Football Thread 2012/13 |OT3| Two-sided triangles

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ohhhhhh myyyyyyyy god Mediaset is reporting that Liverpool just offered us (AC Milan) Andy Carroll for 3 million loan deal with a buy-out clause of 17m

From a Liverpool perspective I think it's bollocks. Runs contradictory to everything we've heard about the Carroll transfer this summer.

Interesting to hear how both Iniesta and Cesc are struggling to fill in the Xavi position.
 
From a Liverpool perspective I think it's bollocks. Runs contradictory to everything we've heard about the Carroll transfer this summer.

Interesting to hear how both Iniesta and Cesc are struggling to fill in the Xavi position.
Yeah, I actually think this could be a bit of a problem over the next couple of years for Barca if age starts to catch up with Xavi.

When they signed Cesc I thought they'd try and mould him in that role but they've let the dynamic aspects of his game which developed in England flourish and used him further up field.

Xavi is such a special player. The way he plays and the consistency to his game is amazing. As good as Iniesta is, he just isn't the type of player who can conduct the game like Xavi does.
 
Ballague said Dortmund offered for Isco too, although he also made it sound like Malaga don't feel they need to sell, having already done that this summer.

I want Adidas to release a predator LZ that has the red and black reversed, so the majority of the shoe is black and the heal and zones are red.
 
More rovers bullshit

Someone has done a bit of digging and found out that Venkys often used a Portuguese bloke called Henrique Colista as an advisor, he was recently the Vietnam team manager. Someone looked at the teams he managed and it turns out he signed a certain Steve Kean as a player for Acedamia in Portugal, his son also owns a sports agency.

Hope someone gets to the bottom of all this soon
 
Yeah, I actually think this could be a bit of a problem over the next couple of years for Barca if age starts to catch up with Xavi.

When they signed Cesc I thought they'd try and mould him in that role but they've let the dynamic aspects of his game which developed in England flourish and used him further up field.

Xavi is such a special player. The way he plays and the consistency to his game is amazing. As good as Iniesta is, he just isn't the type of player who can conduct the game like Xavi does.

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He got this (hopefully :p)
 
More rovers bullshit

Someone has done a bit of digging and found out that Venkys often used a Portuguese bloke called Henrique Colista as an advisor, he was recently the Vietnam team manager. Someone looked at the teams he managed and it turns out he signed a certain Steve Kean as a player for Acedamia in Portugal, his son also owns a sports agency.

Hope someone gets to the bottom of all this soon
Rovers are shadier than the mob.
 
Galliani: "our transfer market is closed, Bojan is going to be our last signing for this year. We won't go after Carrol and Kakà".

All we needed were Bojan and Niang, who knew.
 
Woohooo called it! Bring on the Europa League next season!

He says he refused to sign Palombo today when he was offered LOL
 
So, what were all of Milan's in's and out's?

Out: Ibra, Thiago Silva, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi, Cassano, Roma, Taiwo, Aquilani, Merkel, Zambrotta, Oddo, Maxi Lopez plus a bunch of young players on loan.

In: El Shaarawy, Muntari, Bojan, Niang, Montolivo, Constant, Acerbi, Traorè, Gabriel, Zapata, Pazzini.
 
Out: Ibra, Thiago Silva, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi, Cassano, Roma, Taiwo, Aquilani, Merkel, Maxi Lopez plus a bunch of young players on loan.

In: El Shaarawy, Bojan, Niang, Montolivo, Constant, Acerbi, Traorè, Gabriel, Zapata, Pazzini.

Wow!
 
Yeah, Stuttgart made it into the EL group stages.

Nuri Sahin is from Turkey
Sahin was born in Germany.

That's just fucking hilarious.
Yep, sure sounds like Bayern scouting.

