Meus Renaissance
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Breaking news: The goalkeeper who Stewart Downing scored past tonight has just announced his retirement, can't blame the poor fella
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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT| The Beautiful Game
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fadetoblack
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How did I know that after the Benfica match that Oscar Cardozo would be linked with Juve? I like him, but give me a break! Let's get this shit solved, Marotta!
guess.
personally it horrifies me and I dont know why.
edit: the fuck Liam's voice was fucking brilliant until mid 2000s.
Okay you're insane
Yeah I know, we're pretty poor aesthetically. Kagawa should change that though, he's such a technically good player.
Cardozo is fucking great.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/aug/02/arsenal-santi-cazorla-robin-van-persie
"Santi Cazorla has undergone his medical at Arsenal and the club are poised to announce his £16m signing from Málaga"
"Santi Cazorla has undergone his medical at Arsenal and the club are poised to announce his £16m signing from Málaga"
Broder Salsa
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It looks really weird with the dark gaf skin. He got a white glow around him.
Yeah watching the white bounce as his hair does is disorientating.
Cazorla, sigh. We should have been in for him at that price.
It gives him an angelic glow.
Hopefully Sahin won't be far behind.
Nani is a pretty exciting player to watch. And I think that the signing of Kagawa will go some way to alleviate our problems with creativity.
For the last few seasons our main attacking outlet has been to pass the ball from the midfield out to the wings and see what happens. We've gotten by on that because we have such high quality wingers. But last season we saw that in certain games our wings were ineffective and as a result our attack was completely suffocated.
If Kagawa plays as an attacking midfielder then it will add creativity in more central areas and speed up our approach. It should also hopefully free up space for our wingers as defenders will be trying to break down our attacks through the middle.
I'm like this, which is why I hope Bebe stays. He's good to watch and you don't know if pre-season Bebe will turn up or the carling cup Bebe will.
Kagawa will be a exciting player to watch too which should be a improvement.
Vivalaraza
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Nani is great but as you say our play just amounts to hey Nani here you go do something. Nani is actually capable of intricate link up play so I hope he and Kagawa do well together.
I don't know I'm just not excited about this season at all. It could start tmrw or it could start in a month I don't even care.
Somebody slap me.
Cardozo is a pretty decent striker. But yeah, I'll pass. He's 29, unproven outside of the Primeira Liga, and most importantly not the type of striker we're looking for.
Edit: And enough decent strikers already, pls.
United should splash that £40m on Sahin and M'Vila. That would go an awful long way in alleviating our problems in midfield. Sahin could be our long term replacement for Carrick and M'Vila would do the job that Hargreaves was originally earmarked for.
Will never happen though as they aren't wingers.
Will never happen though as they aren't wingers.
This would make my dick harder than one of Downing's shots
Vivalaraza
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It'll never happen cos we don't have that £40m.
Where has Krasic just gone and for how much? Is it the same club that want Berbatov? They paid for Krasic surely they'll pay for Berbatov come on somebody just take him please.
fadetoblack
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Sky TV is reporting that Inter and Sao Paolo have agreed to terms on Lucas Moura.
And, yes, Oscar Cardoza is class, but at the same age as RVP? And for a team that'd be reluctant to sell? I don't think it's either wise or possible necessarily.
Krasic went to Fenerbahce for €7. WHY YOU NO BUY HIM EPL?!
Send Berba to Juve. We'd treat him well.
And, yes, Oscar Cardoza is class, but at the same age as RVP? And for a team that'd be reluctant to sell? I don't think it's either wise or possible necessarily.
Krasic went to Fenerbahce for €7. WHY YOU NO BUY HIM EPL?!
Send Berba to Juve. We'd treat him well.
Arsenal still have shit defense though. Are there even any rumors with new defender signings with Arsenal?
An apt benchmark.
They have shit depth in their defence, but a back four of Sagna, Koscielny, Vermahlen, and Gibbs is pretty good. Unfortunately all of those players have a tendency to shatter like cheap china under the slightest contact.
Haven't seen even one rumour.
great, no signings for whats supposed to be the biggest problem of the team. *sigh*
I probably should have said that it will never happen coz they aren't wingers and we have no money.
The stuff about the sponsorship deal is very interesting. Could the Reuters report actually be true?
Vivalaraza
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Well I was going to post about this before but I just couldn't be bothered, but this is what interested me most about the presentation.
