OneMoSalah

I'm sure Gustavo would suit us better. Plus he'd be cheaper.

Wish Dani Alves would shut up, would honestly just fly out to Spain to cut his tongue off so he couldn't basically tap up players. Utter wanker he is.

If we want a striker push the boat out and get Cavani/Lewandowski. Soldado should be behind them in our list.

Holtby and Tom Carroll will be used at points too. They are capable of producing chances.

I hardly doubt Romeu would have started if he was fit, hes not even better than Malaga's Camacho who never even started at DM. The fact the U21s played without a natural DM player just shows that they obviously rate Illaramendi better than Camacho (who is a better player than Romeu). How can you even say Romeu was a wall for the U21s? hes played 10 times and I'm pretty sure he was used as a center back as opposed to a holding MF a few times. He didn't even start a lot of those games either, Javi Martinez played ahead of him when he was eligible for the U21s.

No. Romeu has played like 5 times for the Spanish u21s. Romeu is an actual holding MF player as well in comparison to Illaramendi who is not. I watched the Spanish u21s games he participated in the Under 21s European Championship.

Anyway Leif, your post you put up there...... Well that is odd because I'd say he was the glue in that Spanish U21's team, he was always making himself available and playing passes at the right time, dribbling at the right time, timing when to pass and when not to pass well etc. I'm pretty sure thats using his brain isn't it? What the fuck? No offence but that is a ridiculous statement on its own. When you tackle someone you don't think about the technique, you think about trying to get the ball.... not where is the ball going to go or will they get the ball back... you just try and get the ball... sure some players tackle someone and the ball goes to their team mate but I have serious doubts they do the tackle knowing their team mate will get the ball. Name me one player who intentionally tackles someone so their team mate gets the ball from the tackle?

Well anyway. Lets just say that Illaramendi is a quality player and if he moves on this summer big clubs will want him. (Madrid, Arsenal, Chelsea, etc.)

Linked with him. Alonso's father has also said he'd be a good fit at Real and hes similar to his son IIRC.

Yeah not good enough for us but good enough for Madrid who are known admirers of his......

Exactly. Why would United shell out 250k pw to Rooney when they aren't really stupid with money as a club in a sense

30 million euros release clause, can't see us paying that. Good player though. More than good enough too. Linked with Arsenal and Real Madrid also though. Hes been compared to Xabi Alonso numerous times.

There is no proof Rooney is on 250k, I also doubt United would even pay him that, its just rumors from when he signed that contract. Not even Ronaldo got 200k at United....

Don't see why Spurs are desperate to sign him when they really need a top class striker. Paulinho's a box-to-box MF player, they already have Dembele plays there and is quality and also Holtby can play deeper...... but I suppose at least they will have 3 class players to chose from if one of them picks up an injury/play quite badly during the season. Surely Scotty 'shitcunt' Parker must be leaving Spurs then?

Why don't they just stop being wankers and make every sports channel free? Just because I'm too stingy to pay for sky.

Fuck these early starts are gonna kill me one day... waking up at 9 o'clock on a Saturday is absolute shit

Big whoop he missed a penalty, even I've missed a penalty. The best players in the world all miss penalties, hence why I've missed one

Dont actually think hes that good to be honest. Hes not bad but a bit overrated, especially because he played well against a tired looking and rather stupidly picked Italian team the other night. Don't see why Prandelli doesn't go back to playing 3-5-2 or play 4-3-3 as opposed to this crappy 4-3-2-1 with Aqulani plying as a fucking AM....

Dont think this guy will allow Cavani out of his back pocket to sign for us.

Fuck the Mikel haters.

Delighted he scored. Hope he can get a few for us next season.

Great finish. Mikel up top next season anyone?

Hes playing good against Uruguay right now. Passing it out confidently to Mikel and the other MF players too. Not had too much to do tbh but still looking decent. Actually like how they re trying to play, possession based football with pressing, Steven Kesi or whatever you call him has done a pretty good job.

This thread will be active tonight, hes been not bad for Nigeria so far. Few classy long passes. Hes playing more as a central midfielder for Nigeria as opposed to a holding one. Oh there was another peach of a pass to Ambrose. Class.

Rumors that Southampton are close to signing him.