Yes please but surely Chelsea bound?
Coentrao to leave Real | Loan deal collapses
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Yes please but surely Chelsea bound?
They've got Cashley there, Bertrand and a potential interest in Shaw. But with Mou heading in it could very well likely happen.
Cole is old, Bertrand is no more than solid and the might not sign Shaw at all. Coentrao can play on the wing and in midfield as well and would be a good buy for Chelsea. I reckon they'll go for him but then again he admits that he felt unwanted at Madrid when Mourinho was there the whole time.
Could see City selling Kolarov and moving for him too.
Perhaps even to moneybags Monaco.
Perhaps even to moneybags Monaco.
Mourinho will take him with himself wherever he goes.
And still fantastic.
I knew he would be leaving, he has never looked happy there and they don't appreciate him enough. He would be so good for us, the perfect replacement for Evra - Please do not regret another decision by going to Chelsea.
Yeah I'd definitely take Coentrao here, despite us not really needing him as much as players in other areas.
We might not necessarily 'need' him but with the quality and versatility he possesses, I wouldn't think twice about taking him. Has Chelsea written all over it, however. Will be interesting to see how highly they think of Bertrand, I'm not overly familiar with just how good he is/isn't.
Do Chelsea really give a shit about that though? When has having a talented youngster ever stopped them buying whomever they want before? We'd be a lot more likely to not go for him because of Fabio than they would because of Bertrand.
Bad timing for us. Dont see us going for him now with the kind of season Evra just had and with Fabio coming back from loan.
Meh, he's more than good enough offensively to play on the left wing ahead of Evra too, and he's often deputized as a defensive midfielder under Mourinho. He's an extremely versatile player who wouldn't struggle to get games here, I reckon.
That's true, logic and reasoning never really dictate their transfer policy.
I didnt mean he'd struggle to get games here. I just dont see us as a club going for a player in a position where we already have a top player with adequate back up or for a position where again, we have enough players unless we're selling Nani. Even then, I dont see us going for him as a left winger. If we go for him, it'd be for the LB slot and I dont see us going for him atm considering what we have there. Would definitely be a good player to have but he's much more likely to end up at City or Chelsea.
I guess Bertrand is alright at PL level and would be regular for West Ham, Everton or Newcastle. I don't think he's good enough to be a regular at Chelsea.
If Mourinho goes to Chelsea you know he will be after the best available, I don't think he will have any qualms in moving Bertrand on.
Marcelo is better than him?
Not as good as he was in his prime but still very good, yeah. He went through a rough patch at one point but seems to have retained his top form. It doesn't change the fact that, like Evra, he'll have to be replaced within the next two years (Cafu played into his late 30s but he was a mutant).
Very underrated on here for some reason.
Thought he was very good against us in the CL games
Why sign a full back to play left wing? Why not sign a winger if you need one?
Not a bad player but I dont think it'll happen. We'll go for Baines if and when we need a new left back.
If Mourinho wants him, he'll go to Chelsea. If not expect the usual suspects to be in for him.
If he's going at a decent price, sure I'd love it if we were in for him but similarly I won't be too bothered should he go elsewhere. This is just classic Madrid though.
If he's going at a decent price, sure I'd love it if we were in for him but similarly I won't be too bothered should he go elsewhere. This is just classic Madrid though.
Very good player. Would love for us to sign him and any rival that does has improved their team.
Is this going to be one of those summers where Madrid get rid of a load of good players just because they didn't win every trophy in the world for the past few years?
Not really my point. Clearly we'd sign him to be our long term left back but Evra still has a lot to offer so it'd be a good way to accommodate them both for now.
Doesn't sound like a rumour, seems like they are keen on offloading. It's nothing we haven't seen before: Robben, van der Vaart, Huntelaar, Sneijder were all good players they just cast out without second thought, it's just something Real do.
Haven't watched too much of him at Madrid, but he was easily my player of the tournament in South Africa.
Same here. This is one I think we need to make a real push for, he's the perfect successor to Evra. Also one of the few wing backs around that doesn't suck.
If, for some reason we decided to let Evra go, he'd be a good option, from what I've seen. He's younger than Baines and seems to be decent both going forward and defensively.
Personally I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Monaco might come calling for Evra to return and offering him a huge wage to do so.
He could make our starting lineup out of position on the wing.
Only in terms of this season. Last season and the season before that both Nani and Valencia were better wingers.
Am I wrong in saying he can play as a defensive midfielder as well? Obviously not that that'd be where he'd primarily operate but the more versatility we have in the squad the better.
I think he is becoming another Carvalho probably, Mourinho will earn(and has already probably) a lot on him, and will have a good player wherever he goes.
Very good against us in CL, excellent in Euro 2012. I'd love to have him here.
I wouldn't mind seeing him here, but I'm confident that Fabio will come through successfully in the next two years.
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