Magic Lamps

Actually I would not want him here. He is totally overrated, has only played one decent season ever in his entire career. He was only voted player of the year in Germany because the magazin that organized the vote sent 80% of the voting cards to the wrong addresses so only a fracture of the representative number of journalists actually voted. I know many of you reside in Schweinsteiger's rectum and only leave it to lick his feet, but as a long-time follower of his performances i can say he is so damn inconsistent, always injured and usually lets his team down big time. Though one has to admit, that his experience, positional sense, reading of the game, tactical skills and general footballing ability are above average you have to know he was a winger at first but he proved technically too bad and too slow for that position. He is not only damn slow, much slower than Mikel for instance. Also no one really knows what he actually is, for a B2B midfielder he is extremely useless in front of goal (the goals he has scored in his entire career are about as many as Lamps scores in an average season), for a DLP he has too few key-passes, for a DM his tackling is shit. I am not saying he would not improve this team as we do not have one proper player for the DP, but he only would do so because he is a good footballer at the peak of his powers, but there is no way he is the worldclass man everyone outside Germany thinks he is. How much would he cost hypothetically 30m? 40m? He is worth half of that at best... As long as the weather is nice and everything goes well for his team he will always be in the middle of the party, but as soon as it gets dirty he will be either the first to disappear or the one to ultimately fuck it up so no wonder his only decent season was one his team had no struggles at all and never got near a problem just because luckily the oppositions where coincidentially sabotaging themselves. When they lost in 2012 to us, as soon as he faced Lampard of course he was the one to only role the ball to Robben 20 times for the Dutch to shoot over instead of taking responsibility himself. Of course it was him who missed the crucial penalty. Of course it was him getting fucked a 2nd bumhole by Daniele de Rossi a month later when Germany exited the Euro. Just as I wrote in the Khedira thread, there a good players and there are great players.... He is fuckin 29 and at his peak, but however you look at it, whether he is a DM, DLP or B2B mid, there are a host of players better than him at any of those positions currently. Some people even think he as a player overall is in the Lampard, Matthäus bracket. Actually he is not even in the Gerrard, Ballack bracket. He might be in the upper half of the Torsten Frings, Michael Carrick bracket but only when you are really kind to him.

No. http://www.chelseafc.com/player-of-the-year

Still miles away from Chelsea quality.

who actually gives a shit, if an average team buys an average winger?

I strongly doubt that Bayern really offer 47m € for David Luiz. It would be a German record transfer fee. Even though an amazing player, he is not worth so much money. But as stated above he is one of the world's best centrebacks and so important to us cos he is the most all-round skilled defender we got. also it is not we got too many classy centrebacks while there are no equivalent replacements on the market. Anyway, if Bayern come up with stupid money - i doubt they will even come up with reasonable money - I honestly would consider to accept. For 50m or so we could buy an army of good centrebacks and some of them would probably turn out great.

Fullbacks never get player of the year awards.

It is incredible how deep Inter have fallen since the days of Mourinho, when they had Eto'o, Sneijder, Julio Cesar, Lucio etc. They replaced them with average ones. I just checked their squad and I do not know half of the players. This Kovacic guys is an immense talent though. Only 19 and technically one of the best DMs I have ever seen.

The tournamen is all set up for our Clash with Real in the final. Will be the first time we face them since ages.

The Milan-Valencia game set a high benchmark for the rest of the tournament in terms of level of football. The game will be our first real test this preseason, but we are superior through and through in terms of manager and squad, so we should win this. actually I would like us to win this tournament. when we won a similar event under Carlo in the USA, we ended up winning the double

I just saw how Bayern played. ------------Defense ------------Thiago- --Müller-------------Kroos Mandzukic.-Shaqiri--Robben DAFUQ? Pep is playing half the team out of position.

All these new opportunistic Bayern fasn will be pretty pissed right now. After the German media have hyped Pep's new FC Bayern with over-the-top articles about new philosophy and shit on daily basis, it is nice to have him off to a losing start. They simply don't get it. Heynckes is twice the manager Pep is. Just as is Klopp. Bayern are just overloading their team with unnecessary no.10s and forgetting that there most important assets are on the wing and they won't get any younger.

