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I am surprised Lambert had done so well for Southampton in the PL last year but like Holt its fair to say you have to see how he does next year as well. Remember Holt scored a lot for Norwich before struggling last season and now hes playing for Wigan. I agree hes a different sort of player, good technically, strong, bit different for an English striker as he is very good technically. I don't see a big club going for him though same with Holt last summer.

You have to consider hes coming towards the end of his career now though, hes 33 or something now isn't he, the season Inter won the CL he was immense, people thought it was weird to pay 30m for him a year beforehand but he fully justified that tbh with some big performances (you as an Inter fan will be able to acknowledge that) ! Hes got a solid goalscoring record everywhere hes been. His brother Gabriel though, before injuries ruined him, he was a good defender...

What do you mean do a Diego Militio, Milito was always good. Just never played for a big enough club until 2009.....

Fuck me this thread is kicking off, close it down............

Was sarcasm haha, I've never seen Baines do a goal line clearance...

I'm a huge fan of his too. I'd say if he had the experience Cole has had here and at Arsenal he'd be nailed on to start for England. Still think Ashley's experience edges it perhaps. He'd be an ideal replacement for Ash but I think we'll look at Luke Shaw as Baines is 28 this year IIRC.

In a way I agree that he'll probably become the new scapegoat haha although there have been moments where hes gotten a lot of abuse for the right reasons, Marcelo's goal against Madrid, Benteke's goal vs Villa and Kenny Miller's goal tonight shows that he is really average. Decent back up defender nothing special.

I suppose Baines is very consistent... he just lacks that goal line clearance ability Ashley has..

130k p/w in pounds, I can't see Gustavo getting that at Wolfsburg.

It is but you can understand if that was say a 90-100% fit Rooney (who knows Sir Alex said he struggled with his fitness last summer and he could have again this summer) because if we are gonna sign him for anything over 30m then it will look really bad haha.

Incredible feat for the young guy, hes what 17? 2 goals vs Morocco for Burkina Faso... man I just hope we do sign him

If thats a fit Wayne Rooney he can stay the fuck away from Chelsea.

Scotland can be proud of how they played. Don't think if I was English I'd be celebrating a 3-2 win over Scotland too much though, England were quite shocking. They tried to play through the midfield and it doesn't work when you have 3 players who are all really box to box players of sorts (Gerrard, Lampard/Wilshere, Cleverley), with no Carrick there was a big problem in there for England, no penetration from midfield really except for Walcott's goal. Wilshere couldn't get between the lines as Scotland were so deep and well organized, Gerrard sat deep most of the time and Cleverley was just Cleverley (useless really). England lack a leader in defense... (cough JT, COUGH) Yes Scotland weren't quite Spain but when we got possession some of play was good, it was nothing spectacular but it was encouraging to see as the Scotland I remember all too easily played crappy long ball football to Kenny Miller but still we are a country ranked outside of the top 50 in the world, England are in the top 10 maybe even top 5.... Anyway from a Chelsea point of view, Cahill had another shocker loool, Lampard came on didn't do too much bar a very good shot which McGregor saved. I hope to god Cahill doesn't play as bad as that for us this season because against anyone and I mean anyone (Kenny fucking Miller.....) done him too easily. P.S how good was Leighton Baines btw?

Yeah Oscar seems to suit that #10 role more than anybody in the squad. De Bruyne is decent there, its just he doesn't work hard enough off the ball and some of the times he doesn't drop to get the ball as much as Oscar. De Bruyne's crossing is superb, he should play on the right, especially with crossing like his.

I don't think we'll play much games with a holding position tbh. We'll play with a box to box midfielder (Ramires) then a deep lying playmaker (van Ginkel, possibly Mikel?), can't see us using an actual DM, 4-2-3-1 with an actual holding midfielder these days is very rare. Bayern used Martinez as the box to box and Schewini as the deep lying playmaker last season, Real used Khedira as the box to box with Alonso as the deep lying playmaker... I think Gustavo was used more as a box to box midfielder last year with Bayern anyway (going on the evidence of his game vs Real Madrid)

ter Stegens was worse I'd say haha, that was another great goalkeeping fail. have you ever tried doing what De Gea did against Fulham lol? p.s the music is shit mute it

That was just for the Marseille - Guimpang game I think because he was on loan at Marseille last year... hopefully though if he does become a pundit he can punch the shit out of Michael Owen, everytime he speaks it annoys me haha.

Welcome to the forum. The player development business you intend on starting sounds interesting. P.S. I think to say you are 'rated' though is very arrogant of you, if you were so 'rated' you'd be a pro, if you love football you don't decide you don't want to be a pro, you're either good enough or you're not. If you wanted to be a pro you'd have played in any league, also your school record and pub team record means nothing really, its effectively the same as youth level, its a different game when you play in the first team for a senior professional side. I mean sure I scored 6 goals in like 6 games for my primary school team when I was like 12 but that doesn't mean I'm amazing and that I could play in the Bundesliga hahaha. Anyway stick around..

I never laughed so much at any other goal Chelsea have conceded ever hahahahha. Just looked hapless, was unlucky but still hilarious.

Wait so the Benteke goal wasn't Cahill's fault? Can I have some of whatever your smoking mate?

Moyes has basically banished him by the looks of it. What a muppet. Sure he wanted to change that United team but basically banishing Rooney and trying to sign Fellaini is just laughable. What a fucking idiot hahahahahahaha. Hope United don't even finish top 4...

Doubt he's going to Arsenal, it is the bloody Metro reporting it. My shoe speaks more sense than that bastarding journalists.

Hes not turning him into a defensive midfielder. Hes playing him as the deepest midfielder, the one who controls the tempo, he is effectively sitting in as a third center back at times to receive the ball and start attacks when we line up 4-2-3-1, with Ramires playing the box to box role.

He scored 10 last year thats all I seen haha. He got 9 or 10 assists too..

Already close to becoming my fav player in the team. He does all the dirty work that Lampard can't be fucked doing. Just gets stuck in and passes it on. His footballing intelligence is great too; he knows when to pass, how much weight to put on the pass, when to dribble, when to sit back, when to cover, when to go into a tackle etc. This guy with his current ability and his potential could be an absolute steal for 9m in years to come. Hes been the biggest surprise of the summer so far, glad United didn't get him. From what I heard at Vitesse he was also a regular goal scorer last season, so hopefully we'll see him score some golazos too!