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classic Torres

navas can't be that fast, this tahitian guy had no problems catching up with him.

Mata just scored with his right food!. and that even though he could also have run around the ball to shoot with right...maybe he has worked on it.

Imo he was very good for WBA, but not THAT special. All he did had made sense, but he rarely was special. His goals have been rather standard striker goals. Mata, Hazard, Lampard are special players because they often create something extraordinary. Lukaku has been solid, but except a few occasions (skinning carragher, conter goal, hattrick vs a manU b-team) he has not been that eye-catching. But i am sure he will pick up even more form and do some special things for us, cos he has saved that for his favourite club.

he has great ambition, but he is a clever guy, too. Never will be too overmotivated like Marin. special things to come from him

Tahiti are embarrassing and admirable at the same time. They are utter shit but they give it their all despite knowing they do not got a chance.

I did not know who Spain was playing, until I read that Torres had scored. Then I knew it was Tahiti

So sorry for u, that the best player of a club who has had players like Eusebio and Preud'homme is now a clumsy, croatian bean-pole. Maybe not a coincidence, that u have not won a single international trophy since the dinosaurs died out and won your joke-league only twice in more than 20 years... I have recently included a buy out clause in the contract of my left jack wolfskin flip flop. That flip flop is the best flip flop I'v seen being on my foot. Better than the adidas one, the puma one and the crocs one...you name them. It won't go for less than 200million. That's for sure

this is only a glorified friendly. no reason to overrate the significance of de Rossi's game with regard to his qualities as a player. I think it is rather in his favour that he scored an excellent header and created the winner with an amazing pass.

Las time we faced Hull on the opening week-end we won and were Champions in the end. That fixture list law is really ridiculous. But is is no copyright when i post the list but put typos in every second match.

yup. chelsea, that's why we won all three.

Typically German hypocrisy. Zorc categorically rules out a Lewandowski sale and wants other teams to respect that but he himself does not accept that we rule out a transfer for KDB.

beast, absolutely worth the money, amazing leap in form this season. but still raw , his right foot is still very weak and technically he is not that good. but physically he has everything he needs.

No way we will or should buy him Average player really. Anyone would shine against those shitty Portugese & most EL teams. He is not even worth 15m. We might have sold him too cheap, but we surely wonÄt rebuy him. NO way the board would aknowledge such a huge mistake. The perverted fee for such a boring player would make it even more atrocious. Btw lol@ the first sites of the thread. Some girls wrote he's hot and apparently did NOT mean that ironically. wtf? Sludge face and a bony, scrawny body make him fit the category of Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez and Rio Ferdinand. Another wrote "looked like a future Ballack" This entire player has not even as much talent as Ballack's small toe. If he was the player Ballack was at his age... or at any age, one might maybe get his fee...but rather not.

I do not think we have bid for him or actually in for him at all. He is perfect for the EPL, but not ready for Chelsea yet. I bet a club like Sunderland, WBA or Swansea will sign him in summer.

We should break that Atletico bound. Maybe he will be pissed, but I don't think he will require a sale. Atm the club is in the more powerful position, cos Courtois has still 3 years on his contract. His future with us will be decided this summer. This season he has overhauled Cech. This is a fact. He has probably been the best and most consistent goalkeeper this season together with Roman Weidenfeller of Dortmund. If he will go on loan another season we will not see him again

Yeah, fortunately we did not wear it very often. My most hated kit was the mustard-yellow third kit of the 08/09 season. Lampard scored the winner in the Fa cup final vs everton in it but the kit was horrible.

no wonder. The coach is the same. But Brazil of 2002 was vintage. I hope Germany gets drawn into the Brazil group (if that is possible, I think not) just to show in the group stages who the boss is.

Sry, but I am pretty sure he won't travel to Singapur. It would leave him with less than 2 weeks holiday.

Most footballers are thin and look fragile nowadays which makes it really funny when they stand up and play men by fighting each other... anyway there is enough medical care for them and they get millions to stay fit. I know amateur players who have endured greater strain for no money and without medical help.

This Times have changed. In 2004 we could buy anyone with talent for insane amounts of money. We still can do that. But in 2004 we had no titles and no squad. Now we have. Mourinho's arrival means we will at least win COC, Fa Cup or shit like this, so it would not be that big drama to miss out on the league, given we did not invest that much and given we at least were able to compete. 63m is an insane amount of money for one player. No one should blame our board for backing out at these amounts. The market is inflated enough already and provided that we have already have some experiences with strikers in these priceclasses, there would at least be a learning process displayed which would make the decision retraceable. Ba, Torres, Lukaku + Schürrle being able to play as a striker are surely enough in numbers. Even though Gomez/Dzeko might be a bit more clinical than those, I see no sense in spending more than 20m on a slight upgrade. The league is won against smaller teams and against exactly these Ba, Torres, Lukaku will probably be enough. Dzeko or Gomez would mean 3-5 points more for us from these. I bet those will not make us Champions hence they are not worth 20m. Last season we played with literally no strikers cos most of the time Torres/Studge/Ba all were off form. This is unlikely to happen again. Also we have never been a club that relied too much on strikers in the league since Abramovich came. Except the 06/07 and the 09/10 season we did not even have a striker with more than 16 goals. Lampard will ship in again with double figueres and will win some matches on his own. As will Mata and Hazard. Ramires and Oscar will also score a few and our centre backs are also unusually dangerous. ACtually one has to recognize the benefits of the much dreaded Lampard-Ramires pivot. They might be a bit ineffective defensively, but it's not that we concede too often and rarely it's their fault. On the other hand they scored almost 30 goals combined, many of them were really important. Makes them the highest-scoring defensive midfield pairing in the world^^ If we do not get Cavani, Lewandowski or so equivalent. Give it a go with luakaku and if it does not work, we can still rectify in winter.

A young body can take much strain. Hope he gets an extended holiday. We do not need him in Asia anyway. Surely Schürrle will take a bit weight off Mazacar, but still our preseason will be strenious enough.

I do not think ManU's interest is any kind of danger...Roman practically owns Vitesse. If we want him, we will get him.

k, I'd take neither.

Really? No so sure. Verrati is as weakass as it gets. He is no DM, rather a DLP. I do not really rate him... Does not change the point anyway, PSG are not a seller club...