He is 6ft 1/2 which is rather short for an defender + he is extremely lightwight. Most strikers are bigger.

It would be interesting, true, but not that interesting you would not want to offload him as soon as the opportunity is there. Also it is Ramires, whose attitude is spot on. He actually gives a shit about the club and his carreer, Torres does not.

I think it is ideal. This way we can be up 6 points before facing bayern.

lol. Why that?

This Actually as defenders they are the complete opposite of each other I think Kalas simply should play RB, as i understand Wallace is loaned out anyway. I want to see him against bigger and better oppositions first to judge him as a defender. Most people would not give a shit what an attacker does when you are 8 goals up. Communication and experience will come, but his size worries me. He is sooo small, he will not stand a chance against most EPL strikers physically.

I'd say Piazon, Lukaku, Bertrand, Lamps, Mata and Torres are all rather good looking. Mata's body is too small compared to his head and Cesar Azpilicueta looks good on first sight but on second sight you see the bottom half of his face is too big. But you all forgot one, who, technically still in our first team squad, is without a doubt the best looking of them all. all in all we always had a handsome squad. Other than Utd, who have always been collecting the ugliest shitfaces of all (Tevez, Rooney, Ferdinand, Nani, anderson, fletcher...)

Lol. I hope he honours Carlo Cudicini's memory in that number^^

So we will soon be full strength. Can't wait to release that immense depth we got on oppositions. Must be great for Mou, If things don't go round with Mazacar you still got KDB, the best German counter player or the greatest goalscoring midfielder in history on the bench.

Exactly. i actually enjoyed being given insight into the opposition views. As long as all behave well, there is nothing wrong about it. I actually think both Suarez and Rooney are extreme cunts. Rooney surely did not mean to offend Lamps (who actually only has scored 8 deflected goals, which is less than 4% of his tally), I am sure they both get along well at England. And even though Suarez is probably the even bigger cunt, I admire his quick-responsiveness and selflessness for keeping out that Ghana goal at the WC.

Why did we stop scoring after 66minutes this could well have gone into double figueres.

Our midfield will oustcore the strike department easily. I mean we got 5 mids to one striker anyway, whilst one of our dms is Lampard... Yeah, but they do not have SAF anymore.

I wonder what is better, starting earlier with preaseason but having less real matches,less intensity and more friendlies vs shit sides like Bundesliga teams do, or starting later and having a mammoth amount of friendlies against stronger oppositions like we do.

as i wrote above. Really decent. About as good as Mikel's I think He is not particularly strong for a DM either. His strength might be more than enough for Bundesliga. But in the EPL he has to face Yaya Toure. Lol according to google search, yaya toure is one kg lighter than Gustavo. Everyone can see Yaya is twice the size Gustavo is. What do you mean? I have seen Martinez and Gustavo a lot, i know exactly what I am talking about. Of course Gustavo is not as strong as Javi Martinez....

I did not say, Rooney would be a bad buy, but he surely should not be our first priority signing nor our only target. Also in palyer per player i think it is more even. I think Mata is as good asMüller, Hazard is as good as Ribery, Cech is waaaaaaaaay better than Neuer, who is really overrated, Oscar is as good as Kroos, A.Cole is better than Alaba and I think Ivanovic-Luiz partnership is as good as Boateng-Dante. Of course their DP is very good, but also Martinez would get overrun in a faster league. People tend to overrate Bayern's players because of their success. But other than past CL winners, who often relied on few outstanding players, Bayern strenght is they got such a high density of high-quality players that fit their system, their style and their tactics perfectly. Individually, I rate Real, Barca and ManCitys squads way higher than Bayerns, but Bayern simply had the much superior tactics and better spirit. That is also why I look forward to having a top coach like Jose again. he really can show what he is all about, when there is less money but more potential for development and his personal note. He won the CL with Porto and Inter by completely outfoxing his opponents tactically. which is what heynckes did last season. i hope Mou can repeat it here.