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Strootman was the deepest in their 4-3-3, Van Ginkel played a box to box role alongside him and Maher. Really happy that we've got him now and it's always great to see us moving so efficiently in the transfer market this early on.

The worst is when Sky love to do their 'Sky Sports understands ..' or 'According to Sky sources ...'

Oscar's contributions are too subtle for such deluded MOTD fans. I bet they think that because they see someone like Coutinho more than Oscar on highlights and jump to such conclusions or because they hear Hansen creaming himself over Coutinho. It's fairly obvious that you'll stand out more in an average side as opposed to when you're playing with a team stacked with world class players. (I think Coutinho's a good player but he's not better than Oscar, no way).

If massively on the decline means scoring 45 goals in the past season for club and country, I'd take that 'decline'.

Villa was just gutted that he couldn't be the one on the end of Mata's 523598532239582th assist of the season.

Have you watched the Nigeria-Spain game? Nigeria have done really well today and if they had their best striker fit today, they'd have scored at least a couple.

He's back! He'll score 40 next season!

I thought I'd seen it all until you came up with this absolute gem.

Because he's not been allowed to be expressive? Maybe they just tell him to be a conservative DM hence limiting his opportunities to showcase such attributes?

He would but the question is whether or not he'll decide to be proffessional and discplined and, for me, that question mark is possibly too big to justify a big money money move (+ massive salary).

Hulk's been painfully average all tournament.

Zouma would be a great signing.

I rate Gustavo highly. Would be a good bit of business getting him in

Of course not. It's not going to reach it's heights of the 90's and the first couple of years in the 00s because, simply put, as nowadays the Italian clubs don't have the financial clout that they did compared with the rest of their European counterparts back when they had the best league in Europe. It's on the rise in the past few years, so it's hardly a poor league. 'Pound for pound', I don't see the Prem being that far ahead.

What an incredibly naive comment.

Well, you were the one who was slaughering him after his Tahiti performance ....

The fact that he's allowed to be more expressive an positive thinking in the Nigeria setup (ie. he's a holder AND a deep lying playmaker for them) than he tends to be when playing for us, and I'd like to see him do the same at our club. It wasn't hard to comprehend, I dunno why you thought that I was implying that he was ruined at the club.

Well done on missing the point.

Pretty sure MIkel haters exploded when he scored. Goal aside, he was excellent last night which really shows how much he's being restricted when he plays for us.

Vintage Torres

Well, at least he's found his level.

Higuain is the opposite of Giroud in the sense that Higuain's mainly a finisher and, as we've seen last season, Giroud isn't a good one. IMO, Higuain has shown he's top drawer when he's given a run of games and is the clear #1 striker at the club.

Tbf, Dortmund could've scored 3 or so that night too.

Will he be bringing Ben Afri and Sissy aswell?