PAUL M wrote:
Anyone seen muc of Diego lately? A couple of years back he looked a genuine class act.
His work rate and general team skills are terrible. I remember back when he was thought of as being potentially better than Kaka. Brilliant technical player that has the brilliance to change games but his shoddy mental attributes and general nonchalant attitude seem to be just as profound. As said, will probably end up as a glory signing at some mediocre club with too much money.
Saddened! wrote:
I see five clubs have met the £40.3m minimum fee clause for Neymar. That's five clubs that knew about it because of Football Manager. The clubs are:
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City and Anzhi Makhachkala.
Must admit I can see him ending up at either Madrid or Chelsea. Abramovich knows they have an ageing squad on their hands and is gonna have to spend big again to get big names in that aren't coming towards the end of their career.
Mourinho would definitely be perfect for helping Neymar reach the top and wouldn't be scared to give him plenty of games either.
Hopefully he won't end up at City. Just can't see him reaching his potential and will be rotated far too much, probably disgruntled and back at Santos on loan at the first opportunity.
The Russian club are the interesting one though. Would be a good stepping stone for him to cut his teeth in European football, and with all the rich owners the standard of the Russian league is constantly improving. Quite a lot of other Brazillians have either played there or are there now. Anzhi only finished mid table last season but were only bought by their current owner in January, and have already made inroads into the transfer market since he has been in charge. He is a multi-billionaire too, so would probably be able to offer Neymar whatever he wanted to make sure the deal went through. Brazil legend Roberto Carlos is also club captain.
Looks like Barcelona will be securing Fabregas and didn't think Guardiola had a budget of nearly 80m? Thought he had around 40m. So unless something changes with Fabregas, can't see Neymar ending up there.
Ian 77 Redux wrote:
Is the goalkeeping as funny as usual?
I know he wouldn't get in our team with Beckfordinho there, but every squad needs backup doesn't it? 
