Thomas Vermaelen

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I never watched much of Valencia but everytime I watched Valencia I think Mathieu played at left back. Was that just a coincidence or is this guys main position at CB?

He played LW (when Alba played LB), LB and CB for them. He's a pretty good all-around footballer who probably makes the most sense as an LCB in a 3 man backline. I think he'll be Alba's backup and challenge for the LCB spot at Barcelona, perhaps with Vermaelen. Long season, Barca should get close to 60 games (Copa Del Rey being 2 legged) so he should get a fair amount of minutes on the left-side of defence.
 
So this is becoming your fart is stinker than mine debate? ok I'm outta here.
 
Louis XXX will be much more raw. I suspect it will stick in corporate Man Utd's gullet.
 
Before, I would have said yes for Vermaelen without hesitation. But now, I'm not so sure after the low number of appearances he had last season and everything that was said about him.

If anything, I don't want Vermaelen to be used as a Plan B just because we refuse to make that offer Dortmund just can't refuse for Hummels. There's quite a gap in class between Hummels (or insert the name of any high quality center-back) and Vermaelen.
 
I'm constantly baffled by the fact that @peterstorey is allowed to keep posting on a forum that generally has higher standards than other football forums.

What does he add to the discussion? He is constantly on a WUM and not even the funny type but the childish shit type that you would expect from a 14 year old. And I think that he is much older than that which is a bit sad.

If a newbie is promoted right now and posts the kind of meaningless drivel that @peterstorey seems to exclusively post, he will be banned in a day or two, and rightly so.

Not my forum obviously, and maybe it's a bit of a cnutish post as I feel like a player waving an imaginary yellow card at the ref but if you go around wumming constantly, reactions like mine should not come as a surprise.
 
The Man United website says he is 180cm (same as me). That's just a tiny bit under 5'11".

The Man United website has heights wrong regularly. Carrick is supposed to be 6 feet, but he towered over Ronaldo and some others who are listed as 6 feet or 6'1.

EDIT: I see that over the years most websites who used to list him at 183 have finally adjusted his height to 6.2 -> 188 cm.
 
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The Man United website has heights wrong regularly. Carrick is supposed to be 6 feet, but he towered over Ronaldo and some others who are listed as 6 feet or 6'1

Wikipedia says 6ft1, although that's hardly trustworthy either. Just checked on fifa 14 (:lol:) and they have him 6ft1 as well.

Who do we trust ?!
 
Wikipedia says 6ft1, although that's hardly trustworthy either. Just checked on fifa 14 (:lol:) and they have him 6ft1 as well.

Who do we trust ?!

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Taller than Welbeck and Gerrard, who are both listed at 6-1.
 
Heights and weights of football players is usually always wrong on the internet IMO. Remeber seeing webpages stating that the likes of Rio, Vidic etc weighed in at about 70 kg.
 
It seems a case of what is stronger, Arsenal's desire to sell him to Barca or Vermaelen's to move to United.

Whoever his more firm will get his way in this as Arsenal have to sell.
 
Michael Keane is listed as 172cm/5' 7.7" on the United website, when in reality he's about 188cm/6 ft 2 in. They are utter bullshit in that aspect.
 
Guillem Balague on twitter is saying it's a done deal to Barca.
 
Balague saying barca are sure they've got him.
 
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