i know rotation is neccessary but i believe you should always play your strongest XI. and balotelli and tevez for me is a better pairing and tevez is still a young ladSalfordCityBlue said:Balotelli & Dzeko has the potential to be one of the great strike partnerships for years to come.
If we can pull that off... Wow.
It's not what you spend, it's the way that you spend it.
Rotating those two along with Tevez and Adebayor we would be unstoppable I think.
If we do sign Balotelli (and allow him time to settle without doing any boo boy shite) we will view £30m as an absolute bargain in years to come.
Blue Phil said:This will surely be concluded over the weekend. I imagine the fee will be £25million (around 30million euro's) with add on's. This guy is 6'3 so i would honestly bet against us getting Torres/Ibra or Dzeko now. He look's like a new Drogba and at only 19 i think this is a great buy. People have mentioned his attitude but so what? Bellamy, Petrov and Robinho all had/have massive ego's and attitude problems but Robinho aside we have handled them pretty well. As long as he has talent and desire to go with his ego, i'm happy.
In's:
Kolarov £17million
Boetang £11million
Y.Toure £24million
Silva £26million
Balotelli £25million
Total outlay: £103million
Out's:
Petrov (free)
Slvinho
Benjani (both released)
Paul Marshall (free to walsall)
Bojinov £5million to Parma
Robert Mak Undisclosed to Nuremburg
David Ball (loaned out to swindon)
Possible out's (IMO):
Robinho £20million
RSC £6million
Bellamy £5million
Onouha £7million
This is honestly more than i expected at the start of the window and we have brought in some quality players. I very much doubt we will get a "WOW" player as some ITK's claim because let's face it we have a very, very strong squad which will hopefully win a cup this season and challenge for the league title. Apparently we are still looking at Arteta/Milner aswell which would be a cherry on the cake as long as we dont get ripped off.
Keeping in mind Mancini's quotes about squad rotation and that we could play around 60 games+ if we advance far in all 3 cup competitions i think it is safe to say we will be looking at something like this team sheet in the league:
--------------------------------GIVEN--------------------------------
-----BOETANG-----K.TOURE----------LESCOTT-----KOLAROV-----
------------------Y.TOURE---DE-JONG---BARRY--------------------
---------------------------------SILVA--------------------------------
--------------------------TEVEZ-------BALOTELLI-------------------
And possibly this in the Europa league/F.A Cup/Carling Cup:
--------------------------------HART--------------------------------
-----RICHARDS-----KOMPANY---------BOYATA-----BRIDGE-----
------JOHNSON-----------VIERA---IBRAHIM-----------S.W.P-----
------------------------------IRELAND------------------------------
----------------------------ADEBAYOUR----------------------------
...I'm not sure what provoked me into making this epic post, all i know is that i have :) :P
CTID x
Tarnats left peg said:i know rotation is neccessary but i believe you should always play your strongest XI. and balotelli and tevez for me is a better pairing and tevez is still a young lad
Blue Phil said:This will surely be concluded over the weekend. I imagine the fee will be £25million (around 30million euro's) with add on's. This guy is 6'3 so i would honestly bet against us getting Torres/Ibra or Dzeko now. He look's like a new Drogba and at only 19 i think this is a great buy. People have mentioned his attitude but so what? Bellamy, Petrov and Robinho all had/have massive ego's and attitude problems but Robinho aside we have handled them pretty well. As long as he has talent and desire to go with his ego, i'm happy.
In's:
Kolarov £17million
Boetang £11million
Y.Toure £24million
Silva £26million
Balotelli £25million
Total outlay: £103million
Out's:
Petrov (free)
Slvinho
Benjani (both released)
Paul Marshall (free to walsall)
Bojinov £5million to Parma
Robert Mak Undisclosed to Nuremburg
David Ball (loaned out to swindon)
Possible out's (IMO):
Robinho £20million
RSC £6million
Bellamy £5million
Onouha £7million
edit:
Caceido £3million
Jo £5million
This is honestly more than i expected at the start of the window and we have brought in some quality players. I very much doubt we will get a "WOW" player as some ITK's claim because let's face it we have a very, very strong squad which will hopefully win a cup this season and challenge for the league title. Apparently we are still looking at Arteta/Milner aswell which would be a cherry on the cake as long as we dont get ripped off.
Keeping in mind Mancini's quotes about squad rotation and that we could play around 60 games+ if we advance far in all 3 cup competitions i think it is safe to say we will be looking at something like this team sheet in the league:
--------------------------------GIVEN--------------------------------
-----BOETANG-----K.TOURE----------LESCOTT-----KOLAROV-----
------------------Y.TOURE---DE-JONG---BARRY--------------------
---------------------------------SILVA--------------------------------
--------------------------TEVEZ-------BALOTELLI-------------------
And possibly this in the Europa league/F.A Cup/Carling Cup:
--------------------------------HART--------------------------------
-----RICHARDS-----KOMPANY---------BOYATA-----BRIDGE-----
------JOHNSON-----------VIERA---IBRAHIM-----------S.W.P-----
------------------------------IRELAND------------------------------
----------------------------ADEBAYOUR----------------------------
...I'm not sure what provoked me into making this epic post, all i know is that i have :) :P
CTID x
Tarnats left peg said:i know rotation is neccessary but i believe you should always play your strongest XI. and balotelli and tevez for me is a better pairing and tevez is still a young ladSalfordCityBlue said:Balotelli & Dzeko has the potential to be one of the great strike partnerships for years to come.
If we can pull that off... Wow.
It's not what you spend, it's the way that you spend it.
Rotating those two along with Tevez and Adebayor we would be unstoppable I think.
If we do sign Balotelli (and allow him time to settle without doing any boo boy shite) we will view £30m as an absolute bargain in years to come.
sir malcom said:what like these monsal <a class="postlink" href="http://www.redcafe.net/f9/mario-balotelli-293487/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.redcafe.net/f9/mario-balotelli-293487/</a> happy days,its funny when the penny drops that were in for him,they start to slag him like you say, LOVE IT
Same could be said about Adam Johnson with EnglandBunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
Bunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
Bunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
SalfordCityBlue said:Bunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
He's 19? Massive potential, but not truly great yet. Could be something genuinely special, starting now.
Plus Lippi doesn't like stroppy players, hence Cassano never getting a look in with him either.
Should we really be using Lippi's measure as a good judge, given their atrocious performance at the World Cup anyway?
You want the disgusting, sad truth?Bunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
Bunk said:Honest question, but if Balotelli is so special, why was he not in the Italy squad for the World Cup?
Apparently Di Natale, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pazzini and Quagliarella are all better as far as Lippi's concerned.
TheIllestVillains said:You want the disgusting, sad truth?
The FIGC (in a nutshell, Italy's version of the FA) dosen't want the face of Italian football to be a black male, a son of a refugee.