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YES!!!!! SORRY SPANISH GUYS BUT YES BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally tika-taka is fucked over! Woohoo what a night for FOOTBALL AND BRAZIL Luiz / Thiago MOTM for me yeah Fred did well and Neymar but team performance! Credit to Cesar as well, great game

@Peace great stuff But!!! And I cannot believe I'm saying this - I do think there could be merit in this type of analytical approach... However - I believe that the weighting needs to be applied A) In possession not in possession For (A) the weighting or blended contribution needs to be judged on how decisive the team are and how players contribute to the general attacking play - so many times teams make it to the attacking third and then pass back into defence - now is that a positive or negative attacking manoeuvre? To me it is negative! It is a triumph for the defending team.. The problem I have and especially with the England team - is that we get to the edge of the box and then end up in the 'Dither Zone' - the Dither Zone is dangerous, it's a knife edge between attacking reward (goal or chance of goal) vs a misplaced pass (turnover) leading to a dangerous counter attack... I think you would also need to add weighting around the formation used too - some formations are more attacking/defensive than others... All easily do-able though - its just statistical modelling with weighted input parameters - everything can be calculated on Excel A DB would be more fun though - and I'd also include a self learning (adaptive) probability engine in there too see if it can within a tolerance start accurately predicting results based upon players, weather, previous form etc if we pull that off - either richer than our imagination (fleecing the bookies) or employed by every club globally I never thought I'd ever be interested in statistics again - but I'm quite liking this thread

Don't waste your breath!!! I know the guy that researched this for a multi-million year on year selling Football Management title - yet the fucking idiot still refuses to believe me... The guy is a fucking troll - he should just fuck off back to the Napoli forums and stop wasting our time here. Don't feed him - he will fuck off and I hope Napoli get relegated next season... As for Cavani - not worth the money, spend the time trusting Lukaku and we'll be like Cavani who? primax who? Simple!

He wants to buy a house in Monaco! Sure he fucking does... Then he pays ZERO tax on all of his earnings as he'll no doubt file for Domicile Status... That's fucking shocking, good luck to him - wonder how long the German press will take to realise he's not paying into Germany, but getting a lot of money out... I'd expect a witch hunt - incited by his former employees... International Tax Evasion is the new big thing - I know - I'm being stung for it after moving to Austria - So now I'm moving back LOL...

Ok - here's how you prove it Load up Football Manager... Buy a player and give the other club a % fee - on future sales - transfer list the player, sell him and then check your bank-account Because that's how it works - period, end of discussion.... How do I know? Because I worked with the boys @ SI Games and I know the guy who researched this with ALL of the Football Federations! The contract is between CFC + Napoli for Cavani. - Any financial commitments Napoli have are irrelevant to the transfer price, IF the RELEASE CLAUSE is met. IF the Release Clause expires - then sure Napoli can negotiate whatever they want - but AS IT STANDS - Napoli will be ponying up the money from their €63million! Trust me - I don't know much - but I know about this

We are looking for HOME GROWN players That's the reason behind the transfer apparently - it satisfies two criteria: 1) Home Grown 2) Decent Backup Although I agree Shay Given surely qualifies as Home Grown - even though he's pretty shit nowadays, not as bad as Hilario tho! Where's Lenny Pidgely! Bring Back LENNY

That's cool - didn't think you would have taken that much offence

Yeah shame - Roman should have got a feeder club to buy him and loan him out to us for a season or two He's always worth having on the bench for 20mins Oh well as Magiclamps said - BA has scored some cool and crucial goals for us and is a good lad - no whining - so will let BA off

Yeah just Tevez always does well against us... I think him and Mancini had a problem - I don't think he's that bad as a person... Oh well good luck in Italy

No I agree - I watched it before and after your comment and after was definitely more annoying I guess he doesn't use 'uhm or erm' he just says 'yeah' even when he means no... I have been interviewed for TV a few times and it's scary as fuck and the channels I was on BBC 1 and ITV had less viewers i reckon thing is once you screw up on tape - it's there forever Andre 'yeah' Shirley... Have to call him 'Yeah Shirley' from now on

Yeah I see what you did there helps keep the old post count up right slightly controversial comment good work

Fuck I'd have had him for 8 million - BA or Tevez - no comparison!!!! Man why do we get a new arsehole ripped every time we want to sign a player? I reckon Abramovich should secretly buy an Italian club - they always get good deals!!!!

Dude who's the Avtar girl? Don't say your missus as you'd never be on the forum if it was

Lmao harsh lets see you sign for Chelsea then speak fluent German - without the 'yeahs' At least he didn't say what most European's do 'for sure' He seems a good lad - shouldn't be a problem in the dressing room - and German efficiency is what we need! Vorsprung Durch technique! Happy, good little signing - probably what Marin should have been

Oh I thought that was a joke - a bad Joke - but still a joke? @Choulo - did that offend you? And is it a permanent ban or temp? Backstreet is ok man - perhaps he was drunk! It's the close season it does funny things! Dam all kicking off - that's why I said close the forums - 6 weeks holiday LOL

Why was backstreet banned?

Poor old City

Yeah all bullshit absolute joke! And from what I've seen 58million for him right now ain't a good bit of business! He DID look shit in front of goal (yes as did Suarez) - but do I really want another 'confidence' player? Compare Torres / Cavanni / Lukaku and tell me which of those gives a fuck about confidence! The more I hear it - the more it wants me to stick with Romeu ! He could be a bigger beast than Cavanni and is premiership proven! I hope Jose thinks like me - buying yet another 'flop' won't work out well for anybody I honestly never thought I'd see Cavanni play soo poorly - it was a ghost - like Torres when's he joined us! Maybe the rumours are already affecting him - whatever it is - I'm not liking it...

Hmm any twitter feed with the tagline ITK.... Especially after last year!!!

@Leif Hit the nail on the head - it's business first and foremost... What's this thing on August 10th - his buy out clause expires? If so, then surely that 'weakens' our negotiations? If he has a clause and we match it - personal terms can be discussed without the club being involved... If his clause expires they could reject a 63million bid, which they would have been forced to accept only 24hrs prior... Don't think that scenario isn't likely.... You never know with Chairman nowadays... especially Levy...!!!

It would be interesting to hear exactly what he was sacked for? If he was covering up for the 'shite on the floor' situation - then maybe that's grounds for a sacking... But I hope that's the last we hear of Brighton for a while - I hope they tumble down the leagues and end up in Non-League... Joke of a club...

Yup credit where it's due he looked great tonight! Musa also looks cool - if he could be 'polished' - what a great little player My only concern with Mikel is he doing an Adebayour? Trying to put himself in the shop window? He will never be used in the same role at Chelsea and looking at it now - I think we have damaged his career... If he can find a role higher up the pitch at another team we should let him go

As someone else said: VPN I pay 5 month for an awesome VPN service I can select over 100 countries on it - block me? I don't fucking think so.... It's very annoying moving back to the UK - I still have my place in Salzburg, but moving back in a few months... I now have 50mb broadband in Austria and 100mb in England - but I can use my Austrian broadband for whatever i want! Our civil liberties in the UK are being fucked over at an alarming rate

I think the forums should close for the summer!!! Unpopular I know - but the place just descends into a war zone until August.... Just my 'unpopular view'

Haha that will fund some signings