Vivalaraza
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Soldado says he knows Spurs have bid for him and that it was rejected but he's happy to stay at Valencia.
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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started
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Soldado says he knows Spurs have bid for him and that it was rejected but he's happy to stay at Valencia.
Haha. It's half-true.
Didn't he turn down Spurs as they didn't offer enough wages? I can't imagine Southampton would be able to offer more than Spurs.
Though I suppose there's a good chance the Spurs offer never happened and it was just twitter bullshit.
Thank god for that
Tim the Wiz
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Whatever the terms of the clause between the clubs, if it exists at all, it only guarantees Liverpool the chance to negotiate a contract with Sahin. I don't see him signing permanently for Liverpool if there's no CL football on the horizon.
The hope for Rodgers is that Lucas-Allen-Sahin is the cornerstone of CL qualification, putting Liverpool in the frame to successfully acquire Sahin permanently and build for a title challenge in the future. I really rate that midfield. There's a chance this could actually be their season of resurgence.
That should be enough.
Vivalaraza
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Caught a snippet of Rodgers' presser on SSN and he was saying that the problem for them in the transfer market this summer has been a lack of money and he was well aware of that, and he thinks they've done well to get the players they have done already.
I'm guessing it's with a reference to the costs involved in over-hauling the management and maybe some hesitancy after last summer's wasted money.
Still, Liverpool will have improved their side quite nicely if they nab Sahin. Not sure about Tello tbh. With Arsenal looking like losing two of their better players and Spurs flapping...Liverpool could build some nice momentum in the early weeks - shame for them they have some tough fixtures.
I'm guessing it's with a reference to the costs involved in over-hauling the management and maybe some hesitancy after last summer's wasted money.
Still, Liverpool will have improved their side quite nicely if they nab Sahin. Not sure about Tello tbh. With Arsenal looking like losing two of their better players and Spurs flapping...Liverpool could build some nice momentum in the early weeks - shame for them they have some tough fixtures.
Toon v Spuds is at 5:30pm on Saturday rather than 3pm with everyone else. It's a shame Sky aren't broadcasting it though
It's on ESPN in the UK.
Sandro and Huddlestone vs Anita and Tiote
CLASH OF THE TITANS
ESPN is bleh though. Need Martin Tyler
Should be an interesting game at least. You lot really going in with just Defoe?
Frogson (better when it's Sir Frogson) is by far the best. I literally laugh every time I see it.
Liverpool have already spent about £25million though, with the only money in coming from wage savings and presumably some more deals still to do. That's compared to around £40million net spend last season. So not a huge difference, in fact probably about the amount spent on changing the managers is the difference
About Llorente they talked about Tottenham too today on Italian tv. He's not really worthy more than what we are offering IMO since his contract will expire next year.
Wow! Completely unexpected but very nice if it turns out we do have the option to buy. Where did you hear that mate?
Surprised nobody's posted a "Sahin spotted at JLA" tweet yet actually!
Pardew: We want to make another signing before the window closes.
..... "another signing".....
One signing?
Sigh. We're in fucking Europe, we don't have the depth for all the competitions. Clueless prick.
Make it Debuchy then, we can wait until January for Douglas. I still want a striker though damn it.
..... "another signing".....
One signing?
Sigh. We're in fucking Europe, we don't have the depth for all the competitions. Clueless prick.
Make it Debuchy then, we can wait until January for Douglas. I still want a striker though damn it.
Heard it on Rawk, which is why it's probably bullshit.
Vivalaraza
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Considering you did them over good and proper on Cesc, more power to him.
Agreed.
I want more defenders. I don't trust the majority of our current ones lol.
Why are you calling Pardew a clueless prick? It's not even up to him! :lol
And who gives a toss about Europa league? We certainly don't. Our youngsters will play and that's really it. League is what matters.
Oh please, not this again.
It's not like we desperately need Song. If Song is worth 29 million then the market is fucked up.
