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Very much agree. And like I already said previously, his crazy money contract at Anzhi is coming to an end in less than a year anyway so we could easily match it by dividing his current wages over a two year contract. By my calculations his €350k a week till June 30th 2014 contract is currently valued at approximately €16m so that divided by two years would get the player somewhere around £140k a week till 2015. He would probably be more than happy to accept it in order to make his return to top level football and the club's wage structure would remain intact. He could be willing to take accept even lower wages if he's desperate to work with Mourinho once again. It's not like Drogba is on 400k a week at Galatasaray either, he wanted to get his career back on track while he still had the chance so he ditched his mega money contract at Shanghai Shenhua to join Galatasaray on a relatively low contract by his standards. If the club fail in signing Wayne Rooney, I couldn't think of a better alternative at the moment than Samuel Eto'o.

He's scored 36 goals in 71 appearances for Anzhi and also has 14 assists. In the league he has 25 goals in 51 games so his stats are quite good no matter how we look at them. He's definitely not the player he was in 2008-2011 when he was arguably one of the best strikers in the world but I don't believe for a second that Jose and the board would even entertain the idea of signing him if he wasn't good anymore. It's not like the Russian Premier Division is like the Chinese league where players go only to make a shitload of money and no one knows what goes on in there, the football there is actually pretty high level and there's good coverage around the world so I'm sure the scouts and management know what their investing the club's money into if they decide to go for Eto'o.

Should he be available on a free transfer with a two year contract on £100-150k a week in wages we could do a lot worse than him.

Tancredi Palmeri strikes again. This time I want to believe him, I really do.

Well, in 2008 he placed third in the Ballon d'Or voting behind Ronaldo and Messi so I'd say yes. Of course scoring the winning goal in Euro2008 final affected that but at the time he was an amazing player for both Liverpool and Spain so it was more than reasonable that he was nominated for the award.

So let me get this straight, you were as good (or should I say rated) as Isco and Zlatan combined and yet never made it to be a professional? Even if you wouldn't have been snapped up by one of the EPL or Bundesliga clubs, there are literally over a dozen leagues in Europe alone where you could have become a millionaire and earned more money than you ever could by starting this youth development thingy but you decided to turn that down by your own choice? Bullshit.

That guy was talking about drilling, not dribbling.

Nope, United beat us at Wembley in 2010 and went on to win the 10/11 league title. The last two have finished the season trophyless though, let's hope it stays the same this season too!

I agree. He has supposedly been 'on the brink of handing in the transfer request' for weeks now but nothing has happened. If he really wants to go, he should let everyone know like Suarez has done or just shut the fuck up and apologize to the United fans.

I don't see any reason why he wouldn't. Mata isn't fit enough, Schürrle ain't as effective on the right wing as KdB is and Moses hasn't really been as impressive as you seem to think. Not saying he hasn't been good because he was definitely one of our best players against Inter and AC Milan but he has had bad games too just like everyone else. De Bruyne was very good in Asia tour before his injury and he made a strong comeback in the Milan match. Against Roma and Real Madrid he could have been better but the same goes for all of our other players too. My preferred lineup: Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Van Ginkel, Ramires, De Bruyne, Oscar, Hazard, Lukaku.

Come on, it's only Wigan. Wait till they play against a few top teams before saying nothing's changed.

Bertrand did great throughout the match, both defensively and in attack. Hazard coming on changed the game in our favor. Demba Ba with two assists, not bad considering how much stick he got in the live chat. Nice little feature that btw, great job as usual @Jim.

I don't particularly like that team and personally think we should be playing pretty much the team intended for Hull and not the ones who haven't featured much in pre-season. Good to see Luiz back though, should at least somewhat play down those Barcelona rumours.

For your sake I hope you're just trolling and weren't being serious. Your debate was couldn't have been further from intelligent and objective. You do realize there is a middle ground between being absolutely flawless and being mediocre with massive flaws. And using the so called unbiased pundits and other teams' fans as proof that your opinion is the correct one is ridiculous. The Manchester cunts are all still bitter he chose Chelsea ahead of them and the moment he signed a contract with the club he went from an amazing talent and a potential future Ballon d'Or winner to overrated and many of the neutral fans started to hate him after the infamous ball boy incident so their opinions matter fuck all too. Most of us here witnessed with our own eyes every single one of his performances for Chelsea last season and while he may not have been perfect, I see absolutely no reason not to think he has a truly spectacular future and that we can expect good things from him as early as this season once Jose gets him firing. He has explosive pace, great dribbling skills and is probably the best in our whole team at holding the ball. His footballing brain is exceptional and once he's fully settled in at the club and matured a bit I don't see why he couldn't be one of the best in the world. His finishing could be better and he should maybe try shooting more instead of trying to make things harder than they really are but he has plenty of time to improve those attributes and I have faith in Mourinho to get the best out of him. So yeah, fuck off troll.

Why is it good? It's only a meaningless friendly and playing against proper opponents is what makes the team better and more comfortable playing together, especially the midfielders. Playing against a three man midfield De Rossi - Strootman - Pjanic should be a good workout for our lads, I for one hope all of those three play.

I heard he got called up for next week's friendly against France. If he features, will that do the trick or will it require an official game like a qualifier?

Well, fuck. Didn't realize to check because he's such a young boy who only played his first professional game a couple of weeks ago and there wasn't a thread in the first page of the transfer section but I should have known one of our Belgian members has spotted this guy ages ago.

May I introduce you to one of the most useful functions of this forum, the IGNORE. It's really helpful against the cunts, no point raging and getting yourself banned when you can simply add them morons to the ignore lists and continue your intellectual discussions with the rest of the forum.

Nice. Keep up the good work!

Earlier today I saw someone re-tweeting something Benoit Assou-Ekotto said which might have been suggesting he's moving away from Tottenham. Coentrao going there makes sense if that's true, could even be somehow involved in the Bale deal.

How about number nine?

Anyone know more about this guy? 17-year-old lad, plays for PSV Eindhoven as a winger / forward. Up until a couple of weeks ago I'd never even heard his name but now everyone seems to be hyping him up to become the next big thing in European football. He was very impressive in both legs against Thorgan Hazard's club Zulte Waregem in the Champions League qualifiers and now he scored a hat-trick in his league debut against NEC. Oh, almost forgot. He's Belgian, what are you waiting for Chelsea?

Bitter cunts that lot. For a club as tight on money as United are there's no way they would ever miss out on a £30-40m transfer fee and keep paying the player £10m annually for the remaining two seasons while getting fuck all in return. That would mean a total loss of over £60m for the club and in today's market that's a couple of quality signings thrown out the window right there.

Just to put things into perspective David Villa moved for less than £5m this summer and imo Eto'o should be valued around the same if he leaves Anzhi. Anzhi might even consider letting him go on a free transfer if they're really desperate about cutting expenses. His wages shouldn't be an issue because surely the man himself realizes he won't get that much anywhere else and his huge contract only has a year left anyway. Cut his wages in half but offer a two or three year deal with a decent signing on bonus and he already has a better contract overall than the one he has now. Sure, he could run out his contract at Anzhi and then negotiate something next year and maybe get more money than he would by agreeing a deal like the one described above but I can't see many top club wanting to snap him up at 33, especially if his current season turns to shit which wouldn't really be a suprise considering all the chaos surrounding Anzhi at the moment.

They're welcome to have Torres...