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His brother is 16 I believe, is 6'2 with good speed, crossing and very good technical ability. He should also grow EVEN MORE.

He actually plays quite often at the 10 role for Valencia, especially after the sale of Silva!

Well I heard that Lukaku is being announced tomorrow along with Romeu and 'a possible surprise'! That plus Lukaku is being issued the number 18 shirt, although he always wore the number 14 and stated that it is his favourite number. Whereas Modric also wears the number 14 shirt! I think if not tomorrow, then the next couple of days will be VERY interesting!

Hahahaha, I'll give you that, it is VERY simple and to the point, but I can definitely see it catching on!

Uhhhh, no! You don't even need rhythm, because no-one will hear it!!!

Another big one to take into account is Brian Clough, widely regarded as one of England's greatest ever managers! However in Clough's first 6 seasons at Forest he won; 1 First Division Title, 2 League Cups and 2 European Cups! In Clough's subsequent 12 years he won 2 more league cups!

Ottmar Hitzfeld himself spent an average of 3.5 years as manager of every club, and yet won 18 trophies! My findings show that the general trend is after 4 years, a top manager should have an impressive haul of trophies, and after 6 years the trophy haul dries up very quickly and most managers leave or are sacked soon afterwards! Outside of Ferguson this is a VERY common theme!! Lets take Arsene Wenger as an example; after 6 years at Arsenal Wenger had won 5 trophies, over the next 8 years Wenger has won only 2 trophies!

I don't get everyone being so critical of the manager situation! Ferguson is NOT the rule, but the EXCEPTION!!! Look at Wenger, he created this incredible team, buying players that fit, with leadership right through its very core! After that era ended, Wenger has become comfortable enough in his job in order to try and create a perfect footballing machine, and he has failed! On the other hand, Mourinho, Guardiola, Mancini, Redknapp, Dalglish, Ancelotti and Allegri are arguably the managers for the biggest teams in Europe not including Manure and Arsenal (obviously Carlo has gone but for the sake of argument)! How long have these managers been at their respective teams? On Average these 8 managers have been at their teams for 1.8 years!!! AND If you don't believe that these managers have had tenures at all their clubs for an average of; Mourinho - 1.8 years Guardiola - 2 years Mancini - 2.25 years Redknapp - 4.4 years Dalglish - 2.4 years Ancelotti - 2.8 years Allegri - 1.17 years These managers on the most part have been successful enough to be deemed worthy of their job, yet only Redknapp has averaged more than 3 years per managerial post! Yet between them these men have won on average 6.86 trophies between them! I personally believe that Managerial Stablility is overated!!!

* Sorry, meant that in 1 or 2 years we wont be back here!

Villas Boas with Hiddink as DoF! Both know the club pretty well, have good relationships with the players (those who stay at least!), and allow Villas Boas to rebuild a team from fresh with Guus' help! Hopefully that will work out and in 1 or 2 years be back to this point!

Him and Bruma are already back!

_________________________________________________________ I know exactly what you mean!!! i live near stamford bridge but i met a guy from thailand who travelled all the way to watch the FA cup final v Man U several seasons back!!! That is true dedication!!! Just cus i live in london doesn't mean i can't support or intensely follow my nfl team (REDSKINS - and please no haynesworth or mcnabb jokes!!!!!! or snyder!!!) but i still listen to them every week on the radio and so forth!!!! I don't even care the reason someone supports a team! A supporter is a supporter!

Yeah you can count me in!!! I played for my college 1st's in goal and up front but can pretty much play anywhere! plus only live 3 minutes from cobham! :D