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Rio ain't done anything all season when he's played. He's not even been half of what he was 2 or 3 years back.

Sneaky with £20 left over. Having fun now

i watched Man City beat Porto 4-0 but Hulk was very good in the game despite the scoreline. The score was harsh anyway, i was impressed with him, he did show good ability with his power (well he is Brazilian) so it's not only power, more power yeah but can take players on and beat them with skill too. He's the perfect wide man, perfect. The Portuguese league isn't a European powerhouse but the players are good technically, they aint a bunch of retards. We struggled with Benfica, City were knocked out by Sporting. Any premier league / 1st division around Europe is at a decent level. The only way we'll know if he's good enough is if we bring him here. I am 100% sure he'll be great here, he's perfect for the physicality of the Premier League. Some of his goals are unbelievable too like the one in Benfica not long ago. Nobody is stopping that. I would love him here. I couldn't even imagine or draw or describe a better suited winger for our league than him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04jDDYylQ2s Portuguese teams have great European tradition. Porto and Benfica have won it, not sure about sporting but i'm sure they have been in finals unless u mean recently. Benfica were good against us this season and had a good run in 2006, Porto won it in 2004.

Wow, how did a vid like that get out? "Why did Allardyce get sacked?" Kean: "Because he's a fucking crook" Wow... Glad those cunts have gone down now, Kean seems like a right smug cunt who thinks he knows all.

I think Hulk is different to most of them players tho. Hulk is powerful, he may not dribble round 6 players but he'll run through them. Arsenal's Chamberlain is much in the same mould, big, quick, direct, powerful. Arsenal have a gem in Chamberlain but Hulk is the advanced version and still young to be here a while if he comes. You can't compare Hulk to Mata, Ozil or Robben. his style is so different. He's more Ronaldo like, doesn't score as many because Ronaldo & Messi both score stupid amounts but he's in the same mould.

Middleoftheshed knows more than most about kits so if he posts a kit, believe it to be right. He has his info.

Will go with youth, experience and form. I can see a back 4 of Richards - Lescott - Cahill - Cole 2 City lads next to each other and the 2 Chelsea boys. Both hopefully buzzing from major trophies. I hope he takes JT because i'd like to see 3 Chelsea boys at the back, especially as we've been pretty good at the back recently and there is a great understanding between JT, Gaz and Ash. You'd have to pick em together if you have any real sense. I just feel that he wont pick JT.

Club is always before country in my book and always will be. that doesn't mean i wouldn't be happy to see us win something internationally but i hate half the England squad, i feel a tad hypocritical cheering for certain players like Gerrard, Rooney, Rio etc. One love.

The French league is more competitive than the Portuguese league by a long shot. There is still a big step up from Ligue 1 to the prem tho. Wasn't Gervinho top scorer in Ligue 1 last season? shocking.

Voted for Alex because he does so much here, posts so often and posts properly without spamming or writing nonsense (most of the time) and spends a lot of time and effort here. I voted for Steve for staff (for a change) so only fair to vote Alex here.

And he's Brazilian, can interact with lots of our players. He'll love it here. There's not one bad thing about this move.

Sam was just a cock with the most crazy arguments. Voted for him but i don't want him to feel proud with winning an award like this.

Voted CarefreeChronic originally so i'll stick to my choice. Was always putting interesting stuff here, i'm sure he'll be back with another one some time.

'Attacking' Xavi and Iniesta aren't better in that sense either. In fact i don't even think Silva is either. I would rate Hulk very highly in the 'attackers' sense and as a RM/RW i'd rate him in the top 4 or 5. He is class.

He's big, quick, strong, intimidating, scores goals.... he's like the perfect player for us. I soooo hope this can get done. We might be 6th and Europa League bound but we are in a UCL final and we have made such an impact since 2003 that we can still sign the worlds best. And we still have an owner with a nice few quid to pay nice wages. Hulk or ... Givanildo is a BEAST! If we do end up in the Europa, we'll need to try n get Falcao too, he's the UEL Master.

Looks awful from the pic, especially with the white logo, badge & sponsor. Hope it looks better somewhere else.

