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It is easy to say he can join a PL club but say Zulte qualifies, who can say he will not want the chance to play in the UCL. I think he would jump at that chance, regardless of the stature of the league.

That is because he has handed in a transfer request for the second time and the fans don't want players who feel they are bigger than the club. Besides that, they know that he is a brilliant footballer.

Must be doing excellently to have been called up to the Belgium squad, massive achievement. Plays in just over an hours time against Anderlecht for the title decider. If Zulte win, they gain automatic route to the group stages of the UCL next season. This is a clip of his brilliant performance last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uV6TJ3tv1bs

TBH, I think Vertonghen has had a fantastic season. He made couple of errors earlier in the season but apart from his attacking instincts, some of his defensive abilities have been fantastic. I remember watching the game against City and Vertonghen did not give their strikers a sniff. Also in the 2-1 win to Arsenal earlier in the season he was my MOTM for sure. Was a dominating presence. Take into fact that he has been asked to do jobs from his normal position, he has done very well and also he was voted POTM in April IIRC.

Thing is Baines is not bad defensively. He is just very attacking but most matches he does well defensively and attacking wise. At us, we need more from our fullbacks going forward if we want to push on. For instance against Benfica how many times did Cole get forward compared to their LB. Hardly, and that is not because of what we tell him to do, he just does not have the pace and attacking play that he once had. Annoying because with Baines in our team we would improve much more but with Cole signing a contract that is not going to happen. People say Cole is still brilliant defensively but he has been very error prone this season and been bullied off the ball. I mentioned which players have skinned him in another thread somewhere so I will not go over that again. But I look at other big clubs and their LB and I feel Cole should be doing more. I only think it is his rep keeping that notion that he is the best LB in the world. With Shaw, I would love to have him here eventually but next season he will certainly be at Southampton without a doubt. Hopefully in a few years time he will be ready to be the no.1 left back here.

Has got everything. Can't believe he is only 20. Got years ahead of him and I think he has got everything to turn into one of the best box to box midfielders in the world. Excellent season.

Let people express their opinion how they want pal. Just look on the pages of Mourinho day in, day out, no one complains. I think people have a right to "moan" about him being potentially sold especially when we have not seen him play a competitive fixture yet here.

Think you meant to be on the KDB thread not this one

Another goal! That brings his goal tally for Werder Bremen to double figures, well played

Dortmund will be laughing at us like idiots if they manged to snare him away from here.

He was injured. He has returned in recent weeks and is playing for them.

Yeah, you can have a minimum of 3 players over the average age I think. Also regarding your question about Mata, he represented Spain U21 in 2011 in Denmark.

Who knows? Remember it was Newcasrle 4-4 Arsenal 4 couple seasons ago and just before Tiote hit that last min equalizer the score was at the time 4-3 to Arsenal....

LOL, no way is Courtois going to leave this club for nothing. Regardless if it involves Falcao. That is just ridiculous.

This. I like Mourinho. Was an excellent manager but I think I am one out of every thousand who is not bothered about if he comes. I am always of the impression that don't bring what is old back to what is new for some reason. But this season he has failed to deliver a trophy. Not embarrassing but that form at Chelsea gets you the sack. However ever since Mourinho has gone to Real he has turned nasty with this comments and fighting other opposition staff and in turn his players have fights and today was just one of them, there are several more. We don't need that here. I just wonder what Abramovich thinks about this situation. Worse thing is he has lost many of the dressing room and that is pivotal. If you lose the dressing room you lose respect and I have not been impressed with his antics this season and previous seasons at Real. 3 years at Real and major trophies was one La Liga despite the massive millions they have spent. I take into consideration that they are competing with Barcelona but his record in the UCL with them was not much success. If he joins us I hope he does manage to build back those years where we won the double under him as that was fantastic days. Hopefully this season was just a blur for everyone to forget.

Wrong post. I meant 1161 I think it was. OK my bad but my point is if they had similar abiliites and were outfield players then it would be fair to say Courtois will be better. But as keepers, Cech still will probably be world class for another decade or near that while Courtois will keep improving himself. That is why I think it would be unfair to say he will be better than Cech. No doubt I hope he is our no.1 one day though.

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I agree he is a quality keeper but to say he will be the better keeper is a bit rash. Because Cech is a world class keeper. Courtois is getting better but Cech is not declining. He pulls of saves you can't imagine. His save from Hernandez was one of the best saves I seen. I don't think there is much between them. Like I know you are saying Courtois will be better because he is younger but for a keeper Cech is still very young and still is a key player. But, I like your point here though. Well said. Don't think I am having a go at you for your praise of him but if you saw us over the season, Cech has bailed us out so many times and is the main reason we are the UCL holders.

Stop pointscoring. Everyone knows how good he is. No one is saying he was shit. You made a comparison stating he was better than Cech so people questioned that. They are both quality keepers.

What a save! WOW! Potential of this player is crazy.

Makelele once scored a goal for us actually was 2 goals

Clearly still an important player for the club. Some loyalty really goes out the window. He had a bad spell before and people wanted him to leave. Wonder if that is the same now

I have been hearing he is joining us for every day in the last 2 months. Only will believe he is coming here until we confirm it.

Yes. Karma I guess you can say. Has been a joy to watch in recent weeks though.

But he is younger and would not be considered for the first team until he is a bit more developed, then when another world class winger is available we probably will try and sign him. I reckon if he has a choice he will do the same as Kovacic and join Inter.