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well, there was that, but I think Webb showed the world yesterday that Brazil spent all the money actually making the WC happen and don't have money for bribes now. A bribed referee would have given at least a penalty and Hulk would have scored. Damn it, we don't have even the referees at this point anymore. Unless they do it for free. They might

Tom, I get carried away way too easily these days. And good thing someone can laugh and catch those little exaggerations and jokes. It's not possible and that's the point, lol. Neymar used to have better decision making than he does these days and his dives drive me crazy. What I meant is that he sometimes goes for a dribble only metaphysics would explain because physics fails. But as I said it's not even by choice sometimes, many times for Chelsea he plays all by himself. Belgium don't even pass him enough balls to start with.

10 players? That's you being generous, unless Hulk's butt count as another player (it could, I don't know how he doesn't bend backwards, and that's not a compliment), Fred doesn't ever show, he doesn't exist and Alves always plays for the opposition, that makes it 9 x 12 in my counts

I disagree. First, Oscar had 7 tackles in the first game and then 8 in the second according some of those stats sites (I guess Squawka, it wasn't FIFA official stats). That was more than any pivot player in the WC had according to the same source. I think the system changed. We played a 4-3-3 last year, now we play a 4-2-3-1. I don't know - can't say - if Oscar had a free role as Dion suggested - but I do know the team's focal point wasn't Neymar. Neymar was the most important player back then, but he wasn't the focal point. It was better well distributed. Now he's the focal point. everything converges to him and I think he's overloaded and overwhelmed. Oscar is having a dip of form in the attack, but Neymar dominating the play the way he has (quantity wise, because quality had ups and downs) only makes it worse. If Oscar played centered, ahead of Gustavo and Fernandinho, as a third man in the midfield he'd be better imo. I don't hate him in the wing - as you or Pizy said, can't remember which - I think he can make a good job there because a winger isn't only about pace, especially as we've had either dominant or decent possession in the matches so far - pace is more important for counter-attack based teams, which we aren't. At the end of the day Felipão is doing a very poor job. As Henrique said in some thread he doesn't change the system or the tactics, only the players. Willian will always sub Oscar, Bernard-Hulk, Jo-Fred. He doesn't dare to change even when it's not working. van Gaal today changed the 5-3-2 for a 4-3-3 and the match changed, Felipão can NEVER even dream of doing something like that... The team has no organization, tactical awareness and the midfield is nonexistent. Good thing Luiz and Silva can do some work with long passes, but with so many quality players in our midfield (they're not top class, but they're very good imo) we shouldn't have lost the midfield so easily... We have players good enough to win this at home, but our manager is one of the weakest in the WC... and if we lose it next round, two or three from now I'll put 90% of the blame on Felipão. Neymar, Oscar, Hernanes, Fernandinho, Luiz, Silva - which are imo our best technical players - are all victims of a team that has really no tactic whatsoever. We don't have a team, just 11 players in the same side of the pitch.

Still it seems some 'fans' are almost cheering, hoping and praying for him to play badly so he moves to the bench and then gets sold. He could be sold this window transfer for all we know because Mourinho could have something else in his mind. We don't know. But still some people here are hoping and praying for him to be officially considered a flop. I don't know what kind of support is that. I don't like this idea even against opposition young players, let alone with ours. Young players reaching their potential is good for the sport. Messi and Ronaldo won't play forever the same way Zidane and Ronaldo didn't, Romário and Maradona, Zico and Garrincha, etc... so I always look forward to a youngster developing close or fully to their potential, but all that much more if said player belongs to us (when there's potential anyway, because a lot of youngsters don't have the potential people credit them) At some points this thread is just nonsense through and through. Also with every day that goes by he becomes worse. Not worse currently - but worse in what he already made for us. I don't know how that's possible, but the two seasons he played for us gets worse and worse by each page here. If he's still here when the thread reaches 400, his goals against Juve will probably be credited to Hazard or considered lucky flukes because as of now just the previous page (or one of the latest) someone said he has NEVER been good offensively for us. It's a study case, a player who gets worse and worse in current and past form. And before someone misses the obvious, my previous post in this thread states exactly that he's been poor lately, both for us (last months) and for Brazil (except against Croatia and defensively). I'm not defending Oscar, he's been poor, I'm just always surprised at how people go out of their way to bash a player and seem to almost wish them bad things. Maybe it's their pride that is bigger than their supposed love or support for the team and their need to say in a few months - I told you so.

