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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started
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Quick, Morsel! Pretend you were talking about City!
I don't watch very many Liverpool games but I'm really surprised that he didn't turn out well for Liverpool. Every time I see him play against United (usually as a late sub), he was always such a threat.
Anyone with Sky+ help me out here? I always record the Daily Show, but when I hit "series record" it records that episode and nothing else. So that means I have to go "Monday - record, Tuesday - record, Wednesday - record" and so on. And I have to do this every blooming week. I'm aware this is very much a first world problem.
He was a very limited player. wasn't a great crosser, wasn't a great dribbler, wasn't very intelligent.
ElyrionX said:
He was a very limited player. wasn't a great crosser, wasn't a great dribbler, wasn't very intelligent.
All the people who were just dying for him to crash and burn got exactly what they wanted. He'll kick on and be very good IMO, but what a perfect little start there. If that had happened to Neymar, I think the entire western world would shit their pants with laughter.
Yeah, a bit of an inauspicious start for Hazard. Getting the boo treatment for a dive, early in the game, and then the infamous fall. Can't imagine he's too pleased with how things went. Hopefully the season opener brings better luck.
He had the same problem Nani and Walcott have. Shit decision making.
Thought he looked pretty good yesterday when he had the ball but something tells me that RDM isn't going to get the best out of him just yet. Maybe he'll need time to adjust but we all know RDM's time is limited.
Regarding Anita's wage comments, he was talking about Ajax's wages so I guess he won't have a problem with ours since we'll pay him more than he was earning at Ajax.
Signnnnnnn pleeeeeeeeease.
Please no Agger T_T
He looked great on the ball. When he adjusts to the shape of the team and pace of the league he'll be magnificent.
Their parallel RVP story has the epistemological status of Wilbury's bellybutton fluff.
Nobody knows a fucking thing.
Khaldoon is a killer name.
Anita gone, Janssen gone, Vertonghen gone, and what did we get back, a whole bag of nothing! This is going to be a terrible season 
Can't wait to play in the CL and lose 6 matches, hooray.
Anita is a total fucker btw, demanding more than the salary cap when you know there is a salary cap, and when a reporter asks if he goed to the Magpies for the money he says: ''uihhh...no''
Can't wait to play in the CL and lose 6 matches, hooray.
Anita is a total fucker btw, demanding more than the salary cap when you know there is a salary cap, and when a reporter asks if he goed to the Magpies for the money he says: ''uihhh...no''
I'll disagree with the other Liverpool fans here and say that I always felt Liverpool wasted Babel, he was never going to improve with such limited playtime that the club gave him.
Certainly he had problems that have been described above, but given the often turgid stuff coming from the wings during the Benitez era, he should have had more chances I feel. Really he was just the wrong kind of player for Benitez, for even whilst Kuyt or Benayoun might fail to make any attacking impact, you could be assured of their hard work throughout the game and constant defensive efforts, which Benitez much preferred to the laziness of Babel.
Bilbao's president said that Llorente won't extend his contract, and they'll sell him if he wants to go and someone pays the release clause.
Which is 30m, lol.
Mmmmm.
That bodycheck on Torres was shameful.
Daft. I love him, but he's not young or versatile enough for that money.
They'd be crazy to let him run down his contract. I say 18m (euro) gets him.
Mark Spurs down as a defeat.
Normally, Spurs are horrible starters to the league and they dont have a striker. I think it will be a boring 1-1 draw. With lots of shots on the goal from outside the box and hardly any on target.
They don't need a striker. Bale and Sigurdsson are enough for the day.
Not looking forward to Saturday at all.
Their signings I suppose, but yeah I mean Hoilett was relegated last season so I don't think it's wise to predict any sort of success for them. In fact I think they'll have a relegation battle this season also.
http://news.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/foo...e-major-edge-in-beating-tottenham_113338.html
Newcastle are the favourites to beat Spurs due to Tottenham's own squad issues. :lol
MUPPET SEASON.
Newcastle are the favourites to beat Spurs due to Tottenham's own squad issues. :lol
MUPPET SEASON.
Wait, what?
United GAF, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Scholes get a ban for a pre season red two or three seasons ago?
It would be so beautiful if we could give* you Berba.
*Sell, but in a flowery and decorous way.
Arjen
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Anita gone, Janssen gone, Vertonghen gone, and what did we get back, a whole bag of nothing! This is going to be a terrible season
Can't wait to play in the CL and lose 6 matches, hooray.
Anita is a total fucker btw, demanding more than the salary cap when you know there is a salary cap, and when a reporter asks if he goed to the Magpies for the money he says: ''uihhh...no''
And apparantly Assaidi isn't going to happen either. We're going to be the laughing stock of the CL again aren't we
Maybe it is Agger. No one knows. Rodwell in his interview said City & Everton had been talking for 2 weeks and it was kept really quiet. So yeah, not much credible info is leaking out about City and the transfers.
