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coogar: cleverley is better than all these names minus oscar. go and watch cleverley again when he faced thiago and iniesta in a 87,000 packed stadium..... cleverley's biggest problem is his fitness. when fit, there's no better pass and move midfielder in the whole of europe!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtXiBxeccM#

Watch this little man called ilkay gundogan as a start vs the great midfield of Ozil, Modric, Alonso Khedira

Thats Gundogan in Champions league knockout football


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTi0NOOO1Zc

Inside Dortmund’s famous Westfalenstadion against Malaga, Gündoğan showed masterful passing accuracy. The German international of Turkish decent completed 91% of his passes, a figure which is consistent with his Bundesliga season average of 87%. More impressive still is the fact that 65% of all his passes this season in the league have been forward, which indicates his ability to start attacks and feed Dortmund’s creative front-line.

Against Real Madrid last night, He provided the link from defence to attack, allowing Marco Reus and Jakub Błaszczykowski to attack the Real Madrid back-line. His passing in the final third reveals an intelligent and disciplined player who is able to follow instructions with an uncanny nature; he finished the match with a pass completion rate of 88%.

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Pep would always say 'The worst thing that'd happen to u Is not to take risk'.

Guess he's already taking a BIG risk. What would the Thiago acquisition spell? Martinez deployed to the defence line and a Bastian/Alcantara Pivot Introduced!...

Thats more like losing Steel for me. We all saw what Javi/Bastian can be on a good day, bully folks In the middle of the park - Are we getting that In a midfield that has got Thiago?

And If at all Javi is to be sticked In the pivot with Bastian, what becomes of Thiago?

I dont really have to get myself worked up on the thoughts![/color]

Peps tactics being so energy sapping would involve a lot of rotations Which would see our many players get lots of game time. Also we have more games, Super Cup, Intercontinental cup

In the 2011/12 season our(Barcelona) midfield was similarly stacked when Cesc arrived and Thiago got promoted fully to the first team while Xavi, Busquets, and Iniesta were on career peaks as well as Keita, Mascherano, and some of our top youngsters were climbing up the ranks in the B team also being around.

The result?

Mascherano - 4,403 minutes (52 appearances)
Busquets - 3,865 minutes (52 appearances)
Xavi - 3,551 minutes (51 appearances)
Fabregas - 3,252 minutes (48 appearances)
Iniesta - 3,004 minutes (46 appearances)
Thiago - 2,866 minutes (45 appearances)
Keita - 2,171 minutes (42 appearances)
JdS, Sergi Roberto, and Rafinha - 716 minutes (14 appearances)

Its a game by game strategy . When you play weaker teams you can use the Scweini Thiago Pivot with kroos as Attacking midifelder since we aim at 70% ball possesion and the famous 10 second retriving the ball back strategy which makes offensive players run a lot


With teams stronger on attack we can revert back to the martinez- Schweini pivot.

Also we cant really be too sure of injuries, We have Schweini, Robben and Ribery around 30yrs and their fitness wont be top notch.

Last yr we were 1yellow card away from missing Dante, Martinez, Schweini or Gustavo in the CL finals

Julian Greene is an American german. Under 21. Nice prospect

RuuDie: I think Barca will sell Fab if we showed considerable interest...forget Wenger; if he could sell RVP, he could sell Arsenal itself - all it takes is one call for Baba and Wenger will gladly take his money and walk!

I dont think Barca would sell Fabregas cos since they have Neymar in offense Fab is one of the 1st sub for the midfield position and Xavi is getting older. he is 33yrs now

coogar: dayo must be high on pawpaw leaves...

gotze and kroos better than oscar and isco? this is acute stupidity at it's best. on that list, the german midfielders would not be in the top 3.

Of them all there is no doubt that Gotze is the most talented followed by Kroos Thiago and Gundogan.

The question is where would Cleverly rank among young midfielders in Europe?

Top 50, Top 150 or top 1500

Na Fresh air from Retardeen

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Seems the whole City of Florence stood still for Gomez unveiling today


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ROXd8xQx2s&feature=player_embedded


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwkr_edXogM&feature=player_embedded


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTRDycV9xHs&feature=player_embedded

The day he first taste Weed.

He would be all smiles that day Smiling uncontrollably

Marrying a girl from your extended family?

Isnt that some form of incest? Are you sure she didnt even carry you on her back when you were born?

debosky: You can use any logic you want - just don't be comparing Bayern's ball boys with players who have bossed games they can't even dream about featuring in.

Bossing a game yet getting knocked out surely you know how to win battles and lose wars

A-40:
Why are you so mad that he opted for Bayern? Does 7-0 have anything to do with it? You set release clause we match am so why the hard feelings?

Abi o.

Barcelona said the release clause is 18m, Bayern paid it simple we even added jara on top sef.

Una no want we want, if he fails its bayerns loss not yours

Johnpaul88: World cup squad 2014? Isco and Illaremandi of Real Madrid have bigger chance of making it than him.

Butt hurt much?

