Ainsley Harriott

He had a down season... And we did refuse 30M+ offers from United.

Unfortunately this is true. Most people have a very wrong idea of Jorge Mendes, he's as shady as they come. Not to mention that Remy >Falcao atm.

Guess I'll keep lurking and rarely post like I've been doing. I do miss the old days though!

Exactly, you feel my pain then!

I can no longer add anything to this forum though, faggotini.

Thanks mate.

Can an account be deleted?

Gomes is nowhere near worthy of the hype that he has. A mix of Viera, Lampard and Zidane? LOL please.

Some actually tried to convince me that Porto had a chance LOL.

Best things so far have been De Gea's celebration and van Gaal's fucking mint watch. Horrible display.

Oddly that's true, I'm surprised there havent been as many rumours about him. He was continuously linked to United a couple of years ago. He's in the best form I've ever seen him though.

As much as it pains me to say this about a Benfica player, Gaitan is better than both. He isn't much of a goalscorer, true - but he's a fucking magician with the ball on his feet, heck of dribbler. It amazes me how easily he can create goalscoring chances for others. And he can also play as a #10. I'd really like to see him here, but there are two things that don't go in his favor: 1- His best position is LW. No way he takes Hazard's place. 2- Playing him as a 10 would sort of negate his crossing, on of his strongest atributes. This isn't really really important but whatever. And... He tracks back.

Neither being a thief apparently.

Imagine being a faggot who steals from others.

Absolutely. For all the flack van Gaal was given (from myself included ), he's really starting to make this team click. Benched whatever big names were underperforming, changed formation and zing, now they're on. I wish we played like this against tougher opponents...

Stfu viadão.

Just scored a great tricycle kick against Portugal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gxcre_QR8

1 month loan, ridiculous... At least he'll play I guess. He's kinda doomed tbh. Knew it from the moment BOTH Mikel and Matic were unavailable and he didn't get a single minute... It's a shame because I have (had?) really high hopes on him, one of my favourite prospects. José really has to improve on his youngster development.

Ex-Chelsea goal festival lol Studge.

Lmao imagine the scenes when he'd get subbed off at halftime on his PL day-view for not tracking back.

You have got to be joking.

Their midfield isn't as good as people on here seem to think.

Lol wtf..

Don't think you watched at the beginning of the year, did you? José can play attacking football. We did it this year already. Problem is he didn't like the way we were leaking goals, and when he tried to balance things out, he failed. We look more more like the team from last year against the smaller sides but worse against tougher opponents. A couple of posters have beaten this to death (The Chels I think was the first one that started bringing this up) - we can't transition from defese to offense as well as we did before and we're bad handling pressure. The fact that our centre backs aren't as high up the pitch makes our midfielders slide back which is leading to poor attacks (how many times do we see the front trio alone?), and with Hazard being our only world-class decision maker further up the pitch we're struggling to create. We look stagnent. Short of ideas. The lack of rotation is killing us too. Most players have dropped form because of it. Fabregas and Oscar mainly (the latter to a lesser extent, he's been more rotated lately - in comes the question of whether Oscar is good enough for what we're trying to achieve - that's another topic)... Another reason why we don't create as well. I do think Mourinho needs to take a look at the mirror and try to implement other ideas into his managing philosophy. He's obviously a great coach but as someone said earlier: he's outdated. Football is evolving and he's sticking to the same tactics he had 10 years ago. I'm sure he doesn't want to become another Wenger who seems to not know what he's doing. He has to find the right balance between attacking and defending, experiment new tactics, rotate the XI (Luís and Remy are begging for a shot as starters - the two most flagrant examples for me). He also has to start trusting youngsters more often. It only helps us. Gives us a heck of a lot more depth, easier to fill the HG quotas, and I'm sure a lot of them are good enough to fill the roles some first team players don't seem up to. With the PL being the only competition we're left in, I'd say it's mandatory to win it. No excuses. Bar a massive, out of his hands, disaster. I still trust this man to be the one that takes us forward, maybe he needs to get that PL trophy to rejuvenate himself? We'll be here to answer that next year. But I sure hope he changes his mindset for everyone's good. Onwards to the title!

I meant it as in José plays Azpi because he trusts him more for defensive duties than Luís, who imo is more than good enough defending, but much better than the spaniard going forward. I want Hazard and Luís down the left too, will help us a bit with our offensive struggles. Or so I hope, lol.