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I just wish people would actually watch the AFCON or at least have some idea about African football before making claims about it's level.. Just a minor note since you seem to be basing your whole argument on the "fact" that Mikel was dropped at the end of last season, but I thought you should know that Mikel was injured for the last 3 weeks of the season which is why he didn't participate in any matches. That being said, even assuming that he was indeed dropped, I cannot see how this is going to be problematic for Jose next season. There is absolutely no logical connection between Mikel signing a 5-year contract then being dropped by a managed that has already departed and Jose having problems with Emenalo.

He looks like he just broke out of cartoon jail!

No he hadn't before today. He came on in the 79th min against Italy and did not feature against Norway. That's why I was implying that your comment about him doing badly in this tournament before this match was unfair.

Yes he didn't set the world alight in the 10 mins he played in.

He literally played 10 mins before today! Been good so far. Definitely the best of the 3 central midfielders. But I have to say, how in the Pearce managed to make this side look so shit?! Completely lacking coherence especially in attack.

Not necessarily. Remember when we signed Falcao back in December? Besides all these Cavani rumors where started by Palmeri then everyone else was quoting him and SkyItalia as their source.

Well I disagree. Rooney always tracks back even to the edge of his own penalty area whenever his team does not have the ball. He also defends extremely well for an attacker. I don't think any attacker does that except may be Cavani at times. Well what are your criteria for being world class? I say he is world class because he has excellent technical ability in his passing, shooting...etc. Tactically he's great. In fact, I'd say that he's been united's most important tactical player for years, now. Physically he's good as well: he has good pace and power. As an attacker, his movement is excellent and his finishing very clinical as evident by his goal-scoring record even though he's been often played in midfield in the past 2-3 seasons.

Wow. The AFCON is below average?! Have you ever even watched it? Oh, and btw, the second example was about Romeu not Mikel! At least read his opinion before you completely dismiss it

Like I said before, I'd love Rooney here. I'm a big fan of his, especially when he plays in the n10 role. His work-rate is unbelievable and his defending and tracking back is probably the best I've ever seen by an attacker. I always say when United play with Rooney just behind another striker, they play with 12 men. He's the equivalent of a midfielder and attacker at the same time. That said, I very very much doubt we'll see him in a Chelsea shirt. First, United are not Arsenal, they are smarter than selling a world class player to a rival. Second his wages are just ridiculous (was it 250k/wk?!!) and with so many high earners already here, the board will probably be very reluctant to sign him.

Exactly. I'm not buying this "Abramovic gave Mourinho 100m to sign Cavani and Hulk" stories.

We should not have extended Lampard's contract this year. His wages are ridiculous and he doesn't fit in the team anymore. He should have left on high, like Drogba, after breaking the record.

With all the players we've been linked with this past month, I genuinely think that this is the only player we've actually tried to sign. All the rest is BS rumors.

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I think there will be more a sense of uncertainty about their new system that is bound to still have glitches. Besides they're under Martinez now, so they should start actually playing around April

Would love Everton. Under new manager, usually start the season slow. Would be good start for Jose especially at the bridge.

LOL What? Meh, probably saves us 2-3 years of paying a percentage his wages while he's on loan.

We all say that behind your back

LOL don't get your hopes. Signing Lazar and loaning to Benfica is actually some pretty good business by the board. I wonder how much we paid for him though. Would be disappointed if we paid more than 10-12m.

Yeah I agree. If Cech suffers a long-term injury, I think we call back Courtois.

Oh, quit moaning When I said you should delete inactive teams, I didn't know that we would end up with 19. If I did I would have said delete the inactive teams except one so we could have even leagues. Can't ot be fixed now? We can get a new member in a day. Didn't Tomo want to join back? Wouldn't they have been deleted automatically by the game had they remained in active?

I think the league admin should be able to revert it since the season has not started yet. One more thing, this is current format is also a bit unfair to Eva Carneiro United who managed to secure promotion to the PL last season but still found himself in the Championship this season.

On what page did you get that?

The PL schedule will be messed up with 2 games a week and an odd number of teams. Why don't we add one more member and have two leagues with 10 teams each?

What sort of format did you use, mate? And how many leagues? We only have 24 active teams (though the genuinely active teams are barely 15 or so)