He's adapting to a new team and a new league. Of course he isn't on his best yet nor showing much confidence. Also, my opinion on Willian doesn't rely on that video... Dude, go find a Eden Hazard forum for you. I'm sure there must be one in the internet and if there isn't, with the amount of free time you seem to have, I'm sure you can come up with one. Eden has to improve his decision making, period. The team doesn't help him at times, I agree and it leads him to not have many options, but other times he holds the ball instead of passing, goes for a dribble when it seems almost metaphysically impossible, doesn't shoot when he gets in positions to do it. I'm not saying he's crappy because of that, I'm just saying is one of the aspects of his game that there is plenty of room for improvement. Everyone can see it, but you and a few other fanboys. If he improves his decision making he'll be even more dangerous and deadly than he already is.

I can see Oscar playing Lamps role in a 4-3-3 - most advanced midfielder is perfect for him. Oscar doesn't have the physical attributes to play in the pivot in a 4-2-3-1. Not only he won't be as good there - although many here think so - but it will wear him out even sooner, probably reducing his good matches for us to 2-3 months at best. This team is begging for a 4-3-3. Oscar can alternate with Cesc at the most advanced position - which makes him share 50% of the burden in the defensive/pressing aspect. We need skilled players such both of them (Matic is also skilled) to play in our midfield. Oscar probably has better tackle stats than Cesc, so he balances it, as Cesc won't have the burden all to himself either. I think they complement and share the weight perfectly between the two of them in a 4-3-3. I'm dreaming about seeing it in the pitch. Oscar lost a lot of power to influence Brazil now because Scolari switched from a 4-3-3 to a 4-2-3-1 where Neymar has a free role and is the focal point. I'm not sure Oscar had the free role in the CC, but he played as the third midfielder and he was perfect there.

how could you possibly know he never scored a goal from a free kick in his career? Don't turn your assumptions into facts, even if you put the 'I think' at the end of the sentence. If you think he never did - because there's no way you would have followed his entire career - then you could make that a question... and here you go. At mark 5:00 You're welcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU00fg0aCxg edit: btw watching that video, I hope Hazard gets to this level of decision making... Willian knows perfectly when to shoot and when to pass. He isn't selfish - he doesn't even shoot that much - but when he sees an opening he goes for the shot and I think that's one of the improvements we need to see in Eden. Yeah, it's great that he's a team-oriented player, but he needs to shoot on occasion. There are moments he's in a great position to shoot and he passes to a teammate that sometimes isn't even in a better position than he was.

He's been poor more often than not. I think all the many matches he played finally took their toll because he's barely playing better than he did for Chelsea now. Yeah he had a good match against Croatia - my MOTM - and he has been contributing a lot defensively. But I think he's been suffering from a mess of a team. Brazil used to press high in the pitch at the CC and now they don't anymore and he keeps sacrificing himself trying to make a job that should be shared with many more. If anything he'll end this WC even more tired - as he's been working way too hard. He's in a slump, aggravated imo by the many matches under his belt and little vacation/rest time. He needs a reset button, but that also means rest. Thinking this way I'll be happy if Brazil is kicked out by Colombia next.

actually it doesn't include Copa America, only WC Finals and Qualifiers. He's been banned from FIFA official matches, not Commenbol.

