Peace.

I care because it sends a wrong message. We were already at a top level with Kalou and his £60k-a-week wage, now we have reached a whole new level. For instance, Modirc is on a £40k-a-week wage. Malouda when he was one of our very best player has signed a £80k-a-week wage. Mata who was a proven good player with a lot of potential is on a £60k-a-week wage. I can't understand how an average defender (yes, because defenders are always less paid than forwards, both in wage and transfer fees) could earn 80k per week !What's now when will try to sign a player of the caliber of Mata and offer him a £70k-per-week wage, he will laugh out loud. And I don't need to have the club's books to know that we were trying to reduce our wage bill, and this transfer is against this.

He isn't a risk, he is a danger.

Why does he care ? Just because he cares about the club, and paying an average player this wage is bad for us in several aspects.

I am praying with you my friend.

Yeah, would an average player refuse a £80k-a-week wage...? Smh.

He is Brazilian.

I wouldn't say he is a ghost against Barcelona because he cares more about his hair than anything else, or because he is disillusioned about some off-pitch stuff. In my honest opinion, this is because he can't handle the comparison that all media and all people around the world are making. When he was at United, it was alright because Messi wasn't yet the player he is today and back then they wasn't playing in the same league. Now they are in the same league and we can compare them each and every week (which we do). Furthermore, Messi is now a better player than him and I believe that when he (Ronaldo) is playing against Barça, he takes those games as an opportunity to prove the people he is the best player of them. Thus he is more concentrated in doing so than in doing the stuff he knows to do, and therefore he tries too hard and fails.. To my eyes, he has a Messi-complex.

If he doesn't sign before the end of the week, we should show him the middle finger and tell him to fuck off. We need to concentrate our-selves to bringing a kind of player which we really need. We shouldn't waste more time on this average player.

Can I have a new username ?

Yep, I wasn't denying his defensive abilities. I agree with you, he is also a good defender. The only problem when he isn't with Barça, is that he plays like if he was with them - i.e. he attacks a lot - so he is a bit late to defend. Though people tend to think he is a poor defender because of that, which is untrue.

What risks ? The risk that Lukaku scores more goals than Torres ?

Actually when Ronaldo plays against Barcelona, he looks like an average player. So this is not the best argument lol. Because he shits in his pants, 'cause he is too much focused and troubled by this "Ronaldo Vs Messi" thing.

LMAO. To first off, did I say anywhere that Torres wasn't good at this or at that ? No. Secondly, if you can't recognize that Cristiano Ronaldo was - and stil is - a fantastic dribbler, then the one who have serious problem is you. Finally, if I brought up the fact that Torres couldn't score a goal for his life these days, that is because you said that Ronaldo can't beat a man these days. It was to show you how irrevelant was your argument that Ronaldo wasn't a good dribbler between 2007 and 2009 because he can't beat a man nowadays. PS : I don't even like Ronaldo.

It will be very hard for them because the reserve league isn't competitive at all. In my honest opinion, the problem doesn't lie only below the first team, but also in the first team. Against the Wolves, we had a bench full of youth, though there's only McEachran who has been given ten miserable minutes of playing time. Against Portsmouth, no one of our youngsters did manage to start the game, and don't tell me this isn't because they aren't competitive, because Bertrand has at least 150 professional games under his belt, and Lukaku played 98 games in Belgium and scoring 41 goals, he has also already played in UCL (even scored against Ajax) and he is already playing for his National Team. So if he (André) isn't able to play young players who have already played a lots of professional games, I don't know how he could possibly play kids who are rotting in a non-competitive league that the reserve is...

So youngsters need to make world-class performances to hope training with the first team ?

We're in 2012, not in 2007/09... Oh, and by the way, these day Torres can't even score a fucking tap-in.

On Sergi Roberto : In the first half, Barça was mainly playing on the left side, so we didn't see too much of him. Though, that's certain he has a good passing and dribbling ability. He has lost the ball which led to Osasuna's goal, although to his defence, he inherited the ball in a difficult situation and was under big pressure. The second half has shown he is also able to score (link to his goal). So, if our interest in him is genuine, it could be a good sign (even if there's a "Fabregas-esque" risk).

Sergi Roberto has scored to make it 2-1.

Source ? €40m = £33,5m I dare hope we don't give him this time to prove himself...

*cough*Ronaldo*cough*

http://www.firstrow....-barcelona.html Sergi Roberto is playing at the moment in the Copa del Rey. If you want to watch this potential signing.. PS : he wears the n°30 and play on the right of the midfield.

Barça need neither Hazard nor Neymar, they need a defender lol.

I am not really sure. Because if Busquests isn't moved to defence, and if Xavi, Fabregas and Iniesta are fit, it will probably be Iniesta on the wing.

Why ? Because I've only noticed that Ferreira was still one of our players last month, when he played against Tottenham. Before that he was nowhere to be seen. So, if we have to have a player sitting on the bench to have an apparition every 36th of the month, I would choose hands down a young english player who came through our rank and who probably wouldn't be on a wage higer than £40k-a-week, than an old foreigner earning 60k pound a week, with no sale revalue.

1) Did anyone said Mancienne over our starting RB ? No. Though I said I'd rather him over the 33 years-old portuguese translator who's on a £60k-per-week. 2) I expect them to wonder why our loans never work, and to change our politic about them.