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Galatasaray is turning into a retirement home..

I remember that! It was a shot from inside or just around the box in the last minutes of the match and it was just flying towards the corner of the net and Cech came out of nowhere and made an impossible save. The look on Gerrard's face was priceless!

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That's not his duty, though. That's a bonus you get with Frank. You're telling me that Frank can press for 90 minutes? Can he play in a dynamic pivot and exchange places with his pivot partner? I meant that Marco can do equally well as Frank, I didn't mean that he can perform in the exact same manner. Each one brings something different to the team. I just think that we have enough goals and assists in the team, what we need in that spot in the team is a solid squad player who can slot in at any time and fit the team's system. If course I'm saying all this about the pre-injury MVG. Jose could decide that Marco needs to be loaned out next season to back to that level like we did with Romeu.

Yeah, right. Something around 50m Euros. But that was more than 10 years ago! Tbh, most Juve fans would tell that Buffon has more than justified his price over the years, though.

I hope you're right. I think in theory the two can make a fantastic pivot. Very solid defensively, and strong physically. Both can pass with great accuracy and both rarely if ever lose the ball. Let's hope that reality complies with theory.

I think the point of getting Matic was that Jose wants a dynamic pivot for his pressing system. So I think that the starting pivot players will be Ramirs and Matic. That said, I think Mikel will continue to play the role he's played since the start of the season.

I played a match while trying to pay attention to that and the physics behind it doesn't seem, at least to me, too different from the previous versions overall, but when you switch to manual passing and shooting you do get the feeling that ball moves very 'realistically'. But I don't think it's very practical to play the game that way.

Too slow, old man!

Jose just has to have a back up in mind. I'm not sure Shaw will leave in mid-season although with the problems in the Southampton board, anything is possible. For some reason, I feel that Coentrao will be the replacement. He loves Jose and is looking for a loan till the end of the season.

Great. So that means, like I said, if Essien leaves, we could get a defender like Zouma or Coentrao on loan.

But I remember reading somewhere that Oscar still counts as U21 because his birthday is after the new year or something..

I read all about this at the start of the season but have forgotten since. Will try to see if I can find an article about it.

McEachran instead of Essien? No that's very unlikely. I think if Essien's leaving and we do not wish to replace him (supposing that Matic has replaced KDB) then we would not need another HG player. We simply don't use the full HG quota. I might be mistaken, though.

I think and hope that Jose has something lined up to replace Ryan. I can't imagine he would be okay with leaving us this thin at the back. Maybe Coentrao on loan till the end of the season?

It's on WAGNH which is as close as you'll get to the actual figures.

Frank's wages are the issue, imo. It's not that he can't do a job for the team anymore when needed, it's that MVG, for example, can do the same or better job for less than half the wages. Frank is a legend, perhaps the biggest legend of the club, but the coming year is crucial for us in complying with the FPP and 6.5m/year is A LOT to save.

I think his price (not that I'd want him to be sold either) won't exceed 30m. United overpaid grossly for De Gea, he's not the norm but the exception.

Tbf, goalkeepers rarely go for more than that. In fact, I don't remember any keeper ever going for 25m of more.

I think it was made up. I mean why would Benfica want him when he can't get into the Vitesse starting XI?

Best of luck to him. Hope he does better there than he did at Forest.

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If Spurs play 4-4-2 against City, they're going to concede six again.

I have it, but I still play FIFA12 because I like it better (not that I've had time for any game this semester!). Tonight I'll play a couple of matches and let you know if there's a difference