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Oh, france and uruguay definitely have better individualities, Forlan and Suarez are incredible forwards. Ribery is a great player. etc. Way better individualities than Mexico for sure but as you say its all about a well rounded team. Mexico MUST play as a team or they will not win against these teams. And top it off that they go against the host during the first world cup game. I believe the host has never failed to advance from the group stage. But I still have hopes Mexico will pull through, they've had tougher groups in the past and they still moved on.
And yea bottom line is vela and dos santos have failed in transcending but chicharito seems to have more potential than these 2 did. If Ferguson went after him personally I'm sure he must have seen something in the boy.
And for the record I don't see Spain winning the world cup. They're definitely the favorites but you know bullshit of some sort always happens. Not trying to hate but I don't see them winning the cup. Let's look at the confederations cup, my gut feeling tells me they will choke again.
You can't really predict anything until the world cup starts. Teams will lose players due to injuries, coach preferences, etc so we can't really make any real predictions just yet.
Rumor had it that Valencia was after Chicharito first. Then Manchester came in snagged him. Valencia knew that Villa would have to be sold. Manchester gets the person Valencia sought to replace Villa with on the cheap. Macheda has already shown to be incredibly talented for what Chicharito is being brought in for (4th striker on list... Not a great life).
I don't think Manchester pursued Chicharito for anything more than future resale. Near future at that. Of course Villa has already rebuked Manchester completely, so I guess they can enjoy fucking up Chicharito's career now by not playing him, or loaning him out in the Coca Cola league where he'd get beat up.