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He can play anywhere behind the striker in 4-2-3-1 formation. In Shakhtar he mostly played on the left side. But I believe, in modern football there isn't such term as fixed position during the match, because during match players rotate and that's the best way to confuse opponent. Of course, when we see a squad we get a picture where someone will be mostly playing during the match, but as I said, players rotate. Willian is a poor finisher, but he really doesn't shoot that much. He isn't your classical winger that runs to the very end of the pitch and then crosses the ball into the box. I'd say he cuts in and then makes a key pass. He had most key passes in the Russian league last season and he assisted 3 of 4 Anzhi goals this seasons. His dribbling abillity is one of the best. I don't overreact, in terms of driblling he is on the same level as Hazard, if not better. In my opinion Jose, will play him in the middle, trying to transform Oscar to pivot player. RW/RAM: Mata, De Bruyne LW/LAM: Hazard, Schurrle CAM: Willian, (Oscar) Imagine Hazard, Willian & Mata all changing their positions behind the striker, causing a diarrhea in pants of the defenders. I undestand where you are coming from, but you really can't have too much qaulity. It's only better for our club to see that we have players on the bench that could play in other teams as the first choice. I also think we should buy CB/CDM, but as I said, if we buy quality player it can't do us wrong, even if it isn't our main priority.

Discussion turned into some kind of ego war, not cool.

I didn't read any post in this thread, but I believe that there are few members, who are questioning this transfer or are in doubts shall I say. First of all, I've been watching Shakhtar a lot, and Anzhi not so much, but still watched more than half of their matches. I will say shortly. This guy is game-changer. Some of you may laugh at me, but he is that kind of player, who can make a deadly through ball or make an opportunity from nothing. He's not the youngest player, but that's even better, because he will reach his peak soon. He played in Ukrainian and Russian league, nothing special. But if we look that he played under Lucescu (who is a genius tactician) and Hiddink who developed him even more, we can see that he is not just some random Brazilian playing in Russia. He didn't play for Brazil a lot, yes, because it's harder to scout players who play in a smaller league. Hulk for example, was known way before he joined Zenit, so scouts just kept watching him while playing in Russia. Fernandinho has the same story as Willian. Don't be surprised as they will be picked more and more often for national team. Mourinho will make him even better, by boosting his defending skills and improving his workrate. This guy will shine.

Come on mate, no need to insult.

In my opinion, two years ago there were more quality posts related football. You could sit here for few hours just reading all those analysis & disscussions. Some members have left due to private lifes, and that's fine. Members come and go, as everything in life. New members had joined, some more likeable, some less. I don't want to say that right now, the quality of the posts is bad or the members are lacking knowledge or quality comparing to the older ones. I want to say, that you have to take into the count the development of the internet and internet culture. It was only the question of time when people will start posting gifs. As few years ago posting pictures was the thing, few years later we could post youtube videos on here, right now it's the same thing with gifs. Who knows what will be in the future? In my opinion, the problem is The Pub. Not because I'm some bad policeman and try to be partybraker. As you remember some time ago there was this member 'cap'. He was funny guy and smart person. But I think his problem was that he wanted to become popular here more than anyone. Once I logged in to the forum and every post in every thread was last posted by him. He wanted to get his post count up, his rep up, get those MOTM's and so on. And I don't say that everyone, not even close, but few people who want to get their post up and become popular just write random shit in The Pub and are winning their popularity contest. There are still a lot of awesome members on here, with great quality posts, that give you another perspective. The only problem is you need to list through some pages to find those posts. And those members don't usually win awards. It's all about popularity contest. In all fairness, you will remember a member who posts more (because you see his profile pic more, his name more) than a memeber who posts less, but quality. You can't prove me the opposite, it's psychology thing. We find people who we speak a lot, more likeable and hence more sociable people become popular (otherwise nerds in school would be popular). But because everything is so nice in our life, those members who post less, but quality, usually don't care about popularity awards.

Frank Lampard still England's key player - Zinedine Zidane http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24015957

From his instagram profile. 'This how it will look from the back :-) #EFC'

Ah, those days when I used to be a moderator on this forum... Nostalgie!

Captain, leader, legend. :cfc:

Reported wages at the club: Petr Cech, £100,000 Mark Schwarzer, £20,000 Jamal Blackman, £5,000 Henrique Hilario, £12,000 John Terry, £175,000 David Luiz, £75,000 Branislav Ivanovic, £65,000 Gary Cahill, £80,000 Ashley Cole, £120,000 Ryan Bertrand, £40,000 Cesar Azpilicueta, £30,000 Frank Lampard, £125,000 Ramires, £55,000 Michael Essien, £70,000 John Obi Mikel, £75,000 Marco Van Ginkel, £35,000 Eden Hazard, £185,000 Willian, £85,000 Juan Mata, £67,000 Oscar, £40,000 Kevin de Bruyne, £30,000 Andre Schurrle, £78,000 Fernando Torres, £175,000 Samuel Eto'o, £135,000 Demba Ba, £80,000 Some other selected young & Loaned players' weekly wages: Thibault Courtois, £33,000 Victor Moses, £30,000 Romelu Lukaku, £40,000 Marko Marin, £35,000 Oriol Romeu, £33,000 Josh McEachran, £30,000 Wallace, £20,000 Christian Atsu, £12,000 Lucas Piazon, £15,000 Nathaniel Chalobah, £30,000 Tomas Kalas, £15,000 Gael Kakuta, £25,000 Patrick van Aanholt, £15,000 Kenneth Omeru, £10,000 Cristian Cuevas, £8,000 Nathan Ake, £20,000

This thread is absolute gold.

Welcome lad, I guess he will be loaned to Vitesse now and if he will be any good he will play in our first team in couple of years, if not he will be sold for a small profit. Win, win situation if you ask me.

Big words from Drog.

Big words from Drog.

I'm so fucking proud of this team, that's all I have to say.

What this means?

#99?

You sure?

Can't be two Italian teams in one group...

Hardest: Chelsea - Juventus - Borrusia Dortmund - Anderlecht Easiest: Chelsea - Marseille - Olympiacos - Austria Wien

He also said this later. Eto'o: "I have played under a lot of great coaches but there is no other character in the game like Jose. There is only one Jose Mourinho."