I think Benzema also overrated striker
look at the recent UCL, he didn't perform well
less goal scored if you looked at last season UCL

I somehow think so/think not too.

My opinion is in between lol

the French Ligue 1 and EPL, different standards.

But when we see Lyon vs Man Utd, he has strength.

benzema is of course way better than tevez

teves is only good because he is hard working, running like mad guy after every ball...

benzema on the other hand is a good finisher...
he can strike the ball with both feet, he can hold the ball well, and he can run at defender....
he can great something out of nothing...
a great combination for a world class striker...!

i think SAF should just concentrate on signing valencia and benzema , and maybe another left winger....

sell of nani and get ribery!
that would be PERFECT!

The same can be said about Huntelaar/E'to/Aguero/etc who never play in BPL, no? Some time we have to take some gamble to unearth the potential gems. Plus SAF has been doing ok in last few transfer's windows so not really worry much if we do get him.

Perfectly understands what he meant. Regarding the ownership of the club. But let me just highlight one thing, they have elections in La Liga clubs while here, in England they have total ownership. When someone said there's no power to the fans they are dead wrong, out of nowhere there's FC United. And how people have been boycotting the Glazers when they came to United back then. Fans always have the last say. If there's no fan in Manchester, where would the support come from?

To be honest, I don't really give a damn if Pompey, Villa or whatever club is being bought by tycoons. They can afford it, so what? Fans will still be fans and supporters. As a matter of fact, this will help the club thus league being more competitive. Marketable? Hell yes! And this will attract big talents and names to come and play.

What Blatter or his BF Platini are doing is trying to kill English clubs. I don't see any difference when Perez or Abramowich is in charge of a club. Perez promises the fans to get this set of players and so does Abramowich. The only difference is the money source. I do believe that because of Abramowich, Chelsea has just step up and market their club better despite of glory hunters.

Big money transfers will kill the small clubs? Take a good look at Valencia. In Spain, I believe only Barca and RM have the most say over transfers while others are having problems in getting big names to play for them. Isn't the same scenario happens in any other leagues? So, what's wrong with tycoons buying smaller clubs. They chose EPL because it's marketable and it's in ENGLISH. Audience from all around the world can easily understand what are being saying and so on.

So, what's wrong with having an oil tycoon to pay for your club? They still have to generate money to cope with their losses. We've seen that with Chelsea. It's not like they aren't doing something about it. Funny how Blatter and Platini can talk so much while being biased on non-English clubs. 6+5 rule? Great idea but take a good look at current RM lineup? Or maybe Barca which barely even have 6 Spanish in their side. Toure, Henry, Messi, Alves and Eto'o aren't exactly Spanish are they?

    yay valencia
next benzema

Cue the "they've got a 30+ million pound striker on the bench! Not fair!" excuses. I do agree that Valencia is a tad bit overpriced, but its common knowledge around Europe that we're currently fat with cash thx to the Ronaldo sale and all our potential sellers are quoting marked up prices to milk us for all we can. Still, 16million for an Ecuadorian. Is that a record for them? Might still be time for more shopping, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was the only player we get this summer.

I thought RM shud improve their defence..Cannavaro dah out,the rest are like not good..And yet they still sign Benz,Ronaldo and Kaka..Get Titus Bramble la aiyo..

Always been owen's admirer since WC 98.
Hope the deal go through.
Will be the next sheringham maybe?

I heard news about Utd to sign Obertan..French is it? 20 years old only i think he have a bright future if he could make an impact in EPL next season..and its a good investment also...

because.....5 years from now u will see the headline on the newspaper "Real Madrid make an outrages bid to sign Obertan"

It's retarded to see pools fan coming in posting that and laugh. It's enough if you do that in your own club's thread

He hasn't even got a number yet bro