Sheva.

I don't know where he would play, with his passing, long shots and great set-pieces i would have thought double pivot, but according to whoscored his tackling is "very weak" so that won't work. And for the '3' behind the striker, we already have Eden and Mata occupying 2 positions, with Schurrle/Di Maria possibly coming in to take the last spot. I'm not sure he'd be happy as squad player, so regardless of how good he is atm, it might be a good decision for the club to sell him, especially if he could be used as bargaining chip to get a player more suited to our style and formation.

Simply, he'd be more motivated to do better at his next club. Just like he was at Inter after his first stint here, just like Benitez tried to prove he's still a good manager after being sacked by Inter and likewise AVB.

Real had ridiculous bad luck.

The norm is him scoring many goals and being the most clinical #9 in Europe. But he can do things like that once in a while, or score free kicks, or hit a beauty from long range etc.

Just set up Atletico's equalizer, brilliant play holding the ball up and a nice pass.

Probably my favourite player to watch in football, him coming here is too good to be true though, so fucking meh.

25m max.

Capoue or De Rossi for DM.

King Mata

That is one epic avatar

Yep, all 68 games so far.

It's the truth though. I already said on another thread, we should stop signing these kind of players because we obviously won't use them. Just pursue experienced players ready to start immediately.

Google translate fucked up there, because it clearly says he called him.

Didn't even know he celebrated lol.

Loan, straight away lol.

He played 4-2-3-1 at Inter also, and i'm sure he'd use that if he returns here.

4-3-3.

We can field a loaned-out XI for this, talk about depth

No its not, 4 points behind is one of those cases where numbers lie. It wasn't just a 'mere' 4 points, there was an 8 point turnaround in the space of 4 games, 3 of which where against midtable teams like West brom, Liverpool and Swansea. And our very next game was against the reigning champions.

They give it to youth players i believe.

No our league campaign wasn't going fine, we couldn't win after the Man utd game and with City up next for RDM that would have been another definite loss. People keep bringing up the stupid "we were 4 points behind" bullshit, but weren't we up like 4 points on United? then all of sudden we were behind and it would have only gotten worse. Maybe we might have finished in top 3 with RDM, no one knows now, but Benitez has done the job which he was appointed for and that is to finish in the top 4. And about tough games, that is quite right, we've done well under Benitez, but only to screw up in the little games. But i believe that is more than to the squad than anything - against teams that park the bus we have a problem, our strikers and team in general just weren't clinical enough in a lot of those games only to then concede a random goal. All in all i think Rafa has done a good job - everyone here was shitting it and saying we wouldn't make top 4 in february, he got us that and also a trophy...

Don't hate bro.

Hazard for player of the year. Luiz v Basel goal of the season. Ake, young player of the year.

Yeah i think so too, but he's still in my top 3 list of players than can come here and start on the right for us.

Cavani/Falcao/Lewy - no more than 45m Moutinho - 20m Capoue - 10m Schurrle/Robben/Farfan/Di maria - 25m.