That's why I said I'd need a streak of matches with him there to have a better idea or even an opinion. I liked him centered the times I saw him playing like that for Belgium, but I don't think 'his' problem at Chelsea playing in the wing is actually his - is the team's - more especially the fullbacks. He needs people approaching him to offer him escapes and more possibilities, many times he's isolated... I don't like this particular stat - never has and never will because there's too many shit in the middle of what they consider a chance created. Basically it's all passes before someone attempts to the goal, no matter how long before the pass was done and how much the player dribbled, ran, passed by opponents before shooting. That's giving too much credit to what many times is simply a pass. You misunderstood my main point here though - as well as in the section below. What I meant is chances created are good intentions. Whether they're missed because they weren't that much of chances, because the player who shot missed it and didn't capitalize it's nearly irrelevant and only good intentions whereas goals and assists are unquestionable and decisive. Even if they're tap ins... for a player to net a tap in first he needs to be well positioned - that's his merit - second he needs to have good timing, also his merit - and third not be named Fernando Torres - which is his luck. So what I meant is whereas chances created - even if they mask a lot of things - is nice, it isn't the real deal and you can't compare a player that created less chances but have better goals/assists stats to a guy that contributed effectively less to the team's success, but created a ton of supposedly chances. So what I meant is with time Hazard will capitalize more, he'll be more objective - risking shots more often - and will also be able to add to his stats numbers, especially with a better striker ahead of him and the team working as a well oiled engine. My main points was bringing CC when people were talking about goals and assists and how we put a lot of expectations on a player that is still under development and who will sharpen his game with time. I'm not calling him lazy at all. I don't remember ever calling him that. What I meant is that there are guys who work way harder than others because of their approach of the match. What I meant is that sometimes Hazard just fades... for example the first two Belgium matches at the world cup (didn't watch today's). He simply faded in the background for the most part and he seemed quite conformed from afar (or laid back as you put it). If he didn't receive the ball enough, if he didn't run, move enough, if he didn't yell at his teammates enough to receive more than ball than he could work harder or be more vocal or seek the game (in Portuguese we say that a player can take ownership of a match, meaning that when things aren't going his way, he just makes it happen, take matter into his hands and fight, fight, fight). It doesn't mean he was lazy, just that he was passive. I'm calling him passive, not lazy, and I don't mean all the time, but often when he's quiet. Bale is very active, he's presenting himself all the time, running all the time, complaining quite often when he doesn't receive the pass... you see that he's a Energyzer bunny and even annoying. I look at Hazard and I feel like he's okay at all times, whereas other players seem more bothered if things aren't going their way... that's what I meant... Nobody should be mentioned in the same breath as Messi and Cris... but people constantly do it. I understand it to an extent... you want big stars even if they aren't as big as them. Neymar and Hazard have everything to become big stars. I don't think Neymar is the third best player. Suarez is imo when he isn't biting people. But I don't see much difference - if any - between Neymar and Hazard. Hazard was already playing in French league and English league for a few years now while this was Neymar's first European. While I'm the first to say Ligue 1 isn't the reference it's more demanding than Brazilian league. There's Champions League experience, or even Europa League, there's the weather, there's the way the game is way more tactical in Europe than in Brazil and how the competition here is many times weaker. Eden was playing against good players in France and England, Neymar barely faced one in Brazil. I still believe is unfair to compare Neymar's struggles with Hazard more than adapted season... I think Hazard is further in this development, but not necessarily better - but then again, as I said, I hate the comparison between players. To each their own, players are individuals and it's hard to compare them as a whole. Different upbring, experiences, importance/role in the team, team mates quality and chemistry, etc...

