- Oct 25, 2006
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United to win.
United to win.
Yupshould be 2-0
it wasnt offside
probably, but it won't be easy ^ i'm a sporting fan as well as spurs, and though spurs have a better attack, i'd say sporting have a much better midfield with Moutinho and Veloso. That keeper that was playing last night Patrico, he's actually our 3rd choice keeper, but considering he's only 19 he did extremely well last night
you're right a lot of people in portugal criticise alves, but i think thats more down to an anti-porto feeling among scummy benfica fans than anything else. Alves is definately good enough, with the exception of King i'd say he's better than anything we have right now. He always puts in 100% and like you said he's great in the air, i wouldn't get so nervous with each corner and freekick against us if we had Alves in our defence lol.
And you'll never see him turn his back on the ball like our defenders like to do lol. He isn't the fastest of players though, but he always seems to be in the right position and isn't scared of getting stuck in. Personally i rate him highly, almost as good as carvalho or andrade, definately higher than Rocha lol.
He's 26 though, so if we go for him, sooner the better, but he won't leave Porto in janurary.
well his partner in defence last season, Pepe, went to Real Madrid for £22 million and he's only 2 years younger than Alves. Anderson went for like £17 million and they reportedly turned down a £15 million offer for Quaresma, so Porto aren't a team who will let their best players go for cheap. He'll cost a ton of money, we may as well stick with Rocha or maybe see if we can get Rolando from Belenenses than spend all that money on Alves.