The_Hitcher89
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Guys in the paid league, do you wanna discuss the way we'll split the winnings on the FPL forum to stop from shitting this thread up with talk that's irrelevant to 80% of the users.
Also, join it if you haven't
And remember, if you get permabanned from here, you can't win the league. So if you're near the top, you'd better keep your eye on the ball
edit: Taking my business-hat off, Song is worth 29million to Arsenal. If he leaves, it turns an annoying yet potentially successful transfer window into an exodus and sinking ship
Also, join it if you haven't
And remember, if you get permabanned from here, you can't win the league. So if you're near the top, you'd better keep your eye on the ball
edit: Taking my business-hat off, Song is worth 29million to Arsenal. If he leaves, it turns an annoying yet potentially successful transfer window into an exodus and sinking ship
You serious?
He's a great player I can remember a few times he played amazing lobbed through passes to RVP. Think he did it vs Liverpool and also Norwich.
Will be a massive loss for Arsenal that's for sure.
Yup. Pardew isn't playing most of our star players unless we've got nothing else going on.
He says top 4 is priority.
I know you guys think differently but that's just the way it is. Until Europa has CL levels of money we'll never take it seriously with our squad.
& lets not forget he still has a long time left on his contract.
LabouredSubterfuge
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This is why I find the Giroud signing slightly weird. He seems like a target man style player to me (haven't watched him tonnes though).
Song? Walcott?
Terrible attitude to have towards a very good competition. Fair enough in the early rounds it's a little bit shit but after the group stages the Europa league throws up matches that are just as good as some of the stuff in the Champions league.
Think this a a bit unrealistic with the current squad Newcastle have.
Guys in the paid league, do you wanna discuss the way we'll split the winnings on the FPL forum to stop from shitting this thread up with talk that's irrelevant to 80% of the users.
Also, join it if you haven't
And remember, if you get permabanned from here, you can't win the league. So if you're near the top, you'd better keep your eye on the ball
edit: Taking my business-hat off, Song is worth 29million to Arsenal. If he leaves, it turns an annoying yet potentially successful transfer window into an exodus and sinking ship
What about 70% to first, 20% to second and 10% to third?
Easy to say as a Liverpool fan. You can afford squad depth for several competitions. We can't.
And I'm not talking about match quality. It's about money. Europa has no money.
Well, first of all, the market *is* fucked up. Second of all, you guys certainly did help with the fucking up when you stole Fabregas from them.
I do find it quite bizarre how little statistical information is available on players. In the US, every major sport has an INSANE amount of info for every player in every match he's played in for his entire career. Here are a few examples (you can change the drop-down menu to show earlier seasons in the players' career):
MLB
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/28963/clayton-kershaw -- Splits (stats based on every possible instance the player can be in as a pitcher)
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/28963/clayton-kershaw - Game Log (high level stats for every performance)
NBA
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/splits/_/id/3202/kevin-durant -- there are fewer scenario differences in basketball
NFL
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/splits/_/id/5651/jared-allen -- Insanely detailed splits available for NFL players
This goes across all leagues at most all levels (NCAA sports usually don't go nearly as in-depth publicly though). Then you have sites like Baseball-Reference and others that provide additional Sabermetric data on every player in the game. The fact the closest thing you can get to a game log for the PL is goals, cards and minutes and that it requires a lot of effort to even find a site with this info is insane to me.
if song had been english and another english club wanted to buy him, he'd be worth over 50 million.
No, I wasn't assigned. We don't have assignments; we just browse how we want to and moderate what we happen to see.
I somehow doubt it. I've read this topic off and on from the beginning and there's almost no problems.
Pardew's involvement in the transfers is irrelevant. He should know that our squad isn't up to snuff.
Also, the players give a damn about the tournament, irrelevant of what the finance lads and lasses think. I wouldn't mind a nice run in it as well. Being lazy in the transfer front isn't going to help with that, especially when our second choice players would struggle to get in to a mid-table team.
No, its a terrible competition. Its great if you get to the final but anything before that is just wasted effort. The cash offered is a joke.
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