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Mark Schwarzer is a quality keeper. Always has been and he's probably one of the best reserve keepers in the league.

How tutoring works.... http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/squad/player-development/player-tutoring

QPR made sense if he wants to stay in London. The other options are West Ham and Palace who don't have the means to afford him.

On the one hand its great to have a legend at the club. On the other it makes little sense to keep one of our top-five highest earners when he'll likely play zero meaningful minutes. He's now in the final two years of his contract so now is the time to sell, provided Courtois signs an extension (with a wage rise supplemented by the money we make from moving Cech on).

Really? Cech will not compete, nor will he be rotated for one simple reason. Courtois is better. Cech will sit on the bench unless Courtois needs a rest, gets injured or the game is pointless....and that will cost us £5 million. Essentially we'll have a player who is one of the top five earners in our squad amongst the bottom five appearance makers which is financially silly and ain't gonna last long here.

To use technical terms....they're fucking loaded. FFP really isn't a serious consideration for them at the moment. They actually made a profit last year and revenues are going to grow in the next year.

Can he play in midfield or defence? Great striker but striker isn't their issue in the slightest. Apparently he's £9 million for the season WITHOUT wages. In comparison Costa's fee works out to just over £6 million per season (£32 million amortised over a 5 year contract, which could actually be extended this bringing the fee down further). Plus he's 28 (29 in February). Plus he's just a couple of months off an injury which takes most athletes about 12 months to fully recover from.

Quick, think of a player who is a big-name and available. Cech?? If Hulk Hogan was available, they'd be in for him.

I've thought this before. I actually was close to suggesting he could be dropped for the Everton game and we could've gone with Ramires, Matic and Oscar or even Willian. We were far too loose in midfield on Saturday and Everton's midfield dominated our's. That is the great thing about our squad though. We're hugely versatile.

Hope he has a great season so he can come back here and challenge for a spot, ideally replacing Ramires. As for our depth now, Baker should get some minutes and the situation with Chalobah becomes interesting.

I'll echo what every other sensible fan has said, that this is just a great move by the club. Remy can actually start for us in matches and possibly get us a goal as opposed to Torres and Drogba (who I think is the ideal impact sub of the bench to compliment either Costa and Remy). He has the perfect profile for our second striker, he's got experience and he's great value. Anyone seriously suggesting we should've gone for Falcao is an utter moron.

Balague saying it's a £50 million transfer. SSN saying it's a season-long loan. Nice to see United signing their strikers for the same length of time they sign their managers.

Anyone confused by this shouldn't be. United's policy has been clear for a while now. Who is available? Fellaini was available. He wasn't what they needed, but he was available. Mata was available. They needed a deep-lying midfielder, they bought a number 10 who isn't as good as Rooney. Di Maria was available. Falcao is available. Ed Woodward has no fucking idea how to buy footballers. Great commercial manager (although United are one of the most valuable sporting brands in the world so it's not the toughest job in the world) but he's simply trying to look busy in the role of buying players. Look at what our board did. We needed a DM so we got one of the best in Europe UNDERPRICED. We needed a creative midfielder so we bought one of the best the Premier League has seen in the last decade. We had a striker who was costing us too much so we sold him and bought one in who has a decent record in the league. United are an utter joke at the moment. Oh and €65 million at €9 million for a guy who has played THREE matches since recovering from an ACL injury is incredible.

Howard comes running out moaning but literally at the split second he goes for Costa, Fabregas turns his head. As soon as he turns back around and sees Costa and Howard he pulls Costa (who is already on a booking) away. He does the right thing. Anyway, that's far too much time spent talking about a complete non-incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-MGbWwyoSo

After the goal, Fabregas actually turns and celebrates with the Chelsea fans who are seated in the stand the cameras are situated in. Then he picks the ball up and actually pulls Costa away from the melee to calm him down, which is exactly what he needed. Think some people are making mountains out of molehills. I remember some people saying another player who spent 8 years at Arsenal before joining us in his mid-20s would never be 'proper Chelsea'.

Utter bollocks. Team's defend as a team. Fact is Hazard did well to track Coleman at times, and others he didn't. The other problem was that we had Fabregas back there defending at times, occasionally giving the ball away and trying some risky shit when you'd actually want Oscar in there doing what he has done the last two matches. Azpi is an exceptional one-on-one defender but few players are perfect 100% of the time. Despite that I wouldn't be surprised to see Luis start the next game against Swansea.

Right.....and the excuses for last season when his competition was Torres, Ba and Eto'o are.... Serial bottler.

We rarely had control of that midfield from the moment we scored until the moment Everton pushed forward and the game became disjointed. Fabregas was our only creative outlet and that meant Everton could put pressure on him and leave Ramires to it.

Need Oscar back for this one (for Ramires) and Schurrle in for Willian. Would've been an ideal game for Luis to get a start but hard to drop Azpi and impossible to drop Ivanovic. Beyond that the team pretty much picks itself.

No-one expects perfection and to be honest this was probably a good game for Ramires but he's a massive liability. With him in the team we'll struggle to control games because Everton bossed that midfield today.

No chance. We need Oscar back for Swansea to help Fabregas share the creative responsibilities.

Deserves credit for coming on and stabilising us a bit and his assist was superb.

Also the best way to celebrate Torres leaving is to score more league goals in one match than he managed in two of his last three seasons. :blue scalf:

One of those matches which is almost beyond analysis. Just a great advertisement for why the Premier League is the best in the world.

Coleman needled him and got him booked, so Costa gave it back in the best way possible. Opposition players will wing him up, opposition fans will hate him but I already fucking love the guy. He is an absolute Mourinho-player. Cunt, but our cunt.