We saw this in the World Cup with certain teams. Set up well and have players why do what they are told and you are greater than the sum of your parts. You don't become a professional footballer without having good basic skills so if you simply do as you are told and have a manager who can make the most of his players you can do well.
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We saw this in the World Cup with certain teams. Set up well and have players why do what they are told and you are greater than the sum of your parts. You don't become a professional footballer without having good basic skills so if you simply do as you are told and have a manager who can make the most of his players you can do well.
he's safe until January anyway he's still recovering
They'll use him for a year and not take the buy option. Seems to be the in thing for Italian clubs.
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It's all fine and good if the leaving leads to new players joining.
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Vidic
Rio
Fellaini
Nani
Anderson
Kagawa
Buttner
Hernandez?
...that would have to mean a lot of players coming in.
Vidic
Rio
Fellaini
Nani
Anderson
Kagawa
Buttner
Hernandez?
...that would have to mean a lot of players coming in.
A £12m loss isn't bad (considering), he won't work in any Van Gaal system. Why keep him?
Oh and Di Marzio has confirmed Vidal's agent being in Italy for talks: http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/vidals-agent-arrives-in-italy/
"Far from over" he says. Offers of €40m and above considered, this is the first time he's said something like this too.
I'm expecting other clubs to come in for him too now. He's on the market.
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Seriously? I'd take £5m for him right now, getting £15m would be unbelievable business.
They'll be wishing they did keep him when all the cm's are injured..
Mata/Cleverly/Herrera? All tiny mofo's..
Can't actually believe he'll go to Napoli for 15mil? Proper good deal all things considering
Mata/Cleverly/Herrera? All tiny mofo's..
Can't actually believe he'll go to Napoli for 15mil? Proper good deal all things considering
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Eh...
Fletcher/Carrick + whoever else we sign for CM will be fine as cover.
What makes you rate him, I mean, even all the Everton fans think he's awful? I think he can be useful in a limited number of situations, but I don't care if we sell him for a loss.
I wouldn't be so sure. LvG supposedly favours youth. He seems to have been pretty consistent on this
He's not awful at all is he? you obviously don't play for Belgium in every game of the WC when your awful. I'm not sure how everton fans can say he was bad when he scored like 15 odd goals for them in his last season from midfield.
Wenger should sign him if he's going for 10 odd million. can't imagine he'd want to leave the prem tbh tho. feel proper sorry for the lad, got nothing but grief as soon as he walked through the door.
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Hey, I actually thought he might be a good signing, and I don't blame him (just Moyes). Then I realised he can't play that holding midfield role - like he (and Moyes) said he could - so he's not of any real use.
That's because he's better when you allow him to run about. He has a good touch for a big guy and his physicality is not to be sniffed at. This is what makes me think LVG is going to be so naive this year in the PL. If Arsenal could sign him for 15 mil, Wenger should jump at the chance. Arsenal have really lacked someone big like him in the middle, suppose Diaby is back though...
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It was 11, not 15, he scored most of them while playing as a striker, not from midfield, he scored a large portion of them from corners(making where he plays for the other 89 minutes pretty much pointless) and 8 of the 11 were against Villa, Reading, Fulham, Swansea and Sunderland. He took a butload of shots, 90 to be exact, and deserved about 14 red cards in the season, a season plagued by elbows, iirc an actual punch and a headbutt or two that he got away with, maybe all of them.
he actually is crap, and the utterly woeful argument of "you don't play for your country if you aren't any good" can be countered by example after example of awful players who are constantly awful and fail at every club.
Felipe Melo was rubbish, literally awful every single time I saw him. He got a move to one club in italy and was voted worst player/worst buy of the season. He played plenty for Brazil and was woeful up to and then including the game in which he scored an own goal and got a hilariously stupid red card. Heskey is another name that comes to mind, etc, etc.
15mil for Fellaini is more than Everton should have gotten for him(or paid for him for that matter) in the first place. Utd will do very well to get that much out of him.
AS for Arsenal getting him... lol, being big isn't a skill. Having a team working to the same goal is incredibly important, square peg in a round hole is useless. He doesn't play in the Arsenal(or Utd) way and wouldn't work in the slightest. When you want to put an elbowing battering ram upfront, he's fine, when you want someone to play pass and move football, he's useless.
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