The Skipper

This makes no sense whatsoever IMO. I love Pogba and think he's a brilliant player but he isn't necessary at all right now.

I too said I would love Balotelli from the get go but the guy is an absolute nutcase. He's calmed down but I'm not sure he can be relied on for the majority of the season.

Yeah, I just edited my post to link you to it but it does seem weird that Jose and Marca have some sort of dialogue going on but surely they wouldn't post made up quotes - if he didn't say them they would be in a lot of trouble.

Strange. It was definitely there this morning...Edit: Here it is on their website again, seems like they've created a separate article for it: http://www.marca.com/2014/06/15/en/football/international_football/1402830156.html

Van Gaal is practically Mourinho's (and Pep's) father so yes, it should be. It's going to be a great tactical match up; if LVG manages to get in the right signings, United will be a huge threat next year.

I honestly laugh at all of these opposition fans that say Cesc isn't a 'Mourinho signing' (as if Mourinho doesn't like his technical players at all... ) or that he's a 'Roman buy' (here is where they try to pretend that Mou and Roman still have massive issues on transfers and stuff whilst completely ignore the fact that he allowed the Mata and Luiz transfers to happen so Jose can build the team in his own image ). Mou must be laughing too, all these buffoons that think he's only capable of defensive, conservative football will encounter a huge surprise next season. I've always felt that we needed a CM that can pull the strings from deep, delighted Jose agrees with that. They really won't see it coming next season. I can seriously imagine us scoring a lot of goals and playing attacking football the Mourinho way, occasionally dismantling opposition by a hatful of goals just like he did at Madrid in his second season there, and shutting these fools up; whilst we laugh our way to the PL title. Hopefully this imagination becomes a reality.

http://www.marca.com/2014/06/15/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1402790674.html And the translated version: http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/6/15/5811016/jose-mourinho-ramires-diego-costa-thibaut-courtois-marca

According to MARCA, Mou would possibly like Varane included in any possible Ramires deal (but he doesn't want to sell Ramires): Edit: Mourinho has basically ruled out any sort of move in an interview with MARCA anyway...:

Arsenal fans:

Mourinho on Cesc: So, contrary to the popular belief on here, what I can gather from this is that Mourinho has always been after a playmaker from deep. If it wasn't Cesc, it would've maybe been Rakitic or Kroos.

Do you smoke weed? If so, what's your favourite strain?

If we sell Lukaku, which I'm hoping we won't, he'd be a great option for that 2nd choice striker spot, alongside someone like Remy.

Yeah that's fair enough, plenty of better LBs out there and again I'm not saying we should get him over Luis or anything - the main thing I was trying to get across is that he isn't a liability defensively. PVA is better at going forward than he is, whilst he is defensively a lot better than Patrick. Merely stated that he would be a good signing IMO because he's a very versatile, great utility player - especially if we got shot of more midfielders. Wouldn't buy him as a starting LB though.

Ah. Ik dachten niet dat jij Nederlands was... but yes, he started at LB and was moved to the CDM position but he wasn't moved because he was too slow... That's what I'm trying to get at to you. I watched about 20 Ajax (also support Ajax in Holland) games this year and about 15 Vitesse and Feyenoord games so yeah, I do watch the Eredivisie quite regularly.

Bushman's banned? #endofanera

No he isn't "too slow" and that isn't the reason he plays CDM for Ajax. Stop making up stuff when you clearly don't know too well about it.His crossing ability aren't consistently that amazing either but he does have a decent foot on him to make those every now and then.

I wouldn't add Luiz to that list at all, considering he is regularly Brazil's best defender whenever he does play for them. He justifiably keeps players like Miranda and Dante out. You can't say the same about Hulk.

Rather keep Mikel tbh. I'm happy with Fabregas, Matic, Ramires, MVG & Mikel. Mikel is a lot better defensively than Song so he gives us a pretty different option compared to the rest of our midfielders. If we had 10/20 mins left in a game and we needed to bring on a midfielder to solidify and shut down the game I'd go for Mikel rather than Song.

What are you on about? Blind is not a liability at left back. FDB did not change him into a CDM because he was being poor at LB... He's actually been very good there for some time now. Because he's a versatile, well rounded player, FDB decided to make him the lynchpin of his Ajax side at CDM... He still played at left back more than a handful of times last season.Blind a liability at LB... . I'm not advocating that we should sign Blind over Luis but come on, you don't have to make stuff up.

Only way it'll make sense to me is if Mikel is off... But then again, I think Mikel could still do a very decent job for us in specific situations... Tiago isn't really needed right now but who knows who we're selling?

Really hope he stays, could be massive for us next year.

I too prefer Ramires over Khedira. Would be a rubbish swap on our end.

I wouldn't say it was a massive mistake either...

Did people even watch the game? I know he made a mistake but he was very solid throughout after and was clearly Brazil's best defender after FT...

Just making sure pal...