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Surprised there aren't more posts about the Palazzi statement.
Surprised there aren't more posts about the Palazzi statement.
Got a question. Who scored the most freekicks last season?
Salazar said:City will win the transfer window, hands down.
dc89 said:How?
Liverpool are probably done? Er, based on what? We're linked to more players than Man City!Salazar said:United don't seem likely to splash anymore. Liverpool are probably done. Wenger is hard pressed to keep the players he has. I don't care at all about Chelsea.
You'll do some exciting business.
I actually wondered that myself today, but I assume it's a case of Mancini wanting lots of options around CL week, and a safety bet from injuries, which caused us problems last year. Richards, Zabaleta, Boateng were all injured for large parts of last season, and it affected our ability to defend properly at times.Yurt said:dc89 why are you guys buying that many defenders anyway ? your defense looked solid to me.
Ludicrous. The sarcasm that drips from many Red posts in here says more about your current headspace than ours. I know it feels good and warm to be part of a hive, but that doesn't make you correct or accurate.Moobabe said:I'm sure that a lot of us haven't rated Clichy for a long time - just that that the Man City fans in this thread have such a complex that any criticism about a player they're in for is jealousy or "hate." Whatever keeps you guys going I suppose.
Kermit The Dog said:I know it feels good and warm to be part of a hive.
Salazar said:It feels better to win the league.
LabouredSubterfuge said:Don't be like that. City won the FA Cup last year. They worked really hard for it too.
Does it? I doubt you and the inhabitants of this thread really know how that feels. :lolSalazar said:It feels better to win the league.
Agreed, City fans shouldn't delude themselves and believe he is still in the same kind of form that would rival Ashley Cole but he has experience in the CL and if he can rediscover the form he was playing at in 08/09 it will be a good buy.Ushojax said:Clichy is a good signing for City. He's an ordinary player but he's far better than Kolarov, plus he's actually left sided unlike Zabaleta. There are only about 5 decent left-backs in the PL so it's not that surprising they went for him.
Kermit The Dog said:Does it? I doubt you and the inhabitants of this thread really know how that feels. :lol
I'm a Juventino. I mean, all of this is stuff Juventus fans have been saying for a few years now if they were following Moggi's case and the hapless handling of the whole thing by the FIGC. It's just cool to see it plastered on the front page of the Italian sports dailies.Yurt said:Calciopoli ? I'm usually alone in my ramblings about Juve and Serie ADo you want me to post the new stuff ? Supposedly Milan and Inter should've been relegated to Serie B and not Juve. Juve's wrongdoings were "fines" at best according to Palazzi.
LabouredSubterfuge said:He means that none of us have Premier League winners medals. A salient point I think.
We haven't. The bulk of the Clichy criticism has come from Arsenal and United fans for whichever reason. For 7 million he can never be regarded as a bad buy, and it's not as though we dont have a plethora of options if it doesn't work out.anonnumber6 said:Agreed, City fans shouldn't delude themselves and believe he is still in the same kind of form that would rival Ashley Cole but he has experience in the CL and if he can rediscover the form he was playing at in 08/09 it will be a good buy.
You guys haven't just bought Messi. It's okay for there to be a debate about a signing like Clichy without people being jealous or haters.Kermit The Dog said:We haven't. The bulk of the Clichy criticism has come from Arsenal and United fans for whichever reason. For 7 million he can never be regarded as a bad buy, and it's not as though we dont have a plethora of options if it doesn't work out.
It's not even a guarantee he'll walk into the team. Zabaleta, Richards and Kompany are definites, so that 4th position is up for grabs. The benefits of having options, I guess.
Saying he only cost £7 million isn't really telling the whole story, I'm assuming Clichy is on £90k+ which is a large contract and has to be taken into account along with the initial fee. I personally don't think it will be a bad buy for City, for two seasons he didn't play to the level he was at before so the time was right for a change of clubs and I wouldn't be surprised if he rediscovered his form. I don't think at his best he is as good as Cole but he is the best left back in the world right now and he has always been one of the best for quite a few years now. City's defence looks complete with this signing and it was already quite a good back four.Kermit The Dog said:We haven't. The bulk of the Clichy criticism has come from Arsenal and United fans for whichever reason. For 7 million he can never be regarded as a bad buy, and it's not as though we dont have a plethora of options if it doesn't work out.
It's not even a guarantee he'll walk into the team. Zabaleta, Richards and Kompany are definites, so that 4th position is up for grabs. The benefits of having options, I guess.
The argentina kit is badass compared to some of the othersI like the germany world cup kits. I buy a lot of my stuff from ktbag.com but I don't think they have that one. Ŷour best bet might be world soccer shop. Pricy yes, but the world cup kits are getting harder and harder to get especially away strips.
F365 Blog said:Very interesting stuff from Italy's Corriere dello Sport, who claim that Inter are desperate to sell Wesley Sneijder to Manchester United for £30m because they need the money to pay for Velez Sarsfield midfielder Ricky Alvarez, Santos defender Jonathan and Genoa striker Rodrigo Palacio.
Kermit The Dog said:Ludicrous. The sarcasm that drips from many Red posts in here says more about your current headspace than ours. I know it feels good and warm to be part of a hive, but that doesn't make you correct or accurate.
No City fan here has lauded Glichy as some sort of defensive colossus, but rather have just welcomed his acquisition with optimism. At 7 million he will never be able to be regarded as a bad buy, so City can't really lose.
anonnumber6 said:I don't think at his best he is as good as Cole but he is the best left back in the world right now and he has always been one of the best for quite a few years now. City's defence looks complete with this signing and it was already quite a good back four.
