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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT6| Mumei almost banned EVERYBODY (but just Wilbury)
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Vivalaraza
Member
I think calibre does come into it though. If you look at Arsenal, they're a club who could push themselves further but they are playing it very safe and settling for being near the top, but not at the top.
And for a club of Arsenal's size, tradition and potential - that is very underwhelming.
If Liverpool get back to the CL, you wouldn't expect them to rest on their laurels and think, well we got here and we're making good money and having a few good nights every season. You'd expect the club to want to take the next step and kick on.
It seems like the people in charge at Arsenal aren't interested in that. And that's not what a "big" club should be doing.
That depends on how much we have budgeted for the summer. We don't know what goes on in the upper echelon at United but I can't imagine the Glazers would be wild about spending millions more on players, especially when we spent close to £50m during the summer.
For all we know, United could have £15-20m budgeted for next summer and whatever else we can get in player sales. If thats the case then we'd probably have enough to sign a top class winger or a top class CM. But not both.
One of the most frustrating things is watching Arsenal's decline right before our very eyes. Selling our best players year in year out, tempered expectations etc. It's enough to make me feel sick. The last two seasons have been incredibly depressing and this season doesn't look any better.
It seems like the attitude at Arsenal is as long as they make the top 4 and get CL qualification there happy to coast along on that which is not great for a club like Arsenal, fine for say City
I'd be happy with a class CM and a prospect winger. Wouldn't at all want to go the other way.
And the CM will be pricey as fuck.
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
No it was lower than the third tier. It might have been Farnborough. The person had the team's crest as his avatar.
Vivalaraza
Member
Yeah I feel as though after spending £70m net over the last two season's we are due to have a quiet summer next time out. Especially since this year's accounts will be really bad after going out of the CL so early.
But I guess we'll see. I think if we win something big this year, we will spend again because we'll have the security of a winning side and also the massive sponsorship deals coming in.
Chevy and Nike will probably be adding a minimum of £50m more to our revenue streams in the coming years.
Really doesn't have to be though. Alot of CM's who would have made a big difference for us have moved for less than £15m recently. Strootman for example would cost about ~£15m I think. He's ideal.
Use a mouse!what's up footygaf. My macbook's trackpad died.
If you want ego-stroking projects then the LoI is for you! google Dublin City FC, and Galway United, who had Nick Leeson running the show for them for a a while with predictably hilarious results!
YES THAT NICK LEESON!
Milchmonster
Member
No, not really. Klopp actually said Götze is "only" doubtful and could play. After using him too much when he wasn't fully fit last season, I think Klopp is just more careful with Götze.
I have to buy one now. fuck apple
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
I don't think so but going to matches and being a part of the atmosphere is a much better experience to me than watching it on TV or on a crappy stream.
I'm an Everton fan but DC United will always come first for me.
Gareth Bale
Member
Speak for yourself. Tottenham do a ton of work for the local community.
The_Hitcher89
Member
The thing is, clubs like Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle would be happy to do what you're doing for 2 or 3 seasons, establishing ourselves as consistent CL qualifiers, often getting to the last 16/quarters. But there comes a point where you have to kick on, even if that means spending money on turning good players into world class players.
Do you think that will happen with the board/management combination at Arsenal. Seems like the board and Wenger have come to some sort of agreement which is good for the long term finances, but terrible for your hopes of pushing on as a club.
Correct me if I'm wrong,but this is how I imagine it happens
1 - Board lets Wenger know he has a very limited budget, regardless of sales
2 - Wenger is tasked with CL qualification, no more no less
3 - Wenger agrees to low aims, as long as his job is secure while Arsenal are close to 4th
4 - Wenger acts like funds are available, but he has no need for them
It reminds me of a long-term version of Hodgson's expectation-lowering
edit: Think its time to start betting on things that are more likely to win, just to recoup some of my costs. In the past month, I've bet £70, and haven't won anything. Got £30 worth of free bets left though on betfair (£20) and bwin (£10)
I agree! I would love go to the stadium each week and support Real España but the current circumstances in the country and the stadium being like a post-holocaust place stop me from going
I'm a Villa fan as well, I go to plenty of games and had a season ticket over the years, as well as watching them all the time on streams. But my team are Cork City FC, that's who I am because that's where I'm from and that'll never change!
