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Krul Simpson Sayls Colo Santon Tiote Jonas Anita Benny Cisse Ba Give Anita all the freedom in the world, let Tiote and Jonas start up play from the back. I feel Anita could play well in that role, he seems to have the speed and creativity, he just needs to find time on the ball right now which he will with Bigi and Tiote there protecting him. Cisse has to play centrally and give Ba some freedom with Santon overlapping on the left. We are set for some good results if Pardew can just play the way we did last season at the end there.

Aye, I'd die if he got a call up though. He was called up under Mano and was so slow it pissed me off. He still has qualities but he is just way to slow for modern football.

At the moment in terms of young players I don't see anyone coming into the squad. Surprise packages, well considering they haven't been in the team for a long time might be Julio Cesar as well as Hernanes. Although I rate Diego Alves as the number 1 goalkeeper from the country along with Jefferson from Botafogo as number 2. I think Rafael and Julio Cesar will end up fighting for that nr3 spot and it all depends whether you want to give a young one like Rafael the experience or have the experience in Julio Cesar. Also to answer the quesiton from the post before, I think we might return to the old 3-4-3 considering the players we have at our disposal. You have Marcelo and Dani Alves to replace Cafu and Carlos. You have Ramires to replace Kleberson, Sandro/Lucas/Fernandinho to replace Gilberto Silva as well as Oscar, Neymar and then the striker to replace the old 3 Rs. We will see however how it pans out, I don't expect us to be booming directly from the off, but I do expect us to be within the top 3 national sides again when the World Cup begins. Felipao never had a great start with the team back in 2002 and he will need to build is own scheme, although obviously not from the beginning and I do expect 60-70% of the squad to be the same that Mano selected although with a better emphasis on playing good football and scoring goals. I can see us blending the young with more experienced players. Robinho is a player many of the young guys especially Neymar have a chemistry not only off the field as well as on the field. Kaka, Maicon and Julio Cesar are the other 3 I expect to get a call up, although I wouldn't really be surprised if Ronaldinho also got one. We have a very good team just lacking the firepower and effectiveness to compete. With Felipao our football will be more direct in the sense of more movement and objectiveness.

Emerson never played in the World Cup however, and Juninho was pure class even if Kleberson and Gilberto Silva were the starters in that midfield. Rivaldo was without a doubt the 2002 WC player of the tournament. Kahn only got it because Germany came 2nd and Ronaldo got best player that year because of everything he went through and came back from. Rivaldo was however the most important player of that team. He was everywhere, helping defensively, scoring goals, setting up goals and getting people sent off Was immense in that tournament.

Same as Ronaldo I think there might have been on game in which they both didn't score in. Ronaldo's was England iirc. Ronaldo didn't score against England and Rivaldo failed to score in the last two games. Rivaldo scored in 5 straight World Cup games though.

I don't care. It's clear that what has worked the absolute best for us during the last season and a half is Ba - Cisse - Benny It's easy as that really.

Poor lad

What Pardew needs is tons of money to buy player. We are in danger of going into a terrible relegation battle and need to invest heavily. January should be seen as our summer and we will need a new fresh start from there on.

2points from relegation. Invest heavily in January or we might actually go into a battle down south which we don't want to even if I have 100% confidence we won't go down.

I FUCKING HATE SPORTS.

Felipao (Scolari) will be announced tomorrow as the new manager of the national team. Best announcement except the one where they let Mano go, in almost a decade.

According to the Director fo Football of CBF (Brazilian football federation), Scolari should be the favourite to land the job and should have a mutual agreement already.

If we ever sack Pardew which I doubt. We must splash out the cash for Martinez. It's easy as that. His team plays good football, and he's doing well with a Wigan side with 0 good player like. And he likes South American players too.

Now I remember why I don't bother watching us. Fucking boring.

A corner

Is Cisse a woman or why is he offside all the fucking time?

I think I actually rather start Shitebulb over Jonas. Jonas still looks slow...

Williamson needs to fuck off with those balls. Fucking horrible.

You can really see that Gerrard is getting like 100 years older.

A win today, a draw in the Spurs game as well as the game on right now and we are right up there again...Lets just win this ffs.

I loved that chip over Valdes. Yes but doesn't bode well for us. I just seeing us handing them the ball and initiative :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

WTF was that from Enrique So clumsy tbh.

When you have a striker no one can really name and Routledge there is no doubt in my mind that they're just not too good upfornt.

You can't doubt his managerial abilities ffs. He's the most successful manager in Barcelona history. And in his young career already one of the most successful ever.

Swansea are one winger and a striker away from being a Europa League team.