I had to double check if I was still on Hazard's thread as it went pages and pages without his name mentioned. I don't like to compare players, I say it all the time and like Jason I don't get why we keep comparing, but I agree and disagree about a lot of things that were said individually about some players here. I'll start with our player, of course. I really don't know if Hazard is better as a LW or a CAM at Chelsea. With his dribbling ability and how the play is much more physical in England than in Spain - where Messi plays more centered, maybe Hazard suits better in the wing - which normally is less populated - than in the middle. If we see 2-3 and even 4 players surrounding him in the wing, how many are we going to see through the middle? Belgium is a completely different story and maybe he's better as a #10 there. Actually I'd need a streak of matches of him playing as a #10 for us to have a proper answer. A lot of people here talk about his potential as fact - which is a big lie. And that's my second point about him. When we compare Hazard with any of those players, sometimes I feel we're comparing the potential rather than the reality - although we're using the other players' reality instead of potential to make the comparison. Fact is - and that's not an opinion - his last goal scored for us that didn't come from a penalty was in February 6th (or some other day in the first week of February). I hate the chances created stats - because it's a big lie - but if people want to use that, be my guest, but you can't use that to compare him to other players, when other players have more goals and assists. It's like intentions - in Brazil we say hell is filled of good intentions. Chances created is all but good intentions, but at the end of the day what counts is assisting and scoring and some matches have different weights. Hazard lacked there, but that's absolutely okay. The same way I defend Oscar for being inconsistent, I defend Hazard for not fulfilling his full potential because they're too young. They're entitled to disappoint our expectations because let me tell you something, many times our expectations aren't fair and sometimes even attainable because we all look to their potential, but we forget they're still under development. So yeah, unfair and sometimes unattainable. But I feel like Hazard gets a lot of slack (not comparing to anyone) because he's a dribbler. People are saying he's criticized because he doesn't score and scorers are more forgiven and have more spotlight than players who assist, but dribblers have the same compared to hard workers or to players with less flair. Hazard is cut a lot of slack simply because his game is more beautiful, but still is far from as effective as it could be. So we have people forgetting he's 23 and people overlooking the many matches he does nothing effectively because he has 130942039434 dribbles per match. If there was one person that cursed Bale's fee it was me and I even said many times RM didn't even need him. I was partially proved wrong. He's still not worth 100M, but RM did need him and even if he had scored only a handful goals (although he did way more than that), when RM needed him the most he gave the assist or scored the goal. Tap in or not, he was at the right place, at the right time and he didn't disappear or chocked at the big games. That's a winner trademark and he seems to have it. I do agree he's not the most talented. Among all names I read here - Hazard, Cris, Messi, Neymar, Robben, Ribery - Bale is definitely the most limited talent wise, but don't deny his determination to win and his hard work. If Hazard worked half as hard as Bale does - and sorry if it hurts and upsets some of you, I'm not stating this as a fact, but solely as my opinion - he would have at least 50% better numbers than he does. Still Bale is nowhere near Messi and Ronaldo. Nobody is. No matter the numbers, no matter how important the goals and the assists were in the most important games of them season; I agree with whoever said that ever since Messi and Ronaldo people changed the standards. Sorry to disagree with many again, but scoring 30-40 goals a season and 15-25 assists isn't the norm, isn't the standard, that's an exception created by two of the best players of the history of the football who fortunately for us - were born in the same generation. That's not the bar, that's not raising the bar, that's having a bar of their own, no one else should be compared to that or expected to have nearly as good numbers. I don't know why so many people discredit Neymar so much on this forum. And again I'm not comparing him to Eden or anyone else. The kid - and he's also only 22 - is a prodigy. You can't seriously blame him for a less than spectacular season at a fading Barcelona when everything in that team was a mess. I do think Messi will get in the way of his growth there - Neymar is the kind of guy that is supposed to be the team's star and he said so many times when joining Barça that he was there to help Messi continue to being the best in the world, but that's not a role he can fulfill at his full potential. He's better than that and he didn't realize how much he took away from his game - consciously or unconsciously - to keep propping Messi. And then there were also the many problems Barça had and Neymar going through transition and why not - thinking about the world cup. So we can accuse Oscar of doing it - consciously or not we'll never know - but Neymar didn't? Neymar has much more responsibility and pressure on his shoulders than Oscar has to lead Brazil to win a WC in their own soil. The boy is 22 and he 'only' has this in his shoulders: make a less than talented Brazilian generation win a title at home in the most desired tournament in the world. It's almost unfair to him. What I feel is that a lot of people want him to fail and do badly. Some because he's Brazilian - and yeah, maybe not here (or maybe even here) some people hate that Brazil continue to produce little geniuses - some because they want our own little genius to be better than him, some because they hate Barcelona and some maybe even gratuitously, but I'll tell you what, you're in for a big deception. The kid has the same will to win I mentioned about Bale and he may not work as hard (although he works very hard too), but he's absolutely thirsty to win and he has one of the best mentalities among all those names we've mentioned. Of course, I hate his diving ways and it will only get worse while he plays for Barcelona, but many of you are undermining and underrating a player that will make you eat yourown words. Maybe he won't be as big as he could be somewhere else because of Messi, but I have no doubts he'll be immense for them; Messi or no Messi. And for me it doesn't really matter if he's better than Hazard or Hazard is better than him or Bale is better or worse than either of them. As a Brazilian, of course I want Neymar to reach his full potential, as a Chelsea fan I also feel the same for Eden and I want Bale to succeed for as long as he is at Real Madrid - but even if I wasn't any of those, I would want those young players to reach the heights of their games. Although Messi won many more Balon D'Ors than Cris did, it didn't take away how absolutely wonderful Cris is. The same will happen between those three young players. It doesn't matter who will win more Balon d'Ors - we may be lucky to have yet another chance to watch two very gifted players (I'm excluding Bale from the talent bracket - but talent isn't the only factor, so I won't diminish him completely) in the same generation at Hazard and Neymar and for the good of football - which I'm a big fan of - I hope they live up their potential and we have guys like them filling up - partially - the void that Messi and Cris will leave when the descending years of their careers are here. I feel blessed and privileged to have watched Zidane, then Cris and Messi and hopefully Eden and Neymar. Not everything has to be a competition - it's quite the privilege to watch Nadal and Federer, Messi and Cris, LeBron and Bryant in the same generations, I actually wish there were more of them spread in the teams, rather than less.

