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Football Thread 2011/2012 | OT11 | Roll on the Euros and transfer muppetry
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Still got cleverly, all is good.
choodi
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I'll be at the game
Forgot about Henriquez, if he signs, think he'll eventually be loaned out. Hope Berba stays and gets some games but he'll probably leave. PSG maybe?
Think the most important thing now is to get Nani to sign a contract and see what SAF does from there. Last season it was clear we needed a creative midfilder, and now we've got one in Kagawa. attacking wise everything seems sorted.
^ sneak into the changing rooms, steal Kagawa's boot and sell it on ebay lol
hope you enjoy it
Hard to muster any motivation when you know you won't get a sniff
a) in any game of consequence
b) as the season goes on
God, it's going to be hard to watch City v Chelsea in the Community Shield.
PrematureQuiche
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Just ended up playing way too much FIFA because of Awesome Animals! I am up to 332 hours :/
Awesome Animals
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We kicked ass.
everthustodeadbeats
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I am. My team sucks.
PrematureQuiche
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Yeah! I may play again tomorrow but are you not going to be back till the same time?
Ill be watching it. 8pm kick off here locally i believe. Pretty excited/nervous about this one.
Will do it for the quarters unless you already get some sort of transfer thing then. I'm pretty happy with my team.
choodi
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My prediction Australia 0 - 2 Japan.
If Archie Thompson is the solution, we don't really know what the question was in the first place.
We are going to struggle to qualify
Holy shit hahaha
Vivalaraza
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Henriquez has scored 13 times in 19 appearances for Universidad in his debut season. Good going for an 18 year old. I'm not convinced we will be bringing him over, it doesn't make sense to me. For one I think he'll struggle to get a work permit, but purely on footballing grounds, we have the first option on him for a while yet and he's playing games for his current club, let him stay there and develop. If we bring him over and he spends time on the bench, or we loan him out elsewhere in Europe...I'm not sure if that helps.
After playing Football Manager properly for the first time over the past week I now have a new found hatred for work permits.
It's actually less of a english:foreign players ratio anymore, since you don't need a work permit with EU, so that skews things. plus, it's not like other countries don't have work permit stuff, they just limit them differently - ie. spain has 3 slots for non-EU players, italy you can only make 2 non-EU signings per season (iirc), etc.
oh the things you learn from FM :lol
Eh, I don't assign to much of a value judgement to it. If the PL were full of English players, you'd just take the piss out of it for other reasons.
:lol
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choodi
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I'm currently 5th in the GAF league, but I don't have that much faith in my selections
I'm in 9th after the first day so my team isn't too awful with 44 points, but I after their second half performance, I had to get shut of my Polish players. I think Russia is going to run them ragged, if I'm honest. They could barely deal with Greece when they started passing, they'll have no hope against the Ruskies who have a legitimately strong team, IMO.
Kept Iniesta, Shirokov and Özil since I'm sure they'll keep up their high levels, but brought in Ronaldo, Maggio and Cassano.
The thinking is that almost no teams in the tournament will have their entry into the second round done and dusted after the second day, so they'll have everything to play for for all three games, so the big players won't be rested for the third fixture.
Gerrard's set piece take was textbook. You couldn't draw a better trajectory for that cross if you tried. Perfect.
Think Olger might opt for Josh Kennedy? Especially considering the Japanese centre backs aren't the most imposing.
Actually think this may be the case myself, given where Kennedy plays and his record there.
Awesome Animals
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Yep. I'm a real person now unfortunately.
choodi
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Anything is better than Archie...even Josh Kennedy!
Seriously, we need to score, and on the evidence, Kennedy and Cahill are the most likely in the current Australian lineup.
Cahill needs to be in the midfield though so he can run on to the ball. He is hopeless with his back to the goal and he is more useful to us if he is the link between midfield and Kennedy.
Kennedy especially needs to step it up as he is the most familiar with the Japanese. We need him to win balls in the air and knock them down to Cahill and Bresciano.
Most importantly, we need to realize that a cross from the halfway line is not a cross, but a cheap way of turning over possession.
In other words, WE'RE FUCKED!
Vivalaraza
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Wilbury is on 1000+ posts in this thread...he's doing a bit of Messi this time out...that's got to be an all time record.
Might wake up to watch Japan vs Australia tmrw. It should be a good game and a good excuse to see Kagawa in action. This is Japan's last game too so hopefully Shinji can come over to Manchester to complete his transfer!
