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This. Especially if they aren't a significant improvement to the current squad.

Best player we can go for in January. Cheap fee and a good goal scoring record which will surely extend when he plays with our attacking mid. Let's do this! I think this is the perfect way to go, if Lukaku is pleased with it. Our attack striker would be solved!

Yeah, he's scored 4 in the last 2, he's the old Nino!!

Was loaned out to Wolfsburg 2 years ago and didn't score in 7 disappointing apps for them in the Bundesliga, might be a good player for Anderlecht, but not a target for Chelsea.

That 3-0 and 6-0 was just pure class. I don't care if winter or summer, just get him!

They by far didn't play their first 11 and the mentality could've been a problem, because they knew they were through already. Really liked Rosicky though. 1 goal, 1 clearance off the line and a pass accuracy of 96% which is immense.

At least that doesn't make it that embarissing if we're going out, too. And in contrast to City, we're definitely gonna reach Euro League. Btw, Arsenal is behind against Olympiakos.

If you mean that we're trying to attract him to come here (hope I understood that right), nah, I think that goes too far. In my opinion, it's an world-football evolution (at least at the bigger teams) that seems to come with the domination of the 4-2-3-1. Most of the teams prefer a rather small attacking mid. And I think especially in England, when you come up against physically strong defensive sides, it seems to me that we're lacking that strength in our attack. Yeah, some coaches may want to reproduce the Barcelona style of play or interpret it in their way, but to me that (especially in our team where we have Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Moses, Piazon, Marin, ...) goes a little to far and a team should always be variable in their style of play and I don't see the point in buying a player that we have enough of in our squad.

Another Brazilian? Also another small atacking midfielder? I think with Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Moses, Marin, Piazon,... we have enough of this type of player. I'd appreciate going for a tall (min 180) playmaker/attacking mid to produce some physical strength in the attacking third.

Don't worry about this. Either he pisses of when Cavani or Falcao arrive, or we do it like Inter does it with Sneijder and give him the options to warm the bench for 4 years or decrease his wages drastically. The difference to Inter is: Instead of Sneijder, he'd warm the bench in both options...

I think 15m is an ok price for him and in contrast to what we'd have to pay for Falcao or Cavani, the risk is lower. Still need one of them imo and get Robert as a second striker and maybe play with 2 strikers. Also, we could do a lot more rotation.

He will stay in Dortmund until the end of the season for sure, but if we really want to sign him, there's a great chance in the summer. Robert's contract expires in 2014 which means, if BVB still wants a trasfer fee for him, they have to sell him in summer. I'm not sure if Lewandowski will sign a new contract. The media says that the talks so far have showed that he more likely will leave the club. You must know, Lewandowskis next contract is going to be the one, where he'll be on top of his form and Dortmund don't have financial opportunities like we have seeing as the transfer of Reus where they paid 17m transfer fee was claimed to be the "transfer of the century" for them. If we want to sign him, we have good chances, but in summer. I like Robert, he's a class striker, but not a world class striker as Falcao or Cavani. But he'd definitely fit into the English football, I think.

Mourinho and Real are definitely gonna part ways in summer. According to German newspapers Benitez and Löw are the wishes of Perez.

fuck this, i'm an idiot.

I can see a future for both. Rotation is the word. It also pretty much depends on what players we're gonna buy for the double pivot. I can also see a chance Josh being loaned to a Premier League club next season.

We don't need Hamsik. If the club thinks we need another option in the attacking mid, it'd be much more realistic to call back KDB, but I don't think we will. Also, I don't think Napoli will sell their 2 best players in January (to the same club).

I got a little misunderstood there. I didn't mean that Hart was a better keeper than Cech, he'll never be! But I meant the performance of heart in comparison with Given's performance back then. Hart just waited for his chance and when it came, he used it, that's what I meant, sorry again. I think he knows that it'll be difficult to get the keeper's spot at Chelsea as long as Petr is here, but he did that back when he signed the contract here. I think this boy has an aim and the ability and the talent to achieve it, if he's patient. If the time has come when we don't loan him at the beginning of the season, he'll get his chances for sure. He can play F.A. Cup, COC matches and so on. We have the room in our game schedule for that. There is a danger to loose him, as long as he doesn't get his chances, the officials need to be aware of that. He's got a contract until 2016 which is a lot of time and many things can happen. We have to watch him develop more and more and if there's an offer for him of another club the board has to make the decision. And that pretty much depends on Petr's performances in the future.

If Courtois comes back and shows performances like Hart did, then he deserves to get the spot in our goal and I'm fine with it. Otherwise, I don't see a realistic chance for him in the next 2-3 years except Cech would get injured or something.

We shouldn't rush anything with Courtois. He's a big talent, but we have a world class keeper and he will need some time to develop and we should give that time to him by loaning him at least 2 more seasons to clubs with a tight game schedule just like we have. Cech should remain in goal until his performances drop and that can take a few more years.

4-1 win for Bremen against a weak Hoffenheim side. KDB with 2 assists and the best mark after the two goalscorers Arnautovic (3 goals) and Prödl although he only had a pass success of 73% in this one in the end which is still over the average of Bremen today (69%).

Just initiated another goal by widining the play with a long pass from the left to the right wing.

Werder Bremen are playing a mix of a 4-3-3 and a 4-1-4-1 and he is playing in the double center midfield in front of one pivot.

The second assist was real class, if intended, but I think it was. Reminds me of the Mata-Hazard double-pass before the 3-2 against Tottenham.

With a manager and a striker, we'd maybe have a chance.

I'm afraid you're right. Dortmund, Schalke and Leverkusen all play some nice football, but just aren't consistent enough. Also, with the way Bayern are playing at the moment, they deserve to win it.