This is fantastic. I couldn't find a good clip that shows the whole scene from the perspective of the security camera, but this reminded me of a recent episode of Louie. A salesperson gets pissed at him and puts a printer box behind him when he takes a call.. Louie then trips over it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJTIng0kiI4
Mhh, I feel like the Louie eps are getting worse & worse toward the end of the season :(
Hope the finale will make up for it.
 
Out: Ibra, Thiago Silva, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi, Cassano, Roma, Taiwo, Aquilani, Merkel, Maxi Lopez plus a bunch of young players on loan.

In: El Shaarawy, Muntari, Bojan, Niang, Montolivo, Constant, Acerbi, Traorè, Gabriel, Zapata, Pazzini.

Montolivo? Cool. Not bad transfer window, but it wasn't an upgrade on what you already had. Although most of them were old as hell and simply had to move on already.

But as a neutral, I have no idea what Milan could achieve with this new team.
 

Seedorf, Gattuso and Inzaghi were too old and objectively useless and Nesta said that he couldn't keep up with Serie A/CL football. MVB wanted to return to PSV, Ibra and Thiago were sold to fix our balance.

Seeing Maxi and Merkel leaving was heavy, they could've been really helpful. Oh well.
Montolivo? Cool. Not bad transfer window, but it wasn't an upgrade on what you already had. Although most of them were old as hell and simply had to move on already.

But as a neutral, I have no idea what Milan could achieve with this new team.

It was a downgrade, especially with Thiago gone our defense is going to suffer a lot, plus Ibra was the center of Allegri's tactics, he has to come up with something different this year or he won't last.

Honestly, we're far from Juve and won't be able to fight for the Scudetto. A 2nd place is more likely (seeing how the other teams in Serie A play I'm not that worried, if we were in England things would've been far more complicated), but ending with an Europa League spot wouldn't be so surprising.
 
That's just fucking hilarious.

Haha, pretty much how I imagined Bayern scouting. At least we have a great youth academy.

Out: Ibra, Thiago Silva, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi, Cassano, Roma, Taiwo, Aquilani, Merkel, Zambrotta, Oddo, Maxi Lopez plus a bunch of young players on loan.

In: El Shaarawy, Muntari, Bojan, Niang, Montolivo, Constant, Acerbi, Traorè, Gabriel, Zapata, Pazzini.

El Shaarawy is not a new player, he played for Milan last season.
 
Seedorf, Gattuso and Inzaghi were too old and objectively useless and Nesta said that he couldn't keep up with Serie A/CL football. MVB wanted to return to PSV, Ibra and Thiago were sold to fix our balance.

Seeing Maxi and Merkel leaving was heavy, they could've been really helpful. Oh well.

I know they probably weren't up to scratch but Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi were some of the best players in the world from the early noughties (not Gattuso though).
 
Haha, pretty much how I imagined Bayern scouting. At least we have a great youth academy.



El Shaarawy is not a new player, he played for Milan last season.

Correct, but we bought the remaining half from his co-ownership from Genoa (€7.5m plus Merkel, our most expansive transfer this summer). Muntari as well isn't a new player, he was on loan last year and his contract with Inter expired on July, when we signed him for free.
Edit: bah, beaten.
I know they probably weren't up to scratch but Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi were some of the best players in the world from the early noughties (not Gattuso though).

They were. And thinking about it, about that team, what we had and what we managed to win and lose makes me cry.
I stab myself daily in the dick for that decision don't worry.
Same here.
 
The new Belgian Kid Kevin will start against Llayton Orient.

Awesome.

Out: Ibra, Thiago Silva, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Inzaghi, Cassano, Roma, Taiwo, Aquilani, Merkel, Zambrotta, Oddo, Maxi Lopez plus a bunch of young players on loan.

In: El Shaarawy, Muntari, Bojan, Niang, Montolivo, Constant, Acerbi, Traorè, Gabriel, Zapata, Pazzini.
Haha, Everton might have better squad than yours this season.
lol at Bojan and Pazzini.
 
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