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We don't need a box to box midfielder and we already have someone very similar and much better than him in Ramires. I honestly think the first order of business to do in January is to get (preferably loan) a DM to replace Oriol.

With 6 more games Muller would have hit the 100 goal mark Plus Gerd never took penalties..

Nah, we just have much better, more dedicated fans than cornithians or whatever their name is..

You can bring all the 35 million to Japan but no one will notice you while Lampard lifts the trophy on the 16th.

[Rant] Let me make this clear: Messi WILL NOT better Muller's acheivement simply because Muller managed to score 85 goals in less games. [/Rant]

Him scoring got so boring that none of his teammates celebrated his fifth with him

Welcome to TC and thank you for the information. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you about Monterrey's form. They're not doing too well in the league (7th I think). Why is that? And what's their weakness?

He did moan about the disallowed goal. It's Fergie we're talking about he averages 1200 rpm=rants per minute.

Fair play to Rio for taking it with a laugh: Rio Ferdinand ‏@rioferdy5 what a result,3points! Sweet! Whoever threw that coin,what a shot! Can't believe it was a copper 2p....could have at least been a £1 coin!

It's the first time the poll was private this month. I thought it would be better in the spirit of true democracy. This way everyone can vote comfortably without having to worry about what everyone thinks. As for the a member being MOTM two consecutive times, that very rarely happens unless someone has been absolutely brilliant and deserves to win regardless if he had won the previous month.

Really? I even don't remember that but I do remember that I have never called any member's opinion here stupid. But I do think Cech is better than Neuer atm and if I took an incident as an example to prove a point it does not mean that I built my opinion solely on that incident.

That's why I said "again". He's showed that he has a long way to go to be world-class on numerous occasions.

Hart again proving he is the most overrated keeper in the world.

Zabaletta scores!

FFS! We should get a DM in jan or at least recall Essien. EDIT: Just remembered Essien will be at the ACON as well I would say give Chalobah a try but I know that would never happen. I think our best realistic option would be to loan a DM.

LMAO @ Mancini's reaction

I want City to win it just to see the look on Fergie's face

Surely we're not in the tittle race anymore?

Nop, sorry.

I also think he thought it was faster than it was or he would at least have jumped to his right.

WTF was Hart doing? He had all the time in the world to save that but just stood and watched!

I was going to watch their quarter final match to see what kind of team we're up against but thought it was today not yesterday. But a quick search shows that they are clearly lacking form atm. No wins in 5 before yesterday and are 7th in the Liga MX.

Stats never say it all and those are just one side of the story. Although he had the most successful tackles in our team, he also had the most unsuccessful tackles, which means he went to ground too often and let players past him. And even if he had the second most successful passes (after Mata) he had the fifth highest pass completion rate as opposed to Romeu who had the highest percentage before he came off. Well I disagree there simply because that's not how the defensive system in our current 4-2-3-1 works. Even in 4-3-3, you very rarely see 2 of the middle 3 in very advanced positions; for example when we played 4-3-3, when Lampard made his runs into the box Ballack/Tiago dropped behind the ball next to Essien/Makalele and when Ballack went into the box Lamps did the inverse. Besides you are taking one of the major roles of the pivot out of the equation which is to cover for the attacking fullbacks. I think for the pivot to work properly the two need t be behind the ball for 90% of the game.

Yep, 20 or something, or so I'm told.

As usual with your posts there is that one word that I have no idea what you mean by But I rate McCarthy quite a lot as well and think he can do even better with a higher caliber of players around him. Think it's about time he made a switch to a better side than Wigan (no offence to Wigan)