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Oscar >>> Ganso. Well, maybe not, but he's damn good.

van Der Wiel. Hulk. Fellaini. Moutinho. Azpilicueta. Modric. Tiote. Cavani. Jovetic.

Is a left back.

Starts for Brazil vs. Argentina: Brazil starting XI vs Argentina: Rafael; Rafael da Silva, Juan, Thiago Silva, Marcelo; Sandro, Romulo, Oscar; Neymar, Hulk, Leandro Damiao.

The fact that I didn't even have to mention your name or quote you yet you clearly know it's about you, shows that what I'm saying is correct, otherwise you'd have no reason to think it's about you. uMaDBr0?

And I thought I was embarrassing..

Starts vs. Denmark. I personally don't particularly want him here, but it looks like we may be getting him, so I hope he has a great game!

You know what? This isn't even a joke - We should terminate our link with Vitesse and set one up with Anderlecht instead.

I think we've signed all 3. We probably only want Charly, but bought his brothers too so he wouldn't feel homesick or something. idk.

Cech's hat is so fking cute.

I think I agree with literally everything you just said.

Haven't seen much of him. Will look out for him in the Poland game later.

Big rumour going around: Apparently we're in talks with Barcelona to sign Sergi Roberto, after having a £6mil bid accepted. He won't leave this Summer, but would leave the following Summer instead. . . or something like that.

New Belgian talent we're linked with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3DxrISLufM

Lille, Twente, Hoffenheim & Wolfsburg all apparently want to loan De Bruyne.

A reminder of what Romeu does, this time against the current English Champions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Fb5HVy54A

We are clearly building our team around a 4-2-3-1 formation to accommodate our forwards. A 4-2-3-1 rarely allows for a box-to-box midfielder, which Essien is, so if Fellaini were to be an Essien replacement, we'd need to shift back to a 4-3-3, which won't be happening with our current attack. So that would mean the money spent would be on someone being asked to play a role that they're not natural in; See Mikel.

Did you not read 'just' ? As in, "don't only do that", which was followed by the final thing to do?

Central playmaker, attacking central midfielder, advanced playmaker/winger and a deep-lying playmaker? :banghead: They're all completely different roles. Why on earth are all those players being mentioned in the same sentence?

For the people questioning my praise of Romeu's positioning, go back and watch ANY game of his with us, barring the last Liverpool game. He constantly drops back into defence when Luiz goes forward, slots into right-back when Bosingwa goes forward which would usually leave us open, covers for Cole when he's doing his business. Who else has done that for us in midfield? Maybe you lot don't realise it, as aside from Makelele, we've had no REAL defensive midfielders, but that's what he's SUPPOSED to do, and he did it better than ANYONE in the league. Re-watch the 1st game vs. Newcastle and watch him simply boss the entire midfield. Don't just watch. See. His positioning is perhaps so magnificent and world-class that people get confused, as only few defensive midfielders have perfected the art of it in such a way. P.S. - The people who, with me, see his outstanding awareness on the pitch will most likely also be the same modern thinkers who clearly see David Luiz needs to be played as a Libero.

My unwanted, negative, grumpy thoughts on Fellaini: So... we have one of the best defensive midfielders we've literally ever had (but short-sighted people won't be able to see that I'm sure) in the form of 20 year old Barcelona-bred Oriol Romeu, who reads the game superbly, has the best positioning I've seen of any player this past season, and can pass better than most of our midfield, yet people on here would be happy to see us spend £15-£20mil+ on Fellaini, a player who turns 25 this year and would drain us of yet more money? First of all, think how that would make Oriol Romeu FEEL. "Oh, I was a standout midfielder this season, but they'd rather bring someone else in to play my position. OK..." Oh how the times have changed. I miss the times when the fans didn't just want to overpay for every single player who they 'believe' would be a good player for us, JUST because a few media outlets came up with a story linking the player to us. It's as if supporters can't even come up with their own views and opinions these days! They just echo what others whisper! The main irony of all this is, reading back, I remember a few of you going on and on about us not giving our youth a chance. May I remind you that Romeu and McEachran play in midfield, the position Fellaini plays? Looks like you don't care about the youth now. Rant.Over.

OK, forget my earlier post. This kit has grown on me. Not a fave, but I like it.

Looks like a goalkeeper kit. Just imagine Cech wearing that. Yeah.

I believe Arsenal will/have bid anywhere between £16mil - £24mil. He's worth it.

"MULLER" SUPPOSED TO BE NAME OF YOGHURT BRAND, NOT NAME OF FOOTBALLER. WHY DOES FOOTBALLER HAVE NAME OF YOGHURT BRAND!? I NEED ANSWERS! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