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Another game without Mikel... another win. Just.. yeah.

Don't you fucking dare score you pea.

Balotelli could go down an all-time great for Milan despite not having any standout technical qualities about him I feel. His 9th goal in 9 games. Good for him. Milan really need to start investing in better midfield and defense players though. Juve to win the title again next season.

Pogba reminds me of Viera lots but he's even more dynamic. I want him. (At Chelsea, I mean.)

That skill from Pogba was sexy.

You're welcome Well just because we may disagree with some (or a lot) of eachother's posts or have some differences doesn't detract from what you bring to the forum. You seem to have given it an injection of new life. A few popular members started posting less and less, then you came in and quickly went quite a way to filling their voids.

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I wouldn't say Figo was/is slow. At 34 he only had around half his pace left yet was still doing this: Ribery is more of an actual winger, not a goalscorer and assist machine. You don't ever see Ribery deployed behind the striker. You do with Hazard and we used to with Figo. Ribery is very good but not special like Hazard or Figo.

Pray for Schalke.

Half-time and he's the worst player on the pitch vs. Deportivo.

Madrid being outplayed by and losing to Valladolid (0-1). Come home you handsome bastard.

A lot of us seem to somehow be under the impression we'll be getting a right-winger (or at least someone who's used to playing on the right) in the Summer. Out of realistic options, who would be the best for us? Hulk, Sanchez, Di Maria all come to mind as plausible transfers - the latter not interesting me much personally. Hulk obviously has the long-shots, strength, pace, cool name etc; Sanchez, if he were to recapture his Udinese form, has the dribbling, pace, crossing, work-rate, flair, passing ability; While Di Maria has the dribbling, penalty-winning 'abilities' pace and flair. Sanchez is the only right-footed one out of those I believe, so he'd probably be the best crosser, but I really don't know. Have we been linked with any other right-sided players for the '3' part of our formation?

He's basically Vidic but slightly less scary imo.

Does he still exist?

Stingray.

You were specifically making a point and are now attributing it as sarcasm to save-face to imply something my tiny, uneducated brain cannot comprehend. (Notice which part in that sentence was sarcasm.) Unless of course it was a joke, but jokes and sarcasm are not the same.

I've actually been to a few doctors, brought this up personally as a possibility a few times, and been rebuffed each time as I'm closer to self-loathing than vanity if anything & have never had particular prestige and do not seek it. I hope you're sending that as a suggestion and not a self-diagnosis otherwise it's possibly the most insulting thing I've ever seen on a forum.

I feel he's been mismanaged by Mourinho so I wouldn't feel confident having him here if Mou does return. I'd feel confident in him if we had AVB as manager as he likes deploying poachers and has always done that to great effect, but I believe we need someone more mobile under Mourinho. It's no coincidence that most of his success has been when he's had a powerful striker like Drogba or lung-busting player like Eto'o. Enter Lukaku...?

"These individuals are lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, and flirtatious." I'm like a sloth, not at all dramatic but everyone has their moments so I hope if you think I am indeed dramatic it's not based off of just one day of me posting, indeed full of spirit, lack enthusiasm as I have days which differ greatly so it's become a rarity and couldn't be flirtatious to save my life. So - your point?

Who decided to deploy Mikel as a defensive midfielder? Was it Mourinho? I can't remember. Hopefully he'll have the lock to him if he returns. I wonder how Sir Alex Ferguson would have used him, I really do.

Not quite. "I'll probably refrain from posting on here for a day or 2 then come back and give you a proper reply!" Neither of them happened; neither of them were committed to. Following that you told me to "not stress" which may mean something different where you're from, but over here that's taken as a "Don't worry about it" or "Alright, just do-so whenever". I'm still within the time period of 'whenever'. ​Just like you didn't interoperate my posts today how I'd like, I perhaps didn't interoperate your message how you would have liked.

You can't say 'stop it' during a conversation when you quote and reply to everything I'm saying in the discussion. It takes up valuable page-space! You should or could have Private Messaged that, which I encourage you to do if you'd like to converse further. I assume you'd rather not, but who knows. Life is full of surprises.

I LOVE MIKEL DEBATES!!!!!!!

I'm fine and still glad that I left school early, and perfectly happy for people to know about it. You're not an asshole for knowing information I happily put out there; You're an asshole for bringing someone's personal life into what was a football-related discussion as-if it's some sort of needed ammo as you fail to get your point across in a mature manor.