Dont hate the player hate the game. Illaramendi ko, Agunbiade ni

logica: Lol. Which gift? The Greek Gift? He will surely cost you guys a few cheap conceded goals.

We have a defence and dont depend on Failed midfielders Like mascherano to play defence

AjanleKoko: Dem for even try collect one ageing defender off Bayern's hands.
Now they will take the 25m and go buy some midfielder

Its not even 25m in cash.

Release clause is 18m, 2m is for tax which we paid for goodwill between the clubs being an international transfer, We could have done it the way we did with martinez, Give Thiago the money to buy out his own contract and Spanish to Spanish transaction would avoid the taxes.

The remaining 5 million would be proceeds from friendlies between barca and bayern over the next 4 yrs.

Nice doing business with y'all

Retardeen is becoming desperate

Wikipedia would have helped you

Thanks for the gift - FCBayern

ifihearam: you have never reasoned with your brains before,so am not surprised.

phuck wole soyinka.

Anyone who knows you well would know you dont have anyone in your community who can hit water if thrown off a boat.

Generation of clueless fellows, No wonder "Phuck Soyinka" is the only response you could muster to a man who has more knowledge in his toe nails than everyone in your ancestry

ojubi: Unlimited hypocrisy by ACN, encouraging AMEACHI's anti party activity while a house of rep member will be punished by the same people with the same offence.
Mr. Yinker is indeed right.

Can you tell us clearly what are Amaechis anti party activities?

Well said Tinubu

Every sensible person would ask why this clueless president is on Amaechis case? Just because he defended Rivers state against Bayelsa in the oil bloc case.

If Soyinka does not deserve it then who does?

Is it Kassim Afegbua, Patience Jonathan or Retardeen himself?

And this was how Thiago pissed on the Man Utd midfield


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uqJHcLznc

nitlad: Bayern and Chelsea directly contested for prize, we both know how that ended - Chelsea easily shoved Bayern aside to snatch what they thought they already had in the bag from their grasp.

When Bayern was winning 2 months ago where was Che;lsea? Battling with Startak Prague, Rubin Kazan and Gypsies?

Chelsea are not competent enough to compete with the big boys

elampiro: If Thiago was so good he wouldn't have been 18m. See Neymar. Barca were hoping they will sell Thiago for 80m plus, but his market crashed after some games exposed him. He is just a junior player. That's all. Was it not Thiago who played against United last year? Our midfielders did better than him in that match. He is overhyped and SAF and his fellows knew why they didn't push for him.

Thiagos buyout clause was 18m till July 31 when it would go up to 90m.

When Thiago played vs United last yr did you win?

dademola: It still baffles me hw an inexperienced bench warmer like thiago could hav beeen touted as solution to our midfield, wen we threw away a pogba dt was already familiar with d club's ways, and wldnt even nid to "settle down and acclamatize to his new environment". Has it gotten so bad for us to d extent dt we were actually willing to pay 25m, for a bench warmer to cme and solve our midfield problems, wen we cld hav bought modric earlier?? Hw much modric wan dey collect, wey we no ft pay dt time sef?? Or hw much spurs wan collect wey we no ft pay, despite d fact dt, just 2yrs or so earlier, we still paid 30m for a 28yr old berbatov, wen we had ronaldo, rooney and tevez banging in goals oo.instead, fergie was more interested in hw giggs wld play till d age 65! We hav only carrick, cleverly and ando as d only senior CMF's in d squad, and yet fergie was talking opaks about him leaving behind a team with d right mix of playrs at d right age. Screw u, fergie!!

That was the same way Bayern bought a benchwarmer called Roben and won the Champions League, Inter bought the benchwarmer called Sneijder and won the Champions League.

The same Pogba you called a benchwarmer and is now beasting with Juventus

nitlad: The same Chelsea that destroyed the pack of shït that you call world class midfield for Bayern.

Where that Chelsea dey now? A champion getting knocked out of group stage. The same Juve that Molested you couldnt get a shot on target vs Bayern in 180minute

nitlad: Pissing in everyone's nostrils at Under 21? When Illarra dey beast the midfield against Barca in La Liga, making dem Xavi look like mortals, wey Thiago bin dey?


Even Chrisantus show imm logo for Under level. Ayew gan reign for Under - That is as far as it goes. Under, strictly Under. The real deals are those rubbing it with the high and mighty, not some competition organised to keep juveniles off the street and jails.

Illara and Thiago were in the same team, And Thiago was head and shoulders above Illaramendi.

Illaramendi ko, Agbonavbare ni

elampiro: Who are those 70%. Let him play one full season before we can even rate him. Not these media stuff. He is just an £18m, how much was Moura, Hazard, etc.

Let him playe to enable us see. In your mind he is better than Toure, Pirlo etc abi?

Was that not the same Pirlo and Toure that Toni Kroos and the Bayern midfield took a monster dump on and Gundogan even did a repeat on Toure again?

Are players judged by their fee? How much does Torres cost vs How much Suarez cost?