He seems to have free reign to spout shit everywhere he wants... He worships Hazard - the only Chelsea good player in his eyes - and then spouts shit about nearly everyone else according to his mood. And then he calls himself a supporter... I don't know what's his notion of the word support as he's predicting Oscar to flop harder because Luiz isn't here anymore. Brilliant example of support, don't you think? We shouldn't ban people only for being disrespectful towards others... lack of common sense should also be a motive. He's annoying, writes some of the most stupid comments in this forum and seems to fill bushman shoes just fine. No one should have to read such poor posts so often from the same person.

perfect article on this situation... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/luis-suarez/10926725/World-Cup-2014-Uruguay-striker-Luis-Suarez-has-kicked-Liverpool-in-the-teeth.html well done FIFA, for once you haven't let the sport down.

So cute!!!!! Very happy for you, Chou. Congrats on the landmark, many more to come. Wishing you the best and hoping only good things will come your way. [emoji8]

I don't want another midfielder - CM, DM, AM, WM or whatever other letter we put before the M. We have more than capable and good players there. It's covered imo. Oscar played for us many times in the wing and he even crossed a few times by match in those occasions. Thing was 1) many times he didn't raise his head and the crosses were bad; 2) he didn't exactly have a target (different from Brazil) - not to mention the times the crosses were wasted. Crosses for the likes of Mata, Hazard, Willian, Torres are nearly useless unless in the case of the former three it's a low cross (Torres is useless in any shape and form). Eto'o and Ba are taller and could have been the case, but our main issue with width last year is that we didn't have someone to receive those crosses. Also our movement in the box (with Schurrle being the only big exception and Eto'o in a lesser extend) was atrocious. They moved to the obvious places, were easily marked by opposition and many times when anyone crossed it was wasted because of that. If we don't have natural, tall, strong and objective targets and our players don't move smartly inside the box having width is moot - except for the link up. With Oscar hopefully recovering form/mentality/focus/having-competition/from-whatever-his-problem-was, Willian having an EPL season under his belt as well as Schurrle, Fabregas coming from behind and hopefully a decent striker things will look brighter and that's why I don't think we need Gustavo, Vidal and much less Kroos or Pogba (tbh I can't understand how you can group those four together as potentially what we need if they can be divided in at least two groups of different players offering different end products). Oscar ain't lying when he says he can play whatever position in midfield. #8; #10, winger, make your pick... he's had amazing matches in each of those positions between Brazil and Chelsea and as we've been repeatedly saying his main problem is consistency. Cesc is about the same and Willian is as good in the wing as centered. My main doubt is who to play by Hazard side... Willian and Schürrle offer completely differently end products, but both are exciting imo. Willian has so much flair, resource and work-rate (but also incredible pace). It's not even funny how useful he can be. I'm quite aware he hasn't showed much efficacy for us yet - only a handful goals and assists, but he has it on him. Also our both Brazilians have something that balance Eden out: simplicity. While Eden goes for the fancy, impossible-to-be-done-by-anyone-else dribble, Oscar and Willian keep it simple and quite efficiently when they're on their days. With André we have incredible pace, intelligent movement and goals. Simple like that. He's one of our smartest players and he also keeps things simple (I'm in no way saying a fancy dribbler like Hazard isn't good - it's mouthwatering, but it's also good to have those objective/selfish guys that will just go for it). When a team is this versatile opposition's problems become much bigger. But then the team has to deliver the potential. We need to use those guys much better than we did. We barely explored the space Hazard keeps creating for us. It's mathematical - 11 x 11 and Eden drags at all times at least two markers. Many times three and I've seen even four. It means somewhere else we have players with a lot of space, but we didn't explore it efficiently and I hope we do now. Having a guy like Cesc linking up with Eden in the left side, near the the edge of the box (and I'm absolutely sure he will) is something that makes me giddy inside. Cesc has amazing vision and passing. We don't need him to be in the position to shoot at all times, but his quick thinking will assure us (hopefully) to find those spaces quicker and more efficiently. And God bless him and his sight for him to see André (who seems invisible to his teammates). We need to train better. I don't know what the problem was, but we didn't seem to have some certain kind of situations well drilled. Maybe it was transition, maybe Mourinho's focus was something else, but we were poorly drilled about occupying spaces, exploring them and our movement in general. Everything relied too much on the players own creation rather than something you could clearly identify as drilled actions. Of course football can't be rehearsed, but we didn't have movement patterning at many points, we rarely turned things around within 45 minutes. It felt like we didn't have answers. Some of those answers will obviously come from individual actions based on players ideas and geniality, but there should be pattern, chemistry and collective answers as well. There's no point of having Cesc, Oscar, Willian, Schurrle, Salah and Hazard if they don't have chemistry, if they don't know what the other is going to do next or where he's moving to. Some of those things come together with time, it's about getting to know the teammates, but some situations must be trained too. The same way Mourinho positioned our defense so well and got them to work collectively quite effectively it's time we do the same in the final third. We desperately need it. yeah, the striker situation didn't help, but it can't be our excuse for everything. It's a problem - a serious one in our attack, but it isn't the only. All that said, I just don't have an ideal starting lineup. It's not even because of the argument Choulo brought - but simply because the possibilities are too many and we don't know which ones are going to work first or better. You start a 4-2-3-1 (and I don't care who's in the defense, I'm surprised to see Luis in everyone's lineup as if we had announced him and I'm a fierce Iva fan, so I don't mind him, Luis, Azpili or whoever - as long as Bertrand is nowhere near Cobham and Stamford Bridge) with Matic and Ramires in the pivot if you need more physicality and athleticism (which I hope is the less frequent lineup we see). You switch to 4-3-3 to many variations. I think with few exceptions, the midfield in the 4-3-3 has to be Matic - Cesc - Oscar ( - it feels weird to use this smiley, but it gets the message across - those three could be orgasmic). If we need Ramires, we definitely have to move to a 4-2-3-1 to make up for his lack of passing and vision, I don't believe he has any space in a 4-3-3. Then we could have Willian + Hazard - tons of flair, combined with pace, while one keeps it simple and the other keeps it fancy and dangerous. Or you have Hazard and Schurrle - we have the pace, the excellent movement, the possibility of increasing goals, the vision. Salah is a hybrid between Hazard and André imo. André doesn't dribble. He uses his pace, simplicity and vision to get passed by his opponents, but he doesn't go for the dribble very often - and when he does it's a 50/50, but Salah also has pace (even more than André), but he can dribble - even if not by Eden's standards (can anyone?). I don't think his vision is that good, but 1) I could be wrong, haven't seen him enough to assess fairly; 2) he's still very young and can improve it if he has the brains. So it doesn't really matter the which of those 4 we get to play behind the striker. We just need to be able to make the midfield and the attack work as an unit - something we failed and to be able to create answers to buses parked, crowded midfield and having possession. We didn't know what to do with the ball when we had it like 6 out of 10 times.

