he joined first time around, or while he was here during that first spell. Speaking personally, I think I made the mistake of judging Matic on his form, rather than on his actual attributes and abilities. I excused myself for having been 'wrong' initially by saying that Matic was now playing in a different position and so should be judged differently. Well played to that Mickey Droy fan for seeing through the fog and the hype.

Although, like all of us, I originally thought that Roman had bought Torres, it turns out that he did not. Butch Wilkins made it clear three or four years ago that it was Carlo who instigated and pushed that transfer. I had an exchange with someone a short while ago who believes that Wilkins lied about that. I honestly can't see why he would have. That makes no sense to me. In fact that poster made the claim that he wouldn't believe Wilkins about anything. He may have reasons for having said that but I don't know of any.

Well we can't know but, right or wrong, I thought BCS made an interesting argument.

Just because someone told them, perhaps someone well-connected at Chelsea, doesn't make it so. If you're going to engage in a hoax you have to start by making it convincing. :-)

It's the way in which, after five minutes of telling us what a wonderful player Rodriguez is, that lad on the right says, "I think he's left footed. I think I'm right in saying that he's left footed. Isn't he?" Great scoutin dere lar!!!

I worked it out earlier in the week for a reply I did to an earlier post. Taking Italian taxation rates into account, the gross figure came to a little under €89,000 a week.

I can't see that at all Dazzy. If he doesn't join I don't care if you're right or not. If he does then let's hope that you are. :-)

For all I know the club may not be interested in Maksimovic, and may not be pursuing him. On the other hand, for all you know, the club might be interested and might be working hard to close the deal. Why is it that you are so determined to blame the club for not doing something which, for all you know, they are in fact trying to get done ? Do you want the club to conduct all of their transfer business through a series of statements published on their website? If that is too public however, would it be okay if they just phone you and tell you?

Once again he wasn't good I'm afraid. I read someone saying that, although Nemanja hadn't played well in the first two league games, it was early days and we should give him time to see if he recaptures his form. Problem is that, with few exceptions, he has been average or worse for a season and a half now. That's a long time. Too long to just be a question of form.

Definitely that, yes.