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I know a lot of people think that Mesut is just the flavour of the month (and it's been quite a long month) since South Africa 2010. But that's not the case, he's one of the most talented attackers to come from Germany since Mehmet Scholl.

His eyes aren't the same size! What happened there?! He also looks like he weighs about 120kg.

He has turned out to be a good signing for us. 8 million pounds for a player who has contributed 60 goals and 40 assists in 6 seasons. That's a good deal. If we had paid double figures for him then I would agree with you that he was not a good signing.

No, I have nothing against Hulk. It's Neymar I don't like. France is better than Portugal, therefore Hazard's stats would not need to be as severely discounted as Hulk's. What you should really be talking about when you talk about Hulk's stats are his European stats: 42 games, 15 goals, 7 assists. For Hazard, though he has struggled in Europe, it is not that big a deal as he has done brilliantly in France which is far from a shit league. Hulk's European statistics are good, but are they worth 36 million? If I was Emanalo I wouldn't offer more than 28-30 million for Hulk.

That's absurd. First your stats are off, it's 96 games for 52 goals and 42 assists. Second, nobody here wants to see Hulk fail. We would love nothing other than for him, if he signs for Chelsea, to be a huge success. Even if he were to snub us I'm sure everybody here would wish him the best. Also, France as a league is of a far higher overall quality than Portugal, even though the top Portuguese teams are probably slightly better than the top French teams.

Benzema, Robben and Özil are so far ahead that he'll never catch up. Mata isn't at their level yet, Hulk currently I would rate slightly behind Mata's current ability but Juan's potential means in 3-4 years time he'll be level with Robben et al.

According to wiki, they're the most powerful of the lot though. You won't see Roman associating with third string Russian gangsters Alternatively, we could remove the adidas logo and put a massive CCCP, complete with hammer and sickle there.

In English it would read Solntevskaya Bratva, but I thought it looked cooler in Cyrillic.

That Terry stat is incredible!

Eva is our ideal right back. She'll keep Robben quiet the whole game

Agreed. Awful article, the author thinks that Kalou and Bosingwa will be transferred out rather than released on a free, and thinks that Mikel is rubbish

That looks brilliant To be fair, our white one this season was pretty good. I would have been happier with it as our away kit than that checked monstrosity.

I'll get my excuse ready if he does score:

If I can propose a change to the system; for 2013, can we have the awards held in December? That way, if I win anything, I can keep it for 18 months More seriously, it makes more sense to me. The FIFA Awards are always held at the end of the year. That way, we also have the off season (where some can go a bit mental in the transfer forum) to get a better judgement of nominated posters. It also gives new members more time to get used to things. For example, if someone joins now and by December is one of the best posters around, he'll miss out on the Best New Member award because he won't be considered new anymore.

Kalou, definitely. He offers more than Malouda both defensively and offensively.

Huh?

Buy Mario Gomez for games against 17/20 PL sides and half our European campaign.

Well. No sooner do we write him off and he produces a fairly good performance against Blackburn. Perhaps there is hope for him after all.

Either you're a genius or everyone is very stupid for not having thought about that before. That's not an unreasonable conspiracy theory at all.

Whoa. Tribal football () reckons we'll sign Cardozo if we fail to get Hulk. No thanks, we don't need another 28 year old striker.

Would rep but I'm over the limit.

You have to feel sorry for him. His career might be over at 26, which is such a shame given how talented he is.

Fuck. Just realised Kalou will be out if we sign Hulk and don't loan out de Bruyne There's no point in keeping Kalou if we're only going to play him as an auxiliary right back when playing Barcelona.

I read this as a late pitch to make yourself more controversial than TX to win the award :ph34r:/:lol:

Fair enough. But it still seems a shame that our player of the season (I don't care that Mata won it, IMO it has been Ramires closely followed by Mata) needs for a transferred player to fail to prove himself to become first choice.