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A. he's not shit defensively, he's just not pure DM, but Rakitic is not playing DM either. He wouldn't be better defender than Kroos, if he played on Busqets position. B. I was talking more about passing and ball distribution in general.. Kroos is simply much more suited for deep playmaker...

Moving the ball well and being on right place at right time (yes, that's an important attribute).

No he is not. Today he played well, because he was (finally) playing similar position to his Sevilla days and WAS SHOOTING. It looked like, he tried more shots today than whole last season :lol: . If he continues to shoot, play closer to the box and we put him on some free kicks he might be...

He played well, but missed at least 3 clear goals.

They drew Real Madrid, though...

Not a bad deal for us either. Little risk involved and if he really proves his talent we will have him more experienced just for 10 mil more than today. :thumbsup: for Bartolomeu if true.

Or : ________ Firminho ____________ Neymar__Coutinho__Costa

I don't care about Bayern, but at least Brazil will have more options in attack besides Neymar... That is, if Dunga plays him. He can be really stupid with his selections sometimes.

You realize that Halilovic himself was bought for 8 mil? So was Denis Suarez, both played just one season in Barca system, both had promotion clauses inserted into their cotracts. Both were similar purchases like Gerson, just 50% cheaper, so there's nothing new, really.

To be fair, our defense started to improve under Martino - we were second in goals allowed that season behind Atletico, I believe - and Martino had FAR worse personal to choose from.

Unless he'll become absolutely elite RB, no. Our midfield will be much thinner, than RB post winter break,so he'll likely play there.

He was an RW in 4-2-3-1 formation. Right wingers in 4-2-3-1 are almost never described as right midfielders and they have more in common with forwards than midfielders. Vidal played most often the same position as Deulofeu in Sevilla and I never heard someone calling Deulofeu a midfielder...

Our midfield is not stacked at all. Iniesta is aging and injury prone. Masch is CB, Rafinha RW, Busq DM, Roberto can't pass forward and Arda is not very young either. Rakitic is only one who is both good and young enough and even he was really poor in part of last season. We need to improve our...

The funny thing is our right CM is playing quite deep anyway, similar to DM. At least in first half of previous season Rakitic played deeper than Alves, he moved up a little in second half,but it was still pretty deep. Samper is actually well suited for this role, I don't get why LE doesn't even...

I thing he's pretty pissed off how things went for him&Brazil at Copa. In fact I think he'll work even harder this season to compensate.

Juve and Roma certainly don't think he's just "camouflaging his awesomeness". That's three teams who are seriously interested in him (serious enough to cough up quite large sum for him). But you people are still talking about money laundering, LOL. Is Roma laundering money for Rosell too?

Free transfer? WTF? He's no Balloteli. If they don't want to pay we should keep him, even if just to show buyers they can't fuck with us whenever they want. We need bodies at least until winter anyway, he might play CM better than Roberto.

Those tattoos are horrible though.

Well, financially I don't believe Turan's deal is much better. He's cheaper, but won't last very long. Young players can always be sold for good money to someone else. That's why Real sells so well. They buy younger players and if they let them go, they are still just 25-26, in their prime.

Why? Nothing special in Europe and IMO with such team domestic title should have been in pocket long before the end of season. Plus I heard he let's veteran players run the team.