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I just want whoever wins this semifinal to win the World Cup

I think it's more about blatter getting votes from Asia and Africa for re-election than it is for FIFA making money.

It about the here and now, not what someone did 3 years ago.

That season you hark on about Yakubu scored 17 PL goals, Holt 15 and Dempsey 17.

Would you have any of them here?

No, because they are well past it, just like Bent.

They were all finished at this level years ago, the only difference between all these players is Dempsey is the only one without man boobs.

I totally forgot about Yakubu. Wow.

We don't even need another striker. Bent is available now and hes better than Bendtner. We don't really need to fill the squad wih crap players. We already have quite a collection. Kozak must be close and Benteke wont be that far off in September. Gabby and Wiemann are still around. Waste of money. Sign a DM instead.

Based off what is bent better than bendtner?

Should award 100 points for predicting the correct scoreline and winner of the final game, rendering this entire competition useless.

Considering I was away for a week and forgot about this when I was top 5, I endorse this idea.

I agree with a lot of that, but you don't mention that it's largely scolari's fault that costa defected.

Rightly so seeing as he's our only midfielder who can pick a pass. We look awful when he doesn't play.

Edit...'more awful'

Which actually makes little difference as we are a low-possession team. Not to mention that Westwood was in the team when we went on our worst run last season so this idea that his presence makes any difference is nonsense and backed up by nothing.

It's probably backed up by looking at his potential replacements.

What's that? like £3.9m? nothing really.

For a guy from the Hungarian league?

Yeah this is not going to be good for the country to exit the competition in this manner. Kinda worrying really. The only shot they had of justifying spending all this money on hosting the competition instead of on more important things along with easing the pain the deaths the construction accidents have caused is for Brazil to win the competition.

Maybe it will force them to face the real problems in their country, not get distracted by football.

€5m seems kind of steep to me.

Wouldn't be surprised if brazil have been using a bit of kidology (is that a word? Looks strange), and Neymar actually plays.

That could paralyze him.

Marcus Berg...wasn't he some top scorer in under 21 tournament? Safe to say his career hasn't gone to plan.

Spent over a year out of football I think.

Most valuable player in the the Greek league last season playing for Panathinaikos. Scored a hat-trick in the cup final. Advise to any young player, don't sign for Hamburg

Did he take a year off before that?

They haven't done that deal yet. Liverpool failed with a £20m bid in January didn't he?

They have already replaced Xavi imo, Rakitic is a similar player to Xavi and nearly just as good.

Really? I like Rakitic he is a good player but Xavi is one of the best midfielders ever and Rakitic is not even best Croatian midfielder at the moment

The Xavi he's replacing isn't one of the best midfielders ever though. He's been past his best the last couple years.

actually Trent your right, if Kozak had been a replacement then I guess we wouldn't have signed Holt. I kind of thought Kozak had been lined up as replacement and then when Benteke signed on Lambert just thought 'hell we need numbers.'

Holt was signed because Kozak broke his leg.

No. He was signed because Clark broke Kozak's leg....

This post should win an award for something. Maybe, most unnecessary and ridiculous swipe at a player?

Why scolari plays hulk over willian is beyond me. Also, why he never called up costa and stuck with Fred and Jo. And why he began the tournament with paulinho instead of fernandinho. And why he's considering 3 defensive midfielders.

I guess that's why he makes the big bucks.

Villa actually have a huge squad right now. Not much quality, but a lot of players.

He's dead, Jim.

Marcus Berg...wasn't he some top scorer in under 21 tournament? Safe to say his career hasn't gone to plan.

Spent over a year out of football I think.

read that blues going back a couple of years were close to getting Falcao and Rodriguez for 6.5 million all together and could not get work permits as well.

And people wonder why English clubs have to spend more than clubs from other countries

I love the top negative review.

I guess falcao is to villa what lewandowski is to blackburn.

If argentina win the World Cup, they'll have to be one of the poorer sides to win it in recent history. I want them to win, but after their forward line they just don't really have great players at all.

To be fair to liverpool, unlike spurs they already have a lot of quality, they need to add depth

I've always wanted to play this but it seems like too much effort haha

It kind of is. It's not a game to relax with.