Mole_Toonfan

Giroud has a 12m clause supposedly..... in any case i would prefer De Jong to Giroud tbh, reason being is because he's more versatile and fit the 4-3-3 better than Giroud does who would force us to play 4-4-2.

From the Journal and its bullshit, he's a highly-rated DM than can play at fullback.... Journo's should really do their research.

I really dont think we would buy him as a fullback as he is'nt that good there, he will do the job but his position is definitely in midfield. Add to that all that Santon crap, i think Douglas is guessing as usual.

Yeah what will probably happen is we sell Tiote, replace him with Anita, keep Cabaye deep and persist with 4-4-2 and tell our fullbacks to stay back But the optimist inside me says is 3 forwards, 2 attacking fullbacks, midfielder joining the attack and 2 sitting dm's in a 4-2-1-3

He will play DM if we buy him and give Cabaye more attacking freedom if you think about it make sense.... We want Debuchy so that means we will have 2 attacking fullbacks and our 2 wide forwards like to come inside and Cabaye likes to push forward to join the attack. So have Tiote and Anita sitting will give us the security we would need to allow our attack to flow. If we have Ba, Cisse, Ben Arfa, Cabaye pushing on as well as 2 fullbacks who like to attack it almost means that we need 2 sitters to give us balance. Anita can play as a fullback but i expect to us to play him as a DM if we are to sign him. Also i realise Debuchy will be a difficult transfer to pull off but practically every fullback we have been linked with has been one that likes to attack i dont think Pardew would play with two attacking fullbacks, 3 forwards and a midfielder joining the attack at every opportunity without some extra defensive cover. So all these DM links ( Anita, Mulumbu etc etc) do make sense if how we are going to play next season is how it looks like.

Naah, Anita actually seems a good player In the sense it seems certain he's coming and nothing happens

Does anyone know how much we have offered that has been rejected?

It's getting very tiresome.

Love the OP

If Otter the arbiter of threadworthyness says its thread worthy then who are we to argue?

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It's so bad I still laugh at it

Is that the same Carragher that was raped by Cisse this season? f*ck off you bitter c*nt

Tbf you aint the only one who thought that.... myself included.

Dont rate Rakitic and Srna? I do but they've not shown much thus far IMO. Alright fair enough and nah it was'nt offside because last touch was from an irish player when the ball was last played by a croat he was on.

Dont rate Rakitic and Srna?

You what? Sorry, didn't realise I couldn't shout for my own country. Think he was asking what "COYBIG" meant................... come on you boys in green Thought it was 'Come on you big Irish gits' Same

Alonso might be more important but i reckon Ozil is a better player than Alonso tbh. And yeah this will never happen, if there were to move for Higuain then maybe theres a possibility but Benzema no way.

5 - Iker Casillas has now made five saves vs Italy today, as many as he did in the qualifiers (seven games). Contrast.

Wankers Although......Benzema+Aguero=

Me too

I thought Torres played well in a sense.... his movement created chances which was'nt happening before.... Shame he cant score to save his life.

I enjoyed that game, i dont understand this shit from the media.... Italy played above themselves they have been playing like this for a while because they lost some friendlies dont mean shit For Italy's sake i do hope they play Di Natale above Balotelli he's just better for Italy for so many reasons. Thought De Rossi was fantastic in his CB role as well tbh.

DI NATALE

Agreed, theres also a couple of others not picked you could also say that about.... and yeah i agree Italy have been better to watch. Definitely need to bring someone on who can link up better than Balo as he's just giving the ball away constantly. They should take Balotelli of for the fact that they (I assume) want to finish the game with 11 men. He's in big danger of getting sent off. Well, just normal then. theres that too, but yeah id bring Di Natale on not only would he link better than Balotelli he's also a better goalscorer. Thing is, though, that with Balotelli, you have a striker who's absolutely clinical. When he gets a chance, he'll score. You need a player like that today. He won't show nerves. You were saying ?