The Skipper

Lukaku + £25m for Pogba anyone?

Torres' wage (for his role) is even worse.

That's the thing though... I'm pretty sure A LOT on here would love for him to just stay here and be second choice. The real question is - does he?

Honestly it's not even that... I just find it very interesting how he's managed to connect and compare the Cech/Courtois situation to Neo's at The Matrix...

Ultimately, the final decision is down to the club. Can't ever see the club allowing Romeu to take the number 8 shirt... Especially so soon after Lamps has left. Don't think Oriol would want that number to begin with anyway.

The player doesn't have the final decision in regards to what number they're going to wear...

That's so childish...

Apparently the Ba fee was only £4.7m.

Maybe, just looking to see if I can shift a few things to make myself available for this one. Will probably be in at MHL.

What are you smoking?

That's what I'm saying though - I would say his main function is to provide defensive cover and to assist Hazard in going forward. Not just defensive cover.

This transfer to Real stinks of "Barcelona have bought Suarez? Better make a marquee signing ourselves."

He's far more likely to be Matic's understudy.

Not necessarily. Sure, against the bigger teams who are more threatening on the attack, Filipe Luis won't venture forward as much, but against teams that sit deep against us, he'll definitely be providing Hazard with options going forward. That's the beauty of a "dual threat" fullback if you will. He wasn't just bought for his main function to just be providing sufficient cover for Hazard. If we want to get the best out of Hazard we need to open up spaces for him and have willing runners that will overlap/make intelligent runs for him, and not just leave him isolated to face 2/3 players on his own. Luis will definitely help in that regards too.

More Boga please.

Since when is Filipe Luis not good at going forward? Sure, he isn't as cavalier as let's say Marcelo (not a lot are tbh) but he's still very good at going forward, overlapping his winger and putting in a good cross. He's the complete fullback. Good at attacking, good at defending.

Come on, you're being way too harsh. How is he meant to remain determined when his loan spell was a disaster? He wasn't being unprofessional either, he hasn't said a bad word about Forest at all. If this is a 'terrible' attitude then there are many players that are a lot older than him that have even worse attitude.

It's not the tactic, it's the players that you've put in there that's suicide.

AKA suicide.

Wouldn't say that's 'terrible' attitude though, of course he'd be disillusioned with his loan spell and not bothered because he wasn't truly given the role he was promised at the start. He probably just couldn't wait to leave Forest. Not sure you can call that terrible attitude.

Have I missed something? How was Nat's attitude at Forest terrible?

Mikel is definitely off IMO. Mou has plans for him. Don't forget, if needed he *can* play CB also.

I'll gladly take Isco or Di Maria off them, gladly.

Tiago is much better than the current FL.