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Sold out?

Silva's a great signing though. Not really much to laugh at.

They need to sort their squad numbers out. The way it is atm none of their potential starting 11 will have single digit numbers.

Kolorov is great, has been heavily linked with Inter. He's not £17 million great though tbh, but they that doesn't really matter to City.

Kaiz, man. This pretty much confirmed to me that every football rumour is total, baseless bollocks.

He's got a canny record at international level aswell tbf. He's probably not Real Madrid or A.C. Milan standard but stick him in a decent side and he'd score a few, he's a far classier player than somebody like Alves. Being linked with us now is mental though, not a chance in hell.

Poor showing that. Edmunddson missed a pen for us against his compatriots, coincidence?

I've made mine but I'll never stick with it.

A better bet would be them to be bust within 2 years.

Sure he signed a new deal aswell.

Guti joining Beskitas. Quaresma and Guti in the same midfield, damn that would be frustrating to watch.

Pancrate in there.

No.

That's why he's being sold for £1m? You couldn't buy Leon Best for that. I mean the whole 'if we're not in for him we should form a suicide pact' nonsense being spouted here. Not the fee. I'm not bothered about missing out on him, just thought he'd be a decent squad player at that price.

Oh and the FIFA rankings are fucked up. Can't understand why South Korea are 44th.

Aye, loads: Maicon, Dani Alves, Maxwell, Marcelo, Aurelio, Andre Santos, Kleber, Filipe Luis, Fabio, Rafael, Cicinho, Adriano, Bastos. In the past Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Carlos Alberto etc.. Which is true but then again haven't Brazil have always have a history of attacking full backs? They've also had a long history of great ball playing midfielders, which they definitely don't atm. I literally can't think of a genuine central midfielder they have. At the moment I can think of Gilberto Silva, Melo, Ramires, Thiago Motta, Lucas, Josue, Sandro...there's no Socrates, Rivelino, Zico types around.

Seriously? At the World cup he was more static than Viduka was for us. Which is why he suffered to play at his usual best.

Tim Vickery who writes for the BBC has been saying Brazil's problem for a lot of years is a lack of talented central midfielders, that they're producing athletic midfielders for exporting to Europe rather than proper footballers. Like you say nearly every Brazilian domestic coach is a pragmatist who plays with two defensive midfielders. You think and tbh it's true, I literally can't think of a good ball playing central or deep lying midfielder that Brazil have. Their midfielders at this World Cup were Melo, Gilberto Silva, Kleberson, Ramires. There's a serious lack of creativity in that lot, just typical destroyers, although Ramires offers a bit more. Only Elano is anything that resembles a creative central midfielder. Sure there's Kaka and Diego for example but they play much further up the pitch and are second strikers more than anything, they're the kind of players who can hit teams on the break (Kaka in particular relies heavily on his athleticism) rather than actually pass and control a game.

Year left on his contract, so I guess they're cashing in. Not a done deal, but he's in Glasgow this morning apparently.

Chris Eagles to Rangers for £1 million. I'd take him here for that definitely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnh2CNuLWU 7 I never see English players showboating like that. Is it frowned upon? There's a freestyler who always does adverts for Nike, English lad. English players probably just can't.

Pffft, only 1 kick. Zlatan did several tbf.

Yeah, I'd love to give Guthrie a real go in the Prem, but he needs a physical player alongside him to do the running and take the workload.

Aye, I forgot about the Carr appointment, I guess we'll see how that goes. I'm happy with the Gosling signing of course, but it seems that it's a signing more out of circumstance than any actual policy or direction. I'd like to be proved wrong though, depending on how the rest of the transfer window (and future windows depending on survival) goes. Also the youth player's being promoted thing is another positive, however again it seems more like a good-will idea to make it seem like we're trying to bring players through. Realistically only Vuckic and possibly Inman will ever make an impact at first team level?

Speaking of Ecuadorian wingers, what do you know (if anything) of Jefferson Montero, VI?