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[Regulus Tera]

lame why the fuck do we still have to beat the nads again!?? We're just gonna open their wounds again and fuck it with sal y limon otra vez.

Money$. We are contractually obligated to play at least one friendly with the USA every year. At least it's not going to be close to the border.

 

[KidA Seven]

 

[DominoKid]

fuck off Nike.

i buy stacks on stacks of your shoes and all i ask for soccer-wise is a kit that doesnt look like shit. 3 years running Nike. 3 years.

 

[Kozak]

Downing is inconsistent???

He's the best winger in the league after Nani. He will shine now at a big club.

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Downing wishes he was as good as Adam Johnson and Adam Johnson went for way cheaper too.

Downing is good, really good even but best winger in the league after Nani? You are having a BIG FUCKING LAUGH.

 

[KidA Seven]

fuck off Nike.

i buy stacks on stacks of your shoes and all i ask for soccer-wise is a kit that doesnt look like shit. 3 years running Nike. 3 years.

I actually like that kit very much. But then again, I like stripes and hoops.

 

[Joe]

i truly despise landon donovan

 

[Kermit The Dog]

That blue United kit is the best one since Ronaldo left:

Epic kit.

Also, Kozak is right. Adam Johnson is better than Downing. By a country mile.

 

[Fry]

Why isn't he used more often at City then?

Another wasted talent on the bench. Great.

 

[TeegsD]

Got back from the United - Rev game and I have to say that it was a success, especially for my first live United game. The first half was kinda off until the last 5 minutes but the second half thoroughly made up for it. Not enough United chants going around so I got the old "glory, glory man united" going on after the game and in the parking lot. It was an all around great time with some nice goals.

 

[Kermit The Dog]

Why isn't he used more often at City then?

Another wasted talent on the bench. Great.

He was injured for 3 months of the season, but still managed 30 appearances and 8 goals, and played in the winning FA Cup Final. So yeah, not really wasted at all. Nice try though.

 

[Kozak]

Why isn't he used more often at City then?

Another wasted talent on the bench. Great.

Injury most of the time keeps you off the pitch.

 

[Fry]

He was injured for 3 months of the season, but still managed 30 appearances and 8 goals. So yeah, not really wasted at all. Nice try though.

30??

Had no idea. Thought it was about 10.

But most of those are coming of the bench, right?

Anyway, you gotta admit that if City keep signing starheads this summer, his chances will get even smaller.

 

[elsk]

So, Man City needs to drop like 20 players for this season, right?

 

[dc89]

Why would City need to drop 20 players?

He was injured for 3 months of the season, but still managed 30 appearances and 8 goals, and played in the winning FA Cup Final. So yeah, not really wasted at all. Nice try though.

Who are we talking about here? Balotelli?

Oh also it's time for |OT3|. Goodbye thread.

 

[Kermit The Dog]

Why would City need to drop 20 players?

We need to rid our books of about 5 players.

Who are we talking about here? Balotelli?

Nah, Adam Johnson. Fry8 said he was wasted talent because he assumed, assumed, assumed.

But most of those are coming of the bench, right?

It's hard to find a stat for that, so I'm not sure. I'd say he started probably 20 of those games? From memory only though.

Anyway, you gotta admit that if City keep signing starheads this summer, his chances will get even smaller.

Depends on how deep we got in CL. If we have a real crack, he'll still notch up 30 games quite easily.

 

[xbhaskarx]

I read this and the MLS thread and see your tag as "banned" pretty often, maybe this could enlighten you as to why.

I'm pretty sure I've been banned twice in the last year or so: once for a week for obscenities directed at Sanjuro and a few of his pals in the MLB thread (note I didn't take the bait in this thread when he called me a douchebag), and once for two weeks for making a joke in the PSN outage thread. So that's like 3 weeks out of fifty or so. But I really do appreciate you keeping such close tabs on my member status.

 

[Mastadon]

Downing IS overpriced at £20m, but he's obviously exactly what Kenny thinks we need, and has bags of premier league experience. He'll set up a bagfull of goals for Carroll and Suarez and gives us genuine width for the first time since... Riera?

A lot less worried about Downing than I am about Henderson!

 

[dc89]

Don't worry about Adam Johnson.

People are now saying the same about Young, "will he get games at United with Nani and Valencia there". Well I think come the end of the season they will all have a similar amount of appearances.

Mancini is great at balancing his squad. So is Fergie.

