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Ole_Aged_Slow_Poke
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Not after tonights game they won't.Tweet
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Guarin's terrible. Not that Paulinho's much better.I thought Guarin was being lined up as a possible replacement.
Paulinho seems a strange one.
Nope, we actually have to name less home-grown players in our Champions League squad this season (5 compared to the standard 8 IIRC)Memory is a little hazy now, but IIRC part of it was that you had to have a well above standard percentage of your CL squad as homegrown.
At the start of the summer, there were stories that Arsenal had a deal for Milner, some even saying he'd play right back instead of Sagna, but you cancelled it as you need more homegrown players.
Neither are great, but it seems no one really knows what is happening. Too many conflicting reports coming out every hour, journalists just want clicks.Guarin's terrible. Not that Paulinho's much better.
By all accounts he had an excellent season for Malaga in the 12/13 season, he has just played regularly in the team that won the Premier League and is now set to start in a World Cup final. But yeah, you're right, he must be shit.No, no, he definitely is. And was long before you bought him.
He's damn underrated in England.By all accounts he had an excellent season for Malaga in the 12/13 season, he has just played regularly in the team that won the Premier League and is now set to start in a World Cup final. But yeah, you're right, he must be shit.
Ahhh right, looked it up, smaller 21 man squad, but smaller HG to match.Nope, we actually have to name less home-grown players in our Champions League squad this season (5 compared to the standard 8 IIRC)
Yep he took a lot of the blame when really it was Kompany who was really poor(Barc game at home)Demichelis was shite for a few months but in the last 2-3 months of the season he was City's best CB.
There's been no hype on here or in the media from what I've seen.Really struggle to see the hype with Paulinho. Prior to his Spurs move he was being branded as the new big thing in midfield. Not sure I've ever seen him play well though - I'd go as far as to say that Kleberson was a significantly better player.
How are the two linked?
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GloriousImagine getting 35m for Vidal and wasting 20m of it on Paulinho. I'm definitely not going to be the one to tell Juve though...
No you don't, you can register 21 players instead of 25 and the number of homegrown players is still 8.Nope, we actually have to name less home-grown players in our Champions League squad this season (5 compared to the standard 8 IIRC)
Whats the smilie for Adnan?, i very much doubt we would be able to get both Vidal and Di Maria although we could really of done with both of them.
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No, definitely only need to register 5 home-grown players.No you don't, you can register 21 players instead of 25 and the number of homegrown players is still 8.
Won't reach Vidal fee for all of those combined.Potential sales of Nastasic, Garcia, Rodwell, Milner and Guidetti would allow us to fund a move.
Cheers i missed that one, it's a fair decision.No, definitely only need to register 5 home-grown players.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27798163
I'd cream. He won't leave Bayern but that actually would make me jizz. For me, one of the top 5 players in the world.Tweet
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Why?Whats the smilie for Adnan?, i very much doubt we would be able to get both Vidal and Di Maria although we could really of done with both of them.
If we do lose out on Di Maria, i hope we are looking at some other creative wide player (like Lucas Moura who isn't exactly 'flavor of the month' at PSG apparently) because we are lacking on that front imo.
If we came out with the cringeworthy 'no value in the transfer market' shite again, i could imagine riots on here!.Well the Mirror article linked on the side panel of the Caf says we have resigned ourselves to Hummels staying in Dortmund and that Vidal and Di Maria are too expensive.
Possibly means we're limited to one big money purchase, possibly that the demands for di Maria were getting too high and we pulled out, possibly that di Maria prefers to go to PSG and we're leaking that to save face, probably just a heap of guesswork bullshit.I don't understand how us signing Vidal would mean we're not signing Di Maria. How is there a link between the two? Kind of implies that we are limited financially doesn't it? Having said that if we get Vidal and a half decent CB it'd be a better summer than I would have expected.
So good you're spending £32mil to replace him.By all accounts he had an excellent season for Malaga in the 12/13 season, he has just played regularly in the team that won the Premier League and is now set to start in a World Cup final. But yeah, you're right, he must be shit.
He's 33 years old.So good you're spending £32mil to replace him.