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Football Thread 13/14 |OT13| Top 15 finish for AC Milan: Sogno Possibile
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The_Hitcher89
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Phew
Thanks West Brom
Thanks West Brom
On replay it looked like it didn't.
Yeah I know, they aren't too likable but they are a big traditional club.
It's been a good week in the fact United lost and Everton drew.
Spurs fucked it up though.
Perfect Blue
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If PSG are actually planning to bid for Messi then selling Cavani makes some sense but to United? ehhhhhhh
chelsea pls
The_Hitcher89
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Should have been a ver good week for us. But we started without Lucas. Fuck's sake, B-Rod.
Oh yeah, I am in huge favour of a quota. That's exactly what I said. One more county sounds reasonable actually. Good idea that.
Forest is a decent shout Walsh. Just want less stale clubs like WBA, Fulham, Norwich and such. Nothing against them, just so dull.
Leeds? Hmm give me a sec on that one.
No
Huh. Who can hate Howe anyways, he's so lovable.
Someone needs to turn on their sarcasm detector. Try them on these, see if it goes off.
The_Hitcher89
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Southampton vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Everton
Spurs vs City (battle of the 4-4-fucking-2s)
Tasty.
Liverpool vs Everton
Spurs vs City (battle of the 4-4-fucking-2s)
Tasty.
Lucas is meant to be out for three months too. Going to force our hand into the transfer market.
I don't think we would attempt to buy a DM without this happening.
Hopefully we will have a silver lining. We should have 2 dedicated DMs.
The_Hitcher89
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Martinez blaming the pitch. The beginning of the end.
edit: 3 MONTHS?!
M'Vila pls
edit: 3 MONTHS?!
M'Vila pls
any1 pls
Sherwood has learned his lesson now, against certain teams 442 is just not an option. He'll play this front 6:
Sandro Dembele
Lennon Eriksen Townsend
Adebayor
Lucas is injured, but that won't affect our transfers. We still have plenty of cover in the centre, Allen suits our style more so than Lucas, if he should get injured as well, it would be terrible for us, but even then, we wouldn't rush for transfer.
The_Hitcher89
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Get picked apart by vultures in the summer
The problem which could happen, is that we might just get another loan in.
Barrett is saying there isn't an interest in M'Vila that he knows of, so I guess that's off the table. I would like to see us go for that Fernando Reges or Gonalons since his move to Napoli fell through.
Allen isn't that good as a defensive midfielder, certainly not the level which we will need for the rest of the season.
A chance for Moyes' boys to play catch up in the title race.
Pienaar is a knarly bastard. And Mirallas likes a cheeky Tom Daley now and then. And Wisdom is a stand up lad, he counterbalances some of the slightly more...um....colourful characters in the pool dressing room.
Martinez is a fucking top guy though. Sharply dressed too.
It's not going to matter when there loans have gone at the end of the season.
Sandro and Townsend won't be fit, because the universe can't let us just have this for once.
It'll be Bentaleb out of some blind faith, and Toure will try and eat him in a scene much like the giant from Jack & the beanstalk. "Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a flattened French Algerian"
Hopefully get a few minutes at Bournmouth so he can at least play 60 of the derby.
Who do you think will play in the Bournmouth game? You think Kelly will be centre-back again and who's gonna partner him? Sakho?
They are both fit and in full training, they have been for the last 10 days. Were saving them for City, I'm sure we'll arrange a training ground friendly for those two plus Lamela, Kaboul and Vertonghen to get some sharpness.
The_Hitcher89
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Allen - Decent enough for a one-off game against weak opposition where we have the lion's share of possession
Gerrard - Nope
Henderson - Only in theory
At all levels of the squad, Lucas is the only one competent at the basic task of protecting the back 4. If we fail to bring in a DM by the end of the month, it'll be sheer negligence tbh. The Everton match may be coming a bit too early for it, but we have 11 days to get it done, and we've shown a few times that we are well capable of getting a transfer done within 4 days.
In all honesty, it was stupid not to get a DM backup in the summer. Wonder if we've thought about putting Agger there. Could try it against Bournemouth, though Rodgers might be reticent to pissing about in FA Cup games against lower league opposition after last season's embarassment.
Kelly and Toure at the back for Bournemouth, save Sakho and Sktrl for the derby.
The_Hitcher89
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pls no
Get Sakho back into the swing of things before throwing him up against Lukaku after a few weeks out. Especially if our defense will be under as much or more pressure as they were against Villa
To echo what you are saying, I think Allen is good at defensive-midfield when it's against weaker opposition. He's solid enough when we play the bottom half in the league, however against Everton? I don't think he should be playing there.
I was saying on here for us to bring in Barry in the summer, it would of been a perfect back-up whilst we get in the Champions League and bring in a better defensive midfielder. I think Agger is out till February, so no chance of experimenting against Bournemouth.
I think we are stuck with an Allen - Gerrard - Henderson midfield for the derby, with Henderson furthest forward.
Only if we give Sakho a run out in the second half for a good 45 minutes. He could be like Agger, where he slots into the back four like he's never been injured.
I would like to see Lloyd Jones involved with the Bournemouth game though.
Mignolet; Cissokho, Toure, Skrtel, Kelly; Allen, Hendo, Alberto; Sterling, Coutinho, Suarez.
Flanagan and Sakho will get minutes, then either Gerrard or Studge will be 3rd sub depending on how it's going.
That's too strong of a team for me. Wouldn't you involve Aspas? He was okay against Oldham and Bournemouth are similar opposition.
I wouldn't play Coutinho either, I would put Ibe and Moses on the wings.
edit: Scratch that, I wouldn't have Moses anywhere near the starting line up. Would put Sterling there instead.
Possibly in place of Coutinho if we're going 4-4-2, but I'd like to see if Coutinho can play himself into form.
KidA Seven
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Juventus to pay Inter 1.5m-2m on top of Vucinic for Guarin - SKY
I thought he wouldn't pay for the dinner. Good lad.
The_Hitcher89
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That's what I was thinking. If he doesn't play well against Bournemouth, don't start him against Everton
I'd play him more centrally though if I was going to start him. He has been really ineffective out wide recently and it doesn't help that he's got the worst shot conversion rate out of our whole squad this season.
Give me the Coutinho of last season.
Frank the Great
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I will become a lifelong Monaco supporter if they save us from this dumb shit with a 4m euro salary (after taxes).
So glad Everton drew tonight, with the Merseyside derby next a defeat to City won't set us back too much.
I'm curious to see what teams City and West Ham field tomorrow, if Sam's reserves are so bad that they lose to Forest 5-0, I can only imagine what City will do. May as well save face and name a decent team.
I'm curious to see what teams City and West Ham field tomorrow, if Sam's reserves are so bad that they lose to Forest 5-0, I can only imagine what City will do. May as well save face and name a decent team.
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