Might wake up to watch Japan vs Australia tmrw. It should be a good game and a good excuse to see Kagawa in action. This is Japan's last game too so hopefully Shinji can come over to Manchester to complete his transfer!
Oh god, this frustrates me so much. Luke Wilkshire im looking at you!
Wilbury's posts to quality ratio is Downing-esque, though.
choodi
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Yep, one of the main culprits.
At least now with Bresciano back in the team we have a midfielder who is capable of playing a pass forward instead of two yards sideways or backwards.
Vivalaraza
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I don't follow Ligue 1 and I've only seen little of Giroud but he does look like a good player. He isn't somebody who fits into the the typical Arsenal style IMO, but I can see him being very useful and effective. He isn't exactly pacey and he doesn't have quick feet...but he is strong and can finish. He'd be what Chamakh should have been I guess.
If Arsenal sign him it would probably mean they'd have to change the system a little bit to suit him, RVP (if he stays of course) playing off of him.
A goalscorer, something which Arsenal have needed for a while. Philippe Auclair (who IMO is reliable) says Arsenal can have him if they pay the buy out clause of £10m. That seems like a great price, I can see him scoring goals for Arsenal.
He's lethal. Particularly dangerous on the end of a cross, which isn't necessarily an Arsenal kind of thing, but he is a gigantic upgrade on what you've got at the moment, RVP excepted.
Yep.
Looks like you get unlimited transfers before the quarters so might as well use it now.
He was about to join Bayern but the board voted against the transfer, they wanted a "bigger" striker, a "Bomb striker". I watched a few matches of him and he isn't fast but he's very good with the ball and also makes a lot of assists to his teammates. I would've loved to have him at bayern :/
Vivalaraza
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Bendtner came through the ranks for them though. Chamakh is the only real option they went for and he was on a free and tbh, never really a target man even at Bordeaux. Giroud is much stronger and better at holding it up than either of those and he looks like a natural finisher too.
I actually think Giroud would be quite good for Liverpool, but he's probably a little bit too similar to Carroll.
Yeah we won't be looking for a new target man while we still have Carroll and I don't see us offloading him this year. Personally I think he'll do well under Rodgers if he can work on his timing and first touch.
Well I like the sound of that. Get it done Arsenal!!!!!!
You see, even if RVP signs, I have absolutely no doubt he will get injured for whoever he plays for next season. Podolski is not going to get us enough goals so we need someone else. Perhaps this guy? Because RVP shouldn't start every match, by the end of last season you could see he was exhausted. It shouldn't be like that but last season there was no one else.
I also don't think Walcott will be an Arsenal player next season. Arsenal are fluffing around with his contract and the repoirts I've read are that we haven't tabled a very good offer to him at all.
You see, even if RVP signs, I have absolutely no doubt he will get injured for whoever he plays for next season. Podolski is not going to get us enough goals so we need someone else. Perhaps this guy? Because RVP shouldn't start every match, by the end of last season you could see he was exhausted. It shouldn't be like that but last season there was no one else.
I also don't think Walcott will be an Arsenal player next season. Arsenal are fluffing around with his contract and the repoirts I've read are that we haven't tabled a very good offer to him at all.
yeah Bendtner and Chamakh were never top goal scorers, but Giroud has proven he is, or at least can be - at a rather consistent level. I'd be surprised if we went for him though, we already got Podolski - who most seem to agree is shit on the wing (hmmm who does that remind me of...
too many arsenal players.
Giroud + Podolski + RVP + (maybe theo?!?) makes too much sense, and would be too much squad depth for this stingy side.
edit: ^yup. RVP always gets injured - this season was a fluke, no doubt about that. hope the board realizes that we overperformed with this average (plus RVP) group of players and that this squad is perpetually a couple injuries away from complete implosion.
im actually hoping for the aussie football to be destroyed by japan so holger can make some big changes
if the aussies were at full strength I would the following formation at 4-2-3-1
schwarzer
wilkshere - neill - ogga - carney
herd - rhys williams
ruka - holman - troisi
kennedy/cahill
I havnt done much work on defence as im not entirely sure on the ideal replacements.
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Scenes from outside the hotel where the Mexican national team is spending the night on San Salvador.
Gotta admire their dedication.
Gotta admire their dedication.
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