 

[Plasma]

Oh also it's time for |OT3|. Goodbye thread.

Is there much point of making an OT3 new season is right round the corner shouldn't there be a new thread for that anyway.

 

[dc89]

I don't know if it's an actual rule but when a thread gets to 20K posts a new one is made. I think it's to do with the database etc and keeping the place running slick.

 

[DominoKid]

just call it the 11/12 [OT]

 

[xbhaskarx]

Is it 20k posts? This thread is stickied, wouldn't a mod have noticed it's over 20k and locked it by now?

 

[dc89]

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's 20K. Maybe no one's noticed lol. It's not a big deal either way really, It's just normally what happens but until it does back to talking about Fusball.

 

[neoanarch]

just call it the 11/12 [OT]

hell yes. pre-season friendlies are already under way we are late on this.

 

[Joe]

put CALCIO in the title!

 

[ATF487]

I'm pretty sure I've been banned twice in the last year or so: once for a week for obscenities directed at Sanjuro and a few of his pals in the MLB thread (note I didn't take the bait in this thread when he called me a douchebag), and once for two weeks for making a joke in the PSN outage thread. So that's like 3 weeks out of fifty or so. But I really do appreciate you keeping such close tabs on my member status.

I probably just notice because you post a lot in the US soccer threads, and I read them; it's hard to ignore the member status when you're the most frequent poster in there. Honestly thought it was longer, though.

My other point is still on the money

 

[Arnie]

Got my tickets, what a ballache.

I'm in the Kop for the opening day of the season against Sunderland, and the Anfield Road lower against Blackburn on boxing day and Nowrich in November. Again I'm in the Anfield Road Upper against Wolves and I hope to get a decent ticket from any left over against City which go on sale tomorrow.

Probably got pretty shit seats for each game but I'm not too arsed.

 

[Arjen]

Just heard my buddy got tickets for van der Sar's goodbye match in Amsterdam, should be fun!

 

[elseanio]

Got my tickets, what a ballache.

I'm in the Kop for the opening day of the season against Sunderland, and the Anfield Road lower against Blackburn on boxing day and Nowrich in November. Again I'm in the Anfield Road Upper against Wolves and I hope to get a decent ticket from any left over against City which go on sale tomorrow.

Probably got pretty shit seats for each game but I'm not too arsed.

Had the site open since 7:45, still auto refreshing...

 

[besiktas1]

Wow very upset Tayfur has been put in prison. Not only is he Besiktas' manager but he was my idol when I younger, my friend, and a very nice person. I can't believe he had something to do with this...

 

[Arnie]

Had the site open since 7:45, still auto refreshing...

Was an absolute pain to get through, had about 10 tabs open across Safari, Firefox and Chrome. I randomly flicked through them and one had progressed passed that page with the spinning wheel and onto the tickets page. Really dislike this entire process, hope they change it back next season.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Steve Staunton has joined Liverpool's coaching staff.

That's an... interesting one to say the least.

 

[ShogunX]

Was an absolute pain to get through, had about 10 tabs open across Safari, Firefox and Chrome. I randomly flicked through them and one had progressed passed that page with the spinning wheel and onto the tickets page. Really dislike this entire process, hope they change it back next season.

Had the site open since 7:45, still auto refreshing...

God damn lads you doing it wrong. Don't ever leave a tab on the auto refresh because its totally pointless. Instead spam 15 tabs at a time and wait to see if they connect. If not close them straight away and repeat the process.

Been doing that for a while now and you always get in after about 10-20 minutes. Woke up at 8.30 and was in by 8.45 - Got Kop 2x tickets for Swansea, Wolves, Bolton, Newcastle, QPR, Norwich and 3 in Anny Road for Sunderland.

Also the site wont do anything until 8:15 so logging on any earlier is pointless as well.

 

[elseanio]

God, what a paint that was.

Got Kop tickets for Blackburn, Newcastle and Bolton, Anny Road for QPR and Sunderland

edit* I had a about 12 windows open!

 

[ShogunX]

Also, Kozak is right. Adam Johnson is better than Downing. By a country mile.

Oh sweet Kermit doing what he does best - Making baseless claims. Fact is there are better wingers in the league than Downing but he played more games, scored more goals, had more assists, more crosses and more shots than Johnson in the league last year.

Obviously Johnson didn't play anywhere near as much as Downing but since when is that a good thing?

God, what a paint that was.

Got Kop tickets for Blackburn, Newcastle and Bolton, Anny Road for QPR and Sunderland

edit* I had a about 12 windows open!

