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Football Thread 2011/2012 | OT11 | Roll on the Euros and transfer muppetry
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Wigan's hopes crushed.
Well, since the management structure seems to take transfers away from managerial control, I don't see that keeping the team 'young & progressive'(what does progressive even mean in this context?) will be too difficult. And though the management structure may be fresh & progressive, the role that Capello would take is not particularly different to many of his previous club jobs. He has worked under DoFs before and I'm sure will have no problem just handling tactics & training.
Seems to me that going for the pretty much guaranteed success of Capello for 2-3years & then hiring from a much stronger position is a decent plan. Taking a punt on the still fairly unproven targets that Liverpool currently have to pursue could so easily backfire.
Arnie said:
Sounds like a pretty clear case of consistency bias there Arnie.
Yeah he did great here. Everyone was playing, everyone was focused on playing and winning titles. His man management here was perfect. But he had a great team of managers helping him like Vitor Pereira (our current manager, won the title for us this year too) and Pedro Emanuel (current Academica manager, won the Portuguese Cup this year). These two men helped him a lot here in FC Porto.
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Fifa have appointed the first female member of the world governing body's executive committee.
Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, has been co-opted onto the executive committee and will be formally installed at the Fifa Congress in Budapest on Friday.
wonder if she will be a corrupt arsehole as well
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Fifa have appointed the first female member of the world governing body's executive committee.
Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, has been co-opted onto the executive committee and will be formally installed at the Fifa Congress in Budapest on Friday.
wonder if she will be a corrupt arsehole as well
You don't go upwards in FIFA by being clean.
Manchester City have won the Premier League title and are also top of the league of value for fans, according to the ING Direct Value table.
The bank chart compares club season ticket costs with Premier League performance and entertainment value and getting the most points for your pound.
ING places QPR, who just avoided relegation, at the bottom of the table.
Wigan, who had a great escape from relegation, are second best value, and West Bromwich Albion third.
Second bottom were Liverpool, whose eighth-place finish in the top flight, Carling Cup triumph and FA Cup final place were not enough to counteract a high season ticket cost and poor scoring record.
The bank chart compares club season ticket costs with Premier League performance and entertainment value and getting the most points for your pound.
ING places QPR, who just avoided relegation, at the bottom of the table.
Wigan, who had a great escape from relegation, are second best value, and West Bromwich Albion third.
Second bottom were Liverpool, whose eighth-place finish in the top flight, Carling Cup triumph and FA Cup final place were not enough to counteract a high season ticket cost and poor scoring record.
Awesome Animals
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MarshMellow96
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Reading about Villas Boas, he shouldn't go anywhere near Liverpool or, indeed, the UK.
English players will never act like that. It's too much of a commitment when you can be in Pepsi ads and bang hot chicks.
English players will never act like that. It's too much of a commitment when you can be in Pepsi ads and bang hot chicks.
Cracks and loopholes? I didn't know selling your players at a time which suited is against some sort of rule.
Let UEFA decide if there is anything wrong with the sponsorships, but considering how they've been open with City and had a lot of talks I can't see them having too much against them.
Maybe. But Hughes bought some really ill fits but at the same time some wonderful players.
The best you can do?
QPR? How can you compare the two?
Yeah they are bound to spend more this summer than what they will get in return for players they sell.
In terms of commercial revenue, it's the area which was highlighted a few seasons back, City just had none basically. Next it's match day revenue, United are leagues ahead of basically anyone else in England.
They'd have gone bankrupt.
Who knows when Fergie will go.
This FIFA talk reminded me of Said and Done. From this week's column, the season awards:
Roughest justice
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Ghana: Accra Hearts of Oak, given a "strange and contentious" £1,000 fine in November for delaying kick-off against Ebusua Dwarfs. The delay happened after two of their players "were forced out of the stadium by Dwarfs fans and made to buy tickets to get back in again". Both players were also fined. Hearts: "They got a raw deal."
Roughest justice
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Ghana: Accra Hearts of Oak, given a "strange and contentious" £1,000 fine in November for delaying kick-off against Ebusua Dwarfs. The delay happened after two of their players "were forced out of the stadium by Dwarfs fans and made to buy tickets to get back in again". Both players were also fined. Hearts: "They got a raw deal."
