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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started
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Broder Salsa
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It was honestly for your own mental well being I didn't hope you read it.
You're all having such an awesome time at 04:30, don't you have work or school or something?!
I hate you all.
Uni doesn't start for me until next month and I work as a substitute teacher whenever they need me to. Going again soon and I am really fucking tired, blame GAF on the Danish kids not getting a proper education.
Ugh I have thought he has lost way too many dumb balls (seriously both Barca goals were results of him being slow and bad at passing), if Chelsea could sell him I wouldn't mind that at all.
Jeff Albertson
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Oh hi
Nowadays I'm more normal
Nowadays I'm more normal
Really strange move that. As I've said before numerous times, I'm not enamoured by Ramirez, he's a good player, but a clumsy one too. Seems a lot of money for a newly promoted club to pay for a single inconsistent attacking midfielder. Putting myself in their shoes, coming from my scrap of FM experience, I'd look to sure up my defence before I make that sort of luxury signing.
pulga
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Got my RM jersey from Soccer Triads today! Quality is fantastic! Here's a pic I sent some of my culerdo friends
Plus, my new United shirt I bought in NY, because it's fucking awesome.
Now, I'm just waiting for my mom to ship me my Juve shirt she bought for me (she lives in Rome), and I'll be set for the season
Plus, my new United shirt I bought in NY, because it's fucking awesome.
Now, I'm just waiting for my mom to ship me my Juve shirt she bought for me (she lives in Rome), and I'll be set for the season
Yeah, everyone is still abit confused why we are not signing a CB. Scott Dann been rumoured alot, who I would have, but still would need 1 more better one.
Jeff Albertson
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There's a reason Scott Dann has enjoyed back to back relegations
I'm sure having Big Eck and Steve Kean as his managers had nothing to do with it
Edit: More from Ramirez.
"They believe in me in every way... and above all I have said that they are going to grow. Southampton is a newly promoted team in the English top flight, but they have the means to stand tall in a few years. And with me they are going to build. It's all very stimulating. Even if it is a little strange."
"It is an offer that you cannot refuse. They will give me so much money (€2 million net per year and more than €1 million signing-on fee)."
~£30K a week? Not bad.
You have to give credit to his agent and Bologna. They used clubs like Liverpool to drum up interest in him so they could cash in. Liverpool haven't been interested in him since Comolli left, but you can almost guarantee that he wasn't on Southampton's radar until those links surfaced.
Still a very good purchase for the Southampton fans, because he's an exciting player.
City have just signed the ex-Barcelona vice president as their new CEO, according to The Times.
Edit: ooop, Zonal Marking just offering the same opinion on Ramirez as I did 20 minutes ago. I'll have a job then please.
Still a very good purchase for the Southampton fans, because he's an exciting player.
City have just signed the ex-Barcelona vice president as their new CEO, according to The Times.
Edit: ooop, Zonal Marking just offering the same opinion on Ramirez as I did 20 minutes ago. I'll have a job then please.
Fair enough, sounds like typical lazy media reporting to link you guys then. And there i though we were the ones being used to drum up the interest.
Still can't understand what caused in to turn down Spurs? Couldn't have been the money, lack of first team football?
https://twitter.com/DanielHarris/status/236379351799697408/photo/1/large
"I'll play the Scholes role when I feel it's time".
Piss-take.
I wonder if Bebe is saving his Baggio years for his late twenties.
"I'll play the Scholes role when I feel it's time".
Piss-take.
I wonder if Bebe is saving his Baggio years for his late twenties.
Jeff Albertson
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I'm sure having Big Eck and Steve Kean as his managers had nothing to do with it
Edit: More from Ramirez.
"They believe in me in every way... and above all I have said that they are going to grow. Southampton is a newly promoted team in the English top flight, but they have the means to stand tall in a few years. And with me they are going to build. It's all very stimulating. Even if it is a little strange."
"It is an offer that you cannot refuse. They will give me so much money (2 million net per year and more than 1 million signing-on fee)."
~£30K a week? Not bad.
True but he is a pretty awful defender
Why? Doesn't say he'll be able to deliver at the same level. Just talks about playing a similar role on our team.
I'm just locating Gerrard in a tradition of English players who have had their brains melted by adulation and talk about their careers like they're a player-manager in all but name.
He's not at JT level, though, not even close.
Broder Salsa
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Fc Nordsjælland are going to play their CL group stage matches in our stadium, just to really put salt in the open wounds.
Got my RM jersey from Soccer Triads today! Quality is fantastic! Here's a pic I sent some of my culerdo friends
Plus, my new United shirt I bought in NY, because it's fucking awesome.
Now, I'm just waiting for my mom to ship me my Juve shirt she bought for me (she lives in Rome), and I'll be set for the season
Looks great! I noticed soccertriads have changed there name to maxxsoccer lol.
xD
Thoughts?
Not bad at all. Not to my taste, but I think you'll do well with this.
