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He's much more polished than Zouma is currently. Much better on the ball both in possession and passing.Don't understand why you're so opposed to this signing, especially worrying so much about the money. When you see City spending £50m on a player and bidding £50m for another, who gives a shit about transfer fees anymore? FFP obviously means fuck all. Signing a CB doesn't mean we can't also sign a midfielder. If José WANTS Stones then he clearly thinks we DO need him.

Why not have both? Why can't we have a system that just so happens to have 2 top class CB's?I'd have Stones over any of our CB's other than Terry at this moment in time and think a Terry/Stones partnership would be unbelievable. A Cahill/Stones partnership would be fantastic as well when JT needs a rest.

Strikers and midfielders are a dime a dozen. A top class CB (who also happens to be only 21, English, and homegrown) is exceptionally rare.

Can only see him getting even better with world class superstars around him at City. That's the last place I want him going.

Hopefully he waits for another season and a proper big club like Bayern come in for him.

https://twitter.com/HLNinEngeland/status/632544435801161728 So FFP is officially done, then? Absolutely fucking ridiculous! How can they possibly spend this much?

Sunderland are truly diabolical. Hope this is the year they finally go down.

Yep. Was just as good last week too but just made that one mistake that led to the goal.He's so fucking good already at 21. Looks like he's barely exerting himself and makes it look easy and effortless. Just an elegant, modern defender who's super comfortable on the ball. No way can we afford to let him go to a rival. We MUST buy him. He'll be the best CB in the league within the next 2 years. Stop fucking around with low ball bids and get him.

Wonder what happens if a big club like Arsenal or United come in with a bid this window. Him and his massive ego and ambition surely wouldn't say no? After seeing Rooney stink it up in their first two matches I wouldn't be surprised if they went for him.

Two nice finishes, very poor defending.

Hopefully this is his last game for Everton.

Of course it's US that has to choose the one young English player who's happy enough to stay at his current club.

Let us hope that one last bid will be enough for him to ask to leave.

Unless something crazy happens like a bunch of our best players get injured for long periods then them finishing above us would be pretty embarrassing. We're stronger than they are in just about every area.

They obviously won't care because they got all 6 points, but United have been FAR from impressive. They were outplayed for the most part by Spuds and only an early OG saw them through and they didn't exactly beat Villa convincingly either. Villa had absolutely no quality up front to trouble them. Few things that United would have been punished for against better opposition too. Would make it pretty concerning if we remain 5 points behind them after the weekend before they've even clicked as a team.

United have looked totally blunt in attack for a game and a half now. Memphis has done fuck all either. He looks pretty lazy to be honest. Of course, now that I've said that they'll probably score 3 or 4.

Let's see if Tactics Tim will be able to steal a point from United. Doubt it.

They know now that money won't be an issue for them with the TV deal kicking in next season. They no longer need to sell in order to balance their books.

Think it'll be: ---------------------Costa----------------------- Hazard----------------------------------Willian -------------------Fabregas--------------------- ----------Matić--------------Zouma------------ Azpi---------Terry--------Cahill---------Ivanovic --------------------Begović----------------------

I love José obviously, but this to me sounds like the excuse he'll use when he picks Zouma in midfield and leaves Oscar on the bench. He won't want to come out and say straight up that he prefers Zouma for this match because the media will go mad and call him negative and defensive.

His point about the window being open for a few more weeks eased my mind slightly. Baba should be announced today according to the German media. Hopefully one or two more before the window closes.As far as the PR goes, I couldn't really care less to be honest. Like he said, if people think this situation has an effect on the players then they're clueless. That's all that matters.

Wow. One question related to the match.

Oh, man would it be amazing if José just comes out and squashes the whole thing and says all is well between he and the medical staff. Those poor journalists will actually have to do their jobs and report about the football.

José will be delighted. He's always wearing a massive Hublot in every public appearance. Free swag for him.

I'll put my fist through my iPad screen if that happens.