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Has anyone here watched much of Sampdoria's Fernando(bought from Shakhtar) and if so what would you think of him as an option to fill the Marchisio-shaped hole in our midfield? Whoscored likes him and his movement & distribution looked good on youtube, but you always have to take those with a...

Kobe was back considerably sooner than expected from what I understand and he attributed it to PRP injections. He had surgery done, so it seems to work best in combination with surgery. What I've read about it when used without surgery is that it speeds up the natural recovery process, which...

Yeah, corticosteroids are what I was referring to. Was on some for a large part of last year they wrecked everything from muscles to ligaments. Stem-cells and PRP are being used on athletes "legally" now(kind of a grey-area PED-wise), but are still technically in the testing phase. I think Kobe...

I don't know about drugs strengthening tendons and ligaments(though I do know from first-hand experience that some non-performance enhancing steroids weaken them), however there's treatments for partial tears which speed up recovery. The main ones I'm aware of are platelet-rich plasma and...

The way it happened I assumed it would've been the MCL, but you don't want to be tearing any of your knees' ligaments. If it ends up requiring surgery I doubt we'll see much of him before 2017, as recovery from those types of surgeries tends to take 6 months before you can even start training again.

Hopefully it's not a full tear and he can avoid surgery.

I'm not saying we have to raise funds to get our main targets; I'm saying that if we sell a solid backup, it will be for money that can buy us a backup that we view as a likely improvement on what we're offloading. Think of how the unplanned Vidal sale allowed us to get Sandro, except this time...

The fact high offers came in for Sturaro is why I think he's more likely to be sold. The fact we turned some high offers down for him at midseason doesn't mean he's off the market, because we generally avoid messing with our squad at that time. If for some reason we want to make room for a new...

I'm strict with ours because most of them look lost on the other side. Sturaro has looked shambolic on the left as did Pereyra when he played a game or two there last season, and he's been a shadow of his former self for most of this season anyway. Pogba can play on the right and has when he's...

It's not 7(8 with Asamoah) players for 3 spots, because they are not all competing with eachother. If you add Asamoah to your list it's basically basically 2 DMs, 2 LCMs, 3 RCMs and Padoin, with Asa being the #2 LCM. He's also the #3/2 LWB depending on whether Evra renews, so selling him means...

Diawara is a DM whose purchase wouldn't affect Asamoah's position in our squad in the slightest. If anything it would mean Hernanes is off. Asamoah is the only player player other than Pogba who has played at LCM for us this season(ouside of a sole, poor Sturaro performance) and can also provide...

AFCON is in early 2017 anyway, so it won't affect his preseason. Hopefully he'll just stay fit until the summer and get back to full fitness.

Juve's best as well; don't forget Ogbonna.

This entire conversation is hilarious considering PED testing in football is a joke. Voltaren :lol:

Love this guy. He's hard-working, technically skilled and possesses elite athleticism; unsellable as far as I'm concerned. Watching him progress as he gains experience and nails down that 1st choice L(W)B position is really something to look forward to.

What am I wrong about? When there's an injury to one of our starting CBs Alllegri prefers to change systems rather than paying him most of the time, it's quite clear he doesn't trust him as a starter. That's not a prediction on how the rest of his career will pan out, just the reality of his...

If we're sticking with 3 at the back and don't trust Raguno, it makes perfect sense that we'd want another quality CB. That said, I don't see why Bayern would let him go, so it's probably bullshit.

Juventus lose at home to 10-man Sampdoria We had plenty of poor showings under Conte. Last night's game was dreadful to watch, but that will happen occasionally regardless of who's managing.

The villain of the 1922 Sherlock Holmes film.

Is the "Current market value" listed in that pic Beppe's starting offer?