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    Etienne Capoue

    I am really pleasantly surprised with Capoue's forward passing - even though he plays deep, his forward passes look incisive and well-weighted and someone further forward like Eriksen should love those. He actually looks like a deep-lying playmaker, not as mobile and 'knitting' as Modric but has...
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    Mousa Dembele

    I was disappointed when we bought him not because he's a bad player, but because he is nearly opposite on the spectrum to Modric - a good dribbler and nice to watch, but a meh passer who never releases the ball quick enough and lacks vision in the final third. We're already slow enough when it...
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    Tom Carroll

    If he is given the central role for them, I'm all for it. He would be at the periphery at Ajax, and as brilliant as their coaching is, I'd rather see Carroll get some real competitive experience under his belt.
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    Transfer window now shut - what do we make of our squad now?

    I think it'll take us at least half a season to gel, and we really, really need more intelligent, passing-oriented FB options (and depth). I can't even begin to list how important FBs will be to our system, because if we play Lamela/Townsend and Eriksen/Chadli out wide, all of them prefer to cut...
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    Paulinho

    Re: Paulinho *OFFICIAL* I rather like Paulie as a replacement for Parker/Dembele (he's more box-to-box than Parker and a better goalscorer than Dembele), but if we don't get a genuine playmaker, we're fudged. Seriously, seriously fudged. I might have to stop watching our home games or my blood...
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    The Blue & Yellow ITK Bonanza Thread

    Hadn't there been plenty of Croatian media linking us with those two, before JJ came in? In his press conference earlier Mamic himself said we were the bidders, though it's still up in the air if someone else comes in. Not sure how confident I am about this one since Halilovic is so highly...
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    Franco Baldini

    Please, please, PLEASE bring me a great playmaker Franco! [-o< I hope we back him with his own scouts, plenty of nifty young players coming through in Italy. The new DOF at Sunderland is also one to watch, quite highly rated by Inter fans though I think he was barely there for a year.
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    O/T - ESPN feature - "When the Beautiful Game Turns Ugly"

    Sorry if SEB, but I thought this was a really well-written, in-depth piece about the current racism in Italian football and Italy in general. It references our attack by Lazio (well, Roma) fans and has some stunning pictures there too. Link
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    Other Clubs - Rumours and Discussion

    Fantastic player. And oh look, they're actually going for players that can PASS and CREATE. What the fudge are we doing? :/
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    Paulinho -José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior

    Bernard's not a playmaker, more of a creative winger. I'd be very, very worried if we took yet another box-to-boxer instead of an actual creative midfielder, unless we think Holtby is magically going to turn into Mata.
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    Paulinho -José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior

    By goalscoring, I mean a VdV-esque playmaker who both creates and scores goals. We had a huge problem last season even retaining the ball in midfield, much less developing a coherent passing rhythm and creating chances in the final third; that's why we sucked so bad at home, we just kept...
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    Paulinho -José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior

    Paulinho's physicality is much more suited for the PL than Italy, surely this has to be at the top of his mind? And there are now a lot of Brazilians in London, who are doing quite well. I think a starting three of Sandro-Dembele-Paulinho would be terribly - and I mean TERRIBLY - uncreative...
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    Fredy Guarín

    He's much too similar to Dembele for me - we don't need another box-to-boxer whose best qualities are physical when we still don't have a real playmaker with super passing+vision yet, in either the deeplying or attacking sense. If he were young and dirt cheap then he's fine as cover/competition...
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    O/T U21 European Championship

    I'd love Illaramendi, but I'd be really surprised if he left. He'd be out of our price range anyways, but this is the type of player we should be looking at. With Spain's financial difficulties, I'm surprised we haven't bought more Spanish players...
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    Our Current Squad: £126,900,000 to Assemble

    We're doing pretty well both on and off the field considering the resources of who we're up against and the upwards pressure on wages thanks to the petroclubs in recent years, but the rise in wages does show that we're really up against it unless we increase turnover. Short-term we can try to...
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    The all new Striker thread..

    The problem is that a lot of those are not realistic - we can't afford Benteke at 25m+, Martinez and Gomez are waaay out of our range (as is my dream striker, Jovetic), Leandro may as well just fudge off now, Soldado is going nowhere even if we were willing to pay the 20m for him, and Dzeko's...
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    **Official Other Games Thread, Season 2012/13**

    I think we need strict limits to the number of a loans a club is allowed to lend out. The petro-clubs can collect as many hot prospects as they want to keep out of other clubs' hands because they can still promise them playing time, just elsewhere. Young players would be fine with that it seems...
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    David Villa

    I thought Arsenal were buying one of Jovetic, Rooney, or Higuain? Most likely Jovetic. Shame since he's young and imo really creative - would slot in at theirs with ease. In fact they're probably going after him as a main striker and Villa as a wide forward. I'd happily take Villa over...
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    O/T U21 European Championship

    Holtby seems to do better in a freer role where he can roam further forward and won't be punished for getting out of position. I think his ideas in the final third are often good, his passes just tend to get cut out whether that is because of the (lack of) movement in front or being a bit slow...
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    Franco Baldini - New Technical Director

    Re: Franco Baldini Btw, as to why he is leaving, check out this thread of Roma's fans reactions (in English! woohoo!): http://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/baldini-is-leaving-roma.1988530/
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