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Why don't we first agree a deal for a new manager and let him pick a striker to sign? Say we appoint someone after we agree a deal for Falcao, which who knows we probably will end up doing, then hes forced to play Falcao basically as hes the latest big name and big price tag signing.

Apparently West Ham have agreed a deal for him.

Mouth is in agony, must have broken a bit of one of my teeth somehow, fucking tongue is getting sliced and diced.

Hes not that slow, hes not one of incredible speed but hes certainly not slow.

Keep seeing Neymar would be useful as he could provide width on the right. Bullshit. Hes an inverted forward who comes in off the left. If we want a young talented player capable of stretching teams, look no further than Columbia's alternative to Cristano Ronaldo: James Rodriguez, what a player he could be. Naturally left footed capable of playing on the left, right and as a number 10 too. Would cost 25-30 million but still a cheaper alternative to Neymar.

We'll probably scrape this, Soton will press us as early and high as possible like they did vs Man City, Liverpool and Man United.... and as we know, we play quite bad when we are pressed...... Expect Mata to play, if not Oscar in the middle with Hazard and Moses flanking him.

As stated above, his poor pass gave the ball away for Balotelli's screamer. Still Brazil haven't been as good in the second half tbh, Italy look classy.

Exactly, its only an image of himself hes signing.....

Hazard was unreal. His off the ball work impressed me today as well, I think Rafa deserves credit for that. His link up with Mata today was also very very good, hes getting better and better each game I see him. Good team selection today too by Rafa.

NOT THAT BAD, NOT THAT FCKING BAD. 41 MILLION ALONG WITH 10 MILLION PER YEAR ON A 5 YEAR CONTRACT IS 91 MILLION PLUS BONUSES AND SHIT, THAT IS FUCKING BAD........

We don't need 3 strikers who can score over 20 something goals each because Oscar, Hazard and Mata are goal scoring players too. Mata has 18 this season, Oscar has 9, Hazard has 11, Ba has 16(?) and Torres has 18. Thats 72 goals between 5 players even though Ba scored 12 or 13 for Newcastle. I'm unsure whether or not my numbers are right though, I was trying to recall from the top of my head haha. Also throw in Lampard, Cahill, JT, Ivanovic, Luiz, players who are all capable of scoring goals too. As long as other players are scoring and helping the strkers we have, we don't exactly need 3 20-25 goal a season strikers. We could do with the option tbh but if we take Lukaku back, keep Torres and Ba then I think we will be fine if the MF players also help out. Plus if we don't loan Romelu and sign Falcao or Cavani how will he get games? He wont........ we need to start playing the younger guys regardless of 'we could have Cavani or Falcao'

Mikel is an established player now, hes not potential, hes looking to kick on in his prime. Hes not an 18 year old needing games to develope. Also what do you mean expand his passing? his passing is neat and tidy and he can play great long balls/passes every now and then when needed. Hes never been restricted, hes been important since Carlo came over and won the double, he was also important winning the CL and FA cup last year, to make out his plays restricted is a joke! He doesn't need a 'proper coach' he needs a player that suits the pivot next to him. Hes been one of our best players this season along with Mata, Cech, Hazard, Oscar and Azpi imo.

Steve Clark was watching Kalas last weekend, I think he wants to sign him on loan for WBA next season. Which is good for him but possibly bad for us. Anyway onto the pivot. I think when you said that Mikel has a restricted game you are surely joking, I don't want to get into this but Mikel could do with someone like Song (in a role he had at Arsenal, where he had a bit more freedom due to playing next to Arteta) next to him. Song really fine tuned his game and got was it 11 or 12 assists from CM, which is quite impressive. Hes a rounded player, can attack and defend equally well and would be perfect. I don't want to see Oscar wasted next to Mikel tbh, one of the ebst parts in his game is his technical ability and the fact he drops t oask for the ball to help his teammates out, which ultimately frees up space and drags players out of positions. Playin him next to Mikel would be pointless, his passing range is good and his defensive work rate is too but still hes in my eyes a number 10 more than anything. Also we must go back to 4-3-3 if we want to become this tiki taka like team. 4-3-3 is the perfect formation for it. Can change into a 3-4-3, 3-4-1-2, 3-3-1-3 or a 4-1-4-1 or 5-4-1 depending on what match situation. The players we have suit it better.

Play like that to the end of the season and you can stay, if not fuck off. Only 20 mins but he showed passion, showed desire, belief in his ability etc. Unfortunate with the pen, would have been a good pen if it was 2 inches lower.

If Wilshere wins young player of the year after about 5 games I can actually remember him playing then I will punch every PFA writer in the face.

Rafael is so overrated, good going forward, shite defensively. If Wallace turns out like him then god help us. Tbh I rate only Zabaleta and Richards as better RBs than Azpi even though Richards has rarely played this year. Guy is beast. Probably turn into a CB though. Anyway Cesar > Ivanovic at RB, offers so much more than the Serb apart from strength and an aeriel presence.

cant believe i posted that and nearly forgot to say happy birthday... wow happy birthday Rmpr

fuck I really hate Milan.

Wilshere can't play in the pivot imo. Hes always pushing up leaving lots of space for the opposition MF players to exploit, which eventually leaves Arteta/Ramsey outnumbered in MF. I've seen a lot of Arsenal fans also mention this, still a terrific player though and I'd have him here no matter how much he is Arsenal through and through.

Mikel was brilliant today, million times better than what Lamps was.

Welcome mate p.s I hate you too! joking

Stats from the last few seasons: Real Madrid (all competitions) 2008-09 44 games 24 goals 9 assists goal every 1.83 games. 2009-10 40 games 29 goals 6 assists goal every 1.38 games. 2010-11 25 games 13 goals 6 assists goal every 1.92 games. 2011-12 54 games 26 goals 10 assists goal every 2.07 games. 2012-13 28 games 10 goals 6 assists goal every 2.8 games. Impressive stats except this season due to lack of playing time and injury problems. Been a big fan of Higuain since I can really remember first seeing him playing. Obviously hes not been at his best this year but neither has half the Madrid team. He seems to be one of those players who needs to play 9/10 games to get into a good run of form. Hes also a team player, has played various positions for Real under previous managers and is vice captain there too I think. I think in the right team he could be a very very good striker.

Apparently he wants to move to London because his girlfriend has a job with the BBC and he wants to live in London. http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/spanish-press-say-tottenham-is-likeliest-destination-for-higuain Obviously Real want Bale offering 30 mil and Higuain but I say we should try and bid for him because Spurs will want to keep Bale.

300k p/w wages, aye fuck off Rooney.

He does look a bit older haha