Luka Modric

[MGuerreiro 252]

how dont we have creativity now? we got torres up ahead flanked by hazard and hulk and mata between them. what we need behind these 4 would be a solid (to the point defensive) pairing and i would trust the tried and tested of lamps and mikel than spending 40m on modric.

as far as essien is concerned, he was bad last season but lets look at it this way, even after kalou and bosingwa played such a big role in the final, they were let go off because people who are dealing in transfers could see that they are more of a liability but if they are trusting in essien, it might be that they have seen things we have not. so just trust in chelsea rather than mindlessly spending on transfers. anyways if we get modric it would mean o chance for josh even in the carling cup matches so it is a complete NO.

Or, maybe, it's because Essien's contract isn't expiring this summer like Bosingwa's and Kalou's. I think it's more likely that it's extremely difficult to sell Essien, and they don't want do disrupt the teams atmosphere by putting an unlucky player on the transfer list.

And I think people are underestimating Modric, he is an exceptional player. Of course there is room for Modric, he plays in the double pivot and would be a fucking great replacement for Lampard.

[RamiCFC9 258]

how dont we have creativity now? we got torres up ahead flanked by hazard and hulk and mata between them. what we need behind these 4 would be a solid (to the point defensive) pairing and i would trust the tried and tested of lamps and mikel than spending 40m on modric.

as far as essien is concerned, he was bad last season but lets look at it this way, even after kalou and bosingwa played such a big role in the final, they were let go off because people who are dealing in transfers could see that they are more of a liability but if they are trusting in essien, it might be that they have seen things we have not. so just trust in chelsea rather than mindlessly spending on transfers. anyways if we get modric it would mean o chance for josh even in the carling cup matches so it is a complete NO.

Err instead of quote I clicked Like.

1.Lampard is 34.

2.For most of the last season we were dominated badly in midfield Mikel-Lampard is only tried and tested as failuire to me ..Its quite obvious we won only because of KING Drogba and our great defense.Midfield of Lampard-Mikel is joke for a club who has ambitions to be title contender and defend CL.Neither Lampard at 34 or Mikel are world beaters at their positions and for me midfield is the vocal point of every TOP club.

[didierforever 7,349]

Or, maybe, it's because Essien's contract isn't expiring this summer like Bosingwa's and Kalou's. I think it's more likely that it's extremely difficult to sell Essien, and they don't want do disrupt the teams atmosphere by putting an unlucky player on the transfer list.

they have let go off 3 (out of which one was dd), that would have more than disrupted the atmosphere, plus by now every1 who follows epl knows we have shouted OVERHAUL for rooftops, and i think so do our players and being professionals they would accept it, but u r right on one point, selling essien would be difficult(aging and heavily injury prone) if we rate him high. but i still think he would be sold for bout 10m.

[didierforever 7,349]

Err instead of quote I clicked Like.

1.Lampard is 34.

2.For most of the last season we were dominated badly in midfield Mikel-Lampard is only tried and tested as failuire to me ..Its quite obvious we won only because of KING Drogba and our great defense.Midfield of Lampard-Mikel is joke for a club who has ambitions to be title contender and defend CL.Neither Lampard at 34 or Mikel are world beaters at their positions and for me midfield is the vocal point of every TOP club.

are u kidding me? mik-lamps got dominated not because of their lack but because we dint have outlets. who cares if lamps is 34. have u already forgotten the 2 awesome balls for rambo against barca. also tell me who does not get dominated by barca and what happened to real madrid when they went to allianz arena? lamos and mikel were brilliant in the final and yet we were "dominated" not because of them but because of the lack of attacking outlets of our team. they was just one outlet for us mata, but when u have hazard and hulk on the wings, the full backs wont commit with mata being an even more potent of a weapon than he was, so mikel and lamps wont be over run 2-4or even 5 in the midfield.

btw if lamps is 34 we have 2 awesome 20 and under players in romeu and josh. so no need to but modric.

[GIBBO3000 20]

No need to buy Modric. We have enough youngsters that with the proper guiding can become world class.

[capriccioso 2,545]

By forward I mean players who are supossed to beat their man, english and german players rarely do that.

I would rather trust Paul Scholes then some aussie forum "expert"(srsly for how long do u even have football on TV, 5 years?And how many games have you watched live?(and no Schri lanka and Fiji don't count)).

I'm going to bring myself out of exile for a bit.

Mikel is our best midfielder, and unlike Modric he's played at his maximum potential this season. If anyone should go to make room for Modric its Lampard and he won't be leaving for a while. Lampard and Mikel play well together, and we have Romeu, Essien, Meireles and McEachran already as squad players, if we sign Modric, we'll have too many midfielders sitting on the bench wasting away and taking out money for doing nothing.

Also your dismissal of Australia is hilarious. Football is a minority sport here and we've still managed to get to more world cups than Bulgaria will in your lifetime. My Sri Lanka has never played Australia in football as far as I know, and we have beaten many quality teams of late. While it was fun beating Tonga 22-0 every week we're too good for that these days and now play far better Asian teams. I don't want to take this off topic but Asian teams like Korea and Japan- who we regularly play and do well against- would disassemble half the teams that have qualified for EURO 12.

[RamiCFC9 258]

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

[VilBo 10]

I have never seen Luka Modric play well against a big team. Bottler.

[didierforever 7,349]

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

in short what you wanna say is you have reached the ultimate and utmost pinnacle of footballing knowledge while all of us are idiots. right? got your point. now can we idiots have a civilized discussion/debate while you can go somewhere else with your immense bundle of knowledge.

