Just fort the uninitiated - who or what is 'FM'???

dozer wrote:We won't buy Kroos now that Herrera's been signed.

The talk over here is that he's Real bound.

LurganRed wrote:

swampash wrote:What formation do people think we will be tending towards under LVG?

433 or 352 I reckon

I fancy 352, for sure.

What formation do people think we will be tending towards under LVG?

Herrera is/would be a good start. Can do a bit of everything centrally and an upgrade on what we've got (ie TC). Reckon we still need a bastard for some games though. Carvalho would be an expensive bastard; Schneiderlin a mid-priced bastard; De Jong a cheaper bastard. Any other good bastards out th...

How about Luiz Gustavo?

Time to get real, I suspect. We're never going to get a significant rebuild of the team over the summer. At best we'll get 2 or 3 goodish players - no top drawer players are going to come when we can't offer CL football. We should be thinking more about who we want to keep (and who we will be forced...

marlon wrote:Swiss Rodriguez, Shaqiri, Pjanic, Kovacic, Benzema

Not Shaquiri, please! Complete waste of space in my opinion. Never done anything really at Bayern.

brianofnazarethffs wrote:LVG wants him to play as a wing back NQAT.

And me too!!!! Have long thought that - when SAF used him occasionally as a back up right back, I though he looked better than a lot of others we've tried there (just IMHO, of course!).

Is there any credence to the rumour about us approaching Sami Khedira?