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[Zabojnik]

I get why Honduras is happy, but what I don't get is why Japan didn't get this sort of praise. Japan more than Honduras outplayed Spain even if their finishing wasn't on par.

No Kagawa, no party.

 

[Soi-Fong]

No Kagawa, no party.

lol It's nice to see Japan doing well without Kagawa. It'd be unfair to put all that pressure on Kagawa to completely lead Japan in the 2014 World Cup.

 

[Zabojnik]

lol It's nice to see Japan doing well without Kagawa. It'd be unfair to put all that pressure on Kagawa to completely lead Japan in the 2014 World Cup.

He can take it. Unlike Messi.

 

[Lightning]

http://www.malagahoy.es/article/malagacf/1318443/cazorla/puede/irse/hoy/mismo.html

Anyone who understands Spanish can give me the gist on what is said in that article? Don't need a translation, just the point of the article.

 

[neoanarch]

http://www.malagahoy.es/article/malagacf/1318443/cazorla/puede/irse/hoy/mismo.html

Anyone who understands Spanish can give me the gist on what is said in that article? Don't need a translation, just the point of the article.

Cazarola to gunners a done deal as soon as today. 20 mil plus bonuses.

 

[Regulus Tera]

http://www.malagahoy.es/article/malagacf/1318443/cazorla/puede/irse/hoy/mismo.html

Anyone who understands Spanish can give me the gist on what is said in that article? Don't need a translation, just the point of the article.

Arsenal is offering 20 million + good stuff for Cazorla and the transaction could be completed today. Rest of the article talks about how Málaga is gonna use the money for clearing squad debts.

 

[pulga]

I get why Honduras is happy, but what I don't get is why Japan didn't get this sort of praise. Japan more than Honduras outplayed Spain even if their finishing wasn't on par.

Because you expect something out of Japan. NO ONE would've bet a dollar on us.

Plus, according to Xavi, we're a Cinderella, so that too. Feels good to make him stuff it

Bien hecho. Espero que nos veamos en la final o en la semifinal.

Seria monumental para el futbol de nuestra area!

 

[Ushojax]

Cazarola to gunners a done deal as soon as today. 20 mil plus bonuses.

Still no defenders. Obviously they realise that they need new goal threats with RVP leaving, but it blows my mind that they still haven't been credibly linked to a single defender. They haven't even sold Squillaci yet.

 

[pappe]

Still no defenders. Obviously they realise that they need new goal threats with RVP leaving, but it blows my mind that they still haven't been credibly linked to a single defender. They haven't even sold Squillaci yet.

It seems Wenger hates buying defenders as much as SAF hates buying CM's.

 

[Freewheelin']

Wenger says 3 players are leaving:

Arsene Wenger says that he expects a number of departures this week as the club return to London after their Asia tour.

With the futures of Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott still to be decided, some of the fringe players in the squad are due to find themselves new clubs and the names will not be a surprise to anyone.

“Bendtner, Squillaci and Park will be on their way to go somewhere,” he said. The Danish striker caught the eye with his goals and underpants at Euro 2012 and has been linked with clubs like Celta Vigo, Galatasaray and AC Milan.

Squillaci had been talking to newly promoted French side Bastia but a move was ruled out because of financial issues. Having signed from Sevilla there have been one or two stories suggesting a return to La Liga might be a possibility and the finances on offer might well accommodate a deal.

As for Park, who the hell knows? It will certainly go down as one of Arsene Wenger’s strangest transfer deals – if indeed it was one of his deals – and the South Korean’s stock could hardly be lower. He ruled out a move to Emirates side Al Ain last week so where he ends up is anybody’s guess.

Meanwhile, Wenger hinted Andrei Arshavin may remain at the club in spite of strong interest from Zenit to take him ‘home’. Mrs Arshavin is pregnant with their third child and is reportedly keen to stay in London. A loan move to Fulham has been mooted but Wenger said,  “Arshavin, it depends. We have to sit together and talks. He could still have a future at the club.”

 

[Salazar]

Wonder if Miyaichi's solid loan will help him.

