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Football Thread 2013/14 |ot21| Get a refund.
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Oh baby keep dreaming.
Disagree Guy
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I always look forward to Arsenal vs Liverpool games more than any in a season. It's still real to me....
Awesome wing play, turned him inside out.
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Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri 1m
HUGE Manchester United news just arrived. Gonna give it tomorrow during 'STADIUM' at 14.30 UK
Vidal cometh.
Diablo Rosso
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Tancredi pls.
I meant in the 'competing' sense, up until this season. The Suarez affair certainly made things chilly between the two fan bases. The Liverpool GAF v Arsenal GAF stuff was pretty crazy during the summer
luxstellarum
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Aw, that's cute
I meant in the 'competing' sense, up until this season. The Suarez affair certainly made things chilly between the two fan bases. The Liverpool GAF v Arsenal GAF stuff was pretty crazy during the summer
We were always friendly only turned sour this season due to the suarez thing and the 3 stooges pissing everyone off when ye were top of the league
Did anyone think outside of the terrible, terrible battles that you had to endure while traveling, that the actual missions and enemy AI in Far Cry 2 were pretty impressive. I didn't finish it, the road battles were just too much for me, but I do remember thinking that the situations I would find myself in were surprisingly unique during missions and I appreciated how organic it all felt at times.
Vivalaraza
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Aye, 7 points from the top is a world away. You're slipping Vib.
luxstellarum
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Why does he always do this bs, just spit it out!
LanceVance
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I just read this on BBC
So he doesn't get £300k?
Wut BBC
So he doesn't get £300k?
Wut BBC
Sviatoslav
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Because he himself still doesn't know what it is. Sky Italia haven't reported it yet.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Yep that appears to be the case. He'll earn more but we didn't raise his wage any.
Disagree Guy
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I meant in the 'competing' sense, up until this season. The Suarez affair certainly made things chilly between the two fan bases. The Liverpool GAF v Arsenal GAF stuff was pretty crazy during the summer
Suarez' goals definitely made us competetors this season but I still can't forgive him for dragging our name through the dirt with the plethora of scandals. I wouldn't be sad if we sold him for a good price to a non-prem side to be honest.
Just £250,000 a week then.
Gareth Bale
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Yeah the sandboxy
that definitely might be a word
LabouredSubterfuge
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Andy Mitten seems to think Gahl really wants Hummels.
I'm not sure my penis could take it.
I'm not sure my penis could take it.
He thinks United are going to finish 3rd.
Vivalaraza
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Yeah, you were a world away.
The fact you guys even think you were close says it all.
7 points is a lot.
Gahl just let a defender go who was once good but is now a shadow of his former self.
Nah, we'd have won it if we stayed healthy.
Nobody predicted we would lose Theo, Jack, Ozil and Ramsey at the same time.
Vivalaraza
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His basic pay didn't change. But our commercial team will basically work for him to get more sponsors which could see him earn an extra £2.5m a year.
So the money won't come direct from us but I think there's a grey line there somewhere. Like we will sign deals which are specifically designed to benefit him maybe.
Vivalaraza
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Yeah you may have but that's just it, when does a team ever have a clear season from injuries? It just doesn't happen. I don't buy that as an excuse for not winning a title.
Liverpool missed Sturridge for 2/3 months. Suarez for the first 6 games. Aguero was out for ages. Those two teams would have won more points with those guys in tow.
Because the players replacing them are not near good enough you are still a ways behind.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Anyone (other than Arsenal fans seemingly) could have easily predicted that you'd lose your key players to injury at a key time this season.
We knew this would happen because it has happened every season for the last decade.
In fact let's get this out of the way now.
You will not win the league next year in part due to your best players being injured for significant periods of time. That should cover it.
Disagree Guy
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Came to post that ^
EDIT: I'll go one step further and say they will be at the top or around it at least, right up until knock out stages of the CL coz they always crumble at that stage for some reason
7 points is not a world away by any definition of the word. That is literally only a few results going our way. We have given the impression of being well off the mark by poor performances in big games.
CrashBandicoot
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I'd say that's the main difference between City and everyone else, an injured Aguero is shit but it doesn't hurt as much when you've got 3 other quality strikers.
Giroud isn't even that good and if he gets injured, Arsenal are stuck with Sanogo, or Walcott I guess.
Vivalaraza
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Not going to get into the nitty gritty of how many points is close and how many isn't.
Ultimately you were out of the title race over a month before it was decided. We have finished one/two points behind and not really been close. Yeah it's one or two results in hindsight when you go back through the season - but you dropped out of the race a long way back.
Dress the rest of it up however you like.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Sorry I missed this.
I looked at them and thought they looked like good FM players. They're meant to be good/have potential by reputation. But that's not worth all that much if there's no real-world application as yet.
Now Eriksen aside, they've all performed poorly. It's not inconceivable they'll come good next season under new management and with more time to settle. But that's hope talking. There's hope that things will get better on one hand and there's this season's performances on the other. It'll be interesting to see for sure.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Disagree Guy
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That picture made me choke on my pizza.
Well played sir
Well played sir
Vivalaraza
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That line in the Andy Mitten article about Giggs wages possibly dropping from £80k to 1/10 of that as assistant seems hard to digest. Would have thought assistants/coaches earned more than that.
It's also kind of crazy to me that Giggs never even earned anything more than £100k/week over the course of his career and people like Wazza Roon are on over double that
It's also kind of crazy to me that Giggs never even earned anything more than £100k/week over the course of his career and people like Wazza Roon are on over double that
Dare we dream phase!!
Amazing graph.
Fucking hell we got 79 points a couple season's ago we'd have only needed one more win to clinch the title with that kind of tally. Games that cost us the season and the title, Swansea @ H, Villa @ H, Stoke @ A, Southampton @ A. We win those games, next season, we don't even have to beat he big teams, just get draws when possible and we'll win the league, while picking all the other points we did this season.
Vivalaraza
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:lol
Tbf been a whole decade since you were in a serious title race so not surprised you've forgotten how it works.
LabouredSubterfuge
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This evening's been a treat.
Yeah. he's proved his worth in my mind if we win the FA cup this season and end the drought. I'm very certain we will too.
That line in the Andy Mitten article about Giggs wages possibly dropping from £80k to 1/10 of that as assistant seems hard to digest. Would have thought assistants/coaches earned more than that.
It's also kind of crazy to me that Giggs never even earned anything more than £100k/week over the course of his career and people like Wazza Roon are on over double that
Madness. Can't see his wages dropping that much.
Not going to get drawn into an argument about what constitutes close or not, especially considering Viv and Lab's propensity for trolling in this regard. Don't think Arsenal were close, clearly, but was stating that 7 points is not a world away.
Don't know how you read that from the conversation at all. The usual "Arsenal fans" again though innit.
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