Booked for diving in the box. Very harsh. Should have gotten a pen.
Renato Sanches
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He's off. Oops.
Red carded 
The first time i make an effort to watch a benfica game and this happens.
The first time i make an effort to watch a benfica game and this happens.
Silly move that. I'm a fan of his but you can't be doing that on a yellow. Shown his immaturity there.
I'm sure he's already watching, no doubt with a full scouting dossier telling us how poor he was.
I thought he was a bit unlucky with the first yellow but stupid for the second.
Can I make a prediction? we will be watching, and watching, and watching then another team comes in and signs him maybe Barcelona or Juventus. And he will become a great player.
Or he could just not move and be the new Gaitan?
Dayum, I was reaching through my mind because I knew there were more... forgot about the latter two jokers. When you put these names side by side like that... That is a dreadful list
To be fair, I've always thought if someone with a strong manager had signed Huddleston when he was younger and got him fitter he could of ended up a similar type player to Carrick!Dayum, I was reaching through my mind because I knew there were more... forgot about the latter two jokers. When you put these names side by side like that... That is a dreadful list
Haven't seen enough of him. Do people think he's better than Kante?
No, but he's 7 years younger.
Kante is only 25, we need players in their prime IMO. Can't expect an 18 year old to perform consistently week in week out. We all know that too well with our current batch.
He is 18
Well he is 18...ahem
No argument there mate, although I don't think Kante is necessarily what we need, the stuff he does is what Schneiderlin did before he came here and shriveled. I think we need a player that can replace Carrick.
We won't need a Carrick if we play a quicker more expansive style. Carrick is only required for the slow tempo possession game, just like pirlo or Xavi. They would look massively out of place in the Leicester midfield, they need hard runners who can cover the ground as the team is so open. It works for them though, we could have schneiderlin and Sanches, both bombing forward getting all over the pitch. Aslong as they worked in a pair it would be fine.
Agree. He is a fantastic player but not maybe the type we need. Some players are brilliant for certain tactics. If we are to bring in Kante, we need to bring a lot of high intensity players or he will just look odd and useless.
Agree with that, an incisive distributor like Kroos/Rakitic would be perfect. More realistic someone like Lars Bender - fabulously effective player. What I think we lack is someone with the ability to change the pace of the game, to drive the team forward at the right times.
I wouldn't want us to play like Leicester in truth, I like to have a cultured CM that can dictate play and orchestrate things from deep with a runner next to him. I think a pairing of Sanches and Schneiderlin would be incredibly limited, it would look how City look with Fernandinho and Fernando as Real Madrid passed circles around them, it would be similar, all bustle and no real quality..
If we are looking at Europe as well as and building longer term I think we need that cultured CM in there, it's an important cog in the top teams.
It's amazing that we have bought 5 CM's since Fergie retired and we still feel 2 short of where we need to be, it's a hoodoo position for us.
That doesn't make any sense. Carrick is just at the end of his career. In what kind of team did he play, when he was younger?
Have you seen him play? He's a very similar to Schneiderlin at Southampton.
On a scale of 1-Ashley Young?
Schneiderlin at Southampton was an excellent player. I'd love to have that Morgan back
He created far, far more chances in his time there and was just more dynamic overall. Hopefully that player will return next season. Bender hasn't played much this season. Saw far more of him last season but saw enough to think he could flourish here.
63 million pounds is the latest fee I have heard? 
That's crazy and from the few times I have seen of him (I also watched him get sent-off tonight) he doesn't seem like a top quality centre midfielder I think we could go out and do better but that's just me.
That's crazy and from the few times I have seen of him (I also watched him get sent-off tonight) he doesn't seem like a top quality centre midfielder I think we could go out and do better but that's just me.
Benfica fans views on Sanchez in English
http://www.planetbenfica.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=30771#p30771
http://www.planetbenfica.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=30771#p30771
One of them describes him as potentially World Class.
Get on it Woody, sign all the potentially WC players we can before Barca try to snap them up.
I've no objection to signing him for 50 odd million. Martial worked out for us and to be honest it isn't my money so it isn't my problem.
Why are some comparing him with Kante? They're not similar players to me.
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Encouraging that Andy Brassell thinks he's the real deal.
Holy feck thats a lot of money.
How the hell did the transfer fee get so high all of a sudden? I thought it was reported that the fee had been agreed (max 60 million euros) and they were just negotiating on how much would be paid upfront and in bonuses.
I expect this figure is guesswork and the old figure was guesswork too. It's all just clickbaiting at the end of the day, I doubt anyone knows the potential fees aside from the two clubs and agents.
Finally, a replacement for Liam Miller.
He is just repeating the story from Record newspaper which is not reliable.
They're both box to box midfielders who can't pass that well but have fantastic energy and aggression. Kante is obviously much more experienced and his reading of the game and positioning is subsequently better and Sanches has more tricks and dribbling ability but they're pretty similar players who perform the same roles in their team.
We're really lacking someone that can play it in behind defences - how good is his variation of passing?
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