tldr; chile needs a better defense and a proper centerforward (vargas... meh)

Sanchez carries that team as much as he does at the Emirates.

lol come on, it's not that terrible, it was a fun game, chile could have scored many times and just fucked up but they weren't sucky.

having said that, i don't know how much arsenal is sucky. my guess is it's not. but come on, chile played well for most of the game-- the thing is if you watch the bundesliga you don't make fuckups like that in front of timo werner. also, yea, germany defended well.

but chile was not all alexis. it's a good team that needs a finisher. and adderall for the defenders.

Rumours are going mental atm about a deal for Costa to go to Madrid. For, get this, 22 million. Basically it'd mean Costa sitting on his ass for 6 months when he can "officially" sign for Atletico

Sell him for 22 mill; buy Lukaku for £80 mill. Makes sense!

That's hilarious. After the crazy offer from China he must be kicking himself for not taking it.

Looks like Lukaku's going to MU. Slightly surprised at that.

Me too. God knows why he'd go to the team where the very same manager dissed him saying he wasn't good enough. All this does it make me want Utd to flounder even more. Kinda like a Liverpool Mk. 2.

It's gonna be interesting to see who Everton get as a replacement. I know the talk was Giroud but I don't see it.

Rooney now seems like a done deal. He's obviously just a sweetener in the Lukaku deal, so I don't think he's come in as out n out replacement. As part of the Lukaku deal, though, I'd have pushed like fuck for Martial instead of Rooney. Jose's not a fan. I know West Ham are interested but I'd be seriously surprised if we get him., while at the same time none of the mega clubs seem interested in him. An Everton move would've made real sense for both parties. He's had some problems at MU but I do really rate him, and he's obviously far more long-term than Rooney.

See I've thought about this a fair bit and in SOME ways it makes sense.

So the big signing besides for Pickford has been Klassen. Klassen is gonna be the midfielder who makes the runs, sets players up etc and he seems to be really good. He adds the pace to games that Koeman wants.

Rooney will add another dimension to the game. He knows how to control games to what the game dictates. He's not the fastest player in the squad and Koeman knows that. He'll be on when the pace needs to be slowed down. Also, when he comes on opposite players are gonna be trying to shut him down. That's gonna pull players away from their positions meaning other players will be free to try and make the runs needed to score. And lord knows he's good at setting them up. He could actually be a crucial signing. He's the guy who's won everything there is to win in the Premier League. That experience will be massive. Especially given how young our squad is.

Plus, you know what Dutch players are like. He could either be really terrible or really good in the Premier League. And again Rooney will help with that.

It would have been great to get Martial. I do worry about where most of our goals are gonna come from next season and relying on Ramirez is a risky move. Especially considering him and Lukaku are two very different kinds of players.

I've always been a Rooney fan, even when he was struggling, and certainly don't think it's a bad signing, necessarily, just a surprising one, from Koeman's pov. I agree with the experience aspect, although I've never seen Rooney really demonstrate an ability to control a game's tempo. If anything, he usually relies fron another teammate (Carrick?) controlling the tempo so he doesn't just descend into his now trademark running around trying to do everything. The rumours that you're about to sign Siguurdson make far more sense to me.

West Ham seem determined to get Hernandez off Leverkusen. Apparently just a case of agreeing his wage demands. There's lots of holes in WH's squad but I would see Chicharito as a positive - although I've got a feeling that's gonna fall through too.

I was the same, but Koeman and Walsh know what they're doing and they know what they're buying. Talk is that Rooney has kicked up his training and his fitness levels. It was probably a caveat by Koeman.

If you play to Hernandez's strengths it'd be a real good signing.

Y'know what? I'm actually optimisitic Rooney's gonna add something to this Everton squad. Bring on the season

I don't like fútbol anymore. My new favorite sport is, uhhhh... I dunno. Sailing? Yeah, what the hell. Saaaaiiiiliiing... :D

I was more confused by the media talking about it as though he's gonna be the replacement for Lukaku. If he's used right then he could be a real asset.

West Ham's deals are collapsing. I doubt we'll get Hernandez, with the owners apparently not happy at his wage demands. They put us in a new stadium and talk about ambition but won't accept that to get players that'll help achieve that they have to pay higher wages. They got the shiny new stadium on the cheap now they want to get a shiny new squad on the cheap.

Hernandez to West Ham looks more and more likely :)

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ha! i thought i remembered you hated him

so noone here is watching the Women European Cup?
You ain't missing much then :-D
I watched the last 30 minutes of the Dutch play I can't remember anymore, and I can't remember anything of it.

oh, and right now PSV is losing at home of a team noone's ever heard of, except if you're Croatian perhaps. Good for me, all the cheapass football fans have parked in my street again :-(

Definitely not me. Maybe whenever he scored against West Ham but I've always been a fan.

i did a bit of googling on this and after scanning the results i think it was h8kurdt who hated him for being a "goalpoacher".

was ages ago, so-- sorry for the confusion. i kinda bundled the whole of england in recollection.

so... been catching up w/ bundesliga news

ajax coach peter bosz moves to dortmund

james rodriguez to bayern!

and yeah, you got chicharito

whereas monchengladbach got a west ham kid, last name oxford (he's 18)