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Lolol. Pleb.

It's Al-Adn Azhar, surely? The L is silent.

Hulk is rubbish, his brand of Robben-esque cutting inside and shooting won't help us a bit. Genuine width is what we need. Calling Jose Bosingwa.

Free transfer on 20k/week or fuck off. We've got way more than enough wingers.

Lol, Kalou's face after seeing the miss.

It's Mexicunt, not Mexican cunt . (With apologies to our Mexican friends.) But the general point is that United will try to wing it by relying on the smaller teams to cack themselves upon reading the team sheet. They don't necessarily have to do well- it's just the names that count, they will force smaller teams to be ultra defensive.

I think they're banking on everyone shitting it upon seeing a Rooney-van Persie front line.

I would say that only accentuates the getting ripped off. Being European champions just means we have more cash to spend, so they'll charge us more.

But then what do we do in the General Transfer Talk thread?

Damn it, they've made a great signing.

I already said that Cole would be the problem. We would have to purchase a proper wing back, with a lot of stamina plus being equally good going forward and in defence. Cole possesses the stamina, but I think he's not that good at attacking as say Lahm.

Lolol. http://www.guardian....ll?CMP=twt_guac The irony is amazing. All is well and yet all is cancerous in Spanish football. Records are being broken and yet teams are going bust. It's eating itself alive and it will be delightful to watch when La Liga will consist of 38 Clasico's and nothing else. I wonder why the other 18 teams won't stop investing in players. Doctors are the way forward. Find better doctors than the big two, beat them.

Rival fans already compare him to Heskey.

There's no benefit in that whatsoever. He may as well rot on our bench instead of theirs. If the loan contract doesn't say in writing that he'll be starting 20 games over the course of the season, it's a waste of time.

SBS

It's not all doom and gloom. He could stay in the game as a coach or a scout or something.

And he's retired. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/9874915.Muamba_retired_from_professional_football/

Another one? Why don't we just move Stamford Bridge to downtown Liege or Brussels? The problem with dealing with Portuguese clubs is that they hang on to their star players like their balls. We're not getting him for anything under 35, I reckon. If Paulo Ferreira, bless him, cost 20 million 8 years ago, it's only to be expected to be more stupidly inflated than ever today.

You know, I'm starting to think he won't turn out that well. He monstered the Belgian league, but that was down to him being bigger than 99% of the world's strikers at the age of 17.

I don't think Liverpool will do that well under Rogers. He seems to be a long term investment. Perhaps in 5 years they'll be a big threat again.

Inb4 Kakuta becomes world class at Marseille.

Tinkerman Ranieri time!

Or perhaps we should go the whole hog, call out Mr. Guardiola as a technical director and ask him to set up a stupidly attacking 3-4-3 for us.

It's hardly a massive change, though. Lampard et al will enjoy the move back to that basic formation, because he knows he has plenty of cover. Given that the players have played a mildly similar structure before, it doesn't require a huge jump for them to play like that again. Di Matteo needs to have the bollocks to try something like that though. The main problem being the dearth of world class left backs in general. Cole isn't equally good in attack and defence. We'd have to purchase Lahm to fill that role, and such a lopsided formation can't work unless you have an LWB motoring up and down that flank.

But it's not a standard 4-2-3-1. When we have the ball, it's a 3-3-1-2-1; when we don't, it's a 5-2-1-2. It's not symmetric either, the bulk of the wide attacking will come from the right hand side with potentially a 3 on 2 vs an opposition winger and right back. We can also switch the ball to the left wing back who will have acres of space assuming the other team reacts by keeping a compact defensive width, as most teams usually do. A quick one-two with the slightly left of centre AM and we can get to the byline.