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Chelsea asked 30m EUR for Debruyne and eventually sold him for 20m EUR to Wolfsburg... 28m EUR is just their starting position.
 
Chelsea can't afford to leave him on the bench for a year because his price would drop too much. My guess (hope?): Everton get him for 19m EUR at the end of the transfer window.

Deserved the win but need to learn How To win in 90mins against weaker opposition. Credit to Howard, he had An amazing game. USA play with a lot of heart.

Deserved the win but need to learn How To win in 90mins against weaker opposition. Credit to Howard, he had An amazing game. USA play with a lot of heart.

Deserved the win but need to learn How To win in 90mins against weaker opposition. Credit to Howard, he had An amazing game. USA play with a lot of heart.

Still angry about the game last night, just smacks of being rigged....

Scheme-wise, Lukaku isn't the best fit for our team. He's at his best when he can face the opposition's goal. Either when he can attack the ball in or near the box and try to slot it home or further away from goal with space he can use to gain separation from defenders that are likely gonna be slower or skinnier than him. If he were playing for a side that plays like West Ham or something, he probably would score 20 goals a season if he were to play a full one. He might even do for us as well as he has scored 14 goals despite missing out on a couple of games in the beginning of the season as he wasn't here on loan yet, through injury and due to the current rules prohibiting players from appearing against the parent club. Perhaps he is so good at what he does do that it would be best for us to compromise and take the good with the bad. However, I also don't think Lukaku has a lot of upside left. He isn't going to get much stronger (and if he does the added muscle would likely cost him pace and agility) or quicker (and if he does it's probably because he'd have lost weight and thus strength) probably. I've already said this before that Wenger doesn't think players develop technically after the age of twelve (said in the book The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin). Now that's probably a bit of an oversimplification as there obviously are correct ways of hitting a ball in certain situations and if a player is doing it wrong these things can be corrected for example. But in general, I don't know of any strikers (or players in general) that didn't have a good touch when they were 20 and did when they were 30. I also actually have seen Suarez when he was playing for Groningen and in his early years at Ajax and his touch has always been way better than Lukaku's. He was very erratic and not a real team player though, but he had the kind of potential that could make him into a world class player with the right coaching.
 
In today's game, a lot of the so-called creative players, the wide men and attacking midfielders, aren't really looking to create chances for a centre forward either. Which is why I don't buy that just any decent striker is gonna score goals for us, we don't create that many chances imo. The inverted winger/forward in the Ronaldo mould, which is the type of player that Mirallas and Deulofeu are imo, benefits from a centre forward that can bring them into the position to score. Their strengths aren't to put the ball on a plate for a striker, it's to make runs and get into goalscoring positions themselves.
 
Ideally, our scouts find a 20-year-old Berbatov somewhere and if they do, by all means go with him instead. I know I haven't seen one in the PL (or Belgian or Dutch league) this year though.

I'm willing to admit America is one of the greatest countries in the world - by my standards.
is it perfect? no; but why focus on the bad stuff, and subsequently hate the country..
 
my favourite movies are american, my favourite series are american, my favourite actor is american, my favourite author is an american, my favourite band is american, grand canyon/yosemite/yellowstone/death valley/..., some great cities, ...
 
or i could say they're all gun toting religous retards with an absurd amount of poor people given how rich a country they are
 
 

I think the transfer request only voids his loyalty bonus. Don't think it has any influence on what is owed to liege

Oh man, how do I even begin to tackle this topic in a way that will make any sense...
 
So you have conservatives who bitch about Obama and "BIG GOVERNMENT." They don't want government intervening in the lives of anyone. Then, they completely contradict themselves and insist the government get involved in a number of things; drug fighting and incarceration included. They believe in the "crime control" method of prevention, which is basically that we should throw anybody doing illegal shit into jail to punish them and scare them into not doing it ever again. Thus, we end up incarcerating a shitload of people to the point of overpopulation of prisons. This overpopulation will sometimes lead to judges being more likely to give probation in certain cases. As a result, we end up with guys who assault their wives ending up with probation while someone caught with drugs ends up in jail for three years. The most dramatic, absurd example of how inconsistent and harsh our justice system is would be the state of California, which has something called the "Three Strikes" rule. Essentially, any person who commits three felonies (regardless of how insignificant) automatically receives a life sentence. In one instance, a guy in California is now spending the rest of his life in prison because he was caught taking a single Twinkie from a store and had two felonies like 10 years prior.
 
So we have all of these people in our prison systems for victimless crimes because the Conservatives insist we continue the War on Drugs and incarcerate people regardless of mental health and other factors. As a result, it costs the government money it does not have to feed, house, provide healthcare, etc. for all of these prisoners. Thus, the government is forced to raise taxes to fund it. And then the Conservatives complain about their taxes increasing and again blame it on "BIG GOVERNMENT!!!"
 
 
Tah-Dah!