Surely bullshit. Would be a useless transfer.
Kevin De Bruyne
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De Bruyne leaving in the middle of the season would be madness and seems impossible, and after the Chelsea fiasco it would indeed make sense for him to stay longer than a year at Wolfsburg.
Of course he wasn't too happy about it but he decided not to make a scandal or polemic out of it. That's quite nice of him if you ask me, compared to all that Terry/Bridge stuff for example.
How? I've never heard about this.
Yup. He's been easily our best player ever since Wilmots took charge as manager of the NT. Our stand-out and most consistent performer, also most goals and assists for us during qualifying and then again at the World Cup proper. (even though the WC was probably the best I've ever seen Hazard perform for us, he was still not even close to KDB's performance level).
Did she send him biquine photo?
So he cheated on his girlfriend and was subsequently devastated when she did the same by vengeance.
PS: Courtois is an a-hole.
His assist record is truly amazing... Wouldn't mind to be honest, atleast he can cross unlike some of our right wingers (Wing backs).
De Bruyne is a fantastic attacking midfielder, but I can understand why Mourinho decided to sell him.
De Bruyne's qualities are not in doubt (physical, technical, passing etc all great) and while his mentality on the field is good as well, I always get the idea that he isn't made for competition at the very top. He's a player that needs a lot of confidence and stability to perform at his best.
Needs to be the 'main man' to excel and I doubt he would be that at Man Utd.
It's difficult to explain, but in the long interview he did last month he looked like a 'quitter' to me.
When you play at a European top club and you have difficulty getting in the first team, a pro's first reaction should always be to try and prove yourself even more. With De Bruyne it seems that he quickly decided to leave.
Overall I think he's a better (and certainly more complete) player than Mata, but way too expensive given our luxury at that position.
De Bruyne's qualities are not in doubt (physical, technical, passing etc all great) and while his mentality on the field is good as well, I always get the idea that he isn't made for competition at the very top. He's a player that needs a lot of confidence and stability to perform at his best.
Needs to be the 'main man' to excel and I doubt he would be that at Man Utd.
It's difficult to explain, but in the long interview he did last month he looked like a 'quitter' to me.
When you play at a European top club and you have difficulty getting in the first team, a pro's first reaction should always be to try and prove yourself even more. With De Bruyne it seems that he quickly decided to leave.
Overall I think he's a better (and certainly more complete) player than Mata, but way too expensive given our luxury at that position.
That was all a bit messy. Bit of advice girl, just because he cheated doesn't mean you should as well. Both the men are a-holes as you called it.So he cheated on his girlfriend and was subsequently devastated when she did the same by vengeance.
PS: Courtois is an a-hole.
Please tell me this is one of those rumours like the ones constantly linking us with Gaitan or whatever his name was?
Really good player, but would be another strange signing.
Really good player - I was very surprised that Chelsea/Moany got rid of him, but I was happy that they did.
Not another number 10 please
He never struck me as a CM at Chelsea. Looked more suited to playing as a winger with freedom to play narrow. He also wasn't very quick from what I remember. For that reason alone, I'll pass.
We can't keep pissing money up the wall on attackers without pace. It's one ingredient we sorely miss right now.
We can't keep pissing money up the wall on attackers without pace. It's one ingredient we sorely miss right now.
It's the transfer window, we will be linked with every Tom, Dick and Kevin. Usually we get used to kick other teams(that they actually want to go to) into action.
If you play as the #10, you basically are the main man, you control the attack. I don't agree with your assertion that he is a 'quitter', his best performance in the Bundesliga have come against the best team in it. He is also one of the very few who shows up for your national team almost every game, and I don't really get your point about him deciding to leave. I'm fairly sure Mourinho was at just as much fault - it was a lot like freezing out Mata, just to a lesser extent, and De Bruyne did the smart thing of leaving before he rotted away to play consistently.
He's basically in the mold of a young Steven Gerrard.
Yeah, I agree with most of that, the 'quitter' comment was based on the interview I mentioned.
As I said it's really difficult to explain, but that interview didn't really give a positive impression to me. Not that he said stupid things, he just didn't strike me as the kind of person that would fit at the top. Have to admit he has shown great mental toughness to become the footballer he is today though.
For the Belgian national team he's been by far the best outfield player over the last few years indeed.
With 'main man' I mean being the player the team relies on. Even though Mata has started games at the #10 position, he's never really been the main man. That's been Rooney and I doubt that will change soon. Di Maria has a good chance to compete though.
Rooney and De Bruyne in 1 team would be a flood of long crossfield passes to the right
And he already has more league titles, I see.
Rooney and De Bruyne in 1 team would be a flood of long crossfield passes to the right
At least we'd have someone with long range shooting abilities again. Rooney shows it very rarely these days, Blind is probably our best.
