Duppy Conqueror

My guess,they are shopping him out for a loan but if nothing better comes up they'll use Vitesse as a fall back option,sometime closer to the window closing.

Jose is a smart guy.he didn't fall into the trap of getting into mind games with fergie,like Dalglish,Keegan,Wenger,Benitez..he knew it was best to share a bottle of wine with him,wine and dine and in the most part took the wins instead. He knows he can get into moyes' head and already it's begun. Good thing is that we are playing this within the rules. Rooney told Man U he wanted to leave before we showed our interest in him. At this point it looks like man u have found themselves in a situation they can't win...sell one of their best players to a rival or keep someone who wants to leave their club for a second time and someone who fell out with their new boss in the past and may have again already.

I want to play some of you guys at poker.

Switch the 2-3 midfield to a 3-2. Oscar playing in the 3 but with the freedom to float between the two and therefore switching the formation depending on the in game situation. That's how you can play Mata,Hazard and Oscar in the same line up.

As he'll probably start most games on the bench it won't hurt to let him have full 90 minutes now. Plus the majority of our midfielders have had less rest post season..

He has a decent shot and a sound header of the ball off corner,free kicks..but generally plays deeper.we have enough attack minded midfielders tho so doesn't really matter.like already said he has a good long pass too.

4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 are not the only formations in football nor the only ones we could play..there's 4-1-3-1-1,4-2-2-1-1 etc...too.. but again why get hung up on formations when our players can roam and be more fluid than any rigid old formation.nobody has to be put in an invisible cage on the field where they must stay in only their designated area.

Crespo scored 38 goals for us in two seasons.he never went months without scoring.he was never given game after game to try and break his bad spell.he produced when he was with us. The reasons why he left are not to be confused with excuses for another player I never made nor brought into the conversation. Crespo`s form was simply not the reason he left.his struggles adjusting to English life were.

He simply failed to settle.his goals per game ratio was something like a goal every two games. Crespo is a very private person who likes the simple things in life. He listed his favourite things to do outside of football as jigsaw puzzles.to emphasize the kind of character he was...London life and the media was just too much for him. Probably the classiest Argentine to have played in the English premier league and the way we helped him to be happy again was pretty classy too.

De Rossi,Oscar and Ramires I think in a 3 would compliment each other best.that doesn't mean Mata has to play on the wing.there's many different formations possible.

Costanza!!!

I'm having a party if we sign him...the missing part to our midfield machine.

some of those games are gonna be harder work than away days in Europe. I hate going to Sunderland at the best of times..it's basically Rotterdam on a bad day,everyday.without the weed and sauce.the worst city to ever have a team in the top flight along with Bradford imo..only bright spot,we don't have to go to Roker park anymore.

He'll leave Southampton in 2 years at the latest. I'm fine with him staying for now.I would have wanted a buy and loan back for a year or two..we will just have to pay more in two years time now.

So basically he's got commitment issues after he was wronged by his ex-lovers. that could lead to smoking bongs,livng on takeaway food and walking the dog in dressing gown and slippers ..or so I've heard....

I hope he can time his tackles better than Scholes. the rest of his game and his professionalism was world class tho.

I used to wear artic camouflaged trousers to Chelsea away games up north in the late 80's. Then in the early 90's East 17 wore them on a video to one of their songs and for a while they took off.

Oscar is a tempo setter in midfield.he imo has arguably the best football IQ in our squad.I would just put him in the team and give him a free role to go where he wants as 1) he reads the game so superbly and 2) he can be trusted to do what is best for the team and not just his own personal goals.

Well he can play the same positions yes. I think he'll be the back up RB for this season tho.

Maybe he will be loaned out but think it's premature to think that just because he hasn't mentioned him.

We have some good young talent at CB already in Kalas,Omerou,Chalobah etc..so another one is not a priority tho they can play other positions too so if the price is right and they bought him I wouldn't complain. Meanwhile on the De Rossi thread.....

Let's hope it turns out better than the last time... Bosnich did play pretty good,on the field at least..

probably our oldest ever signing. not a bad deal for us and him.

Agreed.

I'm really not concerned about man ure at this point. I Don't rate United's squad outside upfront and in goal.I think fergie got the absolute most anyone could get out of them and even then they won because of man city and US under performing. Whilst moyes is a decent manager I think he'll have to upgrade the squad a lot to challenge us this season.strootman going to Roma would still be better for us than going to man ure tho I agree. really hope we can get DDR.