 

[snoopen]

Off to Westeros in a minute, and then off to the land of nod, so imma remind people that they can still join the paid fantasy league

The_Hitcher89///Stark FC
PrematureQuiche///PrematureQuiche FC
Arnie///LSD Eindhoven
Mastadon///Dyslexia Untied
elseanio/// Sporting Lisbonjela
BLSwagger10///Puff Puff Shoot
Joe///Holy Cannoli
Jeff Albertson///Jeff FC
Vivarazala///Vivalaraza
Awesome Animals///JTgate
choodi///Fatman United (choodi)
odd_morsel///Bacon of Hope FC
Spanish Wrath///Vuvuzela BRRRRFC
kharma45///Leave My Arcelona
Anderson///UnAthletic FC
Swance///Swance's Sexy Squad
WoodenLung///Voyeurs Young Boys
the walrus///TheWalrus
LegoArmo///BASED-in-Newcastle
WJD///WJD FC
Kylehimself///kylehimself
PaulLFC///Racing AbbeyNational
Wilbury///JTbury FC
Keio///FC Voitto

So far

edit: Ha, a PM Paul sent me a couple of days ago on RAWK has only just showed up in my email inbox

Sure, Snoopen///Arse FC

 

[dc89]

Awesome bicycle kick from David Platt in a open training session. Aguero's kind of gob smacked.

He was then asked by one of the City youths on tour 'Did you used to play?'

 

[snoopen]

Podolski and Giroud to be 'eased' into the PL after fitness concerns.. neither played much of the Euros :/.

http://news.arseblog.com/2012/07/wenger-giroud-and-podolski-to-miss-start-of-season

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud will likely miss the first game of the new Premier League campaign after being ruled out of the final pre-season friendly against Cologne two weeks in advance

 

[Carbonox]

Mathieu Debuchy should be a Newcastle player by the end of the week, along with Curtis Good. We'll still need a more experienced new CB coming in though as I doubt Good will play any games in the PL for us. Plus a new striker and CM needs to be brought in.

 

[GorillaJu]

Mathieu Debuchy should be a Newcastle player by the end of the week, along with Curtis Good. We'll still need a more experienced new CB coming in though as I doubt Good will play any games in the PL for us. Plus a new striker and CM needs to be brought in.

You will now have three French JTs on your team. Any interest in Nasri and Evra? Might as well just haul em all over.

 

[Carbonox]

You will now have three French JTs on your team. Any interest in Nasri and Evra? Might as well just haul em all over.

Need some non-French players too. Mind giving us Suarez?

 

[Kenka]

I wish Debuchy would have gone to BMG or Schalke instead. But well, he will fare well in Newcastle also.

 

[dc89]

De Jong - I want to stay at City.
Manchester Evening News

Well sign the contract then, and stop looking for £100K or how much your holding out for!

 

[GorillaJu]

Need some non-French players too. Mind giving us Suarez?

We'll start the negotiations at £35m ^_^

 

[Carbonox]

We'll start the negotiations at £35m ^_^

We'll give you Cisse, Tiote, Ben Arfa and Cabaye. They're shit anyway.

 

[Blablurn]

 

[Kenka]

We'll give you Cisse, Tiote, Ben Arfa and Cabaye. They're shit anyway.

I have to defend Cissé, he is a good player. I mean, you are trolling right ?

And is Shaqiri less tall than Lahm ?

 

[Freewheelin']

I have to defend Cissé, he is a good player. I mean, you are trolling right ?

He is joking yeah :lol

 

[NHale]

One Portuguese newspaper is claiming Real Madrid will pay 40M to get Axel Witsel. This is a newspaper known as "the unofficial Benfica newspaper" and since January has "sold" Nico Gaitan 1000x for 40M, Javi Garcia to Man City for 30M, a Benfica branded french toast for 25M, etc.

Clearly Real is willing to spend 40M on Axel Witsel but not 45M on Luka Modric. If that really was true, Real Madrid fans should be very worried about Jorge Mendes influence on their team...

 

[Wilbur]

Viva doing a lovely job summing everything up again.

Also even though Gomez is shit, his hair delivers such swag

 

[Joel Was Right]

Awesome bicycle kick from David Platt in a open training session. Aguero's kind of gob smacked.

He was then asked by one of the City youths on tour 'Did you used to play?'

Unbelievable tekkers, Jeff

 

[dc89]

Unbelievable tekkers, Jeff

No need to try and sign RVP now.

Talking about strikers I can imagine a very awkward conversation taking place with Mr Adebayor soon.

"Well Ade, you've turned down many opportunities now to play football now based on wages. But your happy with the money your on with us.

But sadly your not part of our first team plans. Hence us trying to find you another club. See, we need to sell you before we take any more players on because we take FFP seriously.

so, I think we've found you a new role. Cleaner at the academy. Your wages won't count towards FFP and then you can sit out your contract because you love money."

xD

 

[Ushojax]

City will end up paying Adebayor to leave, we all know that. The £5m they would have to give Ade is chump change to them and it will free up space for RVP on the wage bill. Levy knows that we are the only option and that his move is the closest to completion of City's outgoing big earners. It's a case of who blinks first, because both parties need this deal done ASAP.

