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I'm still a bit skeptical. Has he spoken about the Liverpool fans?

I'm not very good at 'banter'. @ and @We Hate Scouse, can tell you more about that. Every session of banter where I'm on the receiving end goes too far for me

But Drogba was rare, he had an affinity with the fans of every club he played for, to the point where one of his first clubs named a new stadium after him. Torres is Atletico true and true, I doubt he would really care about either Scouse fans or ourselves; compared with his home fans.

Wait, you have a standard exam result date across all tertiary institutions in England? That's pretty cool.

Yes, 1979 u-20 and 1986 World Cup. Also lost a WC final in 1990. Messi has the 2005 u-20 World Cup.

Also Maradona won 2 World Cups, Pele won 3. 1 won't cut it, no matter how 'easy to score 5 a game lol' football was in the 60s. See the Messi thread for further details as to why football in the 60s was immeasurably harder than it is today. As far as being the best of the last 20 years, he's nowhere near the level of Zidane, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho etc. Messi isn't that far off those three but he's still got a long way to go to be mentioned in the same breath as them. I can guarantee you Zidane et al wouldn't have been flummoxed by half an hour of Salomon Kalou at right back and an hour of Jose Bosingwa at centre back. And then there are the legions of defenders far better than Mess-Aldo, like Thuram, Maldini, Nesta, Canavarro, Cafu, Roberto Carlos, to name a few. Roberto Carlos is a bit of a borderline call, I think Mess-Aldo might just pip him. Keepers- Oliver Kahn was better than any player today, outfield or in goals. It takes something incredible, out of this world, for a keeper to win the Golden Ball at a World Cup, where a striker scored 8 goals.

To be the greatest player ever he'd have to score about 2000 career goals. No one will ever knock Pele off his perch.

Cole is still the best left back in the world. The split should be 2/1 for every 3 games, in favour of Ashley; gradually by January 2014 moving to 50-50, and by July 2014, Bertrand should be ready. I have to say though, Ryan is lightning quick. Deceptively quick as well, I never thought he had this much speed in him.

Someone should depose the Syrian regime. Not the American's or any other Western country. A regional force. Turkey, perhaps.

Same guy said he loved the Kop. Wouldn't trust his purported love for the fans- he, like 99% of all other athletes regardless of sport, is doing it for personal glory.

Sick fetishes that no self respecting woman that appeals to them in terms of sexual attraction would participate in? I can't really see supermodel's happy to be shat/pissed on. Scarface might get off on that.

It would improve absolutely nothing. Oscar, Mata and Hazard are better than him. We're spending 50 million for a guy to sit on the bench.

Portugal is a 2, 3 team at best league. It's a good Scotland/Spain, basically. The day Ligue 1 or Serie A ever get caught by Portugal will be an awful day for club football.

I'm for it if we get him for peanuts. He's far too poor to be getting paid more than 50k/week; as all squad players should be.

Someone (shit) could use his skills but we don't need any more of that.

Was it Ruby the Heart Stealer? It'll be fucking delightful to see Scarface get prison time or something.

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.

That was what I meant!

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'll always be a Red he said, van Persie, van Persie".

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