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[Bumhead]

Lol sky reporting Man City agreed a deal with Rodwell from Everton.

It's on the City website too.

Hope not. Absolute waste of time for the player.

 

[Kyoufu]

I don't know if it's all football fans or just Newcastle ones, but I can't say "Player X is shit" on a Newcastle blog/forum without being mauled.

They will defend the likes of Danny Simpson and Gabriel Obertan just because they wear our shirt.

This is madness.

 

[Wes]

Rodwell in must be for Home Grown numbers I would think. I guess Adam Johnson will be leaving (for Villa one would hope).

 

[Salazar]

Obertan will come back from his Rangers loan a world-beater.

 

[D_prOdigy]

Lol sky reporting Man City agreed a deal with Rodwell from Everton.

It's on the City website too.

 

[TheLucifer]

Corriere dello Sport reported today that there could be a swap between Arsenal and Milan, involving Mexes and Bendtner. Also, Galliani is seriously thinking about Sahin and swapping Cassano for Borriello. BS of the decade, right there.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Rodwell's pony. First they're linked with Sinclair and now Rodwell? Is Man City's transfer business run by muppets?

Looks like they tried to do their own scouting this year :lol

 

[elsk]

Corriere dello Sport reported today that there could be a swap between Arsenal and Milan, involving Mexes and Bendtner. Also, Galliani is seriously thinking about Sahin and swapping Cassano for Borriello. BS of the decade, right there.

Those would be like the worst transfers/swaps in the world.

 

[Kyoufu]

Obertan will come back from his Rangers loan a world-beater.

Have I told you how much I love you Salazar? I have a fever today (last night was rough) but your post just made my day.

 

[LegoArmo]

Glad to see it's City getting robbed blind by Everton and not United.

 

[dc89]

A SIGNING!! A SIGNING!!

THANK YOU BASED MANCINI. THANK YOU BASED MARWOOD. THANK YOU BASED SHEIKH MANSOUR.

 

[Salazar]

Speaking of SPL, I was vaguely impressed by Dundee when they pumped Hibs 3-0. Good goals.

 

[LanceVance]

Can't see Chelsea winning today without Kalou pulling the strings

 

[Wes]

Talk Sport pulled out the sum of £12m from somewhere.

 

[Hixx]

A SIGNING!! A SIGNING!!

THANK YOU BASED MANCINI. THANK YOU BASED MARWOOD. THANK YOU BASED SHEIKH MANSOUR.

One who will play about 200 minutes of football this season...

What an odd signing.

 

[Salazar]

Talk Sport pulled out the sum of £12m from somewhere.

I think "undisclosed" means, at the very least, "not disclosed to Talk Sport".

 

[dc89]

medical taking place today.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/08/12/blues-accept-rodwell-bid

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

City - Pantilimon - Zabaleta Kompany Savic - Milner De Jong YToure Clichy - Nasri - Aguero Tevez

Chelsea - Cech Ivanovic Luiz Terry Cole Lampard Mikel Ramires Mata Hazard Torres

 

[Wes]

I think "undisclosed" means, at the very least, "not disclosed to Talk Sport".

Well it's a nice starting figure for all the red tops to speculate around.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Delighted City are signing Jack Rodwell and not Javi Martinez or Daniele De Rossi.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

medical taking place today.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/08/12/blues-accept-rodwell-bid

Mancini wanted De Rossi or Martinez.

He got Jack Rodwell.

Thank you based Marwood indeed.

 

[Kyoufu]

El Cashico in an hour!

I'm going for a City win, unless Chelsea do a 180 from their pre-season form.

 

[Yazan]

Corriere dello Sport reported today that there could be a swap between Arsenal and Milan, involving Mexes and Bendtner. Also, Galliani is seriously thinking about Sahin and swapping Cassano for Borriello. BS of the decade, right there.

Bendtner and Borriello...someone please kill me.

 

[Salazar]

Well it's a nice starting figure for all the red tops to speculate around.

I like to think Moyes would have cracked 15. World is going daft for midfielders.

 

[Steverulez]

Seems like a bit of a panic buy, perhaps they're intending to ship Barry or De Jong?

I hope it gives Moyes a decen amount of cash to bulk his team up with.

 

[BlindCommunication]

So Cavani to Chelsea for 35M pounds?

Whilst buying a top striker like Falcao or Cavani would be the obvious solution to Chelsea's forwards problem, I think RDM and Roman find themselves in a tough spot with the Torres conundrum.

