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I hope David Luiz makes really good with Chelsea. Can only hope for the best for the guy. Would love to see him come back someday. Chelsea got an amazing defender.

The portuguese press reports David Luiz is going to Chelsea for 25M€+ Matic. Gonna miss him.

Seems harsh if his story is to be believed.

I have a passing interest in cycling but I don't really watch it until the Tour de France comes on. I mainly just follow it on news sites otherwise.

Harsh? The minimum ban is 2 years.

He's a decent central midfielder of the somewhat-more-defensively-minded category, but he's never going to play for the Chelsea first team when Essien, Mikel, Ramires and McEachran are there. To provide some vague measurement of quality: if he stayed in England, he would quite easily find his level in a team in the lower half of the Premier League (ala Mancienne at Wolves or formerly Smertin at Portsmouth), but would be permanent bench material at anything much higher. He is only 22 and will get better, but not likely to a level that would urge Chelsea to keep hold of him too strongly.

As for what that means he's worth, who knows in the current market. Newspaper reports I've seen seem to infer he'd make an offset of about 5 million euros in the Luiz deal, but that's likely a consequence of youth and potential rather than proven ability.

Thanks. We are missing someone to play in the midfield, somewhat doing Ramire's role, since we got more offensive players in that spot and our back is suffering a lot from that. Hope he can at least help us with that.

Don't know if this the best place to ask but, is Chelsea's Matic anything worth? It's being rumored that he might come to Benfica in exchange, involving David Luiz transfer to Chelsea.

Can't imagine Meireles on the wing. Really, what the hell?

How are Ramires and Meireles doing in England?

SAF on MUTV regarding Anderson: "He should score more goals," he said. "He's got the pace and power. He's clever, he's accurate with his passing, he should be accurate with his finishing and he's taken his goal well tonight. I'm pleased. That'll help him."

He was an amazing attacking midfielder before going to the EPL, he had awesome dribble ability and was really accurate with his pass, whatever they did to him in MU took all the magic from his play.

Hosting the world cup, even being as just the smaller co-host with Spain, would be amazing. Hope we get it.

For 2022 would like Qatar to win just for the sake of not having games being played at like 6 AM or something crazy like that.

What part of Madrid are you from?

West... You know Lisbon,Portugal?

It makes no sense to punish them further. They made something wrong and got punished for it. That's all.

It's at this point that I start eying what bastard Knockout Round draw UEFA might lumber Chelsea with.

Looking at teams likely to finish 2nd in their group (and aren't English), the easiest seem to be the likes of Shalke 04 and FC Copenhagen.

I wouldn't count with that.

Well, it's not really a Qualifying game but... Portugal just beat Spain by 4-0

What an awesome feeling, thrashing the World and Euro champs like that.

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Benfica is having a brilliant game, especially Fábio Coentrão and Carlos Martins. 4-0 against Lyon. I never would've thought it possible, given that our run in the Portuguese League isn't being anything special, despite being in second place. C'mon, let's keep it that way, SLB

EDIT: And just as I write this, Lyon makes it 4-1

Went to the stadium to see that game. Awesome match. Awful Scottish ref.

At least we're not as bad as France...

So we (Man Utd) have just bought 20 year old Portuguese striker Bebe for £7.4million. This one really came out of the blue. Anyone from Portugal here able to shed some light on the guy?

EDIT: Apparently just two years ago he was playing for Portugal in the homeless World Cup? Talk about a dream come true.

Never heard of him until two days ago.

I read that Queiroz told Fergie to snap him up, I guess the Portugal manager should know something about Portuguese talent....

You have no idea how wrong you are.

Well, with your one in one out policy, you can now get that Coencetrao, or whatever his name is.

Coentrão

The left back for Portugal in the World Cup or is that someone else?

Yes

And bollocks to David Luiz. Even at half his quoted price I wouldn't deem him worthy of consideration.

And I hope everyone thinks the same. Hope he stays here.

Oh how I remembered the Scottish/Portuguese Leagues comparisons from a few months ago, after these two games...

People actually argued that the Scottish league was better?

People argued that both leagues were equivalent.

Oh how I remembered the Scottish/Portuguese Leagues comparisons from a few months ago, after these two games...

Bye Celtic

Manuel Fernandes and Anderson are two perfect examples of why I'm afraid that Ramires going to England might not be the best choice. If they make him gain muscular mass like they did with those two he might lose most of what makes him great.

Ramires is a fucking beast of nature. He CANNOT get tired. I saw him playing injured, playing after gaving no break, playing in all sorts of conditions, and he's tireless.

And he is also a great CM\RM. He is not a Winger, far from that, but he has a great first touch, a great pass, and he is one of the best players I have ever seen off-the ball. The dude is always on the right spot

But for him to play in the Premier League he definitely needs to change. He has the body of a small 15 year old boy.

If Ramires is really going to Chelsea it will be a shame. I really wanted to see him play a second season with us. The guy is awesome, he played one and a half year non-stop and he did very well. The thing is, I see him shining anywhere but England. I don't think he is a "Premiership player". In Spain or Italy I would have no doubt.

And... Braga beat Celtic 3-0