Question for Man Utd and Liverpool supporters who are from the NW of England, does it ever piss you off with the amount of daytrippers who come from abroad to watch your club?
The_Hitcher89
Member
Europa Leage bro
Smart move not to bet on the Liverpool game though. Carragher will play against Eto'o, but Suarez is starting as well apparently. 3-3.
I don't see much that I would disagree with here, Wenger has to be taking the flak for the limited transfer funds. I mean, there's no way he would impose that upon himself? But even that aside, Arsenal have had a goalkeeping problem for years, one that it wouldn't take breaking the bank to solve yet they haven't done a thing. We missed out on Mata because they wouldn't cough up the extra million for him. It doesn't sound like Arsenal are in such a precarious financial state that they can't solve existing problems within the squad for a relatively low price. I blame Wenger for that.
Europa Leage bro
Smart move not to bet on the Liverpool game though. Carragher will play against Eto'o, but Suarez is starting as well apparently. 3-3.
Sorry, Anzhi is going to win bro =P
What a typical juve fan.
Gladbach and Stuttgart are going to lose
My proper local team if I was at home, club well in the wilderness there
I've been to 7 barca matches over the past year. Can I consider them local? I even have a bar I drink in.
Napoli will beat pana
they aren't even playing against each other lulz
I was thinking lol
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
There is a difference between going to a lot of matches and not going to any.
They not even in the league anymore operon! Thanks Nick Leeson. Mervue Utd & Salthill Devon/Galway took their place. Their supporters trust (GUST) are hoping to bring GU back into the LoI next year, but apparently there's a lot of politics in Galway football preventing this.
So much so the FAI had to commission a report into it!
http://www.fai.ie/domestic-a-grassroots/airtricity-league/news/102804.html
Dam shame that GU are gone from the league, great supporters, decent ground apparently (never been there myself).
My fault, im in the train right now. Yeah, i meant lazio. Guess i will pass on this one then.
You live in Barcelona/Catalonia?
:lol
Yeah. Italian teams usually don't give a shit about the EL but Panathinaikos sucks so... =P
Same with Spurs. It is likely they will lose to such a shitty team because they will field a B-team.
Well, Shakhtar and Nordsjælland actually.
He lives in Ireland.
Agreed. It took an 8-2 defeat for Wenger to realize he might want to buy a couple reinforcements and the ones he bought were, apart from Arteta (who is fantastic, but if it were a choice between him and Mata, I'd take Mata any day) and Mertesacker, fucking awful. Park barely played, Santos is complete and utter shit, and we paid over the odds for both of them. If Wenger wasn't so fucking stubborn, we could've gotten Enrique, Mata, Mertesacker and some other player (maybe just keep Bendtner as a back-up, he's probably a better striker than Park anyways) and avoided much of the fucking disaster that was last season. And while the Ox is great, he cost 12m—you're basically just buying potential at that point; you're telling me that it was more important to buy him than it was to buy a proven defender or GK... or, hell, a proven, world class midfielder in the form of Mata?
Then he refuses to buy a DM/CM (or even loan Sahin), instead choosing to rely on Diaby. It's just baffling.
I would've thought we was nailed on for the QPR job whenever Hughes gets sacked. He loves those kinds of jobs anyways and we know the owners will invest.
Ouch, embarrassing. Who's your local LoI team Messi?
Broder Salsa
Banned
I somehow read Blackburn as Barcelona and thought dailymail had out done themselves.
Ground is good been there once, 2 years I think a friendly against Liverpool Reserve, Its a pity whats happened to it
He won the league a few months ago.
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