[Gerg 8]

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

Bulgaria hasnt made the world cup since 1998 where as Korea and Japan made it to the knock out stages in 2010.

[mnmontero 78]

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

That is football, just face it. Some international teams become better than others. Then there are some that stay regular like Australia they are regular/good but they will be for a long time until they start putting more effort into football than into cricket (they seem like a cricket loving country) and rugby.

On the other side some teams get better, look at Venezuela they were utter shit 4 - 5 years ago and now they're playing waaay better they got to the semi-finals of the America Cup 2011 and will keep improving. Look at belgium breeding world class players when they were a easy match some years ago.

Don't be running around showing off old feats when in current times the country you support didn't maintain its footballing level. It's like when a liverpool fan comes and tell any of us that they have more history and we will never achieve anything. Well times have changed...

[Tomo 21,751]

I don't want him, not because he is not a great player, he is.

But we should never do business with that club again, in going's or out.

[themightyblue 443]

The need for Modric or a player like him is because currently the only player we have who can dictate the tempo of a game is Lampard and we can't rely on him for a whole season. Mceachran could be an option, but his defensive game isn't good game and its the same for De Bruyne, don't even get me started on Meireles. With the players we got, our game is gonna be a lot more about possession and keeping hold of the ball and thats why we need a midfield distributor in there. Obviously this would only be possible if we get rid of Essien and even possibly Meireles if we plan to keep one of KDB and Josh

[Spike 12,049]

By forward I mean players who are supossed to beat their man, english and german players rarely do that.

I would rather trust Paul Scholes then some aussie forum "expert"(srsly for how long do u even have football on TV, 5 years?And how many games have you watched live?(and no Schri lanka and Fiji don't count)).

Why the hell should I trust some Pom I don't know and some Bulgarian guy that can't keep his damn mouth shut about other people's countries. I suppose though, since you have had TV longer than five years (because we are backwards cunts in Australia), you are the expert thus have an encyclopeadic knowledge of football. SInce I'm just a pathetic Aussie next to a mighty Bulgarian overlord; I'm just going to go outside and play with my pet kangaroo and toy boomerang and fuck it while I'm at it I'll write a song for my didgeridoo.

Also the last time I checked 24 was better than 90.

[Beepu 1,714]

Asian teams and qualifiers are joke.Australia even with population 3x more then Bulgaira, made all their world cup apearences only because of the crap (semi-amateur) teams u regulary play for qualifying and also not even in your grandchilds life u will ever be 4th in the world and have golden ball winner like we did in 1994.If some of you think that a midfield duo of Lamps-Mikel is good enough (and consistent) to challenge for PL and defend CL(and say there's no place for player like Modric), then I feel poor for your football knowledge.

Who gives a crap about population, New Zealand has only 4m people and they made it to the worldcup and didnt lose once. Its true that alot of asian countries are not good but i want to see korea and japan play bulgaria Australia is improving and football is growing there, dismissing it shows how arrogant and ignorant you are.

[Beepu 1,714]

Why the hell should I trust some Pom I don't know and some Bulgarian guy that can't keep his damn mouth shut about other people's countries. I suppose though, since you have had TV longer than five years (because we are backwards cunts in Australia), you are the expert thus have an encyclopeadic knowledge of football. SInce I'm just a pathetic Aussie next to a mighty Bulgarian overlord; I'm just going to go outside and play with my pet kangaroo and toy boomerang and fuck it while I'm at it I'll write a song for my didgeridoo.

Also the last time I checked 24 was better than 90.

hahaha!!! crickey!

[Tomo 21,751]

It does my head in when Modric's goal and assist's stats are used to 'prove' he isn't that great a player like FFS he isn't Mata, Silva or Van Der Vaart goals and assist's aren't his main area.

He dictates the play from deep, spraying balls around, taking players out of the game there-fore making space for the forward players to get their assist's then goals. He is the vital link from midfield to attack, if Spurs lose him they are in serious trouble.

If Modric ever plays for us then expect lots of Modric to Mata to (insert goalscorers name here).

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

By forward I mean players who are supossed to beat their man, english and german players rarely do that.

I would rather trust Paul Scholes then some aussie forum "expert"(srsly for how long do u even have football on TV, 5 years?And how many games have you watched live?(and no Schri lanka and Fiji don't count)).

It's spelt 'Sri Lanka'. You're the one acting like an 'expert'. The fact does not change that you thought Gotze was a forward. Shows how much you know, just about everyone knows he is a midfielder. The need for you to attack me shows you're bad at arguments and have nothing to say to defend your point of view. A forward is not a man who 'beats the opponent', what a stupid definition. A forward is a CF/Second striker and to a slightly lesser extent the wingers. By your stupid definition a A DM could be a forward as long as he beats the man...Also saying English and German players don't beat their man also shows how much of a hypocrite you are as that is an unintelligent Stereotype.

P.S You're a douche

[skeeo 37]

This thread is completely offtopic :/

[Justin_3d 1,140]

It does my head in when Modric's goal and assist's stats are used to 'prove' he isn't that great a player like FFS he isn't Mata, Silva or Van Der Vaart goals and assist's aren't his main area.

He dictates the play from deep, spraying balls around, taking players out of the game there-fore making space for the forward players to get their assist's then goals. He is the vital link from midfield to attack, if Spurs lose him they are in serious trouble.

If Modric ever plays for us then expect lots of Modric to Mata to (insert goalscorers name here).

With that in mind, he will be perfect to play the role Lampard is playing right now. Next to Mikel as deep lying play maker.

Lampard and Modric would be able to interchange roles.