Anyone been watching SSN this morning? Apparently the Ukrainians are all planning to kick our heads in. There's a special report at 7:30 tonight. They said that they see English, Polish and Russians as the toughest hooligans and they want to compete against the best and if anyone is in Donetsk (where we play 2 of our games) with England flags, shirts or anything else England related, they will remove it with force as it's their territory. They still think we are what we are from the 70's n 80's... fucking idiots. http://www.skysports...7742757,00.html Thank fuck i'm staying at home.

Anyone see the Arsenal goals? The WBA keeper Fulop, standing in for Foster gave them every single one, sickening. If Foster had played, Arsenal would've came 4th and we coula fucked em over next weekend. Horrified after watching that. It was bad enough knowing they got 3rd but like this? Just bollocks.

Wow... it seems to be actually happening.

YES YES YES YES YES!!!!

If this is fake or incorrect, i will be pretty pissed off. If we're to compete with City, we need players of this calibre and we need to spend big like city are doing. Surely tho if it's true, someone would've made news about it here, no? Seems too good to be true.

Crazy reading here. First of all, well done Man City for helping stop the boring, tedious, long winded success of Man Utd. It's been too fucking long, especially for me who was born the same year Ferguson took over. My whole life has been Man Utd this, Man Utd that, bluh, bluh, bluh...zzzzzz 2012 = Manchester United trophyless. Time for change. We did something similar in 2005 and then we won it again is 2006 and 2010 as well as winning a host of other domestic silverware. Even now, as of today the 13th May 2012 we've won the FA Cup and are in the Champions League final so despite having a pretty miserable league season, the success is still ongoing here and it will carry on. Our owner has money too ya know. We've won a lot of shit in the last decade and are only 90 minutes away from possibly getting the holy grail, the Uefa Champions League and tbh if we win that, i don't give a shit about anything else, especially not Manchester fucking City. It was only a matter of time Manchester City winning the league, and it's happened today in dramatic circumstances. If they fucked up now, he'd spend another £100m and try again so it would come. I must admit even on 91 minutes, i thought they'd win. Something just told me that this is Man City's time somehow. The looks of those Man Utd fans was priceless when the goal went in, they showed it on Sky from the ecstasy to the agony. Look at this Man City team and look how they have struggled tho. They were lucky today and with all the great players they have, they shoulda won the league ages ago. In 2005, we pissed it with like 3 games left or something, was easy. They've been shit for 2 months and i think that there are problems there, i'd not get upset about them winning the league with the shittest competition on goal difference. We shouldn't read into Man City dominating for years and years. We should just wait and see what happens because nobody really knows. If they spend another £100000m then so be-it, what can we do? Fuck all really. We just have to focus on us, hopefully we can buy players that are good enough to take us back to the next level. Look at Man Utd... they don't even have a great CM or a good defence but they stick in there. We need to go back to being hard to beat and i'm sure we will. I reckon we now have the best defence in the league. If we can inherit 1 or 2 world class players on the wing or in midfield, we will compete. We aint far away. 6th looks bad but that's because of the disruption of earlier in the season with AVB but that's over now. Time for us to forget those horrible few months from October - January and move the club forward again. It does not get bigger than the UCL. If we land that, we'll be huge next season. We'll attract the worlds best. The difference between coming 6th and being in the Europa League to winning the Champions League is so big, there isn't a word big enough to describe it. Fuck City, Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs..... We win next Saturday, it's all about Chelsea.

The quality is shit for every stream. Why do ppl but shit slow streams up that stop and freeze every 3 seconds? Pisses me off so much. I'll just watch the city game and see scores pop up.

I'm sorry but if we think we smashed QPR, that's nothing compared to what Man City may do to them here. I can a Chelsea - Wigan moment. It might even be 10, seriously.

I dare not say things like that because it can come back and bite hard. I know a lot about Gomez but at the end of the day he did score the winner against Real Madrid altho it did kinda hit him and go in. He does score against shit, he doesn't score in big games and he is hugely over rated but there is no reason he can't score a couple against us. Paper is different to the real thing.