Inters club accounts show it lost 500 million euros ($724 million) in the three seasons to 2009.LabouredSubterfuge said:Sounds pretty odd to me. Do Inter have no money?
Well this is embarrassing, when writing that post I completely forgot about Lahm.elsk said:
rvy said:Coentrão at Madrid for 30 million. About time we made a decent deal. I'll never forgive selling Di Maria for that absurd price.
David Runciman said:Until recently, one of the most remarkable unbeaten records in sport belonged to a football manager, the much reviled Portuguese provocateur and clotheshorse José Mourinho. Before Real Madrid lost 1-0 at home to Sporting Gijón on 2 April, no team managed by Mourinho had lost a home league game for more than nine years, a sequence spanning four different clubs in four different countries (Mourinho has also managed Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan) and lasting 150 matches. It is true that Porto, Chelsea, Inter and Real are all rich and powerful clubs and you would not expect them to lose at home very often but still, nine years is a mighty long time. Even if you calculate that on average away teams only ever had a 10 per cent chance of beating one of Mourinhos sides (for some, like Gijón, it might be a lot less, but for others, like Sporting Lisbon, AC Milan, Manchester United or Barcelona, it would be a lot more), the odds against going unbeaten for 150 matches are more than seven million to one.
How did he do it? The difficulty in answering this question is that there are really two puzzles here. The first is Mourinho. Is he supremely talented, or supremely lucky, or a bit of both? Does he have a secret formula, or is the secret that there is no formula, just enough bravado to make it look like he knows what he is doing? But the other puzzle has nothing to do with Mourinho. It is the mystery of home advantage itself. Why is it so hard to beat a team in its own stadium? Why does every team, no matter how unbeatable at home, lose something of its invincibility when playing away? Chelsea, who did not suffer a single home defeat during Mourinhos three and a bit years in charge, were beaten ten times away from Stamford Bridge during the same period. If you calculate that the chances of beating one of Mourinhos teams rise to about 20 per cent when they play away from home, then the odds of his going unbeaten for 150 away matches are nearly 350 trillion to one. Its never going to happen to him or to anyone else.
Its not only the big clubs. Take any European football league in which all the teams play each other twice in a season, once at home and once away. Add up the total number of home victories and compare it to the total number of away victories. The ratio will be at least 60:40 in favour of the home sides (often its more: in the English Premier League home advantage currently runs at around 63 per cent, in Spains La Liga its 65 and Italys Serie A its 67). The advantage holds across almost every major sport, though exactly how big it is tends to vary. Fans are so used to this that they take it for granted their team is much more likely to win on its own turf. They also take it for granted that they know why its because the home crowd is cheering the team on. But there is no evidence for this. In fact, despite a fair amount of research in the top sports science journals, there is no conclusive explanation of what makes teams play better at home. This is the real puzzle about home advantage: everyone knows it exists but no one knows why.
Now here come Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim to clear up the mystery...
Red would cover many clubs, but I was referring to United, Arsenal and Liverpool, who all wear red prominently. I don't know who you support, but I do notice you singling my posts out for constant assault. I'm strangely chuffed.Moobabe said:That would, of course, mean that I'm a Man Utd fan. I'm sorry to disappoint you; but I'm not. I suppose it's credit to me that my posts don't drip with such obvious bias that you've been able to ascertain what club I support.
And if the success of a club is measured by the headspace that your club earns then perhaps I'll follow a different sport. Luckily; it's measured in silverware which I suppose ranks your club up there with Portsmouth. Congratulations.
Kermit The Dog said:Red would cover many clubs, bug I was referring to United, Arsenal and Liverpool, who all wear red prominently. I don't know who you support, but I do notice you singling my posts out for constant assault. I'm strangely chuffed.
I have read nothing about Garay from CMVM yet. So far, Coentrão has been sold for 30 million. That's not to say that we will not get a Madrid bench-warmer. We always end up getting fucked.near said:I'm pretty sure Madrid did not meet the 30million demand. The inclusion of Garay has lowered the fee from what I've read.
rvy said:I have read nothing about Garay from CMVM yet. So far, Coentrão has been sold for 30 million. That's not to say that we will not get a Madrid bench-warmer. We always end up getting fucked.
Garay sucks.
Moobabe said:And I don't support any 'Red' club![]()
I know I wouldn't pay 30 million for Coentrão. Pretty sure Mou can get him to be a much better defender anyway.elsk said:Talking about left backs, Coentrao is very averageDon't know how RM ended up paying 30M, seriously. Thank God Bayern board didn't get him after all.in defence.
I wouldn't pay more than 15M for someone like Fabio Coentrao.
Man, 30M. I know he's good but is he really better than Marcelo? Real Madrid's squad just gets bigger and stronger.rvy said:Coentrão at Madrid for 30 million. About time we made a decent deal. I'll never forgive selling Di Maria for that absurd price.
Sneijder is definitely going to have to take a pay cut to come to United. That said I dont think we will go for him before we exhaust our attempts to get Nasri or Modric.anonnumber6 said:Inters club accounts show it lost 500 million euros ($724 million) in the three seasons to 2009.
Money has been poured into Inter and Moratti now needs to balance the books, Eto'o and Sneijder are on big contracts IIRC. If he wants Tevez then some first team players will have to go.
FFP is great.
I don't think we will go for Sneijder unless he is willing to take a pay-cut.
Well this is embarrassing, when writing that post I completely forgot about Lahm.
I still think Cole is the best left back in the world
IMO? It's about the same, really. Marcelo is even worst at defending.farhatraza said:Man, 30M. I know he's good but is he really better than Marcelo? Real Madrid's squad just gets bigger and stronger.
Shake Appeal said:Surprised there aren't more posts about the Palazzi statement.