Waterfall

Whoscored grossly overrates Bundesliga players. I think Carvajal was in the top 20 last season, but he's not even in the top 200 now. No point comparing across leagues if the stats aren't adjusted. Does anyone actually believe 11 of top 20 players in the world play in Bundesliga? Rodriguez, Firmino, Raffael, Kruse, Adrian Ramos, Farfan, and Kiesling? Give me a break

Would be very surprised if the United deal isn't already done.

This forum has an unhealthy obsession with deep lying playmakers. It's like no midfielder is good enough unless they can pass like Scholes/Pirlo

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/roma-makes-inquiry-for-wolfsburgs-rodriguez/ Wolfsburg values him at 18-20M

Not fair to judge him on one game in which he wasn't even close to being 100%

yeah. People act like his knees blew up. He just needs some rest that he never got.

He's got a buy-out clause. We might face more competition for his signature and be forced to offer him more wages, but his transfer fee will be the same

Yes, but the opposite seems to be true for rest of the football world. Everyone's praising Simeone for his passion, but if Jose did that, he would have been crucified.

Benzema hides. Costa never does.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/23/chelsea-raphael-varane-david-luiz Would be absolutely incredible

Exceptional talent.

It's not Torres' hamstring that killed his career. He had no problem scoring even when he had the series of hamstring injuries. His damaged knee on the other hand did. It didn't help that pace was one of very few world class qualities he had (just like Kaka). Costa's tough and works extremely hard, but he's not as dependent on his pace.

Make sense that we won't be making a 35M investment on a position we have good depth in. Makes his comment even weirder

Bild is usually shit, but they are pretty good with Bayern-related reports

His knee has been more than fine, and it's not an injury players can't come back from anymore.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't crying because the hamstring hurt. The injury took him out of the title decider and next week's CL Final.

He may not have the ceiling of others, but he's so damn consistent. I have no doubt he will get playing time wherever he goes. If he stays with the first team, that wouldn't be so bad either

If you cared to read, I didn't say it WILL create problems, I said it CAN. You are naive if you think make-up of the team is not a potential problem.

Not as simple as that. Having too many players from one country CAN affect the locker room for better or worse.

There are so many strikers ahead of Torres in the pecking order, it's not even a rivalry at the moment.

Not only that, it's being reported that Costa's told his teammates he's leaving. So the leak might not even be from our end.

FFP doesn't even matter to them because 1) they make a lot of money 2) they aren't going to play in Europe anyway

He's already a top LB.

We can have the three of them.

An average footballer would have scored at least one from the chances he's had. He's through on goal, and he decides to wait for the defender and attempt a pathetic dive. LOL