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Mourinho's true way he sees us playing relies heavily on the linkup of the striker with the midfielders. He said this a lot at the beginning of the season, high pressing and a striker that can linkup without space. This is lukaku's biggest weakness, and even though he would have been better than all we have right now, unless he develops and gets better in his weakness, mourinho won't feel like everything is complete. This is why he went after rooney and loaned lukaku to everton who play with ball to feet so that lukaku will develop his weakness. Regarding the buying policy of our club, I'm even more disappointed that bertrand was not given a proper chance ahead of cole. Left back is not as crucial as the striker, so we could have coped with any development bertrand needed in the first place.

I'll honestly take diego costa over rooney in the summer. A younger striker, who is not injury prone. But you are right in the sense that there are few options. He has had a good season too as expected. But the injuries can only get worse when he gets older and its making rooney look like a serious gamble to me. He'll also be 30 next season, which means in 2 years we'll be hunting for another top striker again.

Okay, rooney has been picking up too many injuries for my liking and is beginning to remind me of essien's injury problems. He'll be 29-30 by next season and his injury problems can only get worse. Looks like a risky option to me. I'm I the only one that is no longer keen on getting rooney anymore?

Exactly. People forget that bayern last season were based on immense work rate, that got them to concede only 14goals in the league all season. If we add a clinical striker, that's 1-2 goals extra than we have in every match this season.

If the liverpool scousers don't qualify for the champs lge, then I won't be surprised if we go all out for suarez.

Oh matic, Oh matic, He's 6 foot 4 inch, He'll make your midfielders his bitch He's returning to stamford bridge Oh matic, Oh matic

Nemanja Woah, Nemanja Woah, He played with us before, Now he costs much more....

Nemanja Woah, Nemanja Woah, He played with us before, Now he costs much more....

Now get costa. Then bring on barca, bayern, madrid anyone...

Finally after a 20 hour medical its done

When has a medical ever taken this long??

The mods pub?

Its crazy everytime I imagine it. A fantastic DM like martinez?? If we weren't signing matic, he would have been a perfect fit for us.

I hope the defender is shaw

I meant the combination of matic-ramires is like the brazilian pivot combo of gustavo-paulinho

I meant matic lol

People wanted us to buy gundogan or a cabaye to play with ramires. In my opinion it was just too small in size for a pivot which mourinho agrees. Now with matic, he has both the size of mikel and the workrate of ramires combined. This makes it easy to buy a ball passing CM like modric beside him. And we won't lose the physical battle in the midfield. Ramires - gundogan = aerial and physically weak pivot Matic - gundogan = complete pivot Matic - ramires = Brazilian NT pivot, max energy

But the benfica fans say he's better than witsel

Pretty much confirmed now. Its a question of when and not if

Yeah, they are all saying that witsel and javi garcia went for much higher prices and matic is much better than both of them

Almost all benfica fans say he's better than Witsel. Would be even a better signing than I thought if true

This is faker than Nicki minaj's Ass

Not good news. That will probably hike the price by 5mil. We've got to act fast, tuesday latest.

What?

Let's hope so. Benfica are normally a stubborn bunch. Only the fact that they didn't get into the knock outs of champs lge is in our favour.