Yup. Awesome name.
Yeah in the FA Cup. Yesterday is classed as a friendly, and the FA changed the rule 2 years ago that if you get red it doesn't carry into the season.
Doesn't make much sense. Both sides must play their strongest team, no? Friendly my arse!
And apparantly Assaidi isn't going to happen either. We're going to be the laughing stock of the CL again aren't we
Well he can fuck off too. Boohoo its not about the money, I want to go to Ajax because I want to play there.
3 days later the deal is off because of the money, uhuh.
Yesterday was far from friendly.
So Juve have now basically acquired the entire block - 380.000 square meters of terrain - around Juventus Stadium, which is to become ... well, a lot of things. The municipality of Torino has just become 10M€ richer. I guess that's where our RVP money went.
Apparently we still haven't decided what to do with both the PalaTorino and the Rock Arena, which will soon be ours to use and / or dispose of. The current plan is to / includes:
- create even more parking spaces to support the various events at Juventus stadium
- rebuild / renovate the historic (17th century) farmhouse 'Continassa', which it to become the new club headquarters
- create a public park (the vertical road / street to the right of it will be renamed from 'Corso Grande Torino' to 'Corso Gaetano Scirea' - so sorry, Toro fans)
- half a dozen new commercial buildings, aparments, a cinema complex, a hotel ...
- a sports medicine diagnostic center
- a brand new Juventus Soccer (High) School
Pretty cool, I think. While everybody else in Italy is still trying to come up with the means to build their own football temples, we're already moving forward. With Pazzini instead of RVP, but still.
Apparently we still haven't decided what to do with both the PalaTorino and the Rock Arena, which will soon be ours to use and / or dispose of. The current plan is to / includes:
- create even more parking spaces to support the various events at Juventus stadium
- rebuild / renovate the historic (17th century) farmhouse 'Continassa', which it to become the new club headquarters
- create a public park (the vertical road / street to the right of it will be renamed from 'Corso Grande Torino' to 'Corso Gaetano Scirea' - so sorry, Toro fans)
- half a dozen new commercial buildings, aparments, a cinema complex, a hotel ...
- a sports medicine diagnostic center
- a brand new Juventus Soccer (High) School
Pretty cool, I think. While everybody else in Italy is still trying to come up with the means to build their own football temples, we're already moving forward. With Pazzini instead of RVP, but still.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Today on MASSIVE club watch:
Jack Rodwell said:
Anything will seem massive after Everton.
Has started 40 odd games in 3 seasons. This season could push him towards 45.
You'd think he'd want to play football after all that children's tv and physio.
radioheadrule83
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Went to the Liverpool / Bayer Leverkusen game yesterday, sat in the Kop on the lower right hand side -- I wish we'd been attacking the kop in the first half because the changes killed our tempo in the second...
I know it was only a friendly, but I think we're looking good! Sterling is a class act, and he absolutely needs to stay at Liverpool! He got bullied off the ball a couple of times, but his daring creativity and his runs are exciting to watch. Definitely one I'd like to see us keep and nurture. Robinson was good in the second half too. It's so good to have Lucas back - the contrast when he came off for the second half was horrible - I wasn't impressed with Adam, Jonjo or Spearing yesterday - Jonjo can be reckless sometimes, and Adam didn't seem to have confidence in front of goal - nor his ability to whip in a good ball. It was good to see Lucas and Carroll score.
I'm liking Rodgers' style though - good pressure, he's clearly come down on people having a walk or a defeatist stay on the floor when we lose the ball, lots of possession, quicker passing football at times.. if we keep playing the way we played the other night, and yesterday in the first half - I think we'll have a good season!
Quite a lot of empty seats, but the singing and applause for Sami almost brought a tear to my eye
I know it was only a friendly, but I think we're looking good! Sterling is a class act, and he absolutely needs to stay at Liverpool! He got bullied off the ball a couple of times, but his daring creativity and his runs are exciting to watch. Definitely one I'd like to see us keep and nurture. Robinson was good in the second half too. It's so good to have Lucas back - the contrast when he came off for the second half was horrible - I wasn't impressed with Adam, Jonjo or Spearing yesterday - Jonjo can be reckless sometimes, and Adam didn't seem to have confidence in front of goal - nor his ability to whip in a good ball. It was good to see Lucas and Carroll score.
I'm liking Rodgers' style though - good pressure, he's clearly come down on people having a walk or a defeatist stay on the floor when we lose the ball, lots of possession, quicker passing football at times.. if we keep playing the way we played the other night, and yesterday in the first half - I think we'll have a good season!
Quite a lot of empty seats, but the singing and applause for Sami almost brought a tear to my eye
fadetoblack
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Massive signing.
What?! Fuck this. I blame City, PSG and Chelsea. I understand that they have to try to get as much as they can out of LLorente, but this is ridiculous.
/waits for Llorente to Chelsea/City rumors to start
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