LabouredSubterfuge
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I think there's some astonishing underrating of Tiote going on here.
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Football Thread 2011/2012 | OT11 | Roll on the Euros and transfer muppetry
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I think there's some astonishing underrating of Tiote going on here.
Willkiller
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Cold in Australia. My toes are proper fucked after tonight's football. Blistered to hell. Scored with a disgraceful mishit. Demonstrated beyond doubt or remedy that my left foot is utterly useless.
LS, I would respond to the signing of Tiote the way I would when someone brought me a burger. Irrespective of the contents or quality of the burger, it is a burger.
Ever have it rain and still be hot out? That's daily in the summer in Miami, raindrops hit the pavement and you can see steam as its evaporating.
EDIT: Yesterday it hailed for 10 minutes then stopped raining and the temp went to 93
Willkiller
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I'm not even sure I know what 'hot' is to be honest!
Awesome Animals
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That's Miami for you, and really, a lot of the U.S. high humidity. I'd rather be down there than here though
He's very good but Fellaini is the better player. Tiote is more of a midfield battler while Fellaini is both that and a talented ball player. I'd love both of them to be honest
This year has been super nice in Japan so far. The hottest it's been is about 20 deg and never humid. Of course it'll get as miserable as always in the next few months but for the moment I'm loving this.
Also, any United fan who would turn away Tiote or Fellaini is a bit crazy to me. You have a point regarding Fellaini's thuggish behavior (Salazar), but you're probably underrating Tiote's passing ability. He'd work well along with Carrick and Kagawa - you'd have a really balanced trio there, where with Modrić, you'd be looking more at a replacement for Carrick than a partner, IMO.
Also, any United fan who would turn away Tiote or Fellaini is a bit crazy to me. You have a point regarding Fellaini's thuggish behavior (Salazar), but you're probably underrating Tiote's passing ability. He'd work well along with Carrick and Kagawa - you'd have a really balanced trio there, where with Modrić, you'd be looking more at a replacement for Carrick than a partner, IMO.
MarshMellow96
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Awesome Animals
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Oh god what have you done?
Willkiller
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Yeah it's been brought up. It's a non issue but was still careless of Pacheco and probably stupid. He is a kid though.
Speaking of Pacheco, I really hope Rodgers gives him a legitimate look in this year. He's still got fantastic technique and passing. He won the golden boot for Spain U19s just a couple of years ago after all.
If he can be taught to protect the ball a bit better I think he should have a part to play for us yet. He's not short on desire either. Despite all the dicking around he's been subjected to with the loans and the loans within the loans, he's still always maintained that his goal is to help Liverpool win trophies.
Broder Salsa
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I'm sure the anti liverpool FA will find a way to ban him.
These are both terrible (that color blue doesnt go with white at all, especially with leaving the gap between the sash and the stripes on the shoulder) but obviously the 3rd kit is another level bad. Is there some sort of Transformers tie-in or something?
clearer pic. really like the gradient stripes
edit - and the rumored 3rd
Tim the Wiz
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Injuries notwithstanding, I'm pretty sure Cleverley will be starting alongside Carrick for most of the games next season. But Carrick is the wrong side of 30, and the only deep-lying United midfielder who can screen the defence. If he gets a major injury, our midfield depth starts to look shaky. I don't think signing an alternative would be a bad move, at all, especially with Pogba, our budding regista, out the door to Juve.
On the other hand, it's hard to stay optimistic about Fletcher's condition, after the Hargreaves saga (who we never really replaced, either). So, a box-to-box midfielder, for the occasions when we need steel in the middle, wouldn't hurt either. We should definitely have that option. In fact, I think it's a requirement if we go back to playing counter-attacking football properly, with the 4-3-3; no more of these predictable Serie A circa early 1990s tactics, hopefully. My (pipe) dream would be to get Sahin and Javi Martinez/M'Vila, but undoubtedly Fergie will just sign one less-fanciful midfielder; maybe a versatile figure like Juve-bound Asamoah, so as to give Fletcher (and, ugh, Anderson) a chance to recover.
Broder Salsa
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Would have been damn sexy without that sash
Training kits looks better. :l
Training kits looks better. :l
PrematureQuiche
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I quite like the away kit it looks fine. But I shall buy the Home one on Friday and more than likely wait for Hulk to be announced before getting anything on the back.
what have you done
Terry manages to look like a conniving twat even in that advert above.
Awesome Animals
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Would have been damn sexy without that sash
Training kits looks better. :l
Quite agree! I really like the white!
Mata's beard is a personal benchmark of mine over the next decade. My dad's had a few killer beards in his time, and it's those genes I hope he's passed on, more than anything else.
Meireles looks like he's got a rat on his head.
Wasn't the Chelsea bid for Modric £40m last year? Or was that just muppet gossip time?
Either way, I can't see him going for much less than that this year and I find it even harder to believe that SAF will be willing to part with that kind of money for him. Just pick up Fellaini or equivalent and a LB and have everything sorted nice and early please?
Either way, I can't see him going for much less than that this year and I find it even harder to believe that SAF will be willing to part with that kind of money for him. Just pick up Fellaini or equivalent and a LB and have everything sorted nice and early please?
Also pick up some love hearts for Berba from the corner shop.
José Mourinho
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:lol, I made this mockup this morning.Would have been damn sexy without that sash
Training kits looks better. :l
José Mourinho
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I'll say it... I actually like Meireles' style. Even the hair.
Gareth Bale
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I'm surprised no Premier League side bid for Kranjcar. Or maybe they did, just not €7,000,000
Anyway, our team just got 200% uglier
Anyway, our team just got 200% uglier
Not when it's raining.
His shaved head look was class.
One of my friends said he'd take Kranjcar in a premier league 5-a-side, purely for how cool he is on the ball.
José Mourinho
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Yes, but Meireles has a nohawk.
He reminds me of Adam Levine.
José Mourinho
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It's thinning and he's trying his best to hold on, but fair play to him.
MarshMellow96
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That's like comparing Kuyt to Nedved.
He's on a rung below Rooney in that regard.
Trying to construct a joke based around Downing's comments that England don't fear France, but I'm buckling under the sheer number of possibilities.
Broder Salsa
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Should post it here before it spreads then!
didn't actually notice it was you, haha
Awesome Animals
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I definitely see that comparison as well
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