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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT7| Avaya ever heard anything like it?
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Bless you. Been reading about it.
Phantast2k
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We're not really worse off than the EPL teams:
2 EPL/BL team in the EL:
- City | Shitalke
- Utd | Hanover
2 EPL/BL teams in the CL:
- Arsenal | Bayern
- Chelsea | Leverkusen
At least Bayern can still make it to the next round..
Bayern didn't concede too many goals in the CL either, while Dortmund is still too green & the CL games came at the time where the whole team was restructuring because Sahin decided to bail.
And yes, better goalkeepers, srsly
José Mourinho
cocknose
I hope their plan is to go down this season and stay down for the next 3 years. I hate them.
But there are no whore-mongers or assholes in this team.
+ "Kiko"
It should be difficult for me to dislike Hughes, considering he's Welsh, a legend, and ex-MUFC, but fuck.
Shatner's Bassoon
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Okay, this QPR documentary is solid gold.
Vivalaraza
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Juventus have made the first leg of the Coppa Italia final free for their fans.
Amazing.
Amazing.
semifinal? they definitely should make it free, the fans will not like it when we knock them out. think you might be confusing it with something else though.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Copenhagen has made their upcoming champions league final free for their fans too.
Bilbao seem to be holding their ground on their Europa leg costing 70 something quid.
That's amazing.
That QPR documentary is brilliant, watched it last night when it aired. Had a few friends saying they needed to go do work but they ended up transfixed until the end.
Jesus that Flavio is a twat. Makes you wonder about the owners at your club. I'm trying to imagine John Henry kicking a door and cursing at Stewart Downing.
Greedy awful wankers. There's no doubt in my case, I'm afraid.
Less violently deranged than Flavio, though. He buys managers like I buy Steam games.
mocolostrocolos
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Spain is the most expensive country in the EU when it comes to going to football stadiums.
I still dont get the rumors of Mourinho to Chelsea.
Its that Mourinho has nothing to prove going back there as it is there loss of letting him go, if you know what i mean. Unless he will get a shit load of cash, which i dont think it will matter as he is already getting over 200k at Real.
I still think he has more chance of going to Man City if they dont win the League or Liverpool, (i know you might think im crazy, but maybe he sees it as a challenge going there to break there League drought.)
Its that Mourinho has nothing to prove going back there as it is there loss of letting him go, if you know what i mean. Unless he will get a shit load of cash, which i dont think it will matter as he is already getting over 200k at Real.
I still think he has more chance of going to Man City if they dont win the League or Liverpool, (i know you might think im crazy, but maybe he sees it as a challenge going there to break there League drought.)
City will most likely keep Mancini for a long while. Ferguson recently said he'd stay for another two or three years. He has very little to play with at Arsenal.
Chelsea might in the end be one of the few choices he has, and he said he wants to return to England. Who knows what kind of relationship him and Roman actually had. Hate/love? Mou might also have matured more and Roman now knows he's one of the best in the world.
LFMartins86
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Isn´t that the average price of their league game tickets?
Why would he want to go to Bundesliga or France? I see literally no reason.
Please, he pretty much has an open choice of club and country.
You think United would tell Ferguson to fuck off?
Maybe. Spanish ticket prices fluctuate quite a bit, don't they ?
I averaged a cringe about every minute.
Mr. Luchador
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I'd give it 3 months before the fans start to get bored of his cautious tactical percentage football.
He's basically how I imagine Abramovich to be at Chelsea.
When old people attempt to dress young.
Maybe after being in a job with probably the highest pressure and spotlight, he might think about taking a lil time off or just go into a job with significantly less pressure. I dunno.
Broder Salsa
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Mourinho has always seemed to love exactly that though and it's not like whatever french or german team would get him, wouldn't expect him to do miracles.
Awesome Animals
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The guy loves the attention, I don't see this happening.
Ahh! WoddenLung! Beat me by a minute.
Officer: Oh you're the footballer? Excellent, you should have no trouble paying this speeding ticket then!
