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He is the typical efficient German. Strenths: Very fast and agile. Decent dribbling and ball control. Decent passing and vision. Striker's Instinct. Great denfensive work rate. He will run till he drops. Aggressive and willing to go for the physicaly dangerous shots. Good finishing. Positional flexibility. Able to play on either Wings and at Centre Forward. Weaknesses: Not very strong. Poor in the air given his 184cm build.

I would love Hulk+Moutinho but you make parlaying with Porto sound easy!

I remember that.

I would rather eat a Tottenham shirt than see Carvalho playing in one.

Mo' money, mo' problems. Not in Footbawl.

How do you know what they want? Please don't take offence, but you really have to stop passing off your own deductions as fact.

Off topic. I'm sorry but this really bothered me, ad hominem should have no place here. English is one of four official languages in Singapore and the others are Mandarin, Tamil and Malay. So for starters one can never know if English is royg's first language. Even though English is the de facto langauge of TC perhaps you should attempt to convey a grammatically perfect conversation with royg in Mandarin, Tamil and Malay. It really gets my goat when people's grammar and syntax is insulted and called into question, besides it's more often than not the person who has called another's grammar into question has imperfect grammar.

Everyone always forgets about poor old Granero.

Okay, bet accepted.

How is it common sense? I for one have no idea what RDM is going to use next season, hell I don't even know for sure if he will use the 4-2-3-1. Chelsea could play through the wings like ManUtd or play straight through the middle like AC Milan. Possessive or counter? High pressing or deep? Nobody knows this.

Xabi Alonso was 28 when he joined Real Madrid. I'm not saying Cabaye is at Alonso's level but 27 isn't too old just yet. Anyway the next best bet; Joao Moutinho is 26 soon.

The games take long engough to finish so I can't imagine what the books are like. The second one has been a pain in my ass for a while. I'm still procrastinating reading The Trial.

And Schurrle is a Striker also, mainly because he can and has played there.

It does mean something, it means he has time for his fans. There would be more than one player that would have ignored that kid.

I think I should win by default.

I support this signing 100%.

You didn't imply a single thing as all you wrote was "It's about as likely as us buying another Goalkeeper...". Which is exactly what happened. Obviously I was joking.

We already did. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/256862/Chelsea-sign-3m-Swindon-13-year-old-keeper/

This is hardly a fair election with LDN involved.

It makes a whole lot of difference.

Indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfTOU66fTA

King Carlo was going to bring him in on a Bosman but was fired before it happened.

What about Marin, Hazard, Ivanovic, Courtois, De Bruyne, Romeu and Mikel? Unless of course you are referring to 'youth'.

Fuck Spurs, if anyone should get Sahin it's us.

Bon anniversaire, Zidane! Your 40th birthday coincides with France's failure at the Euros!