I never leave the windows open to refresh though. If they don't connect first time just spam them again. Has worked like a charm so far.

 

[Messi]

Niiiiice. I like it.

 

[Kozak]

Oh sweet Kermit doing what he does best - Making baseless claims. Fact is there are better wingers in the league than Downing but he played more games, scored more goals, had more assists, more crosses and more shots than Johnson in the league last year.

Obviously Johnson didn't play anywhere near as much as Downing but since when is that a good thing?

Do you really think that Downing is better than Johnson?

I mean really.?

Have you ever watched both and compared? Johnson comes on the pitch and makes an immediate impact, taking on players and making important plays.

Downing speeds down the left flank and chucks a cross in..

We already commented that Johnson had suffered a significant injury which affected his season.

Really I don't see how its up for argument that Johnson is better than Downing.

 

[Ushojax]

Really I don't see how its up for argument that Johnson is better than Downing.

While I agree that Johnson is a more skilled player, Downing has done a lot more than him in the last two seasons. Until that changes I don't see how you can argue Johnson is the better player. One has delivered on the pitch and one hasn't really gotten started.

 

[madmackem]

Are liverpool trying to build a north east select eleven with these signings.

 

[elseanio]

Do you really think that Downing is better than Johnson?

I mean really.?

Have you ever watched both and compared? Johnson comes on the pitch and makes an immediate impact, taking on players and making important plays.

Downing speeds down the left flank and chucks a cross in..

We already commented that Johnson had suffered a significant injury which affected his season.

Really I don't see how its up for argument that Johnson is better than Downing.

As with Young, I think Johnson is an attacking wide man, not an out and out winger that Liverpool desperately needed.

 

[Boozeroony]

Just heard my buddy got tickets for van der Sar's goodbye match in Amsterdam, should be fun!

I'm there too! Fun stuff.

 

[Carbonox]

I haven't liked a single Nike kit since the old Total 90 ones. Love my Portugal and USA shirts. Really nice designs.

Speaking of which, during the World Cup when USA played England, we had a world cup party to celebrate the occasion, everyone wearing their England shirts, etc. etc....apart from me. Dat troll.

 

[Yurt]

Oh Bayern are getting Boateng after all.

"The negotiations were very intensive and it took quite a while before we managed to bring talks to a good end. We have now signed our top candidate for the centre-back position in Jerome Boateng," Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.

 

[Milchmonster]

Oh shit! Boateng to Bayern is done. €13.5m is the rumored price.

That really came out of nowhere, I expected it to go on for another few weeks.

 

[Tim the Wiz]

Don't worry about Adam Johnson.

People are now saying the same about Young, "will he get games at United with Nani and Valencia there". Well I think come the end of the season they will all have a similar amount of appearances.

Mancini is great at balancing his squad. So is Fergie.

Spot on.

Oh sweet Kermit doing what he does best - Making baseless claims. Fact is there are better wingers in the league than Downing but he played more games, scored more goals, had more assists, more crosses and more shots than Johnson in the league last year.

Obviously Johnson didn't play anywhere near as much as Downing but since when is that a good thing?

Since he plays so much significantly more, it reduces the weight of statistics in making the comparison, but certainly doesn't erase them. I think a fair statement would be to say that Johnson clearly has the potential to be a better winger than Downing.

 

[mil6es]

Do you really think that Downing is better than Johnson?

I mean really.?

Have you ever watched both and compared? Johnson comes on the pitch and makes an immediate impact, taking on players and making important plays.

Downing speeds down the left flank and chucks a cross in..

We already commented that Johnson had suffered a significant injury which affected his season.

Really I don't see how its up for argument that Johnson is better than Downing.

they're two different players....... again as already said Downing is a WINGER and Johnson is a WIDEMAN always trying to dribble the ball into the box (almost selfishly in some occasions) , two different to compare whos better.....

Downing is what we need, we already have plenty of decent widemen in our team but no out and out wingers.

 

[dc89]

I'm a bit sad Boateng is leaving City. If it wasn't for his injuries. God damn.

 

[Wes]

just call it the 11/12 [OT]

Tradition dictates the new season thread always starts August 1st.

 

[Messi]

Tradition dictates the new season thread always starts August 1st.

We have traditions around here?

 

[Jeff Albertson]

Umbro redeemed in my eyes:

Love this kit, the Venkys thing is probably just for the Asia trophy but I don't mind either way personally