Marouane Fellaini - The next Patrick Viera???

[Scottoffee]

Agreed, I know it's Stoke, but not sure if Moyes will start Fellaini - he won't even have met the squad yet and won't get back from Turkey until Thursday at the earliest.

Saying that though, Castillo has trained with the boys a bit, but has to travel all the way back from Uruguay.

Glad the FA's done us a favour (or should I thank Sky?!) by giving us the Sunday fixture, hopefully we'll see them both in action.

 

[SLAVEN BILIC]

i'm saving my judgement til a couple of games in to be honest. i am very excited about this lad tho, just his signing has given everybody a lift. if he doesn't work out it's alot of money to waste. but with castillo if he's gack then he's gone at the end of the seson anyway.
3 weeks today for the derby!!!!!

 

[Sharpys top lip]

We have to let the lad settle in. Don't expect miricals from him straight away. Pienaar,arteta,jags an others all needed 6 months plus to settle.

He'll be a beast of a CM in the end. Just give him time.

 

[Robert Jarvis]

Time will tell but I have a very strong feeling that this guy is not only going to be able to cut the mustard but slice it as well. On the face of it he is just what we need in midfield, big and strong. For too long we have had a small (height) midfield and not strong phsically.

As for Stoke with our poor start we need to go out and blast them. So please Davey try to leave Hibs and Captain Marvel on the bench or back home.

 

[ToxtethBlue]

Because of the situation we find ourselves in we can't give him time, we need a quick fix to be honest. He's got to come in and do a job for the team, we've spent 15 million on him at the end of the day. If we hadn't have been so unorganised in Pre-season and got him in earlier it would have been a different story but that never happened.

I don't expect world beating performances straight away but he's got to do a job and play his part, I'm sure he will.