Torres won't accept being marginalized like he was last season, he certainly won't accept being benched much this season and the departure of Drogba has probably comforted him. He threw a bit of a tantrum last season after the CL win and it felt like Roman gave home some reassurance that he would be Chelsea star striker this season. So they pretty much have to buy a "lesser" striker than Torres, someone young whose stature isn't as big as him, maybe Moses will play that backup striker role.

In any case Torres and Sturridge isn't enough if they want to challenge in the league, cups and CL. The fact they loaned out Lukaku, they probably got a striker lined up though.

 

[dc89]

Delighted City are signing Jack Rodwell and not Javi Martinez or Daniele De Rossi.

Mancini wanted De Rossi or Martinez.

He got Jack Rodwell.

Thank you based Marwood indeed.

They are coming next year.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Looks like City are going to persist with their 3-4-1-2 formation.

 

[Wes]

Chelsea
4-2-3-1
Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Lampard, Mikel, Ramires, Mata, Hazard, Torres.

City
3-4-1-2
Pantilimon; Zabaleta, Kompany, Savic; Milner, De Jong, Yaya Toure, Clichy; Nasri ; Aguero, Tevez.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Ugh Ramires on the wing...

 

[Steverulez]

Whilst buying a top striker like Falcao or Cavani would be the obvious solution to Chelsea's forwards problem, I think RDM and Roman find themselves in a tough spot with the Torres conundrum.

Torres won't accept being marginalized like he was last season, he certainly won't accept being benched much this season and the departure of Drogba has probably comforted him. He threw a bit of a tantrum last season after the CL win and it felt like Roman gave home some reassurance that he would be Chelsea star striker this season. So they pretty much have to buy a "lesser" striker than Torres, someone young whose stature isn't as big as him, maybe Moses will play that backup striker role.

In any case Torres and Sturridge isn't enough if they want to challenge in the league, cups and CL. The fact they loaned out Lukaku, they probably got a striker lined up though.

This is why Hulk makes sense though, as he can play on the right or up front... we could easily have a team with:

Torres
Mata Hazard Hulk

As our attacking unit.

Edit: Just seen our bench - Turnbull, Essien, Meireles, Sturridge, Cahill, Bertrand, Blackman.

Two goalkeepers? Terrible bench.

 

[dc89]

inb4 you guys make something like this:

 

[LanceVance]

Ugh Ramires on the wing...

Think he's playing a lot narrower looks like 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 with lampard ramires and mikel as the 3 in the middle

 

[elsk]

Think he's playing a lot narrower looks like 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 with lampard ramires and mikel as the 3 in the middle

Sounds like 4-2-3-1 actually.
What's up with Man City formation? Mancini trying to copy the italian formation of the moment eh?

 

[Joel Was Right]

inb4 you guys make something like this:

Wonder how much that suit costs

 

[Nevasleep]

What channel is the community shield on?

 

[Kyoufu]

Wonder how much that suit costs

More than Newcastle's signings so far.

 

[GorillaJu]

Results from the match leaked early:

Manchester City 3 - 1 Chelsea FC
(Yaya Toure [2], Serio Agüero, Lampard)

 

[Carbonox]

Wonder how much that suit costs

A tenner from Primark, bought by someone else claiming it cost 10k. I'd do that to wind rich fuckers up if I knew them.

 

[Yurt]

3-5-2?

Zabaleta and Savic in a back three is a massive risk.

Well, Savic is a disaster waiting to happen either way.

Wonder how much that suit costs

Nothing. He owns the store.

 

[Steverulez]

Seems Piazon is on the bench and not Blackman, Chelsea TV got it wrong. I saw Piazon tweet earlier and mentioned Villa park so I thought it was odd Blackman was there.

Still not a great bench though.

 

[dc89]

What channel is the community shield on?

ITV in UK.

 

[elsk]

Wonder how much that suit costs

2 Carrolls.

 

[snoopen]

2-0 Chelsea.

 

[GorillaJu]

Wonder how much that suit costs

The very highest end suits generally top out below £10,000. That would be the absolute highest quality wools and a bespoke design (multi-visit process involving a completely custom canvas and cut). I'm sure there are places that will find ways to charge extra by meeting for fittings on private jets or something, though.

 

[Steverulez]

ITV in UK.

Wait what? ITV? Eugh, ITV coverage is shit. I thought it was on Sky

 

[Clegg]

So it turns out that all that RVP to United stuff last night was just a load of twitter bollocks.

Quelle surprise.

 

[Tc91]

Chelsea 2 - 1 City.

Let El Cashico commence.

 

[Nevasleep]

ITV in UK.

Thanking you.

 

[dc89]

Wait what? ITV? Eugh, ITV coverage is shit. I thought it was on Sky

Nope. ITV. Coverage starts at 1pm.