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6pm here

Fuck PSG. Luiz stays, play him with someone like Terry or Silva - a solid defender and a leader on the pitch - and you have a very good duo, with Luiz able to bring the ball out and also his long range passing.

Simple pass in Fifa yes, but not in real life. That was nicely done.

So he will leave Madrid because they add another striker to Benz, and join Chelsea who already have 3 strikers and are looking to add another

Scored a pretty respectable number of goals last season, but the problem i see is - we already know Lukaku will be staying, most likely as 2nd choice, so where exactly does he fit in? If we didn't have Lukaku, it'd definitely be worth a gamble imo. Not to mention we still have Ba and Torres on the wage bill.

45m pounds - which reportedly was our last bid - should be enough to buy any player not named Messi or Ronaldo. We have been milked over so many players i can understand Roman not willing to succumb to more of that shit. Anyway Bayern won the treble with a 13m striker who mainly scores tap ins. If we strengthen our defence and midfield, we will be fine with someone like Dzeko or Gomez imo, granted they score goals of course.

He mostly posts things from italian papers, so more like they are not reliablle. Options, if we can't get Cavani.

I'm not sure, i think it's just like how you see "KSI" all over the place and it's not really him. And thank you

He's the real Gilvorak?!

Meh, i'm not worried. We are going to sign a striker, that much is certain. It might not be a big name, or a player some of us like, but as long as he's better than our current options and can come in and score goals, we will be fine. Options and the amount of goals they scored last season (from whoscored, so some cup goals most likely not added): Lewy (34 goals), Jackson Martinez (29), Soldado (28), Negredo (25), Higuain (17), Osvaldo (16), Dzeko(15), Gomez(13), Rooney (13, he rarely played as striker) and Jovetic (13). My preference atm is Lewy > Gomez > Soldado.

Another good threat for us on the counter. 1:42

Really nice combination play with Cazorla. He needs a creative player like that behind him at Chelsea.

On phone atm so can't get you link, but he said Chelsea are interested and "will call in a few hours" last week.

Their president said we were, and it was on their official twitter.

Armenia won 0-4 at Denmark, lol wtf?

After unveiling, i guess he'd also have to talk to papers.

If the 3 strikers are Cavani, Lukaku and Ba then it's ridiculous imo, because they can't contribute positively anywhere else. Cavani though tbf can do an 'Eto'o' and work very hard on the wings, but we won't be paying that much money to play him there while an inferior player plays upfront lol. If say we sign someone like Jovetic - unlikely - he can start as main striker, play behind the main striker or even on the wings. Anyway yeah i'm done with this discussion, we will see what Mourinho does It's better for the team if most of the players are happy. It's why people like Anelka and Alex were shipped off, due to their unhappiness with their role in the team.

04/05 and 05/06 - Eidur played all over the place and not exclusively as striker. 06/07 - Kalou played a lot of games out wide. 08/09 and 09/10 - Balotelli was around 19 under Mourinho, they got him when he was 15 so he was basically a youth team player, and he made many appearances as a substitute. While Eto'o played every time on the wings. So you pretty much proved my point lol, it's impossible to keep 3 strikers happy unless at least 1 of them is able to do a job in another positon. Ba was shit on the wings at Newcastle and hardly scored btw.

"Some Portuguese journalists brought a cake for their fellow countryman"

Iniesta can do one.

On Lukaku, you're right, i hardly watched him at West brom and ignored most of the wanking over him because it reminded me of Sturridge at Bolton, and that didn't exactly turn out well for us. But he says he's coming back and will be given games so i'm assuming he will be 2nd choice. Anyway you can't just have that 3rd striker sitting there and waiting for someone to get injured, not an experienced player like Ba who has admirers in the PL and Bundesliga. Also, if you're going to have more than 2 strikers, then one of them must be able to play in other positions making room for others - in case nobody gets injured. At Man utd, they have Rooney, RVP, Chicarito and Welbeck. Chicarito is the only one who plays exclusively as striker. RVP and Rooney can play behind the striker and Welbeck gets a lot of his games on the wings. At Man city they had Balo, Dzeko, Aguero and Tevez. But Tevez rarely even played as main striker, same as Balo. So can this happen with Cavani, Lukaku and Ba? definitely not, none of them are that flexible like the aforementioned Manc players (Cavani plays wide for Uruguay, but never plays well) so in a scenario where there's no injury, your 3rd striker will hardly play. That's why teams have youth players to fill that hole, they will hardly complain with a few minutes here and there, and won't be getting 60k too.

You're looking at the worst case scenario. Your question previously was what if Lukaku was injured, and i replied, you can get Feruz/Bamford/whoever to come in and play a few minutes here and there. If it's the other way around, then Lukaku will start, with the reserve striker as backup. It's very unlikely we will have both first team strikers injured at the same time, but if it miraculously happens, you can put Hazard or Schurrle up front. We don't need that 3rd striker. If Lukaku and the main striker go injury/suspension free, Ba will play ridiculously low minutes. Minutes that wouldn't warrant the wages he'd be on and the Non HG spot he'd be taking. Also, this season just gone, we went from January till May with only Ba and Torres, and they were rotated pretty well. There would have been no talk of adding another striker if both actually did their jobs and put the ball in the net.

His job is to score and everyone knows he does that very well, all other aspects don't matter if your striker isn't scoring.

Golaso.

Real Madrid have had only Benz and Higuain the past couple seasons, and whenever one is unable to play they get Morata from the Castilla. There's no reason why we can't do the same. Also, Schurrle is another option.