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So it doesn't matter if they're foreign born players who graduated from the club's academy?

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Chivu or Milito aren't the type of players would provide cover at CB, cover would have to be from someone at the tail-end of their career or just starting it. You're wrong about Lahm too, he's just had a mediocre season and wasn't even all that impressive at the World Cup, I think he's too small and tends to cut inside too much. I'd prefer Simao and Mancini out of those two, but I'm not sure we need two. That's mostly because I think we'll see Gerrard on the right more often and because Kewell is back (for now at least).

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Bernd Schneider? I just did a search to see how long he's got left on his contract (it runs until 2009) and saw that Bernd Schuster said a few days ago that Real Madrid could with a player like him. I think we probably could too.

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