I disagree. Gerrard was a completely different player at a young age than the one De Bruyne is now. Gerrard was much more defensively astute for one.
He is apparently superb but what would be the point? We can barely squeeze Mata, Rooney and Di Maria who all occupy or should occupy the same spaces on the pitch and van Gaal is forced to come up with weird tactics to accomodate them, add another player to that list and it becomes even harder.
Besides Wolfsburg wouldn't even sell him this time of year. They are cash rich with Volkswagen money and he is a key player for them.
Besides Wolfsburg wouldn't even sell him this time of year. They are cash rich with Volkswagen money and he is a key player for them.
At least we'd have someone with long range shooting abilities again. Rooney shows it very rarely these days, Blind is probably our best.
No player has scored more outside the box in the PL in the last few years than Rooney
I love him. Great player. If we didn't have Di Maria who I want to play as the third midfielder then yes.
He's wasted out wide.
He's wasted out wide.
He's played as no. 10 for most of the season, I think this story is bollocks personally. Doubt we'd splash the cash on another no. 10.
His quicker than Hazard.
Couldn't see Wolfsburg getting rid of their best player in this window. While Chelsea has been excellent with their transfer dealings over the last 3 windows they screwed up with De Bruyne. It's not clear exactly happened with Mourinho but he was starting for the first two PL games and then poof he got 4 more appearances the rest of the year.
You don't lead the Bundesliga (2012-2013) in KMs run if you are lazy . What I will say is that his tackling is below average and he is offensively oriented. His passing pct is low (~75%). However, he isn't going to sit around and jack up his passing percentage by playing 3 foot passes or back passes. He's good to very good on corners an excellent free kick taker to bring the ball in the box. He's got amazing touch on long aerial passes. He's direct and he's best suited playing a roaming offensive playmaker midfield position.
He reminds me of Paul Scholes albeit a bit less smooth and a bit more rugged.
He does need to play every game as he's ill equipped to play on a sporadic basis. He needs the routine to keep him in "rhythm" so to speak.
I do agree that he's the type of player that needs to have his spot and not be looking over his shoulder worrying about someone taking his spot if he has a bad game.
After Chelsea I figured it would take 2-3 years for him to make to a top club whether that was Bayern/Dortmund the Spanish giants or United/City or even back to Chelsea. He's immensely talented and I do think Bayern will make a run if no one else makes a move.
You don't lead the Bundesliga (2012-2013) in KMs run if you are lazy . What I will say is that his tackling is below average and he is offensively oriented. His passing pct is low (~75%). However, he isn't going to sit around and jack up his passing percentage by playing 3 foot passes or back passes. He's good to very good on corners an excellent free kick taker to bring the ball in the box. He's got amazing touch on long aerial passes. He's direct and he's best suited playing a roaming offensive playmaker midfield position.
He reminds me of Paul Scholes albeit a bit less smooth and a bit more rugged.
He does need to play every game as he's ill equipped to play on a sporadic basis. He needs the routine to keep him in "rhythm" so to speak.
I do agree that he's the type of player that needs to have his spot and not be looking over his shoulder worrying about someone taking his spot if he has a bad game.
After Chelsea I figured it would take 2-3 years for him to make to a top club whether that was Bayern/Dortmund the Spanish giants or United/City or even back to Chelsea. He's immensely talented and I do think Bayern will make a run if no one else makes a move.
I wouldn't have thought so. He's definitely not as good at beating a man. The only way I'd take an attacker without searing pace right now is if he was very good at going past players.
I think he'd make for a very good number 8. I rate De Bruyne highly.
Hahaha what? What are you basing this on?
Before I'd have laughed this off. Now, with the new regime, it's entirely possible they'd buy yet another fecking no.10 (despite the fact that when we buy them we usually either drop them or immediately change their position).
Absolutely nothing... Just found it funny someone labelled him slow when he clearly isn't. Hazard isn't extremely fast (fast enough)but I bet a lot of us would take him.. Basically just thought the pace arguement was lame.
Maybe Herrera is going to jail and De Bruyne is his replacement.
He reminds me of Mata, which is another player we just don't need.
The ultimate highlights player. Every game is the same, plays like shit then pops up with a sick goal or an assist and ends up being hailed man of the match.
Would be an useless signing, so, knowing us, it will probably happen.
Would be an useless signing, so, knowing us, it will probably happen.
I think De Bruyne is actually much more versatile and has a better work ethic than Mata but as far as buying him goes I really want to see us invest in our weak areas first before we think about replacing a great attacking midfielder with one that would maybe fit our demands slightly better.
Nah Hazard is much faster than de Bruyne. Our attack is seriously lacking pace, while KdB isn't slow like Mata he wouldn't solve that problem, it would mean we have another attacker who isn't particularly quick.
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