Wasn't he celebrated as being the best English player during the Euros?
danbsfc: @reluctantnicko Now that Ramirez seems to be on his way, any more news on that 'ambitious' signing you are saving for Sunday? Progressed?
reluctantnicko: @danbsfc It sits perfectly with the other. The top man seems refreshed and ready to spend. Wants sexy. Will pay. Sit back and enjoy the show
danbsfc: @reluctantnicko Can't believe this is happening to our club!! So it's a pretty big signing then along with Ramirez. Same sort of Wow factor?
reluctantnicko: @danbsfc Similar scale. That is why I doubted it when I heard it. But it is authentic. Only trouble is u r still not there yet. But in race.
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Exchange between Alan Nixion Daily Mirror journo (been pretty good on our transfers) and some fan. HYYYYPE
reluctantnicko: @danbsfc It sits perfectly with the other. The top man seems refreshed and ready to spend. Wants sexy. Will pay. Sit back and enjoy the show
danbsfc: @reluctantnicko Can't believe this is happening to our club!! So it's a pretty big signing then along with Ramirez. Same sort of Wow factor?
reluctantnicko: @danbsfc Similar scale. That is why I doubted it when I heard it. But it is authentic. Only trouble is u r still not there yet. But in race.
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Exchange between Alan Nixion Daily Mirror journo (been pretty good on our transfers) and some fan. HYYYYPE
He was good, but not at the 'Scholes role' ie, keeping possession and using the ball intelligently. His strengths mostly came from good crosses and a high work-rate for me.
We can't even get other teams to play European football at our stadium.Fc Nordsjælland are going to play their CL group stage matches in our stadium, just to really put salt in the open wounds.
LabouredSubterfuge
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True. Gerrard has never been a "keep the ball" player, which is why I suspect Rodgers will want to keep him far away from the center of midfield, and use him in his most efficient role - rocketing in shots from outside the box, making attacking runs and splitting defenses open with through balls.
That said I think he's a very intelligent player and possesses the physical qualities that one would need to play a similar role to Paul Scholes.
And to be fair it's not like Hodgson cared about or told any of the English players to keep the ball and think carefully about their passes.
Insanely risky team. Rooney and RVP are going to cannibalize each others' points over the season. Can't imagine why you'd want both. Better to get coverage for other teams - you're desperately missing Chelsea coverage, and more crucially a Spurs midfielder.
Like every player raised under Wenger, he doesn't actually give a shit about Arsenal or their fans.
LabouredSubterfuge
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"6M€ ... 10M€ ... 6M€ ... 10M€ ... which should I choose ..."
That and obviously no one else thought we was worth 30M€.
That's bullshit. If Robin said something like 'I only want to move to Turin', things would get sorted out really fast.
more like "serie a.... premier league... serie a... premier league... which should i choose..."
Probably a mixture of both.
As well as wages there were a couple of ancillary fees involved that perhaps Spurs weren't willing to pay. Find it hard to see Levy agreeing to give Ramirez a £1 million signing on fee.
And with the likes of Bale, Gylfi, Lennon, and VDV it would've been impossible for Spurs to guarantee him first team football.
Gerrard was asked specifically about this, he didn't spark up a discussion about his own playing style. And his opinion that he'll be played further forward is an extension of what Rodgers has communicated to him, not some player-manager plot device you seem to be insinuating.
As for the whole 'Scholes role', that's just shorthand for a deep playmaker, and an analogy brought about by those doing the questioning, not Gerrard himself.
You seem to be prickly at the idea that Gerrard turned around, unprompted, and said that when his legs fully go he'll just become Paul Scholes, which is nonsense.
This one is for Kharma who was disappointed at my lack of enthusiasm for NI in the trip to Scotland/Ireland thread. But here is a picture I took out biking one day. It's legitimately nice (even though it's looking over Ards).
Woo Scrabbo tower in the distance!
Looking in the mirror, it's either shopped or the guy has some kind of condition.
There are a couple of guys at my gym that have one regular-sized leg and one smaller one.
Vivalaraza
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Can't believe RVP is a United player.
This is so cool.
This is so cool.
LabouredSubterfuge
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It's not bullshit and no that's not what would happen at all. Although it does seem he wanted to come to us most too. Money was what finalised it.
Wow, a lot of money for Bologna, unfortunately he was really good so I hope that Bologna can replace him without losing too much, now it's the time for Riverola and Pasquato to shine and for Bologna to sign Gabbiadini!
I hope
When I read that interview I absolutely knew right away that he'd be quoted out of context on here and I'd have to defend him. :lol
Vivalaraza
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Hmm RVP, wearing #31 training kit. Usually they just throw anyone on though.
I wonder who the other player Southampton want us.
Also doesn't matter if Gerrard wants to play the Scholes role or not - he can't.
I wonder who the other player Southampton want us.
Also doesn't matter if Gerrard wants to play the Scholes role or not - he can't.
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