Fucking nailed it. I couldn't put my finger on it.
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Football Thread 2014/15 |OT2| Wake Me Up, Yaya Sanogo
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Fucking nailed it. I couldn't put my finger on it.
Holy shit he totally does.
Classy is probably the wrong word. I love Klopp though. He is a great manager with a fantastic personality. Also, compare Dortmund's management team to Bayern and tell me they are louder. Also, up until recently they had Götze as homegrown, along with Reus and Schmelzer and Grosskreutz, there was also Sahin too. They have about as many as we do, but at least the stars they've gotten were brought and made there, which is something I can admire heavily.
Edit: I was a fool twice.
Perfect Blue
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Hummels came from Bayern.
Because Lallana is 26.
You don't really know this.
ummm......ok?
Are we just throwing random facts which haven't got to do with anything right now
There are more sheep in New Zealand than people. Like 9:1. Crazy.
He finally beat Bayern
Holy shit (if true)
I love it when people make weird generalized statements when they really don't know that much about a player. If Arsene Wenger spends 26m or whatever it is on a player it's because him and his scouts have probably watched that player more than even fans of the actual team have and they believe he's worth it.
The_Hitcher89
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Lallana was good 2 years ago, and very good last year
Calling him a one-season wonder is nonsensical whichever way you slice it. Especially since before 12/13, he wasn't even in the PL
Calling him a one-season wonder is nonsensical whichever way you slice it. Especially since before 12/13, he wasn't even in the PL
90TilInfinity
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It's weird. Toure was easily top 2 last season.
It's crazy how Ramsey had more tackles-per-game than Fernandinho, Tiote, McCarthy, etc etc though, on top of his attacking production. I really hope he gains that true balance (still needs to improve tactically, which you'd expect for a 23 y/o), the type Vidal has down perfectly. You read him talking about his goals/assists stats and that's great, but he shouldn't become obsessed by them.
Anyway, I like what Newcastle are doing. Really think Sissoko is gonna have a great season, and Riviere could be a hit. Remy taking to this league so well is a good omen for he and Brown Ideye, who have both have/had good goalscoring rates in France.
Eh, I don't know how I let myself forget something like that. Oh well, I was throwing in guesses for players off the top of my head that post. Hummels doesn't seem like a Bayern player to me though, I don't know. I guess it i just that I can't imagine him not at Dortmund.
Lambda shares the same sentiment as Arnie about Willy C and he follows the Portuguese League...
To be totally honest, Lambda has been almost 100% on all his predictions of Portuguese League players after they move.
TBF you could just use Reus instead since he was technically a Dortmund youth player before he left for Rot Weiss Ahlen.
Saying Markovic will be the next Messi will prove to be his undoing.
Age has a huge factor to why people would underrate Lallana. Why hasn't he left Southampton earlier? Some would say if he was that great, he would have been plucked up while Soton were in the lower leagues, like Bale, Walcott and Chamberlain before him. I mean he totally do a Drogba and be a later bloomer, who knows. Ramsey on the other hand has shown the goods in a top team and in the CL. It's why more people think Ramsey has a chance of replicating last season's performances. Lallana could do the same, but I'm more skeptical.
All Lambda said was that Carvalho was a good player, but not worth as much as they wanted and he hadn't proved himself in Europe yet.
Freewheelin'
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So I have some people asking me to join their team for the GAF TLOU tourney tomorrow night (I think?), does anyone else want to join up with me?
:lol I probably should have changed that from 100% to fairly accurate. But he really has been pretty spot on with his predictions.
Newcastle are my Dark Horses for the season
I wanted to, but I distinctly remembered him going back to Dortmund so I felt a little off about it. In all my effort to not get criticized for being wrong I made a reallllly dumb mistake, especially from someone who should have known better having followed Bayern forever. Oh well.
With all those variables how does that make Arsenal favorites to win the league with the signing? Which is what Arnie was refuting, while taking a dig.
You're a fucking racist
The_Hitcher89
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If I was in charge of making a team to play against MartianXI FC tomorrow, with planet Earth at stake, I'd have Ramsey in the team over Toure.
There.
There.
I said I'd fancy them. Just like I'd fancy a nice Chicken Biryani after work today. Doesn't mean it's my favourite.
Gotcha.
It's kind of a dumb argument because its always unknown for the most part when a player comes from a diff league.
The_Hitcher89
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Anyone else getting Diablo 3 on PS4?
You're welcome here.
Don't worry, no one sell Klopp for a coach that's worse (poor Henyckes).
I will.
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The_Hitcher89
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Cissokho is strange
When he wasn't playing every game, he was reasonably solid
Don't expect anything from him going forward though, his crossing and ball control is dismal. In fact, his ball control is so bad that it prevents him from being able to use any of his pace, since he can't sprint and control the ball at the same time. And since his first touch is so bad, if you're counterattacking and the ball goes to him in space, it will go back to midfield as his first touch is used to try and stop the ball, rather than to push it into space to carry on the counter
When he wasn't playing every game, he was reasonably solid
Don't expect anything from him going forward though, his crossing and ball control is dismal. In fact, his ball control is so bad that it prevents him from being able to use any of his pace, since he can't sprint and control the ball at the same time. And since his first touch is so bad, if you're counterattacking and the ball goes to him in space, it will go back to midfield as his first touch is used to try and stop the ball, rather than to push it into space to carry on the counter
Bayern are the club in the top 10 with the most home grown players if I'm not mistaken. But I agree about Pep and the management in general, specially this last round with Rummenigge talking shit about Reus' release clause was terrible. Pep has always been a massive cunt so there are no surprises there.
I don't think we should worry that much about the team under Pep, tho, even thought he isn't half as good as Heynckes at least he is good at promoting youngsters (specially midfielders) so in the long run it will do us good. Kind of like LvG, we were much better after he had left but he gave us so much.
Dortmund are a great team, basically thanks to Klopp and that's it. Their homegrown players are Großkreutz and like 2 other guys nobody gives a shit about. The difference is they buy unknown or not so known players for cheap and then Klopp improves them, but if you're looking for a club with serious focus on homegrown talent and a great academy then Schalke is the only right answer (somehow).
#fuckpep
The_Hitcher89
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Can see Morrison losing it all by the time he's 30.
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