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Football Thread 13/14 |OT13| Top 15 finish for AC Milan: Sogno Possibile
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Yes. Chelsea strengthen their first 11 whilst City and Arsenal do nothing, but where is their doom and gloom? Everton make moves whilst Tottenham stand idle, but you don't see Usho and Bungie leaping off bridges. Utd sign Mata, but do you see Carbonox or 3Sixty crying?
Combination of some injuries, a draw(!) against Villa and not throwing money at Salah seems to have driven everyone else into a deep depression
It's a combination of 0 (defensive)midfielders that is causing this mass depression wave.
Oh my god poor Gareth Bale.
Gfycat links are hard on a phone.
Please tell me that was a straight red...?
The_Hitcher89
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It's Lucas' injury which has dampened my hopes tbh
If Giroud was injured for 5 weeks and had a record for getting injured frequently and badly, Arsenal fans would be going crazy. City didn't need strengthening, their squad is ridiculous already.
Christ, I hope Allen is fit to start tomorrow. Sakho and Enrique can't come back soon enough either.
Oh? As far as I see it the majority of whining stems from the failure to sign Salah - an attacking player- and United signing Mata, both of which clearly have nothing to do with the DM situation
Need Mata training pictures, stat!
The player only got a yellow if you can believe it.
I'm not sure I agree with that. The 'whining' I've seen is coming from the fact that our squad has some very obvious deficiencies, which have been exacerbated by a some bad luck with injuries and apparently no steps have been taken to address these. This is despite the fact that we have our best chance of qualifying for the CL since we dropped out of it.
Salah would have been nice, insofar as it would have given the squad a bit of lift, but like you say he was never a priority area. It just seems as if the momentum is now with our rivals for fourth who have either strengthened (Utd, Everton) or have significant players returning from injury (Spurs), rather than us.
They're taking crazy pills.
Salah is far from what Liverpool need, especially at the price Basel was asking for. Giving ludicrous amounts of cash for half-a-season wonders is going to lead to another Andy Caroll situation.
United signing Mata solves their "Valencia and Young are useless, Kagawa is dead inside" problem, which does give them much greater chance for a top 4 finish. Their defensive woes are far from being solved, though.
If Brendan and Ayre could add 1 and 1 and get correct result, they'd be searching for a club to give 20+m for a proven defensive midfielder.
Getting Matic, even at 40m, would have been a bargain, not getting Salah at 10-12m or whatever peanut money was being offered.
The_Hitcher89
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Sakho seems to have had an injury setback as well, 2-3 weeks. Not sure if that's on top of the time it would have taken him to come back or not.
I'm sure they did go straight red, yeah.
Perfect Blue
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Daaaaaaaamn, RVP has a lot of gray hair.
RvP and Rooney back, Mata in, god damn our frontline is looking scary, to think the last few weeks its been Valencia, Kagawa, Adnan, Wellbeck, Hernandez
Now its Rooney, Mata, RVP, Adnan and filler
Now its Rooney, Mata, RVP, Adnan and filler
Shatner's Bassoon
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oh my god
Arsenals deal with Puma is significantly bigger than the one United signed with Nike in 2000.
United's deal was 303m over 13 years so about 23m every season. Arsenal's is 150m over 5 years making it 30m every year. However, when United renegotiate, they're probably going to smash whatever the current European record is. The advantage of the Arsenal deal is that it's so short that we can renegotiate for even better terms soon enough.
United's deal was 303m over 13 years so about 23m every season. Arsenal's is 150m over 5 years making it 30m every year. However, when United renegotiate, they're probably going to smash whatever the current European record is. The advantage of the Arsenal deal is that it's so short that we can renegotiate for even better terms soon enough.
Vivalaraza
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We signed a progressive deal.
Incremental increases each year, started at £17m I think. It was over £30m last year but these journos are too lazy/not sad enough to look into our accounts.
LOOOOL.
I think I read £33-34m was it for last year.
We should be looking for at least £50m a year. Seems like a good figure.
I called 911 to apologize and tell them it was an accident, and they were total jerks about it and said a car was in the area. Such a waste of time. Then an email got sent out to the entire building saying I did it :\
I'd imagine that would be attainable.
Holy shit :lol
I know United will choose whoever offers the best deal. I just don't want it to be Warrior. They make manky shite..
LanceVance
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Nike have enough money to blow anyone else out of the water
Vivalaraza
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Hard to say whether the deal we signed back then well judged the future trend to get us to ~£35m/year now or whether we are still undervalued in that deal.
Pretty sure we'll break £50m though. I have a feeling Woodward is waiting to see if he can sign a big name in the summer before really pushing the boat out. There are a number of very marketable names in the squad now.
God knows we'll need the cash since were finishing 7th this season
FootballFan
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Wannabe Twin Peaks show
Oh man that's rough! Ouch!
Second time ive tried the witcher and I remember why I stopped the first time, the tutorial is horrific, it introduces things poorly and half the time doesnt tell you what to do directly. It tells me to put a mutogen in the training path but when I try nothing happens. I then find a place I can put a Mutogen in another path but it wont let me continue, it asks me to do something I cant do, either it has explained the process wrong or its bugged.
FootballFan
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Wannabe Ni No Kuni game
Only some skills from the tree can be upgraded with Mutagens. Never use lesser ones too, always use greater ones. Only the higher skills can be upgraded with mutagens.
Also before you do, try and get the Impregnation (i think that's the name) skill from the Alechmy tree, it's makes Mutagens more effective.
Stick with it I promise you won't regret it. Witcher is about being measured rather than charging in and hacking everything to bits ES style. Witcher 2 probably the best game I played last gen. Wouldn't be surprised if Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk is the best this one.
Him leaving or not depends entirely on what the ownership want out of this season. We won't finish top 8 without him which means no decent monies for the fat cat (the new TV deal means everyone will get great money but more is good, right?). That last part could prove crucial for him.
Everyone knows Cabaye will go in the Summer if he doesn't this month so the ownership has no need to sell him this month when they will get their required fee for the player in the Summer, especially if he has a great World Cup too. They will absolutely get the 20-25m this Summer as well.
and yet, we probably will still sell him cos Mike Ashley and co have a debilitating brain illness.
so overall a great day?
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