Revenue was at £320m or so last year, commercial revenue the smallest contributor (I think) at £100m. If that's to get towards 50% it needs to increase by £60m. And that's before taking into account the increase in TV rights which is yet to be fully confirmed but should come to at least another £20/£30m a year. So basically an increase in commercial revenue of at least £70m. That's a lot of money and you'd expect the largest chunk of that to come from a renewal of the two flagship sponsorship deals.
Guess it remains to be seen. If is really strange though that the club hasn't yet announced the details of the deal.
Because Arsenal were. We can't compete with clubs that are offering Champions League football, unless of course we're discussing Cavani, who's waiting with baited breath for his Nokia 3210 to ring with the contact name 'Ian Ayre' blazed on the black and white screen, You'll Never Walk Alone blearing out in polyphonic glory.
This is almost as mad as claiming Noel Gallagher has a perfect voice
Shame his other phones got stolen
True, it's just that i remember that word round the pre-season campfire was that we were in for Cazorla for the past few years, surprised that we didn't at least gave it a shot this year seeing as how he was actually on the market. Whatever though, Stu Downing has hit form.
There's Sakho..
http://www.sport360.com/article/arsenal-liverpool-both-keen-want-away-psg-captain-sakho?
.. also I'm sure Nacho Monreal is available... lol
'Years past' falls into three categories:
Rafa in charge, interest more than likely genuine due to the shared Spanish heritage, no funds available because Hicks and Gillette were sapping the club of all it's worth.
Hodgson in charge, interest lingering from the Rafa reign, Hodgson plays in two banks of four, of which Cazorla doesn't really fit.
Kenny in charge, Cazorla's not British or Premier League proven, don't be ridiculous.
Rodgers in charge, Cazorla fits both the style and the current hole in our squad, unfortunately with Arsenal in for him any approach from us would be worthless.
In regards to Sakho, I really like him and he'd be a bargain this summer. If anyone poaches one of our centre backs I hope we go after him as a replacement.
frankly, I'd be fine if we only signed a right back this window as long as Sahin/M'Vila are signed. and that right back should be Debuchy. fuck a defense, let's just outscore anyone and everyone (and the only way to do that is with the width full backs provide... our play was fucking dire during January when we had a back four made up of exclusively center halves)
90TilInfinity
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Sakho was so bad this season whenever I saw him. The star young CBs in France are Yanga-Mbiwa and Nicolas N'Koulou.
We could sign 4 Maldini's though and it we'll still concede goals with the way we leave a flat back four constantly exposed. I'm fine with our defensive options provided we get a quality DM (I'm a broken record at this point, lol).
No fudging way, I heard he'd be available for less than £10 million. He's young, unwanted, and PSG need to clear him off the wage bill.
If Sakho is leaving PSG this summer there will be a huge bidding war. 30 million Euros sounds about right.
Can someone else verify?
Haven't PSG said he's available? I'd heard that he'd be available for less than half of that.
Also has anyone else seen The Other One's Youtube channel, it's great.
Gareth Bale
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Don't be silly.
90TilInfinity
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There's no way. He's coming off a poor season and was reduced to being a bench player before the campaign was up, never mind now that they have arguably the best CB in the game ahead of him.
Sakho would be cheap. Risky imo, as his season was pretty worrying (many have been highly rated as kids then dramatically fallen off), but the reward if he fulfills his potential would be huge.
Ok this made me laugh.
toythatkills
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Arsenal have got the personnel in defence, they're pretty much all world class defenders, they've just never played like it for Arsenal (Kos aside).
I'm hoping that Bould is going to have a positive effect on that side of things. I really don't think Arsenal need any new players back there as long as they can play like they obviously can play, it's just about getting them to do that.
Nope.
toythatkills
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Good post.
He's right though. The only world class defender is Sagna.
Vivalaraza
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I thought PSG had said Sakho can't leave.
And Gibbs, Vermaelen, Koscielny...world class? AHAHAHA.
And Gibbs, Vermaelen, Koscielny...world class? AHAHAHA.
If he goes, it'll be to the likes of Spurs, Arsenal, and Liverpool, not City or Chelsea.
As others have said, he was on the bench for a lot of last season and he didn't play too well, but he'd be worth the risk in my opinion. PSG have told him he can leave, and he wouldn't cost a whole lot of money (genuinely have no idea where you plucked that £30m figure from).
I really like Vermaelen but his injury record is worse than Agger's.
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