Meus Renaissance
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The treatment, according to one journalist, some of the Chelsea players gave AVB was terrible. Behaving in a childish way just to spite his authority. For example, he was strict about the times they must arrive at the training facility...and they would speed in within seconds to go, waving their hands at him as he stood on the balcony waiting for the arrivals.
José Mourinho
cocknose
I can't see Mancini going anywhere, why would City even want rid of him? it would be madness, as I'm sure you well know.
As for Roman a Mourinho, I'm fairly certain they settled their differences a few years back. Still don't think he'll be back at Chelsea though.
Dicks.
Ashley Cole?
Shatner's Bassoon
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He'd at least be waving a gun out of the car window.
José Mourinho
cocknose
Eddie Newton is now on the coaching team.
Shatner's Bassoon
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Let's just get Frank Sinclair and Erland Johnsen back and be done with it.
I think we might have to widen the field from the old trio of Ashley, JT and Lamps.
Sounds like there were a few disciples in the art of knobheadery.
Mr. Luchador
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I don't think many are surprised that Villas-Boas was fired, even this soon into his tenure. I know we discussed this a week or two ago, and most seemed to agree the same things would be the reason he went - the Players & The Owner.
Neither are going to go away soon and the Chelsea Cycle continues. Its going to take a HUGE personality to come in and actively change anything. Villas-Boas was attempting it, and while it seemed too quick on the pitch, the Sea Change didn't happen within the root of the club - the dressing room.
Its a tough one to call though; how DO you manage 23+ different personalities? How do you manage several sects and cliques within a squad and keep a happy medium between authority and happiness? That's the mark of a truly great manager, being able to mix tactical awareness with the ability to man manage.
While I don't openly rate Redknapp as a manager, he does seem to have the ability to man manage (though those he can't manage do seem to be quickly shipped out). Ferguson is another who has managed this over his career several times (again shipping out those who can't be managed).
Was Villas-Boas ever allowed the chance to ship out/transfer players he didn't want, or couldn't manage? Probably not considering his tenure was so short. Would he have been allowed? Again, probably not - There are no replacements for those players that can only assume to be causing the problems (The Old Guard: Ashley Cole, John Terry, Frank Lampard, etc.).
Neither are going to go away soon and the Chelsea Cycle continues. Its going to take a HUGE personality to come in and actively change anything. Villas-Boas was attempting it, and while it seemed too quick on the pitch, the Sea Change didn't happen within the root of the club - the dressing room.
Its a tough one to call though; how DO you manage 23+ different personalities? How do you manage several sects and cliques within a squad and keep a happy medium between authority and happiness? That's the mark of a truly great manager, being able to mix tactical awareness with the ability to man manage.
While I don't openly rate Redknapp as a manager, he does seem to have the ability to man manage (though those he can't manage do seem to be quickly shipped out). Ferguson is another who has managed this over his career several times (again shipping out those who can't be managed).
Was Villas-Boas ever allowed the chance to ship out/transfer players he didn't want, or couldn't manage? Probably not considering his tenure was so short. Would he have been allowed? Again, probably not - There are no replacements for those players that can only assume to be causing the problems (The Old Guard: Ashley Cole, John Terry, Frank Lampard, etc.).
Broder Salsa
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If this is true it's terrible but... I really have a hard time believing in much of the bullshit the English papers writes. I hope that none of the players were that big cunts.
Meus Renaissance
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We've all seen young kids with amazing skill and ability that stand out from the rest on the park or playground. But what does it take to actually become a pro? Is it really just about hard work and dedication through the academies? Can you make a footballer or are they born? Why did Lionel Messi turn out to be a better dribbler and have better close control than any other of the younger kids his age? Why is Xavi more consistent than Carrick? Where is the technique from
It was in Daily Mail, with some more interesting info in it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-sacked--Roman-Abramovich-blames-players.html
He also claim AVB used to be at the Chelsea site 12 hours a day, and that he sometimes slept in the dressing rooms instead of going home.
Interesting stat:
Porto relied a lot on the strikers, while Chelsea didn't.
José Mourinho
cocknose
I actually posted the article last night. So I read the ins and outs (assuming they're true) I was just once more showing my disgust.
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