 

[fuenf]

they look depressed

 

[Kyoufu]

I have to defend Cissé, he is a good player. I mean, you are trolling right ?

And is Shaqiri less tall than Lahm ?

Yes, he's joking lol

 

[Splatt]

Dat Ribbery swag :lol:

 

[D_prOdigy]

De Jong - I want to stay at City.
Manchester Evening News

Well sign the contract then, and stop looking for £100K or how much your holding out for!

Why should he? Contrast Yaya who is on £250k and very very open about wanting to 'one day' go back to Barca.

This is just what City has to deal with.

 

[mocolostrocolos]

One Portuguese newspaper is claiming Real Madrid will pay 40M to get Axel Witsel. This is a newspaper known as "the unofficial Benfica newspaper" and since January has "sold" Nico Gaitan 1000x for 40M, Javi Garcia to Man City for 30M, a Benfica branded french toast for 25M, etc.



Clearly Real is willing to spend 40M on Axel Witsel but not 45M on Luka Modric. If that really was true, Real Madrid fans should be very worried about Jorge Mendes influence on their team...

I've been worring about Mendes since Mou came.

 

[Kyoufu]

Why should he? Contrast Yaya who is on £250k and very very open about wanting to 'one day' go back to Barca.

This is just what City has to deal with.

Yaya is on 250k? Holy shit.

 

[Freewheelin']

Yaya is on 250k? Holy shit.

Highest paid player in the PL I believe.

 

[Ushojax]

Highest paid player in the PL I believe.

Worth it. He's definitely the best CM in the league.

 

[Kozak]

Still no defenders. Obviously they realise that they need new goal threats with RVP leaving, but it blows my mind that they still haven't been credibly linked to a single defender. They haven't even sold Squillaci yet.

I don't know, I kind of like Arsenals defence as it is. Obviously injuries will fuck it up but Koscielny, Sagna and Vermaelen are as good as any defence + Santos isn't the worst left back in the world.

Really Arsenal just need better backups than Djorou and Squillaci and backups are probably the hardest players to purchase in football these days. Everybody believes they're good enough for the first team.

 

[Wilbur]

Worth it. He's definitely the best CM in the league.

The only quality piece of tactics I can think of that Mancini's done is converting Yaya to a more attacking role. He absolutely flourishes there.

Also Vermaelen is overrated as fuck

 

[Joel Was Right]

The only quality piece of tactics I can think of that Mancini's done is converting Yaya to a more attacking role. He absolutely flourishes there.

Also Vermaelen is overrated as fuck

He wasn't at his best last year. Much of his reputation came from his first season. Koscielny, however, is underrated IMO

 

[Wilbur]

He wasn't at his best last year. Much of his reputation came from his first season. Koscielny, however, is underrated IMO

Koscielny is very underrated, yeah. But Vermaelen gets caught out of position even more than Evra does. Great ball playing and scoring but he can't hold a line

 

[Kyoufu]

He wasn't at his best last year. Much of his reputation came from his first season. Koscielny, however, is underrated IMO

He cost you a trophy. Underrated? Hardly.

 

[Rad-]

Worth it. He's definitely the best CM in the league.

Crazy talk. That's about as much as Ronaldo and Messi make.

 

[pappe]

The problem with Arsenals defence is that none of them can hold a line to cause a offside trap. One of them will have a brain freeze and wander out of position atleast once and fuck up their whole defense. It happened against Malaysia(?) in their Friendlies as well.

 

[dc89]

The only quality piece of tactics I can think of that Mancini's done is converting Yaya to a more attacking role. He absolutely flourishes there.

Also Vermaelen is overrated as fuck

Yaya is awesome when he's up supporting the attacks.

 

[Salazar]

The problem with Arsenals defence is that none of them can hold a line to cause a offside trap. One of them will have a brain freeze and wander out of position atleast once and fuck up their whole defense. It happened against Malaysia(?) in their Friendlies as well.

And they have a first choice keeper who is a little bit prone to Barthez moments.

 

[Yurt]

Mancini is talking about RVP again.

 

[pappe]

Yaya was City's most important player last season and he will be again this season. City struggled massively when he was out during January and he always stepped up when they needed goals in the last few matches.

 

[dc89]

Mancini is talking about RVP again.

What's he saying this time? Arsenal and City are both playing today, ESPN.

Yaya was City's most important player last season and he will be again this season. City struggled massively when he was out during January and he always stepped up when they needed goals in the last few matches.

That's why we need a De Rossi or something, anything! Mancini knows this.

 

[Awesome Animals]

Crazy talk. That's about as much as Ronaldo and Messi make.

I'm not sure there is any argument to be made about the wages players make in general. They all make too much in my opinion. But, alas, capitalism.