I didn't watch the match. Normally he plays more advanced for Spain so I assumed he was either a false nine or a CAM. I don't mind if a #8 gets inside the box, but I find it a bit weird to be so near the flank and the corner. He should invade the box through the middle - although I don't mind it through the flanks... it's just weird and where you expect your wingers, fullbacks and CAMs to appear, not the #8... it was a great work by him and I hope we see it here too.

everything I've ever said about wanting this guy... well, disconsider it. He's too disgusting for me to want him anywhere near my team.

I'm not sure he'll play so high in the pitch. I hope he plays a bit deeper and playing Lamps' position I don't expect him to reach the end of the pitch like that for a backward cross.

Then he wants us to believe he really doesn't have a personal problem with Cesc. Basically all the bench started today and who's been left out? Screw you, del Bosque. You got what you deserved. #retiredfatspanishwaiter #worsethanRafa #ifthatwasevenpossible

blocked for Brazil, but thanks

Cahill seems too passive imo to be a captain. We need a louder voice... I voted for Iva though I have no idea if he'll be available for the position when the time comes. If not, then I have no frigging idea. Cahill does look too passive so for me is a no-no. Maybe Cesc?

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2014/06/22/4905534/courtois-will-return-to-chelsea-cech-could-be-sold-says Have any of the Belgians around seen the video on TV were supposedly Wilmots said it? Because yeah, I'm doubting Goal even quoting someone...

Now I'm ready to watch the WC properly. Look what just got delivered #Germany

I know isn't attainable, but he's still the guy I'd want.