Broder Salsa
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Rightly deserved. Considering you can get a season ticket for less than £450.
Honestly I don't know who I want to come in as manager. Well, I do, but there's no way Benitez will be offered the job. In terms of the remaining candidates I couldn't tell you who will offer the best strategy going forwards, but I'm at least glad those conducting the interviews will be, in some capacity, footballing people.
Cappello's too old for me and can't speak the language. Martinez is completely unproven at the level he'd be going into. AVB's an excellent tactician, efficient in the transfer market but a horrible man manager and, from the sounds of things, a bit of a tit.
He was 100% right though, this was proof for me that AVB was an intelligent man.
Garbage. Even Viva agrees with me.
Nope, I would much rather had reserve teams in the football league then the new academy rules. They were the worst thing to happen to football in years.
Napoli: Champions of Italy.
I guess winning the league title means nothing these days.
How can 1 be a manager of the country's national team and yet not be able to speak the mother language fluently??
Regulus Tera
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Must. Not. Take. The Bait.
Ask Zaccheroni. He has had great success at Japan.
From James Pearce in the Echo:
The names of Frank Rijkaard, Michael Laudrup, Laurent Blanc, Guus Hiddink and Louis Van Gaal have all been discussed by FSG, along with that of Didier Deschamps.
While a number of approaches have been publicly rebuffed, FSG insist others have been privately accepted. They are determined to keep as much of the process under wraps as possible.
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I think Deschamps already ruled himself out. I hope the second part is true though about this all being done in private. The outcome could be better than expected if that's the case. To FSG's credit, they do seem to want to do things in private. It'd help if Dave Whelan didn't decide to run to SSN and wherever else as soon as they asked to speak to Martinez.
The names of Frank Rijkaard, Michael Laudrup, Laurent Blanc, Guus Hiddink and Louis Van Gaal have all been discussed by FSG, along with that of Didier Deschamps.
While a number of approaches have been publicly rebuffed, FSG insist others have been privately accepted. They are determined to keep as much of the process under wraps as possible.
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I think Deschamps already ruled himself out. I hope the second part is true though about this all being done in private. The outcome could be better than expected if that's the case. To FSG's credit, they do seem to want to do things in private. It'd help if Dave Whelan didn't decide to run to SSN and wherever else as soon as they asked to speak to Martinez.
lol Here comes the oil money!! Really fucking hoping FFP will curtail this crazy ass spending. With Hazard and RVP also on their list that right there is more than 100 mil. Freaking crazy...
Jarvis would be a massive upgrade on Obertan. He's a decent player.
You don't have to, I'll just read your post history!
Regulus Tera
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You know I pick on you because I love you, Yurt.
Please... No...
If not Hazard, please at least get Kagawa! He'll easily pay for himself with shirt sales just from Japan!
Phantast2k
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Here is a summary of the pre-Euro friendlies:
http://www.uefa.com/friendlies/season=2012/matches/index.html
What I find interesting/will probably be watching:
25.05
Russia - Uruguay
26.05
Denmark - Brazil
Switzerland - Germany
30.05
Spain - Korea
01.06
Italy - Russia
02.06
England - Belgium
Portugal - Turkey
Pfffft.... Our real target is Powell. SAF doesnt want City and Chelsea to be corrupting the young boys mind so all these 'rumors' are just distractions.
Willkiller
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Chelsea have confirmed Drogba will be leaving when his contract expires in June!
Broder Salsa
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'I wanted to put an end to all the speculation and confirm that I am leaving Chelsea. It has been a very difficult decision for me to make and I am very proud of what we have achieved but the time is right for a new challenge for me. As a team we have accomplished so much and have won every single trophy possible. Saturday was a very special moment for everyone at the club and for all the fans, and I am very proud to have played my part in bringing many trophies to this club, which has been my home for the last eight years. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at the club especially Roman and my team-mates, many of whom have become very close friends and will be my friends for life. I would also like to say a very special thank you to the Chelsea fans who have shown me so much love and support over the years. I wish the club all the best and continued success for the future - you will always be in my heart.'
Awesome Animals
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That may be the greatest gif I've ever seen.
Freewheelin'
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Damn. I liked Drogba even though we couldn't handle him every time he played against Arsenal :lol
Beast and legend.
Beast and legend.
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