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Superblue

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A lot of people are questioning this move now that we are closing in on Hazard but the two together make perfect sense.

To me it's all about having different options and different styles.

If we were to play an attacking trio of Mata, Hazard and Hulk together I see nothing but success.

Mata can pass the ball for fun and thread plenty of balls through the middle. At times this season we have become so predictable and reliant on him to create something. It's also meant as the season has progressed a lot of teams have man marked him. However with two real dangermen alongside him teams will no longer be able to concentrate on him which should give him much more time and space.

Hazard will give us a player who can take a man on with ease and get either in behind out wide or through the middle. Teams will be more reluctant to sit back because the closer Hazard gets towards the penalty area, the more dangerous he will become when running at players, in terms of potential penalties, etc. If teams instead feel they cannot sit back, there will be more space in behind for Torres which will obviously benefit Mata, and also Hazard with their ability to find the pass.

What Hulk gives is a completely different threat. Any teams who drop back will be taking a much greater risk as it will give this man licence to get in the right areas around the penalty area to have shots. And this man can shoot! Again, it will scare teams into dropping off and encourage them out giving more space again in behind for Torres and the passing abilities of Mata and Hazard.

Hulk will effectively become the wildcard to get us out of a hole at times. How many times in the past have we been struggling to break a team down and Lampard bangs one in from 25 yards out. Hulk will give us this threat once more.

These different options will allow us to hurt all manner of teams whichever way they look to play against us.

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Shane

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No, but to expect him to guide us to a championship was downright insanity :ph34r: Like it or not, we didnt exactly set the world alight with our football this season. The trophies we won were down the grit and determination of the old guard who knew this was probably their last realistic shot...

What Lampard and Terry bring to the team is irreplaceable. THis isn't FIFA where you can just sell them and because a player has a better overall your team will be better, It takes time, and Lampard has reborn himself as a deep lying playmaker which he done brilliantly.

Look at Man United, Scholes was one of their standout players towards the end of the season. Ryan Giggs has been doing it for years now. They lost the league on GD ffs.

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tchelolima

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Me too, it's going to start at 1:00am over here, i think i'll stay up and watch. :D

BRASIL: Rafael Cabral; Danilo, Thiago Silva, Juan, Marcelo; Sandro, Rômulo, Oscar; Neymar, Hulk, Leandro Damião.

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Leif

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Don't mind whether we get Hulk or not, but it looks like we are, so I guess I'll be staying up for this game! Already so tired though :(

Hope he gets a hat-trick to make this worthwhile.

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Superblue

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I'm dissapointed that we are paying £35 Million + for Hulk. We should have stuck to our £30 Million valuation...

I can understand the argument about whether he will be worth the money but at the end of the day does it really matter?

Roman, Gourlay and the rest of the board know better than us what the finances look like, what we need to do to keep within the FFP rules, etc. Our Champs League win has clearly swelled the coffers, and to be honest if we were going to buy two 'marquee' players this summer available on the market I would have snapped your hands off for Hazard and Hulk.

The facts are we clearly want the player and it is better to compromise and get the player signed up early. If City, Real, etc were to come in for him his price would be £40m+ and then we would be looking at having to pay a higher transfer fee and probably higher wages to get him.

I would rather us spend the extra £5m and get the man we want rather than a player within that original price range but isn't deemed as good. IMO Hulk and Hazard will be well worth their transfer fees.

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